The ongoing popularity of the series spawned a 1993 film remake by 20th Century Fox.

The film has spawned two sequels, Evil Dead II ( 1987 ) and Army of Darkness ( 1992 ), and a stage musical.

The character later spawned a television series starring Lynda Carter and a film adaptation is currently underway.

The Vampyre has been accounted by cultural critic Christopher Frayling as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written and spawned a craze for vampire fiction and theatre ( and latterly film ) which has not ceased to this day.

The film later spawned a sequel: 28 Weeks Later.

Dominating children's TV stop motion programming for three decades in America was Art Clokey's Gumby series — which spawned a feature film, Gumby I in 1995 — using both freeform and character clay animation.

The film and its successors spawned countless imitators that borrowed elements instituted by Romero: Tombs of the Blind Dead, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie ( film ), Zombi 2, Hell of the Living Dead, Night of the Comet, Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Creeps, Children of the Living Dead, and the video game series Resident Evil ( later adapted as films in 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2010 ), Dead Rising, and House of the Dead.

Russo's film spawned four sequels.

In 1992, the series spawned a prequel, the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, a commercial failure in America, but a success in Japan.

The film spawned several sequels and there was also a short-lived 1998 television series.

The play spawned an innovative 1961 musical film of the same name, directed by Robert Wise and Robbins, starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn.

The film was a huge commercial success, and spawned fierce critical debates over the accuracy of its portrayal of General Patton.

The band's 1984 – 1985 tour was the most lucrative in their history and spawned 9012Live, a concert film directed by Steven Soderbergh with added special effects from Charlex that cost $ 1 million.

It spawned a number of separate projects, including the feature film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course and two television spinoffs: The Crocodile Hunter Diaries and Croc Files.

* Fielder Cook ( March 9, 1923 – June 20, 2003 ) was an American television and film director, producer, and writer whose 1971 television movie The Homecoming: A Christmas Story spawned the series The Waltons.

The original program launched the careers of a number of Australian performers including Jamie Redfern, Tina Arena and Dannii Minogue and spawned numerous hit singles, fifteen Young Talent Time albums, a film, swap cards, boardgames, toys, and numerous Logie Awards.

The festival has spawned a range of other work including the 1972 film Glastonbury Fayre and album, 1996 film Glastonbury the Movie and the 2005 DVD Glastonbury Anthems.

Success of the film has finally spawned a sequel starring Steven Seagal, Hard to Kill 2, filming Summer 2012.

The film spawned a series of sequels.

The novel spawned a film Shane ( 1953 ) and a 17-episode TV Series ( 1966 ).

The shows spawned the a three-record gold album as well as a Warner Brothers feature film, No Nukes.

The film has achieved as a small cult following ( thanks to repeated screenings of the film on Comedy Central in the 1990s ), and has even spawned a stage musical adaptation.

** Alien ( franchise ), the film franchise, including other sequels

* ASP ( film production company ), Alain Siritzky Productions, owners of the official Emmanuelle movie and TV franchise

The film would not be a sequel or prequel to the existing film or television franchise and Joss Whedon would have no involvement in the project.

* Cars ( franchise ), a Disney / Pixar film series

Elwes returned to the Saw franchise in Saw 3D ( 2010 ), the seventh and final film in the series, as Dr. Lawrence Gordon.

However, Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006 ( The 26th film in the franchise ) got a private screening in Washington, D. C. in November 2008.

Also due to the great box office success of this film, Toho was convinced to build a franchise around the character of Godzilla and started producing sequels on a yearly basis.

It was the thirteenth film in the Godzilla franchise.

A direct sequel to the previous year's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, this film was the least successful commercially of the entire Godzilla franchise.

It was the highest grossing film of the Heisei Godzilla series and, unadjusted for inflation, the highest grossing film of the entire franchise.

The Resident Evil video game franchise was adapted into a film released in March 2002.

The Saw film series holds the Guinness World Record of the highest-grossing horror franchise in history.

Highlander is a film and television franchise that began with a 1986 fantasy movie starring Christopher Lambert, who plays Connor MacLeod, the Highlander.

Id Software became involved in film development when they were in the production team of the film adaption of their Doom franchise in 2005.

The fictional British Secret Service agent has also been adapted for television, radio, comic strip and video game formats as well as being used in the longest continually running and the second-highest grossing film franchise to date, which started in 1962 with Dr. No, starring Sean Connery as Bond.

In January 2010 it was announced that the Spider-Man franchise would be restarted, therefore dropping Dunst, Maguire, and Raimi from the film series.

** The Matrix, the first film in the franchise

In addition, western animation has ventured into the genre with the most successful effort being the internationally hailed DreamWorks Animation film franchise, Kung Fu Panda, starring Jack Black and Angelina Jolie.

Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, who published the comic book, took the property to Sony to become a billion-dollar film franchise.

In promotional interviews at the time, Scott indicated he had been in discussions to make a fifth film in the Alien franchise.

In 2001, Rodríguez enjoyed his first $ 100, 000, 000 ( USD ) Hollywood hit with Spy Kids, which went on to become a movie franchise, with the third film released in a crude form of 3D.