Sentences with phrase «book franchise films»
Witty at times, well executed by Benedict Cumberbatch for his first foray into comic book franchise films.
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The Harry Potter book series and film franchise, worth well over $ 21 billion, continues to attract avid fans — even as many as nineteen years after author J.K. Rowling penned the first novel.
As has become standard for bankable intellectual property (see the Harry Potter and Twilight franchises), the book is being split into two films, the first of which, An Unexpected Journey, will arrive in time for Christmas.
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.
Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).
That statement is less of a spoiler than it seems, but is suitably Byzantine for the twists and turns of the final installment of the stupendously popular film franchise based on the even more adored book series by J.K. Rowling.
But the second part also created another possibility — simply that director David Yates wanted to put all the boring and meandering moments of the book into the first film and then deliver a thrill ride giving the franchise the fitting finale it deserves.
The phenomenal popularity of J.K. Rowling's franchise — more than 400 million volumes sold — has meant that the films have had to exist alongside the books, and as such, they were too often beholden to their literary predecessors to stand on their own.
In my previous Harry Potter review, I talked about the challenges the film franchise faced when the books began to grow in size.
As many of you know, I loathe Part 1, as a fan of the books I was looking forward to seeing how this all ends but Director David Yates is a putz who ruined the film franchise and disappointed me every single time.
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After following the franchise from the beginning, falling for Edward instantly, and generally enjoying the books a great deal more than the films.
A quick Divergent refresher course - in the trilogy of YA books by Veronica Roth, and in the film franchise based on same, what's left of society is divided into five factions: Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave), and Erudite (the intelligent).
Deadpool 2 is the perfect sequel, taking the foundation built from the first film and building onto it, creating not only a viable franchise, but one of the better comic book movies, and certainly one of the best comic books movies from 20th Century Fox.
Marvel Entertainment has generated a string of film hits based on stories from its comic books franchise, including Captain America, Thor, X-Men, Wolverine and the Amazing Spider - Man.
Spawning a juggernaut of a franchise featuring a number of sequels, comic books, toys, novels, and Internet videos, «Predator» has become completely immersed in pop culture and gone from a cult classic to an iconic film.
The film, a prequel of sorts to the Harry Potter franchise, is inspired by one of Harry Potter's Hogwarts textbook «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them» and tells the adventures of the book's fictitious author, Newt Scamander.
In the midst of all the franchises coming from studios today, there's one unlikely collection of films that has just as loyal and rabid a fanbase as any comic book, young adult or fantasy series.
He and his wife, Dr. Kristin Thompson (who has a book coming out called «Frodo, Fantasy and Franchises: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood»), are also the authors of the two most popular film textbooks, «Film Art» and «Film History.»
Oh, and I almost forgot Fangoria writer Michael Gringold's loving 40 - page commemorative book that also comes with this set, featuring an efficient history of the franchise and dozens of incredible, rare behind the scenes images, many of which can also be viewed within the still galleries included on the various discs for each film.
Zombieland screenwriters Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese have zero chill with regards to the established tone of a comic book origin film, the X-Men franchise, the cast or the Fourth Wall.
Unlike the Harry Potter franchise, we don't quite know yet where the rest of the Fantastic Beasts films are going as there isn't an accompanying book series.
Splitting the final installment of a book - to - film franchise into two parts has always been a controversial move, and it's probably never been more questionable than with the Mockingjay — Part 1.
Boyd Holbrook's Donald Pierce — yep, the former cyborg Hellfire Club charter member — has been reduced to head merc in charge of reacquisitions, but it's a meaty part if altogether different from his comic book counterpart (which is par for the course concerning the X-Men film franchise).
Despite a passable grade, given the stretched - out feel to the movie, with, for a film about a nationwide revolution, the feeling that it's a bit small in terms of scope, this is a clear example of why splitting the final book into two films, while financially smart, is quite a bad choice for fans, who deserve to feel fired up when going into the fourth and final film in the franchise.
With our own experience of the books (hey, we have nieces) being that # 2 is actually the best of the trilogy in expanding the mythology to a more resonant plane while still retaining the visceral excitement of the first, and with the director who'll be responsible for the taking the franchise home now in the hot seat (Francis Lawrence, replacing Gary Ross), we're hopeful for a film that at least partially deserves its inevitably blockbusting box office, and the trailer makes it look like it may.
