Sentences with phrase «dollar franchise from»

Best Competitive Multiplayer — PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Even with blockbuster shooters like Call of Duty and Destiny in the mix, no big - name game could match the surprising fun of this mod turned multi-million dollar franchise from the mind of Brendan Greene.

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Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

Some of the biggest cracks so far have shown up at ESPN, the multi-billion dollar broadcasting behemoth controlling access to a huge swath of programming from almost every major sports franchise from the National Football League to Major League Baseball.

The output of franchise establishments in nominal dollars in 2013 will increase 4.3 percent (following a 4.9 percent increase in 2012) from $ 769 billion to $ 802 billion (an increase of $ 33 billion).

A letter to franchisees said those franchisees offered a reduced tenure would be offered an amount equal to the greater of two times the initial franchise fee, which is a far cry from the hundreds of thousands of dollars, or in some cases $ 1 million - plus, franchisees paid for stores on the secondary market, including goodwill.

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.

The movie franchise, once the money from this new picture is added in, will have rung up more than seven billion dollars in theatrical gross receipts, a total that will probably be tripled by television and by DVD sales and rentals.

Our studio had its first ever $ 1 billion worldwide grossing film in Michael Bay's hit «Transformers: Dark of the Moon;» we successfully re-launched our «Mission Impossible» franchise with Tom Cruise, JJ Abrams and Brad Bird; our latest installment in the «Paranormal Activity» franchise had another $ 100 million dollar success; our first original animated film «Rango,» from director Gore Verbinski, earned rave reviews and more than $ 100 million at the domestic box office; and we released global phenomenon «Super 8,» directed by JJ Abrams, who will now direct the newest «Star Trek» for 2013.

He was plucked from obscurity to star in a multi-billion dollar franchise.

What started as a way of parodying the «Scream» films (themselves ostensibly a parody of the horror genre to begin with) has evolved into a franchise which takes shots at pretty much any movie it wants, from «Million Dollar Baby» to «Brokeback Mountain.»

Doug Whelan He was plucked from obscurity to star in a multi-billion dollar franchise.

Thanks to the participation of Danny Glover (freshly bankable from the Lethal Weapon franchise) Burnett was able to raise a budget of over a million dollars.

In a recent interview with GamesIndustry, Red Barrels CEO Philippe Morin discussed how the Outlast series went from a small budget project and to a multi-million dollar franchise that has officially sold more than 15 million copies.

The other theory is that the franchise's public relations benefits, from loudly donating a portion of opening week ticket proceeds to an important conservation cause to simply promoting environmentalism and ecological awareness, outweigh the relatively minor financial losses suffered by this multi-billion dollar corporation.

That prediction has come to pass, marginally, as the $ 2 billion - dollar franchise adapted from Suzanne Collins» YA novels comes in for a landing, but you also might just as well go back and read the review of Part 1, since it holds generally true of the somewhat more eventful Part 2.

It takes cojones the size of Guilty Sparks to tackle one of gamedome's most respected (and bazillion - dollar making) properties, but that's what Microsoft created 343 Industries to do following Bungie's exit from the franchise after Halo: Reach.

J.K. Rowling and the Harry Potter franchise topples billions of dollars in revenue from the books, movies, and licensing agreements.

Though the brokerage firm benefits from rising equity indices, higher trading and investment activity and a strong brokerage franchise that helps in attracting trillions of client dollars, Charles Schwab seems to be priced to perfection with a P / B ratio of 3.60.

Significantly, the plaintiffs say the animals they were expected to sell from Hunte «were often sick» and «diseased», costing the franchise owners «tens of thousands of dollars» for veterinary care.

The console, which was built from the same guts as SNK's MVS (Multi Video System) arcade hardware, is best remembered for its ludicrously steep price tag when it was released — it was priced at $ 649 dollars when it launched in 1990, while games were nearly half that price — as well as its staggering stable of fighting game franchises such as The King of Fighters, Samurai Shodown and Fatal Fury series.

We've had a slew of videogame films in the past, from flops like Mortal Kombat and Prince of Persia, to the moderately successful Tomb Raiders and the half a billion dollar grossing Resident Evil franchise.

Phil Harrison, the new big suit at Atari / Infogrames has raised these little birds from the ashes with a dream to build them into 100 - million dollar franchises.

Namco Bandai predicts net sales of 27.5 billion yen ($ 340,987,150 US Dollars) from the One Piece franchise and 8.5 billion yen ($ 108,142,100 US Dollars) from Dragon Ball during that time period.

All this is par for the course really when talking about COD but these are what we consider to be last - gen problems; we were promised something more and if Titanfall, a brand new IP from a new studio can deliver a far more fluid and balanced MP affair a lot earlier on in this new console life cycle, then Activision and the studios developing these games part of a billion dollar franchise simply have no excuse whatsoever.

Infinity Ward knows a thing or two about change — even if it has worked on the same multimillion - dollar franchise since its origins as a splinter group from the Medal of Honor series 11 years ago.

From the federal government's monumentally ill - advised Fair Elections Act, to the continuing revelations about Ontario's McGuinty government throwing away hundreds of millions of dollars to sway the last election, to the reality show farce of Toronto's mercurial Mayor Ford, it hasn't been an encouraging time to believe in the importance of the franchise.

The ruling on the financial statements came two years after a group of former major junior players sued the leagues in courts in Toronto and Calgary, arguing CHL franchises are making millions of dollars from ticket revenue, corporate sponsorships and TV rights fees, and are worth tens of millions of dollars.

I ask, how is it possible the CEOs and owners of the major franchise brands, with earnings in the tens of millions of dollars from agent fees, continue to remain silent, inactive and non-communicative to those operating under their brands, about how to enact change in our industry by their numbers alone?