Sentences with phrase «of film franchise»

Star Wars Battlefront 2 has officially released and it's aiming to plunge players into the iconic battles of the film franchise.

Recreating the look and feel of the film franchise while offering up a heavy slice of gun play and plenty of moving targets, the game can be an exciting trip into the John Wick universe at times, but ultimately ends before it even begins.

Though originally made as part of Tancharoen's pitch for a reboot of the film franchise to Warner Bros., who owns the license, there will be no new Mortal Kombat movie.

«Avengers: Infinity War»: Less of a film franchise than it is a long - form final exam after some 14 movies of homework, this hydra - headed superhero blockbuster had one truly redeeming quality for those who have not spent the last several years absorbing its story on their way to the multiplex: It was, at least, an ending.

One of the original stars of the film franchise, portraying Rogue back in 2000's X-Men and a number of subsequent features, Anna Paquin has revealed her thoughts on a cameo appearance in the latest X-Men themed TV series The Gifted.

The thing is, shortly before 2015, you could reasonably argue that Star Trek had gained the upper hand as a cultural force, thanks to J.J. Abrams's hit reboot of the film franchise coming on top of the more recent television successes.

Now comes The Huntsman: Winter's War, another part two of a film franchise that fits more than comfortably into the completely unnecessary category than one which was overwhelming demanded.

All told, The Death Cure provides a satisfying conclusion to The Maze Runner trilogy that will likely appease fans of the film franchise, and the book series written by James Dashner (who appears with a brief cameo early on in the movie).

From Academy Award ® - winning producer Richard D. Zanuck (Deep Impact, Planet of the Apes) comes this terrifying second chapter of the film franchise that continues to keep audiences out of the ocean.

Jackson's handsome new addition to the canon, subtitled «The Desolation of Smaug,» is a fleet, fun redemption of the film franchise, the first chapter of which had J.R.R. Tolkien fans crying foul.»

The Pokémon Company's long time movie collaborator, Toho, will handle distribution of the film franchise in Japan, as it had similarly done in its partnership with Legendary on the iconic monster reboot for Godzilla.

Cruise and his co-stars are energized to match in their commitment and chemistry, making what had seemed a dead horse of a film franchise not only alive but off to the races.

Netflix's The Cloverfield Paradox dramatically changes the landscape of the film franchise by introducing fans to the potential of a multiverse.

However casual followers of the film franchise may still have a hard time distinguishing who's good and bad — especially when one of the good guys goes rogue.

With his time as an iron - clad Avenger possibly coming to an end, Robert Downey Jr. is getting ready to hop into a very different kind of film franchise.

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.

Now we not only have «Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D,» the first television series that provides the connective tissue of a film franchise, we have its prequel.

Actor Jason Segel («How I Met Your Mother»), seemingly noticing the rash retirement forced onto The Muppets back in 1999 (when their last feature film, the slipshod «Muppets from Space», was released) and the lack of good old family humour and fozzie fuzzy, pitched a relaunch of the film franchise to Disney (who now have the rights to the characters).

(Deadpool is annoyed about the sexist «men» of the film franchise).

Warner Bros. released two unexpectedly great movies in 2015, and oddly enough both were revivals of film franchises that launched in the 1970s: Mad Max: Fury Road, and Creed (part of the Rocky franchise).

«What is significant now, however, is that (in) this age of convergence of film franchises with social media, a black superhero movie with an almost all - black cast conveys power, that we have arrived.

Both of the film franchises are currently...

As Simon Pegg gears up for press duties on both Margot Robbie thriller Terminal [read our review here] and blockbuster sequel Mission: Impossible: Fallout, he's been speaking to ComingSoon.net about another of his film franchises; Star Trek.

A pioneer in franchise filmmaking, New Line produced the Oscar ¬ Æ - winning «ÄúThe Lord of the Rings «Äù trilogy, which is a landmark in the history of film franchises.

Both of the film franchises are currently owned by 20th Century Fox but the 94 - year - old Marvel Comics legend...

Actor Karl Urban is no newcomer to the world of film franchises.

Not exact matches

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

The Harry Potter series became one of the most successful film franchises ever, grossing more than $ 6 billion.

The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first time in a decade.

Russell said he thought media reports had made potential negative consequences of AI seem like they were all but already happening and said references to the Terminator film franchise in descriptions of AI were misleading.

In addition to The Last Jedi and the as - yet - untitled Episode IX in the Star Wars saga, the franchise will also yield another spinoff film slated for 2018, featuring a younger version of the franchise's Han Solo character.

At the end of the day, though, even though the company experiments with films and design sets centered around popular franchises, traditional LEGO bricks are still the main focus.

Disney and Marvel obviously know what they're doing with superhero movies — they've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time, making every single film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one director can have on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.

The first three «Hunger Game» films raked in over $ 2.3 billion worldwide, making it one of the most successful film franchises in recent history.

The deal gives iQiyi streaming rights to a list of about 200 Warner Bros. movies, from the Harry Potter film franchise to Academy Award - winner Gravity.

«There's been a steady stream of James Bond films, which keeps the general public very aware of that particular franchise,» says Young.

There's already a lot of speculation as to how this newest iteration of Spider - Man was able to breathe new life into the franchise, but there is one particular moment in the film that points to what differentiates this Spider - Man reboot from its predecessors.

Not only does the feature have a good deal of franchise history behind it, but it also has the same advantage that all family films have, in that kids going to see the film will be dragging along their parents, ensuring extra ticket sales.

«Homecoming» may be the sixth Spider - Man movie from Sony in 15 years, but it's by far one of the top two films in the entire franchise.

But for Paramount, the studio's success will largely be defined by movie ticket sales as well as the number of big blockbuster and tentpole film franchises it can churn out.

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Transformers: The Last Knight is the first film from the franchise since 2014's Transformers: Age of Extinction made $ 1.1 billion worldwide (with nearly 78 % of it coming overseas).

The world - renowned OG of 007 timepieces, a «Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner» graced Sean Connery's bushy, Richard Keys - ian wrist for the franchise's first four films.

As has become standard for bankable intellectual property (see the Harry Potter and Twilight franchises), the book is being split into two films, the first of which, An Unexpected Journey, will arrive in time for Christmas.

Disney purchased the Star Wars franchise from George Lucas» Lucasfilm in 2012 for $ 4.05 billion, and has planned for a new trilogy of films as well as standalone installments through 2019.

Disney and Lucasfilm released the official teaser trailer to the next standalone film in the Star Wars franchise in February, and Howard confirmed via Twitter at the end of March that another full - length trailer would follow soon, although an exact date has not been announced yet.

That runtime makes it the longest movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, of which «Infinity War» is the 19th film in the franchise.

Logsdon points out that the slate of films lined up for 2015's summer season is impressive, with a sequel to the wildly - popular Avengers franchise expected along with reboots to the Mission Impossible, Terminator, and Jurassic Park franchises.

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.