Sequel Bits: ‘Halloween’, ‘The Crimes Of Grindelwald’, ‘Enchanted’, ‘Creed II’, ‘Men In Black’ And More
In this edition of sequel bits:
Gang, gotta tell ya: The new@halloweenmoviemovie ROCKS. And you’re all going to love it. I guarantee it. So pipe down, already. And STRAP IN !#Halloween
— Jason Blum (@jason_blum)July 07, 2025
Jason Blum, a man with a financial interest in the newHalloweenmovie, took some time to Tweet out that the newHalloweenmovie “ROCKS.” I see no reason why we shouldn’t take Mr. Blum at his word and assume this is a 100% non-biased opinion. In all seriousness, I can’t wait for the newHalloween, and I look forward to seeing it immediately. It just always strikes me as odd when people with a controlling interest in a film take the time to comment on how good they think the film is. Like…what else are they going to say? “Ugh, my new movie stinks!“Halloween, which features Jamie Lee Curtis battling Michael Myers (presumably) for the final time, hits theatersOctober 19, 2018.Amy Adamsis currently killing it on the extremely dark HBO seriesSharp Objects. But the acclaimed actress might be ready to return to some sunnier projects soon – likeEnchanted 2. During an appearance onThe Talk(viaDeadline), Adams offered an update of sorts on the sequel to the 2007 Disney film. “I am absolutely up for that,” Adams said. “We’re working on it — so hopefully.” InEnchanted, Adams played a fairy tale princess who ended up in real-life New York City.
Above you’ll see a new character poster forCreed II. The poster featuresSylvester Stalloneas Rocky Balboa, who returns once again to mentor Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan). At one point, Stallone was going to directCreed 2, afterCreeddirector Ryan Coogler could not return.Steven Caple Jr.took on those duties instead.Creed IIfinds Adonis still grappling with his family legacy as he prepares to fight the son of Ivan Drago, the man who killed his father Apollo Creed.Creed IIopensNovember 21, 2018.
We’re not done with the Stallone-related news, y’all.Omega Undergroundreports that the Stallone-leadRambo 5is expected to begin shooting this September. In the film, a “neighboring rancher/friend see his daughter kidnapped by sex-traffickers who turn out to be members of violent drug cartel and the older Rambo agrees to find/rescue her.” The lastRambomovie, called simplyRambo, was surprisingly good – and brutal as hell. I don’t know if we as a societyneedmoreRambofilms, but I guess we’re going to get them. This synopsis makes the movie sound likeRambo Meets Sicario, and I would much rather Stallone had gone with the much crazier, now abandonedRambo 5idea, in which John Rambofightsa monster.
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Dwayne Johnsonis very good at using social media. In fact, the savvy Johnson actually includes a clause in his movie contracts in which studios have to pay him extra to advertise movies across his various social media feeds. The latest example of Johnson using his social media powers is above, in which the actor welcomesIdris Elbato theFast and Furiousspin-offHobbs and Shaw. Johnson andJason Stathamare returning as theirFast and Furiouscharacters, and Elba will be playing the film’s villain. There’s really not much to say here, except that someone somewhere probably paid Dwayne Johnson over a million dollars to screenshot a Variety article and post it on Instagram. Just think about that for a while, and then feel free to return to your low-wage office job.Hobbs and Shawwill punch its way into theaters July of 2019.
Near the end ofJurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, there’s a pretty big twist that takes the franchise in a new direction.Spoilers follow. Near the conclusion of the flick, we learn that the character of Maisie – introduced earlier as the granddaughter of Benjamin Lockwood, John Hammond’s old partner – is in fact aclone. It seems Lockwood used theJurassic Parkdino cloning technique to clone his beloved daughter, who was killed in a car accident. This is a pretty damn big twist, all things considered. And according toFallen KingdomscreenwriterColin Trevorrow,Jurassic ParkgrandaddySteven Spielbergwas all-in on the idea. Speaking withEmpire, Trevorrow said:
“[Spielberg] really dug the Maisie element of it. He dug the way that we were evolving it, and he was really excited about the questions that it leaves at the end as far as where the future could go.”
Trevorrow adds that he himself sees the Maisie twist “as an evolution of the themes that [Michael] Crichton laid out. It’s so much closer in our world than making dinosaurs is.” I was not a fan ofFallen Kingdom, but I am curious to see where the franchise goes with this twist in mind.
