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Anaconda (film series) → Anaconda (franchise) – "Film series" is a messy and unnecessary title, and "franchise" is a much better, simpler and more appropriate wording. The definition of "franchise" (film/media) is "an entire series of the film (multiple movies): the original and all its subsequent sequels thereafter (ie, James Bond/007 films, Star Wars movies, Rocky series, etc.) or a collection of different media" as can be easily looked up on Google. And a franchise is a franchise no matter how big or small.
TurokSwe (
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09:33, 11 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Oppose. Per
WP:NCF, we use "(film series)" as a disambiguator, unless it is a multi-media franchise. A couple of promotional tie in web games and a publication of the screenplay does not satisfy the definition of a franchise. --
Rob Sinden (
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09:41, 11 May 2015 (UTC)reply
The
Tremors franchise is of equal significance, yet is labeled as a franchise. The NCF-article states that when "the content originating in a film or film series is presented in other media, then an associated overview page (an article describing and summarising the items of the franchise) may be disambiguated (if necessary) as Series name (franchise).'". A series of films, a couple of promotional tie-in video games (one of them an actual online multiplayer game based on the second film) and a novel is more than enough. The franchise is growing. By the way, Anaconda: The Writer's Cut is not a publication of the screenplay for the Anaconda-film, but an entirely different story.
TurokSwe (
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10:02, 11 May 2015 (UTC)reply
That's a weak and confusing counter-response, and as I said, this isn't "just" a series of films, it so-far includes video games and a novel even, and more is likely to come. Refusing this renaming just because the franchise doesn't have a TV-series is illogical. It would be appropriate to use the term "film-series" if there were several different series and storylines with a number of installments, but this is just one single franchise.
TurokSwe (
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10:24, 11 May 2015 (UTC)reply
It's a common and great term for media. Media/film franchise happen to exist and this franchise falls under that category.
TurokSwe (
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07:15, 12 May 2015 (UTC)reply
I'm not disputing that the term "franchise" exists for media exploitation, only that it is at all useful in a general encyclopedia. It isn't useful, because it's ambiguous, confusing inside jargon that's subject to judgment calls such as the exact one in this nomination.
209.211.131.181 (
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12:17, 12 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Oppose, for the same reasoning as the Lake Placid film series; there is nothing wrong with the current disambiguator, because this media is overwhelmingly notable as a film series, not for anything in other media.
bd2412T14:57, 14 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Oppose There is a difference between merchandise attached to films and intellectual property manifesting itself in independent media. This is basically a series of films with a few merchandise tie-ins.
Betty Logan (
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02:26, 28 May 2015 (UTC)reply
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weak support - The video games are promotionally-tied to film releases, not independent media, but the novel is. Anacondas was also licensed to another film series (Lake Placid) for the cross-over film, which is what I think moves this into franchise territory. --
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