Meanings
alternative sequelisation
- informaluncountableThe creation of a sequel to a work.
Sequelization or sequelization potential!
1998 August 27, Amanda Van Rhyn, “MiSTing: Holodeck Series - part 2”, in alt.tv.mst3k.mstings (Usenet), retrieved 19 Mar 20224 more examples
Lucas DID NOT invent rampant sequelisation (?)
1994 April 26, 9348...@vax1.dcu.ie, “sequals^([sic])”, in alt.cult-movies (Usenet), retrieved 19 Mar 2022That's because mass marketing and sequelization KILLED good horror.
1998 June 26, Rev. Evil Ed, “No more Star Wars for you!”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 19 Mar 2022Spiderman^([sic]) 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.
2007 June 26, W/Q, “AFI's Top 100 Movies”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet), retrieved 19 Mar 2022If 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.
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
Origin
From sequelize + -ation or sequel + -ization.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
sequelization. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sequelization
“sequelization.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sequelization. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sequelization,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sequelization.
Source: sequelization on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.