Sentences with phrase «film franchise worlds»

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The world - renowned OG of 007 timepieces, a «Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner» graced Sean Connery's bushy, Richard Keys - ian wrist for the franchise's first four films.

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The film franchise has always transcended the summer blockbuster genre, providing worlds and characters and scenarios that have stuck in my mind.

The mighty Norse god Thor, as played by Chris Hemsworth, is a fun presence in the Marvel Cinematic Universe ®, but his last stand - alone film («Thor: The Dark World») was the worst of the franchise.

«Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End» (2007) Box Office Take: $ 963m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 20 At the time the most expensive film ever made, budgeted at $ 300m (before its even more dire sequel, «On Stranger Tides,» smashed that dubious record), the third «Pirates» movie was the one where the franchise's over-reliance on Johnny Depp «s Jack Sparrow really started to tell.

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.

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»).

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 10, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG for frightening images and action fantasy sequences) Third installment in the film franchise based on the C.S. Lewis series of fantasy novels finds Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pensie (Georgie Henley), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), returning to the magical land of Narnia to embark on a dangerous, seafaring mission taking them to the edge of the world.

In this series of interviews, the actors - alongside director Rian Johnson - open up about their roles in this fantastic franchise, the extraordinary sets and scenaries they were placed in during filming, and just what it's like to be part of such a well - loved world.

In one single scene - an exciting, unconventionally - filmed fight inside a glass high - rise - cinematographer Roger Deakins restores to 007's world a lush, rich color palette absent from the franchise since the»60s.

The film takes place in Los Angeles as we spend our time with a platoon of Marines fighting for survival, but in the background the aliens are attacking locations all over the planet, hence the international title of the movie being World Invasion: Battle Los Angeles (franchise alert!).

What happens when you mix the world of Christopher Nolan's Batman films with the IRON MAN franchise?

The film also continues the franchise's renewed interest in practical effects, making this once again feel like a lived - in world populated by «real» creatures and «working» vehicles and droids.

If it's true that Atkinson was recently motivated by the stateside failure of this very film to check himself into an Arizona rehab centre for depressed celebrities (and frankly, don't blame audiences — distributor Universal didn't exactly tax themselves advertising Johnny English to domestic moviegoers), I hope his caretakers remind him in haste that none of Monty Python's features grossed an enviable sum abroad, that the James Bond franchise has already satirized itself into the ground (it's no casual point that Johnny English was co-scripted by the same writing team behind The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day), and that his first problem is trying to please a country that opens rehab centres for depressed celebrities.

While the most recent film in the franchise (2001's «Jurassic Park III») was largely panned by critics, «Jurassic World» received a warm reception and rising superstar Chris Pratt earned raves as good - guy Raptor - trainer Owen.

The blockbuster second film of The Hunger Games franchise that took the world by storm ignites once again when The Hunger Games: Catching Fire arrives on Blu - ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD UltraViolet), DVD (plus Digital UltraViolet), Digital HD, Video on Demand and Pay - Per - View Friday, March 7 from Lionsgate.

This season's True Detective co-lead Colin Farrell has just signed on to the Warner Bros. project that finds Eddie Redmayne playing Newt Scamander, a wizard venturing around the magical world documenting magical creatures for his book, 70 years before the events of the Harry Potter film franchise.

Chris Pratt's Jurassic World is looking to revive the blockbuster franchise, and news is out that the signature T. Rex from the original 1993 film will be returning - but with some upgrades.

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.

It's balanced execution of claustrophobic cinematography and traditional jump scares set the pace for a new franchise («Insidious: Chapter 2» and «Insidious: Chapter 3» followed) that reminded audiences of what horror films could be at their core: Films capable of absorbing audiences into a world filled with their darkest fears.

It is a symptom of Marvel's oppressive world - building that so much of the film's run time is devoted to new characters like the twins, or Vision (Paul Bettany, actually having a face on screen for the first time in the franchise), or Ulysses Klaw (Andy Serkis, a villain for a movie that will not see the light of day for three more years), squeezing the interstitial moments down to little more than an afterthought.

Pratt is an actor who now finds himself in the enviable position of being the focal point of a number of high profile franchise films (including next summer's dino - riffic «Jurassic World «-RRB- and one of the rare actors who can find even the most jaded filmgoer actually looking forward to those giant studio confections.

The featurette gave an in - depth look at the film's world and offered a small tease for the future of Hope Van Dyne / The Wasp (Evangeline Lilly) in the next installment in the Ant - Man franchise, the upcoming Ant - Man and the Wasp.

I was a little worried about how a LEGO game mainly based on the Avengers film franchise would compare to the captivating open - world exploration of LEGO Marvel Super Heroes.

There's been an overwhelming sense of nostalgia at theaters this summer, with films like «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «Jurassic World» and «Terminator Genisys» all reviving decades - old franchises on the big screen, and «Vacation» continues that trend with the latest installment in the National Lampoon series that began with Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo and a rotating door of actors playing their two kids.

However, his fascination with the world of Avatar has absorbed his time, as he prepares to film the next four sequels to that franchise, so he will serve as a producer instead.

The six all - powerful stones (originally known as gems in the Marvel comics) have popped up in nine of the franchise's fourteen films, movies ranging in scope and tone from the World War II period piece «Captain America: The First Avenger» to the outer space adventure film «Guardians of the Galaxy.»

Last year GLAAD did a big call out to Disney - owned Star Wars considering the sci - fi film franchise features «unique worlds whose advanced societies can serve as a commentary on our own.»

He discussed the trials and tribulations of making the series, with an emphasis on the challenges of At World's End, while also sharing his view on any possible future to the film franchise.

Among the highlights include the world premiere of Chris Evans» directorial debut «Before We Go» (formerly «1:30 Train»), dueling Anna Kendrick films in dark drama «Cake» and musical adaptation «The Last Five Years,» ensemble comedy «This is Where I Leave You» starring Corey Stoll, Adam Driver and more, Jason Reitman's «Men, Women and Children» with Ansel Elgort, Kaitin Dever and others, and «99 Homes,» Ramin Bahrani's financial world set drama which also serves as the first film outside of «The Amazing Spider - Man» franchise for Andrew Garfield since «The Social Network.»

Jurassic World Evolution tells an all - new story that touches on key characters and events from across the Jurassic World film franchise.

Real World Impact: Avengers vs. X-Men coincided with the release of Marvel's The Avengers film, and was an ideal pairing to see Marvel's two major franchise at odds.

Don't miss: The extras include a nine - part retrospective from 2009 on the legacy of the trilogy; a short film, «Doc Brown Saves the World,» with Christopher Lloyd, that shows why some of the futuristic gadgets from the second film do not exist today; a peek at the 2012 restoration of the iconic DeLorean; two episodes from «Back to the Future: The Animated Series;» a 2015 commercial for a hoverboard and a trailer for «Jaws 9»; a five - part documentary on the making of the movies, a look at the franchise's physics; deleted scenes; a question - and - answer session with Fox; eight archival featurettes; behind - the - scenes footage; music videos; commentaries; and a look at «Back to the Future: The Ride.»

«Solo» is the fourth film in Disney's revamped franchise machine to creatively malfunction: Director Josh Trank exited a still - unmade Boba Fett spinoff in 2015; Oscar - nominated filmmaker Tony Gilroy was brought in to save 2016's «Rogue One: A Star Wars Story» when director Gareth Edwards» efforts missed the mark; and «Jurassic World» helmer Colin Trevorrow — who was originally hired to direct the next «Star Wars» movie, «Episode IX,» in 2019 — was shown the door following clashes over the script.

It looks like we'll be spending more time in the no maj world in this franchise than in the Potter films.

Too much time is spent trying to inject the film, which is loosely based on the video game franchise of the same name, with some faint measure of real - world grittiness.

