Studios Release List of Pre-Strike Priority Movies
So in June 2008 the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild are planning on going on strike as their contracts with the movie studios are up and they want to get better monetary packages on new media entertainment (like the internet). And if they do go through with it it will effectively bring the movie industry to a halt.
Now, the studios aren’t going to just sit idly by and let this happen and be left without any movies to release so instead they are busy trying to rush through as many movies as possible and basically stock pile them so that they can release them during the strike. And they have now released the list of movies that they all consider their priorities to get made before the strike and the directors involved. So I thought I’d share it with you. I’m going to share my thoughts as we go as well (that’ll be the stuff in italics if you’re wondering).
So here we go (thanks to FilmJunk for this):
2929 Entertainment
BURNING PLAIN – Dir: Guillermo Arriaga
VILLAIN – Dir: Martin Campbell
BALDWIN
ATLAS SHRUGGED – Dir: Vadim Perelman
INDISCRETION – Dir: Tony Goldwyn
LUNA – Dir: Deepa Mehta
BEACON
CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HITMAN – Dir: Kip Williams
DISNEY
ADVENTURELAND – Dir: Greg Mottola
ALICE – Dir: None attached
AMERICAN DOG (animated) – Dir: Chris Sanders
BEDTIME STORIES – Dir: Adam Shankman
BOY SOLDIER – Dir: Oliver Higschbiegel
A CHRISTMAS CAROL – Dir: Robert Zemeckis
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC – Dir: PJ Hogan
DOUBT – Dir: John Patrick Shanley
ESCAPE FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN – Dir: Andy Fickman
G-FORCE (animated) – Dir: Hoyt Yeatman
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 – Dir: Kenny Ortega - seriously? A third one??
JUNGLE CRUISE – Dir: None attached
LIBERTY – Dir: None attached
PRINCE OF PERSIA – Dir: None attached - I thought Michael Bay was attached to this?
PRINCESS AND THE FROG (animated) – Dir: Ron Clements and John Musker
THE PROPOSAL – Dir: Robert Luketic
SCHOOLED – Dir: Walt Becker
SNOW – Dir: Francis Lawrence
DIMENSION
CELL – Dir: Eli Roth
COMEBACK – Dir: Fred Durst
PORKY’S – Dir: None attached - A remake of Porky’s? Oh Gods’.
SUPERHEROES – Dir: Craig Mazin
WEDDING RINGER (PREVIOUSLY GOLDEN TUX) – Dir: Lavender and Garelick
YOUTH IN REVOLT – Dir: None attached
DREAMWORKS
CAMP CREEPY TIME – Dir: None attached
DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS – Dir: Jay Roach
EAGLE EYE – Dir: DJ Caruso
GHOST TOWN – Dir: David Koepp
HOTEL FOR DOGS – Dir: Thor Freudenthal
I LOVE YOU MAN – Dir: John Hamburg
THE RIVALS – Dir: John Madden
SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE – Dir: None attached
SIEGE OF FULTON AVE – Dir: None attached
THE SOLOIST (PREVIOUSLY IMAGINING BEETHOVEN) – Dir: Joe Wright
THOUSAND WORDS – Dir: None attached
TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 – Dir: Steven Spielberg
WEDNESDAY – Dir: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
WILL – Dir: None attached
FOCUS
THE SERIOUS MAN – Dir: Joel and Ethan Coen
CURVEBALL – Dir: None attached but looking to Josh Marston
LITTLE GAME – Dir: Ang Lee
NICK AND NORAH – Dir: Peter Sollett
MEMORY OF A KILLER – Dir: None attached
PIANO TUNER – Dir: Werner Herzog
SIN NOMBRE – Dir: Cary Fukunaga
FOX
A-TEAM – Dir: None attached - I’m sold on this. Possibly
COOL SCHOOL – Dir: None attached
DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL – Dir: Scott Derrikson - And so the remake bandwagon surges on
FANTASTIC VOYAGE – Dir: Roland Emmerich - See above!
