"""""Saw"", at this point, thanks to ""Jigsaw"", is just shy of becoming a billion-dollar franchise. That's not something many horror franchises can claim, so ""Saw 9"" seems like the kind of thing that is probably going to become closer to a reality as time goes on."" On January 26, 2018, Tobin Bell expressed an interest in reprising his role as Jigsaw in a ninth film. He stated: ""If they were to continue I’m always interested. Actors act. That’s what we do. And I’m always interested in expanding a character and filling him in if there’s more story to be told."
"find their way into popular culture, especially when a subculture devoted to the work or its genre exists, as in the case of novels of science fiction. Many professions and subcultures create their own adages, which are cognizable as a kind of jargon; such adages may find their way into popular use, sometimes being altered in the process. Online communities, such as those that develop in Internet forums or Usenet newsgroups, often generate their own adages. Adage An adage (; Latin: adagium) is a concise, memorable, and usually philosophical aphorism that communicates an important truth derived from experience, custom, or"
"This"" becoming a #1 hit on Billboard Hot 100. The success resulted in a nationwide concert tour, an ""American Idol"" book that made the bestseller list and the film ""From Justin to Kelly"". A transmedia franchise however is often referred to by the simpler term ""media franchise."" The term media franchise is often used to describe the popular adaptation of a work into films, like the popular ""Twilight"" book series that was adapted into the five films of ""The Twilight Saga"". Other neologisms exist to describe various franchise types including metaseries, which can be used to describe works such as"
"Catchphrase A catchphrase (alternatively spelled catch phrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance. Such phrases often originate in popular culture and in the arts, and typically spread through word of mouth and a variety of mass media (such as films, internet, literature and publishing, television and radio). Some become the de facto or literal ""trademark"" or ""signature"" of the person or character with whom they originated, and can be instrumental in the typecasting of a particular actor. According to Richard Harris, a psychology professor at Kansas State University who studied why people like to cite films"
"book superheroes. Television and film franchises are often expanded upon in novels, particularly those in the fantasy and science fiction genres, such as ""The Twilight Zone"", ""Star Trek"", ""Doctor Who"" and ""Star Wars"". Similarly, fantasy, science fiction films and television shows are frequently adapted into animated television series, video games, or both. A media franchise does not have to include the same characters or theme, as the brand identity can be the franchise, like Square Enix's ""Final Fantasy"" or the ""National Lampoon"" series, and can suffer from critical failures even if the media fictional material is unrelated. Non-fiction literary franchises"
"Media franchise A media franchise, also known as multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program or a video game. The intellectual property from the work can be licensed to other parties or partners for further derivative works and commercial exploitation across a range of media and by a variety of industries for merchandising purposes. A media franchise often consists of cross-marketing across more than one medium. For the owners, the goal of increasing profit through"
"Film series A film series, film franchise, movie series, or movie franchise is a collection of related films in succession that share the same fictional universe, or are marketed as a series. Sometimes the work is conceived from the beginning as a multiple-film work – for example, the ""Three Colours"" series – but in most cases the success of the original film inspires further films to be made. Individual sequels are relatively common, but are not always successful enough to spawn further installments. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the highest grossing film series in unadjusted US Dollar figures surpassing the"
"Isaac Asimov's ""Foundation"" series. Multimedia franchises usually develop through a character or fictional world becoming popular in one medium, and then expanding to others through licensing agreements, with respect to intellectual property in the franchise's characters and settings. As one author explains, ""[f]or the studios, a home-run is a film from which a multimedia 'franchise' can be generated; the colossally expensive creation of cross-media conglomerates predicated on synergistic rewards provides an obvious imperative to develop such products."" The trend later developed wherein franchises would be launched in multiple forms of media simultaneously: Long-running film franchises were common in the early"
"had originally appeared in the magazine), footwear, clothing of every kind, jewelry, housewares (lamps, clocks, bedding, glassware), guitars and gambling, playing cards, pinball machines and pet accessories, billiard balls, bedroom appurtenances, enhancements, plus countless other items of merchandise. Media franchise A media franchise, also known as multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program or a video game. The intellectual property from the work can be licensed to other parties or partners for further derivative works"
"studio era, when Hollywood studios had actors and directors under long-term contract. Examples include Andy Hardy, Ma and Pa Kettle, Bulldog Drummond, Superman, Tarzan, and Batman. The longest-running modern film franchises include James Bond, Godzilla, ""Friday the 13th"", ""A Nightmare on Elm Street"", and ""Star Trek"". In such cases, even lead actors are often replaced as they age, lose interest, or their characters are killed. Media franchises tend to cross over from their original media to other forms. Literary franchises are often transported to film, such as Nancy Drew, Miss Marple, and other popular detectives, as well as popular comic"
"the four subjects have in common. The title of the film is a play on the old engineer's adage that out of ""fast,"" ""cheap,"" and ""reliable,"" you can only produce an end consumer product that is two of those three (the classic example is a car). Rodney Brooks, the robot scientist from MIT, wrote a paper in which he speculates that it might be more effective to send one hundred one-kilogram robots into space, instead of a single hundred-kilogram robot, replacing the need for reliability with chance and sheer numbers, as systems in nature have learned to do. The advantage"
"to the accolade by its creator, is awarded to the reviewer once a review is written for every movie in the group. Any number of accolades may be created, and no guidelines have been set for their creation. However, accolades are expected to have some kind of purpose or theme, an accolade may contain, for example; all the films in a series or a franchise (the ""Star Wars"" films, ""The Terminator"" series, et al.), all the films featuring a certain actor or made by a particular director, films featuring a day of the week in the title, or films with"
"[when] converted into a literal image, the metaphor would seem absurd."" A common thematic trope is the rise and fall of a mobster in a classic gangster film. The film genre also often features the sartorial trope of a rising gangster buying new clothes. Trope (cinema) In cinema, a trope is what ""The Art Direction Handbook for Film"" defines as ""a universally identified image imbued with several layers of contextual meaning creating a new visual metaphor"". It is an element of film semiology and connects between denotation and connotation. Films reproduce tropes of other arts and also make tropes of"
"for the research and the present context. A British proverb has even been used as the title for a doctoral dissertation: ""Where there is muck there is brass"". Similarly to other forms of literature, proverbs have also been used as important units of language in drama and films. This is true from the days of classical Greek works to old French to Shakespeare, to 19th Century Spanish, to today. The use of proverbs in drama and film today is still found in languages around the world, such as Yorùbá. A film that makes rich use of proverbs is ""Forrest Gump"","
"Wizarding World, ""Star Wars"", James Bond, and J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth series. However, ""Star Wars"" has the highest when adjusted for inflation. The following list is ordered for the highest grossing (up to 500 million gross). Updated to 16 October 2018. Film series A film series, film franchise, movie series, or movie franchise is a collection of related films in succession that share the same fictional universe, or are marketed as a series. Sometimes the work is conceived from the beginning as a multiple-film work – for example, the ""Three Colours"" series – but in most cases the success"
"others. Many film directors of the 1960s and later adopted use of the handheld camera, techniques and cinéma vérité styles for their fiction films based on screenplays and actors. They often had actors using improvisation to get a more spontaneous quality in their talks and action. Influential examples include director John Cassavetes, who broke ground with his film ""Faces"". The techniques of cinéma vérité were also readily adapted to use in TV fiction programs, such as """", ""The X-Files"" episode ""X-Cops"", ""Sanctuary"", ""Friday Night Lights"", ""NYPD Blue"", ""Hill Street Blues"", ""Battlestar Galactica"", ""The Shield"", ""The Thick Of It"", ""Curb Your"
