March
28, 2003
OR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
STARS OF WARNER BROS. PICTURES' BLOCKBUSTER HIT SCOOBY-DOO RETURN
FOR SEQUEL, DUE IN THEATRES MARCH 26, 2004
Production Begins April 2003 on Scooby-Doo
Sequel
BURBANK, CA, March
28, 2003 - Zoinks! Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew
Lillard and Linda Cardellini, stars of last summer's live
action blockbuster comedy hit Scooby-Doo, will rejoin their canine
co-star in a new mystery adventure set for release on March 26, 2004,
it was announced today by Dan Fellman, President of Domestic
Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures.
Production begins April 14th on the highly anticipated sequel, which
also reunites the original cast with Scooby-Doo director Raja Gosnell,
screenwriter James Gunn and producers Charles Roven and
Richard Suckle of Mosaic Media Group.
In their new mystery adventure, Scooby and the gang confront an anonymous
masked villain who is plotting to take over the city of Coolsville by
wreaking mayhem with a monster machine that creates Mystery Inc.'s classic
foes like The Creeper, Captain Cutler and The 10,000 Volt Ghost.
Scooby-Doo, the first-ever live action adaptation of the beloved
animated television series, opened to $54.2 million nationwide in June
of 2002. The film has grossed more than $153 million domestically and
over $275 million worldwide to date.
The Scooby-Doo sequel will be distributed worldwide by Warner
Bros. Pictures, an AOL Time Warner Company.