You know those cinematic universes you hear so much about? Of course you do, you know them, you love them, you can't walk into a cinema without running face first into them. Brilliant aren't they? Brilliant that is, when they work. But do you remember the time before them? Back to the age where your humble blockbuster, if it did well, could be part of a veritable cinematic franchise? You know it, the half-way house between one shot film entries and rolling cinematic odysseys. You get a film and if it did well you get a sequel, repeat and re-roll until the goodwill and the money stops pouring in. They're still around of course, you might even say it's the bedrock for what we have now in the MCU, the DCEU and all the other U's launched and in some cases, abandoned over the last decade. Once upon a time though, film series with entries numbering in the dozens was a relatively unheard of thing. Sequel entries were counted in single digits. Usually covering m...
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