Two Jokers, three Greek weddings, and how many Spider-Men???
These upcoming sequels have a lot to keep track of.
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Roger Ebert hailed the original This Is Spinal Tap as, "one of the funniest movies ever made."
The 1984 mockumentary tells the story of fading band Spinal Tap, desperately searching for
musical glory in a world that's forgotten them.
And the whole time, they're being filmed by the not-so-talented documentarian Marty DiBergi
— played by the film's actual director, Rob Reiner.
With its so-terrible-they're-amazing songs and its improvised jokes, it's no wonder Spinal
Tap became an instant classic.
Now, Reiner is getting the band back together.
Original stars Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer will be picking up
their guitars and rocking 'round Stonehenge in the film's upcoming sequel, scheduled for
release in 2024 — right in time for the original's 40th anniversary.
Reiner will return as both the film's director and DiBergi.
"It's very, very special, because, if you can see, yeah, the numbers all go to 11."
Here's hoping they can turn this sequel up to 11.
Valak is back, baby.
The demonic nun — who's been haunting the Conjuring universe ever since the second film
in the franchise — is getting her very own sequel.
The Nun terrorized audiences back in 2018, scaring up a whopping $365 million across
the globe.
And whether you're a Hollywood producer or a malignant evil entity, money talks.
Speaking of Malignant, Akela Cooper — the screenwriter behind James Wan's absolutely
bonkers 2021 thriller — is going to pen the script for The Nun 2.
If she can bring the same wild energy to Valak's tale that she brought to Gabriel's, then this
next installment in the Conjuring franchise will be something special indeed.
There's no word yet on the plot or release date, but we're waiting with bated, terrified
breath.
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It director Michael Chaves will helm this sequel, which
will take place in 1950s France and see Sister Irene face off with Valak.
Bonnie Aarons is set to reprise her role as the demonic villain, and according to Collider,
Taissa Farmiga will be back as Sister Irene.
2019's Joker takes a daring new approach to Batman's most famous adversary, as inspired
by gritty '70s cinema as it is by comic books.
Joaquin Phoenix plays Arthur Fleck, a troubled wannabe comedian who suffers an emotional
breakdown on the way to becoming the clownish supervillain.
Phoenix won an Academy Award for his performance, and Joker earned more than $1 billion at the
box office.
Clearly, there's significant demand for additional movies about the Joker's rise to infamy.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Todd Phillips discussed tackling more DC Comics
movies mere days after "Joker" debuted.
In June 2022, Phillips cemented rumors of a sequel when he posted a photo of the next
Joker script to Instagram.
The snapshot revealed that the film will be titled Joker: Folie à Deux.
"Folie à deux" is a psychological term referring to a delusion shared by multiple people, which
might suggest a team-up, the introduction of other villains, or a city-wide revolt.
Pop star-turned-Oscar-nominated actor Lady Gaga is slated to play Harley Quinn in the
film, which is rumored to be a musical.
According to Variety, it will dance its way into theaters on October 4, 2024.
A dazzlingly original film full of humor, action, comic book theatrics, and heart, 2018's
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse earned $375 million at the global box office, took home
an Academy Award for best animated feature, and became one of the most critically acclaimed
superhero movies ever made.
All that, plus an endlessly repeatable premise — Miles Morales travels through the multiverse
and meets other Spider-beings — made a sequel very likely.
A follow-up was officially announced in November 2019, with Christopher Miller and Phil Lord
returning to the writing team, along with new director Joaquim Dos Santos and screenwriter
David Callaham.
Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson will join Dos Santos as co-directors.
The upcoming sequel will examine Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy's growing relationship, which
will deepen from friendship into romance.
In June 2022, Sony Pictures Animation's Twitter account announced they, and the film's other
heroes, will face The Spot, voiced by Jason Schwartzman.
This interdimensional baddie is able to sprint through the multiverse at incredible speed.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was initially set to hit theaters in April 2022, but Sony
pushed the release to June 2, 2023 and split the film in two.
The third installment, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, arrives on March 29, 2024.
In 2002, My Big Fat Greek Wedding was a massive, unexpected pop culture phenomenon.
The flick began as Nia Vardalos' semi-autobiographical one-woman show which became a surprising hit.
"The more bizarre it is in the movie, the more likely it is to be actually pulled from
my true life."
Actor and producer Rita Wilson loved it, and soon enough, so did her husband, Tom Hanks.
A few years later, they co-produced the film adaptation, which was quietly released in
April 2002.
It became a blockbuster that grossed $368 million worldwide, making it the highest-earning
romantic comedy of all time.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding led to CBS sitcom My Big Fat Greek Life, and a movie sequel,
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2.
"He's looking.
Act like we're having fun.
One, two, three."
