A sequel to 2015’s “San Andreas” is in the works at New Line, TheWrap has learned. Neil Widener and Gavin James will write the script for the film. “San Andreas” followed rescue-chopper pilot Raymond Gaines (Dwayne Johnson) as he tried to save his family from the mass destruction of a gigantic earthquake that hit California. The disaster movie grossed over $473 million worldwide last year. Johnson is set to return for the sequel, as is producer Beau Flynn and director Brad Peyton.

Violent shaking, swirling winds, billowing smoke, and that’s just inside the movie theater. Since the opening of the United States’ first 4DX theater in Los Angeles, CA last year, there really hasn’t been quite as perfect a marriage of experience and material as that theater and San Andreas. Where a film like Transformers: Age of Extinction certainly works in 4DX, San Andreas is about characters being in an environment that moves around.

San Andreas rumbles to #1! Moviegoers wanted to shake things up at the movies this weekend, putting SAN ANDREAS on top at the box office with an estimated $53.2 million! The PG-13 eartquake movie was no disaster for star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson -- it's his biggest solo opening ever, almost doubling the debut of last summer's action-fantasy HERCULES ($29.8 million).... Read More...

There’s always a certain level of glee ascribed to good disaster flicks, that dizzy rush that accompanies the collapse of giant buildings and the heroics of common men and women who rush in to save whatever can be salvaged. It’s heady stuff, the kind of material that looks best on the big screen, if only because it’s not real, total fiction put together for pure entertainment.

Dwayne Johnson rolls with itWhile Fast & Furious 7 was only able to make limited use of Dwayne Johnson, San Andreas promises a full-on Rocksplosion, with the man-mountain taking on the biggest earthquake ever seen in California and beyond... and Roland Emmerich isn’t to blame this time.