Sentences with phrase «franchise films after»

Holy shit, maybe Johnny Depp isn't making shitty franchise films after all.

Portman is a massively popular, Oscar - winning actress, who kind of swore off franchise films after the Star Wars prequels.

Not exact matches

Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

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 Harry Potter book series and film franchise, worth well over $ 21 billion, continues to attract avid fans — even as many as nineteen years after author J.K. Rowling penned the first novel.

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.

The bombast of the G.I. Joe and Transformers franchises might suggest no, but after an uninspired year for animated movies, The Lego Movie is a 3 - D animated film that connects, as an homage to the ingenious Danish - born construction game, along with a subversively flippant story about thinking outside the blocks.

At no point will I ever consider the Harry Potter series to be a great one, but after eight films and 10 years, I must admit it developed into a consistent, dynamic and engaging franchise.

After following the franchise from the beginning, falling for Edward instantly, and generally enjoying the books a great deal more than the films.

While I admire actors who do not want to be chained to their franchises — Hill has the 21 JUMP STREET sequels — after his Scorsese triumph he should put his money in buying roles in top director's films.

Given the current obsession with reboots, revisits and rehashes, it's strange that the Final Destination franchise hasn't cheated death and been dragged back to life after five films and $ 665m in the bank.

The final outing in the series for Shia LaBeouf and co (though Megan Fox was replaced here already, after falling out with Bay), with John Malkovich and Frances McDormand among those paying for new houses with a few weeks work, the film does at least have a striking moon - landing themed opening, and an enormous extended climax that marks a high watermark for the franchise's action (particularly an impressive Halo jump sequence done for real).

There was a lot of criticism regarding Sony's decision to reboot the Spider - Man franchise only a decade after Sam Raimi's first film was released, but it was time for a change.

I'll have to revisit the first two films — after watching this trailer 6 times I've a new respect for the Iron Man franchise...

Yep, there already was a Hitman film in 2007 starring Timothy Olyphant, but a movie franchise stalled after installment grossed only $ 39 million domestically.

Hugh Jackman is stepping away from the X Men franchise after a massive 17 years, with new film Logan being his last ever film as the hot headed hero.

Following this uber - short Q&A session with the original «Scream» crew, four new cast members — Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin, and Anthony Anderson — took their place on the panel to discuss joining the storied franchise after years of being exposed to the films as moviegoers.

In this fourth film in the franchise, agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) discovers he is on a wanted list after the Kremlin is bombed and the IMF is blamed for the attack.

After a decade - plus flop in his career — soiled by middle - of - the - road Tim Burton films and an unnecessarily excessive Pirates of the Caribbean franchise — Black Mass set itself up to be a possible Oscar - winning landmark in Depp's rollercoaster of a filmography.

After a decade of blockbusting superhero films, the Avengers franchise is bowing out with a double bill, beginning with Infinity War.

Even with the much - discussed departure of Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, this film had all the potential to be the quirky and charismatic jolt of energy that the franchise needed to stave off the fatigue it's been plagued with increasingly the past few years of dolling out one overfamiliar entry after the next.

When it comes to most major movie franchises (especially within the sci - fi and action genre), there's always an argument after the film's release about who the break - out star of the film may be.

After the slightly more rote LEGO Marvel's Avengers spent the bulk of its playtime retelling stories from the MCU film franchise, Super Heroes 2 returns to the original story format to pack in as much nostalgia and referential humour as is brickally possible.

The Saw franchise is coming back to theaters this Halloween with the eighth film, titled simply Jigsaw after the iconic mastermind killer, and after a poster debut last week, the first official trailer has arrived online today.

Working again with writer / producer Lionel Wigram, after the two successfully made a franchise out of Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes six years ago, Ritchie's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is a welcome throwback to early Bond films, loaded with hip action, and always having a tongue planted slightly in cheek.

Barely 18 months later, and the franchise now seems like the sole ray of light on the Young Adult horizon, as adaptation after adaptation has subsequently tried and failed to spin its on - the - page popularity into a film franchise (a look at our 2012 rundown of the YA hopefuls is retrospectively sobering).

