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Screw It, Let’s Just Re-Release Everything This Summer

Alien and the 1999 Mummy movie are doing like the classics do and celebrating their birthdays with a return to theaters.

Now The Lost Boys Is Being Turned Into a What?

The cult 1980s vampire film starring Kiefer Sutherland and Coreys Haim and Feldman is being turned into a musical.

Pixar’s Leader Talks Balancing Originals and Sequels

Inside Out 2 and Toy Story 5 are coming, but they were both originals at some point, says Pete Docter.

The M3GAN Sequel Has a Release Date, Title, and Returning Talent

A follow-up to the Blumhouse box office hit about a killer doll is coming in 2025.

A New Exorcist Trilogy Is Coming From Universal and Blumhouse [Updated]

Ellen Burstyn will return to the demonic franchise along with Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr.

Work Has Already Begun on the Next Season of Star Trek: Discovery

The new Resident Evil movie finds its chief of police. The original orphan herself is back, somehow, for a prequel to the 2009 horror film. Danielle Harris teases her Final Girl teamup movie. Plus, Neil Marshall returns to horror, and what could happen to Halloween beyond David Gordon Green’s trilogy. To me, my spoilers! Orphan:…

Updates on the Animorphs Movie, Marvel’s Moon Knight, and More

André Øvredal has an update on the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark sequel. Disney+’s Moon Knight show has seemingly found its director. Hasbro’s bold new Power Rangers reboot has tapped a writer. Plus, a new look at Freaky, and what’s to come on Soulmates and Moonbase 8. To me, my Spoilers! Animorphs Michael…

Take a Deep Sea Dive Into the Trailer for the Blue Planet Sequel

It’s been 16 years since the original Blue Planet debuted and crowned BBC Earth as the king of the nature documentary. In the meantime, David Attenborough and company have focused on a number of other documentaries, but now they’re circling back with a sequel to the beloved series that told the story of our world’s…

Which of These New Emoji Candidates Will Be Cast in the Emoji Movie Sequel?

On Friday, Unicode officially announced the candidates for new emoji to be included in next year’s update. So, naturally, that means it’s time to cast the followup to The Emoji Movie, this year’s beloved summer blockbuster. There are 67 potential new additions, but only some will make the cut. These are those emoji. https://gizmodo.com/an-emoji-only-review-of-the-emoji-movie-1797314858 We’ve…

The Nightmare Before Christmas Is Finally Getting a Sequel… as a Manga

Looks like the Kingdom Hearts video games won’t be the only things that show us what’s been going on in Halloween and Christmas Towns. Almost 25 years after the debut of The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tokyopop has announced a comic book sequel to Tim Burton’s holiday classic. Tokyopop is following up its 2016 manga version…

Open Channel: What Black Mirror Episodes Should Get a Sequel? 

Black Mirror may be an anthology containing isolated episodes about our rising dependence on technology, but that doesn’t mean the stories we’ve already seen are over. In fact, co-creator Charlie Booker is open to continuing some of Black Mirror’s most iconic stories with sequels. The question is: Which episodes should they be, and how would…

World War Z has already earned $66 million in North America and $111.8 million worldwide this weekend, making it the biggest debut of Brad Pitt’s career. So it’s no surprise that Paramount is already planning a sequel. It seems the zombie apocalypse will have to go on a bit longer.

Jim Carrey dons the Colonel Stars camo on the set of Kick-Ass 2

We loved Nic Cage’s turn as the brutal superhero Big Daddy in the first Kick-Ass film, but can Jim Carrey bring a similar punch to his role as Colonel Stars in the sequel? This video from the set gives us our first look at the Justice Forever leader, his dog Sofia, his colleague Night Bitch…

E.T. sequel would have featured evil mutant aliens

Movie sequels can be tricky things. Sometimes, movie number two is better than the original, but sequels can threaten to undermine the self-contained perfection of the first film. That’s ultimately why we never saw a sequel to E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, although that doesn’t mean Steven Spielberg never thought about it. His 1982 treatment for the…

Is Harrison Ford starring in the Blade Runner sequel?

With Ridley Scott giving us a Ripley-free Alien movie, it wouldn’t be surprising if his new Blade Runner project didn’t include Harrison Ford’s replicant hunter Deckard. But Harrison Ford may be picking up the blaster for a direct Blade Runner sequel. Twitch is reporting that Ford is in talks to appear in the Scott-helmed film.…

Carl Sagan’s Cosmos Sequel Coming from Seth MacFarlane

This came out of nowhere: Fox has ordered a 13-episode documentary series that will follow up on Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. The producers will be Dr. Sagan’s wife—the amazing Ann Druyan, who was a Cosmos co-writer—and Seth MacFarlane! Yes, the creator of Family Guy is going to produce the sequel to Cosmos, which will be presented…

We stepped inside Tron Legacy’s virtual world, and survived!

We were treated to eight new minutes of awesome footage from Tron: Legacy — giving us a clear look at the virtual world, computer programs, and young Jeff Bridges. Plus, audience members got a chance to be in the movie! Spoilers ahead… Patton Oswalt kicked off this year’s Tron panel by asking director Joe Kosinski…

The Crawler Makes His Descent 2 Video Debut

It’s about time we caught a new glimpse of the cave monster people. In four clips from the sequel to The Descent, we get to see how our pasty human-eating friends have grown — and they’ve gotten a lot louder. The sequel takes place right after the last film, with Sarah running for her life…

Roland Emmerich Planning Not One, But Two Independence Day Sequels

Apparently one movie isn’t enough to contain all the ideas Roland Emmerich has for his follow-up to Independence Day. The director is planning to make two sequel films, and he already has a punny title in mind. Emmerich told MTV that he’s planning a two-film arc following the events of Independence Day. He doesn’t have…

President Obama Inspired Roland Emmerich to Make Independence Day 2

We’ve known for a while that Roland Emmerich is readying a sequel to his White House-exploding alien invasion movie Independence Day. What’s taken him so long? He was just waiting for the right president to take the Oval Office. After Independence Day brought us Bill Pullman as the inspirational President Whitmore, Emmerich didn’t feel the…