"to supply good quality products and services to the public. Many entertainment production companies brand their entertainment projects. An entertainment project can either become a ""one time hit"" or an ongoing ""entertainment franchise"" that can be continued, remade, rebooted, or expanded into other sister industries; such as the video game industry (see ""Star Wars"", ""Star Trek""). Entertainment projects can be either an original or an adaptation from another industry. In rare occasional cases, a few troubled major studios would also shed their distribution and/or marketing staffs, mainly due to reduced resources, and resort to co-investing and/or co-distributing film projects with"
"South"""". Other examples, make """"X is the MIT of Y"""" an example of a snowclone (a family of formulaic clichés). Frequently, when a character in Hollywood cinema is required to have a science or engineering background, or in general possess an extremely high level of intelligence, the film establishes that he or she is an MIT graduate or associate. (MIT can also be a comparative or a metaphor for intellect in general: ""Would they think of ""that"" at MIT?""). Numerous films and television series indulge in this technique, including: In ""Iron Man,"" several close-ups of Terrence Howard clearly show his"
"their thinking and speech about young people, (animals, aliens and closed spaces) and suggest reframing those thoughts with the metaphor of ""orphan in need of a wise guide."" He argues that Hollywood has primed a generation of movie goers to expect that young heroes require a wise guide in order to gain a new identity, a new community, and the path to their destiny, which creates a valuable opportunity for the adult Christians to become the Obi Wan Kenobi, Gandalf, Rafiki, Mr. Miyagi or Alfred to a young person. Many denominations have instituted offices or programs which focus on inter-generational"
"with property ""led in one medium like a movie or game and then blindly licensed with mediocrity coming out in the other mediums,"" so their ambition was to birth properties that play well on all of those fronts. But this future of entertainment IP is only possible if it is guided by the people that create it – the ones most passionate about it – because they treat their franchises a lot better than the corporate bureaucracies that tend to just try to milk them on whatever fronts are possible"". Said Lanning, ""The time for tools and technology is right,"
"in social situations, using film quotes in everyday conversation is similar to telling a joke and a way to form solidarity with others. ""People are doing it to feel good about themselves, to make others laugh, to make themselves laugh"", he said. He found that all of the participants in his study had used film quotes in conversation at one point or another. ""They overwhelmingly cited comedies, followed distantly by dramas and action adventure flicks."" Horror films, musicals and children's films were hardly ever cited. Catchphrase A catchphrase (alternatively spelled catch phrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its"
"actors, agencies are able to influence production schedules, budgeting of the film, and which talent will be playing each particular character. Packaging gained notoriety in the 1980s and 1990s with films such as ""Ghostbusters"", ""Tootsie"", ""Stripes"", and ""A League of Their Own"". This practice continues to be prominent in films today such as ""Big Daddy"", ""Happy Gilmore"", ""The Waterboy"", and ""Billy Madison"". The ease of selling a packaged group of actors to a particular film ensures that certain fan groups will see that movie, reducing risk of failure and increasing profits. Star system (filmmaking) The star system was the method"
"masses by locating the narrative on a single individual. The term montage has undergone radical popular redefinition in the last 30 years. It is commonly used to refer to a sequence of short shots used to demonstrate the passage of prolonged time. A famous example is the training sequence in ""Rocky"" (Avildsen 1976) in which weeks of preparation on represented through a sequence of disparate exercise footage. ""Ferris Bueller's Day Off"" (Hughes 1986) demonstrates the same concept in order to collapse several hours into a few short minutes of footage throughout Chicago. This differs entirely from even the most conservative"
"with the history of mankind.” Films use a combination of dialog, sounds, visual images, gestures and actions to create the narrative. Narrators, usually in a voice-over format, are very popular in documentary film and greatly assist in telling the story while accompanying powerful shots. Tropes Metonymy refers to the ability of a sign to represent something entirely, while literally only being a part of it. An example of this is the Eiffel Tower, which is a metonym for Paris. Film uses metonyms frequently because they rely on the external to reveal the internal. Another powerful semiotic tool for filmmaking is"
"(the Western) or Fred Astaire (the musical). A film's genre will influence the use of filmmaking styles and techniques, such as the use of flashbacks and low-key lighting in film noir, tight framing in horror films, fonts that look like rough-hewn logs for the titles of Western films, or the ""scrawled"" title-font and credits of ""Se7en"" (1995), a film about a serial killer. As well, genres have associated film-scoring conventions, such as lush string orchestras for romantic melodramas or electronic music for science-fiction films. The basic genres include fiction and documentary, from which subgenres have emerged, such as docufiction and"
