Sentences with phrase «film in the franchise featuring»

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.»

«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.»

Not exact matches

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 characteIn 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 charactein 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.

Not only does the feature have a good deal of franchise history behind it, but it also has the same advantage that all family films have, in that kids going to see the film will be dragging along their parents, ensuring extra ticket sales.

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.

Neither has gone on to demonstrate any real potential outside of this series, with Miller participating in the seemingly endless Madagascar franchise and Hui doing little outside of short films based off already successful features.

Spawning a juggernaut of a franchise featuring a number of sequels, comic books, toys, novels, and Internet videos, «Predator» has become completely immersed in pop culture and gone from a cult classic to an iconic film.

Actor Jason Segel («How I Met Your Mother»), seemingly noticing the rash retirement forced onto The Muppets back in 1999 (when their last feature film, the slipshod «Muppets from Space», was released) and the lack of good old family humour and fozzie fuzzy, pitched a relaunch of the film franchise to Disney (who now have the rights to the characters).

This is an exceptionally cool announcement, considering that Halloween H20 is one of the most popular and controversial sequels in the entire Halloween franchise, and this marks the first time that a feature commentary track has ever been provided for the film.

Directed by Academy Award ® nominee Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena), this emotional film features stunning and witty performances from Academy Award ® winner Judi Dench (Shakespeare In Love, Philomena), Ali Fazal (Furious 7), Eddie Izzard (Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen), Addel Akhtar (The Dictator, The Big Sick) and Michael Gambon (Harry Potter franchise).

Though realized on a more modest scale than other Aardman features, the film is still an absolute delight in terms of set and character design, with sophisticated blink - and - you'll - miss - it detailing to counterbalance the franchise's cruder visual trademarks.

Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as the blockbuster first installment of The Hunger Games franchise, The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn — Part 2, Now You See Me, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, Warm Bodies, Snitch, Texas Chainsaw 3D, The Expendables 2, The Possession, Sinister, Arbitrage and Pantelion Films» breakout hit Instructions Not Included, the highest - grossing Spanish - language film ever in the U.S.

The film is the latest in a series of annual media events from Disney, which with «The Little Mermaid,» «Beauty and the Beast» and «Aladdin» reinvented its franchise of animated feature films.

Although Cameron also didn't have a hand in Terminator: Genisys, he has already expressed his support of the feature, calling it the true third film in the franchise.

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.

Honorable Mentions: As usual, some good films have to fall just outside the top 10 list including: Tommy Lee Jones «feature - length directorial debut, «The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada ``; Christopher Nolan «s excellent, in - between - Batman - movies cum rival magician film, «The Prestige,» starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; Guillermo del Toro «s fantastical fairy tale, «Pan's Labyrinth ``; Sofia Coppola «s anachronistic teen alienation set in the 16th century, «Marie Antoinette ``; Martin Campbell «s superb rebooting of the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.»

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.

The film's cast includes the great Brad Dourif, who will once again voice the possessed doll Chucky, as well as some other returning characters, including Dourif's daughter Fiona, who is reprising her Curse role of Nica Pierce, and fellow franchise veterans Alex Vincent, who starred as Andy in the first two Child's Play movies and had a surprise cameo in an after - credits scene in Curse, and Jennifer Tilly, who voiced Chucky's soulmate Tiffany in Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky and was also featured breifly in Curse.

Directed by: Dean DeBlois Written by: Dean DeBlois Main Cast: Voices of Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Djimon Hounsou, Christopher Mintz - Plasse, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and others Past Oscar relations: The first film in the franchise was nominated for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score Here -LSB-...]

But before I do, I'd like to say a tremendous thank you to everyone associated with the film franchise,» Suzanne wrote in the letter, featured on Scholastic «s website.

The only film from the Final Destination franchise to be eligible for this list, it's not the best of the franchise, but it featured some of the series» more memorable sequences, including a gymnastics routine that is a master class in playing with the audience's paranoia.

Screenwriter and producer Diablo Cody's second feature film, an ersatz horror story set in a small town high school, provides the first real test as an actor for internet - manufactured hottie Megan Fox, until now lost among giant robots and special effects in the Transformers franchise.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch is the black sheep of the whole franchise, as it's the only film that doesn't feature Myers, but it also stands out as being the best sequel in the series that creates its own mythology.

The bebop idea of riffing on a melody to the extent that the melody becomes unrecognizable (with an attendant introduction of dozens of beats to the standard four - beat bar) carries through in the frenetic kineticism of series that also, by its format, mirrors jazz bebop's compact agility (generally carried by quartet and quintet arrangements)-- making a feature - length film, then, a strange place for the «Cowboy Bebop» franchise to go.

Rian Johnson will next year release his biggest feature film to date, the eighth film in that little known Star Wars franchise.

In this feature piece Chris Neill looks at the original film in each of the three major slasher franchises to come out of the late»70s / early»80s and compares them to their modern Hollywood rebootIn this feature piece Chris Neill looks at the original film in each of the three major slasher franchises to come out of the late»70s / early»80s and compares them to their modern Hollywood rebootin each of the three major slasher franchises to come out of the late»70s / early»80s and compares them to their modern Hollywood reboots.

