Sentences with phrase «franchise film such»

Dustin Hoffman's Quartet and Michael Haneke's Amour may have a good chance of featuring (films with very contrasting attitudes to growing old), but this could well be an Oscars that sees the popularity of the classier franchise films such as The Dark Knight Rises and Skyfall acknowledged with nominations on Oscar night.

Not exact matches

With distinct franchises — including Marvel, Pixar and Disney films such as «Frozen» — she said, Disney is on a «red - hot film streak.»

The film was once talked about as the beginning of a possible trilogy, and the finished product feels desperate to start a franchise instead of doing the thing that would actually make such a series compelling: telling an interesting story with skill.

The phenomenal popularity of J.K. Rowling's franchise — more than 400 million volumes sold — has meant that the films have had to exist alongside the books, and as such, they were too often beholden to their literary predecessors to stand on their own.

Just on a technical level, the film represents such a big jump forward for Saulnier that you should expect the studios to immediately start arguing over which giant soulless franchise should occupy his time in the near - future.

Yet all of Marvel's phase three films and their tentative questioning of the underlying political ethos of the franchise feel like buildup for Black Panther, which in its second act comes very close to completely tearing down the Marvel Cinematic Universe en totale — and making viewers long for such a thing to happen.

While Verbinski would make a name for himself as one of driving forces behind the titanic Pirates franchise, we can be happy that he took the time in between those films to give us such a tender, insightful, and sadly overlooked film.

In any given year, Grauman's Chinese Theatre hosts over 40 red carpet film premieres and since it opened, it has hosted three Academy Award (R) ceremonies and numerous world premieres, including those for internationally - acclaimed film franchises, such as Star Wars and Harry Potter.

But while the prospect of topping such a dazzling crowd - pleasing blockbuster must have been daunting and no doubt encouraged the franchise to be left cinematically untouched for a number of years, eventually new adaptations arose in television animation and back in live - action film.

Typically, Reynolds wouldn't have even been in the running as execs would prefer to have some distance between such a stinker film and their fresh, glossy new potential franchise.

In this series of interviews, the actors - alongside director Rian Johnson - open up about their roles in this fantastic franchise, the extraordinary sets and scenaries they were placed in during filming, and just what it's like to be part of such a well - loved world.

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.

These efforts to layout the «rules» of the franchise, such as they are, tend to be a waste of a film (as with 2009's Star Trek).

Lions Gate plans on creating rides, and attractions based around the Lionsgate feature film franchises such as Step Up, Divergent, and Twilight.

His film credits include playing Captain George Stacy in The Amazing Spider - Man, voicing Francis in A Bug's Life and Diego in the Ice Age franchise and other movies such as The Ref, The Sandlot, Draft Day, Wag The Dog, Monument Ave and The Thomas Crown Affair.

Mix that in with a film that includes aliens, a god and an android (among other oddities) and it is difficult to believe that such a movie could be called the «most human» film in a massive franchise, but that's exactly how Anthony Mackie, who portrays the hero Falcon (aka Sam Wilson) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, feels about Avengers: Infinity War.

At the Los Angeles press day for the film, Daniel Craig, director Sam Mendes, and producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson discussed how Skyfall presented an opportunity to continue to regenerate the franchise and introduce new characters, how they wrote the role of the Bond villain specifically for Javier Bardem, why Mendes was drawn to directing the film, what inspired his decision to cast Bérénice Marlohe, how DP Roger Deakins contributed to the extraordinary look of the movie, and why after five decades Bond is still such a potent franchise.

It's cool to see the return of two iconic sci - fi / action franchises such as Alien: Covenant and now Predators which both can hopefully bring back and add the things we loved from the original films.

In fact, PA3 opened bigger and though it had the series» weakest legs to date, it still ended up with a domestic gross close to the first film and a franchise - high worldwide take of $ 203 M. And while the production budget again rose, it was still kept to just $ 5 million, well under the competition and far less than the marketing costs of such a high - profile wide release.

While Deadline reports that «the script is still be worked on and that those behind the pic want to get this popular Mattel toy franchise right,» such a major delay for film's release — a few months shy of two years — normally doesn't bode well for a production.

It's been reported that Ridley Scott [also directed films such as Blade Runner and Black Hawk Down] has been attached to direct the upcoming prequel for the Alien franchise.

Rob Zombie's films may be hit or miss (I still think that his take on Halloween gets unfairly shit on considering some of the other entries that came out of that franchise), but one thing that I've always appreciated about his work is that he never strays away from what makes him such a unique filmmaker — the dude always makes -LSB-...]

2015 will be great, but in a year where we'll have new films from Martin Scorsese, Ti West and Alejandro González Iñárittu, the thing I'm most excited for is seeing how this franchise will continue after such tragedy.

