Posted on Thursday, April 25th, 2013 by Angie Han
Trailers! Who has time to watch them all? There are something like forty wide releases due out this summer alone. If you assume each trailer runs about two minutes, that’s about an hour and half of your life you’ll never get back. That’s time you could’ve spent actually watching one of these movies.
If you only watch one trailer this spring, then, you’ll want to make it this one. This three-minute supercut teases most of the season’s biggest releases, from Iron Man 3 to The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. It’s surprisingly coherent, which may suggest that these titles aren’t as different as the filmmakers would like us to think. Or maybe it just proves that with the right music and some skillful editing, you can totally change the meaning of any scene. In any case, watch it after the jump.
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Posted on Monday, March 25th, 2013 by Angie Han
Here are some sequel-related odds and ends for the start of the week. After the jump:
- Transformers 4 scouts the GM plant as a possible location
- Dredd isn’t getting a sequel, but may get a short film
- Win one of 50 uniform from Star Trek Into Darkness
- Star Trek Into Darkness participates in Earth Hour
- Universal’s “Despicablimp” embarks on a cross-country tour
- See the first pics from Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
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Posted on Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 by Angie Han
Not surprisingly, today’s tidbits begin with Star Trek Into Darkness. After the jump:
- Simon Pegg is laughing at your Star Trek fan theories
- You can count out Danny Boyle for Bond 24
- Clerks III already has a 70-page outline
- Andy Serkis talks The Hobbit and Apes
- A Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sequel is coming
- Barbara Hershey will return for Insidious 2
- Wolverine, X-Men, Apes, and Percy Jackson go 3D
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Posted on Wednesday, June 20th, 2012 by Angie Han
We’ve got handful of sequel-related quick hits for you. After the jump:
- Tim Burton “would love to revisit” Beetlejuice sometime
- Want to be an extra on Iron Man 2, Machete Kills, etc.?
- A blazing-hot new Expendables 2 poster hits the web
- When will the second trailer for The Hobbit debut?
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Posted on Wednesday, June 13th, 2012 by Angie Han
Lots of fun odds and ends in today’s Sequel Bits. After the jump:
- Early posters for A Good Day to Die Hard and Percy Jackson hit the Licensing Expo
- Men in Black 3 concept art reveals a (slightly) alternate design for the monowheels
- Charlize Theron‘s role in Mad Max: Fury Road apparently requires her to have really short hair
- A handful of new stills show Bella and Edward’s kid in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is in the process of being written, says producer Alex Kurtzman
- Will Smith is iffy on doing on I Am Legend 2 because he doesn’t want to be “the sequel guy”
- Did you know there was almost a sequel to E.T.? Steven Spielberg explains why it didn’t happen.
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A bevy of major release date announcments and shifts were just revealed. Here goes.
- The Rise of the Planet of the Apes sequel is now called Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and has been dated May 23, 2014.
- A 3D re-release of Independence Day will hit July 3, 2013.
- The untitled sequel to X-Men First Class will hit on July 18, 2014 with Matthew Vaughn directing.
- Steven Spielberg‘s Robopocalypse has been pushed from 2013 to April 25, 2014
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, directed by and starring Ben Stiller, has been dated for Christmas 2013 along with Walking With Dinosaurs.
- Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters hits August 16, 2013
- Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy‘s untitled Paul Feig-directed comedy lands April 5, 2013.
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Posted on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 by Angie Han
Today’s Sequel Bits is all about the number 2. As in Beetlejuice 2, Anchorman 2, Grown Ups 2, Dr. Horrible 2, and Percy Jackson 2 (okay, that’s not technically what it’s called, but you know what I mean). After the jump:
- A small update on Seth Grahame-Smith’s Beetlejuice 2
- Judd Apatow has a wishlist, Adam McKay has ideas for Anchorman 2
- A Hunger Games tribute becomes a daughter of war
- Grown Ups 2 casts another young’un to join Taylor Lautner
- Joss Whedon teases Dr. Horrible 2 and more death
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Posted on Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 by Angie Han
While it remains to be seen whether Anthony Hopkins in Sacha Gervasi‘s Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho does any better at capturing the Hitchcock resemblance than Toby Jones does in Julian Jarrold‘s The Girl, what’s clear is that the former will be surrounded by quite a high profile cast. Jessica Biel has just beat out several other actresses to land the role of Vera Miles, who played Lila Crane in Psycho. She joins a roster that also includes Scarlett Johansson and James D’Arcy as Psycho stars Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins, and Helen Mirren as Hitchcock’s wife Alma Reville.
Gervasi is directing from a script by John McLaughlin and Tom Thayer, who adapted it from Stephen Rebello‘s nonfiction tome of the same title. I expect the title will change at some point, since the current one sounds more appropriate for a documentary than a narrative feature, but that’s what they’re going with for now.
Biel is currently filming Emanuel and the Truth about Fishes, and will next be seen in Len Wiseman’s remake of Total Recall. Shooting on Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho is scheduled to begin next month. [Deadline]
After the jump, Nathan Fillion is joined by another Joss Whedon alum in Percy Jackson.
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