The Big Eight major film studios in chronological order are Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, United Artists Releasing, Warner Bros. Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 20th Century Studios.
This excludes mini-majors like New Line Cinema (now part of WB), Miramax (now part of Paramount), Dreamworks (now part of Universal) etc.
1910s: Traffic in Souls (1913) - $981,000
1920s: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) - $3.5 million
1930s: Frankenstein (1931) - $12 million
1940s: The Egg and I (1947) - $5.5 million
1950s: Pillow Talk (1959) - $18.7 million
1960s: Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) - $40 million
1970s: Jaws (1975) - $476.5 million
1980s: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - $797.1 million
1990s: Jurassic Park (1993) - $1.058 billion
2000s: Mamma Mia! (2008) - $609.8 million
2010s: Jurassic World (2015) - $1.670 billion
2020s: The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) - $1.361 billion
1910s: Male and Female (1919) - $1.25 million
1920s: The Ten Commandments (1923) - $4.2 million
1930s: I'm No Angel (1933) - $2.25 million
1940s: Samson and Delilah (1949) - $25.6 million
1950s: The Ten Commandments (1956) - $122.7 million
1960s: Paint Your Wagon (1969) - $31.6 million
1970s: The Godfather (1972) - $291 million
1980s: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - $792.9 million
1990s: Titanic (1997) - $2.218 billion
2000s: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) - $836.3 million
2010s: The Avengers (2012) - $1.518 billion
2020s: Top Gun: Maverick (2022) - $1.495 billion
1910s: Broken Blossoms (1919) - $1.25 million
1920s: Way Down East (1920) - $7.5 million
1930s: City Lights (1931) - $4.25 million
1940s: Since You Went Away (1944) - $7 million
1950s: Around the World in 80 Days (1956) - $42 million
1960s: Thunderball (1965) - $141.2 million
1970s: Rocky (1976) - $225 million
1980s: Rocky IV (1985) - $300.4 million
1990s: GoldenEye (1995) - $352.1 million
2000s: Valkyrie (2008) - $203.9 million
2010s: The Addams Family (2019) - $200.5 million
2020s: No Time to Die (2021) - $774.1 million
1920s: The Singing Fool (1928) - $5.9 million
1930s: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - $3.9 million
1940s: This Is the Army (1943) - $10.4 million
1950s: Giant (1956) - $39 million
1960s: My Fair Lady (1964) - $72.7 million
1970s: Superman: The Movie (1978) - $300.5 million
1980s: Batman (1989) - $411.3 million
1990s: Twister (1996) - $494.4 million
2000s: The Dark Knight (2008) - $1.029 billion
2010s: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011) - $1.342 billion
2020s: Barbie (2023) - $1.445 billion
1920s: No feature films from 1923 to 1937 as they were a short film-specific studio at the time
1930s: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) - $418 million
1940s: Bambi (1942) - $267.4 million
1950s: Cinderella (1950) - $263.6 million
1960s: The Jungle Book (1967) - $378 million
1970s: The Aristocats (1970) - $191 million
1980s: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988; Touchstone) - $329.8 million
1990s: The Lion King (1994) - $968.5 million
2000s: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) - $1.066 billion
2010s: Avengers: Endgame (2019; Marvel Studios) - $2.797 billion
2020s: Avatar: The Way of Water (2022; 20th Century Studios) - $2.320 billion
1920s: Charley's Aunt (1925) - $556,529
1930s: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - $9 million
1940s: Gilda (1946) - $6 million
1950s: The Caine Mutiny (1954) - $21.8 million
1960s: Funny Girl (1968) - $58.5 million
1970s: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - $306.9 million
1980s: Look Who's Talking (1989; Tristar) - $296.9 million
1990s: Men in Black (1997) - $589.5 million
2000s: Spider-Man 3 (2007) - $880.6 million
2010s: Skyfall (2012) - $1.142 billion
2020s: Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) - $1.916 billion
1920s: The Big Parade (1925) - $22 million
1930s: Gone with the Wind (1939) - $390 million
1940s: Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) - $12.9 million
1950s: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) - $17.6 million
1960s: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - $146 million
1970s: The Goodbye Girl (1979) - $102 million
1980s: Rain Man (1988) -$354.8 million
1990s: The World Is Not Enough (1999) - $361.8 million
2000s: Casino Royale (2006) - $616.5 million
2010s: Skyfall (2012) - $1.142 billion
2020s: No Time to Die (2021; United Artists) - $774.1 million
1930s: Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) - $3.6 million
1940s: Leave Her to Heaven (1945) - $8.2 million
1950s: Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) - $26 million
1960s: The Sound of Music (1965) - $286.2 million
1970s: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) - $775.3 million
1980s: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) - $252.5 million
1990s: Titanic (1997) - $2.218 billion
2000s: James Cameron's Avatar (2009) - $2.923 billion
2010s: Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) - $903.6 million
2020s: Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) - $2.320 billion
With that, here's this AMC Cinemas ad featuring Nicole Kidman that came out nearly three years ago.
This is a companion piece to my rewrite of the DC Extended Universe and the Marvel Cinematic Universe but this time focusing on Avatar: The Last Airbender and Avatar: The Legend of Korra and if you're curious, it's this one in question - https://deviantart.com/adrenalinerush1996/journal/Change-one-thing-from-each-DCEU-MCU-entry-to-date-1019382210
Anyway, the reason that I've made this journal entry is thanks to an acquaintance of mine on here as in Zigwolf since he has done a journal entry series on how he would've done Avatar: The Legend of Korra, after all, so there's that plus this was inspired by the r/fixingmovies on Reddit and the three Anime Superhero threads: https://animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/how-would-you-have-fixed-improved-it-live-action.5606372/, https://animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/how-would-you-have-fixed-improved-it.5497211/ and https://animesuperhero.com/forums/threads/change-one-thing-about-a-cartoon.5664641/
Notable changes in this:
I've decided to incorporate elements from the Netflix series like having Azula, Mai and Ty Lee debut a lot earlier as well as Suki's mother Yukari etc.
The final season of ATLA will be split into two since it did feel like two seasons into one.
I'll be doing stuff like toning down Desna and Eska's attitude, Mai discovering that she is a descendant of both Aang's friend Kuzon and Kyoshi's girlfriend Rangi.
Each season would have 20 episodes since the sequel series needed extra episodes to flesh out characterisations of those like Asami.
On to Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Seasons
Book One: Water - Largely unchanged though Yue would be a waterbender like her Netflix counterpart as well as having Mai and Ty Lee being introduced a lot earlier.
Book Two: Earth - The Freedom Fighters would appear than just Jet, Smellerbee and Longshot along with June reappearing.
Book Three: Black Sun - There would be an episode focusing on Aang's past like about his parents, his friendships with Bumi and Kuzon, an episode focusing on Iroh's son Lu Ten prior to his death, while Sokka would rescue Suki in the midseason finale of this season, hence both Zuko and Suki would join in the end.
Book Four: Fire - The Boiling Rock would occur midway with Mai and Ty Lee managing to turn on their friend Azula instead of being prisoners with the former joining Team Avatar with Haru whereas the latter joining the Kyoshi Warriors in an act of atonement, while Azula would indeed get crowned as Firelord before the Agni Kai as well as Zuko reuniting with his mother Ursa and so on.
And on to Avatar: The Legend of Korra.
Seasons
Book One: Air - Suki would indeed appear in this, confirming that she's alive and well like Katara, Toph and Zuko with either Ming-Na Wen or Tamlyn Tomita voicing her.
Book Two: Spirits - While entering in the Spirit World, Korra wouldn't just interact with Iroh but Yue, who is established as her great aunt since it's very likely that she is related to her due to the fact her father Tonraq was the heir to the Northern Water Tribe throne before being exiled that resulted in his brother Unalaq becoming chief along with that the NWT is a hereditary monarchy than an elective monarchy like the Southern Water Tribe.
Book Three: Change - Largely unchanged though Korra would realise that there is a chance of restoring her connections with past Avatars while Suyin realises that she was in the wrong in terms of actions that she came off as unintentionally unsympathetic.
Book Four: Balance - The Fire Nation royal family would appear prominently such as Mai, Azula, Kiyi, Izumi, Iroh II etc as well as a reunion of the surviving Team Avatar members, a team up of the offspring as in Tenzin, Kya, Bumi, Lin, Suyin, Izumi etc and so on.
Now, how about this moment from American Dad!