Well, at least he's doing to be done making the kind of films we've come to expect from the man behind such iconic franchise as The Star Wars Saga and the Indiana Jones series.

This, the franchise's third chapter, actually accomplishes much in providing a larger backstory for the creatures that wreaked havoc in the original film and its 2016 sequel 10 Cloverfield Lane, and puts into context why humanity is such a state of disarray.

Every episode features the deconstruction and mockery of one particular film such as «Surf Ninjas», «XXX: Return of Xander Cage»,» The Room», and the entire» Fast and Furious» franchise.

The film arrives in a time after other YA dystopia franchises, such as Divergent and The -LSB-...]

Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman Tom Rothman assured theater owners Monday that his studio is dedicated to appealing to a range of audiences — from global franchises such as «Spider - Man» and «The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo» series to family films, action pics, comedies and even Quentin Tarantino's Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt film «Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.»

The rise of franchise - minder figures such as Marvel's Kevin Feige and Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy in roles that are an unusual blend of producer, production chief and showrunner, initially looked to be pointing toward a homogenous sameness from film to film in the name of quality control and brand management.

KW: As for X-Men, what a spectacular screen debut you're getting to make by being a part of such a popular film franchise.

If this were to turn into a franchise, not unlike the Bond films that Brosnan was such a big part of, I would not mind one bit.

With Fox's X-Men franchise branching out its universe with spin - offs such as Deadpool and The New Mutants, one film that has been frequently delayed since it was first announced is Gambit, with Channing Tatum starring as the Cajun mutant.

Kevin Baillie has spent much of his career making super-charged effects on such franchise films as Pirates of the Caribbean and Transformers, but for The Walk he and his team instead worked to make those effects as invisible as possible.

The Miramax library holds some of the world's most sophisticated, thought - provoking and critically - acclaimed independent films including sex, lies, and videotape, The English Patient, Shakespeare In Love, Reservoir Dogs, Chicago, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, My Left Foot, Cinema Paradiso, Life is Beautiful, Amélie, Kill Bill, Volume I and II, No Country for Old Men, as well as scores of commercially successful films such as Bridget Jones's Diary, the Scream, Hellraiser and Scary Movie franchises and Spy Kids.

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.

But in the way that matters most, the franchise hasn't changed a jot since the first film: Our three heroes — Manny the mammoth, Sid the sloth and Diego the saber (Ray Ramano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary)-- have remained static as characters, and life in their motley «herd» goes on with no development of any kind in their relationships, such as they are.

Director Ridley Scott includes that de-earing scene, of course, approaching it with the same finely honed horror sensibility seen in films such as the Alien franchise.

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.

However, considering how dense the Underworld mythology is and how each sequel / prequel hardly ever slows down to rehash backstory covered in previous installments (much to the franchise's credit), those in need of any sort of refresher in the world's now vast history will find this an invaluable resource, and the disc producers have executed it in such a way that it never disrupts the flow or skips and / or runs over any key scenes in the film.

If you're bored, just type in Evil Dead or Army of Darkness on Amazon.com — there are more versions of these films released than any other franchise (or at least, I'd argue such).

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Rated PG - 13 for some sequences of intense action violence and frightening images Available on DVD and Blu - ray The final episode of the Harry Potter franchise was a momentous occasion this past year, not just because it was the last of eight films, but because they ended on such a strong note.

However, Kendrick truly shines when she gets to showcase her musical prowess in such films as Into the Woods, The Last Five Years, and the Pitch Perfect franchise.

As an immensely successful film producer, Kennedy's resume includes over 60 memorable films such as ET, the Back to the Future franchise, the Indiana Jones franchise, and Lincoln.

Together, they also created the successful Insidious franchise, and Wan has gone on to direct such high - profile films as The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2, and produced Annabelle and the upcoming Lights Out.

The franchise has also been licensed into other media, such as television series, comics, children's books, and a critically lampooned feature film.

That's because she's a great actress and also such an unconventional heroine, especially for a franchise film.

Opening the night was the (perhaps misleadingly titled) Outstanding British Film category which eschewed recognition of daring and original films such as Berberian Sound Studio and Sightseers in favour of Anna Karenina and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, along with this year's winner - the 23rd entry in the Bond franchise - Skyfall.

Paul Bettany may be known as one of our finest English actors, with roles in such major films as A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander, The Da Vinci Code and of course, Marvel's Avengers franchise.

And after so many films to the franchise, it is a wonder such a plot idea has not been used before, but a strong testament that there is always opportunity for creative rejuvenation for this long - lasting character.

With such a great young director and a strong cast that included Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell, it looked like this film could be the launching pad this franchise truly deserved.