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Schwartz 
I guess there's a question of what constitutes a franchise. I suppose it's up to Josh to draw the lines, but I feel like you need more than 3 movies to make a franchise. That would mean that Oceans or The Matrix or The Bourne films are all on the cusp of qualifying. Then there's a question of whether LOTR counts, as between Bakshi and Jackson you'll have up to 8 different movies in a year or so, or Harry Potter, which has plenty of film to look at but tells one continuous story. I feel like at least for the purposes of this column, it's not really a franchise unless there's some major shifts in time, tone, medium, and/or continuity between installments.
I'm a little iffy on adaptation franchises, like LOTR, that include numerous completely unrelated installments over many years. FIRST BLOOD and HELLRAISER are both adaptations of books, but their franchises were spawned by a successful film. It is hard to trace much of a throughline through the LOTR-verse stuff. BATMAN and SUPERMAN are a similar gray area, but at least with those there were multi-film runs of the same adaptation. HARRY POTTER could be interesting, just because they're still so fresh in everyone's minds.
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Phil Some repeats, but you picked my suggestion last time so fuck y'all
Meatballs
Bring It On (girls, amirite?)
Romero's Dead Quadrilogy
Man With No Name Trilogy
Universal Frankenstein
Robocop
Re-Animator (include the musical if you got to see it)
Ilsa
Exorcist
Larry Talbot (Universal Wolf Man, for those who don't know) has been something I've had in the back of my mind since starting this column. As has BRING IT ON, since the chick I'm dating planted it in my brain. I like the BRING IT ON series for the exact reason some people say I shouldn't do it, which is that its is repetitive and "no one saw them," which is cluelessly hilarious for someone to say while championing that I do HELLRAISER or CHILDREN OF THE CORN. MEATBALLS is a great idea.
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Reasor Would a "Franchise Me" on Universal's Frankenstein movies end with Young Frankenstein? Gene Wilder's character is legit introduced in Son Of.
Probably not. Including parodies really opens a can of worms.
