8MM 2 straight to video release
 

Obviously it must not have Cage in it, but I thought I'd at least post this:

http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a...h.tpl&sp-q=8mm

Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment has revealed early details on a straight to video sequel to 8MM, starring Nicolas Cage. The new film, cleverly titled 8MM 2, will be available to own from the the 22nd November this year, in seperate rated and unrated editions. Each should set you back around $24.96. I'm afraid we have no further details on this one at the moment, but we'll bring you the full spec rundown shortly. A repackaged Eight Millimeter will also be available to own from the 22nd November, priced at around $14.94, or thereabouts. We'll bring you further details on that one shortly too. Stay tuned.

Awesome title. They should have gone with 16 mm. 8mm 2 sounds like a model number.

wow...... After this long.

I highly doubt I'll buy 8mm 2 but am I the only one who liked the first one? It seems like 8mm has a bad reputation.

In the press release it states "starring Nicolas Cage" but there is no listing for it on IMDB (not that they're never wrong). My first thought was they should have called it 16mm, as well.

why why why why

Might be too much for most viewers. I liked it very much though. Will def. rent this first though...

They should have called it 70mm, and released it in IMAX.

Honestly.

7 years after it's release, poor reviews and mediocre box-office, none of the original stars or crew...was there really any point, at all?

Because instead of making same movie with a different name, it just screams DTV garbage. At least with 8MM2...people will think of the first movie, and maaaaybe give it a shot.

It has a bad reputation with me, at least, because I found it to be a very childish film. The depiction of a snuff film industry that is just a step away from your local porn shop or of S&M as a giant leap down the road to murder are silly anti-masculine fantasies. It's hard to redeem a film when it starts from such a trite, patronizing, and insulting hypothesis.

Andrew Kevin Walker walked away from the film (no pun intended), and I'd love to know if his original ideas were any better. As it stands, I'd much rather watch Schader's Hardcore, which rings much more true and doesn't insult the audience (although perhaps it loses some points for the ending).

DJ

i saw an ad for single white female 2 the other day

The sequel stars Johnathon Schaech and Bruce Davison.

8MM 2
Single White Female 2
Road House 2
Like Mike 2
The Last Seduction 2
Cruel Intentions 3
The Skulls 3
Species 3
Mimic 3
Iron Eagle 4
The Prophecy 4 and 5
Police Academy 7
Hellraiser 8

If there's a market for A LOT of straight-to-video sequels of Van Damme movies, I guess there's a market for this too. When are Dolph Lundgren and Brian Bosworth gonna team up for Se7en 2?

Se7en 2? Would that be 9, 14 or 49?

Sony continues the trend of making sequels no one wanted to movies that weren't popular in the first place: Baby Geniuses 2, 8mm 2, Anacondas, Hollow Man 2, Cruel Intentions 2 and 3, Urban Legend: Bloody Mary, and the list goes on and on...

It seems like they are the worst studio for useless sequels, and now they have the MGM library to toy around with.

I agree that the film wasn't that great. But I disagree that the film made it easy to obtain snuff film. That was pretty much the entire plot of the film.

All you have to do is go down to your local adult bookshop, find the punk-looking kid behind the counter, and you've got the hookup for the wide world of snuff. That's all 8mm says it takes. The difficulty that Cage's character goes through is getting deeper into this mythical world, figuring out how things work, and putting real names with faces. But finding snuff films? Piece o' cake. In fact, it's probably fairly inevitable if you contaminate yourself with porn, anyway. At least, that's what 8mm tells me.

DJ

Well, great. Now I just need The Babysitter 2, Coyote Ugly 2 and Cruising 2 and I can actually live in hell full time.

My favorite dumbass DTV sequel title (sequel to a DTV title, at that) is:

Trois 2: Pandora's Box

What kind of idiot named a movie that? I guarantee you that it never even occurred to the bozo that "trois" means "3".

I dunno about that one...because something happens in a movie, they're telling you that life is really like that? If so, the producers of Pretty Woman owe me a lot of money that I blew on hookers trying to find the clean hot one with a heart of gold.

Also, love 8mm, wouldn't touch 8mm2.

This movie can only be good if it's an actual snuff film.

Well, no one really thinks Pretty Woman is a realistic film, in my experience, as it is played as a fairy tale in modern trapping. 8mm, however, is praised many times by viewers (e.g., in IMDb user reviews) for its realism. Given that 8mm hardly has a fairy tale style or allegorical plot, I think it is intentionally portrayed as representative of reality, the only knowing cheats being the typical trappings of heroic detective/action plots. The fact that the myth of the snuff film industry survives in popular culture despite any evidence of its existence says to me that, if the filmmakers of 8mm didn't intend it to be realistic in that way, they were at least irresponsible.

DJ

WTF? I guess Nic Cage REALLY needed the money then!

I'm not so sure about Sony on that one. Miramax seems to be subscribing to the idea that we consistantly want more sequels from the Hellraiser, Prophecy and Crow films (respectively up to #8,5 and 4). Hell, they even give us two sequels from the same film in less than a year.