List of multimedia franchises originating in films
Following is a
list of multimedia franchises
originating in films, whether animated or live-action.
In the following tables, the initial media through which the franchise characters or settings became known is shown in boldface. Only works of fiction are only considered part of the series; a book or a documentary film about the franchise is not itself an installment in the franchise.
Franchises originating in animated films
| Franchise (Creator) |
Literature | Comics | Animated films | Live action films | Animated TV series | Live action TV series | Video games | Other media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| An American Tail (Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, Steven Spielberg) |
various | no | An American Tail (1986) An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island (1998) An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night Monster (1999) |
no | Fievel's American Tails (1992) | no | various | An American Tail Theatre
|
| Cars (John Lasseter and various) |
various | various | Cars (2006) Cars 2 (2011) Cars 3 (2017) Planes (2013) Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014) |
no | no | no | various | toy line Cars Land |
| Casper the Friendly Ghost (Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo) |
various | various | The Friendly Ghost (1945) numerous others |
Casper (1995) | Matty's Funday Funnies (1959–1961) The New Casper Cartoon Show (1963–1970) several others |
several made-for-TV movies | various | toys |
Despicable Me )(Sergio Pablos |
children's novels | Minions comic albums |
|
no | Minions Holiday Special (2020) | no |
|
Despicable Me Minion Mayhem |
| Felix the Cat (Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer) |
Felix the Cat comic strip | various | Theatrical Shorts series (beginning in 1919 to 1930) sound and color revival shorts from Van Beuren Studios (1936) Felix the Cat: The Movie (1988) Felix the Cat Saves Christmas (2004) |
no | Felix the Cat (1958–1960) The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (1995–1997) Baby Felix (2000–2001) |
no | Felix the Cat (1992/1993) | various merchandise |
| Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton) |
yes | yes | Finding Nemo (2003) Finding Dory (2016) |
Exploring the Reef with Jean-Michel Cousteau (2003) | no | no | yes | Finding Nemo the Musical Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage |
| Frozen (Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee) |
numerous | Yes | Frozen (2013) Frozen II (2019) |
no | LEGO Frozen Northern (2016) | Once Upon a Time (season 4; 2014) | numerous | Disney On Ice Frozen, Frozen Ever After and more
|
Hotel Transylvania )(Todd Durham |
no | Hotel Transylvania (2012) Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) |
no | Hotel Transylvania: The Series | no | Hotel Transylvania BooClips Deluxe App |
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| Ice Age (Michael J. Wilson) |
no | no | Ice Age (2002) The Meltdown (2006) Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) Continental Drift (2012) Collision Course (2016) The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022) |
no | no | no | various | Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure (live arena ice show) |
| The Incredibles (Brad Bird) |
yes | yes | The Incredibles (2004) Incredibles 2 (2018) |
no | no | no | various | Incredicoaster |
Kung Fu Panda )(Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris |
no | yes | Kung Fu Panda (2008) Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) |
no | Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (2011–2016) Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny (2018–2019) Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight (2022-) |
no | yes | numerous |
| ) | various | no | sequels |
no | The Land Before Time (2007–08) | no | List of The Land Before Time video games | no |
| Lilo & Stitch / Disney Stitch (Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois) |
children's novels, including the Agent Stitch series (beginning in 2022) | Stitch & the Samurai (2020) |
Lilo & Stitch (2002) Stitch! The Movie (2003) Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005) Leroy & Stitch (2006) |
Lilo & Stitch (TBA) | Lilo & Stitch: The Series (2003–2006) Stitch! (2008–2015) Stitch & Ai (2017) |
no | Disney's Lilo & Stitch (GBA; 2002) Lilo & Stitch: Trouble in Paradise (2002) Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 (2002) various others |
theme park attractions and additional merchandise |
| The Lion King (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff) |
adaption | various | The Lion King (1994) The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998) The Lion King 1½ (2004) The Lion King (2019) Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) |
no (though the 2019 remake was advertised as a live-action film) | The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa (1995–1999) (2015–2019)The Lion Guard |
no | various | other media |
| Looney Tunes (Rudolf Ising and Hugh Harman) |
no | various | Theatrical Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies short films (beginning in 1930 to 1969 with rival shorts released in the 1990s and 2010s) various feature films |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1989)(cameo only) Space Jam (1996) Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) |
numerous | no | List of Looney Tunes video games | Music albums, theme park attractions |
| Madagascar (Tom McGrath, Eric Darnell) |
various | various | Madagascar (2005) Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012) Penguins of Madagascar (2014) |
no | various | no | various | musical, theme park attractions |
| Mickey Mouse and Friends (Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks) |
children's books | Mickey Mouse (comic book) various |
Theatrical short films (beginning in 1928) Fantasia (1940) Saludos Amigos (1942) The Three Caballeros (1944) Fantasia 2000 (1999) |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1989)(cameo only) the films featured in Animaited films feature live-action scenes | numerous | Walt Disney anthology television series |
various | numerous |
| Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter and various) |
various | Monsters, Inc.: Laugh Factory | Monsters, Inc. (2001) Monsters University (2013) |
no | Monsters at Work (2021-) | no | various | numerous |
Cinco Paul Brian Lynch Ken Daurio) |
yes | yes | The Secret Life of Pets (2016) The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019) |
no | no | no | The Secret Life of Pets: Unleashed | The Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash! |
| Tangled (Nathan Greno & Byron Howard) |
various | various | Tangled (2010) Tangled Ever After (2012) Tangled: Before Ever After (2017) |
no | Tangled: The Series / Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (2017–2020) | no | Tangled: The Video Game (2010) | |
| Tom and Jerry (William Hanna & Joseph Barbera) |
yes | various | Theatrical short films, (beginning in 1940 to 1967 and 2005) Tom and Jerry: The Movie various DTV animated films |
Tom & Jerry | numerous | no | List of Tom and Jerry video games | Musical adaption |
| Toy Story (John Lasseter, and various) |
yes | various | Lamp Life (2020) |
no | (2019–2020) two TV shorts |
no | various | other media |
| Wallace and Gromit (Nick Park) |
yes | various | A Grand Day Out (1989) The Wrong Trousers (1993) A Close Shave (1995) The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) A Matter of Loaf and Death(2008) Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019) two Shaun the Sheep specials |
no | Cracking Contraptions (2002) (2010)Shaun the Sheep (2007-) Timmy Time (2009–2012) Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention |
no | various | Wallace & Gromit's Thrill-O-Matic |
| Woody Woodpecker/Andy Panda (Walter Lantz) |
yes | yes | Theatrical Andy Panda short series (starting in 1939 to 1952, with the short Knock Knock debuting the character of Woody Woodpecker) Theatrical Woody Woodpecker shorts (starting in 1940 to 1971) |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1989) (cameo only)Woody Woodpecker (2017) | The Woody Woodpecker Show (1957–1958) The New Woody Woodpecker Show (1999–2001) Woody Woodpecker (2018) |
live action segments in The Woody Woodpecker Show | various | theme park attractions The Woody Woodpecker Song
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Franchises originating in live-action films
See also
- List of fictional shared universes in film and television – many multimedia franchises are based in fictional universes
- List of public domain works with multimedia adaptations
- List of highest-grossing media franchises
- Media mix
References
- ^ a b Note: Alien vs. Predator is a crossover franchise established from the existing Alien and Predator franchises
- ^ Note: The Ghostbusters franchise beginning with the 1984 film is unrelated to the 1975 TV series, The Ghost Busters, and its spin-off, the 1986 Ghostbusters animated series.
- ^ ISBN 0765629496:
In one of the most celebrated ventures in media convergence, Larry and Andy Wachowski, creators of The Matrix trilogy, produced the game Enter the Matrix (2003) simultaneously with the last two films of the trilogy, shooting scenes for the game on the movie's sets with the movie s actors, and releasing the game on the same day as The Matrix: Reloaded. Likewise, on September 21, 2004, Lucasfilm jointly released a new DVD box set of the original Star Wars trilogy with Star Wars: Battlefront, a combat game in which players can reenact battles from all six Star Wars films. In 2005, Peter Jackson likewise produced his blockbuster film King Kong (2005) in tandem with a successful King Kong game designed by Michael Ancel and published by Ubisoft. In the last several years, numerous licensed videogame adaptations of major summer and holiday blockbusters were released a few days before or a few days after their respective films, including: all three Star Wars films (1999–2005); all five Harry Potter films (2001–2008); all three Spider-Man films (2002–2007); Hulk (2002); The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002); The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003); The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005); Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006); Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007); and Transformers (2007). These multimedia franchises have made it more difficult to distinguish the production of films and videogames as separate enterprises.
- ISBN 1845207963: Multiple readings of the film are plentiful and highlight the polysemic nature of the text and subsequent multimedia franchise".
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