Sentences with phrase «film as a sequel»

Since Jackass 3D has been a huge success, making $ 50.4 million over the weekend, Paramount is considering possibly using additional footage from the film as another sequel.

There are two moments in the film that did make me laugh out loud: the first is when Jonah Hill, trying to fit in at a poetry slam, does a very funny parody of a bad live - mic poem; the second is in the final credits, when the filmmakers take the meta - notion of the film as a sequel about sequels to such an extreme that the idea became funny again.

Not exact matches

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

Mattel (mat) says that under the deal, it can market toys and other consumer products inspired by the franchise and its many feature films, as well as an upcoming sequel that's planned for 2018.

Those films include an already released Marvel's Avengers sequel, as well as the upcoming Minions, Ant - Man, and, most importantly, a new Star Wars.

In fact, the events of the film completely ignore everything from «The Lost World,» and «Jurassic Park III,» and act as a direct sequel to the first movie.

Actually, Netflix, which plans to spend as much as $ 8 billion on original films and TV shows this year, reportedly had already ordered a Bright sequel before the first film premiered online.

And many, many sequels aren't executed with the thought or care of their far - superior original films, especially in series that have stretched over many years — as one sees in the chasm of quality between «The Terminator» (1984) and «Terminator Genisys» (2015).

Of course, making movies is not a cheap business, as Netflix reportedly has budgeted more than $ 50 million per film in the case of the Crouching Tiger sequel and the Sandler movies, according to Variety.

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.

Instead of being an amped up version of the original, «Spider - Man 2» is the rare sequel that tones down the action for what could be described as an existential super hero film.

American actor Mark Hamill became famous for his role as Luke Skywalker in the epic film «Star Wars,» as well as its sequels «The Empire Strikes Back,» «Return of the Jedi» and «The Force Awakens.»

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This is good news for supporters of the movie as the film drew just $ 3.5 million less than «Despicable Me 2» which is a sequel to the widely popular original released in 2010.

Security was on high alert at 84th and Park as crazed Sex and the City fans stampeded the filming of the sequel, forcing Cynthia Nixon to be rerouted to her trailer.

The film's sequels had survivors holing up in places like shopping malls, through which zombies would wander aimlessly all day, as if retracing the steps of their former lives as consumers.

It is not so much based on the 1984 film which starred Jeff Bridges as a sequel to it... Even if you saw the movie, you may find the TV show confusing... If you didn't, you may be utterly bewildered.

This is one of those movies that comes with a built - in wild swing of expectations: You hope with your geeky heart of hearts that it's gonna be as awesome as the movie the awesomeness of which spawned this sequel in the first place, and you know in your geeky heart of hearts that it's absolutely impossible for a sequel to be as delightfully surprising as that first film was.

In this WWE - produced sequel to the 2007 film Condemned, a bounty hunter (Randy Orton) must fight to stay alive as he plays in a publicly aired tournament where he must hunt down his opponents before they kill him first.

That film was similarly shy of new ideas, but the characters were colourful enough to make the mandatory sequels seem promising, as long as there's a good story to go with them.

The film keeps Superman at a distance (if you had guessed «They turn the Superman sequel into a Batman movie,» come on up and collect your winnings), and as such this doesn't give Cavill much to do.

And although Hurwitz and Schlossberg have admittedly peppered the proceedings with a handful of hilarious gags (eg Stifler finally gets his revenge on Finch for sleeping with his mother), American Reunion, saddled with a hopelessly sentimental third act, ultimately establishes itself as an overlong and underdeveloped sequel that could only be loved by hardcore fans of the original film.

It's an interesting and unusual choice (which I didn't know about going in - in fact I actually thought this was going to be a conventional, full - life biopic as I hadn't read much on the film beforehand), and at times I had the sense I was seeing a sequel to a movie I'd missed.

As this film never really spawned a sequel, until the random Disney Channel film in 2003 (almost 40 years later), this ending left a lot to be desired.

The rest of the actors look like they're lost in some direct - to - video «Speed Racer» sequel, save for Evangeline Lilly, who turns in some nice work as the film's Adrian.

Released on Valentine's Day, as are the sequels, it's the perfect spot for a film like this, especially if they are in the mood for some cash returns.

But while the sequel benefits from Reynolds» superhuman charisma as the charmingly annoying, katana - wielding protagonist, the film nevertheless feels too much like more of the same: more of the same gross - out gags, more of the same irreverent jokes, more bits where Deadpool has to regrow severed limbs to the disgust of everyone around him, more running commentary on the movie he's in....

Schreiber got an introduction to a more mainstream audience thanks to his role as killer Cotton Weary in Wes Craven's mega-hit Scream, a role he reprised in the film's sequel, Scream 2 (1997).

It will be extremely hard for the studio to match those figures in 2016, as many of its biggest franchises are sitting out the year and Universal's planned 21 - film slate doesn't feature any sure - thing blockbuster hits aside from (maybe) a still - untitled Bourne sequel.

The inevitable development of a Strangers sequel (it made $ 82m from a $ 9m budget) has been plagued with setbacks and now, 10 years later, it creeps into cinemas, marketed largely as The Strangers and acting as a standalone film.

The trick for a movie of this type, at least one that is aspiring to be more than just a simple - minded exploitation film (such as the original Charles Bronson «Death Wish,» a far more complicated work than usually given credit for, especially in comparison to its tacky sequels), is to create a narrative that somehow justifies such actions without completely overdoing it.

