Sentences with phrase «running film franchise»

The first publication the books has sold over 100 million copies worldwide and they have been the inspiration behind the world's longest - running film franchise.

Daniel Craig is back as James Bond 007 in Skyfall, the 23rd adventure in the longest - running film franchise of all time.

Chapters of a long - running film franchise that exist in temporal limbo, like the one - generation - too - late prequels to the Star Wars series, often feel static and irrelevant.

Even established, long - running film franchises like the James Bond films have never really concerned themselves much with continuity.

Not exact matches

But, Paramount's best bet for a blockbuster film in 2017 is likely the latest installment in the long - running and financially successful Transformers action franchise, which will hit theaters in June.

The repeated pattern of expansions and recessions is like multiple sequels in a long - running movie franchise — each film shares a similar and familiar landscape but still manages to be different due to the specific causes and characters.

This Friday marks the release of the eighth installment of the Fast & Furious films, the long - running, high - octane action franchise that revolves around Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his motley crew of street racers - turned - international - crime - fighters - who - are - also - kind - of - criminals.

This was the eighth film in the long - running series - franchise.

Now, Jean - Julien Baronnet, the CEO of Ubisoft Motion Pictures, is comparing the film adaptation of their long - running franchise to Batman Begins and Blade Runner.

The Hunger Games ends its four - year run as Hollywood's dominant YA film franchise with its fourth and final installment, Mockingjay, Part 2.

Next year, we'll see the release of the final film in the long - running video game adaptation franchise.

Typically, Reynolds wouldn't have even been in the running as execs would prefer to have some distance between such a stinker film and their fresh, glossy new potential franchise.

And although the film picks up slightly in its human - centered final stretch, The Pact II ultimately does nothing to alleviate the misguided and pointless vibe that's running throughout this would - be franchise.

Director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell may be best known for kicking off the long - running (and phenomenally successful) Saw franchise, but the pair's latest film is arguably their first attempt at pure horror.

Mission: Impossible Fallout may well be the biggest, baddest entry yet in this long - running franchise, and I can't wait to see how all this madness plays in context when the film opens on July 27th.

The eighth film in Lionsgate's long running Saw franchise is set for release on October 27th.

Apparently, just like one of the other summer tent pole franchise films, Transformers, Pirates apparently has run out of decent stories to tell.

Based on the 12th novel in James Patterson's long - running series, the studio is clearly hoping that «Alex Cross» can reboot the film franchise that stalled out after 2001's «Along Came a Spider,» but surely there was a better option to play Cross than a man whose biggest claim to fame is dressing up like a fat black woman.

The 9th «Star Wars» film boasts not only one of the largest casts in the franchise history but also the longest running time (152 minutes).

It is a symptom of Marvel's oppressive world - building that so much of the film's run time is devoted to new characters like the twins, or Vision (Paul Bettany, actually having a face on screen for the first time in the franchise), or Ulysses Klaw (Andy Serkis, a villain for a movie that will not see the light of day for three more years), squeezing the interstitial moments down to little more than an afterthought.

With the Twilight saga having run its course and The Hunger Games already halfway through its source material, Divergent was the next big hope for young adult big - screen adaptations to develop into moneymaking film franchises.

It seems slightly far - fetched, but if you had told me in 2001 that The Fast and the Furious would kick off a huge, long - running, highly successful film franchise, I probably would've called you crazy.

The film is set to arrive in cinemas in January, and follows his similar turns in the likes of the Taken franchise, Non-Stop and Run All Night.

I'm not sure why I keep finding myself coming back to these films with the hopes of receiving some form of entertainment but they can occasionally manage to keep my attention occupied for the better part of a few hours, as Divergent did earlier this year with a well - paced run through its derivative, predictable, franchise - baiting plotline.

Thor: Ragnarok will be longest in the film franchise with a run time of 130 minutes and 21 seconds.

Last up is the first full trailer for The Bourne Legacy, which, naturally runs through far more of the plot than that first teaser, opening up the film to a wider audience, perhaps even those who have yet to catch all of the other films in the franchise.

