What Have We Missed In The News

So it has been and interesting few weeks in movie news with various ups and downs, with new movie confirmations and new actors being signed to existing ideas.

The Smurfs Sequel ... & Threequel.
That's right, you read it right. After the original Smurfs movie racked in a massive $563 Million worldwide, Sony Pictures Animation quickly announced a sequel only 12 days after the movie was released. Unfortunately now Sony Pictures and Columbia Pictures are confident to release a third instalment for The Smurfs with a script already being written. The Smurfs Sequel will again be directed by Raja Gosnell and will feature most of the original films actors and actresses including the same voice actors.

This news makes me annoyed, sure Smurfs may be great for little kids and sure it's going to be bringing LOTS of money, but with ratings like 23% on Rotten Tomatoes and 5.3 on IMDb, I dont see how a number of these respectable actors can be ok with signing up for this poor movie three times. I don't see how they are comfortable losing their credibility as actors, but the most likely answer to that is they see a pile of money infront of them grow and grow, the more they help put together poorly made movies.

Kickass 2 
That's right, The comic book writer and creator of Kickass, Mark Millar, has been talking about a sequel for his semi-popular joke superhero movie for some time now, and after the Avengers exploded into the box office, racking in over $700 Million worldwide so far, Universal gave Kickass 2 the green light. Good news? Tell me what you think about this.

Alec Baldwin Lines Up His Next Appearances
During the week, the hit TV show 30 Rock announced that it will be finishing up with a final, 13 episode 7th Seaoson, Alec Baldwin has been lining up his nest movie jobs, starting off with signing up with Director/Writer Woody Allen for his next unknown project, along with that, it has been confirmed that he will be teaming up alongside Russel Brand for a project called 'The Man Who Rocks the Cradle.' The movie is about an overworked man who is has to take care of a young child, alongside his busy day job, to take some of the pressure off, this overworked man hires a "super nanny" to solve all of the problems, but it turns out that this nanny is actually a man. Interesting concept, and it will be interesting to see how that turns out, wether it will be a comedy or will have a much deeper meaning.