Today's Sequel Bits veers from deeply romantic to adorably funny to bone-chillingly creepy. After the jump: Star Trek and Kick-Ass 2 get rated by the MPAA Todd Phillips is pretty sure Hangover II is brilliant The producers of Paranormal 4 are getting sued Chris Pine chats about Kirk's self doubt in Star Trek See more Celine and Jesse pics from…
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The start of Sundance means there's heavy focus on indie films, but meanwhile the big-budget blockbuster sequel types are making news as well. After the jump: See a whole bunch of stills from A Good Day to Die Hard Watch a "Recovered File" from the Paranormal Activity 4 DVD Now Mark Wahlberg says Transformers 4 will…
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Film fans looking for a little Halloween horror at the multiplex this year are probably finding pickings pretty slim. Frankenweenie is great, but too kiddie. Sinister is scary, with no real hook. Silent Hill Revelations 3D is a sequel to a movie very few care about...and then there's Paranormal Activity 4. Fans of the franchise…
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Fans who stayed through the credits of this weekend's hit film Paranormal Activity 4 were treated to a curious Spanish speaking coda teasing a brand new sequel. However that sequel will not be Paranormal Activity 5. That's now officially coming in October 2013, but Latino themed film teased will actually an additional spinoff scheduled for release in…
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All of the disappointments of Paranormal Activity 4 boil down to one thing: This is a franchise that's forgotten what made it so special in the first place. The original Paranormal Activity was terrifying not because it had expensive special effects or excessive amounts of gore, but because director Oren Peli expertly stretched the tension…
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Newly announced sequels, new info on previously announced sequels and the death of others. Tons of news in today's Sequel Bits. After the jump read about: Liam Neeson didn't think Taken 3 would happen, but the screenwriter of Taken 2 says it definitely is. Rob Cohen would love to go back to both the xXx and…
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The Paranormal Activity franchise has proved a boon for Paramount, thanks to the films' low budgets, high box office grosses, and quick production schedules. But the real magic ingredient may be the series' surprising ability to keep expanding mythology of the relatively simple first film. Paranormal Activity 2 and 3 kept things fresh by filling…
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Star-crossed lovers, a sad-sack supervillain, a creepy kid, an obnoxious ghost, and a hard-partying clique all rub shoulders in this installment of Sequel Bits. After the jump: Writer says Dr. Horrible 2 is aiming to shoot in 2013 The wolf pack returns to Caesars Palace for Hangover 3 Before Midnight eyes a festival debut in…
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There are several major take aways from the latest trailer for Paranormal Activity 4. One is that Katie and the boy she kidnapped, Hunter, are definitely back. Another is that the evil spirits from the first three films still really, really love to drag people down hallways. A third is that your XBox Kinect is the devil. It…
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Posters, casting, videos and rumor control. Just another day in the world of Sequel Bits. After the jump, read about the following. The Hangover Part III adds actress Lela Loren and is shooting in central California. A new trailer is out for Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines. Find out how you can work with Michael Bay on…
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There's so much in this edition of Sequel Bits it's insane. Let's get going. After the jump read about the following: David Fincher is still figuring out how to make The Girl Who Played With Fire. Ron Perlman still has no idea when Hellboy 3 might happen. A new image from Paranormal Activity 4 has…
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Jason Statham says he'd totally be down to do Crank 3, but the very uncomfortable-looking header image has me wondering why. Also after the jump: The fearsome matriarch from Winter's Bone joins Iron Man 3 SpongeBob SquarePants 2 hires Kung Fu Panda 2 writers Jesse Eisenberg looks forward to voicing Blu again for Rio 2 Ashley…
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If Monday's 13-second teaser for the Paranormal Activity 4 trailer whetted your appetite for more found-footage scares, you'll be happy to see that the first full-length trailer has now hit the web. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, who directed Paranormal Activity 3, are once again at the helm. Watch the video after the jump. Head…
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What do the new James Bond film and an upcoming low-budget supernatural thriller have in common? Not much, except that both have new trailers coming this week, and both have just released trailers for those new trailers. There isn't too much to say about either one of these clips, other than that fans of each…
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Once Paranormal Activity 3 had a gangbuster opening this past October, a fourth film was inevitable. Soon after the release, directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman reportedly agreed to make Paranormal Activity 4 and an October 19, 2012 release date was set. That's almost exactly seven months to the day from right now. Which means…
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When Paramount announced they'd hired Catfish directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman to direct Paranormal Activity 3, the world of film collectively rolled their eyes. Then the film came out and the duo gouged those eyes out. Joost and Schulman knocked the film out of the park (read my review here), turned a major profit…
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Briefly: There are still no announcements about who will write and direct the fourth episode in Paramount's massively successful Paranormal Activity franchise, but now we know how much time they have to work. We told you earlier this week that Paramount would definitely be making the film, and suspected that it would get an October…
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Here's something that won't be any surprise at all: Paramount is going to continue the mega-successful Paranormal Activity series. 'Mega-success' is relatively easy to achieve with these films, given that even the most expensive one came in well under the average small drama budget, and went on to earn more than $200m across the world.…
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Can we assume that Robert Downey Jr. has become a fan of Iron Man 3 screenwriter Drew Pearce? Months before Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows opens, Pearce has been hired to write the provisional Sherlock Holmes 3 for Warner Bros. (Just as the studio hired A Game of Shadows screenwriters Kieran and Michele Mulroney…
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