Sequel protection

My thoughts on the next 'Quiet Place' movie, Sydney Sweeney, racial controversy on Broadway and more

—And I quote: “We are the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.”—Gore Vidal

—Sequel protection: A Quiet Place Part III? Why, John Krasinski?

Lupita Nyong'o and Djimon Hounsou in A Quiet Place: Day One. Photo by Gareth Gatrell/© 2023 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved

He plans to direct, write and produce the fourth film in the Paramount series that will be out in 2027. Since he’s not starring in it, I’m assuming his character is still dead.
But still—why does Krasinski continue to push his luck? And what will the plot be? The only thing those carnivorous aliens haven’t done is film their own movie.
However, it probably won’t be as bad at the TWO-PART Passion of the Christ sequel that Mel Gibson is releasing in 2027.

—It (doesn’t) end with us: Someone else who might want to consider letting things go is It Ends with Us director/co-star Justin Baldoni—but he won’t.

Now Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios as well as the company’s co-founder and billionaire buddy Steve Sarowitz are going after some of the biggest insurance companies in the world for denying them coverage to fight It Ends with Us co-lead Blake Lively in court. Moreover, with Baldoni’s own $400 million suit against Lively, Ryan Reynolds, the superstar couple’s publicist and the New York Times tossed out back in June, the Wayfarers themselves are already facing a lawsuit filed in federal court from Harco National Insurance Company.

Photo by Melinda Gimpel on Unsplash

I already see who the winners are in this legal morass: the attorneys.

—More than words: Why is it that when people say they’re speechless, they usually continue talking for at least five minutes?

—Face off: As we we hadn’t had enough of Kim Kardashian, the reality-TV mogul now has Skims Shapewear for your face.

Recently, Skims unveiled the seamless sculpt face wrap—a new addition to the clothing brand's shapewear line designed to offer jaw support and marketed as "infused with collagen yarn."