In the Pantheon of Bad Sequels, Where Does ‘Bad Santa 2’ Rank?
A scientific inquiry.
Can you make a sequel of a movie that didn't make any money? You can if you're the guys from Super Troopers — as long as your fans are willing to help you out.
Ideally, audiences should feel like they’ve barely left the theatre before needing to go back in — how else could you get anyone to see 22 Jump Street? Then there are the follow-ups that arrive long after the original has receded into the mists of movie history...
The Mad Max mastermind finally revisits his fire-spitting dystopia with Fury Road. It only took him three decades.
Earlier this year, American Sniper’s US box office haul pushed past the $337 million mark, making it the highest-grossing film released in 2014. To understand what an anomaly that is, you can round out to top 15 highest-grossing films of last year: all but one is a sequel...