Kickboxer is on #8 now.
Wait, the guy in Kickboxer 2-4 was Cody from Step by Step?!
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The 7th Bring It Own movie will be released this Oct, what are some other franchises that stayed alive in Direct To Video?
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Wait, the guy in Kickboxer 2-4 was Cody from Step by Step?!
I think I have seen every single one but the GIrl's Rule and now i'm seeing if it's on streaming to punish myself. They direct to video ones are so bad.American Pie
Followed by:
- Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation
- Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
- Starship Troopers: Invasion
- Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars
This just seems bizarre, when Jarhead was based on the book, but the sequels just use brand recognition to sell unrelated action films.
The thing is, Universal Soldier Day of Reckoning is, hand to god, easily the best in the franchise. A legitimately very good piece of low-budget action moviemaking.
There's only 4 true Amityville Horror flicks and the Reynolds remake. All the others are not related to the originals or the original studio in any way. The use of the word Amityville is free reign so there's 40+ films that have used the word Amityville in it's title, but they aren't part of a series in any form.
It's true, former Dimension and Weinstein company execs have openly talked about it. They tried a few times to come up with ways to bring Hellraiser back in a bigger form for theatrical but they could never get it off the ground so they kept tossing the films into DTV territory. They also did this with The Prophecy, Children of the Corn, and bunch of other horror films with having them all producing at same time, sharing sets, and filming multiple movies at once to release back to back sequels and save lots of money. The first couple Hellraiser sequels that were DTV were essentially just filmed back to back in same way.
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Winnie-the-Pooh might be one of the few franchises that alternated between theatrical and direct-to-video for a time. I guess any future movies either go theatrical or straight to Disney+ now.
Are there any franchises that started in theaters, went DTV, then went back to theaters while sticking to a single continuity (and not relegating the DTV entry/entries exclusively to spin-off territory)?
Are there any franchises that started in theaters, went DTV, then went back to theaters while sticking to a single continuity (and not relegating the DTV entry/entries exclusively to spin-off territory)?
It's always sad to see a star outgrow its roots and move on to bigger franchises... only to be forced to return to the franchise 20 years later after his star has waned.
