Is trouble brewing at Dimension Films, the genre off-shoot owned by the Weinstein Brothers? The company currently has no releases officially scheduled for 2012, with Halloween 3D being the latest Dimension project to be delayed indefinitely. This week they pulled the movie from release calendars without offering a reason or an updated release date. The movie had previously staked out the desirable Halloween weekend that was once dominated by the Saw franchise, but now will likely slide to sometime in 2013. This leaves Paranormal Activity 4 with very little in the way of competition this October. Dimension still has Piranha 3DD expected to be released sometime in 2012, but they have not yet set a date for it either, which seems more than a little odd.

Halloween 3D will supposedly continue Rob Zombie’s reboot of John Carpenter’s classic slasher series. Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer (Drive Angry 3D) were attached at one point, and wrote a script for it, but it appears that the project may have since fallen into limbo. Last month, Todd Farmer offered this status update to Best-Horror-Movies.com:

“I don’t know what’s gonna happen with Halloween. We still talk to the Weinsteins and the executives there often; pretty up in the air. Back in ’09 we wrote Halloween 3D, and we wrote it to be shot before Drive Angry. And it was decided that it was just impossible to do that financially… They probably need to start shooting. If they’re gonna make an October date, they probably need to make something happen. I’d love to see it happen. I don’t mind if it does with somebody else; just whoever does it… you know, it’s Halloween! It’s one of those movies that made me who I am.”

The Weinsteins have had financial trouble in the past, but it seemed like the success of The King’s Speech last year helped pull them out of dire straits. It’s unclear if the Halloween 3D delay is related to money or just a general lack of direction. Halloween II didn’t do all that well theatrically (just $39 million worldwide), and perhaps with 3D films no longer being a guaranteed cash cow, they simply don’t see another sequel as being a wise investment. What do you think, are you disappointed that we won’t see another Halloween film this year?