I think the only trend here is Disney trying to make money.

Your basic premise is flawed. Tron: Legacy is not going to do well... at least, not that well. Without the 3D the film is weak, the script is very weak even in 3D, and the mouth on Clu is ugly. The second showing of the film had only 150 tickets presold at the local Imax, when Avatar was sold out for every show for more than six weeks. Word of mouth will be to avoid the 2D version and even fanboys will not see it repeatedly, because the plot is terrible and the action scenes are shorter in time than the first one.

Tron will have zero effect on whether or not anyone makes a new Blade Runner film.

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Numbers are in. With an exceedingly weak Yogi Bear coming in second this weekend at $16.7 million, Warner Bros. hopes children will still go to it over Christmas and New Year's weekends, but it will be dead by the time school returns. Expect a quick release on DVD and Blu-ray. So Tron: Legacy topped this weekend at $43.6 million. Impressive? No. Avatar opened at more than $77 million and stayed sold out for six weeks. Tron should be out of theaters before mid January.

Why are you making comparison between Tron Legacy and Avatar? And i agree that Warner won't be 100% influenced. But it's a good indicator of what sort of market there is for a Blade Runner sequel.

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Personally, I think a Blade Runner remake/reimagining would happen before a sequel.

I recommend Chris Pine to play Deckard then.

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Quoting Daruma:

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Numbers are in. With an exceedingly weak Yogi Bear coming in second this weekend at $16.7 million, Warner Bros. hopes children will still go to it over Christmas and New Year's weekends, but it will be dead by the time school returns. Expect a quick release on DVD and Blu-ray. So Tron: Legacy topped this weekend at $43.6 million. Impressive? No. Avatar opened at more than $77 million and stayed sold out for six weeks. Tron should be out of theaters before mid January.

Why are you making comparison between Tron Legacy and Avatar? And i agree that Warner won't be 100% influenced. But it's a good indicator of what sort of market there is for a Blade Runner sequel.

The indication would be that any Blade Runner sequel would never earn profit and would be stupid to contemplate... sure, why not spend $300 million on a film which will never reach $150 million in revenues... why not throw more than $150 million dollars away on a total loss. You must have WB and Meg Whitman confused.

I saw it with a very good friend (Hi there Cliff - count to 10!) in IMAX 3D and I loved the Black Hole reference (The Director I believe is slated to shoot a new version of that film soon)

I thought it was a fair movie, the ageing process was not as good as I hoped, and sometimes the plot did drag.

Oh, and the hair modelling credit did get a slight chuckle (As in the Clu hair piece should win an award for artistic impressionism alone)

Overall, not a bad movie - and one that fans will enjoy.

But a great movie? No - It will however go on to inspire a future generation of artists (as did the original, just ask Pixar and even Daft Punk [Who I loved with the score, but then I am a Daft fan anyway!)