Sentences with phrase «with franchise films»

Not exact matches

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.

The fast - food franchise partners with celebrities to create beautiful short films that hint at the company's values.

At the end of the day, though, even though the company experiments with films and design sets centered around popular franchises, traditional LEGO bricks are still the main focus.

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 distinct franchises — including Marvel, Pixar and Disney films such as «Frozen» — she said, Disney is on a «red - hot film streak.»

Starring Mark Wahlberg, Transformers: The Last Knight is the first film from the franchise since 2014's Transformers: Age of Extinction made $ 1.1 billion worldwide (with nearly 78 % of it coming overseas).

Logsdon points out that the slate of films lined up for 2015's summer season is impressive, with a sequel to the wildly - popular Avengers franchise expected along with reboots to the Mission Impossible, Terminator, and Jurassic Park franchises.

«Mission: Impossible 3» is the lowest grossing film in the franchise to date with a $ 400 million worldwide gross.

But this installment in the franchise would not be titled «Mission: Impossible 4,» because the idea was that the film would be a refresh on the franchise, with Cruise stepping aside as the lead and giving way to rising star Jeremy Renner.

J.J. Abrams, the director of the new Star Wars films, has shown from the beginning of the project that he himself is a big fan of the franchise and that he values and respects the responsibility that goes with directing the movie.

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).

While I believe there will still be consumer demand to see big, franchise films in a glitzy theater with overpriced popcorn, the jury is still out as to how much traffic will be affected.

The upcoming reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise features one of the funniest ensemble casts of any film this year: Along with stars Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, the sci - fi comedy will also feature appearances by Cecily Strong, Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd and a bunch of other big names.

Along with a handful of possession - themed TV shows (The Exorcist, Preacher, Outcast), audiences are continuing to turn out in droves for films like The Conjuring franchise.

«I'm living in the present; focused on the now, being the best Josh Freeman I can be for this franchise; from a day - to - day standpoint, meeting with the coaches, watching extra film, working out, and being there for my teammates.»

One bigger question I have as it pertains to the entire franchise is whether or not these characters» stories end with Episode IX or whether they continue to be the focus in more films.

Media Advisory WHAT: Five Acres Soiree Under the Stars Gala on Saturday, June 4, 2016 WHO: Serving as co-emcees will be actor Matthew Lillard, currently seen on «Bosch,» on Amazon and of the «Scooby Doo» franchise along with actress Carla Gugino of, «Entourage» on HBO and the new film, «Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice.

As yet the camera work is a little shaky and the picture somewhat grainy, but the technical finesse of the electron film - franchise can only improve with time.

The bombast of the G.I. Joe and Transformers franchises might suggest no, but after an uninspired year for animated movies, The Lego Movie is a 3 - D animated film that connects, as an homage to the ingenious Danish - born construction game, along with a subversively flippant story about thinking outside the blocks.

It is very easy to see similarities with later sci - fi franchises whilst watching this film, the most obvious (to me) being Star Trek from the futuristic space attire to pretty much everything.

With star Matt Damon unwilling to return for a fourth film in the lucrative (and critically acclaimed) Bourne series, the franchise was reborn (though not re-Bourned) with Jeremy Renner stepping in as the lead, playing Aaron Cross, an operative spawned from the same system as Jason BouWith star Matt Damon unwilling to return for a fourth film in the lucrative (and critically acclaimed) Bourne series, the franchise was reborn (though not re-Bourned) with Jeremy Renner stepping in as the lead, playing Aaron Cross, an operative spawned from the same system as Jason Bouwith Jeremy Renner stepping in as the lead, playing Aaron Cross, an operative spawned from the same system as Jason Bourne.

The first few years of his career following the departure from the show were somewhat lackluster, but Smits eventually landed the role of Senator Bail Organa in the second and third Star Wars prequels, a move that would permanently cement him in film history in the minds of at least one very large fanbase.In addition to his work with the Star Wars franchise, Smits also made an inevitable return to the small - screen mid-decade with a prominent role on NBC's The West Wing during the show's 2004 - 2005 season.

