Sentences with phrase «biggest franchises into»

I was confused as to why Nintendo would throw one of their biggest franchises into a weird, seemingly dated Dynasty Warriors mashup, but they're really winning me over with the playable women.

Mario + Rabbids combines two of Nintendo's biggest franchises into one game.

Not exact matches

You can go into any McDonald's franchise and order a Big Mac ®.

That live - watching has translated into big advertising sales for networks and huge broadcasting rights fees for owners of NFL and NBA franchises and other professional sports teams.

You could be well on your way to opening a Menchie's frozen yogurt franchise sooner than you think At some point during your exploration into the franchising world, you've come across Menchie's, the biggest self - serve frozen yogurt franchise worldwide, and you've realized how many advantages there would be if you were to start a Menchie's -LSB-...]

Stand out among frozen dessert brands by aligning with a big - brand presence Menchie's started out as a simple dream of a young couple in love and over a few short years has transformed into the world's largest self - serve froyo franchise.

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.

They've had to terminate a contract with Indonesian artist Ardian Syaf for some controversial references he slipped into the first issue of X-Men Gold, which was supposed to be Marvel's big reboot of their X-Men franchise.

The report, the culmination of a lengthy investigation into one of the country's biggest franchise operators, comes days after Caltex shocked the market with a decision to exit franchising.

Lets get into how Wade Phillips was willing to trade for Rob Johnson to be his franchise QB after he had one big game.

The offensive line is the biggest question mark — with Justin Pugh, Weston Richburg, and D.J. Fluker all headed into free agency — but none should get close to the $ 14 - 15 million that the franchise tag will pay in 2018.

Donna Mermel of Buffalo Grove, Illinois, a franchise owner of the childproofing company Safety Matters, says that lack of experience is a big reason for parents to hire a professional: «Many first - time parents have no idea what a mobile baby is capable of getting into.»

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.

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.

RoboCop, everyone's favorite cinematic cyborg do - gooder, returns to the big screen after a 21 - year absence, now in a shiny, sanitized package that smartly brings the character into our post-9 / 11 reality only to malfunction halfway through by blandly defanging the franchise's satirical bite.

Monster Hunter, the franchise that breathed life into the PSP, and arguably one of the biggest reasons that the 3DS outsells the DS in Japan.

Otherwise, there's little to distinguish this outing from the franchise's previous six, except that the budgets are bigger, the locations are more varied, and the stunts are stunt - ier, replete with Diesel driving a car out of one high - rise's window and into another.

It's also, now, the stylistic middle child of a franchise that converted Universal's famous monster from a creepy spine - tingler into a big money blockbuster with infant CGI.

Eight years later and the biggest franchise in Hollywood is continually bringing more content into theaters, as phase 3 of the MCU has just begun.

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.

Perhaps The Huntsman: Winter's War was intended to start a new franchise, one that smashed together every available children's story into a complicated universe of Oscar nominees cashing big paychecks.

A crossover with Paramount's powerhouse franchise Transformers could be just what the G.I. Joe movies need to break into the big leagues.

Directed by Nick Park, who created the «Shaun the Sheep» series, itself a spinoff of his universally - acclaimed «Wallace and Gromit» franchise, the film follows Shaun and the flock as they head into the big city to rescue their farmer.

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.

From Aaron Taylor - Johnson's words, the Quicksilver character will still be all about super speeds, but for Scarlet Witch and her over-powered abilities, there remains a big question mark and it depends on just how deep into crazy Joss Whedon wants to go with the franchise.

With the Twilight saga having run its course and The Hunger Games already halfway through its source material, Divergent was the next big hope for young adult big - screen adaptations to develop into moneymaking film franchises.

Are you excited that New Regency and Fox are already planning to turn Assassin's Creed into the next big fantasy action franchise?

The result is, by far, Scott's best effort in a prolific decade littered with big - budget epics and franchise installments (the latest in his prequel trilogy Alien: Covenant opened only six months prior), bolstered by some ostentatious performances which tap into the heightened pulp fodder of both the era and the event.

By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: It was a big win for «Little Fockers» at the box office on Wednesday as the ensemble comedy — the third in the «Meet the Parents» franchise — topped several newcomers to lead the daily box office and charge into the holiday frame with some momentum.

Woods added, «And our biggest fear was — we love Bad Robot, we love the people over there, and obviously J.J. [Abrams] is certainly a hero to us — but one of our biggest fears was this getting swept up into some kind of franchise or repurposed for something like that.