The story of a garbageman named Simon Grim (James Urbaniak) who becomes a celebrated poet after meeting the garrulous, frustrated title character (Thomas Jay Ryan), Henry Fool remains Hartley's most commercially successful film (on a very small scale), but it didn't exactly appear to be the launch of a franchise.

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.

Nor have I seen any of the franchise films that came after that.

Now, though, eight films in (the majority of them, after the second, made from non-franchise scripts retooled for franchise inclusion), the puzzle box seems to fall into the hands of not archaeologists of pleasure, but hard - bodied co-eds who aren't interested in discovering new, unknown experiences so much as shitting around in the usual slasher - film fashion and accidentally freeing some wise - cracking, cosmic hook - wielding genie.

The Terminator film franchise is set to welcome back a familiar face, after actress Linda Hamilton signed up for the upcoming sixth instalment this...

It hardly makes up for the stupidity on display in the rest of the film, however, because «Vacation» goes for the cheap and easy joke every time, and although some work well, most of them are so lame that it'll make you wish the franchise stayed dead after «Vegas Vacation.»

Based on the 12th novel in James Patterson's long - running series, the studio is clearly hoping that «Alex Cross» can reboot the film franchise that stalled out after 2001's «Along Came a Spider,» but surely there was a better option to play Cross than a man whose biggest claim to fame is dressing up like a fat black woman.

By Hanako M. Ricks HollywoodNews.com: Not too long after famed director Martin Scorsese stated he'd be interested in working with Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint, comes word that his latest film, Hugo Cabret, has some well - known actors who also have ties to the wizarding franchise.

Maybe after six films moviegoers would have guessed that the Rocky franchise was complete after Sylvester Stallone returned to the role for 2006's Rocky Balboa.

CREED Director: Ryan Coogler Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Tony Bellew Maybe after six films moviegoers would have guessed that the Rocky franchise was complete after Sylvester Stallone returned to the role for 2006's Rocky Balboa.

Alien is revered as one of the greatest horror films of all time, as well as one of the greatest films set in space, so what happens when the director of the film that originated the franchise returns to it to provide us back - story about one of the biggest monster movie icons more than three decades after the fact?

With close to 80 characters (plus CG characters numbering in the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands), multiple diverging / converging storylines, and an 18 - film franchise to service, Avengers: Infinity War has a tremendous amount of ground to cover, both literally and figuratively, from New York, Scotland, and Wakanda on Earth, to parts known and unknown in the deepest reaches of space, not to mention putting our favorite and not - so - favorite superheroes through one ringer after another.

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.

After four highly profitable films, the Twilight franchise comes to an end with its fifth entry, Breaking Dawn — Part 2.

This film has several risks riding on it — you have horror auteur James Wan trying his hand in the action realm, finally getting the franchise's film's timeline to its present, and of course most of all this film had to figure out how to move on after the tragic death of Paul Walker.

It's the only time the film stops in tracks to provide a showcase for the ability of one of its characters, but the sequence is so cleverly choreographed by director Bryan Singer (who returns to the franchise after directing its first two installments) that we hardly notice.

This is the seventh film in the franchise and will take place 30 years after Return of the Jedi.

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 64 - year - old actor - who played Rubeus Hagrid in the «Harry Potter» film franchise - was immediately admitted to a medical facility in Orlando after getting off a flight on Thursday (29.01.15) reportedly suffering from severe flu - like symptoms.

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.

Michael Bay may finally be done with the Transformers franchise after the series hits a lower box office opening than all previous films.

Ron Howard parted ways with the franchise after directing the first two films.

«Bridget Jones's Baby» is hitting theaters a full 12 years after the last in the franchise and 15 years after the first film, «Bridget Jones's Diary.»

This film is all the more unfortunate in that this is probably the only franchise film we'll see this year, next year or the year after in which the star is a 74 - year - old woman.