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The following movies are sequels and spin-offs.

Announced:  The Italian Job 2

The Bourne Supremecy           July 23, 04
Matt Damon, Joan Allen, Franka Potente, Brian Cox,  Tomas Arana, Julia Stiles
 
When a Chinese vice-premier is offed in a most suspicious manner, investigators consider the possibility that legendary assassin Jason Bourne may still be alive. However, the US government knows the truth: there is no Jason Bourne. The name was used as a cover for American secret agent David Webb, who has since gone into retirement. Someone has taken the Bourne identity and used it to commit the assassination. Satisfied with not being involved in the case, Webb is pulled back into the game of spy versus spy when the woman he loves is suddenly torn from his life. Now, Webb reassumes the name Jason Bourne and uses his deadly talents to save the girl, take down a mysterious assassin and avoid detection in the high-stakes world of international espionage.

Princess Diaries 2          Aug 11, 04
Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Hector Eliziondo, Caroline Goodall, Heather Matarazzo, Sean O'Bryan
 
After getting over the revelation that she is a princess and part of the royal family of the small and obscure European nation of Genovia (with a population of just 50,000), American teenager Mia (Hathaway) moves to the actual country she represents, with her best friend, Lilly (Matarazzo) tagging along during summer vacation (note: they're both now high school graduates). As she learns the job of being a country's future ruler, one challenge she's faced with is the prospect of being set up in an arranged marriage...

The Ring 2                    Nov 10, 04
Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, David Dorfman, Sissy Spacek, Emily Vancamp
 
Following the events of the first movie (in which mysterious video tapes seemed to cause people who saw them to die seven days later), investigative reporter Rachel Keller (Watts) and her son Aidon (Dorfman) move away from the big city life of Seattle to the small town of Asheville, Oregon. Soon enough, however, Rachel discovers a case in which those pesky tapes seem to be up to their seven-days-later-you-will-die shenanigans, even as developments arise which threaten her relationship with her son. Returning to Seattle to investigate the case of Samara Morgan (the ghost girl from the first movie), Rachel begins to uncover secrets behind the entire phenomenon... (Baker plays a coworker at Rachel's newspaper; Van Camp plays a teenage girl whose boyfriend died after seeing one of the video tapes.)

Elektra               Feb 18, 05
Jenifer Garner, Goran Visnjic, Terence Stamp, Will Yun Lee, Lina Teal
 
Following the events of Daredevil, Elektra Natchios (Garner), sai enthusiast and assassin for hire, is revived by the Order of the Hand, a group of assassins who helped train her. Assigned by the Hand's current leader, Kirigi, to kill a man, Mark Miller (Visnjic), and his 13-year-old daughter, Abby, Elektra soon befriends them and decides to stand up to her ninja peers. Elektra is especially motivated to do so when she discovers that Miller's grandfather was an ally of her former mentor, Stick (Stamp). Together, they must take on Kirigi's lethal quartet.

Mission Impossible 3                    May 6, 05
Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Eileen Atkins, Scarlett Johansson, Carrie Anne- Moss
 
Uknown premise.

XXX2: State of the Union          May 13, 05
Ice Cube, Samuel L Jackson
 
The exact details of this sequel aren't yet known, except that it follows the adventures of another criminal (Ice Cube) who is coerced by NSA Agent Gibbons (Jackson) into becoming a super field agent under their new "XXX" program (which stands for "three strikes and you're out"). The one thing that is known is that the story will be at least partly set in Washington, D.C., involving high-level political intrigue and action (including rumors of something like him surfing down the capitol building's dome, etc.).
 

The Fast and the Furious 3                    Summer 05
Vin Diesel (in talks)
 
After being allowed to get away by his new undercover cop friend in the first movie, fast-driving criminal Dominic Torretto (Diesel) heads down to Mexico where he lives a life as a fugitive, always just 10 seconds ahead of the law. Eventually, however, Torretto makes his way to Tokyo, Japan, which is the world's current capitol of street racing, where he is recruited to help bail out a friend who is in trouble with a powerful group of Japanese gangsters.
CAST NOTE:  In the same way that the second movie followed Paul Walker's character after the events of the first movie, this third film will pick up on Vin Diesel's character from the same starting point (and so, likewise, Paul Walker's character won't be in this third movie)

James Bond 21
Pierce Brosnan, Judi Dench (in talks), John Cleese (in talks), Samantha Bond
 
There is currently no official word about what the premise of this movie might be. What is known, of course, is that this film will depict the further adventures of British secret agent James Bond (Brosnan), AKA 007, which will no doubt take him around the world at least once, engaging in elaborate action sequences in exotic locales, trying to foil someone's evil plans.

X3: X-Men 3 (not official title)                    May 5, 06
Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Shawn Ashmore, Daniel Cudmore, Alan Cumming, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romijn- Stamos, NOTE: all stars in talks, some could not return
 
There is not much known about this movie due to the time frame, with filming not due to start until early 2005. This movie will probably follow the continuing adventures of the superpowered group, the X-Men, led by Professor Xavier, and based at his school for gifted students, as they try to foster good will for mutants like themselves, in a world where some people are born with extraordinary powers, and many ordinary humans fear them for it. One likely subplot to be addressed in this movie is the status of Dr. Jean Grey, who experienced something strange in the second movie, for those who've seen it, you know what we're talking about. Another possible element that may be introduced in this third movie is the idea of the Sentinels, giant mutant-hunting robots constructed to capture and control the "mutant menace" forever.

Pirates of the Caribbean 2                  estimated summer of 06
Orlando Bloom, Johnny Depp, Keira Knightly, others TBA
 
The exact details of this film aren't yet known, but it's likely to depict the continuing adventure of Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp), and the young couple (Bloom, Knightley) who discovered they have piracy in their blood and hearts in the first movie. NOTE: This movie is aiming to start filming in Jan of 05, possibly being shot back to back with the third movie.

Spider-Man 3                    TBA 06/07
Tobey McGuire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco (in talks)
 
No details are currently known about this project, mostly because no screenwriter has been hired to work on it, even. The only thing that is known, therefore, is that this movie will undoubtedly continue to follow the adventures of Peter Parker, the Amazing (and Spectacular and Sensational) Spider-Man, a mild-mannered teenager who was endowed by a very special spider bite with an assortment of amazing powers, including strength, agility, a spider sense and the ability to create webs which he uses to swing through New York City, fighting bad guys. VILLIAN NOTE: Theirs a handful of villians that could possibly appear in the 3rd or even 4th movie in this franchise, we'll keep you updated.

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