Netflix previously released theGodzillaanime filmGodzilla: Planet of the Monsters, and now the sequel is almost here. This is all part of a trilogy of films, with the second film titledGodzilla: City on the Edge of Battle. The sequel will arrive on Netflix July 27, 2025. Eventually, the third film –Godzilla: Stareater(note: that title isbadass) – fill find its way to the streaming service as well. Here’s theCity on the Edge of Battlesynopsis.
Following up after the events of Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, Haruo Sakaki is rescued by Miana, a girl belonging to an indigenous tribe called the “Houtua”, descendants of the humans left behind. The Houtua tell Haruo that their god was destroyed by Godzilla and left behind eggs. Meanwhile Galu Gu, the leader of the Bilusaludo, discovers that the Houtua’s spears are sourced from the “nanometal” used to build Mechagodzilla, long thought to have been destroyed at the foot of Mount Fuji in the 21st Century.
TheMen in Blackspin-off/sequel/remake/whatever is currently filming in London. The flick reunitesThor: RagnarokstarsChris HemsworthandTessa Thompson, and is said to open up the world of theMen in Blackfranchise on a more global scale. Some set pics have started to surface featuring Chris Hemsworth in costume. You can see themhere. I won’t lie: they’re notthatexciting. In fact, they’re about what you’d expect: Chris Hemsworth wearing a black suit and sunglasses. But hey, Chris Hemsworth is a handsome fella, so taking a gander at him in fine menswear isn’t the worst use of your time. TheMen in Blackspin-off movie will arriveJune 14, 2019.
Mission: Impossible – Falloutis on its way to save the summer movie season. While we wait for the action sequel to arrive in theaters this month, we can stare longingly at the new IMAX poster above. It featuresTom Cruisedoing what he does best: risking his life for our enjoyment. Cruise is just chilling on the side of a helicopter, a stunt I’m sure he really did, because he’s a lunatic.Mission: Impossible – Fallouthits theatersJuly 27, 2018. I can’t wait.
Newt Scamander is back in an exclusive new#FantasticBeasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald image! Conjure it up here:https://t.co/LXJEZdUhJQpic.twitter.com/JrLWiwO2Oq
— Empire (@empiremagazine)June 22, 2025
There’s a new image from theFantastic BeastssequelThe Crimes of Grindelwald, and it’s pretty much what we’ve come to expect at this point. That is, it’s an image ofEddie Redmaynewearing an overcoat and pointing a wand at someone or something. The sequel set withinJ.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World has Magizoologist Newt Scamander (Redmayne) joining forces with young Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) to “prevent the devious Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) from raising pure-blood wizards to rule over all non-magical beings.” The movie hits theatersNovember 16, 2018.
Miserable, grumpy manTerry Gilliamis out there saying all the wrong things as he promotes his long-delayed filmThe Man Who Killed Don Quixote.During an interview withRogerEbert.com, Gilliam revealed he was once approached to helm anAliensequel – likelyAlien 3– and turned it down. Why? Because Terry Gilliam apparentlyhatestheAlienfilms, as he hates most things. ““I got offered anAliensequel because I was hot at that time, as a result ofTime BanditsandFisher King, and I just don’t want to do films like that. They are factory jobs, working for a studio. My last factory job was on the Chevrolet assembly plant in Los Angeles, during my junior year of college, night shift on the line. Never again.” While I appreciate Gilliam’s stance here – he wants his films to personal, not some studio hack job – it’s the rest of his comment that raises an eyebrow or two:
“Alienis just a ghost train where something jumps out and you don’t know who’s going to die next. When I watched the firstAlien, all I kept saying was, ‘Just kill them all and be done with it,’ because you just know that they’re all going to die along the way. In the end, Sigourney Weaver, who we’ve established is a really tough military officer, is running around in her underwear trying to find a cat. Give me a f—king break. There are some great moments in it, but the shot that should’ve never been in the film is the one at the end showing the alien getting blown out of the airlock. You see the alien, and it’s just a guy in a rubber suit. Up until then, you only saw bits of the alien, and it seemed to be huge and vast and terrifying. That was so clever. It was like the shark inJaws. I told Ridley, ‘You don’t want that shot of the alien at the end. Cut it!’