The film was once talked about as the beginning of a possible trilogy, and the finished product feels desperate to start a franchise instead of doing the thing that would actually make such a series compelling: telling an interesting story with skill.

It fascinates me that the tendency of Hollywood is to use the locked - in audience of a franchise like cattle to a slaughter, spiting patrons with no more than they'll merely settle for because studio executives know they'll see the film anyway.

For a film with a $ 150 million budget to look like television is unconscionable and it seems absurd that no one was able to convince Jackson not to adopt the format, or at least not to try it out on a franchise with so much riding on it.

The character has no franchise potential, as the film opens with an epilogue - as - prologue about Poe's death, but maybe Cusack and his director, V for Vendetta's James McTeigue, were still hoping for that same kind of pithy, indelible hero.

The fourth film in the Ice Age franchise, Ice Age: Continental Drift, follows the main characters — Manny (Ray Romano), Diego (Denis Leary), Sid (John Leguizamo) and Scrat (Chris Wedge)-- as they embark across newly created oceans with an iceberg as their ship.

I feel as though the DC Comics franchise may have publicly performed its suicide with this film.

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.

But with Foley's follow up, FIFTY SHADES FREED, the film franchise's uniqueness really comes (pun intended) into its own.

With the return Jason Bourne in theaters, we highlight the best to worst reviewed films of the franchise.

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Unlike franchises overexplained to breaking point, the sequel repeats the no - frills plot of the first outing with no further depth — which means that as a film, it needs to work as an engine, primarily, to scare us into submission.

Juiced up with clever kills, a throwback soundtrack, and a unique new setting, Roberts» film also makes the case that horror franchises aren't dead yet, they just need some new blood.

He followed that up with Predator (1987), a sci - fi action film featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger that spawned a franchise.

This is the ninth film in the Star Trek film franchise, and with that being said, it's clear that the screenwriters were trying to figure out how to create something new and exciting.

Given the current obsession with reboots, revisits and rehashes, it's strange that the Final Destination franchise hasn't cheated death and been dragged back to life after five films and $ 665m in the bank.

Jeunet then went solo, flirting briefly with Hollywood when he directed the fourth film in the Alien franchise, Alien: Resurrection (1997).

Director David Yates clearly has his sights set on franchise country again — since rounding off the POTTER cinematic saga he ruffled the BBC's feathers by putting a new Doctor Who film in development, with TARZAN perhaps forming another opening gambit until that can be finalized.

Bardem recently finished filming «Eat, Love, Pray» with Julia Roberts, while Cruz is working on «Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides», the fourth installment of the popular Disney franchise.

Like a well - oiled engine, the Fast fam is back at it again almost two years later with what is believed to be the last film of the franchise.

Lionsgate has struck a deal with Now You See Me 2 director, Jon M. Chu, to secure his return to direct the third film in the franchise.

A John Hughes - ian take on the character, the 2017 film imbues the franchise with fun, energetic aplomb.

Thanks to the popularity of its films, the nurses of Silent Hill are now synonymous with the franchise.

Speaking with EW this week though, the film's star Ryan Reynolds says he has some major doubts about the franchise's future.

Since that time, the star of Dracula Untold has been seen in a wide variety of films - including several blockbuster franchises: Clash of the Titans, Fast and Furious 6, and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, among others - with upcoming roles in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and The Crow reboot.

It's been nearly a decade since release of the last film in the Predator franchise — Predators, starring Adrien Brody and Alice Braga — but that's about to change with The Predator, a revival from The Other Guys and Iron Man 3 director Shane Black.

The final outing in the series for Shia LaBeouf and co (though Megan Fox was replaced here already, after falling out with Bay), with John Malkovich and Frances McDormand among those paying for new houses with a few weeks work, the film does at least have a striking moon - landing themed opening, and an enormous extended climax that marks a high watermark for the franchise's action (particularly an impressive Halo jump sequence done for real).

Phil Ring and Jonathan Smith from TT games talk about playing with huge licensed film franchises in the video game sphere, as well as making dark themes and death safe...

Acclaimed director Ridley Scott returned once more to the Alien franchise he helped start decades ago with this brutal sci - fi horror film.