Hotel Transylvania 2 (September 25th, 2015)
This sequel to Hotel Transylvania sees Count Dracula’s holiday establishment open to human guests, while his vampire daughter now has a human partner, named Johnny, and an infant son. Concerned about an apparent lack of vampiric tendencies in the child, Dracula sets about trying to train him. The premise sets the stage for plenty of familial tensions, laced with laughs, as generations of the Dracula clan inevitably face off against one another in protest at perceived interference.
This is the second children’s movie of the year from Adam Sandler and Kevin James, and also stars Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Steve Buscemi, David Spade, Keegan Michael Key and Mel Brooks. Unlike Pixels, however, Hotel Transylvania 2 will be largely trading on the audience goodwill generated by the first film, which was a runaway hit when it was released in 2012. Original director Genndy Tartakovsky returns to the helm for this sequel.