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Written by Jonathan Higbee |
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
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| Tags: sex and the city, third, franchise, film, sequel, rumor |
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Be sure to have your lunchtime margarita rimmed with huge grains of salt because we're a little skeptical of The Daily Mail's (via Gazia) report that plans for a third Sex and The City film have been shelved. But giving the dismal reception to the second installment, it kind of makes sense.
Carrie and Co are set to hang up their Manolos and finish off their cosmos for good as the Sex And The City juggernaught grinds to a halt. Following 12 years, 94 episodes and two blockbuster movies, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon are out of work. After the second Sex And The City movie received scathing reviews, Grazia reports that all plans for a third installment have been shelved. It had been pretty much a given that there would be a third installment of the smash hit to complete a big-screen trilogy – even the cast thought so. Sarah Jessica Parker recently said: ‘I hope Carrie will live on.’ And John Corbett said: ‘I think the girls are up for [another movie] and Michael Patrick King has lots of ideas.’ The second movie was mired in controversary with scenes set in Abu Dhabi being branded borderline racist. In addition the movie was universally panned by critics, Entertainment Weekly wrote a scathing review: ‘SATC 2 transformed four once mildly likeable characters into rancid, obliviously overentitled grotesques.’ The movie performed disappointingly at the box office, coming in third in the U.S on it’s opening weekend and taking in $37million compared to the first movie which raked in $57million.
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