Sentences with phrase «being an entertainment franchise»

This is a great business now and faces minimal disruption as it is an entertainment franchise.

Its existence means more than simply being an entertainment franchise.

Not exact matches

As long - standing chairman of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, Lawrence Tanenbaum has been a highly visible booster of two MLSE - owned franchises: Toronto's Maple Leafs and Raptors.

If you're like me and grew up playing Nintendo game consoles like the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, Nintendo 64, and GameCube, you likely have fond memories of characters like Chun - Li and Ken from the «Street Fighter» franchise.

Over her 16 - year career at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment she's risen through the ranks, working on dozens of marketing campaigns for different franchises.

We're very good at launching Mario Party - type games — that's one franchise that does better in Canada than other markets, for example — but when it comes to launching new IP it's a huge challenge in today's world, where consumers are just bombarded with entertainment options that didn't exist when we first launched Mario 30 years ago.

It was reported two weeks ago that Sony Pictures Entertainment will play ball with video game publisher / developer Ubisoft — appeasing what others have called unreasonable demands — in order to make a movie out of the company's massively successful, Montreal - developed franchise, Assassin's Creed.

As if that weren't enough to keep him busy, he inked a deal last spring with Hollywood producer Joel Silver, best known for the Matrix and Die Hard franchises, to create Silver Pictures Entertainment.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

Its food operations are either proprietary, licensed or franchised but they are all operated and managed by Palace Entertainment.

Franchise football = Participation is key + generating a profit essential entertainment paramount but where winning major trophies is a bonus.

Denver Nuggets Kroenke Sports and Entertainment took over the Nuggets in 2000 and although the NBA franchise is technically in his wife's name, Kroenke's fingerprints are all over the club.

How many men would love to be rich, single and ownersof not only a profitable NBA franchise but also the hottest casino in Vegas?Joe, 51, and Gavin, 50, are the president and vice chairman, respectively, ofthe Maloof Companies, a billion - dollar family business that grew from a generalstore in northern New Mexico into a beer distributorship and then expanded intohotels, banking and entertainment.

Currently this means that 66 % are owned by a company called Kroenke Sports and Entertainments (KSE) which is wholly owned by Stan Kroenke a US billionaire who owns a number of sporting clubs and franchises mostly in the US.

As an entertainment franchise, the Syracuse Chiefs, Syracuse's Triple - A professional baseball team, are in a challenging situation — trying to generate attendance and fan loyalty when the performance of the team is a byproduct of the decisions made by its parent organization, the Washington Nationals.

Entertainment and several Bachelor franchise producers alleging she was sexually harassed during her time on set.

Created by Blizzard Entertainment, and based on the Warcraft series of RTS games first released in the mid 1990s, WoW expanded on the early Warcraft single player franchise and is now a vibrant multiplayer world, where players may engage in roleplaying, PvE.

Just because your franchise dies does not mean make another one its non original has lack of entertainment i refuse to watch this sharknado i am over the lack of originality 0/10

There's a theory in American entertainment: there can never be too much of a good thing, particularly a gazillion dollar grossing movie franchise.

Perhaps its unexpected box office success can be attributed in part to the popular reaction against an entertainment industry whose laser - like concentration is on big - budget franchise and sequel films.

Disney, of course, is on the brink of acquiring Fox's entertainment division, which will make it even more of a franchise - oriented juggernaut than it already is.

The entertainment you'd get through a LEGO game is a given and it's a fact for Marvel's Avengers too, but the truth is that the concept is getting more tiresome with every new addition to Tt Games» franchise.

Johnson turned in a piece of studio entertainment that for the first time in its franchise's ten - film history was actually about something, yet never skimps on entertainment.

STX Entertainment has announced that it is set to capitalise on the success of the hit comedy Bad Moms by launching a franchise of feature film spinoffs, digital shorts, and a reality series, beginning with a Bad Dads movie, which has been set for a July 14th 2017 release.

«PlayStation's history is one of game innovation and great new franchises,» said Andrew House, president of Sony Computer Entertainment, in a press release.

«For more than 35 years the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise has fostered a highly engaged and energetic community,» said Eric Hartness, Vice President of Marketing for BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc. «We are excited to release GUNDAM VERSUS to those fans eager for more Mobile Suit Gundam releases in the West, as well as introducing the franchise a brand new expanded audience.»

