Ape Shall Not Kill Ape: A Look at the Entire Apes Franchise | Far Flungers

Franklin Schaffner’s “Planet of the Apes” (1968) is still the best and most memorable “Ape” movie ever made, truly a classic. Three astronauts travel in time and space according to Eistein’s theory that claims the former accelerates when a body travels at great speed. They land on an upside-down world where talking apes are the … Read more

The Next ‘Star Trek’ Will Be An ‘Origin’ For the Whole Franchise

It’s been eight years and counting since the last Star Trek film debuted in theaters, 2016’s Star Trek Beyond. While Star Trek is pumping out tons of TV shows on Paramount+, it’s still not clear when we might see Trek back in movie theaters. A new article in Variety on the state of Star Trek indicates though, that the film project that is furthest … Read more

‘Ghostbusters’: The Full Franchise Recap

The Ghostbusters is now a franchise with a history that stretches back four decades, across movies, TV shows, and most importantly, children’s fruit-flavored beverages. (Ecto Cooler, we’ll never forget you.) If you missed any of that history, and you want to get caught up in a hurry before seeing the new Ghostbusters in theaters, we’re here to … Read more

What’s Next For the Franchise?

The following post contains spoilers for Dune: Part Two. It’s about to get spicy up in here. Dune: Part Two was supposed to conclude the two-part adaptation of Frank Herbert’s epic sci-fi novel. And it did. But it also very clearly left a cliffhanger for a third film to follow, with Paul Atreides starting an intergalactic … Read more

Linda Hamilton thinks it’s time for Terminator franchise to end

Linda Hamilton isn’t interested in reprising Sarah Connor and thinks its time for the Terminator franchise to finally come to an end. The Terminator franchise has spent the last thirty years chasing the high of the first two movies, and Linda Hamilton thinks it’s time to finally let it die. Linda Hamilton starred in The … Read more

Has an abysmal box office launch for Sony’s Madame Web doomed hopes for a new franchise?

Madame Web’s failure at the box office has likely doomed Sony’s plans to launch a franchise featuring characters from the ill-received film. No amount of chest compressions can save Sony‘s Madame Web from being labeled a total failure with fans and at the box office. Sony’s latest Spider-Man-less Spider-Verse movie is dead on arrival after a $26.2M … Read more

The ‘Predator’ Franchise Is Back With a New Movie

The Predator franchise is back in the hunt. A year and a half after the franchise’s first prequel Prey became Hulu’s biggest streaming premiere ever, word is emerging that a new film is now in development — and from Prey’s director, Dan Trachtenberg. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new film is called Badlands. They don’t offer much in the way of … Read more

Argylle fails to launch a franchise for Apple with $18 million opening

While it opened moderately better than expected, Argylle had a pretty bad opening, killing the franchise’s potential. The numbers are in, and while, they’re less dire than we were predicting; in the end, Argylle had a disastrous opening for Apple Films/ Universal. It ended up rallying to about $18 million, higher than the $16.5 million … Read more