'G.I. Joe' Needed Work : the Real Reason for the Delay

G.I. Joe: Retaliation was testing poorly and needed reshoots, according to Deadline,  which is why the release date was pushed back from June to 2013 . Channing Tatum, who’s gotten hot since the first film, was going to be killed off early in the sequel, but was one of the few things testing audiences liked. Reshoots will help expand his role and keep him alive. And the 3D move was essential, given how the dollars on the summer blockbusters have flowed.
 

The delay of the movie at this late stage, when theaters were booked and licensed merchandise had started to flow, was a radical move, reflecting the degree of risk Paramount perceived in releasing the movie as it was and the size of the opportunity in fixing it

Howard Jazzed by "Dark Tower" Project

Director Ron Howard is obsessed with adapting Stephen King’s seven-novel Dark Tower series into a movie trilogy bridged by two TV series. Howard told The Washington Post, “I really can't stop thinking about it. We've been meeting and talking, and I've been reading and researching and just kind of living with it.

I've been constantly going through stuff, and I've just been relistening to it (on audio books) on my iPod, and we've been sending e-mails back and forth, 'What about this approach? What do you think of this idea?' We're finding the shape of it. We're moving quickly now, as quickly as we can, and I feel challenged in the most exciting ways."

King’s seven Dark Tower novels encompass a mammoth 3,795 pages and have collectively sold over 30 million copies. Last year King announced that he was working on an eighth book in the series, The Wind Through the Keyhole. Marvel Comics has created a popular comic book adaptation of The Dark Tower, but Universal’s ambitious combination of movies and TV series marks the first really serious attempt to dramatize the groundbreaking fantasy saga.

Howard is working with writer Akiva Goldsman and producer Brian Grazer on The Dark Tower project--the same team responsible for the Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind