{"id":4997,"date":"2009-08-11T00:15:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T05:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=4997"},"modified":"2018-11-18T23:28:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T04:28:44","slug":"gi-joe-sequel-planning-to-begin-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/11\/gi-joe-sequel-planning-to-begin-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"GI JOE Sequel Planning To Begin Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/GIJoe1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5000\" title=\"GIJoe1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/GIJoe1-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"GIJoe1\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>In Hollywood, it is not how good or bad your movie actually is, it is how much it manages to take in at the box office. Case in point- <strong>G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra<\/strong>. The movie didn&#8217;t receive to many enthusiastic reviews, it currently has a 40% rating at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/gi_joe_the_rise_of_cobra\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>. But it still managed to pull in approximately $100 million at the worldwide box office this past weekend. And that good a weekend can only mean one thing in Hollywood- How soon can work start on a sequel?<\/p>\n<p>In the case of <strong>G.I. Joe<\/strong>, the answer is soon, according to Paramount Studios vice-chairman Rob Moore in an <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/entertainmentnewsbuzz\/2009\/08\/gi-joe-opens-to-100-million-worldwide-but-will-it-hold.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>LA Times<\/em><\/a> article on this past weekend&#8217;s box office results. Moore also confirmed that while the lead actors are signed under option to return for a second film, while director Steven Sommers is not.<\/p>\n<p>While I actually liked the final film a bit more than I liked the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/10\/script-review-gi-joe\/\" target=\"_blank\">screenplay<\/a>, I still felt that the movie wasted a lot of potential and seemed a little too self-conscious that it was the first film in a potential franchise. Rather than telling a good story on its own, it was more concerned with setting things up for future installments. Hopefully, Paramount will take a good, honest look at the film and its problems and make a concerted effort to improve the things that need improving. But then again, this is Hollywood, where some splashy CG action sequences will always trump a bad script, cheesy production design and hamfisted direction, so I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if we wind up just getting more of the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">In Hollywood, it is not how good or bad your movie actually is, it is how much it manages to take in at the box office. Case in point- G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/11\/gi-joe-sequel-planning-to-begin-soon\/\" title=\"GI JOE Sequel Planning To Begin Soon\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1180,434,22,24,521],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-box-office","9":"tag-gi-joe","10":"tag-in-development","11":"tag-sequel","12":"tag-stephen-sommers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4997"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=4997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}