Sentences with phrase «big franchise sequels»

Winter / Spring 2017 includes awards - season contenders, multiple Vin Diesel movies, a Disney re-telling, big franchise sequels, reboots - and more!

Not exact matches

Not only will theaters be flooded with mega franchise sequels, but they will also be home to another big year for superheroes.

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.

It will be extremely hard for the studio to match those figures in 2016, as many of its biggest franchises are sitting out the year and Universal's planned 21 - film slate doesn't feature any sure - thing blockbuster hits aside from (maybe) a still - untitled Bourne sequel.

Perhaps its unexpected box office success can be attributed in part to the popular reaction against an entertainment industry whose laser - like concentration is on big - budget franchise and sequel films.

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

Two — Guardians of the Galaxy and the animated Big Hero 6 — are riskier bets on less - proven Marvel characters, and a third (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) is a sequel to one of the worst - performing films in the new Marvel franchise.

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:

This week the team check to see if Ben Stiller's dumb model is still in fashion in belated sequel Zoolander 2; find out if Ryan Reynolds can finally make a franchise work in subversive superhero comedy Deadpool; bask in the sun in Luca Guadagnino's steamy melodrama A Bigger Splash and wonder if Will Smith's Concussion deserved to be snubbed by the Academy

WHY: Though it doesn't hold a candle to Steven Spielberg's 1993 original, «Jurassic World» is the sequel that fans have wanted (and deserved) for decades — a big, summer spectacle that understands the DNA of the franchise and doesn't take itself too seriously.

There were also clips from Judd Apatow's sequel to Knocked Up called This Is 40 (Christmas of 2012), 47 Ronin in 3D (February 2013), Oblivion starring Tom Crusie and Morgan Freeman which opens April 2013 and R.I.P.D. (Rest In Peace Department) starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds, plus the next installments of two big franchises, Fast and The Furious 6 and Despicable Me 2, in the Summer of 2013.

After the most recent trailer for Terminator: Genisys gave away a pretty big plot twist for the franchise sequel, some international TV spots bring that twist to the forefront of the marketing in Asian markets.

What we are excited about: Similar to this week's other big release, Bridget Jones's Baby is a sequel to a beloved a franchise that has been away from cineplexes for a while.

It was however the commercial and critical success of its less - expensive sequel, Wrath of Khan, that ensured the franchise's longevity: several TV shows and big screen sequels.

With bigger, more epic action sequences, a more intriguing story, fleshed out characters, a multiplayer component, and damn near perfect combat mechanics, Uncharted 2 was an excellent sequel and still the best game in the franchise (even though Uncharted 4 was really, really good!).

At a time when almost every big - budget Hollywood release is a pre-packaged adaptation, remake, or franchise sequel, Rian Johnson's mind - bending, thought - provoking Looper offers something truly original.

Over the weekend, IESB spoke to producer, David T. Friendly, who confirmed that the second sequel in the hit Martin Lawrence undercover fat - suit franchise, Big Momma's House 3, is currently in the scripting stage and on the fast track / conveyor belt after originally being due this year.

While director Alex Proyas» original was a commercial and critical success, creating a franchise that included a big - screen sequel, a television series and two direct - to - video movies, Relativity's plans have met with one obstacle after another.

Summit Entertainment is taking Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke off the sequel in this big new franchise and Lexi Alexander's Punisher: War Zone bombed, earning less than half what Hollywood thought it would.

With 2018 shaping up to be a year when multiple blockbuster tentpoles and franchise sequels are set to be hitting the big screen, Universal's planned sequel to Jurassic World is shaping up to be the most anticipated.

Before Terminator: Genisys hit theaters this past summer, Paramount Pictures was hopeful that the sequel, which also functions as a franchise reboot, would be a big hit for them.

From talk of one big book franchise to another, «The Hunger Games» sequel «Catching Fire «has now added actor Bruno Gunn («Bad Teacher,» «Oz») and Alan Ritchson («Blue Mountain State «-RRB- to the cast.

