Sentences with phrase «popular film franchises»

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.

That statement is less of a spoiler than it seems, but is suitably Byzantine for the twists and turns of the final installment of the stupendously popular film franchise based on the even more adored book series by J.K. Rowling.

He is the latest new face to sign up for the next installment of the popular film franchise - Kurt Russell, Jason Statham and Nathalie Emmanuel have also landed roles in the forthcoming release.

The opening credits sequence is a clever and hilarious parody of a very popular film franchise that has been around for over 50 years.

The popular film franchise, Hotel Transylvania will be making its video game debut later this Summer on PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC.

KW: As for X-Men, what a spectacular screen debut you're getting to make by being a part of such a popular film franchise.

A parody of the popular film franchise Star Wars is creating quite a stir on YouTube.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

No matter how popular the source materials may be among teenage audiences, there is a strong argument that this film would not have been made without the financial success of the Potter franchise.

Perhaps its unexpected box office success can be attributed in part to the popular reaction against an entertainment industry whose laser - like concentration is on big - budget franchise and sequel films.

Synopsis: X-Men and X-Men 2 director Bryan Singer returns to the reigns of Marvel Entertainment's popular comic - book film franchise with this time - traveling... [MORE]

Bardem recently finished filming «Eat, Love, Pray» with Julia Roberts, while Cruz is working on «Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides», the fourth installment of the popular Disney franchise.

The next series of films in the popular franchise tirade of anger are going to be the Halloween films.

Celebrating its first anniversary, Fandango FanShop offers a wide variety of exclusive and limited edition movie gear, collectibles, jewelry, fashion accessories, home goods, fine art and posters, based on popular films and franchises.

You saw it in 2004 when it was called «The Bourne Supremacy,» and you saw it in 2007 when it was called «The Bourne Ultimatum»... This fifth «Bourne «film (and fourth Matt Damon entry) plays like a greatest hits album of a popular franchise, with an emphasis on the two sequels that Greengrass himself directed.»

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.

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 (1995).

This is an exceptionally cool announcement, considering that Halloween H20 is one of the most popular and controversial sequels in the entire Halloween franchise, and this marks the first time that a feature commentary track has ever been provided for the film.

He and his wife, Dr. Kristin Thompson (who has a book coming out called «Frodo, Fantasy and Franchises: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood»), are also the authors of the two most popular film textbooks, «Film Art» and «Film History.»

This is part five in a popular franchise, but it's in an odd place: last installment «On Stranger Tides» was the only film in the series to fail to cross $ 300 million domestic.

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.

Inspired by the popular Disney parks ride of the same name, the blockbuster «Pirates of the Caribbean» film franchise came full circle Wednesday as star Johnny Depp surprised Disneyland visitors with an appearance by Captain Jack Sparrow.

Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012) The iconic spy James Bond returns in what can be easily one of the best spy thrillers of the year, let alone one the best Bond films in this popular franchise.

Retaining the gentle, non-verbal comedy and daffy sight gags of the popular stop - motion TV series — itself a loose spinoff from Aardman's cherished «Wallace and Gromit» franchise — while assigning Shaun and his flock an urban escapade more expansive than their usual short - form gambols, the film should reward small fry and parents jaded by more synthetic kiddie toons.

One of the more popular characters from the Shrek franchise steps into the starring spotlight here, in an adventure whose locale is rather different from the familiar swamp - forest - castle fairy - tale settings of the parent films.

He's most popular as the guy who used to play «Birdman» in the first three films of a Hollywood superhero franchise.

He explored adventure and horror cinema early in his career and created the popular Indiana Jones franchise and the film Poltergeist with George Lucas.

When «Cars» was released, I do not think that anyone knew how popular this franchise would be well beyond the films itself.

Portman is a massively popular, Oscar - winning actress, who kind of swore off franchise films after the Star Wars prequels.

Wednesday brought some notable changes to the release date schedule of popular Disney - owned film franchises.

The film acts as the trilogy capper to the popular franchise, and finds Stu (Ed Helms), Phil (Bradley Cooper), and Doug (Justin...

The film acts as the trilogy capper to the popular franchise, and finds Stu (Ed Helms), Phil (Bradley Cooper), and...

THR reports that Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the filmmakers behind Catfish, are in final negotiations to direct a film adaptation of the popular Capcom video game franchise.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe was once accused of dishing up the same rinse - and - repeat origin story over and over again — and while Feige will protest (and has) that each Marvel movie has had its own individual flavor (Thor was a stab at Shakespeare; The Winter Soldier riffs on 70s paranoia thrillers), the franchise has been finding more solid footing in its endeavor to remix all of popular film history through the lens of superheroes.

Paramount Pictures has assembled a writer's room including Michael Chabon, Akiva Goldsman, Christina Hodson, Nicole Perlman, Jeff Pinkner, Lindsey Beer, and Joe Robert Cole to adapt a film franchise based on the popular YA series of encyclopedias exploring concepts like «Alienology,» «Oceanology,» «Monsterology,» «Dungeonology» and «Spyology.»

Unlike the popular «X-Men» franchise, the «Fantastic Four» films haven't been as popular at the box office.

A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky are back with another edition of Film Club to discuss Tomb Raider, the latest adaptation of the popular video - game franchise.

While Deadline reports that «the script is still be worked on and that those behind the pic want to get this popular Mattel toy franchise right,» such a major delay for film's release — a few months shy of two years — normally doesn't bode well for a production.

LOS ANGELES November 29, 2016 — In support of the upcoming action / horror film UNDERWORLD: BLOOD WARS, the latest installment in the blockbuster UNDERWORLD franchise, Screen Gems has partnered with the wildly popular platform Snapchat to develop the first - ever sponsored interactive 3D Lens to reach their 150 + million daily users and allow the studio to communicate with Snapchatters in the most...

Coming off a decade where the American genre film devolved into lowest - common - denominator investments and blockbusters ballooned skyward on the backs of sequels and franchises, Refn's modest exercise in crime pastiche and car - chase nostalgia parlayed both the exhaustion of Hollywood's narrative resources and — perhaps more importantly — the gathering mainstream curiosity in independent music's preoccupation with the sound and feel of the 1980s (the film's soundtrack has become one of the most popular word - of - mouth successes of the decade).

The narrative architect behind the Bourne film series, Tony Gilroy, takes the helm in the next chapter of the hugely popular espionage franchise that has earned almost $ 1 billion at the global box office: The Bourne Legacy.

Considering «The Hunger Games» is part of a popular book series the franchise flotilla is launched with the first film and there are nice hints at what's to come.

The film ¹ s production begins on the heels of the 20th anniversary of the wildly popular videogame franchise from Square Enix, Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal.

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.

We are into the tail end of 2016's film journey and one of those films at the very end of the release calendar is the upcoming Assassin's Creed movie, which is based on the highly popular game franchise.

As Star Wars: The Force Awakens nears 2 billion dollars worldwide (it will be the third film to do so if it happens), it's a great time to check out what is known to be a major influence on the popular franchise.

Though a popular game franchise the TOMB RAIDER films never really caught the imagination of the cinema going public.

It has been 11 years since Zellweger last starred as Bridget in the second film in the popular movie franchise, «Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason».