Sentences with phrase «franchise heroes into»

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An iconic franchise hero is especially created with Katniss, who is given the same amount of care by Lawrence that the actress put into her Oscar - nominated role in Winter's Bone.

Of all the A-list action heroes from back in the day, none were more into creating franchises than Sylvester Stallone.

All that we know is that the final part of the franchise, which has been broken into two parts, would witness the meeting of the Earth's Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy, and all the heroes will team up to take on Thanos, their ultimate adversary.

Woods added, «And our biggest fear was — we love Bad Robot, we love the people over there, and obviously J.J. [Abrams] is certainly a hero to us — but one of our biggest fears was this getting swept up into some kind of franchise or repurposed for something like that.

X-Men: First Class is a feisty prequel effort, effectively restoring badly needed snap into the mutant franchise, breaking away from Wolverine to fiddle with a colorful community of heroes and villains.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice PG - 13 for intense sequences and action throughout and some sensuality Extended Cut Rated R sequences of violence Rotten Tomatoes Score: 27 % Available on DVD, Blu - ray, Blu - ray 3D and 4K Ultra HD With the huge success that Marvel has had with their Avengers franchise, DC has moved into that space with this new Justice League intro that poses an angry Batman who sees a threat in the newest disasters surrounding Superman — and thus tries to put an end to the alien hero.

The original Ghostbusters was lightning in a bottle that even the original creative team couldn't replicate, But the bottom line is that this movie accomplishes what I feel it set out to do and that's bring a beloved franchise back into the pop culture consciousness as well as give this generation of little girls some heroes and role models to look up to.

The first Ant - Man film was a gamble for Marvel, who attempted to turn a little - known hero into a full - fledged successful movie franchise.

It is almost as though the producers are focusing on the fact that Lara Croft is a tough female action hero too much, warping the Tomb Raider movie into a female counterpart of the spy franchise.

Shane Black directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and that's enough, but for those of you out there needing more credentials he also wrote Lethal Weapon, The Last Action Hero and The Long Kiss Goodnight and each of those movies play perfectly into what Iron Man as a franchise wants to accomplish.

Though his argument was a bit tenuous («that delaying the Tonight Show into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting»), the way he stood his ground made him a hero, regardless of comedy tastes.

Ending with a sting that suggests there are franchise hopes, Get Smart is a lovely surprise: a smart update, with a hero who has transformed his humiliations and frailties into, of all things, maturity and empathy.

There's an element of «seeing it to believe it» built into the presentation: Expectations based on the history of a mostly direct - to - video franchise, an aging action - hero cast, and a patently absurd premise so conspicuously contradict the art - house sensibility of the film itself that you can hardly blame the first wave of audiences for feeling wowed by the shock.

Before Hollywood adapted Blade, Spawn, and Steel from their respective Marvel and DC Comics franchises, the black superhero tradition in TV and film was decidedly less mainstream, even as Hollywood adapted the white comic heroes Superman and Batman into blockbusters for decades before the modern superhero movie boom began in earnest.

If you want a sneak peek into the game, as well as the Big Hero 6 franchise, check out the game - play video from TouchGameplay below.

As someone who has sunk countless, countless hours into the original two Battlefront games and spent equally ludicrous amounts of time becoming as good as I could be with the legendary Heroes and Villains in order to chop down the enemy, I've been waiting a long time to see the franchise brought back to life.

Also making their appearances are several new entries into the music - rhythm genre, from stalwart franchises like Guitar Hero 5 to fresh takes on the genre like DJ Hero.

Lara Croft has been thrust into the upper - echelon of heroes in gaming once again, and the Tomb Raider franchise has earned a place alongside the current crop of action - adventure heavyweights.

EA are taking their Battlefield Heroes concept to the next level with Battlefield Play4Free, a new entry into the franchise that (obviously) won't cost you a cent to play.

This week sees another handful of big releases with the re-release of L.A. Noire, featuring full Xbox One X support, and another entry into the LEGO game franchise with LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2 both landing on Tuesday.

After flushing your business, you head outside to South Park to see a war raging on in the streets as kids fight for control of the Stick of Truth from the previous game, but just as we get close The Coon jumps into the fray to warn all the kids of a danger ahead, a missing cat, whose capture could reward the heroes $ 100 to fund their superhero franchise.

Since Activision bought the Guitar Hero franchise, many people have argued that the publisher lacks the originality and creativeness that Harmonix puts into their games.

You just have to take a look at what French company Gameloft has been doing in the past few years, taking popular gaming franchises and creating equivalents of them for phones (N.O.V.A is a Halo clone, Modern Combat 3 is Modern Warfare 3, Hero of Sparta is God of War, StarFront is StarCraft...) or taking Ubisoft staples into bite - sized chunks (Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, Brothers in Arms).

The latest installment in the best - selling music / rhythm video game franchise, Guitar Hero World Tour transforms music gaming by expanding Guitar Hero's ® signature guitar gameplay into a cooperative band experience that combines the most advanced wireless instruments with new revolutionary online and offline gameplay modes including online Band Career and 8 - player «Battle of the Bands,» which allows two full bands to compete head - to - head online for the first time ever.

The latest instalment in the # 1 best - selling video game franchise of 2007, Guitar Hero World Tour transforms music gaming by expanding Guitar Hero's signature guitar gameplay into a cooperative band experience that combines the most advanced wireless controllers with new revolutionary online * and offline gameplay modes including Band Career and 8 - player «Battle of the Bands,» which allows two full bands to compete head - to - head online for the first time ever.

An annual release schedule saw Tony Hawk titles receive more - or-less diminishing returns from a critical standpoint, and Neversoft eventually bailed to work on Guitar Hero (only for Activision to run that franchise into the ground, too).

A number of recent job postings on Activision's career portal seem to give some insight into the next project from subsidiary studio FreeStyle Games, creators of the DJ Hero franchise.

Who knows what immediate rewards the mobile app may reap (though it's off to a good start); the goal of any business should be for the long term, and in generating interest for a franchise ready to take the next step into a brighter spotlight, Fire Emblem Heroes does exactly what it's supposed to.

Our hero was once very simple indeed but Super Mario has grown into a super franchise of unique titles exclusive to Nintendo.

The latest entry into the martial arts inspired franchise has our lovable band of heroes going up against Ronin, their greatest adversary to date, who is stealing the memories of his enemies via an ancient magical device.

In the Zelda franchise, you typically wait a several years to step into the shoes of a new hero when the next game releases, but with The Swords of Ditto, it's instantaneous.

Gears of War effectively closed out its original storyline with the third installment several years ago, but it seems you can't keep a good video game franchise down - especially one as influential as Gears has been in terms of popularizing the cover - based third - person shooter, and turning John DiMaggio's Marcus Fenix into one of the most iconic digital heroes of the modern era.

Today we are checking out the first entry for the Guitar Hero franchise that goes away from being a guitar only experience and brings the whole band into play.

Harmonix has announced that it's launched «Rock Band Network», an attempt to get more content into the Rock Band franchise, to see off competition from Neversoft's Guitar Hero.

You can jump into a match where players only use heroes and villains of the franchise, but with small teams at just four players, it's a more focused experience reliant on teamwork.

It was only a matter of time before Disney brought Star Wars into its popular collectible figure game franchise after adding the Marvel Comics universe in the last iteration, Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes.