Sentences with phrase «big franchises make»

Nintendo Switch games fans could see some very big franchises make their return in 2018.

Not exact matches

Chipotle's goal to make it big without franchising may prove to be particularly enlightened following recent highly - publicized legal battles that threaten the franchise model as we know it.

Disney and Marvel obviously know what they're doing with superhero movies — they've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time, making every single film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one director can have on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.

Doing the minimum required by a franchise system is not the way to make big numbers — he recommends doing as much as possible in the beginning, theorizing that if franchisees are scrimping on advertising or labor in the first year just to keep the doors open, they didn't have enough operating capital to begin with.

That kind of bold artistic vision pays off: Activision Blizzard announced this week that it shipped $ 500 million worth of games to retailers, good enough to make Destiny «the biggest new video game franchise launch in history.»

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.

The biggest mistake we made was taking on franchisees before knowing what we were looking for, says Nelowet, who has blogged about the fast growing fry franchise's «1,000 Terrible Ideas onthe Path to Massive Success.»

Today, Duproprio's group has 12,000 listings, making it at least three times larger than the next biggest FSBO company, Moncton - based franchise outfit Property Guys.

Smith College economics professor Andrew Zimbalist explains how some major league franchises may be wasting their money trying to stay competitive by making big data an all - star.

Big Idea: Expanding the Perry production and performance franchise beyond funny and inspirational stories of faith and perseverance among African - Americans that has made him one of the highest - paid people in the entertainment industry.

Eventually the operations hit peak efficiency, at which point in order to keep growing you need to bring in more customers, open more restaurants (franchises) or make another big acquisition.

It has tie - ups with major sports teams and franchises including Manchester United, Real Madrid, Manchester City and Formula 1 and will help Fanatics make big inroads in the European and the global soccer - fans market.

Beyond a century of collective franchising experience and among a host of key factors is a serious focus on: 1) Bright, clean and fresh - aired stores; 2) Smart store layouts; 3) State - of - the - art inventory managing, pricing and point of sale cloud - based software systems; and 4) a firm grasp on all the «big data» needed to make wise purchase and sell decisions throughout the day — every day.

Buying a franchise can be easy, and the revenue usually scales to the initial investment, but make sure you are not getting in over your head by buying a franchise that is too big or expensive to handle.

His experience includes HVB (Indexchange) where he spearheaded the ETF and Delta one desk, Société Generale (Lyxor) where he created one of the biggest ETF market making franchise advising institutional clients and State Street Bank where he build the FX / Treasury department in Munich.

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.

Even if the movie hadn't explicitly promised one in its after - the - credits teaser, Ryan Reynolds» big, gooey spitball into the face of superhero movies made enough money in its first weekend to justify a whole 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

Michael Morrissey also made his Chicago Hoops League debut — he was a key contributor to the Lalez / Hakimian franchise this Summer and helped their big Playoff run..

Dwight Clark making The Catch got the dynasty going, and thus will remain the biggest play in franchise history for the foreseeable future.

The new movie is only going to make the franchise go, and for someone who grew up in the 1990s, I am immensely happy to see the Power Rangers grow and attract a bigger audience.

The two iconic sci - fi franchises are making a big splash with massively multiplayer online (MMO) games that thousands of people around the world can participate in simultaneously.

(2) The other save would be the online portion, but by now, most big name fighting franchises are making this a staple of any fighter that comes out these days.

Unique presentation: Bright lights and big heads make their way to the NHL franchise.

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

Now one of the biggest video game companies around is working with roboticists and engineers to make James an amazing new limb inspired by one of his favorite series, and one of the greatest game franchises of all time.

This week the team check to see if Ben Stiller's dumb model is still in fashion in belated sequel Zoolander 2; find out if Ryan Reynolds can finally make a franchise work in subversive superhero comedy Deadpool; bask in the sun in Luca Guadagnino's steamy melodrama A Bigger Splash and wonder if Will Smith's Concussion deserved to be snubbed by the Academy

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 10, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG for frightening images and action fantasy sequences) Third installment in the film franchise based on the C.S. Lewis series of fantasy novels finds Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pensie (Georgie Henley), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), returning to the magical land of Narnia to embark on a dangerous, seafaring mission taking them to the edge of the world.

Of course, to apply too much thought to this aspect of the franchise's continuity feels a bit fruitless at this point, especially when there are bigger changes to be made...

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.

As the final tome in J.K. Rowling's franchise comes to the big screen, executives at Warner Brothers Studios made the decision to present her tale in two parts.

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.

But I think we were very lucky with getting the rights to Casino Royale and recalibrating the franchise; making it more relevant for the times, and the biggest lucky break we got was Daniel Craig, because with him we've been able to do so much with the character because he's just such a spectacular actor.

The biggest change Arkane Studios brought to its Dishonored franchise in Dishonored 2 was making Emily Kaldwin playable.

Making a great film doesn't always translate to big box office numbers, so what does it mean to you to be a part of the highly successful The Hangover franchise?

Enter the The Green Hornet, a big - budget superhero film that doesn't obsess about reverence to its roots, nor in making a movie that feels it has to respect the requirements of hero drama, or the moodiness that overwhelms some franchises (Spider - Man 3 overdosed on it).

Johnson doesn't show up until the fifth (official) entry in the «Fast & Furious» series, and he sits out a lot of the seventh movie, but he's a big part of what made this franchise jump from a decent series of car - racing movies to one of the best and biggest action franchises on the planet.

Though it runs longer than it has to, all movies should be so lucky as to get such a substantial making - of documentary, which Lionsgate - Summit usually reserves for their big teen - oriented fantasy franchises.

The rest of the film is battle scenes, CGI and stunt doubles delivering the same stuff we see time and time again, making sure each of the 12 franchise characters have at least one big moment.

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

As The Hollywood Reporter says, Vaughn is much in demand, so it makes sense Fox would want him in charge of a potentially big new scifi franchise.

No doubt a third Men in Black movie is probably in the works considering the big bucks this installment made, but one can only wonder about the amount of goodwill towards this franchise that will remain after this lackluster installment.

Apparently the studio is satisfied enough with Trank's first film, but they want to put things on another level, making the Fantastic Four just as big as their X-Men franchise.

As so often happens when a big name franchise is used as a comeback vehicle for a star on the decline, the lack of success kills the momentum of both, as «Richie Rich» and Culkin have been mostly dormant since its release, only occasionally making a minor comeback to remind us of the good times, but not nearly enough to want to see anything more than we have to.

The thing cost $ 60 million to make, the studios likely had their fingers crossed for it to become the next big YA film franchise and then...

Details are light on this big Pokémon RPG for now, but whenever it arrives, it will be the first one to make it to a home console in the franchise's 21 - year history.

In fact you may recognise some aspects from other games from gaming past especially with the inclusion of enemies that resemble Thwomps from the Super Mario franchise, a design which Big Pixel Studios have made no effort to hide.

Was there a big - name franchise action movie in 2017 that was quite as racially aggressive, off - the - walls, and entertainingly well - made as that classic?

Unlike the Top Spin franchise the developers have managed to make big serves and net play a viable weapon.

«We're excited for our fans to experience the biggest franchises, like Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Skylanders Giants and Transformers Prime, in new ways made possible on Wii U.»