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Two new comic book film franchises launch in 2015, and we now know who'll be putting sound to these superhero flicks.

Vacation Film Review by Kam Williams Next Generation of Griswolds Heads for Walley World in Travel Franchise's 7th Episode National Lampoon's Vacation is an enduring film franchise launched back in 1978 by the late John Hughes, the brains behind such Chicago - centric screen classics as Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Trains, Planes & Automobiles; Home Alone; Uncle Buck; and Baby's Day Out, to name a few.

Vacation DVD Review by Kam Williams Revival of Irreverent Road Trip Franchise Released on Home Video National Lampoon's Vacation is an enduring film franchise launched back in 1978 by the late John Hughes, the brains behind such Chicago - centric screen classics as Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Trains, Planes & Automobiles; Home Alone; Uncle Buck; and Baby's Day Out, to name a few.

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Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

While not as good as any of the Lord of the Rings films, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey launches a new franchise in an enjoyable manner.

The onslaught of its suspenseful premise and the even sometimes disturbing sequences launches what looks to be a series of of open - ended encounter franchise films to come.

Warner Bros. released two unexpectedly great movies in 2015, and oddly enough both were revivals of film franchises that launched in the 1970s: Mad Max: Fury Road, and Creed (part of the Rocky franchise).

And the studio was unable to launch a new superhero franchise in Green Lantern; though the film grossed nearly $ 220 million worldwide, that didn't come close to making it profitable.

STX Entertainment has announced that it is set to capitalise on the success of the hit comedy Bad Moms by launching a franchise of feature film spinoffs, digital shorts, and a reality series, beginning with a Bad Dads movie, which has been set for a July 14th 2017 release.

The seventh film in the blockbuster franchise revved up the biggest ever April launch and the fourth biggest worldwide bow

WHY: The first Percy Jackson film wasn't amazing by any means, but it at least showed some promise in launching a potential franchise that could take over where the Harry Potter series left off.

Amidst those early signs of viewer interest (Blade), franchise launches (X-Men), moments of director / source material synergy (Raimi's Spider - Man) and 18 or so MCU films, Deadpool is recognizable as a triumph of perseverance and (baby) hand - in - glove casting, as well as proof that R - rated superheroing is viable at the box office (which in turn smoothed the way for more serious takes like Logan).

The story of a garbageman named Simon Grim (James Urbaniak) who becomes a celebrated poet after meeting the garrulous, frustrated title character (Thomas Jay Ryan), Henry Fool remains Hartley's most commercially successful film (on a very small scale), but it didn't exactly appear to be the launch of a franchise.

Rocky made him an instant star, but Stallone continued to work behind the scenes, writing numerous films and directing many of them: he debuted as director with Paradise Alley (1978), directed four out of the six Rocky films, made the Saturday Night Fever sequel Staying Alive (1983), directed 2008's Rambo, and launched a new franchise with 2010's The Expendables.

Looking at the historical record, it's pretty amazing that The Bourne Identity even exists as a coherent film, let alone one that would tap the zeitgeist of the moment, launch a franchise, and help reshape action cinema in its image.

Considering «The Hunger Games» is part of a popular book series the franchise flotilla is launched with the first film and there are nice hints at what's to come.

With this in mind, Francis Lawrence's second film in the franchise (Gary Ross launched the games) is not the place for the uninitiated to start.

Directed by John Hyams, the film is the fourth in a grisly franchise launched way back in 1992.

When: January 11th Why: Unless you're a fan of the «Scary Movie» franchise, which Marlon Wayans helped launch over a decade ago, it's hard to imagine you'll have any sort of interest in his new horror comedy, which parodies found footage films like «Paranormal Activity» and «The Devil Inside.»

Despite sequel talk emerging even before the first film's release, in no way was The Hangover designed to launch a franchise.

His achievements are as diverse as presiding over the 2010 Cannes Film Festival's jury to launching one of the first comic - book movie franchises with his Batman films.

