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...very ancient Greece, Homer had a surprise hit. The Iliad was boffo, thanks to a strong revenge story mixing love, war and some fabulous poetic effects. So of course he thought of a sequel, spinning off one of the characters, Ulysses, into his own traveling adventure. Homer called that one The Odyssey, and it was an even bigger smash. Then, deciding he had exhausted the saga, he stopped...
That's the difference between Homer and Hollywood, where two is never enough--not if the original movie and its first sequel happened to be blockbusters. Intoxicated by the grosses of such threepeats as the final episodes of The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, both of which improved on the take of their immediate predecessors, the studios look prayerfully to this May. It's a perfect storm of threequels--three of them, natch--as some of the most lucrative series ever find out whether third time's the charm...
...glory days, Hollywood made a few series--Andy Hardy, The Thin Man, the Bob Hope-- Bing Crosby Road comedies, and horror films with the whole Frankenstein family. But these were middling fare. The big-ticket items were singular sensations. Nobody made a sequel to Gone With the Wind, Casablanca or Ben-Hur. The industry didn't think in roman numerals until The Godfather, Part II in 1974. But with the triumph of special-effects fantasies like Star Wars, sequels became a smart way to print money. Now they are needed to turn bad years into good ones. The difference between...
...telcom exec who now serves as Byrne's U.S. business partner. Wealth enhancement is also part of the The Secret's business plan. Among the spinoff books expected in 2007 are The Secret Workbook and a collection of The Secret Success Stories. Byrne will also begin filming a sequel to The Secret in January, for an August release; Rainone says it will explore "the next step, the next level" in the process of achieving one's life goals. Meanwhile, the original DVD is about to be distributed in Europe and Asia; German, Spanish and Portuguese translations are nearly completed, with...
DISNEY Smile, Mickey. The High School Musical album got to No. 1, Hannah Montana became tweens' top TV show, and the Pirates of the Caribbean sequel triumphed at cinemas...