The fourth film in Bay's skull - splinteringly insensitive franchise has a whole new cast — did the others run out of batteries, asks Peter Bradshaw

The impenetrable fifth film in the franchise proves that director Michael Bay has run out of ideas

Even if you did, you failed to recognize that even though you didn't personally like the remaining 28 films to even rate them as «really good», critics, audiences, and movie lovers in general did, and supported movies outside of the regular Oscar - bait and run - of - the - mill franchise films.

This was the seventh film in the long - running series - franchise.

However, considering how dense the Underworld mythology is and how each sequel / prequel hardly ever slows down to rehash backstory covered in previous installments (much to the franchise's credit), those in need of any sort of refresher in the world's now vast history will find this an invaluable resource, and the disc producers have executed it in such a way that it never disrupts the flow or skips and / or runs over any key scenes in the film.

Tomb Raider Reboot: The Tomb Raider film franchise is up and running again courtesy of Graham King's GK Films.

Although the franchise was largely a financial success and the first movie is often considered one of the better examples of a video game - to - movie adaptation, the Resident Evil franchise attracted mostly negative reviews throughout its six - film run.

Enter Little Fockers, the latest in the franchise and Paul Weitz's latest stinker (Roach no longer directs — one can only assume that he ran out of trite puns), following crap like Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, American Dreamz, and In Good Company, is a film so monstrously bad that describing it as the devil's spawn would be quite the understatement.

Visions may lack some of the atmosphere of Jessabelle, which used its Louisiana locations to great effect, and Fisher lacks the compelling, quirkier presence of the earlier film's Sarah Snook, but Visions serves as further evidence that Greutert is one of the most interesting mainstream horror directors around — I can easily see a The Conjuring - style success in his future — and that despite its many diminishing - returns franchise films (Paranormal Activity, Sinister, Insidious, et al.), Blumhouse is far from running out of ideas.

The film marks Jovovich's first major franchise role since the long - running Resident Evil franchise churned out its last installment earlier this year.

The Final Chapter In The Big Book Of Zombie Killing February 2017 sees the release of the final Resident Evil film in the long - running live - action movie franchise led by Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.

Monday saw Michael Fassbender announced as the star and producer of a film based on Ubisoft «s hugely popular «Assassin's Creed» franchise, while yesterday a movie based on the long - running «Deus Ex» series was set up at CBS Films, Sony «s «God Of War» film got new writers, and Dreamworks ««Need For Speed «got a firm 2014 release date.

Gareth Edwards» new film is packed with breathtaking battle sequences, some compelling human drama, and respects the Gojira fan - base while also standing as a unique entry in the long - running franchise.

With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new installment.

The film, based on the long - running video game franchise from Konami, has been in development hell since it was first announced, but Anderson's always been on as director and writer.

The long - running, live - action Resident Evil film franchise came to an end with The Final Chapter in 2016, but much like a zombie, this series just won't stay dead.

Premium Bandai has started accepting pre-orders for a new soft vinyl figure of Mechagodzilla from Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle, the second part of Polygon Pictures» trilogy anime feature film project inspired by Toho's long - running Godzilla franchise.

Although the franchise was largely a financial success and the first movie is often considered one of the better examples of a video game - to - movie adaptation, the Resident Evil franchise attracted mostly negative reviews throughout its six - film run.

The fourth film is expected to earn around 2.5 billion yen from its domestic run, less than one third of the total gross of the franchise's first and most successful film, Yo - kai Watch: Tanjou no Himitsu da Nyan!

In practice, my deep - rooted mecha fetish would probably be better soothed by an entry in From Software's long - running Armored Core franchise rather than some cash - grabbing rendition of the Guillermo del Toro film.

The films will be overseen by Akiva Goldsman, who'll be setting up and running a writers room to adapt the comics, similar to what he's done in the past for the Transformers franchise, the Hasbro cinematic universe, and the Ologies series of YA books.