GULLIVERS TRAVELS – Dir: None attached
MAGNETO – Dir: David Goyer
ME TIME – Dir: None attached
RUNAWAY TRAIN – Dir: Martin Campbell
SELLING TIME – Dir: None attached
STREET FIGHTER – Dir: Andrezej Bartkowiak - Oh boy. Please tell me Jean-Claude isn’t going to be involved again
THEY CAME FROM UPSTAIRS – Dir: John Schultz
TOOTH FAIRY – Dir: None attached
TROUBLE MAN (PREVIOUSLY WICHITA) – Dir: Tom Dey
USED GUYS – Dir: Jay Roach
WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS – Dir: Tom Vaughn
WOLVERINE – Dir: Gavin Hood – Nothing needs to be said about this one. Apart from “snickety snick”
FOX ATOMIC
BRAD CUTTER RUINED MY LIFE – Dir: Ari Sandel
CAPTAIN AWESOME – Dir: None attached
DON’T SEND HELP – Dir: None attached
I LOVE YOU BETH COOPER – Dir: None attached
PLAYBOYS – Dir: Trevor Moore/Zack Creggors
SPACE INVADER – Dir: Andrew Currie
SMASH AND GRAB – Dir: None attached but looking to John Moore
FOX SEARCHLIGHT
500 DAYS OF SUMMER – Dir: Marc Webb
KIDNAP – Dir: Nate Gwaltney
NOTORIOUS – Dir: George Tillman
RABBIT HOLE – Dir: None attached but looking to Sam Raimi
SECRET LIFE OF BEES – Dir: Gina Prince Bythewood
TOGETHER – Dir: Miguel Arteta
WAY BACK – Dir: None attached
FOX 2000
AFTERLIFE – Dir: None attached
ANOTHER BULLSHIT NIGHT IN SUCK CITY – Dir: Paul Weitz - Don’t know what it is but I like the title!
BACHELOR BOYS – Dir: None attached
BOYS NEXT DOOR – Dir: None attached
CONTACT ZERO – Dir: None attached
DALLAS – Dir: Betty Thomas
LIFE OF PI – Dir: Jean Pierre Jeunet
LUCKY STRIKE – Dir: Tony Scott
MARLEY AND ME – Dir: David Frankel
MONTE CARLO (PREVIOUSLY HEADHUNTERS) – Dir: Tom Bezucha
RAMONA – Dir: Liz Allen
SHADOW DIVERS – Dir: None attached
TOWNHOUSE – Dir: John Carney
WOLF BROTHER – Dir: Catherine Hardwicke
GOLD CIRCLE
ARCANUM – Dir: Randall Wallace
CHILLED IN MIAMI – Dir: Jonas Elmer
FLYPAPER – Dir: None attached
HONEYMOON’S OVER – Dir: None attached
HBO FILMS
CONNIE & RUTH – Dir: Jane Anderson
RECOUNT – Dir: Jay Roach
INTERMEDIA
KILLER’S GAME – Dir: Simon Crane
LAKESHORE
GAME – Dir: Neveldine & Taylor
LINCOLN LAWYER – Dir: None attached
LIONSGATE
5 KILLERS – Dir: Mark Helfrich
ADDICTED – Dir: Peter Medak
ATLAS SHRUGGED – Dir: Vadim Perelman
BACHELOR #2 – Dir: Howard Deutch
CHURCHBOY – Dir: Sonu Gonera
MEANone attachedLLS – Dir: John Whitesell
PARTY BOYS – Dir: Pate Bros.
PUNISHER II – Dir: Lexi Alexander
SHRINK – Dir: Kevin Donovan
THE SPIRIT – Dir: Frank Miller
TULIA – Dir: John Singleton
MANDATE
CURVE – Dir: Charles Stone
DOGS OF BABEL – Dir: None attached
WHIP IT – Dir: Drew Barrymore
MIRAMAX
HERO – Dir: Julian Farino
THE RESURRECTIONISTS – Dir: John Madden
NEW LINE
20,000 LEAGUES – Dir: None attached
$40,000 MAN – Dir: None attached
APPALOOSA – Dir: Ed Harris
CONRAIL – Dir: Ericson Core
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK – Dir: Len Wiseman - Urgh
FOUR CHRISTMASES – Dir: Seth Gordon
GEARS OF WAR – Dir: None attached
GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST – Dir: Mark Waters
HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU – Dir: Ken Kwapis
HONEYMOON WITH HARRY – Dir: None attached
KILLING ON CARNIVAL ROW – Dir: Neil Jordan
KING OF KONG – Dir: Seth Gordon
MILD THINGS – Dir: Frank Coraci
MY SISTER’S KEEPER – Dir: Nick Cassavetes
PAPER WINGS – Dir: None attached
SEX & THE CITY – Dir: Michael King
SNITCH – Dir: Carl Franklin
THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE – Dir: Robert Schwentke
NEW REGENCY
BIG MOMMA’S 3 – Dir: None attached – Seriously is this a priority? For anyone??
