Sentences with phrase «book franchise movies»

While his technical skills drive most of the movie along smoothly and smartly, in the end this modestly budgeted studio movie is all too clearly a calling card showing how willing he is to sign up to make lucrative summer comic book franchise movies.

Not exact matches

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.

I'm acting as the executive producer as well on that franchise, and that's looking at the movie, the book, the comic, mobile, the companions, all that stuff and making sure it's all going towards the unified universe and vision.

4) Information on Harry Potter franchise (the Harry Potter franchise of books, movies, theme parks and more) from EW.com

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Its story of a sadistic plutocrat who likes to punish women in his sex dungeon and insist that they sign nondisclosure agreements accounts for millions of book sales and a billion - dollar movie franchise, consumed eagerly by an enthusiastic female audience.

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.

But what I'm worried about is what it'll mean for movies that aren't summer blockbusters based on well - known comic book franchises.

That, at least, seems like a reasonable conclusion to draw from The Dark Knight, an explosively provocative Batman installment in which exhilaratingly straightforward action sequences are matched by moral complexity of a sort not usually associated with comic - book movie franchises.

Whilst Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban remains the standout effort in both the movie and book series, David Yates» fourth franchise offering in succession returns focus to the elements that made earlier iterations such engaging creations, with the central trio united in friendship as they wage an epic battle of good versus evil.

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.

Red Sparrow is based on a book by former CIA officer Jason Matthews, which is itself part of a trilogy; no doubt the movie's producers have their eyes on a franchise.

Insurgent, part two in the latest «three books as four movies» franchise, ups the ante on action, but delivers little more than some flashy CGI amid a formula growing increasingly tiresome.

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.

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.

In some ways, Neil Marshall's take on the cult favorite comic book franchise Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen will be a very different experience to that of Guillermo del Toro's two movies (the R - rating, for a start), but will also try to stick to del Toro's much - revered style of practical effects.

Chief among those questions is the most important one: whether the new boss will be the same as the old boss (The answer is left for the final movie or, if the unfortunate trend of splitting the final installment of adaptions of young - adult book series into two parts continues with this franchise, movies).

This past weekend greeted eager popcorn - movie fans with a dispiriting barrage of negative reviews for The Dark Tower, the would - be franchise starter of the messy but popular Stephen King book series of the same name.

«The Hunger Games» movie franchise, based on Suzanne Collins» wildly successful book series, reached greater heights with last year's second installment, «Catching Fire».

He points to the quality of the books and the resulting Potter films, which — rarely for a franchise spanning eight movies — never dipped.

There have always been differences between the books and the movies in the Fifty Shades franchise.

As with all franchises, even the stand - alone movie, which was intended to be an one - off affair, is viewed through rose - tinted glasses, a shining chapter in the cinematic history books.

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.

One would think that after successfully re-launching the X-Men with a new A-list cast a couple of years ago, the studio would stick to that cast but as is common with comic books, it seems that creators are always jumping around timelines, characters and stories, it's only appropriate that a sequel that brings director Bryan Singer back into the fold would not only involve time travel but also include nearly every member, past and present, of the X-Men movie franchise.

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.

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It kicked off in 2008 with Iron Man, which gave birth to one of the most popular franchises in modern movie history and introduced a new generation of fans to classic comic book characters.

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.

If you look beyond the big franchises, movies such as «RBG» and «Book Club» show there's an audience beyond the tentpoles.

Most odiously, the movie gave rise to the prolific shit machine of co-screenwriters Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, which for many years polluted movie theaters with its audience - insulting, pop - culture - reference - as - punchline brand of dispiritingly popular spoofery, as seen in such abominations as Date Movie, Epic Movie and The Starving Games, whose title, I would imagine, is some manner of humorous allusion to the popular book and movie franchise The Hunger Gmovie gave rise to the prolific shit machine of co-screenwriters Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, which for many years polluted movie theaters with its audience - insulting, pop - culture - reference - as - punchline brand of dispiritingly popular spoofery, as seen in such abominations as Date Movie, Epic Movie and The Starving Games, whose title, I would imagine, is some manner of humorous allusion to the popular book and movie franchise The Hunger Gmovie theaters with its audience - insulting, pop - culture - reference - as - punchline brand of dispiritingly popular spoofery, as seen in such abominations as Date Movie, Epic Movie and The Starving Games, whose title, I would imagine, is some manner of humorous allusion to the popular book and movie franchise The Hunger GMovie, Epic Movie and The Starving Games, whose title, I would imagine, is some manner of humorous allusion to the popular book and movie franchise The Hunger GMovie and The Starving Games, whose title, I would imagine, is some manner of humorous allusion to the popular book and movie franchise The Hunger Gmovie franchise The Hunger Games.

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).

The three movies from the popular franchise, based on J.R.R. Tolkien's books, are releasing on Blu - ray as The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

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.

When it comes to movie releases, the hot, money - crammed month of July is usually reserved for storming franchise reboots and more comic book films than you can shake a stick at.

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Lament the saturation of CGI - laden franchises, reboots and superhero films all you like, but some fantastic, revelatory works of cinema came out this last year — even some of those comic book movies you're so worried about.

Like a comic book collector obsessively rearranging their longboxes — or, more accurately, like a major movie studio delicately tinkering with one of the most lucrative film franchises in the history of the world — Marvel Studios has announced a name change for its upcoming Avengers sequels.

Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World aside, most comic book movies are centred on men and boys — and that's even looking beyond Hollywood's superhero franchises to films like A History of Violence, Oblivion and Old Boy.

On the other hand, your honor, we did see franchise items that knew what they were doing, and did what they did with confidence and a little class: «Captain America: Civil War,» for example, or director Jon Favreau's live - action / motion - capture hybrid «The Jungle Book,» a movie people loved largely because they didn't hate it.

«The Divergent Series» is fully - ingrained into the young adult movie culture, having set itself as the heir apparent to the «Hunger Games franchise,» and it's guaranteed to make quite a bit of money in its opening weekend, justifying to the Hollywood market machine a four - movies - from - three - books plan.

Through the summer of 2015, they worked in a huge space on the Paramount lot, surrounded by over 10,000 concept images from the franchise's history: the movies, cartoons, and comic books.

Yes, like every other franchise, they are splitting up the final book into two movies.

Between the MCU, DCEU, and X-Men franchise, there seem to be no shortage of comic book movies being produced.

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In fact, it was Kinberg that brought the book to Drew Goddard («Cabin In The Woods»), the writer / director wrote what Kinberg calls an «incredible script» and Goddard was going to helm it, but because of his obligations to the «Spider - Man» franchise (he's directing the «Sinister Six» movie), he had to bow out.

This is the fourth movie in the cinematic franchise based on the popular series of books by Jeff Kinney.

Amid the glut of YA book - to - film adaptations, «The Hunger Games» has always stood head and toe above the competition — a movie franchise that actually improved upon its source material by treating the audience with respect.

This is the fourth movie in the cinematic franchise based on the series of books by Jeff Kinney.

This is the movie that puts the comic in comic book, and in the hands of screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, along with credited co-writer Reynolds, they get this aspect of the Marvel money - minting franchise just right.

Redmayne: Harry Potter — 50m book sales worldwide and most successful movie franchise in history.