Non-Blockbuster Film Franchises by FlaxmanR

The fourth film in this series, subtitled “High Noon at Mega Mountain,” saw the complete recasting of the title roles (making Victor Wong the only actor to appear in every film in the series) and the major villain parts campily handed over to Loni Anderson and Jim Varney. Shockingly, it made less than $400,000 at the box office.

Blake Edwards apparently forgot that “The Pink Panther” actually referred to a diamond when he returned to the series with 1993’s Son of the Pink Panther, a box office failure that cast which future Oscar winner as Inspector Clouseau’s illegitimate son?

This 1998 film saw three direct-to-video sequels, all of which were essentially slight rewrites of the original movie, down to all taking place in the same town, Blue Bay, and all featuring a ménage à trois – except the fourth, tellingly subtitled “Foursome.”

Though often described as a Rambo ripoff, the first two films in this series were actually released before the second Rambo film (to which they bear the closest resemblance). Identify this three-film series, a Golan/Globus production starring Chuck Norris as Colonel James Braddock.

This actor seems to have a thing for questionable movie franchises – a year after winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, he got a Razzie nomination in the same category for Jaws 3-D, and later appeared as the president in the third Left Behind movie. Name the actor, himself a sequel of sorts, who was also the only actor to appear in all four Iron Eagle films.

Apocalypse, Extinction, Afterlife, and Retribution are the subtitles of the four sequels to what 2002 video game-inspired film?

It’s hard to believe the name of this property was considered valuable enough to be repeatedly slapped on unrelated films. The third film, if you can believe it, stars Sally Kellerman as the ghost of a porn star who won’t be allowed into heaven unless she can get Patrick Dempsey laid – in a rare connection to the original, Dempsey is playing an older version of Rudy Gerner. Gerner was the main character opposite Bill Murray in what 1979 film?

It may be stretching it to call Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Clerks II a “franchise,” since many actors play multiple characters and Jay and Silent Bob are virtually the only consistent feature outside of the two Clerks films. Nevertheless, what name is used by fans and director Kevin Smith himself to refer to the reality depicted in these films, taken from the name of Smith’s production company?

One of the least successful film series ever, the three films that together adapted a single book cost approximately $35 million combined while grossing less than $9 million, and rather embarrassingly did not see a single character played by the same actor across even any two of the films. You’d think they could take a hint from the free market. What book were these films adapting, featuring Taylor Schilling, Samantha Mathis, and finally Laura Regan as the main character?

What title creatures attacked in 1978, returned (with a young George Clooney) in 1988, struck back in 1990, and, most curiously, ate France in 1991?

Apparently under the impression that what really drew audiences in was Pat Morita, Hollywood made “The Next Karate Kid” in 1994. What actress, in the first major role of an Oscar-winning career, took over the lead role opposite Mr. Miyagi from Ralph Macchio?

The actual main character in the first six films of this series is Peter Stirling, played by Donald O’Connor. A second lieutenant in the Army in the first film, he later goes to West Point, joins the WACs, and in O’Connor’s final appearance serves in the Navy after a case of mistaken identity – always with assistance, rarely believed by others, from the title character. What title character, voiced by Chill Wills in the first six films, went on to appear in a seventh film with Mickey Rooney?