When Seth MacFarlane's Ted became the highest-grossing R-rated comedy of all time, it was little surprise that a sequel was soon announced, even if it didn't really seem like a story that could open up much with another go-around. Little is known about the plot other than that Lori (Mila Kunis) has a limited role, and Amanda Seyfried will play the new female lead and presumed love interest for John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg). How will Lori be written out? Given how shaky this already sounds, MacFarlane might do well to opt for a meta-joke to write her out in an outrageous way: he could probably pull that off. Still, the attraction of the first movie wasn't really the love story, but the bromance between John and Ted (MacFarlane), so as long as that continues albeit in a fresh and funny way, then Ted 2 might be a comedy sequel that actually works. One thing's for sure: it's going to make a ton of money. Predicted Rotten Tomatoes Score: 57%
18. Terminator: Genesis (July 1)
To most hardcore Terminator fans, they just like to pretend that the series ended with Terminator 2, and the other two movies are just easily-dismissed fan fiction. Still, a fifth film, Terminator: Genesis, is currently filming, with the sorely-missed Arnold Schwarzenegger (who was absent from the fourth film aside from a CGI cameo) returning to the role that made him famous, with his aged look being carefully explained away as a more complex model of robot whose skin and hair ages as any human does. Though expectations are suitably low, it certainly has a solid cast and crew: Game of Thrones and Thor: The Dark World director Alan Taylor takes the helm, while Emilia Clarke plays Sarah Connor and Jason Clarke is John Connor, while Matt Smith, Lee Byung-hun and J.K Simmons take supporting roles. There's one major red flag, and that's the casting of Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese: the guy has been nothing but a charisma-free block of wood in the likes of A Good Day to Die Hard and I, Frankenstein, so we won't expect much more from him here. The fact that it's co-written by Patrick Lussier, who wrote Drive Angry, is also a bit worrying, but rumours suggest that the time-leaping plot will revisit scenes from the first two Terminator movies, which could milk our nostalgia for all it's worth. Still, we won't be expecting another classic, but we can't wait to see Arnie back in the saddle once again. Predicted Rotten Tomatoes Score: 39%
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