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The three original films in the franchise were cast by different CDs and Gray doesn't have loyalty to one in particular.

Not exact matches

In truth, there are times when the film feels less like an addition to the franchise than it does a remake of the original movie.

While the life of the typical film franchise has been all squeezed out by its third installment, leaving a shattered shell of its former glory, Shrek the Third defies the odds in being as entertaining as the original animated hit and surpassing the second edition.

This Halloween, the seasonal offerings include some big - ticket gift sets, like «Chucky: The Complete Collection,» an anthology of all six films in the «Child's Play» series (Universal; Blu - ray, $ 84.98; DVD, $ 59.88; not rated), and «Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection,» which offers Blu - ray editions of 12 films in that slasher franchise, from the original 1980 «Friday the 13th» directed by Sean S. Cunningham to its 2009 remake - reboot directed by Marcus Nispel — in effect, closing the circle (Warner Home Video; $ 129.95; R).

In keeping with the popular social media trend of «Throwback Thursday» (#TBT), we will from time to time take a moment to focus on the classic trailers, posters, and promotional items from some of our favorite Halloween - themed movies, TV shows, and more, continuing today with a flashback viewing of the original trailer for the sixth film in the Halloween franchise, originally titled Halloween 666: The Origin of Michael Myers (1995In keeping with the popular social media trend of «Throwback Thursday» (#TBT), we will from time to time take a moment to focus on the classic trailers, posters, and promotional items from some of our favorite Halloween - themed movies, TV shows, and more, continuing today with a flashback viewing of the original trailer for the sixth film in the Halloween franchise, originally titled Halloween 666: The Origin of Michael Myers (1995in the Halloween franchise, originally titled Halloween 666: The Origin of Michael Myers (1995).

Director James Mangold teased out the first peek at the crew recording the original score for Logan, the third and likely best Wolverine film in the franchise.

Our studio had its first ever $ 1 billion worldwide grossing film in Michael Bay's hit «Transformers: Dark of the Moon;» we successfully re-launched our «Mission Impossible» franchise with Tom Cruise, JJ Abrams and Brad Bird; our latest installment in the «Paranormal Activity» franchise had another $ 100 million dollar success; our first original animated film «Rango,» from director Gore Verbinski, earned rave reviews and more than $ 100 million at the domestic box office; and we released global phenomenon «Super 8,» directed by JJ Abrams, who will now direct the newest «Star Trek» for 2013.

After the slightly more rote LEGO Marvel's Avengers spent the bulk of its playtime retelling stories from the MCU film franchise, Super Heroes 2 returns to the original story format to pack in as much nostalgia and referential humour as is brickally possible.

But these are minor gripes in a film that is unquestionably the best entry in the franchise since the 1993 original.

The three films in the franchise have collectively grossed close to $ 2 billion worldwide to - date, with the original film making $ 914 million alone.

«Cars 2» might have given this franchise a bad name but the original film is still quite solid and has never been faster and more in - your - face... literally.

Starting with Sam Raimi «s iconic original film, through his increasingly comedic (and deranged) sequels, Fede Alvarez «s grisly remake, and the long - awaited return of Bruce Campbell «s chainsaw - wielding hero in the Starz original series Ash vs. Evil Dead, the horror franchise has proven as elastic as it is enduring, able to mold to the specific demands of each new iteration without losing that delirious double shot of zany personality that defines it.

This, the franchise's third chapter, actually accomplishes much in providing a larger backstory for the creatures that wreaked havoc in the original film and its 2016 sequel 10 Cloverfield Lane, and puts into context why humanity is such a state of disarray.

Directed by: Dean DeBlois Written by: Dean DeBlois Main Cast: Voices of Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Djimon Hounsou, Christopher Mintz - Plasse, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and others Past Oscar relations: The first film in the franchise was nominated for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score Here -LSB-...]

