Sentences with phrase «biggest superhero franchise»

The kids are playing superheroes, and Cartman is determined to turn Coon and Friends into the biggest superhero franchise of all time.

Ahead of the release of its biggest film, Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel has released an emotional four - and - a-half-minute long featurette where it details the inception of MCU and how it became the biggest superhero franchise in Hollywood.

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Marvel Studios has fast emerged as one of the biggest superhero franchises in Hollywood, churning out hits one after another.

Over the past six years, Nolan has not only produced one of the greatest thrillers («Memento») in the history of the genre, but can also be credited for expertly rebooting one of the biggest superhero franchises in Hollywood («Batman Begins»).

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Over the past decade I've enjoyed the resurgence in superhero flicks as many big - name franchises have received the reboot to great effect.

Before superheroes basically took over Hollywood, Christopher Reeve's Superman franchise proved that comic books could translate to the big screen.

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.

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.

He must be a big fan of the James Bond franchise, as he brings forth the best Bond film since Skyfall, hidden inside a Marvel superhero flick.

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

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.

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).

Not that I am really surprised — all great Superhero films come in threes — Marvel announced today the two writers that will be bring Mjolnir back to the big screen in the third installment of the Thor franchise!

Now comes the new wave of blockbuster Marvel franchises, with The Hulk riding a wave of mass approval as the next big superhero thing to hit theaters since X2.

After two poorly received adaptations of Marvel's superhero family hit the big screen in 2005 and 2007, it was announced that the franchise will (thankfully) be rebooted.

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.

The trend continues after Marky Mark, as the list is mainly comprised of actors who've starred in uber - lucrative franchises or big - budget superhero movies, films for which there are conspicuously few female roles.

The hype As the subtitle implies, this is the first big step in Warner Bros and DC Comics» attempt to ape Marvel's insanely successful «Avengers» franchise by building their own cinematic superhero team — the slightly Nazi - sounding Justice League.

Rose McGowan will receive a big honor from Kansas» Tallgrass International Film Festival, Greta Gerwig's «Lady Bird» has been added to Texas» Austin Film Festival, Patty Jenkins seals historic «Wonder Woman 2 ′ deal as superhero hit powers onto Blu - ray, and Jamie Lee Curtis returns to the «Halloween» franchise.

DC Entertainment is beating all the other superhero franchises to the punch in assembling a big budget villain team - up movie, and did we mention Batman and the new Joker are in this one too?

According to early ticket data, Black Panther is on track to becoming one of the biggest movies in the Marvel superhero franchise.

Robert Downey, Jr. may have changed the game almost a decade after Jackman's first turn as Wolverine, but it's Jackman's performance that has truly carried the X-Men franchise and which defined our expectations of big screen superheroes.

After combing through the listings of franchise - fatigued superheroes now clogging big screens everywhere, I've come up with a list of well - made, challenging, and engrossing films for folks as sick of vacuous action adventure as I am.

April 2018 marked the return of the third instalment of Marvel's epic Avengers series to the big screen for one of the franchise's most superhero - packed movie to date.

Aside from incorporating some of the biggest franchises in pop culture — from Marvel superheroes to Pixar movies to this year's addition of Star Wars — Disney's Infinity series also allows players to make their own creations.