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Since the original "star wars" films. >> master baggins, i suggest you keep up. >> if you look at the number one box office hit from 2001 onward, with the exception of "american sniper" in 2014, every single one of them is a franchise film. >> welcome to the caribbean, lad. >> the studio executives start seeing thats the direction that we want to go. theyre not looking for a single project. they want the next franchise. they want something thats not going to give them one hit film, but its going...

Oh! >> a lot of the filmmaking in jurassic park showed what you cgi could do for their storytelling. >> "titanic" is a throwback to the big blackbusters of the 50s and 60s, not only in its 50s and 60s but it was talked about in the way we talked about cleopat cleopatra. oh, god, we put everything we have into this tire boat and is it going to sink? >> the budget was $200 million. >> leo dicaprio had done "whats eating gilbert grape" and there was nervousness on the part of studio executives, can...

Gollum moving in real time with my physical performance. >> you were not so very different from a hobbit once, were you? smeagol. >> what did you call me? >> the "lord of the rings" trilogy is this marker of the 2000s. its changing technology. its introducing you to actors that now are household names and its an epic that i dont think weve felt in culture since the original "star wars" films. >> master baggins, i suggest you keep up. >> if you look at the number one box office hit from 2001 onwa...

>> the studio executives see thats the direction we want to go. theyre not looking for a single project. they want the next franchise. they want something thats not going to give them one hit film, but its going to give them a series of hit films they can spin into a world of markets and television and video games and everything else. >> i think what paul did was completely reimagine the way that action films have been shot. he just pushes the boundaries. >> can you open the door? ethan? >> i ca...

And its an epic that i dont think weve felt in culture since the original "star wars" films. >> master baggins, i suggest you keep up. >> if you look at the number one box office hit from 2001 onward, with the exception of "american snip sniper" in 2014, every single one of them is a franchise film. >> welcome to the caribbean, lad. >> the studio executives are seeing thats the direction we want to go. >> theyre not looking for a single project. they want next franchise. they want something that...

Technology could do for their story telling. >> "titanic" is a throwback in so many ways to the big blockbusters of the 50s and 60s. not just in its scope and in its scale but also that it was talked about in the way that we talked about cleopatra". oh god, were putting everything we have into this giant boat and is it going to sink. zits budget at that point hit a then unheard of $200 million. >> leo dicaprio had done whats eating gilbert grape and his romeo and juliette had not come out yet. t...

>> what did you call me? >> the "lord of the rings" trilogy is this marker of the 2000s. its changing technology. its introducing you to actors that now are household names and its an epic that i dont think weve felt in culture since the original "star wars" films. >> master baggins, i suggest you keep up. >> if you look at the number one box office hit from 2001 onward, with the exception of "american sniper" in 2014, every single one of them is a franchise film. >> welcome to the caribbean, lo...

Centralize the star. >> reporter: the superstars made potentially mediocre scripts into hits and forgettable ones much more memorable. >> identi"training day" is an otherwise small film without denzels presence. >> reporter: and all that made the studios happy, especially as they started building on that. film series were soon every where, from "the fast and the furious" to "transformers" to the bourne movies to -- >> the studio executives started seeing thats the direction we want to go. er tha...

In jurassic park, what that can do for the technology. >> "titanic" is a throwback in so many ways to the big block busters of the 50s and 60s, not just in its scope and scale but also it was talked about in the way we talk about >> its budget at that point hit an unheard of $200 million. >> his romeo and juliet had not come out yet, so there was some nervousness on the part of studio executives like can leonardo dicaprio do this sort of thing. >> the studio thought they were in terrible, terrib...

Come together for these kinds of projects? >> a couple of things. hollywood is kind of where it is right now. a lot of sequels and reboots s d adaptations werent working. we had this exciting independent movement going on in the 90s. really exciting, people like spike jones from mtv. lets give them all a chance to make the movie they want. you look at the late 90s, we were worried about y2k, the internet. you have these really entertaining movies taking on big topics that were still wrestling wi...