Lionsgate Looking For Life After Life

Lionsgate can't quit that Twilight dollar. Who could blame them? Who wouldn't want hundreds of millions of dollars at the worldwide box-office guaranteed year-in, year-out (not to mention, home video and TV sales) and the attention of the lucrative, and still surprisingly underutilized, market of young girls? Sorry, fanboys, but it's not all about you. Girls like big franchises made specifically for them too.

Its good business and they have been in it ever since the Catherine Hardwicke-directed original became a sensation back in November 2008 (Summit Entertainment actually started that before Lionsgate bought them out last year). And you might say "What about The Hunger Games?" Well yeah, that's massive. Bigger than Twilight in fact, but it was purchased under the guise of being "the next Twilight." It just happened to evolve into something larger than anyone could have foreseen, and that’s not even getting into its lead Jennifer Lawrence (Talk about an overnight explosion).

The point being the studio wants to keep rolling with the punches. Lapping up female-geared properties and hoping for "another Twilight." The studio has optioned Life After Life, based on the best-seller by Kate Atkinson with every intention of following that successful strategy. They've even assigned it to Twilight producers Temple Hill Entertainment with Semi Chellas and Esta Spalding commissioned to adapt the book.

The story concerns a young woman with the ability to relive her life set during WWII.