Sentences with phrase «superhero franchise films»

And so find below a list of 15 actors who were extra hardworking and who you couldn't have missed seeing as they were everywhere from superhero franchise films and prestige flicks to Netflix series and festival sensations.

His aim is to collect the stones, which have been scattered across Marvel Studios» existent superhero franchise films, in order to decimate the galactic populace.

Not exact matches

Disney and Marvel obviously know what they're doing with superhero movies — they've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time, making every single film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one director can have on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

She became part of a superhero franchise when she took over the part of Gwen Stacy in 2012's The Amazing Spider - Man, and she took a part in the period crime film Gangster Squad that same year.Stone enjoyed a very busy 2014 that involved her returning to the part of Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider - Man 2, and being tapped to star in Woody Allen's period comedy Magic in the Moonlight.

A Bond film that feels caught between its roots as a mindlessly enjoyable action - franchise and its new mandate to deliver the operatic emotions and sudsy plot lines of today's superhero properties.

He must be a big fan of the James Bond franchise, as he brings forth the best Bond film since Skyfall, hidden inside a Marvel superhero flick.

Not only is it a long - overdue embrace of diversity and representation, it's a film that actually has something to say — and it's able to do so without stepping away from the superhero dynamics that make the larger franchise work.

And the studio was unable to launch a new superhero franchise in Green Lantern; though the film grossed nearly $ 220 million worldwide, that didn't come close to making it profitable.

The film which opens on October 17th stars Michael Keaton as Riggan Thompson an actor trying to distance himself from an iconic superhero film franchise by starring and directing his own broadway production.

Disney has rescheduled its superhero film release dates following Marvel and Sony's collaboration on a new «Spider - Man» franchise.

This reboot of the Marvel superhero franchise is a film of two halves: the first likeable and fun, the second tiresome and loud

I'm not exactly sure why Sony would want to remind moviegoers about the original «Spider - Man» trilogy when the studio is only weeks away from rebooting the lucrative superhero franchise, but if you never got around to buying the films on Blu - ray, it's as good a time as any to get them now.

New director David Leitch sticks to the formula of raunchy humor and low blows to other superhero movies for a film that succeeds in feeling new and hilarious enough to keep this franchise going.

After a decade of blockbusting superhero films, the Avengers franchise is bowing out with a double bill, beginning with Infinity War.

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

Enter the The Green Hornet, a big - budget superhero film that doesn't obsess about reverence to its roots, nor in making a movie that feels it has to respect the requirements of hero drama, or the moodiness that overwhelms some franchises (Spider - Man 3 overdosed on it).

Not that I am really surprised — all great Superhero films come in threes — Marvel announced today the two writers that will be bring Mjolnir back to the big screen in the third installment of the Thor franchise!

Two new comic book film franchises launch in 2015, and we now know who'll be putting sound to these superhero flicks.

Amidst those early signs of viewer interest (Blade), franchise launches (X-Men), moments of director / source material synergy (Raimi's Spider - Man) and 18 or so MCU films, Deadpool is recognizable as a triumph of perseverance and (baby) hand - in - glove casting, as well as proof that R - rated superheroing is viable at the box office (which in turn smoothed the way for more serious takes like Logan).

«What is significant now, however, is that (in) this age of convergence of film franchises with social media, a black superhero movie with an almost all - black cast conveys power, that we have arrived.

With close to 80 characters (plus CG characters numbering in the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands), multiple diverging / converging storylines, and an 18 - film franchise to service, Avengers: Infinity War has a tremendous amount of ground to cover, both literally and figuratively, from New York, Scotland, and Wakanda on Earth, to parts known and unknown in the deepest reaches of space, not to mention putting our favorite and not - so - favorite superheroes through one ringer after another.

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.

Whether this proves a breakout in the traditional manner (ie leading toward a sci - fi / superhero franchise in a year or two) would seem to be in some doubt, simply because Forsyth and Pollard are established visual artists for whom this film is largely an extension and enlargement of themes they'd made their careers anyway.

«It's a film for the fans,» a familiar phrase uttered almost weekly when discussing superhero movies, sequels or franchise fare.

Further inspiring confidence is the race between Marvel and DC to put out a solo female superhero film that could spawn its own franchise.

Trudel spent last week in Los Angeles and made an agreement with Fox's Joe Hartwick to host the next film in the ever - growing mutant superhero franchise.

