Sin City Sequel Gets 2013 Release Date

A Dame To Kill For

Dimension Films has announced that Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, the long-awaited sequel to the 2005 movie adaptation of Frank Miller’s Sin City comic book mini-series, is set to hit theatres on Oct. 4, 2013.

Once again Miller will team-up with Robert Rodriguez as co-directors. The movie is partly based on A Dame to Kill For, the second Sin City comic book mini-series which was published in 1993 by Dark Horse. Also, the movie will incorporate the short comic book  story Just Another Saturday Night, and a new segment titled The Long, Bad Night. The screenplay is by Miller and Academy Award winner William Monohan (The Departed).

Mickey Rourke and Rosasio Dawson are reprising their roles from the original Sin City film, and most of the original cast — including Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis and Clive Owen, are expected to join them. Production is set to begin this summer at Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas.

Sin City had an estimated budget of $40 million and grossed nearly $159 million worldwide.

Avengers Assemble Box Office Record

Earth’s Mightiest Ticket Sellers

There was much hype and fanfare following the release of Marvel’s The Avengers movie this weekend, and it lived up to box office expectations by posting an opening weekend $200.3 million in North America, passing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 to become the largest domestic debut of all time.

Last summer the final Harry Potter movie brought in $169.2 million during it’s opening weekend. Before that The Dark Knight had held the crown with it’s $158.4 million record opening in 2008. Even more astonishing is that the Joss Whedon led film has already raked in $441.5 million overseas. that  makes it over half a billion dollars in worldwide ticket sales in less than two weeks! This also surpasses the $623 million worldwide total of 2010’s Iron Man 2, which until now had been Marvel Studios’ most successful release.

New Mutants Movie ?

More Merry Mutant Movies

Collider had the opportunity to discuss the future of Marvel properties in movies with Fox CEO Tom Rothman at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. And the talk revealed that another merry band of mutants could become the next marvel movie franchise. While Rothman wouldn’t come right out and say it, he seemed to hint that The New Mutants could get the movie treatment.

Given the commercial and critical success of the young-skewing superhero flicks First Class and Chronicle, it seems like a no-brainer for Fox to pull the trigger on a New Mutants movie. When the idea was brought up,  Rothman tried to remain cryptic, but he seems to point at a New Mutants movie in the future.

Collider: “I know you guys have like The New Mutants and a lot of characters in the X-Men universe. Obviously you guys are moving forward on an X-Men sequel, you’re moving forward on Wolverine, do you envision New Mutants or some of these other characters as franchises that the door can be open to?  It does seem to me that the superhero genre is bigger than it’s ever been, and you guys have some of the crown jewels.”

Rothman: (smiles) “Yes.”

Collider: “When can fans expect an announcement on some of these other properties?  Before Comic-Con, after Comic-Con, at Comic-Con?”

Rothman:  ”In the summer.”

Collider: “Are you talking to filmmakers right now?”

Rothman: “Let me just say this. All I have to say is, I agree with you in your assessment of the potential in a lot of these characters.”

Dark Knight Rises Trailer Plays Before The Avengers

Dark Knight Rises Piggybacks On The Avengers

I don’t need another reason to see The Avengers when it opens on May 4th, but the Nolan Fans Site posted a page from the WB Exhibitor site indicating that the third trailer for The Dark Knight Rises will play before The Avengers. The Dark Knight Rises opens on July 20th.

X-Men : First Class Shoots For January 2013 Start

Mystique Catches Fire

According to The Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Fox is planning to push back the shooting to their sequel to X-Men: First Class to accommodate Jennifer Lawrence’s work for The Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire. Originally the First Class sequel was to begin shooting in the fall, however, that created a conflict with Lionsgate’s Catching Fire. Lawrence has a sequel clause in her contract with 20th Century, and since she signed on with X-Men before The Hunger Games, 20th Century could have locked up the star for their movie first. However, an agreement has been reached between the two studios to alleviate any conflict.

The Matthew Vaughn directed X-Men follow-up is moving to a January 2013 start date so that they can have Lawrence back as Mystique, without getting in the way of Catching Fire‘s start in August or September, and allowing it to stay on schedule for a November 2013 release. The First Class sequel doesn’t have a release date yet.