BRIDE WARS – Dir: None attached
CAGE – Dir: None attached
CAPRICORN ONE – Dir: None attached
DALLAS – Dir: None attached but looking to Betty Thomas
MONTE CARLO (PREVIOUSLY HEADHUNTERS) – Dir: Tom Bezucha
VOLTRON – Dir: None attached
OVERTURE
105 DEGREES – Dir: Jon AMiel
HUMBOLT PARK – Dir: None attached
RIGHTEOUS KILL – Dir: Jon Avnet
LAST CHANCE HARVEY – Dir: Joel Hopkins
PARAMOUNT
ANGUS, THONGS – Dir: Gurinder Chadha
CHEF – Dir: None attached
THE FIGHTER – Dir: Darren Aronofsky
GI JOE – Dir: None attached
I WANT TO _____ YOUR SISTER – Dir: None attached
LOVE GURU – Dir: Marco Schnabel
MEN MAKING MUSIC – Dir: Clay Tarver
NOWHERE LAND – Dir: Karey Kirkpatrick
PSYCHO FUNKY CHIMP – Dir: Ruben Fleischer – Wha?
STAR TREK – Dir: JJ Abrams
THOR – Dir: Matthew Vaughn -More about this in a minute
TORSO – Dir: David Fincher
UNTITLED CAMERON CROWE – Dir: Cameron Crowe
YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY – Dir: Julian Farino
WINTER OF FRANKIE MACHINE – Dir: None attached
WORLD WAR Z – Dir: None attached - I love zombie movies but I have severe reservations about this project. Maybe I’ll discuss that sometime
PARAMOUNT VANTAGE
AMERICAN STORAGE – Dir: Andrew Cohen
CAGED – Dir: Chris Kentis
DON READY (PREVIOUSLY CLAY HUJKO LIKES CARS) – Dir: Neal Brennan
DEFIANCE – Dir: Ed Zwick
DIRT – Dir: None attached
ROGUE
BELCOO EXPERIMENT – Dir: James Gunn
BFF – Dir: None attached
CASTLEVANIA – Dir: Sylvain White
DYNOMITE – Dir: Paul Feig
FIGHTIN’ – Dir: Dito Montiel
LABOR DAY MASON – Dir: Will Gluck
LOST SQUAD – Dir: Leger & Mather
NEAR DARK – Dir: Sam Bayer
SCREEN GEMS
ARMORED – Dir: Nimrod Antal
BONE DEEP – Dir: John Luessenhop
THE BURIAL – Dir: None attached
THE CROSSING – Dir: None attached
INSANITARIUM – Dir: Jeff Buhler
LODGER D:David Ondaatje
KINGDOM COME – Dir: None attached – Kingdom Come? As in the comic? Featuring older versions of the DC heroes? Really?? I don’t know whether to be pleased or dismayed
PHENOM – Dir: None attached
UNTITLED MARDI GRAS PROJECT – Dir: Phil Dornfeld
SPYGLASS
ANTHONY ZIMMER – Dir: Lasse Hallstrom
IRONBOW – Dir: Derin Seale
SONY
AGAINST ALL ENEMIES – Dir: Robert Redford
ALIEN UPRISING – Dir: Wolfgang Peterson
ANGELS AND DEMONS – Dir: Ron Howard
BASTER – Dir: Speck & Gordon
BIG MAN ON CAMPUS – Dir: None attached
BOND 22 – Dir: Marc Forster
BROTHERS – Dir: Jim Sheridan
EDWIN A. SALT – Dir: Terry George
FANTASY ISLAND – Dir: None attached
THE GRAYS – Dir: Wolfgang Peterson – Two Wolfgang Peterson movies? Gee he’s going to be busy in the next 10 months
I DREAM OF JEANNIE – Dir: None attached
JULIE JULIA – Dir: Nora Ephron
MONSTER HUNTER – Dir: David Dobkin – Wha? As in the PS2/PSP game?
