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• Nowadays, it seems like virtually every movie that’s even remotely successful is turned into a franchise. It may seem like this is becoming increasingly more common.

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Movie Franchises That Rushed Out Their Sequels. Nowadays, it seems like virtually every movie that’s even remotely successful is turned into a franchise. It may seem like this is becoming increasingly more common, but it’s actually something that Hollywood has been doing for decades. After all, movie studios need to make money in order to thrive, and producing sequels to movies are a surefire way to earn more cash.

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Just take a look at any superhero series. It makes sense; when people see a movie and fall in love with either the characters or the story, they tend to want another installment, and when those sequels do release, they usually gross more than the first outing, even if they’re not as good. For instance, John G. Avildsen’s 1. 98.

The Karate Kid was a self- contained story, yet its success spawned multiple sequels, the first of which, The Karate Kid Part II, released two years later, earning even more at the worldwide box office despite being considerably worse. Although many sequels tend to earn more money and even be considered better than the originals (e. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), some follow- ups can crash and burn, and that can happen for a variety of reasons. However, one of the more common reasons is because the sequels were purely driven by greed, and they were rushed through production in order to capitalize on the original movies’ fame. Here are 1. 5 Movie Franchise That Tried To Rush Sequels Out Way Too Fast. Batman & Robin. Joel Schumacher came on board for Warner Bros.’ third Batman movie, Batman Forever, after they asked Tim Burton to only return as a producer for the third installment, due to Batman Returns‘ disappointing box office haul.

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Batman Forever certainly wasn’t as critically successful as its predecessor, but there’s no denying that it was much more financially successful, and that’s why Warners commissioned a fourth installment almost immediately after Forever hit theaters. That fourth movie, Batman & Robin, grossed about the same amount as Batman Returns, though unlike that film, it was a critical failure of massive proportions. Batman & Robin took one too many steps in the wrong direction, so much that Schumacher and the rest of the main cast have publicly apologized for even making the film. Watch A Shot In The Dark Online. However, the filmmaker has previously attributed some of the movie’s issues to the fact that Warner Bros. Schumacher ample time to get the film right. Paranormal Activity 2.

If people thought superhero franchises never end, then they should take a look at the horror genre. Hollywood studios have the tendency to latch onto certain horror franchises and milk them for decades, even giving them several prequels and spinoffs. The indie- made sleeper hit, Paranormal Activity, is certainly one of them. The first movie grossed a whopping $1. Its critical and commercial success convinced Blumhouse Productions and Paramount Pictures to commission a follow- up.

Paranormal Activity 2 acted as a parallel sequel to the first film, which released one year after the first movie hit theaters nationwide (though it was originally filmed in 2. Principal photography began on the Paranormal Activity prequel/sequel in May 2. October 2. 01. 0. Although it was considered just as scary as the first movie, Paranormal Activity 2 didn’t present anything new to the series. It did, however, successfully spawn a new horror franchise. Scream 2. Horror master Wes Craven has created some of the most notable horror movies out there, such as A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Last House on the Left, and of course, Scream, which stands apart from the rest of his fright flick- filled resume.

The first movie released in 1. It’s even been credited with popularizing horror with mainstream audiences. Scream was a wildly effective movie that subverted the horror genre, and its huge success as the box office convinced Dimension Films to quickly move forward with a sequel. Kevin Williamson, who wrote the first film, already had a story ready- to- go for the sequel, with there being multiple killers the second time around. Unfortunately, much of the script leaked online, and he was, therefore, forced to throw out most of the script and undergo significant rewrites. Despite suffering from several setbacks, Craven and the studio pushed forward, and the somehow still wildly successful Scream 2 released in 1.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean series is perhaps its most successful in- house live- action property, outside of Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, before Gore Verbinski’s original film, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, hit theaters, the Mouse House viewed the movie as somewhat of a risky bet.

After all, they had never commissioned a production of that size before, not to mention the fact that they were making their first PG- 1. The Curse of the Black Pearl ended up becoming a resounding success for the studio — both critically and commercially — and so they decided to move forward with an entire trilogy. Instead of following up the film with another standalone story, though, the studio combined the stories of Dead Man’s Chest and At World’s End; they even shot the films back- to- back — and the third installment suffered for it. Although it came close to grossing a billion dollars worldwide, At World’s End could have been so much more. The Hangover Part IIGreat comedy movies aren’t as common as they should be, and that can be attributed to a great many different things. However, when a studio strikes gold, sometimes they want to continue producing sequels to capture the same type of success they had with the first installments.

A prime example of that came with Todd Phillips’ The Hangover, starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis. Its box office success places it as one of the highest- grossing R- rated movies of all- time, so it’s no wonder that the studio wanted another installment (or two). Interestingly, though, there were already plans to make a sequel shortly before the first movie released. In Phillips’ The Hangover Part II, what started out as a fun comedy about friends getting a little bit too drunk in Las Vegas turned into a three- part story. It was entirely unnecessary, and instead of giving themselves some time between installments in order to come up with a decent story, they just moved the location from Vegas to Bangkok.

Superman IIHollywood studios sometimes like to film certain movie sequels back- to- back, such as the aforementioned Pirates of the Caribbean films as well as the upcoming Avengers movies, though they don’t always work out. Still, it’s not common. However, it’s rare to see a studio commission two movies without having even releasing the first installment, and one of the first instances in which it happened was with Warner Bros.’ original Superman films, starring Christopher Reeve as the eponymous superhero.

Richard Donner had filmed Superman: The Movie and Superman II simultaneously (having completed 7. Richard Lester in his stead. In the end, roughly a quarter of the movie contained footage that Donner had filmed (the rest of which were restored in Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut). Although the movie received positive reviews, it wasn’t nearly as successful as the first movie — and it all went downhill from there. Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Long before the Step Up series emerged onto the scene, there was the Breakin’ franchise. The first movie in the series, Joel Silberg’s Breakin’, which starred the likes of Lucinda Dickey and Adolfo Quiñones, released in May 1. It has been previously reported that Cannon Films’ Menahem Golan pressured the studio and filmmakers to finish the movie quickly so that they could hit theaters before Stan Lathan’s Beat Street, which released the following month. Since the movie was enormously successful (at least in comparison to its measly production budget of $1.