Sentences with phrase «first franchise sequel»

Not exact matches

His first movie was good without being great, and the sequel is largely regarded as one of the franchise's few airballs.

While Hatchet has since become an iconic franchise, none of the sequels have been able to recreate the magic of the first film.

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.

Unlike franchises overexplained to breaking point, the sequel repeats the no - frills plot of the first outing with no further depth — which means that as a film, it needs to work as an engine, primarily, to scare us into submission.

Not only that but it surpasses the original creating one of those rare sequels that is better than the first one and is the best of 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.

Deadpool 2 is the perfect sequel, taking the foundation built from the first film and building onto it, creating not only a viable franchise, but one of the better comic book movies, and certainly one of the best comic books movies from 20th Century Fox.

The H is O. Fresh off the first clip, Warner Bros. has unleashed a slew of new images from the upcoming sequel Magic Mike XXL, revealing plenty of male stripper shenanigans as well as the fresh faces that are joining the unlikely franchise.

For many fans, including myself, Bryan Singer's first mutant - filled sequel X2 is without doubt the finest in the franchise (so far).

2016's surprise sort - of - sequel 10 Cloverfield Lane provided our first look at the anthology - like nature of this loose franchise umbrella, and while we wait to see a trailer for God Particle (now possibly titled Cloverfield Station) and learn when and how we're actually going to see that movie, we have confirmation that Cloverfield 4 not only exists, but that it's already completed filming.

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.

Featuring the same gameplay mechanics we already got used to from the first title of the franchise, this sequel will include a better matchmaking system that will allow players to search for clans to adhere to.

This franchise is clearly a valuable property, so it's no wonder that Universal would return to the well with a sequel, this time directed by Cedric Nicolas - Troyan, the visual - effects supervisor on the first film.

«X-Men: Days of Future Past» director Bryan Singer has announced franchise veterans Shawn Ashmore, Anna Paquin and Ellen Page will return for the sequel to 2011's «X-Men: First Class.»

While Denis Villeneuve is steering the long - awaited sequel to Scott's classic dystopian sci - fi from 1982, Scott himself has opted to direct the sixth instalment of the Alien franchise — the first official trailer for which you can watch here.

Fourteen years later, a literary and film franchise has grown from that first effort, spanning six text sequels and eight cinematic adaptations.

They are writer / director Josh Boone's The New Mutants (4/13), writers Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick and director David Leitch's Deadpool 2 (6/1) and Dark Phoenix (11/2), the first time the rumored sequel to the core franchise has been named.

Due to Red Dead Revolver being the first entry in the franchise, it was logical to assume that the game would be Red Dead 3 or that it would have a subtitle beginning with «Re», and indeed Rockstar opted to keep the full title of their previous major hit, calling the sequel Red Dead Redemption 2.

This 22nd installment in the James Bond franchise is its first sequel, taking up an hour after «Casino Royale.»

For those fans eagerly awaiting the next chapter in the Maze Runner franchise, it sounds like everything is all right because Fox provided a first look at the sequel during the MTV Movie Awards this past weekend.

With the critical and commercial success of director Mathew Vaughn's 2011's X-Men: First Class, the X-Men franchise had been sufficiently revitalized and fans were eager to see more of the First Class characters in a sequel.

The film is the third stand - alone Wolverine movie in the comic superhero franchise, which has had various sequels and new casts since Jackman first played Wolverine / Logan in X-Men, alongside Patrick Stewart's wheelchair - bound Professor Xavier.

The lead cast members from the last / first installment in both of those separate sci - fi franchises - Noomi Rapace and Harrison Ford - have confirmed previous meetings with Scott about the respective sequels; which, again, makes it hard to determine which is more likely to happen next.

As we've seen in prior DVD wrap - ups, there's often a sequel among the classic and not - so - classic movies, and Blade: Trinity tries hard to recapture the kinetic energy of the first Blade film, yet manages to feel more like the tenth entry in a tired franchise.