SAMMY’S HILL – Dir: David O. Russell
SEVEN POUNDS – Dir: Gabriele Muccino
STEP-BROTHERS – Dir: Adam Mckay
THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS – Dir: Steve Zaillian
THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3 – Dir: Tony Scott – Not content with The Warriors he’s also redoing this? Does the man have no shame??
TOKYO SUCKERPUNCH – Dir: None attached
YEAR ONE – Dir: Harold Ramis
VOYEUR – Dir: None attached
SONY CLASSICS
DANCING WITH SHIVA – Dir: Jonathan Demme
SUMMIT
DJINN – Dir: Nicholas Refn
NEED – Dir: Ryan Murphy
PARENTAL GUIDANCE – Dir: None attached
RAT BASTARD – Dir: Gary Winick
SEX DRIVE – Dir: Sean Anders
UNITED ARTISTS
THE BIRDCAGE 2 – Dir: None attached - Oh please! 
PINKVILLE – Dir: Oliver Stone
UNIVERSAL
ABSENT HEARTS – Dir: Jim Whitaker
BARBARELLA – Dir: Robert Rodriguez
BIG BROTHERS – Dir: David Wain
THE CHANGELING – Dir: Clint Eastwood
CIRQUE DU FREAK – Dir: Paul Weitz - As in The Saga of Darren Shan! Hell yeah! I love those books!
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON – Dir: Breck Eisner
DARK FIELDS – Dir: None attached
DRACULA YEAR ZERO – Dir: Alex Proyas – Oooh Alex Proyas and Dracula…could be interesting
FAST & FURIOUS 4 – Dir: Justin Lin
HURRICAINE SEASON – Dir: Billy Ray
I, THALUS (PREVIOUSLY OLYMPIAD) – Dir: Pete Segal
LAND OF THE LOST – Dir: Brad Silberling
THE LOS ANGELES RIOTS – Dir: Spike Lee
LA SCORTA – Dir: Asger Yeth
MAN AND WIFE – Dir: Gabriele Muccino
MY NAME IS JODY WILLIAMS – Dir: Audrey Wells
NOTTINGHAM – Dir: Ridley Scott
ONE NATION UNDER BOB – Dir: Tom Shadyac
PHARM GIRL – Dir: None attached
PLAYBOY – Dir: Brett Ratner
REPOSSESSION MAMBO – Dir: Miguel Sapochnik
RIPD – Dir: David Dobkin
SANDS OF TIME – Dir: None attached
SCOTT PILGRIM – Dir: Edgar Wright
STATE OF PLAY – Dir: Kevin McDonald
SOURCE CODE – Dir: None attached
TRAVELING – Dir: Brandon Camp
TRUMP HEIST – Dir: Brett Ratner
UNDOMESTIC GODDESS – Dir: None attached
UNTITLED CHARLES RANDOLPH PROJECT – Dir: None attached
UNTITLED JON FAVREAU PROJECT – Dir: Jon Favreau
WOLFMAN – Dir: Mark Romanek
WALDEN
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA – THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER – Dir: Michael Apted
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA – THE SILVER CHAIR – Dir: None attached
CITY OF THE BEASTS – Dir: None attached
TORTOISE AND THE HIPPO – Dir: John Dykstra
RELATIVITY – Dir: None attached
WARNER BROTHERS
1906 – Dir: Brad Bird
ALTERED CARBON – Dir: James McTeigue
ARRANGED – Dir: Gary Winick
CARPE DEMON – Dir: None attached
CLASH OF THE TITANS – Dir: None attached
THE DIRTY DOZEN – Dir: Guy Ritchie – Did anybody else know that Guy Ritchie was attached to this?
