The 50 Greatest Movie Franchises (Trilogies and Beyond)
Written by Ben Pogany
- James Bond --22 films by 6 Bonds with no end in sight.
- Star Wars
Lord of the Rings- Flawless from minute 1 to 683 (extended version)- The Godfather
- Indiana Jones
- Rocky--The series that taught roman numerals to a generation.
- Harry Potter -- Highest grossing series of all time at $5.4 billion.
- Terminator
- The Clint Eastwood Dollars Trilogy--The third installment of "The Man With No Name," The Good, the Bad and the Ugly might be the greatest western ever made.
- Die Hard
- The Bourne Trilogy--An untitled fourth film is in the works. My vote: The Bourne Illtrocity
- The Hannibal Lector Movies
- Matrix
- Spiderman--$2.5 billion grossed so far with #4 slated for 2011 and a Venom spinoff in 2012.
- Batman (The Shumacher-Keaton Series)
- Superman
- X-Men --5 more films have all been given the greenlight, including Deadpool and Magneto spin-offs.
- Star Trek--The JJ Abrams installment (11th overall) was a huge success, and 2 more are in the works.
- Alien
- Back to the Future
- Lethal Weapon
- Shrek--$2.1 billion grossed with 3 more in the works.
- Pirates of the Carribean--One decent movie and two stinkers. Still, you can't argue with $2.7 billion grossed.
- Dirty Harry
- Cheech and Chong
- Naked Gun--OJ's second greatest acting job.
- National Lampoon's Vacation
- Austin Powers
- Friday the 13th-- 12 films and counting...
- Beverly Hills Cop
- Jurassic Park
- Nightmare on Elm St--The Nightmare continues in 2010 staring Jackie Earl Haley as Freddy
- Halloween-- 10 films and counting...
- Ocean's Trilogy--The modern day rat-pack earned over a billion on this trio.
- Scream
- Saw
- Jaws
- Mad Max
- Robocop
- Karate Kid
- The Exorcist
- Major League--Would be much higher if not for the putrid Back to the Minors installment.
- Rush Hour--Rush Hour 4 sounds like a go.
- Child's Play --A "darker and scarier" remake of the original 1988 Child's Play is supposed to be in the works.
- Blade
- The Mummy
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles--Another TMNT is reported to be likely.
- Poltergeist
- Mighty Ducks
- Rambo
