Following the release of the first trailer for Pacific Rim Uprising, Nerdist caught up with director Steven S. DeKnight to discuss the film, with DeKnight revealing that the plan is for the sequel to serve as a «launching pad» for an entire transmedia
franchise featuring movies, spinoff films, comics and even an animated series.
Not exact matches
This boys» Despicable Me graphic tee
features your favorite minion design from the popular
movie franchise.
Then, as the
movie began, I realized that a child with a cell phone represents what DreamWorks Animation, the producer of this most lucrative of
franchise animated
features, envisions its audience to be — tiny, pre-corporate techies who live far from the fairy - tale emotion of enchantment.
This
movie's dramatic failings make it look like the crowd - pleasing Creed, the unlikely revival of an old Sylvester Stallone
franchise, may be the most productive major studio's most likely ticket to the Best Picture and acting category races that have consistently
featured its output.
The division, whose first
feature film Open Season led to a very successful
movie franchise, is turning 10 this year.
Despite a moderate box office take, the Ocean's Eleven
franchise spawned three
movies in the 2000s
featuring George Clooney, Matt Damon, and a talented team of leading men.
STX Entertainment has announced that it is set to capitalise on the success of the hit comedy Bad Moms by launching a
franchise of
feature film spinoffs, digital shorts, and a reality series, beginning with a Bad Dads
movie, which has been set for a July 14th 2017 release.
Since no
movie franchise can be complete without one, Skull Island
features a post-credit scene so stick around.
Thor: Ragnarok marks a huge tonal shift for the Thor
franchise into full - on comedy territory, but we've just learned that the
movie also
features a potentially significant benchmark for the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a whole: the first LGBTQI character in Marvel Studios history.
The enduring Mission Impossible
franchise continues with the release of the fourth
movie in this cinematic series
featuring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt.
The video, seen above, kicked off production and
features the cast inviting fans to make
franchise history as the first fans to ever win a walk - on role in a Star Trek
movie.
Franchise creators Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick wrote and directed the pilot which
featured the same humor, violence and characters and as the
movie, but with less recognizable actors.
Rosemary wrote, directed and produced her second
feature, Silver Skies, with George Hamilton, Jack McGee, Valerie Perrine, Alex Rocco, Barbara Bain, Mariette Hartley, Heather McComb, Micah Hauptman; executive produced by Fred Roos (St. Vincent, Lost in Translation, The Godfather
movies) and Arthur Sarkissian (the Rush Hour
franchise).
This
movie is part of a
franchise featuring Free Willy and Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home.
This
movie is part of a
franchise featuring: Free Willy and Free Willy 3: The Rescue.
Dating back to the 1980's the Vacation
franchise has
featured a series of
movies that many of us remember even if we weren't quite old enough to be there...
As the second
feature - length installment in Phase 3 of the MCU, Doctor Strange is primed to go down as one of the most successful standalone entries in the entire Marvel Comics
movie franchise - and the latest word has the production on track to reach another major box office mark.
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.»
It looks like we may be seeing a few familiar faces in Pacific Rim: Uprising, with cinematographer Dan Mindel sharing an image to Instagram which
features a cast list that includes several names from the Guillermo del Toro - directed first
movie, along with one potential newcomer to the
franchise...
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.
Dating back to the 1980's the Vacation
franchise has
featured a series of
movies that many of us remember even if we weren't quite old enough to be there when they started being released.
Namco Bandai launching 3DS installment in fighting game
franchise for Valentine's Day; game to
feature more than 40 characters, Tekken: Blood Vengeance 3D
movie.
It looks like we may be seeing a few familiar faces in Pacific Rim: Uprising, with cinematographer Dan Mindel sharing an image to Instagram which
features a cast list that includes several names from the Guillermo del Toro - directed first
movie, along with one potential newcomer to the
franchise... The cast list includes Rinko Kikuchi (Mako Mori), Charlie -LSB-...]
With the first trailer for Hotel Transylvania 3 set to arrive tomorrow, a poster has been released for the upcoming third instalment in the animated monster
movie franchise featuring Adam Sandler's Dracula, who doesn't seem best pleased to be going on a family vacation; check it out below... In Sony Pictures Animation's Hotel Transylvania 3, -LSB-...]
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.
The TV
franchise has already inspired many
movies, including: Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (
featuring the original Kirk and Spock - played by William Shatner and Leonard Nemoy) and Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis (starring the Next Generation crew, with Patrick Stewart at the helm as Captain Picard).
