Sentences with phrase «blockbuster film franchises»

The lineup spans multiple genres and includes adaptations of blockbuster film franchises, an original squad - based shooter from the creative mind of some of SEGA's most popular franchises, the first «M - rated» game on Kinect, AAA digital titles, an all - new title from critically acclaimed developer PlatinumGames, and many more!

The environment design is stunning as it rivals the blockbuster film franchises Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in encapsulating how an enthusiast of their respective novels would anticipate Mordor to look and feel as well as successfully showcasing the vast scale of such grand fantasy environments, alongside the stylistically presented Wraith World.

The last decade or so has seen a number of young adult novel series come to life on the big screen in the form of blockbuster film franchises.

Bond star Pierce Brosnan is keen to return to action movies and is eyeing a role in blockbuster film franchise The Expendables.The Irish star has...

Not exact matches

But, Paramount's best bet for a blockbuster film in 2017 is likely the latest installment in the long - running and financially successful Transformers action franchise, which will hit theaters in June.

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.

There's been virtually no hint of sex in any of Marvel's recent blockbusters or the Harry Potter franchise, and those films have set the bar for what's going to make money in today's market.

In addition to Orange, Selenis will star as Peter Parkers teacher Ms. Warren in the blockbuster franchise film «SPIDERMAN HOMECOMING,» premiering in July.

Recently, in an industry first, Pantone, Illumination Entertainment and Universal Partnerships & Licensing created an official new PANTONE Color, Minion Yellow, based on the Minions from Universal Pictures and Illumination's Despicable Me global film franchise, including this summer's blockbuster hit, Minions.

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.

The film franchise has always transcended the summer blockbuster genre, providing worlds and characters and scenarios that have stuck in my mind.

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.

Since that time, the star of Dracula Untold has been seen in a wide variety of films - including several blockbuster franchises: Clash of the Titans, Fast and Furious 6, and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, among others - with upcoming roles in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and The Crow reboot.

David Ayer's fantasy blockbuster, which stars Will Smith and Joel Edgerton as a human - orc cop duo, was met with mixed reviews from critics, but Netflix is confident in the movie's franchise potential, with Bloomberg reporting that a sequel had been given the green light before the film had even been released.

These films show how completely the blockbuster system has changed in two decades: Stephen Sommers's 1999 film, itself an exploitation of a preexisting Universal property, had a breezy quality reflective of lower expectations, whereas Kurtzman's film succumbs to the pressure of needing to re-launch an entire franchise of films.

But while the prospect of topping such a dazzling crowd - pleasing blockbuster must have been daunting and no doubt encouraged the franchise to be left cinematically untouched for a number of years, eventually new adaptations arose in television animation and back in live - action film.

Wired recently checked in with Taika Waititi, who is making the much - traveled journey of indie - to - blockbuster director this year by making his first major franchise film, Thor: Ragnarok.

The seventh film in the blockbuster franchise revved up the biggest ever April launch and the fourth biggest worldwide bow

Inspired by the popular Disney parks ride of the same name, the blockbuster «Pirates of the Caribbean» film franchise came full circle Wednesday as star Johnny Depp surprised Disneyland visitors with an appearance by Captain Jack Sparrow.

Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as the blockbuster first installment of The Hunger Games franchise, The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn — Part 2, Now You See Me, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, Warm Bodies, Snitch, Texas Chainsaw 3D, The Expendables 2, The Possession, Sinister, Arbitrage and Pantelion Films» breakout hit Instructions Not Included, the highest - grossing Spanish - language film ever in the U.S.

The Star Trek: To Boldly Go campaign will support the cast's personal selection of nine global causes, which will each receive equal portions of the funds raised when fans enter for a chance to win a walk - on role in director Justin Lin's Star Trek Beyond, the third film in the blockbuster franchise, which will be released on July 8, 2016.

TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION is the fourth film in director Michael Bay's global blockbuster franchise.

Michael Bay is again directing Transformers 4, or Transformers: Age of Extinction, from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, as his last film in the blockbuster series before handing the franchise off to another director.

The film stands as a successful melding of entertainment value and homage for fans — precisely what should be expected of a summer blockbuster branded with the name of a beloved franchise.

The blockbuster second film of The Hunger Games franchise that took the world by storm ignites once again when The Hunger Games: Catching Fire arrives on Blu - ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD UltraViolet), DVD (plus Digital UltraViolet), Digital HD, Video on Demand and Pay - Per - View Friday, March 7 from Lionsgate.

Chris Pratt's Jurassic World is looking to revive the blockbuster franchise, and news is out that the signature T. Rex from the original 1993 film will be returning - but with some upgrades.

Even though «Mockingjay: Part 2» will not be released until 2015, the three young stars of the blockbuster franchise embraced as filming for the movie is finally over.

