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«Star Wars» brass will meet to discuss the role of Princess Leia in the upcoming franchise movies after the death of Carrie Fisher.

Not exact matches

Of course, complaints about the proliferation of sequels tend to be much louder in the wake of a high - profile flop than they are after the release of financially and critically successful follow - ups (see: Disney's Marvel and Star Wars franchises, or the Despicable Me and Hunger Games movies, to name a few — though, some movies still make a ton of money despite toxic reviews).

In fact, Cameron's deep dive around 2000 into the rich material about a cyborg named Alita (played in the movie by Rose Salazar) who tries to rediscover her past after being found in a garbage heap by a cybernetics doctor, wasn't just going to be a single movie but a franchise.

The movie and TV industries are notoriously hit - driven, after all, and if the company makes a mis - step somewhere it could lose some of the potential future value of the Marvel franchise or those characters.

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 world was suffering from Spider - Fatigue before this movie hit — landing just three years after the last attempt at a franchise went belly up.

Even if the movie hadn't explicitly promised one in its after - the - credits teaser, Ryan Reynolds» big, gooey spitball into the face of superhero movies made enough money in its first weekend to justify a whole franchise.

Unfortunately, we know that Leia's role in the franchise may be over after this movie depending on what footage they were able to get before Carrie Fisher passed away.

«If it's storytelling you are after, three of the best movie franchises of all time - Bond, Lord Of The Rings and Harry Potter - are all British.

After 10 years and eight movies, the massively successful franchise comes to a close with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2.

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.

She too has appeal, though it's clear that, even after two movies, she isn't as much driving this franchise as catching a ride.

The 50 - year - old actor was revealed to have joined the cast of the eighth movie in the franchise as the mysterious character DJ, and after fans suggested his character is Ezra Bridger from «Star Wars Rebels», director Rian Johnson has insisted that isn't true.

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

After the sour reception to the fourth movie raised a black cloud above the franchise, they knew they needed a reach like bringing back the fan adored lovebirds to build some goodwill here.

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.

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.

Having called time on the Transformers franchise after this year's Transformers: The Last Knight, it seems that Michael Bay is turning his attention to another children's cartoon series, with THR reporting that Bay has signed on to produce a live - action Dora the Explorer movie.

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?

Paramount TV and Netflix began the adaptation process in 2014, a full decade after a movie franchise starring Jim Carrey as Olaf sputtered in 2004.

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 Sam Mendes announced that he would not be returning to the Bond universe after Spectre's release in 2015, we've been waiting on tenterhooks to see who will be next to take the directorial reins of the long - running movie francAfter Sam Mendes announced that he would not be returning to the Bond universe after Spectre's release in 2015, we've been waiting on tenterhooks to see who will be next to take the directorial reins of the long - running movie francafter Spectre's release in 2015, we've been waiting on tenterhooks to see who will be next to take the directorial reins of the long - running movie franchise.

The movie is such a massive decline that it must be some kind of joke on the part of any combination of director Paul Weitz (perhaps a subversive plan to kill a franchise he was not a fan of with his first (and let us hope only) entry), writers John Hamburg and Larry Stuckey (the former, maybe, enjoying steady work with the series after the success of the first movie; the latter possibly assuming he could coast on the coattails of his partner), and / or the cast (if we go with the hypothetical assault on the audience's sense of dignity, no doubt laughing themselves silly at the sight of the paycheck).

Mazin, on the other hand, was among those who took over the Scary Movie franchise after the Wayanses left, penning the third and fourth installments.

After garnering critical acclaim for his directorial debut «Fruitvale Station,» the last thing anyone expected from Ryan Coogler's much - anticipated follow - up was a spin - off / sequel to a movie franchise that's last meaningful installment was released 30 years ago.

Bay may be bowing out after The Last Knight, but the Transformers franchise will continue on with potentially a dozen new movies.

One would think that after the multitude of Marvel movies that have been released since Iron Man in 2008, the franchise would grow tired and repetitive.

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.

After two lukewarmly - received movies released a few years ago, 20th Century Fox put into development a reboot of the Fantastic Four franchise.

The second attempt to reboot the franchise after New Police Story in 2004, Lockdown is mostly a humorless bore until the obligatory bloopers and outtakes in the end credits — and even those are drawing from a flat vein, since there's so little play in the movie.

