Sentences with phrase «big franchises like»

While big franchises like Assassin's Creed also have movie releases, you may be surprised to hear about some other games that are currently in production.

Particularly with big franchises like Dead Space and Resident Evil drifting from survival horror into all - out action games, it has left the impression that the horror -LSB-...]

Big franchises like F - Zero and WipEout haven't gotten a lot of truly new entries in a while.

Given the low sales of the Wii U console, it makes sense for the big N to port over big franchises like Smash Bros to Switch for more players to enjoy them.

For example, the big - name game title selection is spotty; you'll find Angry Birds, Monopoly, Dead Space, Madden, Plants vs. Zombies, and Need For Speed, but none of the other big franchises like NBA Jam, Dungeon Hunter, Infinity Blade, Real Racing, or even Scrabble or Words With Friends.

Even though Transformers may be a worldwide box office sensation, it should come as no surprise that there are international rip - offs of big franchises like this.

British actor Toby Jones has crafted a career that spans big franchises like Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Captain America, plus serious arthouse hits and award - winning performances as Alfred Hitchcock (in 2012's The Girl)...

No news on what any of them are yet, but we can assume we'll be seeing some of the bigger franchises like Street Fighter find there way onto the App Store in the coming months.

Expect a couple of smaller announcements for the console however, such as ports from biggest franchises like Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed.

Not exact matches

Crowdfunding has made a big splash in the last few years as sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have helped entrepreneurs launch donut shops, produce albums and create smart watches; theoretically, it's a perfect vehicle for franchising.

«Think of it like the stock market,» where early investors can score big, says Brent Dowling, chief operating officer at RainTree, a franchise consulting company.

Yes — even in this economy, big franchises are seeking single - unit franchisees just like you.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

So, if you've ever been curious about what it'd be like to run your own hotel or motel, check out the slideshow to see five big - name franchises from our Franchise 500 list, ranked from least expensive to most expensive.

It seems like every time Marvel can't possibly increase the scope of a franchise, they figure out a way to make their movies even bigger.

«Larry and myself are involved in each and every franchise opening because we feel like we can do things better if we give it our personal attention rather than have a big team look after things,» Mitch Raikes says.

And while the Blue Jays would seem to have the bigger need (with Justin Smoak the incumbent at first), the Yankees feel more like a spend - $ 100 - million kind of franchise.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

Looks like he's got a big money deal with an improving franchise in the Browns whilst the Pats went on to win another Superbowl without him, seems like a win / win to me.

The 2015 draft had it all: franchise - changing big men like Karl - Anthony Towns and Kristaps Porzingis, cornerstone point guards like D'Angelo Russell and Emmanuel Mudiay, two - way wings like Stanley Johnson and Justise Winslow.

Series creator Chris Carter has even written a third entry in the franchise's film department and, based on what the ratings will be like, we'll probably see more X-Files in the future, whether in terms of more episodes or a big blockbuster of a movie.

In a pathetic, won't - you - please - like - me kinda way, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Franchise has transmogrified from the actively sucky, loud, overblown, bombastic original into perhaps the most perfunctory big - budgeted action flick ever.

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.

Martin Lawrence reprises the role of FBI agent Malcolm Turner — aka, undercover grandma Big Momma — in this installment in the Big Momma's House franchise, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son.

If you happen to be a big fan of the franchise then there should be enough here to satisfy you as long as you like fighting online.

Even fueled by Reynolds, whose likability is practically a super power, a new director in David Leitch («John Wick» and «Atomic Blonde»), charismatic new costars like Zazie Beetz («Atlanta») and Julian Dennison («Hunt for the Wilderpeople»), bigger stakes (and more money to execute them), «Deadpool 2,» suffers from the sequelitis that typically threatens gimmicky gambles turned tentpole franchises.

Like most big - ticket screen franchises, this one comes with some actual acting talent that gives the movie tang and legitimacy and may also help broaden its appeal along with its marketing and publicity opportunities.

While some elements, like the story and the boss fights, will definitely appeal to fans of the franchise, major step backs, like the low difficulty, the poor pacing due to the overload of cut - scenes and the uninteresting side quests keep Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 from being the next big hit by CyberConnect2.

It still feels like the franchise isn't making big enough leaps, and is just content to bring its fans more of the same.

