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Yahoo, April 18, 2002: "While some see this trend as further evidence of Hollywood's artistic cowardice, others say it is the inevitable result of more than a decade of growing influence for studio marketing departments and corporate risk-aversion strategies. " ' The two manias of the moment are to exploit franchises and build new ones,' said Peter Bart, editor of Variety, 'preferably something that's a family film, which are all really hot now.' "....But most important, perhaps, is the corporate thinking that has overtaken the movie business. And media conglomerates are perfectly positioned to exploit a potential franchise, a 'Harry Potter,' for instance, through all of its divisions, from film to television to publishing and merchandising. " 'I do think this is a real trend and it's happening everywhere, not just in movies,' said the veteran producer Marc Abraham. 'In the last four or five years, branding has become the catchword. Everybody is trying to establish a brand and exploit it.' " Not all sequels and/or remakes are bad. It's just that there's too damn many. And what most remakes ignore is the fact that, ideally, you should be remaking a bad movie (Ocean's Eleven), not a good one (Psycho). And sequels--well, the Batman Law of Diminishing Returns speaks for itself, doesn't it? All titles below are real, though some are further along in development than others. For our purposes, one sequel's just a sequel; two sequels, you have a franchise on your hands, at which point sequels are more expected. And in case the original is not apparent, the original title will be in parentheses; if it seems noteworthy, the director's name or other info will be in brackets. Films with trailers graduate to page 2, Hollywood's Track Record, which simply lists all the sequels, prequels, and remakes we could find that made it to the screen in 2000, 2001, and 2002 to date. Folks: It ain't pretty. |
Sequels/prequels 18 Years Later Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London Anaconda 2 Basic Instinct 2 Battlefield Earth 2 Beetlejuice 2: Beetledeuce Benji Returns: Rags to Riches Blue Streak 2 Bridget Jones' Diary 2 Cats & Dogs 2 Coyote Ugly 2 Darkness Falls 2 Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo Die Hard 4 Easy Rider 2 Exorcist: The Beginning First Wives Club 2 Gladiator 2 Godzilla 2 House of 1000 Corpses 2 Independence Day 2 Inspector Gadget 2 Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter 2 Jimmy Neutron 2 Jumanji 2 Kill Bill Vol. 2 King Conan Meet the Fockers (Meet the Parents) Ocean’s Twelve Ocean's Eleven 2 Princess Diaries 2 Resident Evil: Apocalypse Seriously Dude, Where’s My Car? SharkTale 2 Shrek 2 Shrek 3 Snow Dogs 2 Solace / Untitled Seven Sequel Spawn 2 Strangeland 2 The Bourne Supremacy (The Bourne Identity) The Country Bears 2 The Goonies 2 The Mask of Zorro 2 The New Adventures of Pinocchio The Ring 2 The Thomas Crown Affair 2 The X-Files 2 Tron 2.0 True Lies 2 XXX 2 Franchise/series sequels Alien 5 Alien vs. Predator Back to the Future Part IV Batman Beyond Batman vs. Superman Batman: Intimidation Game Beverly Hills Cop 4 Blade 3: Trinity Blair Witch 3/Prequel Caddyshack III Catwoman (Batman Returns) Daredevil Dead Reckoning (Night of the Living Dead 4) Elektra (Daredevil spinoff) Fletch Won / Fletch 3 Friday After Next (Friday, Next Friday) Hannibal "sequel" Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Highlander 5: The Source His Dark Materials trilogy Indiana Jones 4 James Bond 21 Jimmy Neutron 2 Jurassic Park 4 Lemony Snicket series Lethal Weapon 5 Mad Max 4: Fury Road Men in Black III Mission: Impossible 3 Operation Condor 3 Pirates of the Caribbean 2 Pirates of the Caribbean 3 Predator 3 Rocky 6 Romancing the Stone 3 Roses Are Red (Kiss the Girls, Along Came a Spider) Rush Hour 3 Scary Movie 4 Seed of Chucky (Child’s Play 5) Spider-Man 3 Star Wars: Episode III Superman The Crow: Wicked Prayer The Hobbit The Mummy 3 The Santa Clause 3 The Scorpion King 2 Three Men and a Baby 3 Under Siege 3 Wallace & Gromit: The Great Vegetable Plot Wishmaster 4 X3: X-Men 3 Remakes 10 Again (10) The A-Team The Age of Consent Akira Alfie Around the World in 80 Days Assault on Precinct 13 Back to School The Bellboy The Big Bounce Billy Jack Billy Liar Bob! (Alles Bob) Chaos (Kaosu) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie Chan Crime & Punishment Death Race 3000 (Death Race 2000) The Devil and Daniel Webster Dr. Faustus Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde El Cid Elling The Fall of the House of Usher Fantastic Voyage Flight of the Phoenix Forbidden Planet Foxy Brown Gambit The Greatest American Hero Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? The Honeymooners Howard Stern Presents: Porky's Il Mare The Incredible Shrinking Man It Started with Eve King Kong Lady Killers The Last Crew (King of NY prequel) The Longest Yard Love Hurts (Mademoiselle) Lydia Macabre Mister Blandings Builds His Dream House Modesty Blaise The Naked Kiss The Naked Jungle Ned Kelly Rashomon: Where the Truth Lies The Riding of the Laddie (The Wicker Man) The Reincarnation of Peter Proud Robin Hood Scanners See No Evil remake The Seven Samurai The Shaggy Dog Sleepwalker A Star Is Born Suspicion Turn Uptown Saturday Night War of the Worlds The Warriors The Wicker Man (The Wicker Man) Wonder Woman |
Notes aka Anacondas: The Hunt for the Black Orchid in production was finished, being reshot from scratch We would prefer "Dude, Where's Your Car?" SharkTale itself isn't even out yet. May be produced, but not as a Seven sequel In production Naomi Watts and Daveigh Chase will return Looks dead as of Jan 2004 In production Unlikely Dir. Christopher Nolan. To star Christian Bale. In production. As of Jan 2004 looked possible. Was featured in the EW 2004 preview. Costumes awful. Five films projected total. May shoot summer 2004. Looks dead. Gearing up for production. Dir. Mike Newell. Currently a London stage production with Timothy Dalton. In production. In pre-production. In casting phase. In production. First film will cover 2 of the 13 books. Joe Carnahan directing. Pre-production, may start filming soon. May be shot simultaneously with POTC 3. Looks possible, but varies from week to week. Stars signed for third movie. Principle filming finished, in post-production. Nobody has any idea. Legal wrangle between studios over previous rights. The actors want to come back. "Untitled Charles Shyer Project." Jude Law. Was filming with Jackie Chan, may be done. Tim Burton, Johnny Depp. Possibly with Lucy Liu as female Chan. Legal wrangles; finished but may never see light of day. James Cameron? In production. Peter Jackson's next project. Coen Brothers, Tom Hanks. Delayed release, coming out in 2004. From original director of Wicker Man; claims it's not a remake. David Fincher? Not sure how many projects this is. One is called Robbin Hoodz. Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise? Not to be confused with Riding of the Laddie. |