Sentences with phrase «with superhero franchises»

The plot starts with T'Challa assuming the mantle of king, after the death of his father T'Chaka (John Kani) in a terrorist attack at the United Nations (This, as those familiar with this superhero franchise will recall, happened near the start of Captain America: Civil War).

The character was originally portrayed by Famke Janssen in the original Singer trilogy and then reprised her role in «X-Men: Days of Future Past» but she recently said she is done with the superhero franchise.

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 explorWith 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 explorwith sky - high budgets, any relatively low - cost opportunity to attract a millennial audience is worth exploring.

Not only will theaters be flooded with mega franchise sequels, but they will also be home to another big year for superheroes.

In an age where superhero franchises continue to struggle with representation, The Defenders refreshingly clears the Bechdel Test with ease and features a cast that looks nearly as diverse as the city the show is set in.

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.

Deadpool escapes and decides to pursue redemption by rescuing Randall with his newly assembled X-Force, a posse of simpatico superheroes who are «tough, morally flexible, and young enough to carry this franchise another 10 to 12 years.»

When superhero franchises falter, studios often reboot them, starting over from a different perspective with a different cast.

Not many superheroes can wallop bad guys and belt out a tune with equal aplomb, but Fox's «X-Men» franchise boasts just such a guy in Hugh Jackman, a.k.a. Wolverine.

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.

Indeed a perfect set - up for the return of Evangeline into the franchise and join hands with our shrinking superhero.

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

With the X-Men franchise pushing its female characters further and further into the background, Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow is the most prominent female lead in a major superhero franchise.

Now comes the new wave of blockbuster Marvel franchises, with The Hulk riding a wave of mass approval as the next big superhero thing to hit theaters since X2.

The youth - skewing CW already has «The Flash» and other superhero franchises (there was a crossover between «Supergirl» and «The Flash» this season), and its audience is much more aligned with «Supergirl» than is CBS» much - grayer viewership.

«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.

As with the too - early franchise reboot in 2012, this sequel struggles to balance the demands of a teen romance with a superhero blockbuster.

After an underwhelming start to the franchise, I'm hoping to find «Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer» stepping up to the quality that the first family of superhero teams deserves, much as I'm praying to see Bruce Willis provide a definitive finale to John McClane's legacy with «Live Free or Die Hard.»

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.

Flipping the bird with an «I don't give a shit» expression is practically a monument to the essence of 20th Century Fox's foul - mouthed superhero franchise.

While we wait for more on this superhero franchise, check out the latest sneak peek along with four new photos.

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

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

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.

I think it is extremely interesting to see what a very creative young director like Waititi will do with the most boring superhero franchise around.

«Fantastic Four», 20th Century Fox's attempt to reboot the superhero team - up franchise, debuted with just $ 26.2 million at North American theaters over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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

Like a lot of great superhero flicks, «Iron Man 3» will find our hero's relationship with his gal tested but Black and co-writer Drew Pearce find a way to turn storytelling expectations on their head at every turn, providing the narrative twists that have been missing from this franchise to date.

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.

If the two studios joined hands and launched a shared franchise with the superheroes of both Avengers and Justice League, wouldn't that be awesome?

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.

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 Mojo.

Opening with an estimated $ 96 million, this fifth installment of the DCEU is the weakest debut for the superhero franchise.

«X-Men: First Class» is the crowning achievement of the mutant - superhero franchise thus far, a rejuvenated enterprise with a new director and cast and a story worth telling.

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

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».

It doesn't seem as though one can blink before a new LEGO game or Marvel movie is announced, not that that's a bad thing of course, but following the success of the colliding franchises with LEGO Marvel Superheroes, it was only a matter of time before a sequel made it's way to shore.

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!

It wasn't until «Spider - Man» came along in 2002 — and Christopher Nolan revived the «Batman» franchise in 2005 — that superhero movies started making cash registers ring with regularity.

The all - powerful superhero movies, meanwhile, are the only true pathway to worldwide stardom a la Cruise (whose own foray into a Marvel - style joint - franchise with The Mummy was dead on arrival).

If you didn't get your superhero franchise fill with the latest «Captain America: Civil War,» you're in luck: Marvel is about to pop another blockbuster off the product line.

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

Leave it to the Deadpool franchise to open its final trailer with a relatively straightforward setup for action / superhero movie, with the key players oh - so - seriously setting up as they, and the audience, are informed of the mission... and then to immediately undercut that with the Wade Wilson fans know and love.

So much so, in fact, that even when beaten and bloody, with a knife jammed into his shoulder, Ryan Reynolds» Wade Wilson feels the need to question his true origins, while getting in a jab at another superhero franchise.

And after that, Pearce seems to have booked gig after gig: he's penning an adaptation of DC Comics ««The Mighty,» about a cop who takes on a superhero, for Paramount; he was picked for another huge franchise with «Sherlock Holmes 3» (his Twitter by - line wryly comments «I mostly write threequels») and he's got an original action - comedy in the works too, «Secretaries Day,» to be directed by «Easy A» and «Friends With Benefits» helmer Will Glwith «Sherlock Holmes 3» (his Twitter by - line wryly comments «I mostly write threequels») and he's got an original action - comedy in the works too, «Secretaries Day,» to be directed by «Easy A» and «Friends With Benefits» helmer Will GlWith Benefits» helmer Will Gluck.

Of course, Lego has tackled superheroes before with the two Lego Batman games, with the latter even focusing more on DC Comics as a whole, but never before have they paid such tribute to the franchise that they have Legofied.