Prequels, Sequels & Remakes

MGM press release:
“MGM is planning an exciting fall and winter release schedule. In partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, MGM will bring new installments of two of its tentpole franchises -- the new James Bond movie QUANTUM OF SOLACE and Steve Martin in PINK PANTHER 2. MGM will also release United Artists' international thriller VALKYRIE, starring Tom Cruise on October 3. With the appointment of Parent, MGM will enter its new phase of evolution by focusing on its major movie franchises highlighted by JAMES BOND and PINK PANTHER sequels, THE HOBBIT, THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR 2, THE OUTER LIMITS, ROBOCOP, DEATH WISH and FAME, among others.”
Robocop. Huh.

The Rosemary’s Baby remake is confirmed.

Killer Tomato Entertainment and producer M. Dal Walton have a deal for a remake of 1978’s Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine will write, with Nichols making his directorial debut. Okay, I’ve posted on a lot of remakes, but this makes me die inside. Just a little.

Jason Segel and Nick Stoller will be bringing another Muppets movie to the big screen.

Stallone on Rambo 5: "I would like to take Rambo to another genre, experiment a little with the character. It would definitely not be another war movie, cuz I can't go any further with that than what I've already done. What it's going to be like I'm not going to reveal at this point. But I'm already halfway though writing the manuscript."

X-Files 2 has wrapped shooting. Those pics with Mulder and Scully smooching were staged.

Carla Gugino has joined Race to Witch Mountain, she’ll play a discredited astrophysicist and UFO expert who helps the children and cab driver.

Bryan Singer is, for definite sure, back for the Superman Returns sequel. Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are being looked at to take over the writing.

Shock Till You Drop has a source that says “another Aliens vs. Predator sequel is a ‘certainty’ at this point.”

George Miller:
“We were all ready to go on ‘Fury Road,’ but instead of going off and shooting ‘Fury Road’ straight away, I said ‘Okay, now that we've got that whole world prepared, let's work together with somebody, if there's someone out there.’ And that started off on the path of trying to get together with Corey. Not handing it off to some third party game developer as we did on ‘Happy Feet,’ but to try to do it all as a piece, in the hope that we overcome that problem of making bad films from good games or vice versa.” “[Fury Road] was in a very highly advanced stage of preproduction when we stopped it. It's all prepared, but now I want to stop and do the game and get those schedules in sync.”