There are so many flaws in pacing, narrative and the strange point at which the film ends that this is far from being one of the
best films in the franchise.
So, I'll likely be watching all of them this week, and you'll get to hear my thoughts on the actual
films in the franchise in a few days.
Saw, which contains seven
films in its franchise killed off its villain at the end of its third installment, but kept him around in flashbacks for the remaining four films.
The first reactions to Thor: Ragnarok, the
third film in the franchise helmed by Chris Hemsworth, have overwhelmingly praised its humour, and some are calling it the best in the franchise yet.
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.
The Purge: Election Year (estimated $ 11.7 million), on the other hand, is doing well enough that it could pass the
previous films in the franchise in terms of domestic gross, already ahead of the pace of the second (and highest - earning) film in the series.
The
new film in the franchise finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team (Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) along with some familiar allies (Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Monaghan) in a race against time after a mission gone wrong.
Three - time Oscar winner Jackson, who described Weinstein and his brother, Bob Weinstein, as «behaving like second - rate Mafia bullies,» also said he feuded with the studio about the number
of films in the franchise and has chosen not to work with the brothers since.
Despite the messy news clippings, the finished product is poised to premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival and will join other
films in the franchise like 2002's Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and 2005's Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith as having used the notable platform at the Grand Théâtre Lumière to bring to light a new chapter.
Mad Max: Fury Road's path to Oscars glory was a famously long and tortured one, and things aren't looking any easier for the (as - yet - hypothetical) fifth and
sixth films in the franchise.
«Solo: A Star Wars Story» is a standalone
film in the franchise featuring characters including Han Solo, Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca before the events in «Star Wars.»
Bloody - Disgusting can exclusively confirm that production is beginning on Saw: Legacy, the
eighth film in the franchise created by James Wan (Dead Silence, Insidious, The Conjuring) and Leigh Whannell.
In 2016, a closed room psychological thriller called The Cellar, written by Josh Campbell, Matthew Stucken and Damien Chazelle, was turned into the
next film in the franchise under the name 10 Cloverfield Lane.
The «Saw» films may be Halloween traditions, but the
last films in the franchise (5 - 7) were some of the worst and most confused, incoherent messes ever in any major horror franchise.
The
13th film in the franchise will make you feel «like you're back in your rec room, circa 1967, drinking Tang and waiting for the Tribbles» one reviewer says
What's far more likely is that Boseman will headline one
more film in the franchise alongside his various other MCU appearances before Wright takes on the role in a third Black Panther movie later down the line.
At the Star Wars Celebration currently underway in London, director Gareth Edwards debuted a behind - the - scenes look at the first
standalone film in the franchise, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Bloody - Disgusting can exclusively confirm that production is beginning on Saw: Legacy, the eighth
film in the franchise created by James Wan...
At 150 minutes, this runtime surpasses the previous
longest film in the franchise, George Lucas» 2002 prequel Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones, which clocked in at 142 minutes.
The announcement arrives this morning with the first details about the plot of the film, directed by D.J. Caruso: The third
film in the franchise finds Cage coming out of a self - imposed exile, and on a collision course with «deadly alpha warrior» Xiang and his team in a race to recover a seemingly unstoppable weapon called Pandora's Box.
That runtime makes it the longest movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, of which «Infinity War» is the
19th film in the franchise.
Indeed, the
non-Marvel films in these franchises that have done best more recently are the ones that stood out from the crowd, like Wonder Woman (which rejected the dark tone of other DC movies), Logan (which felt like a grown - up standalone film), and Deadpool (which loudly razzed the idea of being linked to X-Men movies).
Director James Mangold teased out the first peek at the crew recording the original score for Logan, the third and likely best
Wolverine film in the franchise.
There were effective ideas here, but they never really take off, and the film's potential is squandered on a poorly written script, and the end result is one of the
weakest films in the franchise.
At this point in the game, being the
12th film in the franchise and the closer of their Phase Two, it's no surprise that Ant - Man follows the Marvel formula from start to finish, but Guardians of the Galaxy just last year showed that you can be on the MCU factory line and still bring a flesh flavor to the mix that excites more often than it succumbs to tedium.
Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo in «Solo: A Star Wars Story,» a stand -
alone film in the franchise featuring characters including Han Solo, Lando Calrissian and Chewbacca pre - «Star Wars.»
From the opening crawl, which packs more excitement into it than any of the crawls from the prequels, director J. J. Abrams delivers an insanely entertaining movie that deserves to takes its place as the third best
film in the franchise behind The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars (1977).
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.
This is expected to be the final
films in the franchise ending a two decade long saga of mechanic turned street racer turned heist master Dominic Toretto.
Studio chief and general film nut Kevin Feige, for example, told Vanity Fair that 1987's RoboCop will inspire an as - yet - unnamed
future film in the franchise.
At this time, it's unclear just how much longer O'Brien needs to recover before production can resume on the third
film in the franchise based on author James Dashner «s book series.
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