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Whilst Vigil Games, the developer of the Darksiders franchise no longer exists, Nordic Games were the company that bought out some of THQ's biggest franchises which included games like Red Faction, MX vs ATV, and Darksiders.

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Now, many big chains are developing creative ways to capture a market that has rejected them, and franchises, which usually have local ownership, are starting to play up the neighborhood and community aspects of their stores.

We recently looked at what NBA franchise values might be based on the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers sale which was 3.48 times bigger than the Forbes.com valuation.

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.

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.

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While the exposure to the big money and bigger reach of major - league stars has helped US Cryotherapy work deals to provide equipment to several NBA franchises and major universities, the company understands that a grassroots approach which includes high school athletes will yield its greatest growth in sales and recognition.

I always knew Luck was taking more hits and throwing more than he should have, but the Colts have completely F — ed up this situation up in regards to their franchise player which is a big, big screw up.

I'm not alone in thinking that if the Cowboys think Dak is a franchise QB (which is admittedly a big if), they should be going all - in to win a Super Bowl while he's on an incredibly undervalued contract.

Wayne Ellington had 20 points and Tristan Thompson 18 for Cleveland, which went from a stunning upset to blowing the biggest lead in a loss in franchise history.

Without fail, the dullest installment in any superhero movie franchise is the origin story, during which audiences anxiously awaiting The Big Bad Guy have to suffer through, yaaaawn, scenes of childhood trauma, romantic tragedy, and other expository effluvia, by which point the closing credits are fast approaching.

His biggest role to date has been the lead in the «Spider - Man» franchise, for which he's getting paid quite handsomely.

Just on a technical level, the film represents such a big jump forward for Saulnier that you should expect the studios to immediately start arguing over which giant soulless franchise should occupy his time in the near - future.

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.

Sales of the franchise have been declining in the last few years, which is why this overhaul finally happened, but the new game even seems to have been rejected by its biggest fans.

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).

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.

There were also clips from Judd Apatow's sequel to Knocked Up called This Is 40 (Christmas of 2012), 47 Ronin in 3D (February 2013), Oblivion starring Tom Crusie and Morgan Freeman which opens April 2013 and R.I.P.D. (Rest In Peace Department) starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds, plus the next installments of two big franchises, Fast and The Furious 6 and Despicable Me 2, in the Summer of 2013.

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.

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.

It has sold 38 million copies so far, which is bigger than Resident Evil was when we started the adaptation of that franchise.

Other films playing are It Follows, which caused a stir earlier this year at Cannes; Jermaine Clement & Taika Waititi's vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows; Kevin Smith's Tusk; [REC]: Apocalypse, the fourth entry in the hit Spanish franchise, and Big Game, the new film from the director of past TIFF film Rare Exports starring Samuel L. Jackson as the president.

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.

Lucas has shown very little interest in filmmaking outside his two big celebrated franchises, which will now continue without him, as he enjoys semi-retirement.

The game's biggest enhancement was the change in controls which for some are going to be a fresh new look at the franchise and for others are going to want to go back.

There's plenty that's familiar in Netflix's latest big budget affair, the shoehorned continuation of the «Cloverfield» franchise, «The Cloverfield Paradox,» which surprise - launched on the streaming giant after the Super Bowl.

Aside from gearing up for his biggest role to date with «It,» which hits theaters this September, the Swedish actor starred in Netflix's «Hemlock Grove» and is also known from the «Divergent» 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.

IGN has reported today that SEGA has signed a deal with Wanted Productions, Stories International (which as we reported previously, SEGA is working closely to bring more of its franchises to the big screen) and Scott Pilgrim The Movie producer Marc Platt to produce a Shinobi Live Action Film:

One of the big new features goes to MyLeague, originally introduced last year as a super-customizable franchise mode, which has received an optional online element.

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.

My interest in the franchise was reignited by a captivating E3 debut trailer for Monster Hunter: World, which will bring the series back to consoles — and potentially a much bigger audience — next year.

Although information about Fast Six is being kept locked up tight, sources say that the film is to be set in Europe, which is kind of broad considering that Europe is a big place (but it also gives an idea on what the film could be about and where they are going with the film franchise).

Before Terminator: Genisys hit theaters this past summer, Paramount Pictures was hopeful that the sequel, which also functions as a franchise reboot, would be a big hit for them.

The trend continues after Marky Mark, as the list is mainly comprised of actors who've starred in uber - lucrative franchises or big - budget superhero movies, films for which there are conspicuously few female roles.

After years of being the biggest (and in many cases, the only) horror movie franchise in theatres around Halloween, the Saw franchise was dethroned last year by Oren Peli's surprise hit Paranormal Activity, which outgrossed Saw VI by a fairly wide margin.

There are very few, if any AAA franchises anymore, which is definitely a big part of why Twisted Metal's multiplayer is so refreshing.

Ultimate TEKKEN Bowl, one of the most popular and zany bonus games to ever grace the TEKKEN franchise is making its big comeback in TEKKEN 7's first DLC pack which will be available in August 2017.

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).

But of all the big movies in the works, one that reunited the producer, writers, director and star of the «Pirates of the Caribbean» franchise, which has taken over $ 3 billion worldwide theatrically alone, seemed to be a safe bet.

Now the studio is taking its next big chance with Guardians, which isn't just the start of potentially a new franchise, but also an incredibly strange world.

Which means many things, but among them, that there's a big fat space in the hearts of the nation's teenagers and moms for a new franchise.

As soon as players are left on their own, following a frankly excessively long tutorial section, they can control of their fully crewed ship, the Morrigan, and pretty much go wherever they want, which is a big change from previous entries in the franchise.

Since then, he has concentrated on doing only movies that would pay handsomely and take him away from home as little as possible, which is how he came to feature in two of the biggest blockbuster franchises in cinema history: Harry Potter (where he was Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, from the third instalment onwards) and the Dark Knight trilogy (in which he played Police Commissioner James Gordon).

Rather than talk about this weekend's boring box office results (nothing new to see here beyond a big weekend for that new kill - the - trespassing - teenagers flick Don't Breathe) let's travel back to 1984 which was a hugely influential year for franchises of many kinds.

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.

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.

Robert Downey, Jr. may have changed the game almost a decade after Jackman's first turn as Wolverine, but it's Jackman's performance that has truly carried the X-Men franchise and which defined our expectations of big screen superheroes.

Though competition from Warner Brothers» already successful The LEGO Movie and Disney's upcoming Big Hero 6 will likely be fierce, the Dragon franchise has generated a large amount of goodwill (the first entry would have likely won in a year that had not featured as formidable a contender as Toy Story 3, which also featured in the main Best Picture race) that could give it the advantage.

Amongst the slick costumes and inventive gadgets, Black Panther takes the time to talk about restorative justice and the extent to which we seek it, giving it a bigger brain — and heart — than a lot of other entries in the franchise.