Summit plays 'Fair Game'

Summit plays ‘Fair Game’

April 29, 2010 5:24 PM PT

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We told you a week ago that Summit would walk away with ‘Fair Game,’ the Sean Penn movie about the Joe Wilson-Valerie Plame affair that plays the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. Now they have, acquiring rights in several global territories as well as North America.

The movie played to distributors last week, with some finding it a little talky and others, including Focus and the Weinstein Co., also expressing interest, before Summit hammered out a deal. Get ready for ‘The Hurt Locker: The Return’ next awards season.

--Steven Zeitchik

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Steven Zeitchik

Steven Zeitchik is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer who covered film and the larger world of Hollywood for the paper from 2009 to 2017, exploring the personalities, issues, content and consequences of both the creative and business (and, increasingly, digital) aspects of our screen entertainment. He previously covered entertainment beats at Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, has contributed arts and culture pieces to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times and has done journalistic tours of duty in Jerusalem and Berlin. While at The Times he has also reported stories in cities ranging from Cairo to Krakow, though Hollywood can still seem like the most exotic destination of all.