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03 Feb

Resident Evil Village Location: Where is the Sequel Set?

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While most of the recent talk regarding Resident Evil Village has involved a certain giant vampire lady, there is a feeling of genuine excitement for the game itself and how it will build upon the stunning Resident Evil 7. So far as that goes, it’s kind of incredible that Capcom has been able to generate so much hype for the game despite the fact that they haven’t revealed many crucial details about the project. We still don’t really know what’s up with Chris, we don’t know exactly how Mia and Ethan ended up where they are, and we certainly don’t…
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16 Jan

Outside the Wire: Does the Ending Set Up a Sequel?

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This article contains spoilers for Outside the Wire. Our spoiler-free review is here. In the new Netflix sci-fi action thriller Outside the Wire, young hotshot drone pilot Thomas Harp (Damson Idris) is busted down to combat duty in the militarized zone after disobeying a direct order. The year is 2036, and the U.S. military is on a peacekeeping mission in Eastern Europe where a warlord named Viktor Koval (Pilou Asbaek) is trying to get his hands on a stockpile of Russian nuclear weapons so that he can destabilize the world by aiming them at major international cities. Since this is…
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18 Dec

Die Hard 2: Making the Sequel to the Greatest Christmas Movie of All

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year – for Die Hard fans. While there may be a little less festive cheer to go around this December, one thing remains constant during the holiday season: the debate about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. And one man who probably knows better than most is screenwriter Doug Richardson. Besides Bruce Willis himself, Richardson has had a hand in more Die Hard films than almost anyone out there, starting with the similarly festive follow-up Die Hard 2: Die Harder. While Willis is firmly in the “no” camp on the question of…
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15 Dec

Wonder Woman 1984 Review: Superhero Sequel is A Blast, From the Past

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“Greatness is not what you think,” Robin Wright’s warrior leader Antiope tells the young Diana Prince (Lilly Aspell) at the start of Wonder Woman 1984 during a sequence depicting something akin to the Themysciran Olympic Games. “Pace yourself and watch.” It’s an electric opening which sees a stadium full of women cheering the acrobatics of the island’s finest as they shoot, dive, leap, swing, and ride their way through a complex course to well-earned victory. The first superhero movie to be released during the pandemic, Wonder Woman 1984 has had to overcome obstacles of its own – primarily its release…
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05 Dec

Wonder Woman 1984: First Sequel Reactions Are In

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While the world is still a few weeks away from seeing Wonder Woman 1984, the first members of the press have now seen the film. While they have been sworn to secrecy until December 15th, when the embargo lifts on full-on reviews, we are getting some initial reactions to the WB sequel, and they are positive. From Den of Geek’s Kayti Burt (um, me)… #WW1984 made me cry several times—sometimes, in the most unexpected of places. It's the only kind of (superhero) movie I have time for right now: one that can still see beauty in our broken world, and…
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30 Nov

Ready Player Two Ending Explained: How the Sequel Jumps the Shark

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This article contains MAJOR spoilers for Ready Player Two. You can read our spoiler-free review of the sequel here. At the end of Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel Ready Player One, Wade Watts a.k.a. Parzival inherits everything he set out to win in James Donovan Halliday’s Easter egg hunt: the OASIS creator’s massive fortune, as well as control over the digital world itself. So how could Cline, and Halliday, top that with Ready Player Two? By helping humanity level up. The sequel’s ending definitely goes in a very different direction than how Ready Player One ended, both relating to the book’s…
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26 Nov

Ready Player Two: The Sequel’s Best Easter Eggs & References

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This piece contains spoilers for Ready Player Two. When Ernest Cline published Ready Player One in 2011, its exhaustive array of Easter eggs were literally built into the worldbuilding—seemingly one pop culture name-drop per pixel that made up the digital OASIS, per the fierce 1980s nostalgia that creator James Donovan Halliday possessed for the most formative decade of his adolescence. And once the billionaire inventor revealed the Easter egg hunt for his fortune, it made perfect sense that the 2040s generation of gunters would immerse themselves in the same references, placing themselves into Halliday’s mindset to inherit his treasure. Almost…
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25 Nov

