It only occasionally falters trying to fit in a myriad of double crosses (that even a blind hedgehog could see coming) and plot contrivances to
include older franchise characters which don't quite land.
Not exact matches
Last year, as the 28 - year -
old set five
franchise passing records,
including yards in a season (4,143) and completions (336), the Falcons qualified for the playoffs for the first time in four years.
At a brisk 93 minutes, this merely reheats the
franchise's
old familiar elements (plenty of poo and bum jokes for the kids and cine - literate nods for the adults,
including The Exorcist via Rosemary's Baby and The Brood) to give us more - or, rather, less - of the same.
That group
includes a film that was so bad it appears to have killed the once - lucrative, decades -
old Terminator
franchise.
Entertainment Weekly has the first look at the upcoming Terminator: Genisys with an article subtitled «How To Save A Billion - Dollar
Franchise» — a strategy that
includes the casting of faces new and scientifically - validated - as -
old, an irritating (and therefore memorable) name, and finally, a proper marketing push.
The 72 - year -
old Australian producer was the former chairman of studios Dune Entertainment and Village Roadshow and helped co-finance more than 60 movies
including James Cameron's fantasy epic «Avatar» and sci - fi
franchise «The Matrix», reported Contactmusic.
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.
With the exception of 2003's X2, all of the primary films in the 18 - year -
old franchise have
included «X-Men» in the title (and even X2 was alternately promoted as X2: X-Men United).
How about advertising an awesome
franchise to be
included in the box, only for the associated item to be a lackluster art print on regular
old paper?
That's not to say that the
older franchises haven't been updated — with Resident Evil featuring RE5 versions of Chris Redfield and Wesker, and Street Fighter
including C.Viper from recent title Street Fighter IV.
If you don't know, Two Point Studios is made up of gaming veterans from Bullfrog, Muckyfoot and Lionhead — as Bullfrog has a rich heritage of sim games,
including Theme Hospital, you can see a fair amount of influence from Bullfrog's
old franchise and it looks like it's meant to be a spiritual successor, of sorts.
Since 1995, BioWare has created some of the world's most critically acclaimed titles and
franchises,
including Baldur's Gate ™, Neverwinter Nights ™, Star Wars ®: Knights of the
Old Republic ™, Jade Empire ™, Mass Effect ™ and Dragon Age ™.
id Software, Machine Games and Flying Wild Hog may be reviving
old franchises underneath a new coat of chrome, but independent developers and studios are doing everything in their power to drag the definitive 90's FPS experience back into the spotlight, low - resolution textures and character models
included.