Sentences with phrase «wars movie franchise»

The Star Wars movie franchise wasn't the only business that had a big year in 2015.

Faceshift's technology has been used in the popular Star Wars movie franchise.

Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars movie franchise and the director of films including American Graffiti, is a serious Rockwell aficionado.

With the Rise of the Empire Play Set demo, instead of starting at the beginning of the game, I was given a chance to play through three of the different scene recreations depicted in Episodes IV - VI of the Star Wars movie franchise.

Not exact matches

Of course, complaints about the proliferation of sequels tend to be much louder in the wake of a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviews).

The Disney arrangement gives Netflix access to movies from Pixar, Marvel (i.e., the Avengers franchise) and Lucasfilm — including the hotly awaited Star Wars films, which are likely to be box - office gold.

The company has done well with several of its movie franchises, such as Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar and Shrek, but it doesn't have anything that really compares to the Star Wars library or the Marvel franchise (although Shrek has pulled in about $ 3.5 billion since the original movie in 2001).

That runtime makes it the longest movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, of which «Infinity War» is the 19th film in the franchise.

Their dependence on licensing deals with movies — particularly at Hasbro, which owns «master rights» to Disney (dis) franchises like Star Wars — has become a double - edged lightsaber: When movies are down, so are toys.

One option is Disney, which has blockbuster movie franchises like «Frozen» and «Star Wars» under its belt that resonate with younger generations, he said.

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.

In the past few years, Disney has been dominant, with movies like «Beauty and the Beast» and its «Star Wars» and «Marvel» franchises.

The first «Star Wars» movie established one of the most popular franchises of all time and took science fiction movies mainstream again.

After overseeing the reboot of the Star Trek film franchise, he took the reins to steer movie goers back to that galaxy far, far away, directing and executive producing Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

J.J. Abrams, the director of the new Star Wars films, has shown from the beginning of the project that he himself is a big fan of the franchise and that he values and respects the responsibility that goes with directing the movie.

The year will see new releases in The Fantastic Four, Pirates of the Caribbean, LEGO Movie, Despicable Me, Star Wars, Justice League, Avatar and Transformers franchises.

Director J.J. Abrams has made it clear that the up and coming actors in the Star Wars franchise will be the ones to carry on the popular movies.

Yes, there are people out there that are freakishly obsessed with the Star Wars movie and everything connected to the franchise.

Star Wars is one of my favorite movie franchises out there, so imaging my excitement at scoring this awesome top!

It would be ludicrous to describe the events, except to warn viewers that viewings of at least the last six movies in the franchise (Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

In some ways, this movie is the antidote to the sort of «Star Wars» movie that viewers who despised the prankishly irreverent and oddly introspective «The Last Jedi» seem to have wanted: one where the payoffs to setups are italicized so that nobody can miss them, artistic license is subordinated to brand management, and every reference, no matter how small, that was so lovingly memorized by devotees of the franchise is placed under a spotlight for the audience's recognition and self - congratulation.

Simply the best Star Wars movie created in the franchise.

The 50 - year - old actor was revealed to have joined the cast of the eighth movie in the franchise as the mysterious character DJ, and after fans suggested his character is Ezra Bridger from «Star Wars Rebels», director Rian Johnson has insisted that isn't true.

The Predator franchise crossed over with the Alien franchise in a couple movies that was set in the city, but Predators in 2010 took the war back to the jungle, although this was on an alien planet.

With Smaug gone, the franchise shifts into a completely different movie as it is no longer about a quest, but rather about how a king's greed leads to war.

While we're no stranger to the idea of shock deaths in movies and TV series — our favorite characters being killed off gives fans something to talk about — the sheer scale of what happens at the end of Infinity War, and the Russo brothers decision to leave the ball in Thanos» court, is unprecedented when it comes to a film franchise of this scale.

The LEGO Movie did a good job of bringing together several franchises in Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, DC Super Heroes, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and many, many more — and it's producer would like to do the same thing again with Nintendo.