"forming the basis of successful films. In the wake of the final film's release, Claudia Puig of ""USA Today"" wrote that the films ""inspired every major studio to try to capture [its] alchemic formula, spawning a range of copycats and wannabes"" and ""also have shown Hollywood how to make a glossy blockbuster with an eye toward keeping costs down."" A 2009 article from ""The Economist"" argued that the films were ""in the vanguard"" of adaptations of established properties being the modern film franchise model, citing ""The Lord of the Rings"", ""Spider-Man"" and ""The Dark Knight Trilogy"" as examples of successful"
"Anthology film An anthology film (also known as an omnibus film, package film, or portmanteau film) is a subgenre of films consisting of several different short films, often tied together by only a single theme, premise, or brief interlocking event (often a turning point). Sometimes each one is directed by a different director. These differ from ""revue films"" such as ""Paramount on Parade"" (1930)—which were common in Hollywood in the early sound film era to show off their stars and related vaudeville-style acts—composite films, and compilation films. Sometimes there is a theme, such as a place (e.g. ""New York Stories"","
"a collective work. The use of Language and speech, as a revolutionary tool is talked about in depth in this manifesto. The idea of script is challenged, Sanjinés instead advocating using only actors qualified to act out things based on their own memory. An example of this is during the filming of The Courage of the People Sanjinés only used actors who could portray the depicted events as they themselves remember them. Sanjinés continues to say that ""Cinema and reality came together"". This shows how Sanjinés views the importance of breaking free from traditional film structures to achive a truthful"
"longer sequences of motion pictures or novels (such as the James Bond and ""Star Wars"" films and Marcel Proust's multi-volume ""Remembrance of Things Past""). Often umbrella titles are used to collect motion pictures with common stars (""Marx Brothers movies"") or common characters (""Dirty Harry movies""), as is the case for novels or comics (""Perry Mason novels"", for example). In literature, sometimes an umbrella title is used for a collection of stories with a common locality, such as the Wessex novels of Thomas Hardy. Umbrella title An umbrella title is a formal or informal name connecting a number of individual items"
"can be said to be subsumed into the overall condition described by that of the global theater. From Cliché to Archetype From Cliché to Archetype is a 1970 book by Marshall McLuhan and Canadian poet Wilfred Watson. The authors discuss the various implications of the verbal cliché and of the archetype. One major facet in McLuhan's overall framework introduced in this book that is seldom noticed is the provision of a new term that actually succeeds the global village; the ""global theater"". In McLuhan's terms, a cliché is a ""normal"" action, phrase, etc. which becomes so often used that we"
"for video games such as ""American McGee's Alice"", ""Sid Meier's Civilization"", games released by Tom Clancy's Red Storm Entertainment, and games in Hideo Kojima's ""Metal Gear"" series. They are also used when celebrities have licensed their names for use in games, or are involved with the game's development—for example, ""Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!"", and skater Tony Hawk's various games. Possessory credit A possessory credit in filmmaking is the use of a film credit which gives primary artistic recognition to a single person, usually (but not always) the film's director. Examples include ""A Stanley Kubrick film"" (""The Shining""), ""A film by Quentin"
"is a sponge. I listen to what everyone says, I watch little idiosyncratic behavior, people tell me a joke and I remember it. People tell me an interesting story in their life and I remember it. ... when I go and write my new characters, my pen is like an antenna, it gets that information, and all of a sudden these characters come out more or less fully formed. I don't write their dialogue, I get them talking to each other. In 2013, a survey of 17 academics was carried out to discover which filmmakers had been referenced the most"
"technique as seen in the opening scene of ""Contras'city"" when French classical music accompanies the visual of the French-style Dakar City Hall building; it is then interrupted by the Senegalese flag, a disruption of the music, and a voiceover of someone saying ""Dakar."" ""Cinema is magic in the service of dreams."" ""The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future."" (""Africa Shoots Back"") ""One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording"