Seems Martin Lawrence must have reminded his agent that he had a job, because just yesterday we heard that Bad Boys 3 has been greenlit reuniting Lawrence with Will Smith for another chapter, and now we hear that Big Mommas House will be getting a third installment too!
Latino Review gives us the skinny:
The original Big Momma’s House made $173 million off a $30 million dollar budget. In other words, though they may be blasphemous words, it did District 9 business. Of course something like that can be sequelized. Big Momma’s House 2 was made for $40 million and grossed $138 million. Pretty good, but not the landslide that would make Fox clamour for a sequel.
Uh, I don’t know what he is smoking but even after the meager advert campaign promoting Big Momma’s House 2, $100million profit is still pretty decent.
That they suspect this senseless comedy of inappropriate sight gags and Jerry Springer guest social cliches might make them some more money is not a stretch. Apparently people (who also think fart jokes are comedy gold) want to see this and they are more than willing to offer up a wee budget for an expected healthy return.
