It's unclear whether other
original franchise stars like Halle Berry, James Marsden and Famke Janssen will also return.
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).
Not exact matches
The company has done well with several of its movie
franchises, such as Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar and Shrek, but it doesn't have anything that really compares to the
Star Wars library or the Marvel
franchise (although Shrek has pulled in about $ 3.5 billion since the
original movie in 2001).
With Disney pushing the annual release of
Star Wars movies,
Star Wars toys are likely to remain popular as the
franchise has long been a hit with kids as well as fans of the
originals.
This month's release of J. J. Abrams's cinematic reboot of the
Star Trek
franchise means a vast amount of new Trek merchandise, including a life - size replica of Captain Kirk's chair from the
original TV series: $ 2,717.01 from Diamond Select Toys & Collectibles.
With a focus on replayability, unlockable content, discovering alternate paths, and pushing for higher scores, fans of the SNES
original and
Star Fox 64 will find that the game has everything they love about the
franchise and plenty more.
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.
In the opening minutes of War for the Planet of the Apes, the third entry in the rebooted
franchise of the 1968 Charlton Heston -
starring original, a human soldier trudges up a forested hill sporting a...
With today's debut of the official trailer for «
Star Wars: Rogue One,» a standalone installment of the intergalactic
franchise about the events leading up to the
original film, we've got lightsabers on the brain.
In addition to the «
Star Wars» TV series, Disney is working on TV adaptations of Pixar's «Monsters Inc.,» the Disney Channel's «High School Musical»
franchise and an
original series from Marvel.
Meanwhile, Daniel Radcliffe - who
starred as Harry in the
original movie series - has insisted he's not made a conscious effort to «distance» himself from 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.
In Part 1 of our interview, Sean Clark (Horror's Hallowed Grounds, Convention All
Stars) told us that the Halloween fans are by far the most passionate that he has ever experienced, and so this second installment picks up with more on horror's most intense fans, before diving deep into the
franchise's unique continuity issues, his own
original ideas for possible sequels, a preview of this year's 40th anniversary convention, and how it all began and keeps coming back to Michael Myers.
Ron Howard is getting a crack at the
Star Wars
franchise due to taking over the Han Solo movie from
original Directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, but something seems tonally strange about his vision of the
Star Wars
franchise...
We also consider whether «
Star Wars: The Last Jedi» could be the
franchise's first Best Picture nominee since the 1977
original, «A New Hope.»
The
franchise's
original stars — Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson — have bailed, replaced by Dermot Mulroney as widower Sean Brenner, and Stefanie Scott as his 17 - year - old daughter Quinn, who live together in a spooky apartment block.
The release of the movie also coincides with the end of the contracts for many of the
franchise's
original stars.
The
original directing duo were kicked off the project by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and «Solo» co-writer Lawrence Kasdan, neither of whom were keen on their comedic style, thinking it was out of place in the «
Star Wars»
franchise.
But a new comment from actor John Boyega, who plays Finn in the new trilogy, indicates that a
Star Wars Episode 9 time jump may happen which would bring the
franchise back to its
original trilogy roots.
One of the biggest draws for the Halloween
franchise happens to be the return of
original star Jamie Lee Curtis.
It features
original Tremors
star Michael Gross (Family Ties) as Burt Gummer along with Jamie Kennedy (Scream
franchise) as his son Travis.
Meanwhile, the movie
franchise based on the
original game series has been gearing toward a reboot for some time, having remained dormant since 2003's Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, which
starred Angelina Jolie.
«
Star Wars: The Force Awakens» is an exciting return to form for the
franchise that recaptures the childlike sensation of watching the
original trilogy for the first time.
Johnston, who worked on the
original Star Wars
franchise before striking out on his own, knows this sort of filmmaking well enough, and his choreographing of action sequences is consistently admirable.
After Rogue One (2016), this is the second installment in Disney's «
Star Wars Anthology»
franchise filling in the nooks and crannies of George Lucas's
original...
The TV
franchise has already inspired many movies, including:
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (featuring the
original Kirk and Spock - played by William Shatner and Leonard Nemoy) and
Star Trek: First Contact,
Star Trek: Insurrection and
Star Trek: Nemesis (
starring the Next Generation crew, with Patrick Stewart at the helm as Captain Picard).
The trilogies
original star Keanu Reeves said he'd be up to returning to the
franchise, but only if it's
original film makers and writers i.e. the Wachowski's were to return, but that probably isn't happening so don't expect Reeves to be anywhere near this one.
But the
franchise has kept going at the will and hands of its lead
star: Stallone wrote all of the movies and directed all but the
original.
For a while it was looking like Neill Blomkamp would get his shot at reviving the
franchise with
original star Sigourney Weaver, but Ridley Scott's sequel to Prometheus — originally not related to the Alien
franchise, now called Alien: Covenant — put those plans on ice.
The Terminator
franchise is getting a reboot in the form of Terminator Genisys, a movie that brings back Arnold Schwarzenegger for a revisit to the
original Terminator movie via some yet - unexplained time travel mechanics that are currently best explained with vague comparison to Back to the Future Part II, X-Men: Days of Future Past or J.J. Abrams»
Star Trek reboot.
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.
The pitch The third in the rebooted «
Star Trek» series sees
original director JJ Abrams stepping down in favour of «Fast & Furious»
franchise veteran Justin Lin.
The
Star Trek
franchise bounces back from
Star Trek V with a solid effort and a fitting conclusion to the
Original Series film arc.
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.
Judging from what we are teased with here, the whole thing is consistent with the X-Men
franchise (now back to its
original director, Bryan Singer) but offers little to get excited from beyond the excessive fanboy factor (and timeline continuity splitting was also recently done with the
Star Trek reboot).
Early this week, The Hollywood Reporter broke news that George Lucas, the
original creator of the
Star Wars
franchise, told The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson that his film was «beautifully made.»
Trick or Treat Studios are simply the best at providing the most authentic, high quality masks and accessories from all of our favorite genre
franchises, and now comes the announcement that 2017 will bring the release of their version of the
original 1975
Star Trek Captain Kirk mask by Don Post, which of course was eventually altered by Tommy Lee Wallace to create the iconic Michael Myers mask from John Carpenter's Halloween.
Each frame of the film was envisioned with excitement and respect for the
Star Wars
franchise and the filmmakers have created an outstanding compliment film to the
original trilogy.
In its third iteration, players will again utilize real - world interactive figures to activate
original storylines (Play Sets) in the virtual game worlds of popular
Star Wars
franchises and create new adventures with a variety of characters from Marvel, The Walt Disney Co. and Disney / Pixar properties in the Toy Box mode.
The screenplay is by Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote or co-wrote
original trilogy
Star Wars movies The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, as well as 2015
franchise reboot The Force Awakens, along with his son Jonathan Kasdan, whose previous credits include writing and directing the rom - com The First Time.
Michael Nyqvist, the
star of the
original Sewdish «The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo»
franchise was born Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist in November 1960.
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.
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.
Now one of the iconic members of the epic sci - fi
franchise, Mark Hamill, has revealed the
original Star Wars The Force Awakens ending that Rian Johnson changed and also shared why it was changed.
The
original Bad Boys which launched Will Smith as internationally known
star, bowed in April 1995 while the second in the
franchise was released in July of 2003.
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.
Employing production design that would be right at home in the rebooted J.J. Abrams
Star Trek
franchise, Netflix's Lost In Space takes the raw materials from the
original show, and molds them into an episodic drama featuring surprisingly complex characters.
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 Lane.