Harris» feature films for 2004 include the live - action remake Thunderbirds and the thriller Trauma, starring Colin Firth.Though her star was steadily rising in Hollywood, it wasn't until 2006 that Harris would really make a splash on stateside screens; and after supporting roles in Brett Ratner's After the Sunset and Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, Harris took to the high seas for her role as Tia Dalma in the eagerly anticipated summer sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

And though Reiner appeared to retire from directing following That Old Feeling, he still maintained a notable presence in film and television with roles in Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven and it's two sequels, House M.D., Hot in Cleveland, and Parks and Rec.Carl Reiner is the father of directors Rob Reiner and Lucas Reiner; his wife Estelle has enjoyed a latter - day career as a night club singer and as a cameo performer in her son Rob's films (she's the lady who says, «I'll have what she's having!»

Directed by, as the opening credits note, «One of the Two Guys Who Killed John Wick's Dog,» the first 10 minutes of «Deadpool 2» feature roughly the same amount of spectacular bloodletting as both that film and its sequel combined, as wiseacre mercenary Deadpool slices a gruesome swath through waves of villainous henchmen.

Deadpool 2, like the 2016 film to which it is a sequel, stars Ryan Reynolds as a violent super-mercenary with the the ability to heal himself from any injury.

In the first film, the sassy Johnson rendered Ana's «smart mouth» as a wry edge that brought some wit to the project without openly mocking the lines, but the franchise's hint of self - deprecation has evaporated as the sequels progress.

Unlike franchises overexplained to breaking point, the sequel repeats the no - frills plot of the first outing with no further depth — which means that as a film, it needs to work as an engine, primarily, to scare us into submission.

Warner Bros. confirms the official title of The LEGO Movie sequel, as well as the logo, in the first teaser poster for the upcoming animated film.

A sequel to the film was originally announced just months after Bertino's feature hit theaters, but it's taken nearly a decade for «The Strangers: Prey at Night» to arrive, a sort - of sequel that gleefully exists in the same universe as «The Strangers,» without being beholden to demands that it pick up precisely where the first film chillingly left off.

The follow up to1998's highly successful «Elizabeth,» «The Golden Age» covers the height of her rule and the problems she faced, but nowhere near as successfully, either as a sequel or as a film in its own right.

This was a blank - slate film experience for me, and it's not a sequel or prequel so much as an independent movie operating laterally to Suicide Club, so why am I even talking about all this.

The [not really] dramatic elements provided continuity, as a sequel, and gave the film just enough substance to distinguish itself in a genre dominated by pointless fluff.

Later this year, he will star as the lead in the horror film TRUTH OR DARE, and make a cameo appearance in WORLD WITHOUT END, the sequel to PILLARS OF THE EARTH.

As charming and gently agreeable as Kung Fu Panda 2 may be, screenwriters Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, returning from the first film, haven't really upped the ante like we expect a sequel to do — much of what transpires here feels so comfortable as to be overwhelmingly familiar, as if you might have seen this movie before and let it slip your mind — until the very end, with its hint of yet another sequel that has me highly intrigueAs charming and gently agreeable as Kung Fu Panda 2 may be, screenwriters Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, returning from the first film, haven't really upped the ante like we expect a sequel to do — much of what transpires here feels so comfortable as to be overwhelmingly familiar, as if you might have seen this movie before and let it slip your mind — until the very end, with its hint of yet another sequel that has me highly intrigueas Kung Fu Panda 2 may be, screenwriters Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, returning from the first film, haven't really upped the ante like we expect a sequel to do — much of what transpires here feels so comfortable as to be overwhelmingly familiar, as if you might have seen this movie before and let it slip your mind — until the very end, with its hint of yet another sequel that has me highly intrigueas to be overwhelmingly familiar, as if you might have seen this movie before and let it slip your mind — until the very end, with its hint of yet another sequel that has me highly intrigueas if you might have seen this movie before and let it slip your mind — until the very end, with its hint of yet another sequel that has me highly intrigued.

Kung - fu kudos to animator Rudolphe Guenoden for the imaginative action choreography and, just for being there, to Guillermo Del Toro (director of Pan's Labyrinth and the Hellboy films), who served as «creative consultant» They surely helped make the film watchable; but the lingering impression is of a perfunctory sequel — one made not to enrich the story or characters but because the first one made a bundle.

I, on the other hand, really can't recommend this film as I found it to be a missed opportunity to create an effective sequel to a good film.

The unseen events bookending Easy Rawlins» (Denzel Washington) transition from disaffected war veteran to private investigator - namely his former criminal escapades with a trigger - happy associate in Texas (Don Cheadle) versus his further adventures as a fully - fledged gumshoe - unfortunately sound a lot more interesting than the story we are being told, making this feel like a sequel to, or a two - hour trailer for, an even better film.

After making her film debut in That Night (1992), Heigl balanced movie work with high school, playing a small role in Steven Soderbergh's Depression - era drama King of the Hill (1993), starring as Gérard Depardieu's difficult daughter in My Father the Hero (1994), and Steven Seagal's niece in the action sequel Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995).

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), which won four Oscars in technical categories for its groundbreaking effects, was followed by a short sequel filmed exclusively as an attraction for theme parks, Terminator 2: 3 - D Battle Across Time (1996).

All the voice talent from the first film — including Jack Black and Angelina Jolie — are back to lend persona to the lovable heroes, but in the sequel they serve more as background to the repetitive chase and fight sequences.