I like how they have engineered the plot from part three and the franchise as a whole into a bigger picture, all these films are prequels and the finale here does tie that up nicely.

Paul Rudd's man - on - the - scene correspondent and sex god Brian Fantana is a kitten photographer; David Koechner's sportscaster Champ Kind now runs a fast - food franchise whose specialty looks like chicken but actually boasts a bigger profit margin (hint: he calls it «Chicken of the Cave»); and Steve Carell's Dada - dense weathercaster Brick Tamland is dead — but not for long.

One of the biggest issues the franchise is that the attractive female characters (which is most) are reduced to sexual conquests for Kirk, there is even a scene where it's alluded to Kirk has been sexually harassing crew members like nurse Christine Chapel.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Jurassic World kept some elderly franchises going, but it seemed like every other week some big production was imploding.

This Halloween, the seasonal offerings include some big - ticket gift sets, like «Chucky: The Complete Collection,» an anthology of all six films in the «Child's Play» series (Universal; Blu - ray, $ 84.98; DVD, $ 59.88; not rated), and «Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection,» which offers Blu - ray editions of 12 films in that slasher franchise, from the original 1980 «Friday the 13th» directed by Sean S. Cunningham to its 2009 remake - reboot directed by Marcus Nispel — in effect, closing the circle (Warner Home Video; $ 129.95; R).

I'm all for something a little meatier like Sinister, who could become the big franchise antagonist to replace Magneto possibly spanning multiple films.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas made a name for itself when it was released all the way back in November 2013 on iOS devices, for not only being a very impressive looking title at the time, but also for being endorsed by big names of the industry like Kenji Ito, main composer of Squaresoft's SaGa franchise, and Nobuo Uematsu of Final Fantasy fame, both of whom composed a few music tracks for it.

What separates «Black Panther» from the Batmans, Spidermans and Iron Mans of the creaky, big studio superhero genre is that it looks and, more important, feels nothing like the usual bloated franchise movie that takes no chances and plays by genre rules.

Pettyfer is pretty and easygoing but lacks the sort of charisma that comes with a more focused sense of interior purpose, and the film basically feels, at its core, like a mash - up of carefully cross-tabbed teen movie trends, which is probably what happens when you set out in pre-production with the chief intent of manufacturing the next big «Twilight» - type cinematic franchise.

Verbinksi has spent much of the past decade with big - budget fare like the Oscar - winning «Rango» and the «Pirates of the Caribbean» franchise, but let's not forget he brought expert tension to «The Ring» back in 2002, and here's hoping «A Cure For Wellness» is a return to that kind of character - based intensity.

He directed the funniest film in the Marvel franchise, Iron Man 3, and the criminally underrated crime comedy The Nice Guys, so a big - budget R - rated sci - fi horror like The Predator doesn't scream «next career step», but here we are.

The film feels very much like a low - budget version of another big screen Star Wars - tinged film based on existing franchises, Flash Gordon, with its cheesy sets and costumes, and juvenile presentation.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is the biggest Hollywood franchise over in China, with the likes of The Fast and the Furious and Transformers properties trailing behind.

The committed star pulls off the same magic trick to even more impressive effect than usual with Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy's directorial debut after toiling away as a screenwriter on less pedigreed fare like Real Steel and Two for the Money as well as big brother Tony's most recent Bourne franchise effort.

Based on the 12th novel in James Patterson's long - running series, the studio is clearly hoping that «Alex Cross» can reboot the film franchise that stalled out after 2001's «Along Came a Spider,» but surely there was a better option to play Cross than a man whose biggest claim to fame is dressing up like a fat black woman.

All of these characters seem like marked - down versions of the stereotypes they're based on, and the pay - for - view operation feels more like local access cable than a big bucks franchise.

As studios scrabble around for well - established material that can possibly be spun into a lucrative big - screen franchise, the videogame seriesNeed for Speed must have seemed like a no - brainer.

At the top of the list, the billion - dollar big guns: franchises, superhero movies, animated kid - flicks and single - serving comedies — the whole high - calorie / low nutritional monoculture diet the studios would prefer us to subsist on, like docile teenage boys easily distracted by big bangs and shiny objects.

I feel like they made a mistake releasing their games only one platform since monster Hunter is a big franchise.

The first part of the franchise released in 2016 and became the biggest R - rated grosser ever and with the trailer of Deadpool 2, it looks like this one will be even better.