GB3 or MIB 3 very unlikely: Sony Films Rethinking Strategy


by GB3

19 years, 2 months ago

I really think GB3 and MIB 3 are more or less really dead now. After this article. Clearly Sony doesn't want to spend and take losses anymore on a fledgling movie studio. I keep thinking if MIB 3 were made it'd be just as bad as Sony making nothing on the film in returns (due to costs and salaries + gross take).
Yet we can get T3, a Rocky 6, Rambo 4, Indy Jones 4, Die Hard 4, Basic Instinct 2 (more or less on the way)? I still wonder if these old franchises will force a nostalgia renewal from Sony Pics to still think about their old properties.
Here is the article from Dark Horizons:


Whilst talking with The Los Angeles Times, Sony Pictures head of motion pictures Amy Pascal confirmed the studio now aims to make fewer movies, wants to increase the international appeal, will cut back on mid-level productions, and is looking for more outside investors for its slate.

The news comes after the studio, which is one of the more Net friendly out there, suffered a series of flops of late including “Lords of Dogtown, ”Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo“, ”Oliver Twist“, ”Bewitched“, ”XXX: State of the Union“ and ”Stealth“. Even the likes of ”The Legend of Zorro“ which is doing well overseas and ”Zathura“ which landed very good reviews are just not making a dent in the US box-office.

As a result some big changes are in store for their future. Firstly they've pulled the plug on ”The 8th Voyage of Sinbad,“ a planned expensive spectacle that was to pair ”Matrix“ star Keanu Reeves with ”Stealth“ director Rob Cohen. The company is working at reducing the combined gross profits Sony will pay to actor Tom Hanks, director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer for their involvement in next year's ”The Da Vinci Code“ project. The studio has also been unable to settle on a lead actress for its reworking of ”I Dream of Jeannie“.

Next year looks more promising with Da Vinci, a new James Bond film, new comedies from Adam Sandler & Will Ferrell. Before year's end the studio will release adaptations of the musical ”Rent“ and the novel ”Memoirs of a Geisha“ and the Jim Carrey comedy ”Fun With Dick and Jane". ‘Dick’ went months over schedule and millions over budget and ended up undergoing major reshoots for tis third act. The strategy has worked though apparently with preview audiences responding well.

by fusi0n1

19 years, 2 months ago

GB3
The studio has also been unable to settle on a lead actress for its reworking of “I Dream of Jeannie”.
Maybe because all those actresses saw the ‘success’ of bewitched.

All these scrapings from the bottom of the barrel, they're running out of ideas. Look at all those sequels in the works, gives you hope that one day we'll get a GB3.

by matthew1

19 years, 2 months ago

I really don't mind sequels as long as they are good.

I don't agree that television series make good movies. Films such as Bewitched, Dukes of Hazard, Thunderbirds and Starsky and Hutch were never meant to be films. They just don't work.

by gbusterchick68841

19 years, 2 months ago

Matthew
I really don't mind sequels as long as they are good.

I don't agree that television series make good movies. Films such as Bewitched, Dukes of Hazard, Thunderbirds and Starsky and Hutch were never meant to be films. They just don't work.

I agree.

by egonsgal

19 years, 2 months ago

I heard that Nicole Kidman turned down The Producers to do Bewitched…how stupid. But that's fine because from the previews Uma Thurman makes a great Ula (if you've seen the play).

I would LOVE another Ghostbusters! Think of what all they could do with today's FX abilities!! But it couldn't be ‘cartoony’ like GB2 was…I'm sorry I love the guys and films with all my heart but in places it was a bit cartoony, especially the Scollary (spelling?) Brothers in the court room scene. It'd have to be modern but keeping true to the original.

If it happens, it happens and I'll be there at the opening of it and if it doesn't then, we've got two great movies, cartoons and comics to cherish.

by ice11red

19 years, 2 months ago

This is dumb. They wont make a 3rd ghostbusters, however here is a list of sequals that are soon to be out to theater within the next year or so. Please tell me why some of this crap is being remade but not GB?

Die Hard 4
Mummy 3
Daredevil 2
Indiana Jones 4
Jurassic Park 4
Fast and Furious 3
X men 3
Rocky 6
Mission Impossible 3
Scary Movie 4
Alien 5
Toy Story 3
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4
Terminator 4
The Goonies 2
Rambo 4
Charlie's Angels 3
BeatleJuice 2

by egonsgal

19 years, 2 months ago

yea we could definately do with another Rambo, Terminator, TMNT, Alien, Scary Movie, MI, Rocky, F&F, Jurassic. But I'd go see the others.

by imported_Isaac

19 years, 2 months ago

Matthew
I really don't mind sequels as long as they are good.

I don't agree that television series make good movies. Films such as Bewitched, Dukes of Hazard, Thunderbirds and Starsky and Hutch were never meant to be films. They just don't work.

I've never seen any of the other movies you said, but Starsky and Hutch was hilarious. I'm quite glad they made that into a movie.

by crazymrtibbs

19 years, 2 months ago

Thunderbirds actually had 2 movies made crica the 60's. But of course in super-marionation style, no new fangled “live action.” Thunderbird 6 and Thunderbirds Are GO. Both were/are pretty good.

by egonsgal

19 years, 2 months ago

Well, FX improvements aside I just don't think they make them like they used to.