Two new comic book film franchises launch in 2015, and we now know who'll be putting sound to these superhero flicks.
Those who read the book upon which the film is based knew ahead of time that it would re-define pop culture references and homages for movie fans - assuming the makers of Ready Player One could get the rights to the characters and franchises referenced.
This season's True Detective co-lead Colin Farrell has just signed on to the Warner Bros. project that finds Eddie Redmayne playing Newt Scamander, a wizard venturing around the magical world documenting magical creatures for his book, 70 years before the events of the Harry Potter film franchise.
Director Nikolaj Arcel explains how his film adaptation is actually a sequel to the books (and what that means for the future of a planned franchise).
Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald return to produce and Barry Sonnenfeld, who directed the first two films of the franchise, will direct the film from a screenplay written by Ethan Cohen, based on the comic book by Lowell Cunningham.
At this time, it's unclear just how much longer O'Brien needs to recover before production can resume on the third film in the franchise based on author James Dashner «s book series.
Considering «The Hunger Games» is part of a popular book series the franchise flotilla is launched with the first film and there are nice hints at what's to come.
Suzanne Collins, the author of «The Hunger Games» book series, has written a goodbye letter to the franchise after the release of the final film.
He points to the quality of the books and the resulting Potter films, which — rarely for a franchise spanning eight movies — never dipped.
Other highlights include Fox recalling the original film's royal screening, in which he was seated next to Princess Diana and had to use the bathroom the whole time; Secret Cinema's alluring Back to the Future exhibition (in which the 1955 Hill Valley was impressively recreated); a discussion of BTTF books that have been published; and homages to the franchise from ABC's «The Goldbergs» (whose creator Adam F. Goldberg is both an executive producer and interview subject here) to «American Dad» and Harmon's «Rick and Morty.»
She helped to reboot a comic book film franchise, Spider - Man, opposite Andrew Garfield in 2012's The Amazing Spider - Man and its 2014 sequel The Amazing Spider - Man 2.
For his part, Stahelski is a huge fan of the property in every form — the film franchise, TV series and books — and points to the basic hook of the mythology as the reason the fandom has endured in spite of the original film's sillier qualities.
His achievements are as diverse as presiding over the 2010 Cannes Film Festival's jury to launching one of the first comic - book movie franchises with his Batman films.
ComingSoon.net caught a banner for the franchise's fourth installment at the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas that shows off the film's new 2015 release date and reported that the event's programming book states the film will be shot in 3D, too.
The film marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, whose seven beloved Harry Potter books were adapted into one of the highest grossing film franchises of all time.
The previous films in the DC Comics Extended Universe series (Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, and Suicide Squad) have left both critics and comic - book fans increasingly disappointed in the franchise's output; as a result, Wonder Woman, which is receiving its release ahead of the first Justice League movie (set to premiere this November), has been saddled with the burden of recovering DC's tainted reputation in the eyes of viewers, while also representing the first major female - fronted superhero flick in more than a decade.
Only Christopher Reeve (I almost feel if I have to say as «Superman» you may need to stop reading) and Hugh Jackman (Wolverine in the «X-Men» franchise) have played the same comic book character in as many films.
One of the problems with the film, which held true in the 1980s, when the G.I. Joe franchise entertained kids through TV cartoon shows and comic books, is that there are too many characters vying for too little screen time.
As all good franchises come to a sad end, it seems, off late, the studios are increasingly unwilling to let them go very easily, dissecting one short book into 2 and 3 films — The Hobbit — The Deathly Hallows.
Boone is currently working on a revamped movie franchise for Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles book series, as well as a film adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand.
The film marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, whose beloved Harry Potter books were adapted into the top - grossing film franchise of all time.
All told, The Death Cure provides a satisfying conclusion to The Maze Runner trilogy that will likely appease fans of the film franchise, and the book series written by James Dashner (who appears with a brief cameo early on in the movie).
Well, few people love William Friedkin, John Boorman, and Paul Schrader as much as I do, but in my book, of the six or so films that have tried to turn that tortured title into a continuing franchise Blatty's The Exorcist III is the best, hands down.»
Comic - book - to - film franchise starters often sag under the weight of creation stories, establishing conflict between the super-heroic and super-villainous and introducing a roster of iconic characters familiar to comics geeks but unknown to the general movie - going public.