Sentences with phrase «most franchise movies»

And like most franchise movies, M: I3 is a calculated response to the art form's two challenges: How efficiently can we make you care about these characters, and how awesome can we make the action scenes?

As a result, even more than The Hunger Games, Catching Fire demands more of Jennifer Lawrence than most franchise movies require of their casts.

Not exact matches

Nearly all of the most - anticipated movies of 2017 are sequels, adaptations, franchise reboots, spin - offs, etc..

According to Nielsen, the movies have pulled in more than one billion viewers since they were originally shown in theaters, making it one of the most - watched movie franchises in TV history.

With the final movie installment only hours away, we break down some of the most interesting numbers associated with the epic franchise.

Most important, Alliance's purchase of Toronto - based distributor Maple Pictures last year gave it access to all of Lionsgate's movies, including The Hunger Games franchise.

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.

The first «Star Wars» movie established one of the most popular franchises of all time and took science fiction movies mainstream again.

Bangs is most widely known for directing the «Jackass» movie franchise, in which he can be seen vomiting on camera and otherwise involved in the Jackass group's off - color antics.

Then, as the movie began, I realized that a child with a cell phone represents what DreamWorks Animation, the producer of this most lucrative of franchise animated features, envisions its audience to be — tiny, pre-corporate techies who live far from the fairy - tale emotion of enchantment.

What is dead is the Harry Potter film franchise that milked Brit author J.K. Rowling's seven bestsellers for eight movies, a global box - office take of $ 6.3 billion, and the Hollywood heavyweight title as the most lucrative film series in, well, ever.

Compared to Batman, the most recent comic - turned - movie franchise to capture the public's imagination, X-Men is an improvement.

Arguably the only true movie star that Hollywood has produced in the 21st century (he may not be able or willing to launch an original property, but his personal box office appeal is on par with many of today's major franchises), Johnson has proven that he's one of the most charismatic performers on the planet.

What then to expect of Shrek the Third, a movie perhaps even more transparently than most made primarily to sustain and bolster a lucrative tent - pole merchandising franchise — already set to continue at the end of this year with an ABC TV Christmas special, Shrek the Halls, and a fourth suggested movie sequel in the early planning stages?

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.

As handsomely mounted, TV - movie - quality cinema goes, «Light in Darkness» is at once the best looking, most coherent, and least histrionic of the franchise.

If one of the most successful and long - running franchises in movie history wants to keep pumping, it's once again time to change the formula.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the most darkest entry of the series that took the franchise into new heights in fantasy history and one of the best movies from the past five years.

That's more than you can say for most movie franchises.

Like most big - ticket screen franchises, this one comes with some actual acting talent that gives the movie tang and legitimacy and may also help broaden its appeal along with its marketing and publicity opportunities.

Lord knows the Thor franchise, now three movies in, is the part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe most sorely in need of some laughs.

This movie's dramatic failings make it look like the crowd - pleasing Creed, the unlikely revival of an old Sylvester Stallone franchise, may be the most productive major studio's most likely ticket to the Best Picture and acting category races that have consistently featured its output.

In animated movies, some of the most popular franchises of all time are Toy Story, Shrek, Madagascar, Despicable Me, and Ice Age.

Actor Daniel Radcliffe, most famous for portraying the titular boy wizard through eight Harry Potter films, has broken his silence regarding the controversy surrounding actor Johnny Depp's casting in the spinoff Fantastic Beasts movie franchise.

When most actors join the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they sign a contract with their own blood, binding their soul to the franchise until they fulfill their number of movies or sacrifice That Which They Love The Most before the statue of Stan Lee hidden in crawlspace under the McGraw Hill Building in New York Cmost actors join the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they sign a contract with their own blood, binding their soul to the franchise until they fulfill their number of movies or sacrifice That Which They Love The Most before the statue of Stan Lee hidden in crawlspace under the McGraw Hill Building in New York CMost before the statue of Stan Lee hidden in crawlspace under the McGraw Hill Building in New York City.

«Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End» (2007) Box Office Take: $ 963m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 20 At the time the most expensive film ever made, budgeted at $ 300m (before its even more dire sequel, «On Stranger Tides,» smashed that dubious record), the third «Pirates» movie was the one where the franchise's over-reliance on Johnny Depp «s Jack Sparrow really started to tell.

