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== 9/11 ==
* A surprisingly large and recognizable number of media were delayed, modified, and/or never released due to 9/11. Rather than distributing them to their media slots, anything affected by 9/11 should be noted here. A Wikipedia page with a comprehensive list is [[wikipedia:List of audiovisual entertainment affected by the September 11 attacks|here]].
** ''[[Grand Theft Auto III (Video Game)|Grand Theft Auto III]]'' and ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty]]'' were technically completed around that time, but had their release dates pushed back so that [[Too Soon|potentially insensitive material]] could be edited out. With GTA, it was the NYPD coloring of the police cars, and with MGS, it was the scene where the Statue of Liberty gets destroyed.
** The movie ''[[Film/Collateral Damage|Collateral Damage]]'' was supposed to be released in October 2001 but was shelved for four months due to it terrorism theme while they re-edited the movie and created a new trailer.
*** ''[[Big Trouble]]'' and ''[[Bad Company]]'' were both delayed for the same reason.
** ''[[View From The Top]]'' was supposed to be released in late 2001, but was delayed until 2003 due to studios being uncomfortable releasing a film that made fun of flight attendants so soon after 9/11.
** The premiere of the anime version of ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'' was pushed to 2002 due to the 9/11 attacks and the main character's backstory of being a mercenary in Afghanistan, which was renamed to "Helmajistan".
** A teaser trailer for the first ''[[Spider -Man]]'' film had a web stretched between the two main towers of the World Trade Center, the movie poster also showed the WTC, both the teaser and the poster were quickly re-called after 9/11.
== Film ==
* ''Blue Sky''. Completed in 1990, not released until 1994 due to the bankruptcy of Orion Pictures.
** Ditto for the film adaption of ''[[Car 54, Where Are You?]]''
* The [[Charlie Chaplin]] film ''Limelight'' was pulled from distribution after he was denied re-admittance to the US for allegedly having communist sympathies. Filmed in 1952, finally released in 1972.
* ''[[Plan 9 From Outer Space (Film)|Plan 9 Fromfrom Outer Space]]'' was completed in 1956, but couldn't find a distributor until 1959. That is nowhere near as bad as what happened to [[Ed Wood (Creator)|Ed Wood]]'s follow-up, ''Night of the Ghouls'', which didn't see the light of day until 1987. The reason? Ed couldn't pay to have the film developed and it was withheld by the lab.
* Miramax had a glut of films finished in the early 2000s and delayed releasing some of them for several years. Many made nowhere near the money production had cost.
** ''[[The Great Raid]]'' was one of these.
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* ''[[Me and Orson Welles]]'' premiered to great acclaim at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival, but was unable to secure a distributor despite the considerble buzz and the fact that they had [[Zac Efron]] and Claire Danes as the stars. It was eventually released to perhaps a dozen theatres nationwide in November 2009 and almost promptly forgotten (it's release on DVD was even ''more'' delayed). Many fans claim that this piss-poor release strategy ended up [[Award Snub|robbing]] co-star Christian McKay of a well-deserved Oscar nomination for his performance as [[Orson Welles]].
* ''[[The Nutcracker in 3D]]'' was filmed in 2007, but not released until 2010. The delay was partly to allow for the afterthought of converting it into a [[3D Movie]].
* ''[[Red Tails (Film)|Red Tails]]'' suffered in [[Development Hell]] from the 80's until 2007, and even after it was in the can and ready to go in 2010 it took another couple years before [[George Lucas]] could find a distributor willing to take it. The reason given for both the decades long hell and this trope was that the cast was [[Unfortunate Implications|mostly black]].
* The classic [[Film Noir]] ''[[The Big Sleep (Filmfilm)|The Big Sleep]]'' was completed in 1944, but the studio shelved it in order to get through their backlog of war movies before WWII ended. This proved to be a very good thing. Before it was released in 1946, scenes were added to capitalize further on the obvious on-screen chemistry of [[Humphrey Bogart]] and [[Lauren Bacall]].
* The remake of ''[[Red Dawn]]'' was mostly complete in 2010, but got shelved due to [[MGM]] going bankrupt. After the studio solved its financial problems - and a [[Re Cut]] happened to replace the [[Yellow Peril|Chinese villains]] with [[Acceptable Targets|North Koreans]] - it got a November 2012 release date.
** ''[[The Cabin in The Woods (Film)|The Cabin in Thethe Woods]]'' was also a victim of MGM. It was finished in 2009, but MGM delayed to do a 3-D conversion, but their bankruptcy forced them to abandon those plans. The film finally saw the light of day in April 2012 and was critically acclaimed to boot.
* ''All About Steve'' was shot in 2007, but only got released 2 years later. (in the meantime, star Bradley Cooper [[The Hangover|made a name for himself]])
* ''[[Lucky You]]'' was shot in 2005 and not released until 2007, where it flopped at the box-office.
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* ''Fanboys'' went through a legendary delay, it was finished in 2007, but delayed because the Weinsteins thought the cancer subplot in the film would make it less profitable, so they hired another director to re-shoot certain scenes, though Kyle Masterson eventually prevailed and managed to get the film a limited theatrical release in 2009 with the subplot intact.
* The Sarah Michelle Gellar film ''Posession'' (which was a remake of the South Korean film ''Addicted'') was filmed in 2007 and scheduled for a theatrical release in winter 2008, but the film's distribution company ended up going backrupt, which caused the release date to get pushed back nearly a dozen times until it was finally released [[Direct to Video]] in March 2010(and given the lackluster reviews, it's probably for the best)
* ''[[Trick R'r Treat]]'' was supposed to get a theatrical release in October 2007, but it ended up getting pushed back and dumped directly to DVD 2 years later.
* ''Case39'' was completed in 2007 and didn't get a U.S. theatrical release until 3 years later.
* ''[[Pride And Glory]]'' was shelved for 2 years before getting a release date in 2008
* Paul Schrader shot his prequel to ''[[The Exorcist]]'', but studio Morgan Creek had not much faith in it and instead ordered Renny Harlin to shoot his own version, 2005's ''Exorcist: The Beginning''. Eventually Schrader's version was released as ''Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist'' one year later.
* The [[John Cusack]] and [[Chow Yun Fat]] film ''Shanghai'' was finished in 2008, but was delayed from getting released anywhere until 2010, where it was released in China and other countries, but as of 2012 still has not yet been released in the U.S.
* ''[[Robo CopRoboCop]] 3'' completed production in 1991, then sat on the shelf for two years while Orion Pictures went bankrupt. The film was eventually released in 1993 to weak box office and scathing reviews.
* A month before its scheduled release in theatres, Paramount Pictures announced that it would be shelving the completed ''[[G.I. Joe: Retaliation]]'' until March 2013, supposedly so they could make a 3D conversion as well. It was also rumored that the delay was caused by the weak domestic performance of ''[[Battleship (Filmfilm)|Battleship]]'' (a fellow Hasbro property), and that the director of ''Retaliation'' didn't know the film was being delayed in the first place.
* ''[[Warriors Way]]'' was completed in 2008 but not released until 2010.
 
