Over the past few weeks, we’ve been covering the return of older movies to theaters.These movies, including live-action movies spiderman flick and Nine Star Wars drama serieswas brought back to the screen to mark a specific milestone – e.g. phantom menace Get to 25 – or seem to just do it because other people make it look fun.
To this end, Universal Pictures will 1999 mummy Movies are returning to theaters on their 25th birthday, and 20th Century Pictures is doing the same alien 45th.Both will be released on April 26 ahead of their respective anniversaries in May, but as of alien, Since the franchise is set to return with a new installment, it’s carrying some extra weight Alien: Romulus On August 16th, as the spring and summer movie season approaches, other films may get similar re-release treatment – it’s a big deal when a movie turns 10 years old, and if the first wave of films gets the same treatment, the turnout is pretty high , you can imagine other films with similar milestones (like the original Guardians of the Galaxy) gets its own re-release.
mummy The film was first released on May 7, 1999, directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz.In addition to being a remake of Karl Freund’s 1932 Universal Pictures film, its fame paved the way for what we know as the summer blockbuster: a special-effects-laden movie starring a hot young cast. action comedy (emphasis on hot, Watch the clues) Complete the set pieces one after another.Despite mixed reviews, it grossed $416.4 million and eventually spawned several sequels: 2001’s The Mummy Returns (marks Dwayne Johnson’s acting debut), 2007 Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and scorpion king subsequent sub-series return. besides Restart in 2017this…well, it happened.
As for alien, The film opened in Seattle on May 25, 1979, and was released more widely on June 22. The film, directed by Ridley Scott, received mixed reviews but grossed $184.7 million at the box office and eventually won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. In the decades since its release, it has been reevaluated as one of the most influential science fiction horror films of its time.Fox has always kept the franchise alive with prequels (e.g. Prometheus),sequel(alien),comics, video gamesand cross with predator.this alien The series never went away, and now that it’s owned by Disney, that’s even more true between Romulus, A TV show with Noah Hawley and who knows what else.
Both alien and mummy The show will run for a full week on April 26, and tickets are on sale now.
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