The History of Bravo’s Real Housewives Franchise

Premiere date: October 8, 2008

Current cast members: Kandi Burruss, Cynthia Bailey, Phaedra Parks, Kenya Moore

Former cast members: NeNe Leakes, DeShawn Snow, Lisa Wu, Sheree Whitfield, Kim Zolciak-Biermann, Claudia Jordan, Porsha Williams

Spinoffs: Don’t Be Tardy, The Kandi Factory, I Marvel of NeNe: The Wedding, Kandi’s Wedding, Kandi’s Ski Trip

Best tagline: “I don’t keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses.” —NeNe Leakes

Best fight:…

Moviefone 5: Where ‘The Purge’ Franchise Goes From Here

This weekend’s box office featured a truly incredible upset — “The Purge,” a micro-budgeted thriller made a staggering $ 36.4 million, handily trumping the starry, outrageously expensive comedy “The Internship.” The fact that the movie was a smart, provocative take on the horror genre, set in a utopian the high classes that maintains order by allowing an annual, 12-hour period of perfect…