There is a brightness and vibrancy to its overall presentation, which has become a trademark for Illumination Entertainment, creators of the DESPICABLE ME franchise.

This is entertainment for 12 - year - old man - children that's even more incoherent and incomprehensible than the previous movie, and the diminishing returns of this worthless franchise makes it obvious it's past time to put a bullet in its head.

Admittedly I had some reservations, I'm not a avid franchise fan by all means, I think these films are serviceable at best in light - hearted action entertainment.

franchise only speaks to their impact as disposable entertainment: a genre is ready for parody when it does not take itself too seriously, and I doubt the Zucker or Wayans brothers would dare make a spoof of «Deepwater Horizon» and its ilk.

What we are excited about: Illumination Entertainment is responsible for giving us the Despicable Me franchise, which has become one of the biggest powerhouse animated franchises of the past few years.

(Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray all Coen staples, were also the adult cast of Moonrise Kingdom) As the two filmmakers working today that do not operate in franchises or sequels, but still make popular entertainment on a significant scale, they feel like increasingly rare birds in the American movie landscape.

The film stands as a successful melding of entertainment value and homage for fans — precisely what should be expected of a summer blockbuster branded with the name of a beloved franchise.

Konami Computer Entertainment and the Silent Hill franchise are registered trademarks of Konami.

The studio reformed itself into an independent video game developer separate from Konami, and Kojima announced that the first title in their new franchise - Death Stranding - would be released exclusively on the PS4, which made sense since Sony Interactive Entertainment would be publishing the game.

The actor who played Iron Man, 53, revealed to Entertainment Weekly he, along with four others of the original six Avengers including Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans, got a sweet reminder of their time in the franchise and how's that for friendship goals?

Game description: Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time is an action role - playing video game developed by A + Games and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, based on the anime franchise Little Witch Academia.

Pitch Perfect 3 (Universal Home Entertainment) is the third installment in the musical - comedy franchise about the Bellas, a female a cappella group.

Interactive Entertainment and TT Games have announced that more expansion packs based on blockbuster franchises are coming to LEGO Dimensions and with them comes the brand new Battle Arenas.

Inferno (Sony Home Entertainment) is the third installment of the franchise based on Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.

After her splashy breakout role in The Wolf of Wall Street, the Australian actress was quick to line up a franchise role in Suicide Squad and establish her own production company, LuckyChap Entertainment, to take creative matters into her own hands.

Ensuring that the ladies of Ocean's Eight won't head off a-heistin» without an approving nod from their parent franchise, Entertainment Tonight Online reports that Matt Damon will be stopping by for a cameo in the upcoming film.

Interestingly, Lionsgate, which recently bought Summit Entertainment, is now the distributor of both franchises.

Easily the most sophisticated and thoughtful franchise film of 2013, Lawrence's adaptation of the second novel in Suzanne Collins» young adult series is all - things - to - all - people entertainment, a follow - up that intensifies the first film's thrills while simultaneously developing its characters and, even more crucially, expanding its themes.

«As the franchise is celebrating its 30th Anniversary, Dragon Ball games are a fan - favorite within BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment's huge videogame portfolio and DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 will surely build upon that illustrious legacy.

The sixth entry in the Tremors franchise is due for release sometime this year via Universal 1440 Entertainment, which is directed by Don Michael Paul (Sniper:...

The 72 - year - old Australian producer was the former chairman of studios Dune Entertainment and Village Roadshow and helped co-finance more than 60 movies including James Cameron's fantasy epic «Avatar» and sci - fi franchise «The Matrix», reported Contactmusic.

Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman Tom Rothman assured theater owners Monday that his studio is dedicated to appealing to a range of audiences — from global franchises such as «Spider - Man» and «The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo» series to family films, action pics, comedies and even Quentin Tarantino's Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt film «Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.»

I'm not sure why I keep finding myself coming back to these films with the hopes of receiving some form of entertainment but they can occasionally manage to keep my attention occupied for the better part of a few hours, as Divergent did earlier this year with a well - paced run through its derivative, predictable, franchise - baiting plotline.

Kelly is a partner in Man of Action Entertainment, creators of the team and characters in «Big Hero 6» and creators of the worldwide action franchise «Ben 10.»