To be honest with you, I don’t see how Disney wouldn’t make a sequel to “Race to Witch Mountain”, and according to one of the film’s stars, the original did leave room for more stories. Released earlier this year, the movie earned $67 million at the domestic box office, and went on to make $106 million worldwide. That sounds like a recipe for sequels to me. While doing the press junket for his animated sci-fi comedy “Planet 51″, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said as much.
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The Rock Hints at a Possible Race to Witch Mountain Sequel
Race to Witch Mountain (2009) Movie Review
Ever since “Star Wars” tried to reboot the franchise back in 1999, it seems every studio has embarked on a frantic sprint to update any viable properties that may be lanquishing in their film vaults. Forget developing any new ideas. Let’s drag a dusty old one out, brush off the cobwebs and make it all shiny and new. In the cases of the “Star Trek” and “Batman” films, it work spectacularly well due to the amazing talent of the creative team. “Witch Mountain” is bereft of anything positive behing the camera, and consequently the resulting production has all the artistic flair and entertainment quality of a Wal Mart restroom.
Sci-Fi at the Movies – 3/13/09 – Race to Witch Mountain
Let’s face it, science fiction movies don’t open every week at the box office. You’ll be lucky to get two in a month in some cases. So I thought I’d do a weekly “Sci-Fi at the Movies” column every Friday when there is a sci-fi or fantasy movie opening in the week. We’ll start out with the week of March 13, 2009, which sees only one sci-fi release, The Rock’s “Race to Witch Mountain”.
New Race to Witch Mountain Images
New images from The Rock starrer “Race to Witch Mountain”, which has a couple of alien kids trying to make it to the titular mountain before government spooks can stop them. Their goal is to stop an impending alien invasion, and apparently they have to reach the mountain to do that. Let’s help them, shall we? Alien invasions are so not cool.
Sci-Fi Superbowl XVLIII Movie Trailers: Transformers 2, Witch Mountain, Star Trek 11, Monsters vs. Aliens
Besides the game itself, the other notable aspect of Superbowl Sunday are the movie trailers. Every movie fan is dying to find out what the big studios will be putting out there to get the audiences jacked up, and since the price of the ads are so expensive, you expect the ads to be pretty good, right? Not so much in previous years, but maybe it’ll change this year. Here are some of the sci-fi movie trailers that made their way to Superbowl Sunday this year, including: “Race to Witch Mountain”, “Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen”, “Monsters vs. Aliens”, and “Star Trek 11″.
New Images from Race to Witch Mountain
Now that I know for sure “Race to Witch Mountain” is indeed a sci-fi movie (yes, a kiddie adventure sci-fi movie, but sci-fi nevertheless), here are three more images from the movie, which stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a cabbie who picks up two strange kids with powers being chased by shady men in black. The threesome get help from Carla Gugino, who plays some kind of TV host on a UFO show. Or something to that affect. Together, they have to “race” to the titular Witch Mountain before the Government can stop them. There’s a twist: the kids are actually trying to stop an impending alien invasion, but only if they can reach Witch Mountain!
Race to Witch Mountain Poster, Trailer
Go figure. I didn’t even know Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s latest movie, “Race to Witch Mountain” was even a sci-fi movie, which is why I never bothered covering it. (Sounds like a kiddie action movie to me when I first heard it. Well, it kinda is that, but then some.) Here’s the poster and trailer for the movie, about two kids who turn out to be aliens, and are being pursued by the authorities. They get him from The Rock when they jump into his taxi.