The film is the third stand - alone Wolverine movie in the comic superhero franchise, which has had various sequels and new casts since Jackman first played Wolverine / Logan in X-Men, alongside Patrick Stewart's wheelchair - bound Professor Xavier.

The superhero film franchise is still going strong after 15 - plus years.

The trend continues after Marky Mark, as the list is mainly comprised of actors who've starred in uber - lucrative franchises or big - budget superhero movies, films for which there are conspicuously few female roles.

Chris Evans, Robert Downey, Jr., Tom Hiddleston and Chris Hemsworth, for instance, did not come into this multi-layered franchise with a massive following — they earned worldwide fame because of their respective superhero films.

Matt's MCU retrospective begins with the superhero film that would bring a new dimension to the genre and a paradigm shift to blockbuster franchises.

Eighteen films into Marvel's blockbuster franchise they're long overdue, arriving in a «Black Panther» origin tale that also breaks ground as the first standalone film of the modern Marvel era to be led by a black superhero.

The previous films in the DC Comics Extended Universe series (Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, and Suicide Squad) have left both critics and comic - book fans increasingly disappointed in the franchise's output; as a result, Wonder Woman, which is receiving its release ahead of the first Justice League movie (set to premiere this November), has been saddled with the burden of recovering DC's tainted reputation in the eyes of viewers, while also representing the first major female - fronted superhero flick in more than a decade.

Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige recently said that the next film of the highly - popular superhero franchise will be a «finale.»

DVD Review by Kam Williams Ryan Reynolds Is Simply Sublime as Irreverent Superhero Technically, Deadpool is the 8th installment in the X-Men film franchise, although it's different enough from the others to stand on its own.

This February's «The Lego Movie,» an animated film about Emmet Brickowski («Guardians of the Galaxy» star Chris Pratt) and his adventures with a group of superheroes and franchise characters, was the fourth - highest grossing movie of 2014, according to the website Box Office Mojo.

Ahead of the release of its biggest film, Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel has released an emotional four - and - a-half-minute long featurette where it details the inception of MCU and how it became the biggest superhero franchise in Hollywood.

The 74 - year - old actor, who has played the older Professor Charles Xavier in six films, admitted that there may not be any room for their characters in the third instalment of the superhero franchise.

The Terminator franchise has always existed somewhere in the mushy middle between unified stories told across multiple films (The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter) and serial stories free to change actors, back stories, and plot points (James Bond, any superhero franchise).

The Avengers / Justice League / Suicide Squad - mocking team - up results in the films most inspired set - piece — involving a disastrous parachute jump and a blink - and - you'll miss it cameo from certain Hollywood A-lister — but its hilarity is sullied come the end of the movie by the realisation that this is also the film's own insidious way of setting up another team - based superhero spin - off franchise.

Cameron's beef seems to be less with superhero films in general though and more about Hollywood's obsession with sequels, remakes and branding — which is strange coming from a filmmaker who is prepping a new series of «Terminator» movies (the sixth, seventh and eighth in that franchise), four new «Avatar» movies (sequels to a film many consider more a showreel for today's effects than a truly enjoyable bit of filmmaking), and a TV series based on his»90s film «True Lies».

This week brings Wonder Woman to theaters, marking the first time that a major female superhero is getting her own film franchise.

Film Review by Kam Williams Ryan Reynolds Absolutely «Marvel» - ous as Wisecracking Superhero Technically, Deadpool is the 8th installment in the X-Men film franchise, although it's different enough from the others to stand on its own.

It's the latter that was one of the most pleasant surprises of the film, as Blunt proved that, given the opportunity, she could go toe - to - toe with any of these other male - driven superhero franchises — and win!

Lament the saturation of CGI - laden franchises, reboots and superhero films all you like, but some fantastic, revelatory works of cinema came out this last year — even some of those comic book movies you're so worried about.

Berry, who plays Storm in the superhero franchise, was pregnant during filming with her second child and expected to play a less action - intensive part.

With films from Steven Spielberg, Duncan Jones and Alex Garland in the pipeline, there's plenty to get excited about beyond the superhero franchises

Terry Zwigoff's Ghost World aside, most comic book movies are centred on men and boys — and that's even looking beyond Hollywood's superhero franchises to films like A History of Violence, Oblivion and Old Boy.

In trying to change up the franchise formula, it appears writer / director Simon Kinberg is aiming to make the film a drama instead of traditional superhero fare.