Chris Pratt is one of Hollywood's busiest actors these days with starring roles in three major franchises: as Peter Quill in Marvel's «Guardians of the Galaxy,» the voice of Emmet Brickowski in «The LEGO Movie,» and most recently, Owen in «Jurassic World,» the fourth film in the Jurassic Park series.

The Los Angeles - based company said on Tuesday that it would begin selling official prop replicas from popular films and franchises, starting with the upcoming Universal release of «Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,» which bows on June 22.

The Cloverfield Paradox is an unholy mess... The characters here never feel like they could exist in a world outside of this space station, all of them barking in tech - speak at each other, rarely acting in what could be classified as recognizably human behavior... As the film bumbles from one confusingly mounted scene to the next, disappointment turns to boredom... The Cloverfield franchise is rumored to grow even more later this year with a second world war - set thriller potentially unspooling in October.

The Miramax library holds some of the world's most sophisticated, thought - provoking and critically - acclaimed independent films including sex, lies, and videotape, The English Patient, Shakespeare In Love, Reservoir Dogs, Chicago, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, My Left Foot, Cinema Paradiso, Life is Beautiful, Amélie, Kill Bill, Volume I and II, No Country for Old Men, as well as scores of commercially successful films such as Bridget Jones's Diary, the Scream, Hellraiser and Scary Movie franchises and Spy Kids.

No sequel could ever top that film, but holy moly, the fourth film in the franchise comes closer to replicating that mix of awe, wonder, and fright that neither The Lost World nor Jurassic Park III could accomplish before.

Singer returns here to nab producer and story credits, and his influence is felt all through the production, which welcomes a restart of the franchise by dialing back the clock to 1962, infusing the film with a Cold War feel and a retro vibe, illustrating the mutant reveal while world politics head to the brink of global destruction.

Fifty Shades Freed: Unrated Edition (Blu - ray + DVD + digital) Details: 2018, Universal Studios Home Entertainment Rated: Unrated, R, strong sexual content, nudity, language The lowdown: The world's most tiresome lovers, Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) and Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), return for their third outing in — hopefully — the final film of this way - to - serious and steamy movie franchise.

Apparently Christopher Nolan's influence has fully asserted itself in the blockbuster world judging by all the Star Trek, James Bond and other franchises seeming to shoot and market their films in this manner.

But the project has been gestating for some time while Pratt honed his franchise skills in films like Jurassic World and the Guardians of the Galaxy / Marvel movies.

Black Panther is one of the most self - contained films in the Marvel Universe franchise, ignoring the crowded world of the Avengers save for a Bucky Barnes cameo tucked into the second post-credits scene.

High stakes duly established, Villeneuve, production designer Dennis Gassner and genius cinematographer Roger Deakins (if he doesn't finally win an Oscar for this, the film industry is truly blind) take full advantage of the mega-budget that franchise filmmaking provides to craft some of the most striking visuals ever put on film, building on Scott's ruined future in ways that — ironically given the themes of the movie — feel absolutely real and lived in, even as that world is occasionally revealed to be less than authentic.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (12/10) Third installment in the film franchise based on the C.S. Lewis series of fantasy novels finds Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pensie (Georgie Henley), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), returning to the magical land of Narnia to embark on a dangerous, seafaring mission taking them to the edge of the world.

However, considering how dense the Underworld mythology is and how each sequel / prequel hardly ever slows down to rehash backstory covered in previous installments (much to the franchise's credit), those in need of any sort of refresher in the world's now vast history will find this an invaluable resource, and the disc producers have executed it in such a way that it never disrupts the flow or skips and / or runs over any key scenes in the film.

Coogler is trying for a lot of things in «Black Panther,» probably too many, but there is also a winning modesty to his ambition: He isn't trying to create a new world order in the movies, just a franchise film that delivers the requisite thrills while also providing the ballast of a true social consciousness.