Sentences with phrase «dollar franchise like»

The 5th Wave wants to be the next multi-billion dollar franchise like «Hunger Games» or «Divergent», more so than it wants to be original and stand on its own two feet.

Not exact matches

While some franchises, like Domino's and Jimmy John's, were built with a delivery fleet at the heart of their model, retroactively adding a similar fleet to, say, McDonald's would cost franchisees millions of dollars with no guarantee of a sales bump.

On the far end of the scale, there are franchises like resorts and luxury hotels, which employ can employ hundreds of people, plus subcontractors for cleaning services and maintenance, and can cost millions of dollars.

Fast food franchises, like Taco Bell, offer great deals, and customers recognize the dollar to quantity ratio, so they will never be at a loss during a recession.

Imo the lions could negotiate a contract with Ansah so his 17 million dollar cap hit would not be so bad like it is now with the franchise tag.

«Number one [is] uncertainty and volatility linked to currency exchanges... like the rouble and the dollar [and] there are all these Brexit consequences that everyone is still discounting but we have still yet to see over a 12 - month period,» says López, who has overall responsibility for the areas of retail, franchise management and global expansion.

Its story of a sadistic plutocrat who likes to punish women in his sex dungeon and insist that they sign nondisclosure agreements accounts for millions of book sales and a billion - dollar movie franchise, consumed eagerly by an enthusiastic female audience.

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.

Die Hard was such a blockbuster hit, it not only created a 5 - movie billion - dollar franchise, but also inspired a plethora of wannabe knockoffs like Under Siege, Sudden Death, Passenger 57, Executive Decision, Cliffhanger, Speed, and The Rock.

Unfortunately, Red Sparrow, Jennifer Lawrence's valiant attempt to kickstart a second, potentially lucrative franchise after the billion - dollar grossing Hunger Games series ended three years ago (practically an eternity in Hollywood), feels exactly like the aforementioned, 10 - part torturous, interminable slog.

Of all people WB would like to have, we'd guess Yates is their favorite, having made them a kajillion dollars thanks to «Harry Potter,» but he's also linked to their massive gangster franchise «Cicero» with Tom Hardy attached to lead, that last we heard, was aiming to gear up next year.

It might feel a bit cynical to write off character deaths because of external factors like franchise potential and actors» contracts, but the MCU is a multibillion - dollar enterprise: These deaths feel exploitative because they wiped out nearly every young star that matters, and the MCU can't possibly survive in the long term without reverse - engineering this event.

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.

When their CEO, the infamous Bobby Kotick, admits outright that he's only interested in games that can be «exploited every year on every platform» and have the potential to become «$ 100 million dollar franchises» that makes him look like a cash hungry douche.

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.

How could a billion dollar franchise get shut out like this?

Franchise fee revenue could provide a loan loss reserve for an energy efficiency financing program like PACE, leveraging millions of dollars in private, low - risk loans for improving the energy use of local properties.

The answer will be either a Dollar Amount or a response like» we are a Franchising company and not interested in buying your brokerage ourselves».