Sentences with phrase «family film franchise»
Eight years is a long time to wait for a sequel, especially in a family film franchise.
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Not only does the feature have a good deal of franchise history behind it, but it also has the same advantage that all family films have, in that kids going to see the film will be dragging along their parents, ensuring extra ticket sales.
Actor Jason Segel («How I Met Your Mother»), seemingly noticing the rash retirement forced onto The Muppets back in 1999 (when their last feature film, the slipshod «Muppets from Space», was released) and the lack of good old family humour and fozzie fuzzy, pitched a relaunch of the film franchise to Disney (who now have the rights to the characters).
This is the latest effort from Shawn Levy, best known as the director of the family - friendly, effects - laden «Night at the Museum» franchise, to prove that he can make a film that's smaller and more substantial.
With the Harry Potter phenomenon credited with re-engaging young readers with the written medium and revitalising the family - friendly film format (as well as kick - starting the trend towards prolonged franchises), the excitement surrounding Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 has been considerable to say the least.
Solo will stay in the Star Wars family with veteran franchise composer John Williams set to write the theme for the standalone film about Han Solo, slated for release on May 25.
The franchise's prequel is set before the haunting of the Lambert family, which was haunted in the first two films.
In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi may or may not be the best film in the franchise, but what writer - director Rian Johnson has accomplished in the eighth installment of the Skywalker family saga gives hope to the recent announcement of a planned trilogy to come.
Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman Tom Rothman assured theater owners Monday that his studio is dedicated to appealing to a range of audiences — from global franchises such as «Spider - Man» and «The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo» series to family films, action pics, comedies and even Quentin Tarantino's Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt film «Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.»
The latest movie in the «Paranormal» franchise follows a new family that moves into a house in Santa Rosa, California, in 2013 and there they discover a box of videotapes that include the demonization of Katie and Kristi as children, whose stories are told in previous films.
It's kind of a family franchise type of film along the lines of «The Mighty Ducks.»
Universal Pictures, the studio behind the «Fast and Furious» franchise, released this statement; «Paul was truly one of the most beloved and respected members of our studio family for 14 years, and this loss is devastating to us, to everyone involved with the «Fast and Furious» films, and to countless fans.»
After the dismal European Vacation, Chevy Chase and the National Lampoon crew bounced back with one of Chase's best movies in 1989's Christmas Vaction — the second funniest film in the Griswold family franchise.
When the first three films in a family movie franchise earn more than $ 1 billion worldwide, greenlighting a fourth installment is a no - brainer.
Taylor, who made the Crank films and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance with Mark Neveldine, playfully references several genres — cheesy family comedies, US high school dramas, zombie movies and the Home Alone franchise.
Not as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open Water 3: Cage Dive, whose shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent months.
Directed by Chris Wedge (The Ice Age Franchise) and featuring an amazing voice cast including Colin Farrell, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz, Jason Sudeikis, Steven Tyler, Pitbull, and Beyoncé, the blockbuster film comes home just in time to help families become one with nature and end the summer in Epic style.
Perhaps that's partly why this franchise elicits a measured response from me; no new family film has any chance of besting the shows and episodes retained enough to adore years and decades later.
- Deadpool, director Tim Miller working on the film - teaming with Blur Studio collaborator Jeff Fowler - Fowler will make his feature directorial debut - Neal H. Moritz (Fast and Furious franchise) is producin - Miller will act as an executive producer - film will be a CG - animated / live - action family film - Patrick Casey and Josh Miller, creators of Golan the Insatiable, are writing the script - Miller: «Jeff is an incredible director with strong story instincts.