Sentences with phrase «film franchise starring»

The series was also given a semi-successful film franchise starring Angelina Jolie as the titular tomb raider, Lara Croft, which ended after 2 films.

The third installment of the rebooted Star Trek film franchise starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana.

The penultimate installment in the YA film franchise starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen was number one again at the box office in its second week in theaters with an estimated $ 56.9 million.

A parody of the popular film franchise Star Wars is creating quite a stir on YouTube.

Not exact matches

Oscar Isaac is winning hearts as fan - favorite Poe Dameron in «Star Wars: The Force Awakens,» already the most successful film in the franchise.

To Cameron's credit, he's optimistic about the next films in the «Star Wars» franchise saying, «I wan na see what they're doing next, where they're taking it,» he said.

The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first time in a decade.

In addition to The Last Jedi and the as - yet - untitled Episode IX in the Star Wars saga, the franchise will also yield another spinoff film slated for 2018, featuring a younger version of the franchise's Han Solo character.

According to Hamill, Carrie Fisher, who played his on - screen sister in the franchise, had no problem signing on for more «Star Wars» films.

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Transformers: The Last Knight is the first film from the franchise since 2014's Transformers: Age of Extinction made $ 1.1 billion worldwide (with nearly 78 % of it coming overseas).

The Disney arrangement gives Netflix access to movies from Pixar, Marvel (i.e., the Avengers franchise) and Lucasfilm — including the hotly awaited Star Wars films, which are likely to be box - office gold.

Disney purchased the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas» Lucasfilm in 2012 for $ 4.05 billion, and has planned for a new trilogy of films as well as standalone installments through 2019.

Disney and Lucasfilm released the official teaser trailer to the next standalone film in the Star Wars franchise in February, and Howard confirmed via Twitter at the end of March that another full - length trailer would follow soon, although an exact date has not been announced yet.

But this installment in the franchise would not be titled «Mission: Impossible 4,» because the idea was that the film would be a refresh on the franchise, with Cruise stepping aside as the lead and giving way to rising star Jeremy Renner.

Spider - Man: Homecoming, the latest film starring the famous Marvel Comics character and the second reboot to the franchise, pulled in $ 50.5 million from 4,248 locations in its opening on Friday night.

After overseeing the reboot of the Star Trek film franchise, he took the reins to steer movie goers back to that galaxy far, far away, directing and executive producing Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

I'm talking about the Disney - Lucas film connection and therefore also the Star Wars franchise.

J.J. Abrams, the director of the new Star Wars films, has shown from the beginning of the project that he himself is a big fan of the franchise and that he values and respects the responsibility that goes with directing the movie.

The upcoming reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise features one of the funniest ensemble casts of any film this year: Along with stars Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, the sci - fi comedy will also feature appearances by Cecily Strong, Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd and a bunch of other big names.

The star of the «Guardians Of The Galaxy» movie franchise stopped filming at Pinewood Studios to visit the hospital and quoted Psalm 107 in his Instagram post.

In fact the feel of the film is not dissimilar to Abrams» work on the Star Trek reboot, where familiar characters went through familiar stories to reboot a franchise in need of a kickstart.

Media Advisory WHAT: Five Acres Soiree Under the Stars Gala on Saturday, June 4, 2016 WHO: Serving as co-emcees will be actor Matthew Lillard, currently seen on «Bosch,» on Amazon and of the «Scooby Doo» franchise along with actress Carla Gugino of, «Entourage» on HBO and the new film, «Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice.

In addition to Orange, Selenis will star as Peter Parkers teacher Ms. Warren in the blockbuster franchise film «SPIDERMAN HOMECOMING,» premiering in July.

She became part of a superhero franchise when she took over the part of Gwen Stacy in 2012's The Amazing Spider - Man, and she took a part in the period crime film Gangster Squad that same year.Stone enjoyed a very busy 2014 that involved her returning to the part of Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider - Man 2, and being tapped to star in Woody Allen's period comedy Magic in the Moonlight.

Directed by Alex Kurtzman and starring Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, and Russell Crowe, The Mummy is the first film in Universal's planned monsters franchise.

The fifth film in the videogame - turned - movie franchise returns director Paul W.S. Anderson and star Milla Jovovich.

It is very easy to see similarities with later sci - fi franchises whilst watching this film, the most obvious (to me) being Star Trek from the futuristic space attire to pretty much everything.

