Sentences with phrase «superhero franchise movies»

Given that these Marvel superhero franchise movies are not going to go away anytime soon — not in this millennium — I suppose we should be grateful for the few that actually deliver the goods.

You can pinpoint the moments that directors become rising stars these days: when they get handed superhero franchise movies.

What do you do when the studio demands you take a break between the shooting and the editing of a huge superhero franchise movie?

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.

With major studios pumping more and more money into superhero movies and tentpole franchises with sky - high budgets, any relatively low - cost opportunity to attract a millennial audience is worth exploring.

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.

Director James Gunn and Chris Pratt made a video message at Comic - Con over the weekend, telling fans that a follow - up to the superhero franchise's debut movie would be hitting theaters in July 2017.

Even if the movie hadn't explicitly promised one in its after - the - credits teaser, Ryan Reynolds» big, gooey spitball into the face of superhero movies made enough money in its first weekend to justify a whole franchise.

Because at this point in the game I'm very angry with Warner Brothers for not being able to get one goddamned superhero movie right since the heady days of Christopher Nolan's Batman franchise.

Stuck halfway between James Bond and superhero movies, the Mission: Impossible big screen franchise sets itself apart by focusing on two things: teamwork, and vulnerability.

Without fail, the dullest installment in any superhero movie franchise is the origin story, during which audiences anxiously awaiting The Big Bad Guy have to suffer through, yaaaawn, scenes of childhood trauma, romantic tragedy, and other expository effluvia, by which point the closing credits are fast approaching.

The key to navigating Hollywood these days is attach yourself to a superhero movie franchise of some kind to guarantee a hit movie every few years so you can run off and join darker, weirder, more eclectic projects without a care in the world.

With the release of X-Men: Apocalypse, director Bryan Singer has taken his tally of X-Men movies up to four (or five, if you include his producing duties on X-Men: First Class), and it seems he's now ready for a break from the mutant superhero franchise.

Days of Future Past is the seventh movie of the franchise which include a present - day trilogy, two Wolverine spin - off movies, and a prequel origin movie that was my favorite superhero flick of 2011.

Marvel Disney may have The Avengers as the ultimate team - up movie, but 20th Century Fox now has Days of Future Past as the ultimate mutant superhero movie that not only bridges all the gaps in the X-Men franchise, but actually resets any of the continuity mistakes made by the previous movies.

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.

What separates «Black Panther» from the Batmans, Spidermans and Iron Mans of the creaky, big studio superhero genre is that it looks and, more important, feels nothing like the usual bloated franchise movie that takes no chances and plays by genre rules.

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).

«Actors are looking to do something besides superhero and franchise movies,» Solomon said.

I understand that a lot of fanboys have visions of Spidey web - slinging alongside Captain America and the Hulk and Iron Man dancing through their heads, and that they're rooting for Sony's Spidey reboot to fail because they have some misguided notion that if the franchise flops, the studio will surrender the movie rights to Spider - Man back to Disney and Marvel Studios, considering their whole superhero thing a failed experiment.

Who knows, though, since Captain Marvel is the focus of a lot of MCU - related speculation at the moment; not only will it be the franchise's first female - led superhero movie, but it also got a massive Hail Mary pass from last month's blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War, which asked fans to sit through, roughly, 7,000,000 minutes of end credits in order to get the merest peek at her logo.

Working unobtrusively but consistently in a decadent Hollywood that's doubled down on sci - fi / fantasy / superhero franchise tentpoles as the end - all - be-all of action movies, Jaume Collet - Serra has been diligently and often ingeniously pursuing another filmmaking model, that of the mid-range budget standalone genre picture.

Yes you did, we are talking franchise here, black lead: blade, spawn, catwoman, hancock, meteor man... sorry J is not a superhero — only TWO sequel movies over a span of how many decades??

«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.

At the top of the list, the billion - dollar big guns: franchises, superhero movies, animated kid - flicks and single - serving comedies — the whole high - calorie / low nutritional monoculture diet the studios would prefer us to subsist on, like docile teenage boys easily distracted by big bangs and shiny objects.

«Spider - Man 3» may not have lived up to the hype of Sam Raimi's first two movies in the superhero franchise, but it certainly made an impression financially.

There's a reason for that, as the ever more risk - averse studios have retreated into formulaic action movies and by - the - numbers superhero franchises, of which there are now a dizzying amount.

There isn't the excitement one finds in similarly costly Marvel superhero movies or the comparable Harry Potter 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.

The trailer is quite self - aware, much like Deadpool, especially in parts when he takes a dig on the superhero movies by saying lines like «we need them young enough to carry their own franchise for 10 - 12 years».

There were recently murmurs of a dealine for 20th Century Fox to reboot / sequelize their DAREDEVIL franchise, or the movie rights to blind superhero would...

The newest movie within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, «Avengers: Infinity War,» might be launched later this week at the heels of the worldwide blockbuster, «Black Panther,» including any other flick to the superhero franchise.

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

I went into this superhero movie, sequel, franchise with arms crossed.

I can't see how anyone could be dissatisfied with this movie I preferred it to the other two as I think it captured batman perfectly bane was perfect how anyone can disagree after batman and robin is beyond me??? Cat women was perfect there was no poor casting IMO character development was fine story was fine and beautifully shot soundtrack stunning all involved made an absolute masterpiece even tho I guessed most plotpoints in advance they still felt like a surprise to me I don't see the point in any other superhero franchise making any more movies as bb tdk and tdkr will never be surpassed

From the very beginning, the creative team behind the «Deadpool» franchise has stuck to one very simple rule that guides every decision they make: «We always say, «If you can't do it in another superhero movie, you'd best be doing it in a Deadpool movie,» said screenwriter Paul Wernick.

Threequels are notorious for being the lowest out of a franchise's bunch at the box office with the exception of most superhero movies.

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 Thor movies are definitely the superhero franchise I'm least interested in but with him behind Thor: Ragnarok I'm curious.

In an age defined by franchise dreams and $ 200 million superhero movies, indie filmmakers (and blockbuster - weary fans, frankly) are increasingly desperate to find cinema's new hero.

What was intended as DC's answer to Marvel's juggernaut Avengers series — and the launching pad for solo movies such as Aquaman, The Flash and Cyborg — ultimately proved to be a major misfire for the franchise which saw Warner Bros. embarking on a major behind - the - scenes shake - up at DC Films in an attempt to salvage its superhero universe.

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.

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.

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 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 movie of 2014, according to the website Box Office Mojo.

After the success of the Superman and Batman franchises in the»70s and»80s, superhero movies took a bit of a breather in the»90s.

All X-Men and Spider - Man movies aside, the non-Marvel Cinematic Universe franchises haven't faired so well, and the last time a superhero character got his own standalone movie — the cinematic trainwreck known as X-Men Origins: Wolverine, it was rebooted within four years.

From the beginning, the creative team behind the «Deadpool» franchise has stuck to one simple rule that guides every decision they make: «We always say, «If you can't do it in another superhero movie, you'd best be doing it in a Deadpool movie,» said screenwriter Paul Wernick.

Sam Raimi truly assembled the prototypical superhero movie with this first entry in the «Spider - Man» franchise, in 2002.

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».