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Not exact matches

While AI may not necessarily be as nefarious as the intelligent computer system Skynet from the popular Terminator film franchise, the use and potential of AI has come a long way and opened a multitude of possibilities.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

While I believe there will still be consumer demand to see big, franchise films in a glitzy theater with overpriced popcorn, the jury is still out as to how much traffic will be affected.

Vin Diesel's diet and training were put to the test while filming The Fast & Furious 7 because he wanted to make it the best movie — in the 7 - part franchise — ever.

This is the fourth Harry Potter film by David Yates and while it still doesn't hit the heights of the third and fourth film in the franchise, it is the best one of the last four.

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

While not as good as any of the Lord of the Rings films, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey launches a new franchise in an enjoyable manner.

While I understand the studios desire to squeeze every last dollar out of the franchise, they should have made one exceptionally good film instead of taking the risk of separating the material.

While the life of the typical film franchise has been all squeezed out by its third installment, leaving a shattered shell of its former glory, Shrek the Third defies the odds in being as entertaining as the original animated hit and surpassing the second edition.

I think Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is the most consistently entertaining, most laser - focused entry in the series so far, and while I would argue that it is very much a sequel to the third film and not just a disconnected piece of a flexible franchise, it is also a great rollicking self - contained spy movie adventure on a grand scale, and it's preposterous fun.

Ash vs The Evil Dead is the perfect example of how to bring life back into an old series, it takes all the elements from the past films, the gore, blood, violence, campy humour, cheesy dialog and absurdity and really does a great job modernising the franchise while sticking true to its past.

If there's one legacy I hope other films pick up from this series, it's that it treats its sex scenes the way the Fast and Furious franchise treats car chases, set pieces to be gushed about while exiting the theater.

Like the previous films in the franchise, it positions the military as the good guys who know what's best while the government characters are all bureaucrats who stand in the way of what needs to be done.

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.

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.

Bardem recently finished filming «Eat, Love, Pray» with Julia Roberts, while Cruz is working on «Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides», the fourth installment of the popular Disney franchise.

While we're no stranger to the idea of shock deaths in movies and TV series — our favorite characters being killed off gives fans something to talk about — the sheer scale of what happens at the end of Infinity War, and the Russo brothers decision to leave the ball in Thanos» court, is unprecedented when it comes to a film franchise of this scale.

While I have seen all of the X-Men films and liked several of them, I would not go so far as to call myself a fan of the franchise.

While this does not rule out seeing Stewart and McKellen in future X-Men films, the fact that these two actors will not be in Apocalypse is a bit of a surprise considering that both actors have appeared in a majority of the films in the X-Men franchise.

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.

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.

For the most part, the Russo brothers and Marvel Studios delivered on their promise to bring the disparate corners of film franchise together for a battle against Thanos, all while staying true to the characters who made the MCU so popular.

Universal has set a July 26, 2019 release date, with filming slated to begin this fall, and while doing press for Deadpool 2, David Leitch revealed that his spin - off will be more grounded than the Fast & Furious franchise it was spawned from.

director Mike Mendez — that, while it has a charming sense of humor about itself, leans too heavily on CGI blood; The Girl With All The Gifts (B), a well - shot British zombie film that attempts to inject new life into a tired genre, and almost succeeds thanks to young star Sennia Nanua; and the disappointing Phantasm: Ravager (C --RRB-, a low - budget labor of love which, while it plays like a Phantasm fan film, ultimately undercuts the emotional closure it attempts to bring to the franchise by failing to resolve the central conflict between good and evil.

Retaining the gentle, non-verbal comedy and daffy sight gags of the popular stop - motion TV series — itself a loose spinoff from Aardman's cherished «Wallace and Gromit» franchise — while assigning Shaun and his flock an urban escapade more expansive than their usual short - form gambols, the film should reward small fry and parents jaded by more synthetic kiddie toons.

Woody Harrelson barely makes an appearance and still seems like the most underutilized star in the franchise (although Stanley Tucci gets nothing more than a cameo appearance), while Donald Sutherland is the film's greatest benefit, hitting that perfect note of high drama and total commitment to the character — they were lucky to cast him in the role.

