sequelization

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English

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Etymology

From sequelize +‎ -ation or sequel +‎ -ization.

Noun

sequelization (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The creation of a sequel to a work.
    Coordinate term: prequelization
    • 1994 April 26, [email protected], “sequals”, in alt.cult-movies (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-19:
      Lucas DID NOT invent rampant sequelisation (?)
    • 1998 June 26, Rev. Evil Ed, “No more Star Wars for you!”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-19:
      That's because mass marketing and sequelization KILLED good horror.
    • 1998 August 27, Amanda Van Rhyn, “MiSTing: Holodeck Series - part 2”, in alt.tv.mst3k.mstings (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-19:
      Sequelization or sequelization potential!
    • 2007 June 26, W/Q, “AFI's Top 100 Movies”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-19:
      Spiderman 1 was a pretty decent film. Spiderman 2 was ok, but I was already beginning to tire of the sequelization of it. Spiderman 3 I avoided, being officially weary of the sequelization of it. And that's what my Spidey sense tells me.
    • 2012, Philippe Met, “The Iceman Cometh (To A Theater Near You): Michael Haneke's Glaciation Trilogy”, in Claire Perkins, Constantine Verevis, editors, Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 164:
      If one then turns to the logic of remaking and sequelization/prequelization, it is hardly disputable that it tends to be dictated by marketing ploys, commercial opportunism or production pressures.