The «Star Wars» fandom will be enthralled by most of «Rogue One», but for me, this was a tough movie to get through — and others who aren't emotionally invested in the franchise may feel the same way.

Ron Howard is getting a crack at the Star Wars franchise due to taking over the Han Solo movie from original Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, but something seems tonally strange about his vision of the Star Wars franchise...

The 66 - year - old actor, most famous for playing Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars franchise, was joined by many members of his movie family.

As you might be aware if you're a Star Wars fan, the annual Star Wars Celebration has been taken place the past couple of days and it was no surprise that major announcements would be made about the future movies in the franchise.

At this point, we can basically assume that every person who has ever been in a Marvel movie will appear in Avengers: Infinity War, as long as they aren't dead in the franchise — or Edward Norton.

The Avengers: Infinity War actor also confessed that he wanted to turn down playing the character in The Avengers and Captain America franchises because of the 10 - movie commitment and the fact it would have placed him in an even more public spotlight once Marvel Studios» vision came into fruition.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi has only been in theaters for a little over a week, and already, a lot has been said about the movie, its quality, the way it handles fan expectations, the important representation it continues to boost in the franchise, and more.

Mix that in with a film that includes aliens, a god and an android (among other oddities) and it is difficult to believe that such a movie could be called the «most human» film in a massive franchise, but that's exactly how Anthony Mackie, who portrays the hero Falcon (aka Sam Wilson) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, feels about Avengers: Infinity War.

Cinema bookers are now looking to the forthcoming weekend's crop of releases — including Aardman Animations» Early Man, YA franchise concluder Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Alexander Payne's Downsizing and Afghanistan war movie 12 Strong — to help replenish the market.

Who knows, though, since Captain Marvel is the focus of a lot of MCU - related speculation at the moment; not only will it be the franchise's first female - led superhero movie, but it also got a massive Hail Mary pass from last month's blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War, which asked fans to sit through, roughly, 7,000,000 minutes of end credits in order to get the merest peek at her logo.

His return will rank this movie as one of the most anticipated renewals of a franchise since Star Wars.

Thank god director Josh Trask is no longer involved with a Star Wars spin - off movie, because I wouldn't want my all - time favorite movie franchise tarnished the way this movie spits on the comics.

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The newest movie within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, «Avengers: Infinity War,» might be launched later this week at the heels of the worldwide blockbuster, «Black Panther,» including any other flick to the superhero franchise.

«Transformers: The Last Knight» sets the stage for the planned expansion of the $ 3.78 billion franchise that includes a «Bumblebee» spinoff slated for 2018, another «Transformers» sequel in 2019, and a possible origin movie for the constantly warring Autobots and Decepticons.

The marathon will likely start out with 2008's Iron Man, the Marvel Cinematic Universe's first film, and conclude with Avengers: Infinity War, the franchise's 19th movie.

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.

The six all - powerful stones (originally known as gems in the Marvel comics) have popped up in nine of the franchise's fourteen films, movies ranging in scope and tone from the World War II period piece «Captain America: The First Avenger» to the outer space adventure film «Guardians of the Galaxy.»

Stargate often gets overshadowed by two other «Star» franchises (those would be Star Wars and Star Trek), but it really should be put on even footing — and that all kicks off with Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich's phenomenally fun 1994 adventure movie.

But I've been waiting for a gay hero to pop up in a Marvel or Star Wars movie, my two fave franchises that are still lagging in that area despite their increasing diversity.

Other films earning multiple nominations, but absent from the Best Picture field, include Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, with six nominations, Steve Jobs, which landed acting and ensemble recognition, Creed, Ryan Coogler's rebranding of the Rocky franchise (3 nominations), and the pop culture movie of the year, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which rallied for four technical nominations.

George Lucas, for all his pioneering in the movie business, made three really bad movies and ruined the «Star Wars» franchise for a new generation of moviegoers who only knew Episodes IV, V and VI on VHS and laserdisc.

Disney has done for Star Wars what it did for Marvel and that is create a movie going experience that does justice to the franchise for the hardcore fans, yet isn't condescending to the casual ones.