In The Purge: Anarchy, which comes from the writer/director of the 2013 sleeper hit film, a young couple is stranded in the middle of a city when their car breaks down. But this breakdown happens at the worst possible time: just hours before the annual Purge begins. The Purge -- that 12-hour period when all…
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Vin Diesel has Fast & Furious 7 and a fourth Riddick movie coming up, and now he has XXX 3: The Return of Xander Cage to look forward to, too. Also after the jump: Perrey Reeves will return as "Mrs. Ari" for the Entourage movie Vera Farmiga says The Conjuring 2 is waiting on James Wan The Purge sequel…
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There's a lot of attention on the indie world right now, what with the Sundance Film Festival kicking off, but there's plenty of news coming from the big studio sequel front, too. After the jump: Kenneth Branagh hopes for a sequel to Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Rosario Dawson also wishes the Sin City sequel had…
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When we first reported on the Naked Gun reboot, we wrote that star Ed Helms was "the new Leslie Nielsen." As it turns out, that's not quite accurate. Hit the jump to find out the relation between Helms' character and Nielsen's. Also: The Tekken prequel gets a title and a star Brad Fuller offers plot details…
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Jurassic World has been picking up a pretty great cast, but one person we shouldn't expect to see in it is original Jurassic Park star Sam Neill. Also after the jump: The website for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For has launched Zach Gilford slips a few plot details about The Purge 2 Uwe Boll…
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Here's one way 2014 won't be much different from 2013: The flood of sequels, reboots, and remakes isn't slowing down anytime soon. After the jump: Short Term 12 star Keith Stanfield will be part of The Purge 2 That Starship Troopers remake will be closer to the source material Jon M. Chu talks G.I. Joe…
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The Purge writer-director James DeMonaco and producers Jason Blum and Michael Bay are all set to return for the sequel, but so far none of the original's stars -- which included Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey -- are set to return. Instead, the filmmakers have been putting together a whole new cast, starting with Frank Grillo…
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Behind the camera, the team for The Purge 2 won't differ too much from the one for the original Purge, at least based on what we've heard so far. Jason DeMonaco is once again writing and directing, with Jason Blum, Michael Bay, Sébastien K. Lemercier, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form all returning as producers. To go…
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Briefly: One of the biggest surprise hits of 2013 was The Purge, James DeMonaco's small-budget thriller about a future where the U.S. legalizes all crime on one night each year. Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey starred. After a massive opening weekend, a sequel was quickly announced and now that sequel has a release date. Universal Pictures…
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Universal put a second The Purge film in motion almost the moment the first one opened, because that's the kind of thing a studio does when a $3 million horror flick rakes in ten times that on opening weekend alone. But progress has been pretty quiet since then, until now. Original writer/director James DeMonaco is set…
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The Purge opened last Friday and handily won the weekend, taking twice the coin of the next most potent competitor, The Internship. The Purge cost $3m to make and earned $34m, meaning that a sequel was almost inevitable. Add to that fact a tax rebate from the state of California, which will refund quite a…
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