One of the announcements that slipped through at the end of last week that we're, er, just getting around to bringing you now is Warner Bros' decision to greenlight a fifth Final Destination movie.

This is in the light of the fact that the fourth film, The Final Destination, brought in a sizeable amount of box office, in spite of being really quite shit. And that's from someone who really liked the first two movies. Nonetheless, Warner Bros chief Alan Horn said that the studio is making a new film "because we can't resist".

Well you should resist, Alan. The first two films were an absolute hoot, and the third at least there's an argument for it being a decent midnight-with-a-beer movie. The fourth? It was gimmick-filled (most notably the 3D, but we've not forgotten the crappy X-rays), but most importantly, it seemed to lose the tongue in cheek sense of fun that got us this far. Considering it was directed by David R Ellis, who made the second and best film in the franchise, it was something of a disappointment.

ShockTillYouDrop has been speaking to franchise producer Craig Perry about Final Destination 5 anyway, and at least he hints that the last film was hardly any fun.

He said, "If we find the right storyline - and we're working on it - then we'll take the lessons we learned from The Final Destination and make the necessary improvements to deliver what audiences expect from this franchise, going back to the original. What I know for sure is that it will be in 3D and deliver inventive, suspenseful, fun kills. That I can promise!"

Hmmm. We'll wait and see. Expect the film in 2011 or 2012 is our guess.

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