With the likes of “Toy Story 4” opening this week, you wouldn’t be crazy to have completely forgotten that this summer is also the season that will see yet another major animated sequel arrive in theaters. Except, the other sequel doesn’t have Oscar ambitions and generations of film fans anxiously awaiting it. Yes, we’re talking about Sony’s upcoming film “The Angry Birds Movie 2.”

If you’ve ever played the mobile game, you get the basic idea behind “The Angry Birds” franchise.

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Look, the first ‘Angry Birds Movie’ isn’t good, full stop. Sure, it made a ton of money at the box office and there’s no way that Sony was going to forget about that. So, here we are, a few years after the first film (and even longer past the time when the smartphone game that inspired the film was relevant) with the first trailer for the sequel. And sadly, it looks like the sequel isn’t going to sway your opinion on the franchise.

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Don’t lose your feathers all at once when I tell you that “The Angry Birds Movie” earned over $345 million at the box office. Not a bad start in the movie biz for mobile game maker Rovio, and obviously, they aren’t done yet.

The company announced in an earnings report that a sequel to “The Angry Birds Movie” is in the works.

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While everyone declared the return of the R-rated movie with the smash success of “Deadpool,” this weekend proved a bracing reminder why Hollywood is no rush that greenlight movies that don’t have four-quadrant appeal (particularly non-branded ones). Two more R-rated movies opened in wide release, and both underperformed, with a Marvel blockbuster and a family film based on a mobile game taking the lead at the box office.

While many scratched their heads and scoffed, Sony had the last laugh as “The Angry Birds Movie” flew into first place with $39 million domestic and a total of $150 million worldwide to date for the animated flick.

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If you’ve been paying attention to mainstream cinema in the last couple of decades, you’ll know that studios have become increasingly obsessed with brand names. It’s become so expensive to market a movie, the logic goes, that you’re better off making a movie with a title that people are familiar with than trying to sell them on something they haven’t previously heard of.

And while the producers of cataclysmic flops like “The A-Team,” “The Lone Ranger,” “Jack The Giant Slayer,” “The Man From U.N.C.L.E,” “Pan” or ‘Speed Racer” would perhaps warn them away, executives scrape the barrel further and further, not just making movies based on books or comics, but on video games, toys, or other increasingly thin, ludicrous material beyond that.

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Watch: It's Time To Rage In New Trailer For 'The Angry Birds Movie'

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Watch: New Trailers For 'Ice Age: Collision Course' & 'The Angry Birds Movie'

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Watch: New Trailers For 'Trolls' And 'The Angry Birds Movie'

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Watch: From Your Phone To The Big Screen, Here's The First Trailer For 'The Angry Birds Movie'

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The 'Angry Birds' Animated Movie Will Cost $185 Million Dollars

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Casting: Colin Firth & Kevin Hart Are 'Intouchables,' Quvenzhane Wallis Is ‘Counting By 7s’ And More

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