Sentences with phrase «godzilla franchise»

Much like the rise of the zombie - genre kaijū movies have seen some unique twists, e.g., The Host (2006), Cloverfield (2008), Monsters (2010), and Pacific Rim (2013) that have moved the category beyond just the typical Godzilla franchise.

Premium Bandai has started accepting pre-orders for a new soft vinyl figure of Mechagodzilla from Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle, the second part of Polygon Pictures» trilogy anime feature film project inspired by Toho's long - running Godzilla franchise.

Godzilla has been developed by Natsume Atari Inc. and gives players control of over 20 different Kaiju from the Godzilla franchise, which include classics such as Anguirus and Rodan.

The same logic governs the new attempt by Legendary Pictures / Warner Brothers to relaunch a Western version of Toho's Godzilla franchise, after the damp squib of the 1998 Roland Emmerich version.

It's been a while since the Godzilla franchise put a foreigner in such a predominant role, and although Frye doesn't exactly nail line delivery, he does at least command some presence on screen.

That being said, the Godzilla franchise was never hard up on great acting (Can I point you to the Matthew Broderick latest) so it might fit right in there as a great B film.

Away from giant lizards, Takarada has appeared in comedies, dramas and stage musicals, but he returned to the Godzilla franchise - in different roles - three times in the 1960s (Mothra, Astro - Monster, Sea Monster), then once more in 1992 (Mothra again), and most recently in 2004 (Final Wars).

Given that Legendary Pictures is now re-booting the Godzilla franchise with Monsters director Gareth Edwards at the helm, I was curious what Devlin's thoughts were on the new venture.

Not exact matches

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

Olsen just wrapped her first go at a big blockbuster franchise hopeful, Gareth Edwards» reboot of «Godzilla.»

«Godzilla: King of Monsters,» the sequel to the 2014 American version of Toho's famous kaiju franchise, will be part of a monster movie cinematic universe that also includes the upcoming film «Kong: Skull Island,» which Warner Bros. will release this March.

The King Kong franchise has been rebooted with Kong: Skull Island, which is the film that sets up both the Kong and Godzilla universe.

Reteaming with his Godzilla DP, Seamus McGarvey, Edwards gives us a world bursting with life that adds to the iconography of the franchise.

JJ Abrams managed to work alongside Steven Spielberg himself for throwback fantasy Super 8 before taking charge of the rebooted Star Wars franchise, Gareth Edwards admitted that his take on Godzilla was influenced by Close Encounters of the Third Kind and others such as Rian Johnson and Joss Whedon are clear students of the multiplex masters who birthed the event movie.

King Kong is back, yet again, in Kong: Skull Island, starring Tom Hiddleston (it remains to be seen whether Godzilla will put in an appearance too, or whether we'll have to wait for later in the franchise to see the two monsters together).

The Pokémon Company's long time movie collaborator, Toho, will handle distribution of the film franchise in Japan, as it had similarly done in its partnership with Legendary on the iconic monster reboot for Godzilla.

The director and producer of the franchise reboot discuss their love for Godzilla, the «golden rules» of their film, and bringing in other monsters.

Genre shingle Vertigo Films was clever in that respect, transforming the shoestring sci - fier that launched Edwards» career (he graduated directly to «Godzilla») into a franchise, while preserving the notion that any number of pics — not to mention novels, games and other properties — could be created in this world, where the concept of mankind awkwardly coexisting with this invading species provides the throughline.

Ben Robins on the five weirdest monster movies ever... With the Godzilla / King Kong universe getting a sudden resurgence, and Cloverfield taking things into franchise territory at long last, the monster movie is suddenly in something of an unexpected heyday as far as Hollywood is concerned.

Just this week, Warner Bros. announced that Godzilla 2, the sequel to the 2014 reboot of the popular monster franchise, had been delayed nine months.

Variety is reporting that «Stranger Things» breakout Millie Bobby Brown has completed a deal to star in Legendary's upcoming Godzilla: King of Monsters, the next film in the monster movie franchise.

Given that it's said to be a major franchise role, she'll presumably also be returning for 2020's epic monster showdown Godzilla vs. Kong.

What's fun about this date is that Legendary's King Kong prequel, Skull Island, opens in 2016, which could be tied into the franchise and eventually lead to both Kong and Godzilla facing off.

Unlike the movie franchise, each new version of Nissan's Godzilla — the GT - R — is quite lovely.

There are also a variety of different versions of Godzilla, which include the Godzilla from the 1964 film Mothra vs. Godzilla, as well as a version of Godzilla from the latest film in the franchise, which was released in 2014.

Players can also enjoy the King of Kaiju Mode where Godzilla fights his way through a gauntlet of the franchise's most famous monster enemies to reach the top of the Kaiju hierarchy and reign supreme on the throne as the true King of the Monsters.

The upcoming franchise restarter, Godzilla, has its teaser poster released via IMP Awards.

As the franchise progressed new monsters were brought in for Godzilla to battle, and the creature's role shifted; he became both the protector of Japan and also its annihilator.

Shorn From the Black Tusk of the Great Destroyer is a group exhibition curated by Adam D Miller in tribute to, and inspired by the Godzilla film franchise.

Following the successful 2014 reboot of Godzilla, Legendary continued to build its so - called «MonsterVerse» with Kong: Skull Island, another entry in the long - running King Kong movie franchise.