Sentences with phrase «few franchise sequels»
It's one of the few franchise sequels of any kind in recent memory that feels like it could stand on its own — a feat in and of itself.
https://www.theringer.com/ Not exact matches
Of course, complaints about the proliferation of sequels tend to be much louder in the wake of a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviews).
His first movie was good without being great, and the sequel is largely regarded as one of the franchise's few airballs.
It's all hats off to Wes Craven, (and Kevin Williamson but for the sake of the article will will focus on the former), may he rest in peace, for giving us a fun, self - referential horror franchise that has spawned a few sequels and a TV series, Scream.
We preview 2014's most notable upcoming game releases, including major new titles like Titanfall, Watch Dogs, and Destiny, sequels to popular franchises like The Witcher and Elder Scrolls, and a few key indie games.
A new TV spot has arrived online for the fifth instalment in the Jurassic Park franchise, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom which gives us a look at few snippets of previously unseen footage from the blockbuster sequel; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Why Jurassic Park Isn't Really About Dinosaurs It's been four years since theme park -LSB-...]
Spawning no fewer than nine sequels, Fritz Kiersch's 1984 adaptation is notable mainly for its simplicity and straightforwardness, belying the expansive intricacies of lore in the franchise that would follow.
One newcomer to the franchise that was announced a few weeks ago is Fear The Walking Dead's Cliff Curtis, who has signed on for all four sequels as Metkayina, leader of the reef Na» vi clan.
Not only are there a surprising lack of new releases this month, but only a few of them show any sort of promise, like the latest installment in the «Fast and Furious» franchise and the directorial debut from Alex Garland, which still doesn't make up for the fact that a «Paul Blart: Mall Cop» sequel actually exists.
The most repetitive of horror franchises is back again: each new episode brings so few twists to the ghoulish formula that it's less of a sequel than a remake of the first one.
They've also announced dates for some forthcoming films like the sequels to Fifty Shades of Grey, and also shifted some films arriving over the next few years, such as the video game adaptation Warcraft from Duncan Jones, the sci - fi sequel Pacific Rim 2 from Guillermo del Toro and the first official movie that kicks off Universal's classic movie monsters franchise reboot, The Mummy.
The last few trailers for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom have hinted at it, but this new featurette states it plainly: With this sequel, the team behind the iconic franchise hopes to change everything.
The other 13 are originals, or as I call them, new franchises (a few of them will surely get sequels.)
Capcom's become increasingly cagey about its fighting games lineup over the past few years of financial squeeze but looking at Marvel vs Capcom Infinite's leaked roster makes it more than clear why at least one of its beloved franchises is ready to pup a sequel: the Marvel Cinematic Universe is an incredible important license right now.
Summer blockbuster season rolls on as June brings sequels to previous box office successes, a few new comedies, and a couple of films that look to start franchises of their own.
Long - awaited sequels to beloved franchises that left a rotten taste in most peoples» mouths with their last few entries, and all these people really want to like these new sequels, and the studios / producers really want them to like them as well, so they churn out these super-safe, checklist - following, assembly line products that, in spite of some obvious flaws, don't have anything particularly egregious about them, resulting in an excessively warm response.
The game may be set in the same universe as the rest of the Ghost Recon franchise, and as such even contains a few characters from the Advanced Warfighter games, but this isn't a sequel to the Advanced Warfare sub-series, nor is it a direct sequel to any of the games in the Ghost Recon franchise.
Listed here are a few examples of sequels that were so poor they essentially killed the franchise altogether, and they still have yet to dust themselves off and try again.
Though Battlefield 1 only came out a few weeks ago, EA has just announced that they won't be making a sequel anytime soon, breaking the yearly release cycle of the first - person shooter franchise.
Although video game developer Square Enix had dabbled in a few direct follow - ups here and there, whenever the counter for its Final Fantasy role - playing franchise rolls over to a new numbered sequel, the company completely ditches the old cast of heroes and villains, and even the previous game's world.
We preview 2014's most notable upcoming game releases, including major new titles like Titanfall, Watch Dogs, and Destiny, sequels to popular franchises like The Witcher and Elder Scrolls, and a few key indie games.
After appearing in a few home console conversions and attempts at sequels, the Strider franchise faded away, but Hiryu himself bounced around the Capcom universe to appear in various fighting games like Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3.