Film Franchises

Film Franchises

• A media franchise is a collection of media for which components exist in multiple forms of media, generally fiction, such as film, literature, television, or video games, involving a story, characters, and setting. Generally, a media franchise means that a whole series is made in a particular medium, along with licensing to others for merchandising and endorsements. This licensing may involve trademarked characters and settings.
• An example of franchises star wars, star trek, marvel, transformers, lord of the rings, spy kids, drake and josh, james bond, indiana jones, batman, terminator, back to the future, men in black

Steve Neale

• Steve Neale believes that pleasure of the wiener derives from repetition and difference. Steve Neale believes that there would not be pleasure without difference. For this reason its important films to fit into different genres and franchises feature repetition.