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What does Shutdown mean?

Financiers and production companies have abandoned their attempt to develop movies in this stage. Therefore, any cast and crew that were involved with the movie are likely no longer attached. In some cases, shutdown movies restart development, often with new producers and cast. In other cases, such as X-Men Origins: Magneto or Spider-Man 4, the specific movies reach dead ends, but the franchises continue with other movies.
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Sex and the City 3

Rumored third installment of HBO's Sex and the City.

Salt 2

The continued adventures of double-agent Evelyn Salt. Kurt Wimmer, the writer on Salt, has not written a script, but "has ideas for how to advance the story of the spy thriller" according to L.A. Times. Sony will or will not greenlight the sequel based on the worldwide box office success of Salt.

The Legend of Spyro

A rare purple dragon of prophecy, on a voyage of self-discovery, struggles to come to terms with his potential while finding himself embroiled in an epic struggle against evil.

Austin Powers 4

Austin Powers 4 is the next installment in the adventures of the International Man of Mystery. The film is rumored to focus on Austin's nemesis, Doctor Evil.

Bangkok 8

A detective with the Royal Thai Police Force tracks the murderers of his partner and also a U.S. Marine. The trail leads through Bangkok's drug and sex trade, and corrupt colleagues.

Independence Day 3

The films will take place 20 years after the original, when reinforcements of the original alien race return to Earth after finally receiving a distress call.

Mrs. Doubtfire 2

In the original, directed by Chris Columbus, Robin Williams played an estranged father who poses as a Scottish nanny, Euphegenia Doubtfire, in order to get access to his children and successfully bypass his ex-wife (Sally Field). The film grossed $219 million domestically.

Stretch Armstrong

This original story will be a gritty actioner introducing the character of Lucas Armstrong and the life-or-death consequences he will face after undergoing a transformation granting him superhuman abilities.

The Big Valley

A feature adaptation of ABC's '60s TV series "The Big Valley." Susan Sarandon would play the role of Victoria Barkley, the character played by Barbara Stanwyck in the original.

Dance of the Mirlitons

A dark comedy about 14 year-old Jesse Urchin, an ambitious yet overweight ballerina with an overbearing mother (Kristen Bell) who will stop at nothing to become a star. The girl enters a "Mean Girls"-type environment when she has to prove her worth in class.
Location: US - Massachusetts

Nailed

Sammy Joyce, a socially awkward small-town receptionist, has a nail accidentally shot into her head by a clumsy workman which elicits wild sexual urges. She takes her case to Washington to fight for the rights of the bizarrely injured where she meets an immoral congressman who takes advantage of her sex drive.

Northern Lights

The story centers on three young extreme pilots who compete to determine the best, while one of the pilots also faces off with his controlling, billionaire father and falls in love with one of the other female pilots.

Oldzilla

King Saurus, the self-proclaimed “Lord of the Stomp” , is unwilling to admit Father Time is nipping at his heels. He wears a scale toupee and spends his days watching newsreel footage of his past destructions. Finally, he leaves his cave and moves into Fading Fast (a senior community in the Bermuda Triangle built exclusively for the “vintage” Chinese monster). The place is run by Miss Petfarkin, a monster who’s obsessed with order and rules. King Saurus is stunned by the listlessness of his fellow behemoths and attempts to liven things up. He ultimately convinces Icarose and Birdy, an old married monster couple, to travel with him to Atlantic City to interrupt the grand opening of Rump Mart, the mega-store of mega-stores. This one last attempt at terrorizing ends up biting these senior citizen behemoths in the butt when Ronald Rump, the tyrannical owner of Rump Mart, brings in King Saurus’ old nemesis, the elderly Chinese monster hunter, Dai Anu. Anu, along with his daughter and granddaughter, arrives in America in order to battle and finally defeat the Lord of the Stomp.

The Tale of the Body Thief

Lestat, depressed and lonely after centuries as a vampire, decides to transfer souls for a day with a psychic, who after the transfer reveals that he has no intention of switching back. Lestat, now in a human body and with the help of some friends, must track the man down and get his body back.

White Chicks 2

A sequel to the 2004 comedy White Chicks, which will see Marlon and Shawn Wayans reprise their roles as sibling FBI agents posing as a pair of white ladies.