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Studios Getting Ready to Ramp Up Production

October 8, 2008

While the studios are still in a contract stalemate with the Screen Actors Guild, they are ramping up production so that they will have releases for 2010 and 2011. Variety reports that the following projects are on the studios' slates (some are already filming):

COLUMBIA

* Ruben Fleischer-directed "Zombieland"

* Phillip Noyce-helmed "Edwin A. Salt" with Angelina Jolie

* Stephen Chow-directed "The Green Hornet" with Seth Rogen

DISNEY

* Tim Burton-directed "Alice in Wonderland";

* "Tron" sequel;

* Robert Zemeckis-produced motion-capture film "Mars Needs Moms";

* Jon Turteltaub-directed "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" with Nicolas Cage;

* Walt Becker- helmed "Wild Hogs 2"

FOX

* James Cameron-directed "Avatar"

* Shawn Levy-helmed "Date Night," with Steve Carell and Tina Fey

* "A-Team"

* "Ramona"

* Chris Columbus-directed "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief"

* "Diary of a Wimpy Kid"

* John Carney-directed "Town House"

* "Alvin and the Chipmunks 2"

* Tom Bezucha-directed "Orbit"

* Rick Famuyiwa-helmed "Family Wedding"

MGM

* Drew Goddard-directed "The Cabin in the Woods"

* Kevin Tancharoen-helmed "Fame"

* "The Matarese Circle," which David Cronenberg is negotiating to direct Washington

* Darren Aronofsky-helmed "RoboCop"

MARVEL
(Paramount distributing)

* Jon Favreau-directed "Iron Man 2" with Robert Downey Jr.

* Kenneth Branagh-helmed "Thor"

MIRAMAX

* John Madden-directed "The Debt" with Helen Mirren

* "Man on a Train"

* "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark"

NEW LINE

* "Torrente"

* "Sex and the City 2"

* "A Nightmare on Elm Street"

* Len Wiseman-helmed "Gears of War"

PARAMOUNT

* Kenny Ortega-directed "Footloose" with Zac Efron;

* M. Night Shyamalan-helmed "The Last Airbender"

* "Morning Glory"

* "Beverly Hills Cop"

* "Us and Them"

UNIVERSAL

* Edgar Wright-directed "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," starring Michael Cera

* Untitled Nancy Meyers-helmed comedy with Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin

* Peter Billingsley-directed "Couples Retreat" with Vince Vaughn;

* Gore Verbinski-helmed "BioShock"

* Nicholas Stoller-directed "Get Him to the Greek"

* Ridley Scott-helmed "Nottingham" with Russell Crowe

WARNER BROS.

* Clint Eastwood-directed "Human Factor" with Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon

* Mark Neveldine/Brian Taylor- helmed "Jonah Hex"

* "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the David Yates-directed final, two-part installment in the franchise, which begins production in February;

* Alcon-financed "Book of Eli," the Hughes brothers-directed Denzel Washington starrer

* Louis Leterrier-helmed "Clash of the Titans"

* Zack Snyder-directed "Suckerpunch."

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COMMENTS (31)

Posted by:

Juan

October 8, 2008

"Human Factor seems intersting...

Posted by:

major

October 8, 2008

I'm surprised Nothing from Will Smith, I was hoping the Michael Mann/John Logan Picture starring Will Smith will be ready to go.

Posted by:

farzan

October 8, 2008

Im excited for the stuff from Universal. I cant wait for those films.

Posted by:

Joker

October 8, 2008

Nice, can't wait for a lot of these movies and nice to see them taking shape.

I always like to see what movies will battle each other at the box office, espically during the summer and i see some big fights.

Posted by:

ShawnOfTheDead

October 8, 2008

god i can't wait for Robocop

Posted by:

Bullet4PrettyBoy

October 8, 2008

The Green Hornet, Tr2n, A-Team, RoboCop, Iron Man 2, Thor, and Gears of War all sound amazing!!!
Can't Wait!!!!!

Posted by:

wow

October 8, 2008

Interesting ones are Green Hornet, Thor, IronMan 2, Last Airbender, Gears of war. Ones that made me laugh were sex and the city 2, Alvin and the Chipmunks 2, beverly hills cop,wild hogs 2, and alice in wonderland.

Posted by:

Ted

October 8, 2008

When will Tom Cruise start production on his next movie????????????????????

Posted by:

Billy

October 8, 2008

glad to see universal and WB are still interested in making possibly good movies. Shame on you paramount.

Posted by:

Cameron

October 8, 2008

When is Pirates of the caribbean 4 going to start filming? I heard that it was going to start in 2009.