The Christmas Chronicles 2 Review: Kurt Russell’s Hot Santa Sequel is Too Nice

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While nearly every Santa Claus-centric movie concerns the potential loss of Christmas, arguably the fear of missing the holiday is most keenly felt in 2020. Netflix’s The Christmas Chronicles (the 2018 film that kicked off this jolly old franchise) indeed tapped into that when it starred two kids learning to believe in Santa, or else; and Chris Columbus’ The Christmas Chronicles 2 strikes at the source of Yuletide cheer again with a plot to destroy Santa’s Village at the North Pole. But what could be the root cause that’s so extreme as to endanger the entire magical foundation of Christmas…
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25 Nov

Ready Player Two Review: Ernest Cline’s Soulless Sequel Beats a Dead Horse

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It doesn’t take long for Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two to reunite gunter-turned-billionaire Wade Owen Watts with a vintage video game that holds a clue to a virtual scavenger hunt that will forever change the future of the digital, escapist OASIS. But after winning this particular game, Parzival (Wade’s OASIS alter ego) finds that he automatically starts over. Because of an extra life, he is given the option of playing through the game again, even though there are no surprises, simply to rack up extra points and because he can. Reading Ready Player Two feels a lot like that. Ready…
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11 Nov

How Darth Maul Would Have Completely Changed the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

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Darth Maul is one of the most recognizable, visually impressive characters to have emerged from the post-Original Trilogy Star Wars films, despite being dealt a dubious fate in his very first appearance in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. However, it seems that the franchise’s father, George Lucas, originally had plans for the double-bladed lightsaber Sith lord that were far grander than getting sliced in half and sent plummeting down a Naboo air shaft. While we already know various tidbits about Lucas’ original plans for the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, some major new info has dropped in The Star Wars Archives…
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22 Oct

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm Review: Rare Win For a Legacy Sequel

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The increase in open racism, sexism, and asinine conspiracy theories in America over the past four years may be shocking to some, but anyone who watched Sacha Baron Cohen’s first feature film appearance as Kazakhstani journalist Borat Sagdiyev should not have been surprised. Playing a dimwitted foreigner with a thick-accent, Baron Cohen expressed anti-Semitic, misogynistic, and all-around vile views and the real-life Americans he encountered either were too polite to denounce his wrongheadedness or reveled in hearing someone express their ugliest ideas out loud. At the end of the Bush era, Borat unveiled both deep indifference to and shocking endorsement…
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05 Oct

Hocus Pocus Sequel: Bette Midler Comments on Her Possible Return

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When news of the Hocus Pocus sequel finally moving first broke on Collider in October 2019, it was unclear, at that point, how much of the original film’s cast would be returning. While sources said that writer and co-producer Jen D’Angelo had been “tasked with finding a way to bring back the original cast of Bette Midler as Winifred, Sarah Jessica Parker as Sarah, and Kathy Najimy as Mary,” there haven’t been many cast-related announcements since then. Until now. ET recently chatted with Midler about her new film, The Glorias, and the subject of the Hocus Pocus sequel came up. While Disney has yet to confirm…
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17 Sep

Angel Has Fallen Sequel Update: Director Ready For Fourth Fallen Movie

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When we last saw U.S. Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) in 2019’s Angel Has Fallen, he had once again saved the life of his mentor, President Trumbull (Morgan Freeman this time, after Aaron Eckhart finished out his term), from assassination and also reconciled with his long-estranged, PTSD-suffering but warm-hearted dad Clay (Nick Nolte). And just for good measure, Banning ended up accepting the position of Director of the Secret Service from a grateful Commander-in-Chief. The picture was the first collaboration between Butler and director Ric Roman Waugh (Shot Caller), who are teaming up again for this year’s planetary…
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16 Sep

God of War PS5 Sequel Announced for 2021

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Sony announced during September’s PS5 showcase that critically-acclaimed and award-winning God of War is getting a sequel in 2021 for the next-gen console. According to the teaser, the game will tackle the events of Ragnarok, an apocalyptic event from Norse mythology. You can watch the short announcement teaser below: pic.twitter.com/VvHuaCKgGn— Santa Monica Studio Is Hiring (@SonySantaMonica) September 16, 2020 “The time draws near,” Kratos says in the teaser. “You must prepare yourself.” Sony shared little else about the game’s story or the Ragnarok event that will seemingly engulf the world in the sequel. That said, the adventure will undoubtedly see…
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25 Aug

