Posted on Thursday, April 26th, 2012 by Angie Han
Could the big-screen sequel to 2009′s Black Dynamite finally be getting underway? Michael Jai White thinks so. Also after the jump:
Posted on Friday, March 30th, 2012 by Peter Sciretta
After the jump we have a ton of new sequel news bits including:
All this and more, after the jump.
In a piece of unsurprising news, Sony just announced they’ll release a sequel to The Smurfs on August 2, 2013, hoping to duplicate the late summer success of its predecessor, which is still in theaters.
The first film, based on 50-year-old characters and best known as a 30-year-old cartoon, didn’t seem like a sure thing a few weeks ago. Its 22% rating on Rotten Tomatoes wasn’t helping matters. However, instead of releasing the film in the middle of summer, Sony’s genius idea to release The Smurfs at the tail-end of summer basically made the film critic proof. By the time late July rolled around, most of the major family films had come and gone leaving plenty of families hungry for something new. So The Smurfs, seemingly out of nowhere, just barely missed beating Universal’s high-profile Cowboys & Aliens in its opening weekend and will likely crack $150 million internationally before it’s two weeks old.
Read which films The Smurfs 2 compete with in two years after the jump.
Posted on Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 by Germain Lussier
Snow White gets a rewrite, The Smurfs get a sequel and Bastards sells for big bucks. How’s that for alliteration? There’s a bunch of screenwriting news out there right now and, after the jump, we’ll give some context to the following:
