Every great long-running film franchise came from one successful original film that made enough people happy and drew in enough money for producers to demand many sequels and instalments.

As we have seen before, even with the best film in your possession, if you give it a vague, wordy or misleading title, then not many people are going to take a punt to spend their money on a viewing.

These days, if a film is successful, it's almost guaranteed that they will be having a sequel and many screenwriters leave cliffhangers and loose ends that can be picked back up in a follow-up.

Groundhog Day is one of the defining comedies of the '90s; an inventive concept with a wonderful story with Bill Murray - with his star still flying high - at his leading man best, with his Ghostbusters co-star, and Caddyshack director Harold Ramis behind the camera.

The average filmgoer doesn't realise the amount of time-consuming work that it takes getting a film from the imaginations of the filmmakers and out into cinemas for us to enjoy.

It has been revealed that for Terrence Malick's new romantic drama Song to Song, the famously experimental director has cut Christian Bale, Haley Bennett, Benicio del Toro, Trevante Rhodes and Boyd Holbrook's performances from the film.

A few sequels are considered as better than the original, the likes of Aliens, Terminator 2 and The Godfather 2, but they are based on the foundations of wonderful original

Usually, the first thing you hear about a film is its name, and despite you being given more details, trailers and teasers about the film, there's no escaping the feelings conjured up from the title.

The term Oscar bait has become increasingly popular over the past decade or so - incredibly dramatic films going all-out in a bid to please The Academy and land the big one - the Best Picture Oscar.

Film adaptations of good (and sometimes awful) novels have always been an easy go-to for Hollywood to churn out a film without having to come up with original ideas.