Sentences with phrase «budget franchises such»
Unlike recent entries in long - standing big - budget franchises such as Assassin's Creed Unity or Far Cry 4, The Order's small cast of characters is memorable.
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Minecraft is a strange bird in the gaming industry — its blocky graphics lie in sharp contrast to the big - budget hyper - realistic visuals in game franchises such as Halo and Grand Theft Auto.
In fact, PA3 opened bigger and though it had the series» weakest legs to date, it still ended up with a domestic gross close to the first film and a franchise - high worldwide take of $ 203 M. And while the production budget again rose, it was still kept to just $ 5 million, well under the competition and far less than the marketing costs of such a high - profile wide release.
Of course, this could just be the trailer, after all with such a bloated budget they need a captivating hook, but it is looking like the Jurassic World franchise is heading down the same sad road that swallowed the Transformers franchise in a morass of overexposure and diminshing returns.
For every viewer happily creeped out by the franchise's simple scare tactics — its video vision of things going bump and creak and moan in the dark — there's another moviegoer completely unfazed by such low - budget prankery.
Plenty (including Wyatt, presumably) must have been nervous about such an untested filmmaker taking on a big budget property, and an important franchise for the studio, but the film proved a surprise smash, and much of the credit (along with Andy Serkis» remarkable performance) must go to Wyatt, who directed the film cleanly but brilliantly, and soon attracted the label of «the next Christopher Nolan.»
However, there is much to gain from having such a gargantuan budget so don't be surprised if the big dogs (EA, Ubisoft, Sony, Microsoft) try to create their own generation defining franchise.