POLICE ACADEMY Goes for 8

DVD sales of the “complete” Police Academy films must be doing well considering we can now look forward to an eight installment as Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow are teaming up to co-finance the eighth sequel in the popular franchise. The project is out to writers, with the exact direction of the newest installment yet to be determined. “I felt it was time to start again,” said Maslansky, who came up with the idea of reviving the franchise. He took the idea to Berman, who then pitched it to Warners. “I saw that ‘Starsky & Hutch’ and a number of other revivals were doing really well. ‘Police Academy’ has such a great history. I thought, ‘Why not?'”