ICarly: The Sequel

iCarly: The Sequel is a 2012 film adaptation, the sequel to the the 2010 film, iCarly: The Movie which is based on the Nickelodeon TV series with the same name. Nico Tortorella, Kristen Stewart and Chris Brown will guess star in the film as new charcters and special guests. With production taking place from July to December 2011, it is scheduled for a theatrical release worldwide on July 27, 2012. It will be the first live-action film from Nickelodeon Movies to serve a sequel (not including animated films such as Rugrats serving two sequels).

Plot
Carly, Sam and Freddie are being attacked by fans again due to too much success of iCarly. Spencer Shay decides to take Carly, Sam, Freddie and Gibby on vacation on a cruise where Carly and Spencer. Meanwhile, Carly realizes that since they were on vacation to Las Vegas from the previous film, her friends are going forget about iCarly again.

Cast

 * Miranda Cosgrove as Carly Shay
 * Jennette McCurdy as Sam Puckett
 * Nathan Kress as Freddie Benson
 * Jerry Trainor as Spencer Shay
 * Noah Munck as Gibby Gibson
 * Nico Tortorella as Dustin Bateman
 * Kristen Stewart as Cassie Parker
 * Chris Brown as Himself

Development
In August 2010, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies revealed that a sequel is in the works after iCarly: The Movie's box office success. Although, Nickelodeon Movies confirmed in September 2010 that the film will not be released in theaters but will be released on television instead. It was originally going to be a television film unlike iCarly: The Movie, but with the success of iCarly: The Movie grossing $405 million worldwide, they changed their minds and decide to release the film theatrically in theaters. The sequel is to be titled iCarly: The Sequel where it means that this is the second installment after the first one instead of iCarly 2 to avoid confusion against video game with the same title. On August 23, 2010, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies confirmed the film's July 27, 2012 release date, two years after the previous film. Miranda Cosgrove paid $200,000 to play as the role as Carly Shay for the film.

Filming
Currently, the film is in pre-production beginning on November 2010. Principal photography began on July 20, 2011. It is reported that scenes of the sequel will be taking place on the MS Majesty of the Seas to film the scene where Carly and friends goes on vacation. Cosgrove and Tortorella will be filming a couple of kissing scenes in the film where they are on vacation. And also, there will be a scene where Carly and her friends were arrested unlike Sam who got arrested from the previous film who violatetly attacks at the Casino all by herself. This film is luckly to be set during or after the fifth season of the TV series which begins production in 2012.

Nathan Kress revealed that the film will be similar than the first film including a similar story of Sam being arrested. Filming will begin in July beginning with the scene where there is a flashback scene where Carly and her friends first met. It will set two years after the events of iCarly: The Movie. On August 11, 2011, it was reported that Miranda Cosgrove was involved in a tour bus accident and breaks her ankle. It was reported thet resuming filming for the film will postpone till towards the end of next month until Cosgrove's ankle heals. The film will not be canceled, and the release date of July 27, 2012 will still happen. It was said that filming will wrap up in December 2011. According to Jennette McCurdy, the film has wrapped up filming on December 25, 2011 in Los Angeles. As Cosgrove's ankle heals, filming for iCarly: The Sequel continued on November 4, 2011. Filming after season 4 and before season 5, Nickelodeon confirmed that the current season of iCarly will be the last season and the series finale is due to be released in November 2012. So the film will be released during its current season.

Casting
Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy, Nathan Kress and Jerry Trainor will reprise their roles as Carly Shay, Sam Puckett, Freddie Benson and Spencer Shay, respectivetly. Noah Munck, who is became a supporting character from season 1-3, will appear in the film as a main character like he was in season 4 as Gibby Gibson. Mary Scheer and Greg Mullavy will return for the film as Freddie's mother Marissa Benson and Carly's Gradad Shay. Demi Moore, who appeared in iCarly: The Movie as Carly's mother Mariah, will return to the sequel as her mother again. Aria Wallace, who did not appear in the film but appear in the show, will finally appear in the film as Mandy Valdez, Carly's huge fan who always annoys her. Although, it turns out that she will never be appearing into both iCarly films. Ethan Munck, who played Guppy in season 4, will appear in the film. Jane Lynch is originally going to star into the film, but she did not get the scripts. Also Demi Moore confimed that her character was never been giving the prt in the film as well as Ellen Roberts. Carly Shay's dad is originally going to appear in the film, but the plans has been later scrapped.

Carter Jenkins will be playing as Carly Shay's love interst, Dustin. But he will be replaced by Scream 4 actor Nico Torotorella. Kristen Stewart decided to sign up for the role as a love interest of Spencer after she had finished with The Twilight Saga to continue up for her career. Stewart is also filming another project, Snow White and the Huntsman. Although, filming conflict for the film has been avoid so that she can continue on filming another project.

Jadin Gould and Olivia Hosken will be replaced by Bailee Madison and Rhiannon Leigh Wryn for the role of younger Carly and Sam to make them look more younger for a flashback scene where they first met. Bobby Coleman will play the role of younger Freddie Benson, and Munck's younger brother Ethan Munck, whom play Guppy, will also play the role as younger Gibby. The cast as the younger Carly, Sam, Freddie and Gibby were later scrapped because the scene did not fit well in the film. Like the first film, the sequel will have a musical performance of Chris Brown set to perform a song during a scene where Carly and her friends were on vacation on cruise. His single "Turn Up the Music" will be featured in the film from sountrack Fortune taking place at a scene where Carly and her friends are at a teenage night club.

Soundtrack
iCarly: The Sequel soundtrack was released a month ahead of the film's release on June 26, 2012 worldwide. Two singles "Stupid in Love" and "Coming Home" two music videos will be included. iCarly: The Sequel debuts at No. 3 at the Bilboard 200 earning 215,000 copies behind Living Things by Linkin Park (223,000) and Overexposed by Maroon 5 (222,000). The soundtrack is 10,000 copies lower than iCarly: The Movie, which made 225,000 copies two years ago. It also debuts in first place at the Billboard 200 which finally beaten Eminem's Recovery after four weeks of being at the top chart. A week later, the soundtrack moved up from No. 3 to No. 1 with 155,000 copies (falling 30%) bringing its total to 370,000 copies beating Chris Brown's Fortune, which made 134,000 copies in it first week.

Release
The film's sneak peek was released on Nickelodeon December 16. A trailer for the film was released during a premiere of The Adventures of Tintin. It will also make a premiere on Nickelodeon following a premiere of a new iCarly episode. On January 17, 2012, it was confirmed by Jennette McCurdy on Twitter that the film's new trailer will premiere during a world premiere of the 2012 Kids' Choice Awards on March 31, 2012. Tickets for the film will go on sale starting June 25, 2012, a month before the film's release. The U.S. world premiere for iCarly: The Sequel was held at the El Capitan Theatre at 7:30 pm on July 19, 2012. The film received a G rating by MPPA for "all ages admitted".

Reaction
iCarly: The Sequel reviews became not as popular as its predecessor. Receiving mixed reviews, as of July 22, 2012, Rotten Tomatoes score iCarly: The Sequel a 49%, lower than a 65% of which is from the first film.

External link

 * Official website
 * iCarly: The Sequel at the Internet Movie Database
 * iCarly: The Sequel at Rotten Tomatoes
 * iCarly: The Sequel at Box Office Mojo