By Borys Kit

While it may seem that Summit Entertainment is all about vampires and witches, the upstart company is going into teen thriller mode, picking up “Puzzle Palace” from newbie writer David Guggenheim. Temple Hill, the production shingle behind “Twilight,” is attached to produce.

By Jay A. Fernandez

Well, I’m a little late with these SXSW feature awards, since I foolishly decided to fly back to L.A. during the Tuesday night ceremony, but I hear a bunch of people broke the embargo early, which is a shameful bungle.

The narrative feature jury award was given to Lena Dunham’s “Tiny Furniture,” which had its world premiere Monday. The documentary feature jury award was handed to Jeff Malmberg’s “Marwencol,” about a brain-damaged man who creates a 1/6-scale model of a World War II-era town in his backyard. Runner-up in the doc category was Rebecca Richman Cohen’s “War Don Don.”

By Gregg Kilday

Within hours after “Monsters” premiered at the SXSW Film Festival, Magnet Releasing scooped up distribution rights for the U.S. and Mexico.

Gareth Edwards‘ first feature, a sci-fi tale about alien lifeforms that have infected a quarantined zone in Mexico, was shot using actors like Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able working alongside local people they met during a road trip through Guatemala, Mexico and the U.S.

By Borys Kit and Jay A. Fernandez

CAA is now in the Spike Lee business, signing the director for representation. Lee had been at WME.

The director, whose last feature was the 2008 war drama “Miracle at St. Anna,” has lately been spending his time in the TV world. Last year he made “Passing Strange” for PBS and a Kobe Bryant documentary for ESPN Films, and he is currently working on a documentary about New Orleans.

By Jay A. Fernandez

I was happy to have scored a seat at the SXSW Midnight Shorts screening at the Lamar late Monday night. It had started to rain and, once again, the theater sidewalk was packed with moviegoers.

A dozen weird, whimsical, raunchy and freaky shorts made the cut, and almost all of them were engaging and, often, hilarious.

By Jay A. Fernandez

“Rock ‘n’ roll is Lemmy. Lemmy is rock ‘n’ roll.”

After sitting through Wes Orshoski and Greg Olliver’s Jack-and-Coke-drenched documentary “Lemmy” at its raucous world premiere Monday night, I couldn’t possibly argue. The Motörhead life force — and the rest of the band, Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee — were in attendance at the Paramount to christen the brain-numbingly long but definitive rock doc with a Panzer full of metal credibility.

I mean it literally when I say that this film, and its subject, is about as rock ‘n’ roll as you can get. From his custom-made boots to his bandolier belt to his war-memorabilia headgear, Lemmy Kilmister is a rare breed of old-school rocker who, at 63 years old, apparently still lives as he did at 19. The whiskey, the endless cigarettes, the women, the house a block off Sunset, the ear-splitting shows — and a few things I certainly didn’t expect, like his obsession with one-arm bandits and the trivia game at the bar at the Rainbow Bar and Grill.

By Daniel Carlson

I’d missed the Friday night “Kick-Ass” premiere at SXSW to attend “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” (really good), so Monday’s world premiere of Rogue/Universal’s “MacGruber” at the Paramount was my first full-on blowout of the fest in terms of celebrity and buzz.

The admittance line for badge-holders wrapped around the block, and people started forming a queue at 6:45 p.m. for a 9:30 show. This year’s fest is definitely bigger than last year’s, and to combat the diminishing odds of getting into movies, many badge-holders hop in line with friends. I mean, I heard about someone doing that. Far away from me.

By Jay A. Fernandez

I got a look at James Franco’s “Saturday Night Live” documentary, titled “Saturday Night,” at the Alamo Drafthouse Lamar on, uh, Sunday night. Once again, the theater parking lot was packed, with lines bending in both directions around the back of the building.

What began as a five-minute documentary thesis project focusing on cast member Bill Hader for Franco’s NYU graduate course turned into unprecedented access and a warts-and-all feature-length look at a week in the life of Lorne Michaels’ long-running NBC comedy sketch show.

By Borys Kit and Jay A. Fernandez

After casting a wide net for its search of a young actor to play Hugh Jackman’s son in “Real Steel,” DreamWorks and director Shawn Levy have tapped 11-year-old Canadian Dakota Goyo for the part.

The story, set in a future world where robot-boxing has replaced human mano-a-mano, follows a former boxer (Jackman) who gets a shot at redemption when he teams up with his long lost son to train an unusual robot for a shot at the championships.

By Jay A. Fernandez

Richard Garriott became the first second-generation astronaut to make it into space last year. Filmmaker Mike Woolf chronicles Garriott’s achievement in “Richard Garriott — Man on a Mission,” which held its world premiere Sunday afternoon at the Paramount Theatre.

Garriott is a video game developer who spent $30 million of his own funds to train secretly in Moscow, launch from Kazakhstan and spend 12 days aboard the International Space Station before returning home to meet his astronaut father, Owen.

Here’s a shot of Garriott outside the theater.