He argued that Universal needs another
franchise outside of its «Fast & Furious»
movies, its Illumination Entertainment animated
features — including the studio's most recent success with «The Secret Life of Pets» — and others previously mentioned in order to stay competitive.
Greenlighted by the studio to capitalize on the
franchise while it was still hot, Dante and screenwriter Charles S. Haas (Matinee) made the film they want to see, and being the creature -
feature lovers and film fanatics that they are, this meant a
movie for people who saw things the same.
This
movie is the third in the
franchise which
features Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness.
NEW THE ANGRY BIRDS
MOVIE Rovio Entertainment and Sony Pictures»
feature adaptation of the hugely popular mobile game
franchise took flight in 74 markets this weekend — which is 63 % of the offshore footprint.
Successful
movie franchises featuring young covert operatives include: Agent Cody Banks I and its sequel Agent Cody Banks II: Destination London, and Spy Kids — Episode I, Episode II and Episode 3 - D: Game Over.
Despite being a successful
movie in its own right, 10 Cloverfield Lane bore little resemblance to its supposed predecessor - something that perhaps shouldn't come as a surprise considering the
movie was originally envisioned as a standalone
feature called The Cellar and later re-worked into the Cloverfield
franchise.
The 67 - year - old actor - who has starred in «The Pirates of the Caribbean»
franchise - became an international star in «Love Actually» but he claims he has never seen a single
movie he's
featured in because he doesn't like to watch his acting.
He'd done more work than a lot of the other independent directors that made the leap, having made three
features (Brick, The Brothers Bloom and Looper) and directed some very well received episodes of Breaking Bad, but it's hard to imagine any of that adequately prepared him for directing the middle chapter of the new trilogy in biggest
franchise in
movie history for the biggest studio on the planet.
Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. want to remind you that King Kong isn't the only
movie monster in this creature
feature franchise
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?
No surprise, the
movie that is taking the deep - space drama down is Bad Grandpa — the latest
feature in the successful Jackass
franchise.
Numerous iconic locations from the Halloween
franchise are now confirmed to be
featured in the new
movie, including Haddonfield High School, Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, and Smith's Grove Sanitarium.
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.
Since then, he has concentrated on doing only
movies that would pay handsomely and take him away from home as little as possible, which is how he came to
feature in two of the biggest blockbuster
franchises in cinema history: Harry Potter (where he was Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, from the third instalment onwards) and the Dark Knight trilogy (in which he played Police Commissioner James Gordon).
Though competition from Warner Brothers» already successful The LEGO
Movie and Disney's upcoming Big Hero 6 will likely be fierce, the Dragon
franchise has generated a large amount of goodwill (the first entry would have likely won in a year that had not
featured as formidable a contender as Toy Story 3, which also
featured in the main Best Picture race) that could give it the advantage.
Fox is looking to reset its X-Men
franchise, and that revamped collection of
movies will likely include Deadpool 3,
featuring a separate team of mutants known as the X-Force.
This
movie is a belated sequel to a
franchise that
features Jurassic Park (1993), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and Jurassic Park III (2001).
As a Disney fan, I loved that each of the playsets in Disney Infinity
featured a brand new story for each
franchise rather than a retelling of their
movies.
Empire has revealed a new image from the fifth instalment of the Jurassic Park
franchise, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
featuring Bryce Dallas Howard, Justice Smith, and a rather mean looking dinosaur; take a look below... SEE ALSO: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will set up the plot of the next Jurassic World
movie Meanwhile, speaking to the outlet, -LSB-...]
Ultimately, the only way to keep these
movies at
feature length may be to put strict limits on
franchise overlap.
The whole thing looks and feels like an extended episode of some Starz series, and you almost get the sense that first - time
feature film director Aleksander Bach is attempting to ape the Resident Evil
movies, another
franchise with bad writing, silly action and only the most tenuous connection to the video games that inspired it.
Jaguar Land Rover vehicles have
featured prominently in the
movie franchise since 1983 and this is the automaker's way of tying itself even closer to the James Bond brand.
14 years the Fast and Furious
franchise has been racing forward with
movie after
movie featuring sexy cars, hardcore drivers, and chase scenes that will have you on the edge of your seat.
This will give you added
features and content that are a continuation of the
movie and gauge the success of the
franchise based on app sales.