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== Music ==
* [[The Beatles (Musicband)|The Beatles]] recorded the songs which became the album ''Let It Be'' in 1969 but then shelved the whole thing and went back to the studio, producing and releasing ''Abbey Road'' in 1969. ''Let It Be'' (along with its [[Let It Be (Film)|accompanying film]]) was released in 1970.
* When [[Willie Nelson]] signed with Atlantic Records in 1973 he recorded two albums worth of material at the same sessions. One was his first "outlaw country" album ''Shotgun Willie'', the other was a gospel album called ''The Troublemaker''. Nelson actually thought ''The Troublemaker'' turned out the better of the two, but Atlantic didn't think a gospel album would sell so they shelved it. After releasing one more album on Atlantic (''Phases & Stages'') he moved to Columbia Records, and Atlantic let him have the master tapes for ''The Troublemaker'', which he finally released on Columbia in 1976.
 
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* ''[[Blaster Master|Blaster Master: Blasting Again]]'' for the PS1 completed development in 1999, but wasn't released until 2001.
* ''[[The Red Star]]'', a PS2 shoot-'em-up based on the comic book of the same name, was finished in 2004, but released in 2007.
* ''The Dead of The Brain 1 & 2'', a [[PCTurbo EngineGrafx 16]] port of two [[Visual Novel|visual novels]] originally released for the PC-98, was initially scheduled to be released in 1994, but shelved due to the dwindling support for the PC Engine in Japan. ''Dead of the Brain'' was eventually released in 1999 in limited quantities, more than two years after the previous PC Engine release (''Hataraku Shojo''), giving it the distinction of being the final official game for the system (as well as a year after the final PC-FX game, which meant that the PC-Engine technically outlived its predecessor).
 
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