With star Matt Damon unwilling to return for a fourth film in the lucrative (and critically acclaimed) Bourne series, the franchise was reborn (though not re-Bourned) with Jeremy Renner stepping in as the lead, playing Aaron Cross, an operative spawned from the same system as Jason Bourne.

The first few years of his career following the departure from the show were somewhat lackluster, but Smits eventually landed the role of Senator Bail Organa in the second and third Star Wars prequels, a move that would permanently cement him in film history in the minds of at least one very large fanbase.In addition to his work with the Star Wars franchise, Smits also made an inevitable return to the small - screen mid-decade with a prominent role on NBC's The West Wing during the show's 2004 - 2005 season.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back is arguably the best film in the franchise.

Decent film that definitely could have been reworked a bit before getting the green light, Insurrection is one of the weaker entries in the Star Trek franchise

This is the ninth film in the Star Trek film franchise, and with that being said, it's clear that the screenwriters were trying to figure out how to create something new and exciting.

The film which opens on October 17th stars Michael Keaton as Riggan Thompson an actor trying to distance himself from an iconic superhero film franchise by starring and directing his own broadway production.

So perhaps it's no surprise that a second film franchise, the Redmayne - starring Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, is upon us.

In recent years Tara is known for starring in the spoof films Sharknado, and is currently promoting the third film in the franchise.

Speaking with EW this week though, the film's star Ryan Reynolds says he has some major doubts about the franchise's future.

Since that time, the star of Dracula Untold has been seen in a wide variety of films - including several blockbuster franchises: Clash of the Titans, Fast and Furious 6, and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, among others - with upcoming roles in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and The Crow reboot.

Deadline reports that the Jungle Cruise movie will be an Indiana Jones - like action - adventure, and Collet - Serra was very much interested in getting his hands on a film of its nature, a potential franchise that he will be able to mould around an A-list Hollywood star like Johnson.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Disney) is proof that even in this era of franchise films, CGI effects and $ 200 million budgets, star power counts.

It's been nearly a decade since release of the last film in the Predator franchise — Predators, starring Adrien Brody and Alice Braga — but that's about to change with The Predator, a revival from The Other Guys and Iron Man 3 director Shane Black.

In any given year, Grauman's Chinese Theatre hosts over 40 red carpet film premieres and since it opened, it has hosted three Academy Award (R) ceremonies and numerous world premieres, including those for internationally - acclaimed film franchises, such as Star Wars and Harry Potter.

With today's debut of the official trailer for «Star Wars: Rogue One,» a standalone installment of the intergalactic franchise about the events leading up to the original film, we've got lightsabers on the brain.

The fifth film in the animated franchise, Ice Age: Collision Course reunites the eclectic starring trio Ray Romano, Queen Latifah and John Leguizamo.

Film School Rejects a new short film starring Oscar Isaac available to watch online Deadline a huge list of in - development franchises - what's the next big sci - fi fantasy hit?

David Ayer's fantasy blockbuster, which stars Will Smith and Joel Edgerton as a human - orc cop duo, was met with mixed reviews from critics, but Netflix is confident in the movie's franchise potential, with Bloomberg reporting that a sequel had been given the green light before the film had even been released.

The Ivan Reitman («Ghostbusters») directed film stars Kevin Costner as the manager of an American football franchise

With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story mere weeks away fans are already looking forward to news of the next spin - off in the Star Wars franchise, the young Han Solo film with Hail, Caesar!

The voice cast for this film is unbelieveable including Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), Claudia Black (TV's «Stargate SG - 1,» «90210»), Ron Glass (TV's «Firefly,» «Barney Miller»), Juliet Landau (TV's «Green Lantern: The Animated Series»), Tara Strong (TV's «Ultimate Spider - Man,» «My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic»), George Takei («Star Trek» franchise), Cree Summer (TV's «The Spectacular Spider - Man,» «A Different World»), Claudia Christian (TV's «Babylon 5») and Dawnn Lewis (TV's «Futurama,» «A Different World»).

The film was slotted to be the fourth in the franchise starring Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult.

director Mike Mendez — that, while it has a charming sense of humor about itself, leans too heavily on CGI blood; The Girl With All The Gifts (B), a well - shot British zombie film that attempts to inject new life into a tired genre, and almost succeeds thanks to young star Sennia Nanua; and the disappointing Phantasm: Ravager (C --RRB-, a low - budget labor of love which, while it plays like a Phantasm fan film, ultimately undercuts the emotional closure it attempts to bring to the franchise by failing to resolve the central conflict between good and evil.