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Re: Top 5 Franchises of Your Generation
« Reply #30 on: April 10, 2017, 05:28:08 PM »
Eh, maybe they do. Not sure. Mostly when I think of a franchise it's films with different characters in the same world. To me Harry Potter, Mission Impossible, Toy Story, aren't really franchises, just single character stories that span multiple movies.

With the introduction of Prometheus and whatever comes after it, I would now consider the Alien a Franchise.

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Re: Top 5 Franchises of Your Generation
« Reply #31 on: April 10, 2017, 05:47:28 PM »
By that logic Fast and Furious is not a franchise but Flags of Our Fathers / Letters From Iwo Jima is.

I think you're weeding out a series from a franchise.

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Re: Top 5 Franchises of Your Generation
« Reply #32 on: April 10, 2017, 06:00:43 PM »
Yeah, I haven't put enough thought into this. :)) Someone define the terms! :)

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Re: Top 5 Franchises of Your Generation
« Reply #33 on: April 10, 2017, 06:52:32 PM »
You don't think a Franchise needs to be at least more than a trilogy?
Why three not enough?
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Re: Top 5 Franchises of Your Generation
« Reply #34 on: April 10, 2017, 07:06:19 PM »
Many studios plan for 3 films. A trilogy sets film 3 as a definite endpoint with no continuing films. (Hunger Games split their finale, creating a quadrilogy, but until they announce a new HG film it's still not a franchise.) Star Wars contains 3 trilogies, but the franchise includes the other features and combines the trilogies, much like The Middle Earth franchise and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The new Planet of the Apes films become a trilogy this summer, but combined with the previous series they make a franchise.

1 = Tentpole
2 = Sequel
3 = Trilogy
4+ = Franchise

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Re: Top 5 Franchises of Your Generation
« Reply #35 on: April 10, 2017, 11:34:50 PM »
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/franchise

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a set of creative works and related merchandise that share a fictional world, as films, television shows, books, or games: the Star Wars franchise;
the Pokémon franchise
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No mention of specific numbers.

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Re: Top 5 Franchises of Your Generation
« Reply #36 on: April 10, 2017, 11:45:18 PM »
I do generally buy 1SO's definition. Seems like each of the other steps before 4 are their own things. But also, I like 'noff's assertion that even at only 2 films, the 28 movies feel like a franchise. So, I guess "convince me" would be my standpoint.
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Re: Top 5 Franchises of Your Generation
« Reply #37 on: April 10, 2017, 11:59:41 PM »
I haven't seen the second one, but I would think Sin City would be a franchise as well, to the same degree the 28 movies are.

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Re: Top 5 Franchises of Your Generation
« Reply #38 on: April 11, 2017, 03:40:19 AM »
Hellboy is the obvious answer now that I've had time to think about it.

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Re: Top 5 Franchises of Your Generation
« Reply #39 on: April 11, 2017, 09:10:55 AM »
Many studios plan for 3 films. A trilogy sets film 3 as a definite endpoint with no continuing films. (Hunger Games split their finale, creating a quadrilogy, but until they announce a new HG film it's still not a franchise.) Star Wars contains 3 trilogies, but the franchise includes the other features and combines the trilogies, much like The Middle Earth franchise and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The new Planet of the Apes films become a trilogy this summer, but combined with the previous series they make a franchise.

1 = Tentpole
2 = Sequel
3 = Trilogy
4+ = Franchise
I still don't understand why 4 is your minimum.
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