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Clash of the Titans 2: Kraken Boogaloo Gets a New Director

By William Goss | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (15)

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With a reported budget of $125 million, it wouldn’t seem like this spring’s Clash of the Titans remake did all that well, what with a domestic gross of $163 million. But leave it to Not America to earn it another $328 million, a take that not only guarantees that the film broke even, but also guarantees the world a sequel - like it or not.

Audiences may or may not be back for more (with the script still in the works, it’s a little hard to say), but I can tell you who won’t be back: Titans director Louis Leterrier. And for Warner Brothers, that’s just fine, because according to Variety, Jonathan Liebesman has taken the reins on this bad boy.

If I had to guess, his work on next spring’s effects-heavy alien invasion flick, Battle: Los Angeles, impressed the right suits and earned him the gig. (After all, it sure as shit wasn’t Darkness Falls or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.) Even better yet, the sequel will shot in 3D instead of lazily, sloppily, poorly converted after the fact (see: Titans, Clash of the (2010)).









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Comments

If America makes the shitty movies, then why blame the rest of the world for watching them?

LAME!

Posted by: magiel at August 31, 2010 9:26 AM

Because America didn't make the rest of the world pay to watch our shitty movies. They did that of their own accord.

Posted by: William Goss at August 31, 2010 9:26 AM

But then most of the rest of the world only gets the stuff that's really popular in America.

You cannot escape responsibility for evil!

Posted by: figgy at August 31, 2010 9:30 AM

I dont mean you MADE us, what annoys me is the argument that it is suddenly Not America's fault that a shitty movie earns money.

But then again, I can't stay mad at Pajiba.
I love you to much

Posted by: magiel at August 31, 2010 9:31 AM

You fuckers! The "Release the Kraken" jokes had stopped.

Posted by: logan at August 31, 2010 10:00 AM

Here in Not America life is fairly blissful. We have health insurance. Our schools and universities are safe and practically free. We have public transportation on which little children respectfully offer up their seats to the elderly. Turn of the century cinemas offer charming French and Italian, brutal British, pensive Scandinavian and authentically depresseing Austrian films.
Any yet. And yet.
US distributors insist on importing only the most abysmal in high-budget Hollywood fare. Whither American independent film? Whence cutting-edge artistic documentary?
So suck it up, America.
If you persist in torturing us with the likes of Bruckheimer and Co, we will punish you by making you eat it. Twice.
Revenge is a dish best served cold, regurgitaded and lapped up again by others.

Posted by: cinekat at August 31, 2010 10:18 AM

I stand by my tepid support of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. It wasn't nearly as awful as the remake or the original sequel.

I will say I thought the direction was the least of the problems the Clash of the Titans remake had. Ditching him for another unknown genre director is kind of pointless. The man made a 2-D film and then was told "make it 3-D." If it was planned as 3-D, it stood a chance (see: Piranha 3D, the only good post-converted 3D movie). It wasn't.

Posted by: Robert at August 31, 2010 10:26 AM

Couldn't have said it better, Cinekat.

I wasn't planning to do that torture again, but now I see my obligation, and I will have to go twice to the re-release of Avatar.

Ow yeah, you forgot the fluffy Dutch movies with the obligatory nude.

Posted by: magiel at August 31, 2010 10:27 AM

/takes a dip of chaw

Well, here in a Amurrica we got ourselves the greatest nation in the world! This is the best damn country in the history of makind you stoopid Euro-peeing liberah!

/waves "Don't Tread on Me" flag

Here in Amurrica, we got all those freedoms they don't got in the rest of the world. Freedom to buy ma'self big guns, big trucks, and freedom to protest the guv'ment when thar taking my tax money to build mosques and giving money to the Al Qaida! Restore Honor!

/rubs beer gut and stares down Mexican

I say, here in Amurrica we don't need yer "artfaghouse" movies. I go to the local movie thee-ater to get my fix of 'splosions and over-exploited young girls with plenty of digital enhancements! You don't like Bruckheimer? FUCK OFF! You don't like Michael Bay? HE IS THE SPIELBERG OF THE NOW!

/spits, hands teenage son another beer

In-dee-pendent film? What in tarnation is that? A bunch of cowboys eating pudding? Woo, y'all know how to make movies in black and white and put sad moozik over em. La-dee-da! I don't go to the movies to think, I go to be entertained! I get ma thinkin done while our savior Glenn Beck is preachin to OUR PEOPLE over the AM/FM radio while I'm on the can, pushing out another load of sweet freedom!

/snaps into a Slim Jim

This is all part of yer Zionist liberah conspiracy no-good sissy-pansy bullshit! This country was founded by George Washingtun when he up and planted an Amurrican flag in the chest of those who dont be-lieve in a nation founded under the teachings of Sweet Baby Jesus! It's like my third wife used to pray; "Thank you Lord for founding this great nation, and may you protect it from the evils of the invaders and jealous know-nothings that think they know what Amurrica is all about!". Too bad she couldn't keep her mouth shut while I'm watching Tony chasing the Cup or I might've kept that one a little longer!

/pulls hat off, holds over heart

I solemnly swear to uphold the values of this here nation;

To not bow down to anyone tryin to take the money I earn with hard Christian work.
To not let these damn pillow-bitin peeter-puffers destroy the laws our Lord gave to us through the word of Sweet Baby Jesus.
To keep those damn darkie dem-o-crats on the run, get back to the good times when men like George Wallace and Pat Robertson were respected! I MISS YOU DUBYA!

Amen, brother!

Posted by: Real Amurrican Hero at August 31, 2010 11:50 AM

cinekat, you might be a little forgiving of Not America. Last I checked, there's a whole lot of Not America that is not anywhere close to your Not America. A lot of the Middle East (pretty much all of it) is Not America and yet doesn't sound much like the Not America you describe. Mexico is Not America and definitely is not your Not America.

Look, I know we gots problems y'all, but there is a lot of good going on in America that Not America is jealous of. To begin with, we don't pay nearly half our salaries in taxes (I'm looking at you Not America, well, some of you). We in America can go to the grocery store and get ANYTHING. Many of us live in houses with yards (take that Not America!!!). We have Jamba Juice. And yes, we have guns, which by the way Not America, are fun as hell to shoot when you are a law-abiding citizen and done legally. I hear some of those guns are even made in (gasp!) Not America.

Now, yes Hollywood makes some shitty films, but that doesn't mean you have to go see them. I certainly didn't, and I won't see its sequel. But some of you Not Americans will, not because you care if its good or not, but because deep down in your hearts, you still love everything American. ;-)

Posted by: EJ at August 31, 2010 12:20 PM

Except that Not America has released recent movies like In the Loop, Thirst, Red Cliff and other fare that was intelligent and exciting and fun.

So don't tell me Not America is starving for entertainment and desperate for America's junk to come into their screens.

Keep your Clash remakes. I'll stay with the original.

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