Sentences with phrase «franchising success does»

Not exact matches

The Hunger Games and Twilight franchises, for example, were huge box office success but didn't generate toy sales beyond the collectible market.

But Bailey is quick to point out that those stats don't extend to franchising in general — she attributes the high success rate to the FranNet system.

«Franchising is just a way of doing business; it's not a script for success,» he says.

After her first D Pets Hotel was a success in Hollywood, franchise owner Kerry Brown — who had previously done US marketing for Lululemon for eight years — saw an opportunity to grow her business in New York.

However, today with the proven business models and techniques of a leading franchise partner, the heavy lifting has already been done and the road to high - return success well - paved.

Just as I said earlier, buying a franchise does not guarantee success, treating your franchise like a business will.

It was acknowledged that a sense of adventure and derring - do had to be returned to the franchise, and so a script was eventually commissioned from Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, fresh from their huge success with Double Indemnity the year before.

As far as the style and sense of humor goes, it does still feel unique among the rest of the pack of franchises out here, even if it can't achieve the level of success in either of those departments that the first film did, particularly in the case of the comedy as a lot of the jokes in this one fall very flat.

This is a franchise where most of its success is from a cult following and without this following I don't think there would have even been a second film, let alone a trilogy.

In Square Enix's defense, the developer did deliver on its other missing franchise — Final Fantasy XV — and Sony revealed plans to create a fishing game spinoff from that game's success.

In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.

The Divergent films might not so far have been quite the runaway successes to match, say the Twilight series or The Hunger Games, but they are doing well enough to keep the franchise humming along.

Admittedly, that convoluted approach to course - correcting a franchise worked wonders for the X-Men films when Days of Future Past did it last year, but there's no guarantee that Genisys will enjoy similar success (especially if the generally lukewarm responses to the movie's first trailer and Super Bowl preview are any indicator).

The enduring success of the Fast and the Furious series doesn't at all align with what we know about movie franchises

A great franchise in the gaming world doesn't mean success at the box office - it must have a solid story.

Coogler didn't go back to the Rocky franchise for Creed 2 after the first film found great success, but much of that was due to his schedule with Black Panther.

Sadly, a handful of flaws combined with the relative obscurity of both the Dynasty Warriors and Fire Emblem franchises, especially when compared to Zelda, prevent Fire Emblem Warriors from seeing the same success that Hyrule Warriors did.

It doesn't seem as though one can blink before a new LEGO game or Marvel movie is announced, not that that's a bad thing of course, but following the success of the colliding franchises with LEGO Marvel Superheroes, it was only a matter of time before a sequel made it's way to shore.

Now THQ is moving its franchise to the next gen consoles in search of more success with more polygons and more Stuntman action, but does Paradigm Entertainment have the right formula working in this game to make it a must have this holiday season?

He doesn't run 20th Century Fox, but as a producer was able to to convince Fox to take a chance on a R - rated $ 50 million Deadpool movie, which looks like it could be one of the bigger success stories for the franchise.

And to celebrate this major success and now knowing they made the right choice partnering with Nintendo for this franchise, what does Capcom do?

Many don't consider her to be self - published due to the traditional publishing success of the Harry Potter books and franchise, but the author did retain her digital rights and release those ebooks herself through her Pottermore website.

The basic idea for making this decision is that after the success of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 4, the company wants to let these series rest and demonstrate that it can work on other franchises: «Quite honestly, they didn't want to be the developer that was just Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Fallout for the rest of their development career.

Although it didn't add anything astoundingly new to the general premise of the FPS market, COD4 took what was already established and fine - tuned it to success, raising the bar on the franchise and providing a tough act to follow for Treyarch, the developers that would be handling the follow - up game for Activision.

We are trying to do all the right things to make the franchise a success now and in the future.»

While the Rabbids franchise has admittedly had some moderate success since its conception, the series was never a fan favorite from Ubisoft's massive catalog of IP, so it was understandable thinking that a crossover with a franchise like Mario wouldn't really go over well (hell the initial Rayman connection didn't either).

In the midst of all of this, however, there was one promising franchise that never quite reached the canopy of success that others did.

Just unbelieveble you guys still forgeting the anime fan base... Japanese Games with Japanese Audio is hightly the chances of success... look at Sengoku Basara franchise from Capcom, until now they don't care about to put japanese audio in that game, and the english versions sucks... and the game don't sold wells... I wish you guys put the «godlike» japanese voice acting in this game and Space in DVD9 / Bluray is not a excuse for this...

While a game can be a Japanese success and not make it to the West, some of the weirder escapees — like Project Diva and Tomodachi Life — did so after massive sales successes in Japan, and the reason that Level - 5 keeps dropping hints that Yo - kai Watch is heading global isn't because the idea of Japanese spirits is particularly marketable — it's because that franchise has consumed its home country in a way that has only been seen with franchises like Monster Hunter, Pokemon and Dragon Quest.

Don't underestimate the value of fan creative contributions to the success of contemporary media franchises.

Not only do both franchises continue to enjoy success, they manage to coexist with one another.

While the franchise has been a major success over the years, and with «Fable Anniversary» coming up next month, a lot of research had been done in anticipation.

With the successful embedment of the Monster Hunter franchise, God Eater 2: Rage Burst and its predecessors have been set up for success with their various similarities but this does by...

With the successful embedment of the Monster Hunter franchise, God Eater 2: Rage Burst and its predecessors have been set up for success with their various similarities but this does by no means make it a copy.

Fire Emblem, one of Nintendo's longest lived franchises, had never enjoyed the kind of success in America that it does in Japan.

This is a game that doesn't manage to use the Sonic name to its advantage and forgets everything that has made the franchise a huge success in the past.

But this doesn't hold up to examination very well, at least not as the sole or primary reason for the franchise's continued success.

«Dirt Rally was a success in terms of it meeting our own expectations, but Dirt as a franchise has traditionally done bigger numbers than Dirt Rally would ever do,» explains Dirt 4 game director Paul Coleman in reply to the direct question.

Unlike say, World of Warcraft, which the franchise already had an established PC fan - base and was one of the pivotal reason for its success, Final Fantasy doesn't have that luxury.

It was only a matter of time before the team behind The Lord of the Rings movie franchise took notice of the success of other film blockbusters like Star Wars, Harry Potter and Indiana Jones and how well they all did when they met the LEGO world.

But the success doesn't prevent people from criticizing the franchise.

lmao don't know why you got ta take it personally «Not sure if you have a vendetta against Nintendo's success» I like Nintendo, Zelda is one of my fav franchises along with FF, just not a fan of how they've been doing business these past years and their systems Given their previous recent systems that for the most part all started well I don't have my hopes up for the Switch lol.

While Rastan Saga II didn't achieve the same success as the original, Taito took another stab at the franchise a...

This once again proves that venturing into new waters in terms of games publishing does matter for success and that even at the end of a console cycle new IPs can be created and nurtured into lasting franchises,» says Klemens Kundratitz, CEO of Koch Media.

While Rastan Saga II didn't achieve the same success as the original, Taito took another stab at the franchise a few years later, this time turning it into a sidescrolling beat - em - up.

Whilst Total War: Rome II didn't launch with huge success, and was unfortunately victim of some heavy bugs, I'm excited to jump into one of my favorite franchises once more and build my own barbaric empire.

Also, coming off the success of Breath of the Wild can do wonders for the franchise moving forward and it sounds like Nintendo wants to capitalize on that.

«We can not sell a franchise, if we do not know where we want to build to have success.»