Sentences with phrase «successful film franchise»

«We are very excited to be rebooting what is already a hugely successful film franchise and continuing the Tomb Raider phenomenon,» said producer Graham King, who helped bring Martin Scorsese's The Departed and Ben Affleck's The Town to cinemas through his company, GK Films.
The movie franchise, based on the horror - survival video game franchise of Capcom, is the most successful film franchise based on a video game.
LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game will be based in the world of the globally successful film franchise, incorporating storylines, locations and characters from the first three films («Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,» «Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest» and «Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End») as well as the upcoming fourth film, «Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.»
The four books that follow the trials and tribulations of star - crossed lovers Bella and Edward — a human and a vampire — sold more than 100 million copies and launched a successful film franchise.
Transformers: Age of Extinction, marked the return of Director Michael Bay to the successful film franchise with a different core cast and take on the story.
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.
Rogue One was an interesting case even though it was apart of highly successful film franchise there were some naysayers worried that the film wouldn't find an audiences.
The Harry Potter series became one of the most successful film franchises ever, grossing more than $ 6 billion.
The first three «Hunger Game» films raked in over $ 2.3 billion worldwide, making it one of the most successful film franchises in recent history.
After two Oscar nominations (and one win) for Best Actor, Eddie Redmayne is ready to take over Hollywood by starring in his own global blockbuster, and there's no better place to start than with a spinoff of one of the most successful film franchises of all time: the «Harry Potter» series.
Cube's successful film franchises also include the Friday, Are We There Yet?
Woods has had experience marketing successful film franchises, notably «Madagascar» and «How To Train Your Dragon.»

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Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.
Oscar Isaac is winning hearts as fan - favorite Poe Dameron in «Star Wars: The Force Awakens,» already the most successful film in the franchise.
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.
One of the few last successful horror franchises in modern history would have to be the Paranormal Activity flicks where it goes to show, that a film that makes noises in another room can scare the living hell out of millions of people.
Neither has gone on to demonstrate any real potential outside of this series, with Miller participating in the seemingly endless Madagascar franchise and Hui doing little outside of short films based off already successful features.
The division, whose first feature film Open Season led to a very successful movie franchise, is turning 10 this year.
Specifically, we get a 20 minute documentary on the franchise in which the creative team attempts to ponder the reasons why the films were not terribly successful.
Making a great film doesn't always translate to big box office numbers, so what does it mean to you to be a part of the highly successful The Hangover 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.
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.
The story of a garbageman named Simon Grim (James Urbaniak) who becomes a celebrated poet after meeting the garrulous, frustrated title character (Thomas Jay Ryan), Henry Fool remains Hartley's most commercially successful film (on a very small scale), but it didn't exactly appear to be the launch of a franchise.
And so came «Alien» in 1979, a film that broke new ground in visual effects, established a hugely successful franchise and cult following, made Sigourney Weaver a star and put Scott on the map.
The film stands as a successful melding of entertainment value and homage for fans — precisely what should be expected of a summer blockbuster branded with the name of a beloved franchise.
In other words, all the quintessential elements of a successful Bond film were in alignment, and it shows; there's no simply going - through - the - motions for the franchise just yet.
Although the «X-Men» franchise has been quite successful with both the Bryan Singer trilogy and the «First Class» movies, however, Marvel does still have an input while making the films.
Oscar - winning actress stars in action - adventure film based on successful video game franchise
To understand why «Black Panther» is on its way to becoming Marvel's most successful movie, look no further than how director Ryan Coogler found small pockets of life in one of film's biggest franchises
Almost all successful films spawn franchises, and so, two years later, we were given a sequel (from a new director — Renny Harlin), Die Hard 2 («Die Harder «-RRB-.
Some speculated, since it's a trendy thing to do on several other young people's franchises, and the fact that Lawrence himself was a replacement for Gary Ross (who directed «Hunger Games»), that Lionsgate might continue to shake things up and bring in a new director for each film in the highly - successful movie series.
Universal Pictures has released the brand new trailer for Pitch Perfect 3, the new film in the highly successful franchise that releases in cinemas later this year.
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One of his more successful studio films gave him his first franchise, albeit one that was rather short - lived, with a reboot of Zorro.
When a film franchise is successful, the key is — keep making them!
While Gibson and Glover have been replaced by Clayne Crawford and Damon Wayans, respectively, the energy and chemistry between the two mismatched cops is still ever - present and the series allows for even more character growth than the successful four film franchise.
The Miramax library holds some of the world's most sophisticated, thought - provoking and critically - acclaimed independent films including sex, lies, and videotape, The English Patient, Shakespeare In Love, Reservoir Dogs, Chicago, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, My Left Foot, Cinema Paradiso, Life is Beautiful, Amélie, Kill Bill, Volume I and II, No Country for Old Men, as well as scores of commercially successful films such as Bridget Jones's Diary, the Scream, Hellraiser and Scary Movie franchises and Spy Kids.
Despite Wes Craven's intentions to end the franchise with the previous film, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master was the most successful film of the series yet.
Take two dudes from the writing team of the «Scary Movie» franchise (successful films that have at least generated some genuine laughs spoofing horror movies) and have them write and direct a spoof on romantic comedy films.
One of the most successful new supernatural horror franchises in recent memory is getting a fourth film.
Lionsgate is fast - tracking a film retelling of Homer's The Odyssey, and to do this, they are gathering lots of the team responsible for much of their successful Hunger Games franchise.
The first Ant - Man film was a gamble for Marvel, who attempted to turn a little - known hero into a full - fledged successful movie franchise.
As an immensely successful film producer, Kennedy's resume includes over 60 memorable films such as ET, the Back to the Future franchise, the Indiana Jones franchise, and Lincoln.
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.
Look at the careers of actors like Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Ali MacGraw, who found themselves front and center in hugely successful films at a young age but did not get to wield star power much beyond their signature hit or franchise.
On a side note, one thing that long - time survival horror fans might notice when watching is that the many aspects of the film are eerily reminiscent of the Silent Hill video game franchise, with several locations, visual aspects and even some of the monstrous creature designs being cited as influences upon the hugely successful video game franchise.
The seven SAW films grossed $ 874 million at the box office worldwide and were hailed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the «Most Successful Horror Franchise» of all time.
The fifth film in the very successful franchise has had its release date pushed back to...
Pitch Perfect 3 director: Elizabeth Banks to return to helm the third film in the hugely successful Universal franchise.
Similar to next year's Black Panther, the solo film will have to both pay the appropriate amount of respect to a long - awaited comic book character and be another successful step forward in diversifying the lineup of characters / franchises in the MCU.
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