I can't see how anyone could be dissatisfied with this movie I preferred it to the other two as I think it captured batman perfectly bane was perfect how anyone can disagree after batman and robin is beyond me??? Cat women was perfect there was no poor casting IMO character development was fine story was fine and beautifully shot soundtrack stunning all involved made an absolute masterpiece even tho I guessed most plotpoints in advance they still felt like a surprise to me I don't see the point in any other superhero franchise making any more movies as bb tdk and tdkr will never be surpassed

It all began back in 2001 with an entirely different movie, The Fast and the Furious, but after 10 years not only is this franchise still alive and kickin», it's back with a vengeance, including the entire cast and more.

No doubt a third Men in Black movie is probably in the works considering the big bucks this installment made, but one can only wonder about the amount of goodwill towards this franchise that will remain after this lackluster installment.

Dern isn't the only star who doesn't know if her character will ever return to the franchise after Lupita Nyong» o (Maz Kanata) and Gwendoline Christie (Captain Phasma) both admitted they haven't heard anything about the upcoming ninth movie.

And if you didn't immediately recognize Yelchin as the accident - prone Clumsy Smurf in the two live - action movies adapted from that cartoon franchise, his identity became clear not long after he opened his computer - generated mouth.

Along with his brother Shawn, Marlon Wayans left the Scary Movie franchise after the first two movies, but that's not stopping him from continuing to parody horror tropes.

While director Alex Proyas» original was a commercial and critical success, creating a franchise that included a big - screen sequel, a television series and two direct - to - video movies, Relativity's plans have met with one obstacle after another.

It has been over a year since we heard that Julius Onah's delayed sci - fi film The God Particle was being held back so it could be reformed into the third installment in J.J. Abrams» loosely defined Cloverfield franchise, then suffering multiple delays after that, but the movie finally made its debut during tonight's Super Bowl.

After deciding to wrap up the «X-Men» franchise with «X-Men: The Last Stand,» 20th Century Fox turned its attention to a spin - off with this Wolverine prequel; a movie so bad, it was ignored by the rest of the franchise, before being reset by the «Days of Future Past» reboot.

The third movie in this franchise begins with the tortoise kung fu master, Grand Master Oogway (Randall Duk Kim, John Wick, 2014), being ambushed in an after - life setting known as the «spirit realm.»

Jim Carrey bowed out from the franchise after not being satisfied with the direction the movie was going in.

The trend continues after Marky Mark, as the list is mainly comprised of actors who've starred in uber - lucrative franchises or big - budget superhero movies, films for which there are conspicuously few female roles.

The Trek movies seem to be a stomping ground for their casting department as Chris Hemsworth, Zoe Saldana, and Benedict Cumberbatch have landed Marvel parts after their involvement in the franchise.

Nestled in a larger story about the state of franchises after a disappointing Summer 2017 box office, The Hollywood Reporter alleges that Universal believes part of what helped save The Mummy at international box offices was Tom Cruise in the leading role — inspiring them that big - name casting for future movies in the franchise.

After a surprisingly entertaining intro film and an awful sequel (directed by Jack Sholder — with Wishmaster 2 and A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, he did his best to fatally harpoon two budding franchises), Wishmaster 3 staggers onto the direct - to - video market with an astonishingly dull start that establishes Diana as a typically wounded horror movie scream queen and the film itself as just another dead - teenager flick.

After years of being the biggest (and in many cases, the only) horror movie franchise in theatres around Halloween, the Saw franchise was dethroned last year by Oren Peli's surprise hit Paranormal Activity, which outgrossed Saw VI by a fairly wide margin.

One would think that after successfully re-launching the X-Men with a new A-list cast a couple of years ago, the studio would stick to that cast but as is common with comic books, it seems that creators are always jumping around timelines, characters and stories, it's only appropriate that a sequel that brings director Bryan Singer back into the fold would not only involve time travel but also include nearly every member, past and present, of the X-Men movie franchise.

Seven years after the game's inception, Rovio, the franchise's Finland - based animation company, brings us «The Angry Birds Movie».

After four years, and five movies, there are (until the inevitable reboot / spin - off / extra sequel) no longer any movies in the super-popular Stephenie Meyer - penned vampire franchise to look forward to / dread.

After several delays pushed it way back beyond its original September 2014 release date, production has now finally got underway on the sixth instalment of the Resident Evil movie franchise, titled Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, and Milla Jovovich has taken to Instagram to share a behind - the - scenes image of her preparing for her role as -LSB-...]