Note: This may contain minor spoilers and please note while I reviewed this episode on the same day as it came out on Amazon Prime, I've posted the review one to two days after release.
Invincible is an American adult animated superhero series created by Robert Kirkman, based on his Image Comics character of the same name with the main voice cast comprising of Steven Yeun as Mark Grayson / Invincible, Sandra Oh as Debbie Grayson, J.K. Simmons as Nolan Grayson / Omni-Man along with a recurring cast comprising of Mark Hamill as Art Rosenbaum, Andrew Rannells as William Clockwell, Zazie Beetz as Amber Bennett, Walton Goggins as Cecil Stedman, Jason Mantzoukas as Rex Sloan / Rex Splode, Mae Whitman as Connie, Chris Diamantopoulos as Donald Ferguson, Doc Seismic and Vidor, Malese Jow as Kate Cha / Dupli-Kate, Kevin Michael Richardson as the Mauler Twins and Monster Girl, Grey Griffin as Amanda / Monster Girl, Betsy Wilkins, Olga and Thula, Max Burkholder as Matt, Jon Hamm as Steve, Ezra Miller as D.A. Sinclair (season 1 only due to the actor's legal issues), Gillian Jacobs as Samantha Wilkins / Atom Eve, Zachary Quinto as Rudy Connors / Robot (until season 1 episode 7 and from season 2 episode 1 onwards in terms of the Robot persona), Khary Payton as Markus Grimshaw / Black Samson, Michael Cudlitz as Josef / Red Rush, Sonequa Martin-Green as Alana / Green Ghost, Clancy Brown as Damien Darkblood and General Kregg, Jonathan Groff as Rick Sheridan, Djimon Hounsou as Slash, Lennie James as Darkwing, Lauren Cohan as Holly / War Woman, Ross Marquand as the Immortal, Aquarus and Rudy Connors / Robot (from season 1 episode 7 onwards), Mahershala Ali as Titan, Chad L. Coleman as Martian Man, Michael Dorn as Battle Beast, Seth Rogen as Allen the Alien, Jeffrey Donovan as Machine Head, Fred Tatasciore as Adam Wilkins and Killcannon, Stephen Root as Elias Brandyworth, Sterling K. Brown as Angstrom Levy, Jay Pharoah as Zandale Randolph / Bulletproof, Ben Schwartz as Shapesmith, Tatiana Maslany as Queen Lizard, Aquaria and Telia, Scoot McNairy as King Lizard, Peter Cullen as Thaedus, Rhea Seehorn as Andressa, Rob Delaney as Nuolzot and Seance Dog, Cliff Curtis as Paul, Zehra Fazal as Louise, Paul F. Thompkins as the narrator in season 2 episode 7, Phil LaMarr as Lucan, Sidekick and Salamander, Daveed Diggs as Theo, Lea Thompson as Carol, Lincoln Bodin as Oliver Grayson, Calista Flockhart as April, Luke Macfarlane, Shantel VanSanten, Camden Coley, Eric Bauza, Kari Wahlgren, Ella Purnell, Micah Aliling, Cleveland Berto, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Josh Keaton, Chloe Bennet and Tim Robinson, so basically the cast is a mix of The Walking Dead, Heroes, Arrowverse, X-Men Cinematic Universe, MCU, DCEU, Star Wars and Star Trek veterans and so on.
The show premiered with three episodes on March 26, 2021 via Amazon Prime with the eight-episode first season airing every Friday until April 30 as well as a special episode focusing on Samantha Wilkins (Gillian Jacobs)' origins as Atom Eve airing on July 21, 2023 (July 22 UK time) after the San Diego Comic-Con panel, which was followed by the eight-episode second season that began airing on November 3 of the same year and will be split into two four-episode parts with the first half ending on November 24 and the second half that began airing on March 14, 2024 and will conclude on April 4.
"It's Not That Simple" continues where the previous episode left off, especially with a shocking first act as well as an emotional second act that serves as a turning point surrounding two notable romantic relationships. That being said, the post-credits scene hints at something sinister relating to one character.
I recommend this Charli XCX song named after that clothing company.
This morning, I saw Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and here's my verdict.
Being the fifth overall instalment of the film series, I felt that while it is enjoyable, it's not as good as the previous film Afterlife, which relaunched the original film series continuity that went inactive after the release of the 2009 video game as well as the divisive 2016 reboot Answer the Call.
