Good Read: "The Day The Movies Died"

Mark Harris, over at GQ.com's Entertianment page, has written a fascinating article about how 2011 is already set to be a year of endless sequels, with 2012 following closely in it's footsteps.  Where has all the creativity gone?  As Harris puts it: Hollywood has become an institution that is more interested in launching the next rubberized action figure than in making the next interesting movie.

Check out his article here.

Perhaps the most interesting (or horrifying) note is that Harris missed quite a few movies in his article.  In fact, the amount of sequels (and third and fourth and fifth and even beyond) will break the record for most in a single year.  For a compiled list of the uncreative mass of Hollywood flicks to be released in 2011, look below:

So in the end, the world will see 27 sequels total next year.  Nine second movies (that's up from eight in 2010), five third movies, five fourth movies, five fifth movies, two seventh movies and one eighth movie.

The Sequels: Cars 2, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules, The Hangover Part II, Harrpy Feet 2, Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil, Johnny English Reborn, Kung Fu Panda 2, Piranha 3DD, and Sherlock Holmes: The Book of Shadows.

The Thirds: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, Madea's Big Happy family, Paranormal Activity 3, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. 

The Fourths: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Scream 4: All the Time in the World and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part One.)

The Fifths: Fast Five, Final Destination 5, Puss in Boots, X-Men: First Class, and Winnie the Pooh. 

The Sevenths: The Muppets and Rise of the Apes. 

And Finally, the Eights: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two. 

This list doesn't include New Year's Eve (which is sort of a sequel) and The Thing (a prequel.)

*The List above is courtesy of SlashFilm.