He belongs to the hardboiled, get - the - job - done leading men of action films past, but even in this time of increasingly progressive heroes remains incredibly popular for his steely, charisma - not - necessary aloofness - so popular in fact that the franchise was resurrected after Jeremy Renner nadir The Bourne Legacy for a fifth film some 14 years after the original just to bring the real Bourne back.

Other highlights include Fox recalling the original film's royal screening, in which he was seated next to Princess Diana and had to use the bathroom the whole time; Secret Cinema's alluring Back to the Future exhibition (in which the 1955 Hill Valley was impressively recreated); a discussion of BTTF books that have been published; and homages to the franchise from ABC's «The Goldbergs» (whose creator Adam F. Goldberg is both an executive producer and interview subject here) to «American Dad» and Harmon's «Rick and Morty.»

In the capable hands of director Matt Reeves and motion - capture star Andy Serkis as Caesar, I'd gladly watch more new APES films by 20th Century Fox to see just where the narrative will take us and how closely it will skew to the original franchise storyline.

When the cast was announced for the long - awaited next film in the Ghostbusters franchise, some short - sighted fans were upset that the Ghostbuster team would not star the original cast but would be played by female actors in what seemed like a gimmick.

For his part, Stahelski is a huge fan of the property in every form — the film franchise, TV series and books — and points to the basic hook of the mythology as the reason the fandom has endured in spite of the original film's sillier qualities.

Genisys harks back to the original film both in story and tone, recreating certain semi-iconic moments while also giving us a new perspective of the franchise - sparking events.

We are still well over a year away from that release date, but Blumhouse is wasting no time in working on the marketing and official product tie - ins that will come with the new movie, attending the annual Licensing Expo on Las Vegas in May 2017, where a very early piece of promo art was on display in the form of a teaser poster that recalls Carpenter's minimalist approach to the original film and echoes the team's comments about taking the franchise back to basics.

The Cloverfield Paradox, the third movie in the Cloverfield franchise, has recently released on Netflix, but it's a very different film to the one promised by the original scipt, God Particle.

As Blum appreciates in all his series, the anticipated follow - up to the hit 2012 horror film, «Sinister,» will deepen audience's appreciation of the franchise by retaining beloved elements from the original, while also surprising theme by not being imitative.

In this feature piece Chris Neill looks at the original film in each of the three major slasher franchises to come out of the late»70s / early»80s and compares them to their modern Hollywood rebootIn this feature piece Chris Neill looks at the original film in each of the three major slasher franchises to come out of the late»70s / early»80s and compares them to their modern Hollywood rebootin each of the three major slasher franchises to come out of the late»70s / early»80s and compares them to their modern Hollywood reboots.

Hopefully for this latest entry, the sixth film in the franchise, they can get back to having a great balance of action and story along the lines of the original and «Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.»

As they've gone with Ellen Ripley's daughter, Amanda, and a long timeline where the original film character remains in cryo - sleep between the films, there's plenty of franchise - able material in this time period.

First off was «The Cloverfield Paradox,» the deeply disappointing sold - to - Netflix continuation of the «Cloverfield» franchise in which a space station crew's mucking about with the time - space continuum ends up being the cause of the original film's creature invasion.

There has been much talk of this film only linking to the original 2008 Cloverfield in tone; it's also possible there's a connection yet to be revealed or more films in this franchise on the way.

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.

This movie will disregard every film in the franchise except for John Carpenter's iconic 1978 original — and even has Carpenter onboard to make sure the film does everything right.

The film is the seventh in the franchise and sees the characters from the original X-Men films joining forces with the younger versions of themselves to battle against time and save the future.

The original franchise is remembered for devolving into cheesy sci - fi, even if that final image in the first film from 1968 of the Statue of Liberty will keep blowing the minds of stoned undergrads till the end of time.

While many other characters have made cameos in Star Wars films that tells stories before the original trilogy, the franchise has stayed away from showing Solo as a younger man.

