I've Had Enough of These Fockin' Sequels...
Filed under: Comedy, Universal, Remakes and Sequels
One for the "I knew it was coming, but I kinda wish it wasn't" department: Everyone get ready for a movie called Meet the Little Focker, which will be the third chapter in the densely-plotted and astoundingly brainy series that began with Meet the Parents and continued (miserably) with Meet the Fockers.According to an AP report, actress Teri Polo is the one who let the cat out of the bag ... and that's pretty much all we got for you, news-wise. Meet the Little Focker. Coming soon. Teri Polo said so. And it seems a safe bet that folks like Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman will be returning. All those actors have really expensive houses and cars and stuff, you know.
While you're awaiting the most heavily-anticipated baby-centric second sequel since Look Who's Talking Now, take a few minutes to contemplate this fact: Meet the Fockers grossed $280 million in North America alone. That figures out to about $140 million per laugh. But yeah, make another one. Absolutely. Maybe one day Universal can mount a trilogy about something even more domestically banal, like Next Door Neighbor or Squeaky Screen Door.
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1-31-2007 @ 9:49AM
Luke G. said...
Of all films that have made more than $250 million, "Meet the Fockers" is the most inexplicable to me. I can see why people would love some blockbusters, even if I don't; I simply don't get the appeal of this film, however.
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1-31-2007 @ 11:15AM
Gerard said...
I can see why MEET THE FOCKERS would have been such a huge hit...Streisand's first movie in umpteen years, but also combining her with Hoffman for extreme hilariousness made for a lot of "older folks" going to see the movie. When I went (and I saw it a few times with various people) there was always a line for the movie, with mainly senior citizens...that could be it...I understand that it now holds the record for most profitable comedy, live action of all time....
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