Miramax and The Weinstein Company are coming together to begin sequels on a number of films as they have already done for Scream and Spy Kids. Sequels on the front burner… Bad Santa Rounders Shakespeare in Love Other possible franchise sequels… Bridget Jones Diary Copland From Dusk to Dawn Swingers Shall We Dance Clerks The Amityville [...]
Archive for December, 2010
The Dark Tower Trilogy Begins in 2013
Posted: December 15, 2010 in Movie SequelsTags: Ron Howard, Stephen King, The Dark Tower
Ron Howard announced that the first installment in The Dark Tower trilogy will be in theaters on May 17, 2013. Even more interesting is information about a television series that will be a bridge between the big screen installments. As far as I can remember this hasn’t been done to this extent and planning before. [...]
Dreamworks Renamed Sequelworks!
Posted: December 4, 2010 in Movie SequelsTags: How to Train Your Dragon, Jeffrey Katzenburg, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar
Well, it should be renamed Sequelworks after the latest announcement by Jeffrey Katzenburg. I am all for sequels. It would even be fair to say I have an obsession about sequels. But Dreamworks is either stupid, high or genius. Here are their plans… Madagascar Madagascar (2005) Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) Madagascar 3 (05.18.12) Madagascar 4 (TBD) [...]
With news of Pirates of the Caribbean 5 and 6 possibly being shot back-to-back, a strategy becoming more common place today, I thought I would share a brief history of the more notable back-to-backquels that have led us to today where we already have Potter, Twilight and The Hobbit in some state of production doing the same [...]
Pirates of the Caribbean 5 and 6!
Posted: December 3, 2010 in Movie SequelsTags: Movies, Pirates of the Caribbean, Sequels
With the finishing touches still being made on next summer’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides producers are asking cast members to clear their schedule for a back-to-back filming of Pirates 5 and 6. As you may remember this was the same strategy done for Pirates 2 and 3 that was met with financial but [...]
Benji is coming back to the silver screen after what seems like decades but has really only been 5 years…well, 35 in Benji years. I remember a recurring television ad for Benji: The Road Back when I was in college but I can’t find any record of it. The reason I recall it so easily [...]