The original hero of the Star Wars franchise, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), is coming back in the upcoming film of the franchise.

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.

Opening the night was the (perhaps misleadingly titled) Outstanding British Film category which eschewed recognition of daring and original films such as Berberian Sound Studio and Sightseers in favour of Anna Karenina and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, along with this year's winner - the 23rd entry in the Bond franchise - Skyfall.

Taylor's original choice of composer was Carter Burwell who didn't seem the most natural of choices, so it wasn't entirely a surprise when he departed the project (seemingly not the director's choice, but the studio's); a very capable replacement was hired in the form of Brian Tyler, who also scored the previous film in the franchise, Iron Man 3, and just maybe he will become the «house composer» for this series, which has so far failed to establish any kind of distinctive musical identity.

Jurassic World Evolution is based on Universal Pictures» record - setting film franchise and created in collaboration with Universal, expanding on the original Jurassic World mythology and putting playe...

Then again, since all the films in the franchise past the original are not actually part of * this * particular continuity, it'll kinda be the first time we've seen Laurie in FORTY years!

Probably one of the more eagerly awaited sequels in recent memory, Avengers: Age Of Ultron crafted by Marvel Studios / Disney and directed by Joss Whedon, makes a decent entry into the second - film - of - the - franchise market, but does not supersede the original in acting, writing or humor (so one can forget the «The Empire Strikes Back,» «Superman II» and «The Dark Knight» allusions).

When Halloween: Resurrection opened in the summer of 2002, it marked the final appearance of scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis in the franchise that made her famous, as well as the end of the original series of films, but few could have predicted how ahead of its time it was in terms of its online streaming reality TV plot.

Original Story: The first poster for the recently - announced live - action Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen franchise reboot has been spotted in Cannes during its annual film festival by Bloody Disgusting.

Not as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open Water 3: Cage Dive, whose shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent months.

The latest entrant in this now - Disney - owned franchise is largely content to further the themes and narrative strategies of its predecessor: Johnson, a filmmaker who proved capable of crafting individualistic, tightly wound sci - fi with 2012's Looper, too often seems to think that the best he can bring to Star Wars is an amped - up version of Abrams's overly reverent tribute to George Lucas's original films.

In 2016, Gugu Mbatha - Raw and David Oyelowo were set to star in the film, and by the end of the year, we started hearing rumors that God Particle would be the third film in what was now the Cloverfield franchise, following 2008's original film and 2016's 10 Cloverfield LanIn 2016, Gugu Mbatha - Raw and David Oyelowo were set to star in the film, and by the end of the year, we started hearing rumors that God Particle would be the third film in what was now the Cloverfield franchise, following 2008's original film and 2016's 10 Cloverfield Lanin the film, and by the end of the year, we started hearing rumors that God Particle would be the third film in what was now the Cloverfield franchise, following 2008's original film and 2016's 10 Cloverfield Lanin what was now the Cloverfield franchise, following 2008's original film and 2016's 10 Cloverfield Lane.

However, with the unveiling of this film, which fills in the backstory of the heroes from the original series, there is potential for a bold new injection of story ideas and discoveries in this perpetual franchise.

Rowling was set as the screenwriter of this brand new prequel franchise, and we'd be getting a new series of films set in the Wizarding World that A. Don't try to reboot or rework the brilliant Harry Potter saga and B. Offer new insights into characters we only heard about in the original series.

SyFy Wire announced today that the original Leprechaun franchise is coming back in a brand new horror sequel to the 1993 film with Leprechaun Returns, which is...

It is also worth noting that the film's release date happens to be Michael Myers» birthday (in 1957), according to the original franchise canon.

Whereas the last game in the franchise, Aliens: Colonial Marines, modeled itself off of James Cameron's action - filled Aliens, the team over at Creative Assembly has brought the franchise back to its terrifying roots by focusing on a single, monstrous Xenomorph in the same vein as Ridley Scott's original Alien film.