10 Movies That Just Got Cancelled

As Hollywood proves to us time and time again, the process of getting a movie not merely greenlit but shot, put through post-production, and actually released to audiences is absolutely hellish.

It's miraculous that so many great or even basically good movies actually get made, because every single day in the film biz, promising projects are shut down for a multitude of reasons.

Films can die on the vine because the studio loses faith in their profit potential, there's an executive regime change, or other unforeseen circumstances come along and dash everything away.

And these 10 announced films have all recently been given the chop for one reason or another. 

Whether shelved, "paused," or outright scrapped, these films have all been taken off the slate and are now unlikely to see the light of day.

Most hadn't started shooting and some had gotten incredibly close, yet there are two maddening exceptions - one of these films was fully shot, and the other was even released to the general public at one point in time.

Of all the cancelled movie projects in recent times, these are the ones that have gotten folk talking...

Last summer, the brilliant Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) shot Golden, a coming-of-age musical biopic based on the childhood of musician Pharrell Williams.

The crackerjack ensemble cast included Kelvin Harrison Jr., Halle Bailey, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Brian Tyree Henry, Quinta Brunson, Janelle Monáe, Tim Meadows, Missy Elliott, and André 3000, and principal photography seemed to go off without a hitch.

However back in February, just three months before the film's planned release, Gondry and Williams issued a joint statement that Golden was being permanently shelved after they realised "there wasn't a path forward" in the editing room.

Despite this clearly implying that the pair were disappointed with the outcome of shooting, reports indicate that Golden test-screened very well and even had awards potential.

However, rather than try to force the film's release, Universal has opted to eat the $20 million production loss to maintain their creative partnership with Williams. 

It's rare for a fully shot film to be scrapped during post-production, and virtually unheard of for it to happen when said film is apparently rather good. Shocking.