Heading into E3 2015, many were expecting big things from Nintendo's Digital Event broadcast and while many saw great new titles like Star Fox Zero and Yoshi's Woolly World, fans were also hoping for the long - awaited return of the Metroid franchise to either 3DS or Wii U: while Nintendo greeted fans with a pair of new Metroid titles, they weren't quite what was expected, and response to the games have been largely negative.

With so many of Saulnier's indie contemporaries being wooed into the world of big franchises and bigger budgets, let's hope he doesn't lose his desire to be unnerving, unsettling and unforgiving.

If this were to turn into a franchise, not unlike the Bond films that Brosnan was such a big part of, I would not mind one bit.

It started as a game that charmed us by its B movie qualities and have exploded into a fully fledge franchise about killing aliens (bugs and robots) bigger than buildings.

While Power Rangers is go - going to the top of the box office and into a six - year franchise, we're left wondering what other beloved shows could be morphing their way to the big screen.

Frozenbyte's foray into roguelike action, a big departure in terms of gameplay from their work with the Trine franchise, is Continue Reading →

«The Maze Runner» is one of the various young - adult book franchises that Hollywood is attempting to make into their latest big - screen cash cow.

Later this year will see the release of Gran Turismo Sport (the first in the franchise to come to PlayStation 4), Forza Motorsport 7 (which is turning into the Xbox One X's biggest hitter), Project CARS 2 (which looks to improve in nearly aspect on the massively ambitious first game), and Need For Speed Payback (which seems like an entertaining blend of the Need For Speed and Fast and the Furious franchises).

As if the big news of Disney acquiring Lucasfilms and planning a new franchise trilogy wasn't enough, the studio is already putting the plan into motion, locking an Academy Award winning writer to pen «Episode VII.»

«Insomnia» was enough for Warner to feel confident in giving Nolan the keys to their big franchise revival, and the helmer moved swiftly into developing a bold new take on Batman with co-writer David S. Goyer.

It doesn't really matter though, because if you're this far into the franchise, you're going to see this movie and it will pretty much leave you frothing for this November's big finale.

as their extraordinary television series franchise expands to the big screen, and I recommend finding the biggest one around to watch this spooky trek into things paranormal and extraterrestrial.

It's been a number of years since the extraterrestrial franchise hit the big screen, but the critically - panned Alien Vs. Predator films have been pushed aside as new life is squeezed into the Predator universe with this action - adventure.

The animated movie of 2014 that really kicked you right in the feels, How To Train Your Dragon 2 balanced the swooping, soaring excitement of seeing loveable characters blast fire at bad guys on the backs of winged wyrms with an emotional side that saw fans of the franchise blubbing into their Hiccup - emblazoned Big Gulps.

Long heralded as Capcom's «other zombie franchise», Dead Rising finally gets an opportunity to shine as one of the Xbox One's launch line - up exclusives, and Capcom Vancouver has clearly bought into the mantra of «go big, or go home.»

There's a big sale across the Assassin's Creed franchise on Xbox and PlayStation, so maybe this is a good weekend to step into the Animus.

That landed him right at the deep end, hired by Leonardo DiCaprio «s Appian Way company to adapt an Atlantic Monthly article into «The Infiltrator,» a thriller about a British spy undercover in the I.R.A. Again, that film's not yet made it out of development hell, but it worked, as Zetumer is perhaps the only man to have written for two of the biggest espionage franchises — he did a script polish on 007 entry «Quantum of Solace,» and was hired by Universal (albeit without the knowledge of Paul Greengrass, hence the director's exit from the franchise) to write an unused draft for a fourth «Bourne «movie.

Thanks to the success of the Expendables franchise, which Sylvester Stallone fashioned into a frat party of over-the-hill meatheads, yesterday's action stars are back in vogue in a big way, as proven by all the over-50 fare that's followed Stallone's guns - and - grunts series.

The Angry Birds movie will, as I'm sure most of the cast is now contractually obligated to put it, be «slingshotting» into theatres in July of 2016, and although I'm not convinced the game's billions of players are exactly clamoring for a big - screen addition to the franchise, I have to give Rovio credit — I would even watch the live - action Tetris movie if it landed a cast like this.

But the problem is that the first two films in the first franchise (I can't get into Last Stand) aren't as big and bombastic and melodramatic as the more recent ones.