Do we really need to explain why this mega sequel that is 10 years in the making and features upwards of 50 characters, massive movie stars and franchise altering storylines that will redefine the biggest brand in film, is on this list?

Since acquiring the rights to the collection of the collection of timeless tales in the early Sixties, Walt Disney has adapted them to both the big and small screens, even extending the popular franchise in recent years by creating sequels for such peripheral characters as Tigger (2000), Piglet (2003) and Heffalump (2005).

Beyond that, what this franchise would do without Furiosa (Theron has suggested she may not come back) is a big question mark worth worrying about, at least if you're an executive at Warner Bros. hoping for a sequel.

Nine years is certainly not the biggest gap between films in a series (the recent sequels in the Indiana Jones and Tron franchises took a lifetime to come to fruition), but it is nevertheless a long time since Ferrell & Co. brought their off - the - wall characters to the silver screen.

In the continuing era of sequels and big - budget franchises, «Sylvio» is the very definition of the «something different» audiences complain we don't have, a spiritual kin to some of the early works of the Duplass brothers, for example.

Star John Boyega teases that next year's sequel, Pacific Rim Uprising, is the ultimate, big - budget franchise movie experience.

Many of the biggest stars in the franchise, like Robert Downey Jr. and Chrises Evans and Hemsworth, aren't contracted for major (if any) franchise appearances after Infinity War and its untitled sequel, previously known as Avengers: Infinity War — Part 2.

First Big - Budget Movie: Immediately following the success of «Bloody Sunday,» Greengrass was attached to the first sequel in the «Bourne» franchise, «The Bourne Supremacy.»

Diesel left the series (his character, Xander Cage, was killed off in a DVD supplement and replaced by Ice Cube for the poorly received sequel xXx: State of The Union) to embark on a string of drama, sci - fi and family - comedy roles; but after a string of disappointments with Chronicles of Riddick, Find Me Guilty and Babylon A.D. he ultimately returned to the Fast series - only to see it reborn as an ensemble action franchise that's now one of the biggest and most beloved movie properties in the world.

On the big screen, successful sequels are still a focus, but movie studios are also looking for the next franchise movie, like The Hunger Games or Twilight, plus they are looking for great stories they can produce for a reasonable amount and recoup their investment.

I mean, it's an assumption I'm making but big games very likely most go a bit over budget or since you have multiple teams making future sequels for some franchises you want to be sure you cash - in well.

Destiny is one of the biggest franchises of this generation, but does anyone care about its upcoming sequel?

While Nintendo's E3 2017 livestream didn't even go a full 30 minutes, Reggie Fils - Aimé and company wasted no time announcing big name sequels to some of Nintendo's most popular franchises, along with expansions and ports that will bring even more content to Nintendo's wildly popular Switch console.

In the years since, the publisher has doubled down on this strategy, and continued to focus on spectacular sequels and expansions to their biggest franchises.

Just as you'd expect from the company behind some of Japan's biggest RPG franchises, though, there's now an upgraded sequel, the Eorzea Café, with an even larger menu of Final Fantasy themed foods.

The biggest draw was the announcement of Dragon Quest XI, the hotly anticipated sequel in the popular franchise.

Even a franchise like inFAMOUS — which sold millions of copies and spawned a variety of sequels — could have been that much bigger had the title received the kind of focused marketing effort it deserved.

Speaking of modern video game franchises with big set pieces spread across multiple sequels, Kotaku has word that there's a survey floating around out there attempting to gauge interest in potential settings for the next installment of Assassin's Creed.

Interview: The Shape of God of War III «Sony Santa Monica senior producer Steve Caterson talks the development processes and content concerns that informed the development of SCEA's biggest sequel of the generation — and what the franchise's future may hold.»

Call of Duty was one such franchise that found so much success with it that it is now the biggest franchise in gaming and has 3 different developers making sequels on a 3 - year cycle.