This column may have been better-suited to last week’s pre-Halloween piece, but apparently Hollywood doesn’t care about my deadlines.

A new Addams Family film is on the way, with MGM dragging the property out of the crypt, except this time around it’s going to be CGI animation.

In 2010, there was talk of Tim Burton bringing the creepy, kooky family back (and thank Beetlejuice the workmanlike hack didn’t get round to it), but this project will be handled by Pamela Pettler, the writer of Corpse Bride, Monster House and 9.

The Addams Family began life in a cartoon in The New Yorker in 1938,
and the new, computer-generated Addamses will look more like their cartoonist Charles Addams’ original drawings.

More scary news? You got it.

Steven King’s Pet Sematary (sic) is getting a remake, likely to be directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo who has horror form, having handled 28 Weeks Later and Intruders.

It’s not the first time Fresnadillo has been attached to a remake either; he was previously connected to remakes of both The Crow and Highlander. Paramount has been trying to reanimate the 1989 adaptation of Stephen King’s horror for a few years now, but it seems the studio might have finally found its man.

Yeah, this one would have been better last week too. I’m beginning think I’m the victim of a vast entertainment industry conspiracy.

He started off making stupid videos with his best mate using Star Wars figures and teddies, and now Joe Cornish is being chased to direct what is likely to be one of 2016’s biggest films – Star Trek 3.

The ‘Joe’ part of Adam and Joe, started his directing career in 2011 with the chavs vs aliens movie Attack The Block, and is now being courted by Paramount, who want him to take over from JJ Abrams who is ever-so-slightly busy with Star Wars.

Cornish has previously turned the job down, but this time, the studio has made it public that they want him; a surprising move considering his relative lack of experience. Writing the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s Tintin film is obviously a huge feather in his cap, but I don’t think creating a tepid British action sci-fi is enough to warrant landing a job the size of Star Trek 3.

That said, grab someone whose biggest gig to date is directing an episode of the dire weekday soap Doctors, and they’d do a better job than JJ Abrams did on Star Trek Into Darkness. Lens flare, lens flare, gratuitous nudity, lens flare, Simon Pegg being hateful, lens flare…Into Darkness is this year’s biggest disappointment.

When The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel came out in 2011 it stunned everyone by taking more than $135m at the global box office. Little surprise, then, that a sequel is on the way – a sequel that will see Richard Gere added to the cast.

The first film follows a group of English pensioners who head off to Jaipur lured by ads promising them a stunning hotel complex, specially designed for the elderly. However, when they arrive, the reality is very different to the dream they were sold.

The sequel will include the original cast as well as that bloke who was foolish enough to spend good money on Julia Roberts. Filming is due to start early in 2014.