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  • Hollywood's franchise frenzy: More than half of top studios 2025 movies are existing IP [Intellectual Property]

    10/07/2024 2:35:49 AM PDT · by zeestephen · 31 replies
    CNBC (Business News) ^ | 06 October 2024
    The 2024 box office has been inundated with sequels, prequels and remakes, with the top 10 titles of the year all coming from existing intellectual property...That trend will continue, and expand, in 2025.
  • Obi-Wan's Ewan McGregor Reflects on Returning to Star Wars in the Age of Prequels Appreciation [?]

    04/28/2021 2:00:39 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 24 replies
    Gizmodo ^ | James Whitbrook
    The Star Wars prequels have had a rough couple of decades, from seemingly universal mockery to a renewed level of appreciation, as the audiences that watched them as children grew up and re-appraised their strengths and weaknesses. But now that we live in a more civilized age [?], it would seem, fondness for the films has helped Ewan McGregor re-appraise his own connection to the franchise. Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter in a wide-ranging profile as the actor prepares to return to his role as Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi—living a life of exile on Tatooine in the self-titled Disney+ series,...
  • Star Wars duo 'least convincing'

    08/19/2007 9:50:03 AM PDT · by Jedi Master Pikachu · 27 replies · 881+ views
    BBC ^ | August 19, 2007
    The pair played Senator Padme Amidala and Anakin Skywalker Star Wars couple Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen have been voted as having the least plausible on-screen chemistry by film fans.The pair beat Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez for their performance in Gigli into second place, which was made when they were a real life couple. Former duo Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman also made the list with Eyes Wide Shut. British pairing Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom were thought "too stiff upper lip" in Pirates of the Caribbean. The 3,000 movie-goers who were surveyed for Pearl and Dean said...