Grease (film) anniversary, Paramount released Grease on 4K, UHD, Blu-Ray and DVD on April 24, 2018. The sequel, "Grease 2" (1982), stars Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer. While only a few cast members from the original movie such as Dody Goodman, Sid Caesar, Eddie Deezen, Didi Conn, Dennis Stewart and Eve Arden reprise their respective roles. Dick Patterson returned, playing a different character. It grossed $15 million on its $13 million budget. Patricia Birch, the original movie's choreographer, directed the sequel. It would be the only movie that she would direct. On March 12, 2013, "Grease" and "Grease 2" were packaged together
Grease 2 be the second film (and first sequel) in a proposed "Grease" franchise of four films and a television series. (The third and fourth films were to take place in the sixties and during the counterculture era.) However, the projects were scrapped due to the underwhelming box office performance of "Grease 2". Maxwell Caulfield was unhappy with the film's "drab" title, and unsuccessfully lobbied to change it to "Son of Grease". Birch proposed an idea to feature Travolta and Newton-John reprising their characters as a now married couple running a gas station near the end of the film, which did not