A Whole Lotta Sequels

Posted: February 16th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: movies

Wow, there are 27 movie sequels scheduled to be released in 2011, more than any other year. Here’s the breakdown from /Film:

27 sequels total. Nine second movies (up from eight in 2010), five third movies (down from seven), five fourth movies, five fifth movies, two seventh movies and one eighth movie. 9+5+5+5+2+1=27 The second movies are Cars 2, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules, The Hangover Part II, Happy Feet 2, Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil, Johnny English Reborn, Kung Fu Panda 2, Piranha 3DD and Sherlock Holmes: The Book of Shadows. The third movies are Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, Madea’s Big Happy Family, Paranormal Activity 3 and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The fourth movies are Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Scream 4, Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part One). The fifth movies are Fast Five, Final Destination 5, Puss in Boots, X-Men: First Class and Winnie the Pooh. The seventh movies are The Muppets and Rise of the Apes. And the eighth movie is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two.

And besides all the sequels, there are a lot of movies based on books, comic books and TV shows that are also scheduled for release. I can’t say I’m really surprised by this as it seems Hollywood ran out of original ideas a long time ago. It makes me appreciate, and enjoy, movies with original stories that much more (such as Inception).

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