Hansel & Gretel:Witch Hunters wasn’t overly popular here, bringing in just $50 million on a $54 million budget. Overseas however, the film has fared quite well, just today crossing the $200 million box office mark worldwide.

 

As Deadline has learned, Paramount today officially confirmed that a sequel is in development. There’s no word yet on whether Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, or director Tommy Wirkola will return for the sequel, but I’d expect that there would have been a sequel agreement in their contracts.

 

What did you think of the first film? Are you excited for this news?

 

 Source: Deadline

After a new red band trailer earlier this week, Paramount has now treated us to two clips of the upcoming Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.

The film stars Jeremy Renner (The Avengers) and Gemma Arterton (Prince of Persia, Clash of the Titans) as the brother and sister duo. 15 years after their well documented incident, they’ve become reputable bounty hunters of certain “witchly” beings. It certainly sounds like an interesting twist of the classic tale, and from the footage released so far, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters looks as though it could almost (almost) be a spiritual successor to Terry Gilliam’s The Brothers Grimm.

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters hits theatres on January 25th. Will you be checking it out?

 

As far as red band trailers go (or really, trailers in general), Evil Dead may have won the week, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have room for another restricted romp, this time through old time Germany!

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters hits theatres in just a few weeks, and to show off just how ‘mature’ the film can be, Paramount has released a new red band trailer for the flick. Now, there’s nothing overly red band about this trailer aside from a bit of course language, so there’s no need to warn you like we did before yesterday’s gory, gruesome preview. Watch the new trailer below, and let us know what you think!

Fifteen years after they were nearly killed by a witch with a gingerbread house, Hansel and Gretel have become bounty hunters who hunt witches.

Check out a brand new Red-Band trailer for the upcoming Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D,  starring Jeremy Renner (The Avengers) and Gemma Arterton (Prince Of Persia).

Fifteen years after their traumatic gingerbread-house incident, siblings Hansel and Gretel have become a formidable team of bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world.

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D hits theaters January 25th, 2013.