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With use of the internet movie database I was able to dig into the future releases of Hollywood. With some hacking skills (Google) I was able to grab all upcoming releases in the ‘script only’ stage, to post-production status. With possibly a little over 2000 movies coming out between October 2008 and 2013, we have a lot coming our way. But when you see the future releases list you can’t help but feel like puking. The sheer lack of creativity out in the Hollywood hills is mind boggling. The general idea of a ‘new’ movie is something like this: Just take a popular (comic) book character, hire a hot female cast member, add something with terrorist threatening the world (which in most movies means New York) with a some sort of global warming bomb and get the script ready for a possible sequel. People will be swarming to download on bittorrent buy a ticket at the box office!
Below are Hollywood’s more popular ideas listed by category:

Games are hot

After a long period of books becoming a movie (Harry Potter), currently comic books characters become movies (Spiderman, The Hulk) our future holds… drum-roll… games that become movies! ‘Tombraider’ set it all off with taking in $300M worldwide. The movie was a big hit, although not really because of its script quality, but rather due to Angelina’s - hard-to-ignore - front assets. Hollywood is now attempting to achieve the same thing with numerous computer games listed below:

Sequels, Triquels and more

Hollywood loves sequels. Sequels provide some kind of guarantee of people coming to the theaters, thus bringing in the money. For example take American Pie. Everybody loved it, but while part 1 brought in ‘only’ $102M, the horrible sequel was somehow cashing 40% more (over $145M).  It gets worse with the ‘Scary Movie’ series that reached a global total of $800M with 5 movies. Some noteworthy sequels:

Every time I hope the moviemakers will just give up after yet another bad sequel, but somehow you guys can’t seem to get enough of paying money for a movie that really isn’t worth sitting through if you were the one getting paid to see it! Anyways it leads us to triquels, fourquels…

Destined for disaster

Sometimes you just need a tiny bit of information to predict if a movie will be hot or not. Somehow these movies just don’t sound like box office successes.

Retro = cool

Didn’t you love the A-team? Of course you did, everybody did! So Hollywood decided to make a movie of it (sound familiar?). Too bad all characters are overweight now, so they have to bring in other actors (won’t be the same without the real BA “I ain't gittin' on no plane!" Baracus will it?).  Anyways go over the list below and decide what will go on your 2009-calendar.

Money, money, money!

So what would you do, if you had 100+ million dollars? Apparently the producers of the movies below got that question and answered by saying “We will make a movie!”.