Talk:Die Hard (film series)

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Is this article really necessary? It seems to be mostly a disambiguation page — I doubt we can find much material on the franchise as a whole. Also, it seems to be mostly (or even only) linked to by Template:Die Hard, on which it is rather superfluous, and I doubt anybody would enter "Die Hard series" into the Go button bar. So why not just delete it (unless someone manages to dig up substantial information about the franchise)? -- Lea (talk) 04:39, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We have a few film series articles in existence, such as Spider-Man film series or Batman film series. Two things that this could use are a table of box office performance figures and a table of critical reception figures, though the latter may not be so "fresh" due to the first films being older. I think there's a lot that could be done with this. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 19:48, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do we really need this section? Wikipedia discourages the inclusion of trivia sections (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Trivia_sections). Also, there was much more in common between the films than just elevator scenes. 128.194.31.211 (talk) 04:38, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think what we should do is create a page about list of characters who appeared in the series, other than John McClane. You know, like the characters pages that feature characters with brief infomation about them. There is a list of characters page on 24, among other series of movies and tv shows. BattleshipMan (talk) 06:56, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Anybody heard anything about A Good Day to Die Hard? It's around late January and they say they start filming around that month. BattleshipMan (talk) 05:09, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sources: Total Film Source, What Culture Source, IamRogue Source

Can someone please post this information? If no one will then I will. I've posted it before but it got taken right off for no reason, but we had ScreenRant cited as a source and we have SlashFilm cited as a source. So, stop me if I'm wrong for posting legitimate sources. 71.188.17.123 (talk) 08:34, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No one is going to comment on this? I'm going to include in the article now since no one can give me a definitive answer. Npabebangin (talk) 06:32, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If anyone knows some information about the sixth Die Hard movie please post! Talk to Bruce Willis, contact Fox Studios, I don't care. People need to know, will the movie be made or not? It's not that hard a question to answer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marino13 (talk • contribs) 22:13, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No need for edit warring. There was a mishap about what to include in 'Developments' section, so I restored a heavily truncated edit from User:Anythingspossibleforapossible. I propose keeping all production development information at least until Die Hard 6 or whatever its called has its own proper page.--Captain camEO (talk) 03:56, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No, you didn't, you just restored what I had removed, some of which was incorrectly sourced (Willis never made a comment after DH5 was released, he made it before) and rambling about 24 just looks like vandalism. If Wiseman is working on a TV series of Die Hard then that should be sourced. -- Anythingspossibleforapossible (talk) 15:00, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There are several sources that state that Die Hard 2 costed $62 million, not $70 million.

I have sevral sources to prove this:https://people.com/archive/picks-and-pans-review-die-hard-2-vol-34-no-2/ https://catalog.afi.com/Film/67916-DIE-HARD2 https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-09-05-ca-528-story.html www.warpedfactor.com/2016/08/the-most-expensive-films-ever-made.html https://raru.co.za/movies-tv/1259572-die-hard-quadrilogy-blu-ray Even the wiki page of the most expensive movies says that it had a $62 million budget: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_films#Record-holders — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yoshmin (talk • contribs) 01:18, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox film warns that if there are multiple budget figures they should be both be included or presented as a range. Editors should present the available information to readers and editors should not guess or attempt to "cherry pick" the sources to select one budget figure over the other. (With WP:LOCALCONSENSUS it might be possible to agree to exclude the higher 70 million figure as an outlier and could be excluded but it would be better if that discussion happened at Die Hard 2 first.)

What story are these numbers being used to tell anyway? Usually Wikipedia film articles present the budget and the gross very simplistically without much context, implying that a film was successful. (We know Die Hard 2 was a success not only from the box office grosses but also because they kept making more films in the series.) Film franchise articles only make it worse by attempting to make further calculations and present totals based on already misleading information. Hollywood accounting is a deliberately misleading mess and we frequently don't know the details about other costs such as P&A (aka marketing) so any figures and totals we present to readers need to be viewed with a whole lot of scepticism already. -- 109.79.65.125 (talk) 14:49, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, everyone. We know that recently, we saw a commercial with Bruce Willis reprising his role as McClane trying to get a Die Hard battery while avoiding bad guys. This link from Variety could be used as a source about it. BattleshipMan (talk) 01:41, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Die Hard (film series) → Die Hard (franchise) – Given that the franchise is not exclusive to film, I think this move is appropriate. There are tie-in video games and comics to back this up. One example of this is Rambo (franchise), which was moved from Rambo (film series) back in 2018. The new title just makes more sense to me. GilaMonster536 (talk) 23:23, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

YES/SUPPORT -- This adjustment makes sense, as this page also mentions a variety of media. 184.166.97.71 (talk) 22:05, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]