All the while, the meta - franchise - spanning storyline of Thanos seeking the six infinity gems has planted, grown, and occasionally briefly revisited throughout the whole 18 - film shebang.

And as the final act plays out on an astonishingly expansive scale, this film remains true to the franchise while also revealing itself to be as bold and daring as its characters.

In Marvel's Captain America film franchise, Chris Evans stars as Cap, while Anthony Mackie recently starred as the Falcon in the Winter Solider installment of the movie series.

Despite a passable grade, given the stretched - out feel to the movie, with, for a film about a nationwide revolution, the feeling that it's a bit small in terms of scope, this is a clear example of why splitting the final book into two films, while financially smart, is quite a bad choice for fans, who deserve to feel fired up when going into the fourth and final film in the franchise.

With our own experience of the books (hey, we have nieces) being that # 2 is actually the best of the trilogy in expanding the mythology to a more resonant plane while still retaining the visceral excitement of the first, and with the director who'll be responsible for the taking the franchise home now in the hot seat (Francis Lawrence, replacing Gary Ross), we're hopeful for a film that at least partially deserves its inevitably blockbusting box office, and the trailer makes it look like it may.

While the franchise is only two films deep, it is clear that one doesn't come to the Kingsman franchise to get realism.

Glover captures the duplicity and bravado of the best - dressed rogue in the franchise, while also revealing a surprisingly tender side at one key point in the film.

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 the most recent film in the franchise (2001's «Jurassic Park III») was largely panned by critics, «Jurassic World» received a warm reception and rising superstar Chris Pratt earned raves as good - guy Raptor - trainer Owen.

While those films (or, more specifically, their franchises) are about big jolts and loud noises,

While the next installment in the Thor franchise hasn't hit U.S. theaters yet, Goldblum recently revealed in an interview with Radio Times that he's already filmed a second appearance as the character.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe was once accused of dishing up the same rinse - and - repeat origin story over and over again — and while Feige will protest (and has) that each Marvel movie has had its own individual flavor (Thor was a stab at Shakespeare; The Winter Soldier riffs on 70s paranoia thrillers), the franchise has been finding more solid footing in its endeavor to remix all of popular film history through the lens of superheroes.

That smart inventive second sequel proved irrefutably that action films can evolve away from the basic concept of a franchise while retaining real character, wit and heart.

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.

While Microsoft offer a free Forza Motorsport, Fast and the Furious tie - in, it will offer up a DLC pack for the film franchise's latest outing.

Tom Felton, he from the «Harry Potter» franchise, plays the the nasty villain of the piece (naturally), James Ashford, while Tom Wilkinson also pops up as Dido's adoptive father in Lord Mansfield, and rightly owns every frame in which he appears; but it is relative newcomer Gugu Mbatha - Raw who shines throughout as the film's title character.

Easily the most sophisticated and thoughtful franchise film of 2013, Lawrence's adaptation of the second novel in Suzanne Collins» young adult series is all - things - to - all - people entertainment, a follow - up that intensifies the first film's thrills while simultaneously developing its characters and, even more crucially, expanding its themes.

Although the «X-Men» franchise has been quite successful with both the Bryan Singer trilogy and the «First Class» movies, however, Marvel does still have an input while making the films.

While I appreciated bringing multiple Lego franchises together into one film, I felt like this was done very similar to the way that it was done in the Lego Movie.

Recent iteration the V / H / S franchise featured none across three instalments while the two ABCs of Death films showcase a combined total of five female filmmakers across 52 shorts.

He discussed the trials and tribulations of making the series, with an emphasis on the challenges of At World's End, while also sharing his view on any possible future to the film franchise.

It's said that this film is going to be a reboot of the franchise while the movie itself is going to be a sequel to the original.

Overall, I have no issues in recommending Sabotage for fans of Call of Duty; perhaps the most solid DLC offering from the franchise in a while, the quality of both the multiplayer maps and the new Zombie film can not be understated.

Back in 2002 Liman kicked off the Bourne franchise with The Bourne Identity, and while it may not be as highly regarded as Paul Greengrass» take on Bourne, that film managed to hold the camera steady, while also starting a franchise that continues to this day.