For the film industry, the first couple months of each year are basically one long marathon of high fives. In glitzy ceremony after glitzy ceremony, filmmakers congratulate themselves and each other for making such awesome movies. It can all feel like a bit much after a while, even for the most enthusiastic of awards season…
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Who better to make a special Grown Ups 2 chili recipe than Guy Fieri? Also after the jump: Legendary doesn't seem optimistic about Hellboy 3 Neill Blomkamp isn't interested in Star Trek 3 Steven Seagal might do Expendables 3 Transformers 4 sets up a Chinatown in Detroit Optimus Prime sees some action in new set videos…
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The summer schedule is chock full of sequels we're dying, or at least very curious to see. This weekend alone has Fast & Furious 6 going up against Before Midnight, for example. Monsters University and The Wolverine are due out in the following months. And so on. Today, however, we have a trailer for what…
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Posters, quotes, casting and replacements are all part of this edition of Sequel Bits. After the jump, read about the following: Sam Worthington discusses the Avatar sequels and a possible third Clash of the Titans film. The Hangover Part III Twitter account has revealed some more character posters. Is Antonio Banderas joining The Expendables III?…
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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…
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Grown Ups is one of the movies from the past few years that many people love to hate -- even those people who haven't seen it. (Confession: I have not seen Grown Ups.) Presented below, mostly without comment, is the trailer for Grown Ups 2, in which Adam Sandler and Salma Hayek move out of LA…
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Today's Sequel Bits is stuffed to the brim with images, quotes, tweets, and more. After the jump: Would Bryan Singer ever direct a Star Trek movie? Damon Lindelof explains all the secrecy about the villain Seth Grahame-Smith gets cracking on Beetlejuice 2 Steven Seagal's out, Jackie Chan's in for Expendables 3 Willow and Roger Rabbit sequels offer…
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Casting, rumors, hopes, desires and much more are in this huge holiday edition of Sequel Bits. After the jump read about the following: Producer Jon Landau clarifies the possibility of Avatar 4 and offers an update on 2 and 3. See Chris Pine on the set of Jack Ryan with Kevin Costner and read some thoughts on the…
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Today's action-packed Sequel Bits includes updates on Independence Day 2, The Expendables 2, Fast and the Furious 6, and more. After the jump: Dean Devlin says they've "cracked" Independence Day 2 Skunks invade the New England set of Grown Ups 2 Karl Urban would be happy to play Dredd in a sequel Fast Six adds…
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Be prepared for a lot of Sequel Bits in the next few days and here are just a few. After the jump, read about the following: Ken Jeong has signed on for an expanded role in The Hangover Part III. DreamWorks Animation is going to make Kung Fu Panda 3. Arnold's son, Patrick Schwarzenegger, will have…
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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? Seth Grahame-Smith has a very…
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So much to get to today. After the jump read about: Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse are all very close to signing for Kick Ass 2. Never fear, Christina Applegate will return as Veronica Corningstone in Anchorman: The Legend Continues. Piranha 3DD is out in theaters today as well as video on demand,…
Read MoreNO PHOTO Now that G.I. Joe: Retaliation is no longer opening next month, thanks to a late-in-the-game decision to post-convert it to 3D, we've got another ten months to keep talking about it. After the jump, read director Jon Chu's earlier comments on the decision to shoot in 2D. Also: Get a look at Shaquille O'Neal…
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After years away from sci-fi, director Ridley Scott is returning to the genre in a big way this summer with Prometheus, and he aims to stick around for a while. Scott already has hopes of working on Prometheus 2 sooner rather than later, and is currently in the middle of developing some kind of sequel to Blade Runner.…
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Bloodthirsty fish, show-offy zebras, superpowered brothers, and overgrown manchildren run wild in today's Sequel Bits. After the jump: Josh Trank still not sure on Chronicle 2 Similarly, Joss Whedon undecided on Avengers 2 More Grown Ups 2 shooting news in New England MIB3's viral campaign concludes with a final video Chris Rock rocks out in…
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Today's Sequel Bits features all kinds, from Depression-era gangsters to noirish femme fatales to drunken school bus drivers. After the jump: Nick Swardson and Cheri Oteri board Grown-Ups 2 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For gets its first teaser poster A new G.I. Joe: Retaliation image shows Cobra Commander Seth Grahame-Smith is a little…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger may not be as young as he once was, but James Cameron's convinced that his Terminator character has plenty of life left in him yet. Also after the jump: Grown-Ups 2 will shoot in Marblehead, MA Brad Bird probably won't direct Mission: Impossible 5 Cloverfield 2 is still searching for a new idea…
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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…
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It's not like we were ever looking forward to Adam Sandler's Grown-Ups 2 to begin with, but now I'm wondering if Happy Madison is actively trying to annoy a certain segment of the population. Specifically, the portion of the filmgoing audience that despises both Grown-Ups and The Twilight Saga, which I'm guessing is the vast…
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After the jump we have a ton of new sequel news bits including: Richard Donner talks about the abandoned plans for Lethal Weapon 5. George Lucas says we'll "NEVER" see a Star Wars sequel. Plans for an Anvil! The Story of Anvil Sequel Project X star joins the cast of Grown Ups 2 Clive Owen…
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This one's too good to hide after the break, so let's begin this roundup of sequel news with a killer quote from Nicolas Cage. The actor often seems to go off the deep end with respect to movie roles, and one of his crazier ones in recent memory is the Neil LaBute remake of The…
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Technically, I guess the PG-13 Grown Ups doesn't really qualify as a kids' film, so its sequel probably won't either. But since that movie centered around five grown men acting like children, I'll say that that this Sequel Bits is all about the young'uns. After the jump: Jessica Chastain and Bryan Cranston somehow cram Madagascar…
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I'm not indiscriminately against sequels, but for every X-Men: First Class, Kung Fu Panda 2, or Fast Five, there's a The Hangover Part II, a Transformers: Dark of the Moon, or a Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. And while it's admittedly unfair to jump to conclusions about movies before they've even entered production,…
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