In June 2022, Vardalos announced on Instagram that filming had wrapped on location in Greece
for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3.
She'll be directing as well as reprising the role of Toula Portokalos.
According to Us Weekly, other original cast members have been seen around set, including
John Corbett, Elena Kampouris, Andrea Martin, Louis Mandylor, and Maria Vacratsis.
A third sequel to Ghostbusters, the 1984 mega-hit starring comedy icons Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray,
Harold Ramis, and Rick Moranis, has been on the table for decades.
According to Esquire and Tor, Aykroyd had ambitious plans, but they never panned out.
Instead, fans got a reboot with 2016's Ghostbusters, which features a whole new set of spirit-trapping
scientists played by Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Melissa McCarthy.
That film's middling box office returns and just-okay critical reviews ensured any sequels
to its take never came to pass.
And so Sony rebooted Ghostbusters once more with 2021's Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
Set in the world of the original two Ghostbusters films, with cameos from living cast members
and appearances from characters like Egon Spangler's daughter and grandchildren, the
film was a hit at the relatively subdued COVID-era box office, prompting Sony to order a sequel.
Jason Reitman, director of Ghostbusters: Afterlife and son of original Ghostbusters helmer Ivan
Reitman, will return to direct.
As the end sequence of Ghostbusters: Afterlife suggests, the film will take place in New
York City, just like the '80s Ghostbusters films and is set to release December 20, 2023.
With a roughly $200 million price tag, The Gray Man is one of the most expensive movies
Netflix has ever made.
The streaming-only title boasts an all-star cast in Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, and Ryan
Gosling.
Gosling anchors the action thriller as Six, an elite CIA operative who runs for his life
after revealing highly classified state secrets.
"You're hurt?"
"I mean, my ego's a little bruised."
Netflix hadn't released viewership numbers for the film's opening weekend when it announced
the sequel.
Gosling and directors Joe and Anthony Russo will return for the second film.
Though screenwriters Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus shared writing duties with Joe Russo
for the first movie, McFeely will go it alone for the second.
A Gray Man spin-off is also in the works, with Deadpool and Zombieland writers Rhett
Reese and Paul Wernick taking a crack at the screenplay.
2021's Nobody stars unlikely action hero Bob Odenkirk, best known for his performance as
Saul Goodman on Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad, as seemingly unassuming dad Hutch Mansell.
When his mundane life is upended by Russian mobsters, Hutch must revisit the skills he
cultivated as an assassin.
Nobody was a rare hit of the COVID-19 era.
In August 2022, Director David Leitch told Collider another film was in the works.
"Everyone involved is like, 'Full steam ahead.'
We are in the script process [...] The studio loved the results, and it's happening as fast
as we can make it happen."
While Hocus Pocus failed to make much of a splash when it was first released in 1993,
it has since become a Halloween staple, with new fans discovering the witchy wackiness
of the Sanderson sisters each year.
The film follows a group of kids who accidentally resurrect the three sisters, who were executed
in 1693.
Thrilled to be back, the sisters set about to suck away the soul of every child in Salem
to stay alive, unless the children who resurrected them — plus an enchanted cat — can stop
them.
Original Hocus Pocus stars Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker are back
for the sequel and seeking revenge.
Also making an appearance in Hocus Pocus 2 are Doug Jones of The Shape of Water, Hannah
Waddingham of Ted Lasso, and Sam Richardson of Veep.
With a script by Jen D'Angelo, Hocus Pocus 2 will be directed by Anne Fletcher.
Prepare for all sorts of witchy fun on Disney+ on September 30, 2022.
The original Clerks, released in 1994, follows a pair of jaded, pop culture-obsessed friends
who work in a New Jersey grocery and video store, respectively.
Shot for just $27,575 and paid for with writer-director Kevin Smith's credit cards, the film became
a cult classic.
It launched Smith's career as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation and master of
the "View Askewniverse" of interconnected movies, which includes Mallrats, Dogma, Jay
and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Clerks II, the 2006 sequel, which finds the characters
suffering through low-paying, low-status jobs at a fast food restaurant.
Smith suffered a heart attack in 2019.
Grappling with issues of life, death, and legacy inspired him to write Clerks III, which
will tell his own story through the film's characters.
It goes like this: after nearly dying of a heart attack, Randal teams up with fellow
clerk Dante to make a low-budget indie movie about their lives…
called Clerks.
"I'm living on borrowed time.
No more watching movies.
I'm gonna to make a movie."
The first trailer for Clerks III hit the internet in July 2022, featuring returning cast members
and frequent Smith collaborators Jason Mewes, Rosario Dawson, and Justin Long.
The film will hit theaters via special event screenings running from September 13, 2022
to September 18, 2022.
"That's how we did it in the '90s, son!"