The horror event of the year is the return of Michael Myers in the new Halloween movie, along with the franchise's most recognizable icons in John Carpenter as executive producer and composer, Jamie Lee Curtis reprising her role as Laurie Strode, and Nick Castle suiting up as Myers again, but make no mistake, there is a new man behind the mask stepping into The Shape, his name his James Jude Courtney, and he's about to make a killer impression.

The «Star Wars» fandom will be enthralled by most of «Rogue One», but for me, this was a tough movie to get through — and others who aren't emotionally invested in the franchise may feel the same way.

With «Before Midnight,» writer - director Richard Linklater and actors Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy continue one of the most interesting projects in film history: a movie franchise based almost entirely on simple conversations between a woman and man.

Every second of the movie looks and sounds amazing (Star Trek composer Michael Giacchino outdoes himself while aping Jerry Goldsmith and Ennio Morricone), but it's Serkis under digital, weary eyes that proves Apes is the most underrated franchise of the decade.

While his technical skills drive most of the movie along smoothly and smartly, in the end this modestly budgeted studio movie is all too clearly a calling card showing how willing he is to sign up to make lucrative summer comic book franchise movies.

To the surprise of everyone, the movie became an absolute juggernaut on release, a critical and commercial smash that immediately cemented itself as one of the most beloved entries into the franchise, even considered the very best by many.

The 66 - year - old actor, most famous for playing Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars franchise, was joined by many members of his movie family.

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.

Mix that in with a film that includes aliens, a god and an android (among other oddities) and it is difficult to believe that such a movie could be called the «most human» film in a massive franchise, but that's exactly how Anthony Mackie, who portrays the hero Falcon (aka Sam Wilson) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, feels about Avengers: Infinity War.

His return will rank this movie as one of the most anticipated renewals of a franchise since Star Wars.

With this installment, the Conjuring movies may have overtaken The Exorcist as the most Christian of horror franchises, taking place in a universe where the Catholic Church is the spiritual S.H.I.E.L.D. and demon hunters Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) its holy roller super-agents.

They don't have to show movies from ALL of the Marvel Universe, but they can run most of the MCU THRU the Avengers and related franchises..

Yes, there are some popcorn movies coming out between now and December — a new Hunger Games entry, a long - awaited Dumb and Dumber sequel, the final chapter of Peter Jackson's Hobbit franchise — but for the most part, the fall is when studios trot out their somber and serious films.

Most of all, how many big - ticket franchise movies with this much social media presence not only avoid overstaying their welcome, but also refrain from giving too much away to both savvy and unsuspecting viewers alike?

As the second feature - length installment in Phase 3 of the MCU, Doctor Strange is primed to go down as one of the most successful standalone entries in the entire Marvel Comics movie franchise - and the latest word has the production on track to reach another major box office mark.

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.

Chief among those questions is the most important one: whether the new boss will be the same as the old boss (The answer is left for the final movie or, if the unfortunate trend of splitting the final installment of adaptions of young - adult book series into two parts continues with this franchise, movies).

«Barely qualifies as a movie, but it's also the most palatable and knowingly silly entry in the franchise» — Andrew Parker, The Gate

The biggest news of the year for horror fans was the announcement back in May that John Carpenter will return to the Halloween franchise as executive producer to help oversee a new movie from Miramax and Blumhouse Productions, but there has been little progress since, and now Carpenter himself, who has spent most of this year on his first concert tour, has offered an update on the status of the highly anticipated return of Michael Myers to the big screen.

It worked — Days of Future Past is the most X-Men movie worldwide and has led to Singer continuing the franchise with a sequel due in 2016.

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

Threequels are notorious for being the lowest out of a franchise's bunch at the box office with the exception of most superhero movies.

While the eleven years in between the second and third movies certain qualify as that, the franchise has been in overdrive since TS3 became 2010's biggest and most beloved blockbuster.

He argued that Universal needs another franchise outside of its «Fast & Furious» movies, its Illumination Entertainment animated features — including the studio's most recent success with «The Secret Life of Pets» — and others previously mentioned in order to stay competitive.