Rating: Hoopla Factor: Mired in the mess of editing cliches that betray this most modern version of the venerable franchise as «a Guy Ritchie film», Sherlock Holmes features a confused and incomplete storyline and seems more like a preface to its inevitable sequels than a fully realised feature film in its own right.

Arriving Saturday night is an extended version of the high - octane The Fate of the Furious (2017, not rated), the eighth film in the car caper franchise with Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson, featuring footage not seen in theaters.

Helmed by Disney storyboard artist Brian Fee who has never directed a feature film prior to this film, Cars 3 returns to its roots, reminding franchise lovers why they love the series in the first place.

Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent successes as the blockbuster first two installments of The Hunger Games franchise, The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, A Madea Christmas, Now You See Me, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, Warm Bodies, The Expendables 2, The Possession, Sinister, Roadside Attractions» Mud and Pantelion Films» breakout hit Instructions Not Included, the highest - grossing Spanish - language film ever released in the U.S.

Do we really need to explain why this mega sequel that is 10 years in the making and features upwards of 50 characters, massive movie stars and franchise altering storylines that will redefine the biggest brand in film, is on this list?

Plus, in the studio's obvious effort to reboot the franchise, it put the feature films New Mutants and X-Men: Dark Phoenix into play, and ordered the X-Men themed TV series The Gifted.

Uniting everyone from highbrow cinephiles to explosion - happy genre fans (the film featured on all but two of the seventeen lists submitted), George Miller's fourth movie in his post-apocalyptic franchise was an absolute wonder, literally the best action movie in decades, and a classic even before the title character (Tom Hardy) has had his mask removed.

The scene featuring the world's largest film stunt explosion is spectacular and will live long in the memory as one of the outstanding moments in the Bond franchise.»

Middle Earth is a dangerous place in this film, with giant spiders and pretty aggressive elves lurking in the forests of Mirkwood, and the Tolkien franchise once again gives viewers a visual treat, featuring not only the beauty of nature but also a fascinating take of Lake - town as a decrepit, cold and unforgiving town (think 19th century London, minus the smog), complete with a morally corrupt mayor and a gullible crowd.

One of the original stars of the film franchise, portraying Rogue back in 2000's X-Men and a number of subsequent features, Anna Paquin has revealed her thoughts on a cameo appearance in the latest X-Men themed TV series The Gifted.

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.

As Donna in Halloween: Resurrection, Daisy McCrackin suffered a grisly and very creepy death at the hands of Michael Myers, but the actress tells us that her experiences on the set of the eighth entry in the franchise were nothing but positive, leaving her with fond memories of her feature film debut.

film in the venerable (if wildly uneven) X-Men film franchise to feature one James «Logan» Howlett, a.k.a. Weapon X, a.k.a. Wolverine.

Directed by Chris Wedge (The Ice Age Franchise) and featuring an amazing voice cast including Colin Farrell, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz, Jason Sudeikis, Steven Tyler, Pitbull, and Beyoncé, the blockbuster film comes home just in time to help families become one with nature and end the summer in Epic style.

I would also like to note that «The Complete Series: Resident Evil 1 - 5» will also be available on Blu - ray with UltraViolet starting December 21st, including each 2D feature film in the Resident Evil franchise.

The Wolverine is the least action packed in the franchise, yet features one of the best scenes from any of the seven films.

Also: a musical featuring Hugh Jackman and CGI elephants; a Ridley Scott thriller more known for its reshoots than its story; the supposedly last entry in a horror franchise; and two very different indie films.

That the first of Ian Fleming's Bond books actually featured a Bentley is inconsequential, as is the fact that the 24 - film franchise has had the spy in everything from an AMC Hornet to a Toyota 2000GT.

, capitalizing on this combined expertise, specializes in franchises for the entertainment industry, including animation and live - action feature films, plus television, DVDs, video games, merchandising and related ancillary markets, all of which contribute to global expansion.

 Marvel's strategy is to leverage its franchises in a growing array of opportunities around the world, including feature films, consumer products, toys, video games, animated television, direct - to - DVD and online.

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens marks the triumphant return of the No. 1 LEGO videogame franchise, allowing fans and newcomers to relive the action from the hit film in a way that only LEGO games can offer, featuring storylines from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, retold through the clever and witty LEGO lens.

It will also apparently feature a character whose likeness is based off of famed film director Guillermo Del Toro, a close friend of Kojima's who was previously tapped to help the Metal Gear creator develop a new entry in the Silent Hill franchise called «Silent Hills» before Konami scrapped the project during their tumultuous split from Kojima.

However, years before this series rose from the dead, there were talks of a full feature length film in 2005 when Crystal Sky Pictures acquired the rights to the classic franchise.

Rango, which was directed by Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise maestro Gore Verbinski, is the first animated feature from Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects studio founded by George Lucas in 1975.