You win an Oscar, and the movie that comes after that is always going to be compared.
Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.
Luckily, with 'The Collector' the first time around, it really took off in the DVD world and foreign, so it was just a pleasant surprise that a couple of years later there we were, doing it again.
The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.
The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.
Believe me, sequels are just as hard to make as original films.
I would want a sequel to 'Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai.' But more than me, it's the audience who are looking forward to the same.
Depending on how 'Doctor Sleep' does, we'll see what movie opportunities there will be.
It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.
Everyone's asking if there will be a 'Frozen 2', but at the Studio there's actually been no talk about it!
You know, if the filmmakers were satisfied with the film they just made, they could jump right in and make another one, instead of lingering on the last one.
By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
People always ask us, 'Hey, is there going to be a 'Beerfest 2'?' I don't know if I have another beer joke in me.