LOS ANGELES November 29, 2016 — In support of the upcoming action / horror film UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS, the latest installment in the blockbuster UNDERWORLD franchise, Screen Gems has partnered with the wildly popular platform Snapchat to develop the first - ever sponsored interactive 3D Lens to reach their 150 + million daily users and allow the studio to communicate with Snapchatters in the most...

The producers of «Transformers: The Last Knight,» the upcoming fifth installment of the blockbuster Paramount Pictures franchise, madee headlines in the United Kingdom this week for using Blenheim Palace as a stand - in for a Nazi headquarters in the new film.

Coming off a decade where the American genre film devolved into lowest - common - denominator investments and blockbusters ballooned skyward on the backs of sequels and franchises, Refn's modest exercise in crime pastiche and car - chase nostalgia parlayed both the exhaustion of Hollywood's narrative resources and — perhaps more importantly — the gathering mainstream curiosity in independent music's preoccupation with the sound and feel of the 1980s (the film's soundtrack has become one of the most popular word - of - mouth successes of the decade).

It's easily the best blockbuster of the summer season and, I'd say, the best film of the franchise (including the classic first installment, which is far better as a concept than it is as a -LSB-...]

As Simon Pegg gears up for press duties on both Margot Robbie thriller Terminal [read our review here] and blockbuster sequel Mission: Impossible: Fallout, he's been speaking to ComingSoon.net about another of his film franchises; Star Trek.

Matt's MCU retrospective begins with the superhero film that would bring a new dimension to the genre and a paradigm shift to blockbuster franchises.

Eighteen films into Marvel's blockbuster franchise they're long overdue, arriving in a «Black Panther» origin tale that also breaks ground as the first standalone film of the modern Marvel era to be led by a black superhero.

It lacks the subversive politics of Brian DePalma's film (which corrupts the source TV franchise as much as it reboots the thing), but Bird's deft action filmmaking make it among the more visually appetizing American blockbusters released in years.

The Warner Bros movie, due to be released in November 2018, is the second of a planned five movie spin off franchise from the blockbuster Harry Potter films.

And while Strange may not be the most engaging of protagonists, Cumberbatch makes the leap from the small screen and a string of serious feature film roles to blockbuster leading man territory like he's been firing off zingers, juggling green screens and carrying franchises his whole life; if there were ever any doubt of Benedict's star quality, this is bona fide proof he's an A-lister with a capital «A».

Apparently Christopher Nolan's influence has fully asserted itself in the blockbuster world judging by all the Star Trek, James Bond and other franchises seeming to shoot and market their films in this manner.

Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as the blockbuster first two installments of The Hunger Games franchise, The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, A Madea Christmas, Now You See Me, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, Warm Bodies, The Expendables 2, The Possession, Sinister, Roadside Attractions» Mud and Pantelion Films» breakout hit Instructions Not Included, the highest - grossing Spanish - language film ever released in the U.S.

After two Oscar nominations (and one win) for Best Actor, Eddie Redmayne is ready to take over Hollywood by starring in his own global blockbuster, and there's no better place to start than with a spinoff of one of the most successful film franchises of all time: the «Harry Potter» series.

Woody Harrelson is best known for the classic TV comedy «Cheers», films «White Men Can't Jump», «Natural Born Killers», «The People vs. Larry Flynt» (for which he received his first of two Oscar nominations) and, more recently, for his role as Haymitch in the blockbuster «Hunger Games» franchise.

Coincidentally, this weekend is the release of Transformers: Age Of Extinction, the first film in the blockbuster franchise that the actor will not be leading.

He had filmed scenes for two sequels in the blockbuster franchise, which are still in production.

«Avengers: Infinity War»: Less of a film franchise than it is a long - form final exam after some 14 movies of homework, this hydra - headed superhero blockbuster had one truly redeeming quality for those who have not spent the last several years absorbing its story on their way to the multiplex: It was, at least, an ending.

To date, her movies, including blockbusters in the «Hunger Games» and «X-Men» franchises and smaller films like «Winter's Bone» and «American Hustle,» have collectively grossed more than $ 5.6 billion worldwide.

The British comedian and his criminally inept spy character are back for a third film in the blockbuster franchise.

From the producer of the blockbuster franchises The Matrix and Lethal Weapon, world - renowned martial arts master and Asian film sensation Jet Li stars in this hi - octane thriller as a one - man arsenal who escapes from a Hong Kong jail to avenge his brother's murder in Los Angeles.

His latest sci - fi, action, blockbuster, from The Bourne Identity director Doug Liman, shows the pint sized film star has no intentions of slowing down his franchise spawning, box - office smashing movie career, just yet.

LOS ANGELES November 29, 2016 — In support of the upcoming action / horror film UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS, the latest installment in the blockbuster UNDERWORLD franchise, Screen Gems has partnered with the wildly popular platform Snapchat to develop the first - ever sponsored interactive 3D Lens to reach their 150 + million daily users and allow the studio to communicate with Snapchatters in the most interactive and personal way.