Sentences with phrase «kid movie franchise»

20th Century Fox has debuted a poster and teaser for the fourth instalment of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie franchise Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul.

Not exact matches

With Disney pushing the annual release of Star Wars movies, Star Wars toys are likely to remain popular as the franchise has long been a hit with kids as well as fans of the originals.

The franchise has managed to do one thing better than almost any other animated movie: Weave in laughs written for adults with just as much frequency as the stuff meant for kids.

Paramount's grumpy - green - ogre franchise is the epitome of the hand - hold movie: family flicks that serve up action, tomfoolery and life - lessons for the kids, nonstop pop - culture in - jokes for the adults, and fart jokes for the whole family.

TWC also encompasses Dimension Films, the genre label founded in 1993 by Bob Weinstein, which has released such popular franchises as SCREAM, SPY KIDS and SCARY MOVIE.

Again, this is an element that can work in a kid's movie if it's done properly, like in the early days of the Shrek franchise; but when your ending gag is a tiger ziplining through Vegas, whilst saying «This is the real life of Pi,» you've pretty much given up.

At the top of the list, the billion - dollar big guns: franchises, superhero movies, animated kid - flicks and single - serving comedies — the whole high - calorie / low nutritional monoculture diet the studios would prefer us to subsist on, like docile teenage boys easily distracted by big bangs and shiny objects.

Robert Rodriguez, the one - man movie - making machine behind the likes of the Spy Kids franchise and the more recent Machete movies, is to direct a...

Successful movie franchises featuring young covert operatives include: Agent Cody Banks I and its sequel Agent Cody Banks II: Destination London, and Spy Kids — Episode I, Episode II and Episode 3 - D: Game Over.

As the X-Men movie franchise becomes more bombastic and unwieldy, Bryan Singer turns to the ordinary mutant's story — well, as ordinary as you can get with a story's premise being «kids get life - endangering powers» — with a new TV series on Fox.

The Miramax library holds some of the world's most sophisticated, thought - provoking and critically - acclaimed independent films including sex, lies, and videotape, The English Patient, Shakespeare In Love, Reservoir Dogs, Chicago, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, My Left Foot, Cinema Paradiso, Life is Beautiful, Amélie, Kill Bill, Volume I and II, No Country for Old Men, as well as scores of commercially successful films such as Bridget Jones's Diary, the Scream, Hellraiser and Scary Movie franchises and Spy Kids.

In GI Joe, pilots are supposed to parachute safely out of their helicopters when they're blown up because it's a stupid kid's franchise and a stupid movie, you asshole.

In a rare stroke of luck, as these kids and movies aged, so did their quality — Radcliffe, Grint and Watson are no longer bumbling caricatures (meek victim, comedy relief, and domineering bookworm, respectively), and Order of the Phoenix is actually good enough to be considered on its own as a solid film, instead of needing the umbrella of protection that the Harry Potter ™ franchise provides.

The in - game premise is that the evil Lord Vortech is attempting to destroy all of the various LEGO dimensions and combine them into one; in reality, it's a handy excuse to see worlds and characters from some major franchises collide, including The Lord of the Rings, the DC universe, Doctor Who, The Simpsons, the Portalgames, The LEGO Movie, and more kid - friendly series like Scooby Doo, Ninjago, and Legends of Chima.

-- Marcus Fenix Aliens 3, The Matrix Reloaded, The Next Karate Kid, Jaws 3D, and The Godfather III all have one thing in common — they are (arguably) very weak third - movie sequels to otherwise great franchises.

Rebooting retro, 80s kids» cartoon franchises as blockbuster live actions movies is all the rage these days, but without fail every one that rears its ugly head possesses an inherent disconnect from the brilliance of its source material.

Now, however, the Digimon Fusion TV series is airing for kids, while the Digimon Adventure Tri movies are being released for nostalgic fans of the millenial anime franchise.