FARRAGUT NORTH – Dir: None attached
GUARDIANS OF GA’HOOLE – Dir: None attached
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE – Dir: David Yates - You’re going to rush this out before June next year? I don’t think so
HEART SHAPED BOX – Dir: Neil Jordan
HIMELFARB – Dir: Miguel Arteta
THE INCREDIBLE MR LIMPET – Dir: Chris Columbus
JUSTICE LEAGUE – Dir: None attached, but looking to George Miller
LOSERS – Dir:
MEN – Dir: Todd Phillips
MORTDECAI – Dir: None attached
NIGHTCRAWLERS – Dir: McG
PENETRATION – Dir: Ridley Scott
SHANTARAM – Dir: Mira Nair
SHERLOCK HOLMES – Dir: None attached
SPOOKS APPRENTICE – Dir: Tim Burton
THE TOWN – Dir: Adrian Lyne
YES MAN – Dir: Peyton Reed
WARNER INDEPENDENT
DISASSOCIATE – Dir: Zach Helm
QUEEN OF THE SOUTH – Dir: Jonathan Jakubowitz
MAN WITHOUT A GUN – Dir: Pete Travis
MESSAGE FROM THE KING – Dir: None attached
RUM DIARY – Dir: Bruce Robinson
WHITE JAZZ – Dir: Joe Carnahan
THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY
BERNARD THE GENIE – Dir: Richard Curtis
FLETCH WON – Dir: Steve Pink
I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT – Dir: David Frankel
GOING DOWN (PREVIOUSLY MUSKRAT LOVE) – Dir: Andy Fickman
NINE – Dir: Rob Marshall
THE READER – Dir: Stephen Daldry
SEVENTH SAMURAI – Dir: None attached, but looking to Justin Chadwick or Wayne Kramer
SHANGHAI – Dir: Mikael Hafstrom
TULIP FEVER – Dir: Peter Chelsom
ZACK AND MIRI MAKE A PORNO – Dir: Kevin Smith
WORKING TITLE
BAD NEWS INC. – Dir: None attached
BURN AFTER READING – Dir: Coen Bros
EVEREST – Dir: None attached
FOOD FIGHT – Dir: Steve Brill
IMPERIAL LIFE – Dir: Paul Greengrass
LOST FOR WORDS – Dir: Suzanne Bier
THE RIP – Dir: Roger Michell
ROCK THE BOAT – Dir: Richard Curtis
YOUNG AT HEART – Dir: None attached
And there we have it. Thats the movies that the studios want to get stockpiled by June next year. Of course, there are a lot there which either don’t have directors or even titles yet but it does give us a kind of idea as to what we can expect from the movie theaters next year. I just hope that if they do rush these through that they are still good movies as there are some interesting things here.
But seriously, Big Momma 3 and Birdcage 2? *shudder*
[Source - FilmJunk via Cinematical]
4 Responses to “Studios Release List of Pre-Strike Priority Movies”
****ing Wyverex! You just ****ing throw out a ****ing list like this without any ****ing consideration to anyone’s ****ing feelings! And not only that but you pass ****ing comment on films here and there but just try and ****ing subliminally drop it in ****ing conversation that they’re remaking not just RUNAWAY TRAIN, not just TAKING OF PELHAM 1,2,3 (which has already been remade a few years back with Edward James Olmos and Michael Madsen BTW!), not just CAPRICORN ONE, not just NEAR DARK, not just THE DIRTY DOZEN but SEVEN SAMURAI as well. And you just ****ing let all that ****ing pass with no “fight” or barbed remarking whatsoever? And you ****ing didn’t prepared us for the ****ing shock of it either! That’s outrageous! That’s disgusting! I’m ****ing suicidal now and it’s all coz of you. You should feel suitably disgusted with yourself. I’m going to go and take an electric razor to my wrists now (in 3 days I may well have broken the skin!) and ****ing kill myself! Damn you Wyverex and damn this article you have written! I abhore you and your goddamn admittedly otherwise ****ing great website!!!
And no, I am not going to put a wink-face at the end to let everyone know this is intended in a tongue-in-cheek manner!
No! I won’t! I will ****ing not! **** you and **** your mentally-damaging article that has ruined my life and ruined movie going for the next couple of ****ing years!
(Damn!)
LOL
I don’t like the idea of them rushing through so many pictures. Nothing worth a shit ever got done in a rush.
What about Rome? That was built in a day!
Oh, wait… I think I may have that wrong!
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