They’ve buried the hatchet in Jason Voorhees, but there’s still life left in Freddy Krueger.

Production company Platinum Dunes is moving forward with a sequel to its remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, online reports suggest. Blame audiences, if it matters. Moviegoers pushed it to a $32-million opening weekend.

That’s welcome news (we assume) for Jackie Earle Haley, who replaced Robert Englund as Freddy in the revamp. Even if it means again donning the melted-flesh make-up.

“It’s a real kick playing such a mythical boogeyman, but it was a challenge,” Haley said prior to the remake’s opening. “There was a lot of arduous work. One of the things I’ve discovered is … all of these years I thought Freddy was the one doing the torturing, but it really looks like he was the one being tortured. You know, three and a half hours in the makeup chair and out to set Robert goes. So he must have had a heck of a time doing those films for all of those years.”

Meanwhile, a Platinum Dunes-produced sequel to its Friday the 13th has apparently been scuttled. On Twitter, producer Brad Fuller confirmed this via tweet, saying a second outing for Jason is “dead.”

CHANGING TIDES: Even Jack Sparrow is tightening his belt.

The Los Angeles Times reports Disney is trimming back the size and scope of the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film, On Stranger Tides, which will shoot this summer starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz.

According to the Times, the number of shooting days and visual effects has been reduced in order to bring the budget down to a workable $200 million or so. (The last sequel, At World’s End, purportedly cost $300 million.) Pirates isn’t the only film feeling pinched as the industry copes with dwindling DVD revenues.

JUDGE NOT, LEST YE LEAVE US HANGING: “Tell them to finish that script, I’m ready to go!” Queen Latifah told us of her frustration and desire to take part in Hairspray 2.

But as problematic as John Waters and Leslie Dixon’s new script has turned out to be, it’s director Adam Shankman who’s considered the real obstacle.

Once content with one job — back when he filmed Hairspray in Toronto with Latifah and John Travolta — Shankman has been a permanent judge on So You Think You Can Dance since last September.

Which means if this sequel happens, it’s either going to be with a new director or during the show’s hiatus.

AH, WHY BOTHER? Don’t know why we find this bitterly funny, but Ryan Gosling has signed on to narrate ReGeneration, a documentary that “explores the widespread cynicism in today’s youth and young adults, and the influences that perpetuate our culture’s apathetic view toward social and political causes.”

If it’s a hit, it kind of puts the lie to the movie’s premise. And if it’s true, no one will come to see it.