Least promising Sequel/Remake/Franchise Flick of 2020

Except the success of TIM apparently has inspired Universal to take another crack at the Dark Universe: http://epicstream.com/news/TinyDiapana/Universal-Developing-New-Dracula-Movie-For-Its-Dark-Universe.

Scoob! has been dumped to VOD, and is apparently not merely bad, but another failed universe-starter:

I’m not really spoiling anything, but the movie switches from being a Scooby-Doo movie to a vehicle to introduce various “B” level Hanna Barbera characters. Scooby and Shaggy join forces with Blue Falcon and Dynomutt: The Dog Wonder to fight Dick Dastardly, who is hunting for three skulls that open Alexander the Great’s tomb and along the way they go to Dinosaur Island and fight Captain Caveman.

I will fight anyone who calls Dynomutt a B-level character.

Alexander the Great is totally A-level

Since childhood, Shaggy Rogers, Fred Jones, Velma Dinkley, and Daphne Blake have been solving mysteries across the globe accompanied by Shaggy's pet dog, Scooby-Doo. But their greatest mystery together comes in a turn of events when they run into the Blue Falcon, who is trying to prevent his arch-rival, Dick Dastardly from causing a global "dogpocalypse" by unleashing the Great Cerberus on the world.

dog

pocalypse

For a better HBCU, watch the mystery solvers club episode of mystery inc instead.

truly struggling with this use of "HBCU"

looool

So many goddamn universes and they still haven't made my Captain Crunch/Count Chocula Cereal Mascots cinematic universe yet

Well, there is this...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/Foodfight%21_DVD_cover.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodfight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcHGo2nfWXs

adogalypse imo

I was just being silly but now that I've learned of the existence of that movie I kind of want to watch it xp

Did any of these come out

Doodoolittle did

Did any of these come out

Ghostbusters: Afterlife - bumped until after pandemic
Dolittle - RELEASED BEFORE PANDEMIC
Scoob! - have a feeling this was in cinemas and went to 'vid on demand
Morbius - bumped until after pandemic, most recently rescheuled yesterday
Sonic the Hedgehog - RELEASED BEFORE PANDEMIC
Minions: The Rise of Gru - dunno
Bad Boys for Life - RELEASED BEFORE PANDEMIC
Mulan - came out mid-pandemic, was Disney+ exclusive in USA iirc
Trolls World Tour - dunno, think it came out sometime?
Tom and Jerry - dunno, prob bumped
Top Gun: Maverick - bumped until after pandemic
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It - dunno, prob bumped
The King's Man - bumped iirc
Bob's Burgers: The Movie - dunno, prob bumped
Impractical Jokers: The Movie - dunno, prob bumped
No Time to Die - bumped until after pandemic, currently scheduled for first weekend in April, entire studio trying to sell itself to cover losses
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway - dunno, prob bumped
A Quiet Place: Part II - bumped until after pandemic
Candyman - bumped until after pandemic, to open at Halloween. was moved again when pandemic was still happening at Halloween.
The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard - dunno, prob bumped
Halloween Kills - bumped until after pandemic. scheduled for Halloween 2021
The Grudge - dunno
Godzilla vs. Kong - bumped until after pandemic
Coming 2 America - bumped until after pandemic
Fast & Furious 9 - bumped until after pandemic
Fantasy Island - dunno, prob bumped
The Croods 2 - may have come out?
Venom 2 - bumped iirc
Brahms: The Boy II - dunno, prob bumped
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run - I think maybe this came out in Canada only, ROW is waiting until after pandemic?
West Side Story - bumped until after pandemic, now scheduled for 60th anniversary of first film adap
The Purge 5 - dunno, prob bumped
Bill & Ted Face the Music - came the fuck on out mid-pandemic. screened at 4 out of 5 Washington drive-ins iirc, was day-and-date VOD in US, causing aggravation for other countries who wanted to not risk death by going to cinema
Birds of Prey - RELEASED BEFORE PANDEMIC
P.S. I Still Love You - dunno, prob bumped
The New Mutants - came the fuck on out mid-pandemic. huge box-office success at $21 million, probably would have been regarded as expected disaster if it had made more than that in non-pando times.
Black Widow - bumped until after pandemic
The Invisible Man - RELEASED BEFORE PANDEMIC, bangs
The Eternals - bumped until after pandemic
Escape Room 2 - dunno, prob bumped
Wonder Woman 1984 - bumped until after pandemic. pandemic was still happening at Christmas so just came out anyway.

Coming 2 America - bumped until after pandemic

except in the US where it will be direct-to-Bezos iirc, currently scheduled for release juuuust after the crest of the pandemic, dunno if its Bezorelease is legally tied to cinema release in countries or states with cinemas

Pretty sure Fantasy Island came out and (unsurprisingly) got abysmal reviews

New Bond just got bumped again to Autumn

Fantasy Island was theatrically released in the United States on February 14, 2020 by Sony Pictures Releasing to overwhelmingly negative reviews. Despite this, the film was a box office success, grossing $48 million worldwide against its $7 million production budget.

Scoob! has been dumped to VOD, and is apparently not merely bad, but another failed universe-starter:

I’m not really spoiling anything, but the movie switches from being a Scooby-Doo movie to a vehicle to introduce various “B” level Hanna Barbera characters. (etc)

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, May 19, 2020 12:10 AM (seven months ago)

Yesterday I saw a trailer for Wonder Woman 1984 that makes me more optimistic--soundtracked to "Blue Monday" and featuring gloriously lol-80s graphic effects. I think I'm going to have to see this for the art direction if nothing else.

― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Tuesday, January 28, 2020 1:04 AM (eleven months ago)

monkey's paw twitches

Can I just say I much more enjoy this stage of proceedings than the bit where, later in the year, half these films get their own threads and people start to unnaccountably say positive things about them?

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, January 15, 2020 1:08 PM (eleven months ago)

monkey's paw spasms uncontrollably for eighteen months or more

I saw Fantasy Island, The Grudge and Brahms the Boy in the cinema so they were released in the UK at least. I wouldn't recommend them.

The Fantasy Island film is a prequel and Jimmy O Yang becomes Tattoo.

I didn't see the WW trailer but that sounds infinitely better than the actual movie xp

damn, good work sic.

i'm pretty sure Croods 2 and Trolls World Tour both came out during quarantine. there must have been some general studio calculus that lost box office bucks were a fair trade for streaming service loyalty from frazzled parents, desperate for their kids to put something DIFFERENT on for twenty times in a row.

yep, sic is surely the James Brown of ilxor.com

I mean, minus the controversial James Brown stuff

hey, the Impractical Jokers movie came out, it was okay

actually no I was really irritated by it, all they had to do was follow the Jackass template and it would've been great but they tried to shoehorn a plot into it

so it was half good

i liked trolls world tour

Saw The Invisible Man (very good) and P.S. I Still Love You (already forgotten it). Haven't seen the new Bill & Ted yet, but I've heard good things.

I don't know if I should even bother doing one of these polls this year, considering that a lot of this stuff was/is pushed back. Let's meet here again in 2022.

Bill & Ted is at least as good as you reasonably could hope for a 30-years-later threequel, while obviously showing seams of losing 1/3 of their budget immediately before production, and then losing the ability to shoot a planned ending and pickups due to pandemic.

(You can also see the edges of a planned plotline that got cut for budget before the shooting script.)

agree it’s not v good

it's v not bad though

Personally would not go as far as “v” even with 4 layers of special pleading tbh

it's a Bill & Ted sequel imo

here we fuckin go

Warner Bros. has set a date for 'Wonka,' an origin story focusing on the storied chocolate factory ownerhttps://t.co/S2UgVSzuqg

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 19, 2021

I've always wondered what was going through the heads of the guys who poured the foundations, did the brickwork, etc. How did that wacky factory get built, is what I wanna know!

Hopefully this sets the stage for more prequels about famous fictional buildings. Film audiences are hungry for effortlessness!

haha yeah, the whole movie is just gonna be wonka meeting with city officials to get the permits.

"ok, so the building will be 5-square miles in area, 500 feet tall, and will go even further underground. also, there will be a nightmare cave."

climax scene is inspectors telling Wonka his buildings aren't up to code as they're made up entirely of food.

and Wonka killing them

Oh, lol, I overlooked the word 'owner' in that tweet. But let's just keep pretending that it's about the factory, that's fun.

And anyway, wasn't Burton's remake already a goddamn Wonka origin story? Chrrrrrist, just fucking try for once, Hollywood.

There's racist stuff in the book about him going to a foreign country to get oompa loompa slaves.

Not clicking that link. So, who is the person in the photo? Looks like a third Edgerton brother created from the toenail clippings and bodily wastes of the other two...

Netflix is currently working on its own Wonka content, with Taika Waititi (Thor: Love and Thunder) writing, directing, and executive producing two animated series based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. One will be a more traditional adaptation, while the second provides a wholly original take on Wonka's singing factory workers: Oompa-Loompas.

It's Wonka-mania out there.

The kids are screaming for it. Incessantly.

it's paul king of paddington/the mighty boosh

I'm expecting Coming 2 America to be an experience a little like The Force Awakens -- I will have an involuntary wide-eyed smile and reflexively chuckle throughout the movie but it will be purely a pavlovian response to various cues in the film. I will walk away remembering almost none of it.

It should be a fun movie to find via voice-activated remote.

NOOOO, not Coming to America! Coming 2 America! 'Two', not 'to'!... GODDAMMIT, NO!

Not a flick but

The CW has ordered a pilot for ‘THE POWERPUFF GIRLS’ live-action series.

The series follows the trio as “disillusioned twentysomethings who resent having lost their childhood to crime fighting.” pic.twitter.com/P1BddfDgjX

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) February 9, 2021

Um.