Prequels, Sequels & Remakes

Warner Brothers has announced that Harry Potter and the Half Blood Price’s release will be pushed back from November 21, 2008, to July 17, 2009. WB’s president Alan Horn: “We know the summer season is an ideal window for a family tent-pole release, as proven by the success of our last Harry Potter film, which is the second-highest-grossing film in the franchise, behind only the first installment. Additionally, like every other studio, we are still feeling the repercussions of the writers' strike, which impacted the readiness of scripts for other films--changing the competitive landscape for 2009 and offering new windows of opportunity that we wanted to take advantage of. We agreed the best strategy was to move Half-Blood Prince to July, where it perfectly fills the gap for a major tent-pole release for mid-summer." President of Warner's motion picture group Jeff Robinov: "The release date change does not alter the production schedule for this or future Harry Potter films. Post-production on Half-Blood Prince was completed on time, and the studio's release plans for the two-part Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will not be affected by this change. We know Harry Potter fans are eagerly anticipating seeing the final chapters unfold onscreen. In fact, the good news for them is that the gap will now be shortened between Half-Blood Prince and the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."

George Lucas says that the next Indiana Jones, if there is another one, will not focus on Shia Lebeouf’s character, “Indiana Jones is Indiana Jones. Harrison Ford IS Indiana Jones. If it was Mutt Williams it would be ‘Mutt Williams and the Search for Elvis’ or something.” As for Indy 5, “We ARE looking for something for him to go after. They are very hard to find. It’s like archeology. It takes a huge amount of research to come up with something that will fit.”

Lionsgate have hired Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain to rework the Conan script. They are still looking for a director.

Director P.J. Pesce says about Universal Soldier 3: "Unfortunately that has fallen apart. It's really too bad. We had a great script. But it just cratered - I don't know what's gonna happen." I weep.

Writer/Director John Singleton is in preproduction for Fight for Love. An unofficial sequel to 2001’s Baby Boy, the drama will reunite Tyrese Gibson and Taraji P. Henson as a struggling couple.