Weinsteins Hit the Brakes on 'Halloween 3-D'

To borrow a phrase from Airplane!, it looks like the Weinsteins picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. I was already going to write about the studio's rejected lawsuit claiming distribution rights to Sundance and Toronto award winner Precious when an even bigger subject developed: Deadline Hollywood reports that pre-production on Halloween 3-D has been stopped dead in its ill-conceived tracks. Though it's easy to look at the so-so performance of Halloween II and the company's less-than-whopping results with most of its releases over the years (only seven Weinstein movies have made over $30 million in four years) and, picking up on the scent of rumors of other financial trouble, assume the worst. However, it's being reported that the project is back on the shelf "because Bob just felt it was rushing too fast." Director Patrick Lussier (My Bloody Valentine 3-D) was only available for a couple months beginning in November, and The Other Weinstein felt like that was too quick to get this one going. So it won't come out next summer, and instead will probably go into production around the time it was originally due to be released. Let's see if it ever gets made, though; I have my doubts. Incidentally, we also learned that TWC will re-release Halloween II on Halloween weekend. And I think that's something I said the company should do almost two months ago, focusing on the natural tie-in rather than compete directly with another horror movie at the end of August. And it got slaughtered as a result. Now the re-release seems rather pointless, since only about three million people paid to see it the first time.

Comments

[WEINSTEINS ARE BROKE]

LOWEST CLASS IN THIS INDUSTRY!!! BY ACCIDENT, NOT TALENT THEY SORT OF SURVIVED.

[Alice]

Good, I would be happy if this never gets made. We already have a Halloween III and it is 100 times better than this piece of Myers crap is ever possible to be.