Everyone's feeling a little chatty in this quote-heavy edition of Sequel Bits. After the jump: Evan Daugherty talks G.I. Joe 3 and Snow White and the Huntsman 2 Julianne Moore's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay role has been beefed up The Mortal Instruments author teases some City of Ashes spoilers Simon Pegg says Star Trek 3 is looking…
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Constantin Films was confident enough in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones that it started planning for the sequel, City of Ashes, before the first film even opened. However, when City of Bones proved a big disappointment at the box office, City of Ashes was delayed indefinitely, and we figured it was that was it…
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Every time the first installment of a hopeful new YA-based series hits screens, the industry wonders if it is about to see the next Twilight or Harry Potter. Actually, let me rephrase. Usually, the industry wonders how long it will take the producers of this new series to realize there's not a chance in hell…
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The combined powers of Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games have opened the floodgates for a tidal wave of sci-fi / fantasy YA adaptations -- it seems like a new potential franchise goes into development every week. As with any genre, though, not all of these films are created equal. The best ones capture…
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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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Nothing can stop the wave of YA adaptations coming to movie theaters in the next year or two -- not even the relative disinterest in the movies. Beautiful Creatures and The Host didn't really hit so far this year, but there are more to come. Earlier today we saw the trailer for the new Percy…
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