{"id":1894,"date":"2009-05-27T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalstudios.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/1969\/12\/31\/a-summer-of-sequels\/"},"modified":"2019-05-13T14:46:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T22:46:47","slug":"a-summer-of-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2009\/05\/27\/a-summer-of-sequels\/","title":{"rendered":"A Summer of Sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_h4tLF5wFv0Q\/ShtlWIKvygI\/AAAAAAAAGmU\/kVd-Q8F8bHQ\/s400\/up.jpg \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Well, here we are again, in the summer of 2009, where Pixar has the lone wholly original film of the summer. Pete Docter&#8217;s &#8220;Up,&#8221; which opens May 29, and is a (gasp!) original screenplay, goes up against these summer films:<\/p>\n<p>Fast and Furious (sequel)<br \/>\n<br \/>X-Men Origins: Wolverine (sequel)<br \/>\n<br \/>Star Trek (reboot\/sequel)<br \/>\n<br \/>Angels and Demons (sequel\/based on novel)<br \/>\n<br \/>Land of the Lost (based on television show)<br \/>\n<br \/>Night at the Museum: Battle at the Smithsonian (sequel)<br \/>\n<br \/>Terminator: Salvation (sequel)<br \/>\n<br \/>The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (remake)<br \/>\n<br \/>Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (sequel\/based on toy)<br \/>\n<br \/>Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (sequel)<br \/>\n<br \/>Bruno (based on television character)<br \/>\n<br \/>Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (sequel\/based on novel)<br \/>\n<br \/>Julie and Julia (based on article)<br \/>\n<br \/>G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (based on television show)<br \/>\n<br \/>The Final Destination (sequel)<br \/>\n<br \/>H2 &#8211; Halloween 2 (sequel of a remake)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/fxrant.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/summer-of-sequels.html target=_blank rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/fxrant.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/summer-of-sequels.html<\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here we are again, in the summer of 2009, where Pixar has the lone wholly original film of the summer. Pete Docter&#8217;s &#8220;Up,&#8221; which opens May 29, and is a (gasp!) original screenplay, goes up against these summer films: Fast and Furious (sequel) X-Men Origins: Wolverine (sequel) Star Trek (reboot\/sequel) Angels and Demons (sequel\/based &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2009\/05\/27\/a-summer-of-sequels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Summer of Sequels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}