Sentences with phrase «produced franchise films»
Big - budget, studio - produced franchise films don't get any better than this.
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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.
For the first time ever in his career he went the independent film route and quickly found Brian Unkeless (the «Hunger Games» franchise) as a producing partner.
After overseeing the reboot of the Star Trek film franchise, he took the reins to steer movie goers back to that galaxy far, far away, directing and executive producing Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).
«Ash produced all of my movies in the Bad Ass film franchise.
We need to return Hollywood to being a place that can produce powerful, ground - level, mid-budget, humane films as well as franchise popcorn.
He also talked about the experience of being a part of the highly successful The Hangover franchise, whether he and Todd Phillips took the criticism of the second film into account when writing The Hangover Part III, making films for audiences to enjoy, and the animated feature Turkeys (featuring the voices of Amy Poehler, Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson), which he's writing and producing.
Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald return to produce and Barry Sonnenfeld, who directed the first two films of the franchise, will direct the film from a screenplay written by Ethan Cohen, based on the comic book by Lowell Cunningham.
Besides the «Twilight» franchise, Temple Hill also produced «The Fault in our Stars,» starring Shailene Woodley, and the «Maze Runner» films.
«The Beautiful and the Dammed» is being produced by studio Millennium films, who are best known for «The Expendables» franchise, as well as «Olympus Has Fallen».
Grillo is best known for his roles in the Captain America and Purge franchises along with leads in the critically - acclaimed DirecTV series KINGDOM and film Wheelman for Netflix, which he also produced.
Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Productions (THE horror film producing company so far this decade) has teamed up with Halloween franchise producer Malek Akkad and Miramax to bring a new film to the big - screen for a planned release of October 2017.
John Carpenter - the creator of the franchise and producer, writer and director of the original film - is also back, executive producing this new entry.
The film is helmed by Kay Cannon, making her directorial debut after writing the Pitch Perfect franchise, and produced by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver through their Point Grey Pictures banner.
Alex Kurtzman (People Like Us) is directing the film from a script by Jon Spaihts (Prometheus) and produced by Chris Morgan (Fast & Furious franchise).
Creatively speaking, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have done most of the heavy lifting in the LEGO cinematic universe, from directing and writing the film that jumpstarted the whole franchise, The LEGO Movie, to signing on to produce every future LEGO - related spinoff and sequel.
Unless you've been living under a rock or you just don't care, you've probably heard that Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios reached a deal to share Spider - Man so the character can enter the cinematic universe of The Avengers while still having his own film franchise that's controlled by Sony and produced by Marvel.
LOS ANGELES, May 23, 2016 — John Carpenter, the multiple award - winning and legendary filmmaker and creator of the original Halloween films, will return to the franchise as executive producer on a new production of the iconic horror movie, it was jointly announced today by MIRAMAX ® and Trancas International Films — MIRAMAX ® and Blumhouse Productions will co-finance development and production, with Malek Akkad serving as producer under his Trancas banner and Jason Blum producing for Blumhouse.
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.
Last Night's news that John Carpenter would return to the Halloween to produce a new film in the franchise was shocking, which turned the horror
That wrestling fans want to see their favorite combatants up on the silver screen has been pretty clear ever since WWE started producing films and we started seeing franchises like The Marine and 12 Rounds, but someone needs to remind wrestling fans that not every guy who steps into the spandex and overacts with semi-pithy taunts can lead a feature film.
The stealth campaign kept with the previous two films in the J.J. Abrams - produced franchise - the shakycam marauding monster mash Cloverfield (2008) and the elegantly claustrophobic maybe - it's - the - apocalypse thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)- both of which seemed to emerge out of nowhere, fully formed and ready to go.
It's produced by Cary Granat (The Scream franchise), and House musician Steve Aoki (who also contributed music to the film from his latest album Neon Future).
LOS ANGELES, CA (January 14, 2015)-- Bruce Willis (DIE HARD film franchise) will star in John Pogue's (THE QUIET ONES) action thriller WAKE, produced by Michael Benaroya (LAWLESS, MARGIN CALL) of Benaroya Pictures, Tobin Armbrust (A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES, BEGIN AGAIN), David Alpert (upcoming AMERICAN ULTRA, AMC's «The Walking Dead») and Chris Cowles (THE NUMBERS STATION, AUTOBAHN).
Together, they also created the successful Insidious franchise, and Wan has gone on to direct such high - profile films as The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2, and produced Annabelle and the upcoming Lights Out.
It's fitting that in its 50th anniversary, the James Bond movie franchise produced one of the best instalments in the series, and one of the finest films of the year, as Academy Award - winning director Sam Mendes teamed up with Daniel Craig's 007 for the super spy's 23rd official adventure, Skyfall.
Warner Bros. - based Alcon Entertainment is wrapping negotiations for the film, television and ancillary franchise rights to produce prequels and sequels to Ridley Scott's 1982 cult classic.
John Carpenter, the multiple award - winning and legendary filmmaker and creator of the original Halloween films, will return to the franchise as executive producer on a new production of the iconic horror movie, it was jointly announced today by MIRAMAX ® and Trancas International Films — MIRAMAX ® and Blumhouse Productions will co-finance development and production, with Malek Akkad serving as producer under his Trancas banner and Jason Blum producing for Blumhouse.
With some notable exceptions, Marvel Studios - produced films usually plateau at a glossy but totally indistinct level of mediocrity, and Thor continues the trend of weakly jumpstarting a franchise based on a Marvel comic with an adequate but instantly forgettable origin story.
Alcon Entertainment acquired the film, television and ancillary franchise rights to «Blade Runner» in 2011 from the late producer Bud Yorkin as well as Cynthia Sikes Yorkin with the intent to produce prequels and sequels to the iconic science - fiction thriller.
According to Variety, David Heyman will continue producing the franchise for Warner Brothers (which is not to suggest that this was ever in doubt), and will be joined on the final two films by David Barron.
After I produced the fourth Fast and Furious film, and saw the success of that, I was inspired and challenged by the idea of creating these sagas, these franchises.
MSM is currently in production on two films for ESPN's «30 for 30» franchise, and has also partnered with Frank Marshall to produce a five - episode, signature documentary series for the International Olympic Committee's global digital platform, the Olympic Channel.
FRIDAY, JULY 22 4:00 p.m. — 5:00 p.m. Developing Interactive Entertainment: The Performance Capture Techniques of the UNCHARTED Franchise and Today's Film Industry: Join UNCHARTED 3's Creative Director Amy Hennig, cast members Nolan North, Richard McGonagle, and Emily Rose to discuss the influence of theatrical techniques and styles from the history of film that have helped the team continually produce industry - leading and award - winning interactive entertainment.