Sentences with phrase «big franchise movie»

Just when it seemed our fave redhead Jessica Chastain was making a play for a big franchise movie, it looks like her ever busy schedule is keeping her out.

However, it won't be long before things pick back up and big franchise movies - as well as buzzed about filmmaker offerings - begin flooding theaters again.

Not exact matches

The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

Disney and Marvel obviously know what they're doing with superhero movies — they've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time, making every single film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one director can have on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.

But for Paramount, the studio's success will largely be defined by movie ticket sales as well as the number of big blockbuster and tentpole film franchises it can churn out.

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.

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.

God's Not Dead 3, the third movie in a franchise that's enjoyed financial success in the past, opened to a measly $ 2 million last weekend, finishing below the low bar set by Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas, one of the biggest commercial and critical flops in history.

It seems like every time Marvel can't possibly increase the scope of a franchise, they figure out a way to make their movies even bigger.

Even if the movie hadn't explicitly promised one in its after - the - credits teaser, Ryan Reynolds» big, gooey spitball into the face of superhero movies made enough money in its first weekend to justify a whole franchise.

The new movie is only going to make the franchise go, and for someone who grew up in the 1990s, I am immensely happy to see the Power Rangers grow and attract a bigger audience.

Acting for 22 years, Dominic has been fortunate enough to be involved with some of the biggest movie franchises and must see television shows including his recent Emmy nominated nature adventure show Wild Things.

Series creator Chris Carter has even written a third entry in the franchise's film department and, based on what the ratings will be like, we'll probably see more X-Files in the future, whether in terms of more episodes or a big blockbuster of a movie.

Stuck halfway between James Bond and superhero movies, the Mission: Impossible big screen franchise sets itself apart by focusing on two things: teamwork, and vulnerability.

Without fail, the dullest installment in any superhero movie franchise is the origin story, during which audiences anxiously awaiting The Big Bad Guy have to suffer through, yaaaawn, scenes of childhood trauma, romantic tragedy, and other expository effluvia, by which point the closing credits are fast approaching.

It's all animated sequels and franchise movies broad and bland enough to appeal to big foreign markets.

Even Thor seems a bit nonplussed by the big story of all these movies, referring to the convenient MacGuffins that keep showing up in this franchise as «colorful, glowing Infinity Stone things.»

Like most big - ticket screen franchises, this one comes with some actual acting talent that gives the movie tang and legitimacy and may also help broaden its appeal along with its marketing and publicity opportunities.

The big difference between the two is that even though Halloween III had nothing to do with the franchise who's moniker it carried, it was actually a very solid movie.

It's not nearly as big a leap as Batman Begins to The Dark Knight (and I think this franchise's shelf life seems pretty much over at only two movies), but it somewhat redeems the original's final gag and refines that «The Roger Moore Bond Movies we Never Got» mission statement of the original to as fine a sheen as I think imovies), but it somewhat redeems the original's final gag and refines that «The Roger Moore Bond Movies we Never Got» mission statement of the original to as fine a sheen as I think iMovies we Never Got» mission statement of the original to as fine a sheen as I think it can.

During the conversation, Diesel revealed that not only is Justin Lin returning to direct the supposedly - final two sequels in this long - running franchise, but that they will be even «bigger» than the previous movies:

But the summer of 2003 saw «Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl» become a monster hit, launching one of the biggest modern - day franchises, stretching to four movies to date, and turning Depp from beloved oddball to global megastar.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 10, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG for frightening images and action fantasy sequences) Third installment in the film franchise based on the C.S. Lewis series of fantasy novels finds Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pensie (Georgie Henley), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), returning to the magical land of Narnia to embark on a dangerous, seafaring mission taking them to the edge of the world.

One of the biggest movie franchises for the last decade is finally coming to an end.

What separates «Black Panther» from the Batmans, Spidermans and Iron Mans of the creaky, big studio superhero genre is that it looks and, more important, feels nothing like the usual bloated franchise movie that takes no chances and plays by genre rules.

One by one, the keepers of our era's biggest franchises, the sacred texts to be drawn on and embellished for generations to come, have had the same bright idea: What if, instead of hiring seasoned hacks or promising but untested newcomers, they gave the movies to actual filmmakers?

Enter the The Green Hornet, a big - budget superhero film that doesn't obsess about reverence to its roots, nor in making a movie that feels it has to respect the requirements of hero drama, or the moodiness that overwhelms some franchises (Spider - Man 3 overdosed on it).

A crossover with Paramount's powerhouse franchise Transformers could be just what the G.I. Joe movies need to break into the big leagues.

Pettyfer is pretty and easygoing but lacks the sort of charisma that comes with a more focused sense of interior purpose, and the film basically feels, at its core, like a mash - up of carefully cross-tabbed teen movie trends, which is probably what happens when you set out in pre-production with the chief intent of manufacturing the next big «Twilight» - type cinematic franchise.

The biggest news of the year for horror fans was the announcement that John Carpenter would return to the Halloween franchise as executive producer to help oversee a new movie, but there has been little progress since, and now Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions explains the reason for that is because they have not yet settled on what approach to take in bringing about the return of Michael Myers to the big screen.

But now a bonafide franchise — not only with a big screen followup, but a small screen offshoot too on Cartoon Network — DreamWorks is ready to cash in the success of the first movie.

Here are the studio's biggest movie and video game franchises that could be acquired.

Trekkies may fume, but if this big - screen Star Trek movie is to be a much - needed booster shot to revive this seriously ailing franchise, then it is a clever thing to do.

The last big screen Star Trek movie (Nemesis in 2002) happened to be the least commercially successful in the franchise.

The first, Twilight, was big enough to ensure the youngest major American movie studio will get to adapt that hot book franchise in its entirety.

Granted that's not as big as any of the Harry Potter franchise films opened, but that's to be expected when we're not dealing with many characters that fans aren't familiar with, and the movie will still be a hit worldwide.

Reportedly the biggest grossing movie franchise in history (take that, 007), the Harry Potter movies are not exactly coasting to the finish line.

Johnson doesn't show up until the fifth (official) entry in the «Fast & Furious» series, and he sits out a lot of the seventh movie, but he's a big part of what made this franchise jump from a decent series of car - racing movies to one of the best and biggest action franchises on the planet.

Though it runs longer than it has to, all movies should be so lucky as to get such a substantial making - of documentary, which Lionsgate - Summit usually reserves for their big teen - oriented fantasy franchises.

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.

Most of all, how many big - ticket franchise movies with this much social media presence not only avoid overstaying their welcome, but also refrain from giving too much away to both savvy and unsuspecting viewers alike?

Alien is revered as one of the greatest horror films of all time, as well as one of the greatest films set in space, so what happens when the director of the film that originated the franchise returns to it to provide us back - story about one of the biggest monster movie icons more than three decades after the fact?

Another big one to consider is Mephisto, who first appeared in Silver Surfer, a title whose titular star is squarely in the movie - verse of 20th Century Fox's Fantastic Four franchise.

Rian Johnson's eighth instalment of the world's biggest movie franchise is almost upon us.

The biggest news of the year for horror fans was the announcement back in May that John Carpenter will return to the Halloween franchise as executive producer to help oversee a new movie from Miramax and Blumhouse Productions, but there has been little progress since, and now Carpenter himself, who has spent most of this year on his first concert tour, has offered an update on the status of the highly anticipated return of Michael Myers to the big screen.

Following Bates Motel, Hannibal, From Dusk Till Dawn, Damien, and Scream in the ongoing movie - to - TV trend among horror's biggest franchises, The Excorcist will air on Friday nights at 9 pm starting this Fall on FOX.

Either way, this matchup between two of the biggest heroes in the DC Comics franchise is likely to be one of this year's biggest action movies.

(And like the hero in the movie, the novice actor and his ensuing film franchise went on to win big at the box office as well.)

To see him go from that $ 5MM movie to commanding one of the biggest franchises in cinema history has been a wonder to behold.

This is a rather odd message coming from a big - studio Hollywood movie designed to kick off a $ 1 billion franchise.