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; Afghanistanimation), and generally confused reviewers with its crude but deadpan tone.
And now, 16 years after its initial installment, that film arrives on multiplex screens April 20.
The feeling out there was, Hey, there are no fans out there anymore.
Its been a while since the movie was made.
That also showed the studio the fanswerestill out there.
They live on in dorm rooms.
They live on on cable.
Then the people go to social media and ask, Why isnt there another one of these?
Its not only affectingSuper Troopers 2.
We gotDumb and Dumber To20 years after the first one, anotherAnchormannine years after the first.
We also got anotherZoolander15 years later.
AndWet Hot American Summeron Netflix.
Theyre all cult hits.
In a word: China.
That over-performance was enough to launch a franchise, despite the first films lackluster American drawing power.
And in July, the sequelAnt-Man and the Waspwill attempt to recapture that audience.
According to him, no foreign territory has ever exerted so much influence on how Hollywood sequelizes movies.
Look atXXX: Return of Xander Cage.
The last one did very little business in the U.S.
It probably wasnt worth releasing theatrically here.
But it over-performed in China; the casting appealed to the Chinese.
I understand theres a new one being prepped with a Chinese partner.
The China component of any finance plan is increasingly taking a bigger and bigger and stronger point of view.
The first one was just us trying to make each other laugh and do what we thought was funny.
