Posted by: kjpaloucek
Dear God, when will it stop?
In case you haven’t already picked this up from a dozen other sources, the sequel to the Sex and the City movie from last year is a go. They inked the deal yesterday, a source disclosed to E! Online. So far there’s no script, but Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis are allegedly all on board, and shooting is supposedly scheduled to start this summer and the film ostensibly will see release in summer 2010.
It’s not exactly a surprising move. The last film, which clocked in at a weighty 2 1/2 hours, roughly, raked in a staggering $57 million in opening-weekend ticket sales, eventually grossing nearly $153 million nationwide. But this isn’t the same world in which the series long ago debuted and flourished. Its loyal following is intact, to be sure, but the circumstances in which those people live has changed dramatically since the last film left theaters. The glitzy, spendy lifestyle endorsed by the Sex and the City brand, with its obsession for Manolo Blahniks and other designer labels, has come under fire. Recent months have seen numerous stories in the media declaring that the luxury goods and services sector is at an ebb period, and that clientele are taking pains to hide their shopping habits as opposed to flaunting them.
Conventional wisdom says that we shouldn’t expect to see anything positive in terms of genuine economic recovery until mid 2010. The folks producing this Sex and the City sequel should plan their release date accordingly.
I agree. Do we really need this? For one, these ladies aren’t the 30something-year old single in the city characters that we loved. The working title for this second film must be ‘Grandma and the City.’ I thought one movie was overkill – the series wrapped everything up so nicely. Frankly, I’m over it.