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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 that's the direction that we want to go. they're not looking for a single project. they want the next franchise. they want something that's not going to give them one hit film, but it's going to give them a series of hit films they can spin off into a whole world of ancillary markets an...

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 "what's eating gilbert grape" and there was nervousness on the part of studio executives, can he do this thing? >> the studio thought they were in terrible, terrible trouble. it was going to b...

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. it's changing technology. it's introducing you to actors that now are household names and it's an epic that i don't think we've 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 fi...

>> the studio executives see that's the direction we want to go. they're not looking for a single project. they want the next franchise. they want something that's not going to give them one hit film, but it's 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 can't get enough of the "mission impossible" franchise. they have ambition to make each one better...

And it's an epic that i don't think we've 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 that's the direction we want to go. >> they're not looking for a single project. they want next franchise. they want something that's not going to give them one hit film but is going to give them a series of hit films they can...