Its not really official but this is the closest we are getting to an announcement so far. I rank it akin to saying “If it snows in Canada sometime in the next 10 months…” kind of deal.
At the Hollywood premiere of Iron Man, Viacom/CBS Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone and Paramount Pictures CEO Brad Grey told Entertainment Tonight that if the movie does as well as expected, Paramount will greenlight a sequel for the same week in 2010. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader already holds claim to the “first weekend of the summer” (May 7, 2010), but Iron Man 2 could easily open a week earlier on Friday, April 30th 2010 if all goes well.
Considering most analysts are predicting somewhere in the $102 million for Thursday through Sunday totals, I think they can count on this as a “success”
Of course their modest goals are to break $70million which I think it will do easily. I still haven’t heard anything negative about this yet and a good handful of people HAVE seen this.
Considering how this timing would put this movie at the end of April and not at the “first week of Summer” will this up the Summer timetable for other movies that year? With the potential success of a sequel banging it out a day or two early for the race for Summer money, how will this affect other movies slated for that summer?
