Feb 27 2008 'Step Up 3-D' Denotes Third Stepping Event, Third Dimension

A couple days ago, writing up the weekend box office report, I made a pretty weak joke that the success of Step Up 2 the Streets would spawn a third film in the series: Step Up 2 the Streets 2: The Str33ts. Reality has trumped me again:

Disney will proceed with a third installment of its hit dance franchise "Step Up," tentatively titled "Step Up 3-D."

Pic will become the latest 3-D live-action film from the Mouse House, with "Step Up 2 the Streets" director Jon Chu in talks to reprise.

Even if it's tentative, I'm pretty resentful they managed to come up with a stupider title than me. Mine is more absurd, but Step Up 3-D definitely wins in sheer, laughable triteness. I thought Step Up 2 the Street was stupid, but calling the third film in the saga "3-D" takes the cake. It's equivalent of adding an "-er" suffix to a title's adverb (Step Upper?), and just slightly less ridiculous than when someone says "[Whatever] 2: Electric Boogaloo". So I really hope they keep the title.

Disney planning 'Step Up 3-D' [Variety]

Feb 25 2008 'Vantage Point' Wins Weekend Box Office

1. Vantage Point - Promising eight strangers and eight distinct points of view, the thriller earned $24 million despite stealing the concept from Jenna Jameson Does 8 Strangers with Cameras.

2. Jumper - Teenage boys flock to theaters, paying $12.7 million in the hopes of that inevitable scene where someone teleports into a girl's locker room. Only later do they remember it's invisibility where you do that.

3. The Spiderwick Chronicles - A requisite $12.6 million to whatever children's fantasy placeholder is there this week.

4. Step Up 2 the Streets - After earning another $9.8 million this weekend, I can't wait for the sequel, Step Up 2 the Streets 2: The Str33ts.

5. Fool's Gold - $6.3 million, mostly repeat viewers who didn't quite get it the first time.

Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]

Feb 19 2008 'Jumper', Lincoln Win President's Day Weekend

1. Jumper - $31.7 million, making it the biggest opening ever for a Third Eye Blind video.

2. The Spiderwick Chronicles - A $24.5 million opening has filmmakers scrambling to put together Spiderwick 2, and to find a way to work Venom in.

3. Step Up 2 the Streets - The competitive dance trend makes a successful, terrifying leap from something lazily watched because it's on after something else to something you leave the house and actually pay for, making $21.5 million.

4. Fool's Gold - Another $15 million, finally covering the film's bronzer budget.

5. Definitely, Maybe - There's no 'maybes' that this $11.4 million opening showed America needed a lighthearted rom-com to get their minds off this war. Y'know what I mean, man?

4-Day Weekend Box Office [Box Office Mojo]

Jan 8 2008 AM Poster Post: 'Step Up 2 the Streets' Poster Discoveries

New, fascinating discoveries from the Step Up 2 the Streets poster:

- It's apparently called Step Up 2 the Streets. (I stupidly thought it was just called Step Up 2.) Now it's less like a pointless sequel, more like a pointless text message.

- How She Move is still a different movie, but barely.

- Step Up 2 the Streets takes place in a rain-drenched dance nebula.

- This is probably what it would look like if Blue Man Group directed a Doritos commercial.

- The most intense dance competition will likely involve you, your evil dance doppelgänger, and a parody of a Jaime Kennedy parody.

- One of the most popular dances competitions is Limbo vs. Creepy Groping.

- It's not where you're from.

- It's where you're at.

Step Up 2 the Streets Poste [IMPA]

Oct 22 2007 'Step Up 2' Trailer Explores Further Step Ups

Want to waste a few minutes of time? Come on, you're already here, right? So watch the above trailer to Step Up 2, then decide what element is most absurd. Your choices are:

1. That Step Up was so popular, or at least left so many unanswered questions about the nature of stepping up, that a sequel was not only imagined but, in fact, made.

2. That the original Step Up wasn't itself already a sequel to You Got Served.

3. That competitive dancing in general is popular enough to warrant filming outside of music videos that end in knife fights.

4. That the above image mocking the disabled is considered a dance.

5. The line, "You realize, with those competitions, you are risking everything," which implies that the losers of street dance competitions are apparently murdered.

6. The rest of the lines. Seriously, I didn't think this eye-rolling blend of flirting and "humor" could be accomplished outside of a Star Wars film.

7. Write in your own!

Trailer under the cut.

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