Some actors like to take their time before coming back to a film series. Others are happy to ride the success train and add a new entry to their franchises before the heat dies down. We've calculated the shortest gap between movie sequels based on general release dates in the same country.
13th: Scary Movie 2, 362 days
Scary Movie (July 7, 2000)
Scary Movie 2 (July 4, 2001)
Horror comedy Scary Movie wasn't about to squander its hit status ($278 million worldwide from a $19 million budget!), pushing out a sequel that hit US cinemas in less than a year.
12th: Scream 2, 357 days
Scream (December 20, 1996)
Scream 2 (December 12, 1997)
It seems Scary Movie didn't just borrow its ghost-faced killer from the Scream franchise, it also emulated the time it took to get a follow-up film into cinemas. Scream 3 wouldn't happen quite so quickly.
11th: Halloween III, 357 days
Halloween II (October 30, 1981)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (October 22, 1982)
It's probably because the totally bonkers Halloween III was a complete departure from the first two movies, in a failed attempt to turn the franchise into an anthology series, that it was able to hit screens so quickly following the second film.
10th: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 321 days
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (July 6, 2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (May 23, 2007)
South Korea got the drop on this Disney franchise and had the record for the least amount of days between viewings, as the pirate saga's initial trilogy came to its conclusion. It'd take four years (and someone driving a truck full of money to Depp's house) to land a fourth film.
9th: Child's Play 3, 294 days
Child's Play 2 (November 9, 1990)
Child's Play 3 (August 30, 1991)
"Hi, I'm Chucky and I'm your friend till the end," says the creepy doll possessed with the soul of a killer, although it could easily have added: "And I won't make you wait very long between sequels".
8th: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 2, 237 days
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (November 17, 2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (July 12, 2011)
Kuwaiti fans got their Hogwarts fix the quickest as the Potter franchise pitted its boy wizard against He Who Shall Not... oh sod it, Voldemort. Admittedly the two films were shot as one and arbitrarily split down the middle for "artistic" not commercial reasons (heaven forfend!).
7th: Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo: 231 days
Breakdance (aka Breakin') (May 4, 1984)
Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo (December 21, 1984)
No-one should have to wait for such an epically-named sequel! And they didn't, as the producers got the second film into cinemas before the year had even come to an end.
6th: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, 224 days
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (November 18, 2009)
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (June 30, 2010)
The emo must be strong in Belgium, where this vampire/werewolf saga saw the shortest gap between general release dates. Even the planned two-part finale Breaking Dawn couldn't manage less than a year between its episodes.
5th: The Girl Who Played With Fire, 203 days
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (February 27, 2009)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (September 18, 2009)
We're talking the Swedish-language adaptation of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, starring Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace, not the Daniel Craig/Rooney Mara version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which has yet to even deliver a sequel. Slowcoaches.
4th: Kill Bill vol 2, 189 days
Kill Bill: Vol 1 (October 10, 2003)
Kill Bill: Vol 2 (April 16, 2004)
Is it a spoiler film title? Fans of Tarantino's sword-fest didn't have to wait long to find out, as the second half hit cinemas six months later.
3rd: Back To The Future III, 184 days
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Back To The Future Part II (November 22, 1989)
Back To The Future Part III (May 25, 1990)
We're pretty sure someone at Amblin Entertainment jumped into a DeLorean and popped back to 1990 to ensure this final film arrived as quickly as it did. Nah, they shot them back-to-back, a rarity at the time.
2nd: The Matrix Revolutions, 174 days
The Matrix Reloaded (May 15, 2003)
Matrix Revolutions (November 5, 2003)
Given how poorly these sequels were received in comparison to the excellent 1999 film, it's probably for the best that the Wachowskis didn't hang around releasing them.
1st: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest, 72 days
The Girl Who Played with Fire (September 18, 2009 in Denmark)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (November 27, 2009 in Denmark)
If you thought the first two parts of this trilogy were sprinting with just 203 days between releases, that's nothing compared to the final episode. Bonus points for getting all three movies out in the same year!
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