Sentences with phrase «old franchise filmed»

Carol and Mad Max are definitely more of a 1A and 1B than a clear 1 and 2 for my best of the year, and I remain tickled that this completely crazy two hour chase scene in a desert reboot of a 30 year old franchise filmed by a 70 year old man has managed to capture the imagination of so many of us.

Not exact matches

Ash vs The Evil Dead is the perfect example of how to bring life back into an old series, it takes all the elements from the past films, the gore, blood, violence, campy humour, cheesy dialog and absurdity and really does a great job modernising the franchise while sticking true to its past.

That group includes a film that was so bad it appears to have killed the once - lucrative, decades - old Terminator franchise.

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).

The 23 - year - old leads the teen action franchise and also had fans in tears last year with the big - screen adaptation of John Green's popular film The Fault in Our Stars.

But in keeping with revived franchise's goals of shedding the old to make way for the new, he meets his apparent end during the final act of the film in a scene that will undoubtedly leave audiences asking a lot of questions.

Even better, especially for fans of gore - fueled films like 300, Troy introduces blood to the decade - old franchise.

Just like its tireless star, the fifth installment of the 19 - year - old Mission: Impossible film franchise is sprier, tighter, and more energetic than its age might suggest.

The film industry has long been interested in breathing new life into old franchises.

Three years ago, director Sam Mendes took the reins of the Bond franchise, pitting cyber terrorism against old fashioned knuckle and grit, employing the most talented international actors working, and crafting the single best 007 film of its then 50 - year legacy, Skyfall.

It's ridiculous that I'm this excited for a seventh film in what will be a 14 year old franchise, but here we are.

The 64 - year - old actor - who played Rubeus Hagrid in the «Harry Potter» film franchise - was immediately admitted to a medical facility in Orlando after getting off a flight on Thursday (29.01.15) reportedly suffering from severe flu - like symptoms.

There's been an overwhelming sense of nostalgia at theaters this summer, with films like «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «Jurassic World» and «Terminator Genisys» all reviving decades - old franchises on the big screen, and «Vacation» continues that trend with the latest installment in the National Lampoon series that began with Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo and a rotating door of actors playing their two kids.

This film is all the more unfortunate in that this is probably the only franchise film we'll see this year, next year or the year after in which the star is a 74 - year - old woman.

However, this isn't the Sarah Connor of the earlier films: Here she was orphaned by a Terminator at age 9 and raised by an older T - 800 she calls «Pops» (original franchise star Arnold Schwarzenegger).

The Rocky franchise is now seven films old but Creed feels like a fresh start.

Pratt told the Press Association in Los Angeles on Saturday he wants to remain in the films as Star - Lord for the foreseeable future ahead of the release of the 19th movie in the 10 - year - old franchise.

While franchise films are simply a reality of contemporary Hollywood, filmmakers have shown that the effort that goes into them does not have to be as simplistic nor as cynical as the old adage «one for them.»

They're less keen, but are a uniquely unpleasant trio themselves: quack to the stars Dr Stafford Weiss (a nicely nasty John Cusack, clearly enjoying his new villainous groove), pushy parent Christina (Olivia Williams - brilliantly brittle, as ever) and, the object of Christina's ruthless deal - making, 13 - year - old teen idol Benjie (Evan Bird), the spoilt star of a horrible film franchise called «Bad Babysitter».

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.

The 74 - year - old actor, who has played the older Professor Charles Xavier in six films, admitted that there may not be any room for their characters in the third instalment of the superhero franchise.

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

On the surface, this sequel — scripted by the first film's Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, and directed by franchise newcomers Anthony and Joe Russo — takes a bold approach by playing that old spy - movie game «Who Do You Trust?»

Rogue One, a new standalone Star Wars film that ends around the point where the original movie began, doesn't exactly subvert the light - and - dark mythos of that nearly 40 - year - old multimedia franchise, but it does find the fatalism buried in its space - opera heroics.

And in sidestepping many of the pitfalls that come with continuing a beloved franchise, the film invites viewers to revel in the old glory days without simply trying to recreate them.

Early on in Alien Vs. Predator (a film trumped by not only every single other entry in the respective titular franchises, but also Freddy vs. Jason), someone's watching an old Universal horror film on television — I think it's House of Dracula — and it announces in a promisingly self - knowing way that the movie knows what its roots are and that it intends to honour them.

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).

Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World aside, most comic book movies are centred on men and boys — and that's even looking beyond Hollywood's superhero franchises to films like A History of Violence, Oblivion and Old Boy.

Additionally, we see Billy and Nick clueless about Quidditch and «Harry Potter» references, even though that franchise is as old as the «X-Men» film franchise.

The 48 - year - old has had to bulk - up to portray the role of superhero Wolverine in the film franchise.

Dustin Hoffman's Quartet and Michael Haneke's Amour may have a good chance of featuring (films with very contrasting attitudes to growing old), but this could well be an Oscars that sees the popularity of the classier franchise films such as The Dark Knight Rises and Skyfall acknowledged with nominations on Oscar night.

Percy Jackson star Logan Lerman has confirmed the fantasy film franchise has come to an end.The 22 - year - old actor shot to fame as the title character...

The 26 - year - old helmer was the man behind «Chronicle,» which made back its $ 12 million budget ten times over on release in February, and since then he's been lining up all kinds of projects; while he won't direct any «Chronicle» sequel, he is attached to a film version of Soviet - themed comic book «The Red Star, «and is developing not one, but two major superhero franchises, in Sony's «Venom «and Fox «s «Fantastic Four.»

Chronicle writer / director Josh Trank's next film will again see the 27 year - old Californian again dealing with a group of super-powered individuals in Fantastic Four while 30 Days of Night and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse director David Slade loses his chance to revitalize the Daredevil franchise.

I was dipping my toe into a 21 - year - old franchise that has spawned endless anime series, card games, films, manga, toys, and at least 20 previous video games.

The Tomb Raider video game franchise, and its heroine Lara Croft, is 16 years, nine games, two films and at least one amusement park ride, old this year.

The film even has a few good ideas of its own, which give the film a stronger female presence than any other iteration of the franchise on top of that — Marian (Alyssa Milano) is the head of a rad vigilante group called the Power Corps (because no one could think of a more nineties name, apparently) and the Lees are trained by Satori Imada (Julia Nickson), who acts as the orphans» badass mother figure (despite the actress being barely ten years older than the guys, but she gets a token grey streak in her hair to «establish» her wisdom).