Sentences with phrase «franchise star wars»

A parody of the popular film franchise Star Wars is creating quite a stir on YouTube.

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Star Wars toys are more broadly distributed, with Hasbro, Lego, and Mattel all making toys based on the franchise.

Disney has scale, but the rollout of the latest Star Wars franchise has great lessons for small businesses.

Oscar Isaac is winning hearts as fan - favorite Poe Dameron in «Star Wars: The Force Awakens,» already the most successful film in the franchise.

Of course, complaints about the proliferation of sequels tend to be much louder in the wake of a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviews).

To Cameron's credit, he's optimistic about the next films in the «Star Wars» franchise saying, «I wan na see what they're doing next, where they're taking it,» he said.

And, to top it all off, Disney will end the year with yet another installment from the massively successful Star Wars franchise, with Episode VIII set for a December release.

For example, the LEGO Group associated itself with both the Star Wars and Harry Potter franchises, which kept it relevant culturally and socially.

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.

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 character.

Lucasfilm's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the first of several planned Star Wars spin - offs, hit theaters last month and became another massive hit for the franchise.

According to Hamill, Carrie Fisher, who played his on - screen sister in the franchise, had no problem signing on for more «Star Wars» films.

Instead, it's a re-birth of an old franchise — «Battlefront» — which puts players in a «Star Wars» sandbox of sorts, able to play with series favorites like Han Solo, Boba Fett, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia (among others).

If there is anything that can generate more sequels than the Star Wars franchise, it's the saga of Walt Disney's CEO succession.

All this sets up The Force Awakens — the seventh chapter in the Star Wars franchise that takes place 30 years after The Return of the Jedi — to break the record for the highest grossing opening weekend at the box office.

Iger also noted in his Thursday call that the deal «opens new opportunities» for a unified «Star Wars» franchise.

Life - to - date sales for the Call of Duty franchise exceed worldwide theatrical box office for Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, two of the most successful entertainment franchises of all time.»

Sony announced the launch date during the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly known as E3, where it showcased a slew of new VR video games, including ones for the Star Wars and Batman franchises.

The Disney arrangement gives Netflix access to movies from Pixar, Marvel (i.e., the Avengers franchise) and Lucasfilm — including the hotly awaited Star Wars films, which are likely to be box - office gold.

Disney purchased the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas» Lucasfilm in 2012 for $ 4.05 billion, and has planned for a new trilogy of films as well as standalone installments through 2019.

The company has done well with several of its movie franchises, such as Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar and Shrek, but it doesn't have anything that really compares to the Star Wars library or the Marvel franchise (although Shrek has pulled in about $ 3.5 billion since the original movie in 2001).

Disney and Lucasfilm released the official teaser trailer to the next standalone film in the Star Wars franchise in February, and Howard confirmed via Twitter at the end of March that another full - length trailer would follow soon, although an exact date has not been announced yet.

Even the folks at Lucasfilm, creator of the Star Wars franchise, had their doubts, and turned Eckstein down the first time she came asking for a license to the brand.

With its $ 4 billion purchase of Lucasfilm, Disney adds the storied Star Wars franchise to its universe.

Their dependence on licensing deals with movies — particularly at Hasbro, which owns «master rights» to Disney (dis) franchises like Star Wars — has become a double - edged lightsaber: When movies are down, so are toys.

One option is Disney, which has blockbuster movie franchises like «Frozen» and «Star Wars» under its belt that resonate with younger generations, he said.

With Disney pushing the annual release of Star Wars movies, Star Wars toys are likely to remain popular as the franchise has long been a hit with kids as well as fans of the originals.

In the past few years, Disney has been dominant, with movies like «Beauty and the Beast» and its «Star Wars» and «Marvel» franchises.

The first «Star Wars» movie established one of the most popular franchises of all time and took science fiction movies mainstream again.

After overseeing the reboot of the Star Trek film franchise, he took the reins to steer movie goers back to that galaxy far, far away, directing and executive producing Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

I'm talking about the Disney - Lucas film connection and therefore also the Star Wars franchise.

Covergirl's Star Wars makeup line is interesting, because the franchise has been marketed in the past more to men than to women.

With a different director at the helm, the «Star Wars» franchise went in dark new directions.

J.J. Abrams, the director of the new Star Wars films, has shown from the beginning of the project that he himself is a big fan of the franchise and that he values and respects the responsibility that goes with directing the movie.

But Malone isn't one of those executives, and he proved it by drawing the now - pervasive comparison between Amazon and the Death Star, the evil Empire's battle station in the «Star Wars» franchise that had the power to destroy entire planets.

As much as Skylanders might have been seen by the outside world as Infinity's foremost competitor, it was another Star Wars game that added yet another challenge to Disney franchise.

Coming off a second quarter that saw sales down 19 percent year over year, EA is banking on the strength of its «Star Wars» franchise to...

On May 25, the latest installment of the Star Wars theatrical franchise will drop in theaters.

Last year, Disney benefited from the blockbuster success of the Star Wars franchise, making comparisons in fiscal 2017 difficult.

The year will see new releases in The Fantastic Four, Pirates of the Caribbean, LEGO Movie, Despicable Me, Star Wars, Justice League, Avatar and Transformers franchises.

And with today's being the 40th anniversary of the Star Wars franchise, the timing couldn't be more perfect.

After critical success during the first 15 years of his career, Scorsese found the industry pivoting as tent - pole franchises like Indiana Jones and Star Wars set box - office records and turned Steven Spielberg and George Lucas into household names.

Most of the best picture nominees in recent years are nothing like the Star Wars franchise and, unfortunately, I can't see The Last Jedi getting the nod no matter how great it is.

Disney has the distribution rights to the Star Wars franchise so characters such as Luke Skywalker and Han Solo could be regarded as Disney.

Director J.J. Abrams has made it clear that the up and coming actors in the Star Wars franchise will be the ones to carry on the popular movies.

Yes, there are people out there that are freakishly obsessed with the Star Wars movie and everything connected to the franchise.

For those not acquainted with the Star Wars franchise, May 4th is official Star Wars day (based on the franchise's trademark phrase «may the force be with you»).

Second baby: has seen every Star Wars and Avengers and is heavily invested in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.

But that The Last Jedi came anywhere near The Force Awakens «opening weekend is a huge credit both to the Star Wars brand as well as the success of The Force Awakens bringing the franchise back to relevancy and in The Last Jedi selling itself as a «different is good» second chapter which was as much about the return of Rey and Kylo as the return of Star Wars.

Building a lightsaber Given the impact the Star Wars franchise has had on society, it's inevitable that a segment of the public would love to make a lightsaber, and even train with it.