The star of the franchise - launching film, Arnold Schwarzenegger says he isn't a fan of The Predator's script.

Legendary Entertainment and The Pokémon Company announced today they will partner to launch the first - ever Pokémon live - action film franchise based on DETECTIVE PIKACHU, a new character and story in the Pokémon universe.

The 1980s are limited to two films from late in the decade that launched Warner's two biggest franchises of that era.

Avengers: Age of Ultron was bogged down by the weight of the franchises it had to support and launch, but this film feels remarkably less self - serious, even with a larger cast and more personal stakes.

The Hunger Games had found a great deal of success with its second installment, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and Divergent had just launched a film franchise that was expected to be the next hit.

Jamie Lee Curtis is returning to Halloween, the horror franchise that helped to launch her career, in a new film due out in 2018.

Blockbuster films being launched as franchises rather than having to earn that privilege.

Back in 2000 the Walt Disney Company's consumer products division struck gold when it launched the Disney Princess franchise, packaging classic characters from the studio's animated films into an array of dolls, games, and other products; sales for this year alone are projected at $ 4 billion.

Apparently, Summit picked up feature - film rights to the book in March 2009 with the aim of launching an action - thriller franchise featuring a character who is part Indiana Jones and part Sherlock Holmes.

With such a great young director and a strong cast that included Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell, it looked like this film could be the launching pad this franchise truly deserved.

That's well below what New Regency and Fox were hoping, as the $ 125 million film was intended to launch a franchise.

The book has been adapted numerous times, primarily into animation, but a new feature film version aims to combine an animated Peter with live - action human actors with the aim of launching a potential franchise.

Like that film, Minecraft provides a brand name and a blank canvas on which to launch a multiple audience quadrant film franchise.

A reboot of the franchise, the latest film stars Oscar winner Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft (taking over the role from Angelina Jolie) and hopes to launch a new series for Warner Bros..

While the film opened at # 1 it seems likely that Warner Bros was looking for much bigger numbers to launch a whole franchise on.

Sony Pictures will thereafter release the next installment of its $ 4 billion Spider - Man franchise, on July 28, 2017, in a film that will be co-produced by Kevin Feige and his expert team at Marvel and Amy Pascal, who oversaw the franchise launch for the studio 13 years ago.

Following the release of the first trailer for Pacific Rim Uprising, Nerdist caught up with director Steven S. DeKnight to discuss the film, with DeKnight revealing that the plan is for the sequel to serve as a «launching pad» for an entire transmedia franchise featuring movies, spinoff films, comics and even an animated series.

Despite being out of the Deadpool franchise now, the original film certainly launched Miller's career.

The four books that follow the trials and tribulations of star - crossed lovers Bella and Edward — a human and a vampire — sold more than 100 million copies and launched a successful film franchise.

Mortal Kombat 10 could be in development, with a new film based on the franchise due to «sync up» with its launch.

LEGO Ninjago originated in 2011 with a pilot film and a range of LEGO sets which became so successful that it launched its own large scale LEGO brand with over 100 LEGO sets, multiple games including Summer 2014's LEGO Ninjago: Nindroids and LEGO Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin on Vita in March 2015, while there are numerous graphic novels, a LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu TV series and films taking the franchise considerably further into the future to even greater success.

There are currently eight iconic scenes from the X-Men, Iron Man and Spider - Man franchises available and more construction sets tied to the new Iron Man 3 feature film will launch later this autumn.

With its incredibly successful launch, and Legendary Pictures developing a new Pokémon feature film, things will only continue to grow with the franchise.

When the original LEGO Marvel Super Heroes launched back in 2013, the film franchise for Guardians of the Galaxy was nowhere near as big as it is now.

Expectations are high for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and it appears Disney and Lucasfilm are happy with the way the film turned out: today, Disney announced that its director, Rian Johnson, will be launching an entirely new trilogy in the Star Wars franchise.