Sentences with phrase «budget franchise sequels»

Not exact matches

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.

«Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End» (2007) Box Office Take: $ 963m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 20 At the time the most expensive film ever made, budgeted at $ 300m (before its even more dire sequel, «On Stranger Tides,» smashed that dubious record), the third «Pirates» movie was the one where the franchise's over-reliance on Johnny Depp «s Jack Sparrow really started to tell.

John G. Avildsen directed with admirable thriftiness (the budget was a mere $ 900,000) and created a blockbuster and legendary franchise (six sequels, the last one being Creed in 2015).

Producer Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions has made a career out of taking low - to - moderately budgeted horror films like Paranormal Activity, Sinister and Oculus and turning them into profitable box office offerings - often with promise of sequel and / or franchise opportunities.

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.

Although I was initially a little worried about how a sequel like this might turn out some 20 years after Predator 2, the franchise looks to be updated while still retaining the machismo, the gore, and the mid-range budget (not to mention the jungle setting).

Lost in all the recent drama of changing directors («Deadpool» director Tim Miller has been replaced by «John Wick's» David Leitch) and possible differences of opinion on what the sequel's budget should be (star Ryan Reynolds is said to want it closer to «Deadpool's» $ 58 million, while rumors had Miller wanting $ 100 million - plus) is that «Deadpool 2» could be a bridge to a new X-Force movie franchise.

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.

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.»

The 26 - year - old helmer was the man behind «Chronicle,» which made back its $ 12 million budget ten times over on release in February, and since then he's been lining up all kinds of projects; while he won't direct any «Chronicle» sequel, he is attached to a film version of Soviet - themed comic book «The Red Star, «and is developing not one, but two major superhero franchises, in Sony's «Venom «and Fox «s «Fantastic Four.»

As long as the new franchise is proving as profitable as it has, earning massively more than its budgets, sequels will continue to be greenlit.

The success of the film will likely bolster the sequel's budget, but the franchise seems like it will remain true to its thrifty roots.

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.