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

The franchise has never reached the heights of that first emotionally tumultuous film, despite the five sequels that followed it.

With Project Diva F released for the PlayStation 3 and Vita and its sequel coming later this year, this next Western release for Sega's Hatsune Miku franchise marks her first appearance on a Nintendo system outside of Japan.

I think this is the first time I've seen a spiritual successor and a sequel to a franchise turn up in the same year.

The most repetitive of horror franchises is back again: each new episode brings so few twists to the ghoulish formula that it's less of a sequel than a remake of the first one.

They've also announced dates for some forthcoming films like the sequels to Fifty Shades of Grey, and also shifted some films arriving over the next few years, such as the video game adaptation Warcraft from Duncan Jones, the sci - fi sequel Pacific Rim 2 from Guillermo del Toro and the first official movie that kicks off Universal's classic movie monsters franchise reboot, The Mummy.

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The Emmy Award - winning producer is once again intriguingly thriving on expanding the mythology of what made the first film effective in his latest horror franchise, with the release of the new horror sequel, «Sinister 2,» which is set to be released in theaters on Friday.

Plus, the writer - director of «Apes» reveals J.J. Abrams and Drew Goddard were the first people to see the sequel and talks about how the franchise is really about holding up a mirror to who we are.

THE DVD by Bill Chambers Just about the only thing that drives me nuts about Blade II on DVD has nothing to do with the way it was mastered: The first film was in 2.35:1, while Del Toro chose to shoot the sequel at 1.85:1 — I loathe an inconsistency in aspect ratio between franchise entries (see also the Alien «Legacy» and the Halloween films).

First Class rushes the details or plays cutesy with them, cramming the essentials into a single picture instead of spreading the inside references around, building conflict over sequels to come in what looks to be a new start for the X-Men franchise.

On the surface, this sequel — scripted by the first film's Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, and directed by franchise newcomers Anthony and Joe Russo — takes a bold approach by playing that old spy - movie game «Who Do You Trust?»

Paramount has debuted the first short TV spot for Gregory Plotkin's Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, the latest sequel in the never - ending Paranormal Activity horror franchise.

The first trailer for Michael and Peter Spierig's upcoming horror sequel Jigsaw, the eighth instalment in the Saw franchise, has debuted at San Diego Comic - Con, and we've got it for you here; check it out... «Dead bodies begin to turn up all over the city, each meeting their demise in a variety of grisly ways.

Is this sequel as fun and entertaining as the first, or is this a franchise that should just disappear?

Now, following two sequels, the franchise is getting another entry and now we have the first trailer for Ocean's 8 and its all - female cast.

The director, once so in tune with what this franchise should be in the great first film and its first sequel, completely misses the mark in this cluttered, noisy mess of a movie.

The sequel to 2016's X-Men: Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix will be the fourth movie since Fox rebooted the franchise with First Class, and the studio's second attempt to reinterpret the seminal «Dark Phoenix Saga» storyline for the screen.

After a solid first installment and an even stronger sequel, «The Hunger Games» franchise flamed - out with last year's «Mockingjay — Part 1».

I think if they would have made this film the first sequel people wouldn't have abandoned this franchise.

I look forward to the day when we get to see Bond just go on an assignment that only exists for one film rather than make every movie a sequel to the previous installment to appease grumpy critics and audiences who never liked the first 50 years of the franchise in the first place.

The first numbered sequel in the franchise since the early Xbox 360 days, Ace Combat is a return to form.

This is the Terminator sequel we've been waiting for since T2 came to a close, and for the first time since 1991, this franchise is exciting.

The first Merc With The Mouth movie is now the most successful title in the X-Men franchise, and while the sequel won't change things much scale-wise, the studio will surely be giving the production all the money it needs to be a success.

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Response from fans was basically poisonous, and Fox decided to essentially reboot the franchise with «X-Men: First Class,» with the essentially unconnected sequel «The Wolverine,» following in 2013.