There has been NO official word from Summit as of yet. The article in LA Times was dated May '09. There have been several rumors, but nothing official. (I hope they don't split it, just make it 3 hours long or something.)
Yes but there thinking of making into a two part movie so one will come out lets say in 2011 then the 2nd part will come out in 2012, but they didn't say that that's what there doing i just heard it.