Why Sandra Bullock Is Giving Up Her Ban on Movie Sequels

variety.com:

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterNearly ten years ago, Sandra Bullock pledged she would never again make a sequel to one of her many memorable movies.It was 2013, the year she and Melissa McCarthy released the buddy cop comedy “The Heat” — which grossed nearly $230 million at the worldwide box office.

While simultaneously making the awards rounds for “Gravity” that year, press relentlessly asked if she would return for a second film with McCarthy.“I’m not doing a sequel to ‘The Heat,'” she said at the time. “I’ve done two sequels.

They were horrible. What Melissa and I had was beautiful. We might do another film together. I think we should do a silent film together.”Film fans and social media users connected the dots, and guessed the two “horrible” sequels Bullock was referring to: the followup to her star-making film “Speed,” which grossed only a third of the original’s domestic box office; and the widely-panned “Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous” (though fans ride hard for the two-hander with Regina King).

On the ground at the SXSW Film Festival with her new film “The Lost City,” however, Bullock told Variety that she is ready to reconsider her position.“I had a ‘no sequel’ rule when I didn’t have the benefit of fighting for what I really wanted.