Powerpuff Girls Live-Action Sequel Series in the Works at The CW

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Dateline: Townsville USA, right smack dab in the middle of the Arrowverse. A Powerpuff Girls live-action series is in development at The CW according to Variety. But it isn’t being prepared in Professor Utonium’s lab. The new take on The Powerpuff Girls comes from the desk of Greg Berlanti, the mastermind behind The CW’s Arrowverse. Berlanti Productions will be working with Warner Bros. TV. The script will be written by Heather Reigner (Veronica Mars), and screenwriter Diablo Cody, who wrote the book for Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill. A spoonful of sugar may wash that medicine down, but will they bring…
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24 Aug

Is Gotham Knights a Sequel in the Batman: Arkham Knight Universe?

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At long last, we have a new Batman game to look forward to, only WB Games Montreal’s new Gotham-set open-world co-op adventure doesn’t actually feature the Dark Knight. Instead, Gotham Knights is set after the death of Bruce Wayne, which leaves the city in the hands of his surrogate crime-fighting children. Batgirl, Nightwing, Robin, and Red Hood must now work together to take on new threats to Gotham, including a mysterious new criminal cabal known as the Court of Owls. The extended Bat-Family taking on the Caped Crusader’s duties as protectors of Gotham City is the logical progression of the…
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13 Aug

47 Ronin Sequel, a Future-Set Cyberpunk Film, Lands Director Ron Yuan

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47 Ronin may not have made an impact as an action flick—released in 2013 headlined by a post-Matrix, pre-John Wick comeback Keanu Reeves—but someone over at studio Universal apparently has enough love for the medieval-Japan samurai film to greenlight a sequel—specifically a cyberpunk sequel set in the far-future. Now, said sequel has a director.   Ron Yuan, an actor who moonlights as a director, has been hired to helm the untitled 47 Ronin sequel movie, according to Deadline. The sequel, set up at Universal Pictures Home Entertainment subsidiary Universal 1440 Entertainment, will contrast starkly from the historically-based, Reeves-starring predecessor, touted…
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27 Jul

Malorie: Questions the Bird Box Book Sequel Answers

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Spoilers from the start for Bird Box, both the book and the film, and Malorie, the book. Josh Malerman’s Bird Box was published in 2014 to much acclaim and the 2018 Netflix movie based on it caused quite a stir. In it, Sandra Bullock’s Malorie must try to shepherd two children to safety in a world populated by creatures it is fatal to look at. The movie was a great success for Netflix, and now a sequel has been published, titled Malorie which followers her character and the two children 12 years after the end of Bird Box. This follow…
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26 Jul

Constantine Director Says They’d Film A Sequel Tomorrow

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The 2005 film Constantine, based on DC/Vertigo’s popular Hellblazer comic book about a mystic who can communicate with angels and demons, was not a resounding success. But the movie’s principals — actor Keanu Reeves, director Francis Lawrence and producer Akiva Goldsman — very much wanted to make a sequel. “Boy, we wanted to.  We wanted to make a hard ‘R’ sequel,” said Goldsman during a Comic-Con@Home panel, hosted by Collider’s Steve Weintraub, in which Reeves, Lawrence and Goldsman all looked back at the comic book adaptation. “We’d probably make it tomorrow,” Goldsman continued, “To the studios who made it, Village…
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22 Jul

Malorie Review: Does the Bird Box Sequel Live Up to the Original? (Spoiler Free )

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When Josh Malerman’s debut novel Bird Box landed in 2014, it was a critical and financial success and quickly found itself optioned for a movie, despite being apparently ‘unfilmable’. The movie arrived on Netflix in 2018, starring Sandra Bullock and was a storming success for the streaming channel. Hot on the heels of the buzz around John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place, Bird Box was likened to that movie, switched hearing for vision. The premise was simple: Earth has been invaded by mysterious creatures. If you look at them, you go mad and kill yourself. The book worked wonderfully, telling the…
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