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Two weeks ago<\/a>, I speculated on the possible demise of Walden Media. My speculation was based on two things:<\/span><\/p>\n

One, in August 2006, Walden formed a partnership with Fox which, as I understood it, required Walden to release all future films through Fox. There have<\/i> been a couple of non-Fox films produced by Walden since then \u2014 such as Sony\u2019s The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep<\/a><\/i> and New Line\u2019s Journey to the Center of the Earth<\/a><\/i> \u2014 but in all such cases that I know of, those films were well into production before Walden struck its deal with Fox.<\/p>\n

Two, it was announced in recent weeks that Fox has shut down Walden as a standalone division and \u201cabsorbed\u201d the marketing of Fox Walden films into its regular marketing apparatus, following a short, sparse string of box-office disappointments such as The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising<\/a><\/i> and City of Ember<\/i>. These developments led David Poland<\/a> to assert that \u201cthe end of Fox Walden as a production entity is unannounced but inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Subsequent reports, however, have suggested that Walden Media might not be quite dead yet.<\/p>\n

First, the Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> noted that Walden has hired a new vice-president of marketing who will work not only with Fox on the two films that they still have in development together \u2014 at least one of which, Tooth Fairy<\/a><\/i>, \u201coriginated\u201d at Fox and not at Walden, according to a Fox press release<\/a> \u2014 but also with Summit Entertainment on Bandslam<\/a><\/i>, a high-school rock-band movie starring High School Musical<\/a><\/i>\u2018s Vanessa Hudgens.<\/p>\n

Bandslam<\/i> was shot earlier this year, according to the IMDb<\/a>, so it would seem that Walden has been free to make new non-Fox movies after all. Unless, of course, Walden and Summit were to partner with Fox on this film, as they apparently did on Nim\u2019s Island<\/a><\/i> and City of Ember<\/i>. But so far there is no indication of that at the IMDb<\/a> or at the Walden<\/a> and Summit<\/a> websites.<\/p>\n

Second, Variety<\/a><\/i> and the Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i> both reported that Walden has bought a script about the Girl Scouts, called Tough Cookies<\/i>, which it will produce with Kerner Entertainment \u2014 and they also reported that this is at least the second collaboration between Walden and Kerner, following a sports movie called The Miracle of St. Anthony<\/a><\/i>, which is still in development.<\/p>\n

So it would seem that Walden is staying busy without Fox after all.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how these newer films do. Walden\u2019s output has been very uneven, and ironically, its top-grossing films<\/a> \u2014 which are not necessarily its best<\/i> films \u2014 were all released by studios other<\/i> than Fox. So what was it that sank the Fox Walden venture: the movies themselves, or the marketing? Who knows, but it will be interesting to see if the pattern persists.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"