According to Nikki Finke over at Deadline Hollywood (and recently confirmed by director Patrick Lussier), swift movement on The Weinstein Company’s (TWC) HALLOWEEN 3-D has resulted in temporarily halted production.
The nature of low-budget genre fare, sequels in particular, is this: films like HALLOWEEN and SAW are made cheaply, quickly, with relative unknowns, and are churned out like assembly line products. The time between casting and editing grows shorter and shorter, the interval between releasing shrinks as well. This keeps the film fresh in the mind of the audience, and studios capitalize on the notion of familiarity.
In short, time is money!
So when the slightest chink in this systematic armor occurs, shit breaks down. Well, such seems to be the case for TWC and Dimension, as Bob Weinstein has deemed HALLOWEEN 3-D “too rushed” to continue production.
All of this apparently spurred on by Todd Farmer’s late arriving script, which merely came in last Friday. Such ill-timing doesn’t align with initial plans to shoot the film in November, when Patrick Lussier’s (MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3-D) schedule was free (before directing Nic Cage in DRIVE ANGRY early next year).
As a result, initial plans to release HALLOWEEN 3-D in the summer of 2010 may now be on hold until Lussier is further available.
Also out of the Weinstein camp comes a tidbit that, given the paltry return of HALLOWEEN II’s receipts, the Rob Zombie sequel will be re-released theatrically on Halloween night as midnight screenings in selected cities. More on that though when we know it!
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