Sequel Time

With the all the success of sequels from movies from long ago such as; the Star Wars prequels, Indiana Jones, Rocky, and Rambo, and even the non success of Starship Troopers 3, The Lost Boys: The Tribe, and The Mummy 3 we are beginning to see the new trend. Sequels are nothing new, but Hollywood has been pushed into overload. Please ignore movies such as the Dark Knight and Transporter 3, as these movies are sequels to movies that have occurred recently.
The point I'm trying to get at is What movies are next. We know tr2n, Ace Ventura Jr or Something, and Terminator Salvation is next, but whats after that. Let's take a look to a list of movies I think Hollywood could/should/or will make.

Top Gun 2: 2 Top 2 Gun
In this movie Tom Cruise is an instructor at the same fighter pilot school, who must deal with a new hot shot who has a lot to learn about teamwork and writing checks his ass can cash.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off Work: Legend of Sloane's Gold
In this movie Ferris Bueller takes a day off work and plays hookey. He goes around pretending to be The sausage King of Chicago, while constantly talking to the camera and pondering his next step in life.

The Karate Kid Goes to Mars.
In this movie theres some kid who is bullied and he/she is trained in order to understand discipline and defend themselves. Then he/she is transported to Mars in order to fight in an intergalactic tournament to prevent Earth from being blown up.

The Hunt for Red November
In this movie there is a submarine that has been traveling the world for 20 years... and it's ... uhhh a secret soviet ship, yeah and it doesn't realize the cold war is over. So like a united collation force must stop it from bringing back Communism.

Even Truer Lies
Ok, so Arnold Schwarzenegger is in a Post 9/11 world as a Spy/Governor who must stop Terrorists and punch Osamba Bin Laden ( as played by Vin Diesel) in the face.

Box Office Results

This Weekend's Top Box Office Results:

1

The Dark Knight (2008)

$43.8M

2

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

$42.5M

3

Step Brothers (2008)

$16.3M

4

Mamma Mia! (2008)

$13.1M

5

Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)

$6.88M

What have we learned kiddies? We, as a nation are not ready to allow Kevin Costner to pick a President in some sort of moral feel good film. Obviously, we predicted the total amount for the Mummy: Tomb of The Dragon Emperor wrong. I guess I forgot how much people love sequels to movies that have been roughly a decade in the making. As seen here, here, here, and here. Even though The Dark Knight is still number one, If we had some movie involving Brendan Fraser traveling into the center of some tomb to fight mummies and dinosaurs as a scientist/explorer. Well that might just have knocked the messiah of movies of it's top spot. I guess we will just have to wait for Pineapple Express and it's catchy promo song to surpersede The Dark Knight.

Brendan Fraser : A Review

Let's take a look at a Chart of Brendan Fraser's Biggest Blockbuster Movies Opening Weekends.


As you can see it really has been a roller coaster ride. Using this Chart Lets see if we can predict how The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor will make.

Since There are no Cartoon Computer Generated Sidekicks ( monkey, rabbit, duck or Dave Foley)
We can guess that it will make more than 10 million. It is also a Mummy movie which is good. However, The Rock played a huge part in the revenue of the Mummy II.

Our Prediction is 12 - 20 million dollars this week. I mean throwing a Yeti, Mummy, Dragon, and Jet Li in one movie may be something the world isn't ready for.

DO NOT WANT!

Remember when Brendan Fraiser was one of Hollywood's elite?

No, me neither.

But in case you didn't know there is another mummy movie out and about. It has been one of the most uneventful movie releases in recent memory. Oh wait nevermind....

I guess its Hollywood trying to squeeze the last few bucks out of a dying franchise... but thats almost every movie now a days.