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...major risk—he had already scored an indie hit with its predecessor, 1995’s “Before Sunrise,” and he could have alienated its fans.“No one was anticipating or necessarily looking forward to or wanting a sequel,” he recalled. “We did that on our own; we’re the only three people who want[ed] this film to exist,” referring to himself and stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy.Speaking of Hawke and Delpy, are their characters from...
Stranger Than FictionDirected by Marc ForsterColumbia Pictures & Mandate Pictures3 starsSorry, frat-boys. “Stranger Than Fiction” isn’t the sequel to “Anchorman” that you’ve all been waiting for. Though its trailer frames it as a typical Will Ferrell comedy, he spends an astonishingly small amount of his screen-time screaming wildly. Directed by Marc Forster (“Finding Neverland”), “Stranger Than Fiction” centers on Harold Crick (Ferrell), an obsessive-compulsive workaholic who suddenly discovers that his life...
Listen, Meat Loaf: if you’re going to get our hopes up by releasing a sequel to two of the most perfectly awful albums of all time, you better deliver. Otherwise, go back to hell...
...weekend, but did only about $15 million, much less than predicted. Come September, though, The Covenant took the top slot, and The Grudge 2 was #1 two weeks ago. Other horror pictures, Final Destination 3, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Beginning and The Hills Have Eyes (a sequel, a prequel and a remake) weren't their weekends' champs, but each took in more than $15 million - or about 50% more than Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers did last week...
...original Saw made an even more impressive return on investment. Costing only $1.2 million, the picture did $55 million domestic and another $48 million abroad. Its sequel, made for $4 million, took in $87 million at home and another $57 million offshore. (The take is lower over there in part because European and Asian rating boards often restrict violent films to those over 18.) Those first two films earned nearly $250 million at the box office: that's a lot of Saw bucks...