The Bad News Bears (franchise)

*The Bad News Bears*
The Bad News Bears
Created by	Bill Lancaster
Original work	The Bad News Bears (1976)
Owner	Paramount Pictures
Years	1976–present
Films and television
Film(s)	The Bad News Bears (1976); The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977); The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978); Bad News Bears (2005);
Television series	The Bad News Bears (1979–1980)

The Bad News Bears franchise consists of American sports-comedies, based on an original story by Bill Lancaster. The franchise includes theatrical films (the original release, its two sequels, and the 2005 remake), and a television series which aired from 1979-1980.

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The franchise as a whole has been met with mixed-to-positive reception. While the original film received positive reaction from critics, with praise directed at its cast;^[1] its two sequels gained a mixed and negative reception, respectively.^[2]^[3] While the television series received an overall warmer response,^[4] the remake once again received a mixed-at-best reception from film critics.^[5]

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Film	U.S. release date	Director	Screenwriter(s)	Producer(s)
The Bad News Bears	April 7, 1976 (1976-04-07)	Michael Ritchie	Bill Lancaster	Stanley R. Jaffe
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training	July 8, 1977 (1977-07-08)	Michael Pressman	Paul Brickman	Leonard Goldberg
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan	June 30, 1978 (1978-06-30)	John Berry	Bill Lancaster	Michael Ritchie
Bad News Bears	July 22, 2005 (2005-07-22)	Richard Linklater	John Requa & Glenn Ficarra	Richard Linklater & J. Geyer Kosinski

Character	Film				Television series
Character	The Bad News Bears	The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training	The Bad News Bears Go to Japan	Bad News Bears	The Bad News Bears
Kelly Leak	Jackie Earle Haley			Jeffrey Davies	Gregg Forrest
Ahmad Abdul-Rahim	Erin Blunt			Kenneth "K.C." Harris	Kristoff St. John
Miguel Aguilar	George Gonzales			Carlos Estrada	Charles Nunez
Mike Engelberg	Gary Lee Cavagnaro	Jeffrey Louis Starr		Brandon Craggs	J. Brennan Smith
Jose Aguilar	Jaime Escobedo			Emmanuel Estrada	Danny Nunez
Tanner Boyle	Chris Barnes			Timmy Deters	Meeno Peluce
Timmy Lupus	Quinn Smith			Tyler Patrick Jones	Shane Butterworth
Rudi Stein	David Pollock				Billy Jayne
Toby Whitewood	David Stambaugh			Ridge Canipe
Jimmy Feldman	Brett Marx
Amanda Wurlitzer	Tatum O'Neal	Mentioned		Sammi Kane Kraft	Tricia Cast
Morris Buttermaker	Walter Matthau	Mentioned		Billy Bob Thornton	Jack Warden
Alfred Ogilvie	Alfred W. Lutter				Sparky Marcus (as Leslie Ogilvie)
Roy Turner	Vic Morrow			Greg Kinnear (as Ray Bullock)	Phillip Richard Allen
Bob Whitewood	Ben Piazza			Marcia Gay Harden (as Liz Whitewood)
Joey Turner	Brandon Cruz			Carter Jenkins (as Joey Bullock)
Regi Tower	Scott Firestone				Corey Feldman
Cleveland	Joyce Van Patten
Mike Leak		William Devane
Sy Orlansky		Clifton James
Carmen Ronzonni		Jimmy Baio
Officer Mackie		Lane Smith
Mister Manning		Dolph Sweet
Morrie Slaytor		Pat Corley
Carl Rutherford		Douglas Anderson
Chip Roberts		Jerry Lawson
Lester Eastland		Fred Stuthman
Coach Shimizu			Tomisaburo Wakayama
Antonio Inoki			Himself
The Network Director			George Wyner
Louis the Gambler			Lonny Chapman
E.R.W. Tillyard, III			Matthew Douglas Anton
Harry Hahn			Regis Philbin
Matthew Hooper				Troy Gentile
Prem Lahiri				Aman Johal
Garo Daragabrigadien				Jeffrey Tedmori
Shari Bullock				Arabella Holzbog
Dr. Emily Rappant					Catherine Hicks
Frosty					Bill Lazarus
Josh Matthews					Rad Daly
Student					Persephanie Silverthorn
Marsha					Sherrie Wills

Film	Box office gross			Budget	Ref.
Film	North America	Other territories	Worldwide	Budget	Ref.
The Bad News Bears	$42,349,782	—	$42,349,782	$9 million	^[6]
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training	$19,104,350	—	$19,104,350	—	^[7]
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan	$7,092,495	—	$7,092,495	—	^[8]
Bad News Bears	$32,868,349	$1,384,498	$34,252,847	$35 million	^[9]
Total

Film	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic
The Bad News Bears (1976)	97% (33 reviews)^[1]	84% (15 reviews)^[10]
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training	50% (10 reviews)^[2]
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan	6% (16 reviews)^[3]
Bad News Bears (2005)	48% (158 reviews)^[5]	65 (35 reviews)^[11]

The Bad News Bears (franchise)

Film

The Bad News Bears (1976)

The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)

Bad News Bears (2005)

Television

Main cast and characters

Reception

Box office performance

Critical response

References

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