My guess is that it feels a bit short and there were some plot-important deleted scenes that would've made it a great instalment but I digress. I'll be honest, I would like to see a Netflix animated series in vein of those that Fast and Furious and Jurassic Park had in the past few years. That said, it's fine and for the next film, I'd like to see Sigourney Weaver reprise her role as Dana but also incorporate elements from Extreme Ghostbusters as this film has incorporated elements from The Real Ghostbusters, so that's that.
Trailers:
If (PG)
Despicable Me 4 (PG)
Borderlands (12A)
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (12A) – Trailer 2
The Garfield Movie (PG)
To play us out, here's "In Too Deep" by Sum 41.
The Avatarverse, a fictional shared universe comprising of Avatar: The Last Airbender and Avatar: The Legend of Korra as well as countless spinoffs in book, comic book or video games, such as those focusing on Kyoshi, Yangchen and soon Roku but what if I told you that there are those that can be seen as a spiritual successor to these two?
Before I get to the Avatarverse, I tend to consider what I label a quadfecta comprising of Disney Channel's Kim Possible, Nickelodeon's Danny Phantom, Cartoon Network's Ben 10 and Netflix's Carmen Sandiego, not to mention that I'd consider Tales of Arcadia and Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters as spiritual successor to the third series, which had crossovers with Generator Rex and The Secret Saturdays plus Miraculous Ladybug can be seen as a spiritual successor to Totally Spies.
Not only that but Voltron: Legendary Defender (more on that later) has been labelled as a spiritual successor to the 2011-12 reboot of ThunderCats, which itself has been considered to be a spiritual successor to the 2002-04 reboot of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe plus I'd think Blue Eye Samurai is a spiritual successor to both Samurai Jack, Castlevania and Yasuke. It's more or less confirmed that Amphibia, The Owl House and The Ghost and Molly McGee are spiritual successors to Gravity Falls and Star vs. the Forces of Evil along with that situation between American Dragon: Jake Long and The Life and Times of Juniper Lee but anyway, back to the Avatarverse.
Most people on social media would indeed say that the Avatarverse has two spiritual successors due to sharing some of the crew members as in Voltron: Legendary Defender and The Dragon Prince but there are those who would consider She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and the 2021 reboot of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe as such. I know there are those who call the Avatarverse a ripoff of Xiaolin Showdown when they're very different shows as well as those feeling SPOP is a spiritual successor to Steven Universe plus I recall those comparing ATLA to Dragon Ball and Naruto but I digress.
To break it down on the comparisons between these six shows in general:
All of them have a main protagonist (ATLA with Aang, LOK with Korra, TDP with Callum, SPOP with Adora and MOTU 2021 with Adam) except for Voltron: Legendary Defender, which is predominantly an ensemble-heavy series though some would say Allura is the main protagonist.
They've at least shared an actor. Grey DeLisle Griffin has voiced characters in four of these shows - Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Legend of Korra, Voltron: Legendary Defender and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power; Jack DeSena has voiced Sokka in Avatar: The Last Airbender and Callum in The Dragon Prince etc.
Most of them have had a white-haired magical character such as Yue in ATLA, Allura in VLD, Rayla in TDP and Teela in MOTU 2021.
They have had LGBTQIA characters or coded as such with Azula and Ty Lee (coded) in ATLA, Korra, Asami and Kya (confirmed) in LOK, Runaan, Ethari, Amaya, Janai and the Queens of Duren (confirmed) in TDP, most of the characters (confirmed) in SPOP etc.
They have a well-known creative team - The Avatarverse with Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino along with Aaron Ehasz for ATLA and Joaquim Dos Santos for LOK, Dos Santos, Lauren Montgomery and Tim Hedrick for VLD, Ehasz, Justin Richmond, Giancarlo Volpe and Devon Giehl for TDP, Nate Stevenson and Chuck Austen (yes, really) for SPOP and Bryan Q. Miller for MOTU 2021.
Each of them have a duration of three or more seasons - Three for ATLA, four for LOK, eight for VLD, seven (five aired at the time of this writing) for TDP, five for SPOP and three for MOTU 2021.
And I guess that's it and how about this hit by The Dandy Warhols that was popular thanks to Vodafone.