Sentences with phrase «first films in a franchise»

The company's first film in the franchise, released last year, made about $ 350 million in worldwide box - office sales.

The Expendables 3 is the first film in the franchise to sport a PG - 13 rating, which some fans will likely be disappointed with, especially since the first two films really pushed heavily into R - rated blood and guts depictions.

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2014's Maze Runner, the first film in the franchise, was faced with mixed reviews, but more on the positive side as the movie itself was able to stand out more than its competition with its more intense sci - fi dystopian action.

The first film in the franchise, released in 2012, transformed lead actress Jennifer Lawrence into Oscar - winning box - office dynamite.

and the headline in The Detroit News: «First film in franchise tantalizes but doesn't transcend.»

While the gimmick has gotten out of hand, the first film in the franchise still makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

Not exact matches

The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

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.

The first three «Hunger Game» films raked in over $ 2.3 billion worldwide, making it one of the most successful film franchises in recent history.

As has become standard for bankable intellectual property (see the Harry Potter and Twilight franchises), the book is being split into two films, the first of which, An Unexpected Journey, will arrive in time for Christmas.

For the first time ever in his career he went the independent film route and quickly found Brian Unkeless (the «Hunger Games» franchise) as a producing partner.

The «Valley of the Wolves» franchise, has resulted in dozens of television episodes and several spin - off films since it was first created in 2003, enthralling many Turks.

Recently, in an industry first, Pantone, Illumination Entertainment and Universal Partnerships & Licensing created an official new PANTONE Color, Minion Yellow, based on the Minions from Universal Pictures and Illumination's Despicable Me global film franchise, including this summer's blockbuster hit, Minions.

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 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.

Another movie that received a surprisingly welcoming reception from critics this summer was this Planet of the Apes origin story, the first film in the long - stalled franchise since Tim Burton's 2001 remake.

The best - selling novel by J.K. Rowling (titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in England, as was this film adaptation) becomes this hotly anticipated fantasy adventure from Chris Columbus, the winner of a high - stakes search for a director to bring the first in a hoped - for franchise of Potter films to the screen by Warner Bros..

Early in the franchise, in the first AVENGERS film, Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) says the saddest thing, «I'm always angry.

In the first film, the sassy Johnson rendered Ana's «smart mouth» as a wry edge that brought some wit to the project without openly mocking the lines, but the franchise's hint of self - deprecation has evaporated as the sequels progress.

The first half of this film maybe the worst in the franchise.

OK now this franchise just got really silly, the first film was actually OK in a dumb kiddie kind of way but this sequel is just dumber and VERY frustrating.

Though the film only just started production, we already got our first official look at Chris Pine and co-star Kevin Costner in the franchise reboot Jack Ryan earlier this month.

Johnson turned in a piece of studio entertainment that for the first time in its franchise's ten - film history was actually about something, yet never skimps on entertainment.

For some time, it seemed as if the first film in the Black Panther franchise would suffer from the dreaded issue of too many villains.

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.

Wired recently checked in with Taika Waititi, who is making the much - traveled journey of indie - to - blockbuster director this year by making his first major franchise film, Thor: Ragnarok.

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.

Paramount has delivered the first trailer for Michael Bay's Transformers: Age of Extinction, the fourth film in the ongoing cinematic Transformers franchise that introduces a new human cast lead by Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz and Jack Reynor.

Even though the cast from both franchises have come together in a single film, Days of Future Past primarily focuses on the First Class cast during 1973.

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.

Our studio had its first ever $ 1 billion worldwide grossing film in Michael Bay's hit «Transformers: Dark of the Moon;» we successfully re-launched our «Mission Impossible» franchise with Tom Cruise, JJ Abrams and Brad Bird; our latest installment in the «Paranormal Activity» franchise had another $ 100 million dollar success; our first original animated film «Rango,» from director Gore Verbinski, earned rave reviews and more than $ 100 million at the domestic box office; and we released global phenomenon «Super 8,» directed by JJ Abrams, who will now direct the newest «Star Trek» for 2013.

Additionally, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade have both been remastered alongside 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull making this landmark release the first time all four films in the epic and award - winning franchise have been available together in sparkling high definition.

King Arthur is said to be the first film in six - part franchise with it's release date set for July 22nd, 2016.

The first film in the enduring franchise gave John Powell the perfect opportunity to write what remains both his definitive action sound, and the definitive action score of that decade, blending large orchestral sounds with layers upon layers of electronics...

That means he was 24 when he made Fruitvale Station, his first film with Michael B. Jordan (and his first film); 27 when he rebooted the Rocky franchise, of all things, with Creed; probably not yet 30 when he was handed Black Panther, the latest entry in the infinite Marvel universe.

He's most popular as the guy who used to play «Birdman» in the first three films of a Hollywood superhero franchise.

As far as the style and sense of humor goes, it does still feel unique among the rest of the pack of franchises out here, even if it can't achieve the level of success in either of those departments that the first film did, particularly in the case of the comedy as a lot of the jokes in this one fall very flat.

Yet in comparison to the first two films in this franchise (Men in Black and Men in Black 2) this third outing offers a stronger storyline with more comic relief provided by the goofy visionary Griffin (Michael Stuhlbarg) and artist Andy Warhol (Bill Hader).

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 success of Catching Fire marks the first time the first two installments of a franchise have each topped $ 400 million at the domestic box office, and both films now rank among the top 15 domestic film releases in history.

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.

The franchise's prequel is set before the haunting of the Lambert family, which was haunted in the first two films.

With our own experience of the books (hey, we have nieces) being that # 2 is actually the best of the trilogy in expanding the mythology to a more resonant plane while still retaining the visceral excitement of the first, and with the director who'll be responsible for the taking the franchise home now in the hot seat (Francis Lawrence, replacing Gary Ross), we're hopeful for a film that at least partially deserves its inevitably blockbusting box office, and the trailer makes it look like it may.

David Yates, director of two of the worst films in the Harry Potter film franchise — and the director of the first Fantastic Beasts — made this comment about the backlash that came from Depp being cast as Grindelwald:

There's a reason why the fifth film in Marvel's movie franchise has that subtitle: The First Avenger.

Whedon returns as the film's writer and director in this once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to revive his epic space tale, and as the first installment in a possible franchise, «Serenity» is without a doubt one of the best pieces of fan service in the history of the sci - fi genre.

It even revealed the date — 23 January 2017, the first day of shoot and what all Iron Man, Spider - man and Star Lord had to say about the first of the last set of films in the Avengers franchise.

by Walter Chaw Maybe it was the anticipation, maybe it's because it's too much like the first film, Pitch Black, but David Twohy's Riddick is merely fine for what it is, lacking the kind of loopy, operatic invention of the franchise's middle course and contenting itself with being a bug hunt in the James Cameron sense of the word instead of exploring more of this universe.

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.