Maybe they sell well overseas, where the movie franchise has always done better anyway.
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Lego video games take a popular movie franchise and turn it into a block-sized adventure.
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The Scary Movie franchise started out as a horror movie spoof series for the Wayans Bros.
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The depth to which The Avengers is the perfect movie franchise never ceases to astound me.
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He's the man behind the "Rush Hour" action movie franchise and last summer's "X-Men: The Last Stand".
How this movie franchise begin was really a totally disrespect and confusing for most of the fans, other accepted it.
' It's natural to transform into a movie franchise, I always thought.
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It has already been announced that the star-studded event will feature a tribute to 50 years of the James Bond movie franchise.
Forty-four years later, the 21st official film in the second most lucrative movie franchise in history (after "Star Wars") has made its London premiere.
So Scott has been wise to cede the images and concepts that are related to the movie franchise for the purpose of extending the story.
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"Hunger Games" was named favorite movie, action movie and movie franchise, and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth had fans' favorite on-screen chemistry.
Gameloft released multiple mobile games based on the movie franchise up until this year when Kabam took over the license with The Fast and Furious 6.
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Sky Movies is also offering exclusive access to the most successful movie franchise ever, with customers able to enjoy all 8 Harry Potter films on-demand throughout the Christmas holidays.
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If an energy company struck oil, or an entertainment firm created a new movie franchise, investors would pour money into its stock, but the price would remain tethered to reality.
Not only did it give the publicly-owned studio the insane amounts of revenue expected from Breaking Dawn 2, but it brought in house the smarties who helped make Twilight such a successful movie franchise.
The culmination of the Twilight movie franchise, which tells the story of a human girl who falls in love with a sullen vampire, fared relatively well with critics but the Razzies claimed it had sucked the life out of cinemas.
The movie franchise, once the money from this new picture is added in, will have rung up more than seven billion dollars in theatrical gross receipts, a total that will probably be tripled by television and by DVD sales and rentals.
Starring Daniel Craig as 007 and directed by Oscar-winner Sam Mendes, the latest movie in the franchise will be released in October.
He directed the 2009 "Star Trek" movie and his company, Bad Robot, produced "Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, " the 2011 movie in that franchise.
Guesses range from an online game to a digital comic book to a virtual Harry Potter encyclopedia to a new promotional effort for the final movie in the franchise, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, " which hits theaters July 15.
"Twilight" fans are at a turning point in that franchise's movie arc, too, Jones said.
The Potter film is the eighth movie in the hugely popular franchise.
Next month it will become a movie, the latest in the franchise's big-screen series.
There are hundreds of video games based on movie properties ranging from the Aliens franchise to the cinematic masterpiece that is The Godfather.
These are the kinds of movies that the studios are largely abandoning in favor of giant franchise blockbusters, like the upcoming movie The Avengers, and microbudget horror films like The Devil Inside.
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The Cars franchise was wildly successful, and not every animated movie can be expected to generate those kinds of returns.
Time Magazine critic Richard Corliss says the movie is thin on original scares and fails to move the franchise mythology along very much.
This movie is an attempt to give new life to the Star Trek franchise and attract a new generation of fans, but some older fans are wary and say the ads they've seen on television are directed only toward the young.
Say what you will about the movie itself or the performance of the actors, it is still the most successful franchise in film history.
When the final Harry Potter movie hits theaters next month, it will mark the end of the highest-grossing franchise in the history of movies (on an unadjusted basis).
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