Good sweet gracious! It appears that the American Pie franchise may come back from the direct to DVD dead to live anew in theaters. We get the following word on the matter thanks to the moviehole via movieweb:
It seems that the franchise that made us look at pie in interesting ways is coming back for another helping. According to Moviehole, it seems that Universal is scrapping its lucrative straight-to-DVD American Pie spinoff’s and moving forward with a fourth theatrical feature film.
It was also said that this fourth film might catch up with Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan’s Jim and Michelle, who were married in the last theatrical outing, American Wedding.
I’m not big on the American Pie films. I appreciate them for having their own take on the teenage hi-jinx film, but I never found them to be all that funny.
It’s strange for a series to return from Direct To DVD to the big screen… I wonder if this is the first time this sort of thing has happened. It will interesting to see how successful another theatre run will be. I am going to guess that they have tied down a few of the original cast members, otherwise I don’t think they would have bothered.
We will fill you in on further updates as the news is made available to us.
Damn that sucks. The first one was enough and it wasn’t that great, now they gotta make like 10 sequels to that crap. They probably got Jason Biggs and Alyson back or how the hell could they get a theatrical release again.
It became a freakin’ nasty habit nowadays to make sequels to anything and everything that happens to render a significant success that may compensate them with a significant amount at the Box office.
I love the American Pie series, the ones with the original characters I mean. Stiffler is classic, and Jason Biggs makes everyone watching him feel uncomfortable. Also, they show Boobies in all of them!
The first one was kind of funny when i was in high school. After that it is right about Dougs opinion on “The Spartans.” NOT FUNNY. They are all mindless dick jokes.
this just seems like the Land Before Time series…please stop now…it’s just painful, it’s not funny, it’s annoying, and please stop before it hits 7..or is it 8…whatever…just stop!
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER went from a theatrical release for the first film, then at least two straight-to-DVD sequels, before they returned for a theatrical sequel, so no, this isn’t the first time that this has happened.
I’ve loved all the American Pie movies, except for Beta House, so this is awesome news for me. If they can get some original cast members back as well, that’d be even better.