Last December, Yogi Bear opened to just $16.7 million, a disappointing total for a family film during the holiday season. However, the CGI/live-action hybrid showed surprising legs, ending up with $100 million domestic and $200 million worldwide. According to Variety, Warner Bros. is encouraged enough to move forward on development for the sequel. The studio hired writing team Joshua Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimilia to script the project. Sternin and Ventimilia are two of the three screenwriters credited on the screenplay of the first movie (sorry, Brad Copeland) — the duo recently wrote for the more critic-friendly Rio and are currently working on Peabody and Sherman for DreamWorks Animation.
Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake voiced Yogi and Boo-Boo, respectively. Anna Faris, Tom Cavanaugh, Andrew Daly, and T.J. Miller starred in the live-action roles — the report does not specify if there are any plans to bring them back for Yogi Bear 2.
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Wow, Warner Bros. is really stinking it up as of late, aren’t they? Without Christopher Nolan, what do they really have?
Their “Akira” nonsense is a joke. They couldn’t even do Wonder Woman right. And now they’re going to make a sequel to a failure of a movie that few people wanted to see?
How could they possibly make a sequel? I seem to remember the first one ending with Boo-boo claiming a bounty on Yogi’s head…or at least thats how it shouldve ended…for good
this would have been a perfect post for Matt “The King OF Blog Posts” Goldberg DAMNIT!
Good god. Times must be hard.
Hopefully Chris Nolan won’t leave Warner Bros. or their screwed.
At least they are hiring writers this time.
WHY
There is no god
even my kids thought it was shit and they watch anything
Were writers hired for the first one?