Video games are supposed to be art — or entertainment, at least — for everyone, but some of the most popular, multimillion -
dollar franchises on the planet communicate, full stop, that women are worth less than men.
Not exact matches
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.
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Franchise Development Managers have experience helping
franchise candidates explore other sources of financing, such as home equity lines of credit and self - guided IRAs, which can allow you to start a business using pre-tax dollars without penalties or paying income tax on the start - up
franchise candidates explore other sources of financing, such as home equity lines of credit and self - guided IRAs, which can allow you to start a business using pre-tax
dollars without penalties or paying income tax
on the start - up
dollars.
Other
franchises, such as restaurants, hotels, and resorts, can cost hundreds of thousands of
dollars — which is something most people do not have
on hand.
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.
When it comes to starting a standard and large scale cleaning company with several outlets in key cities in the United States of America, a cleaning company that can carry out pressure cleaning and any other form of cleaning services
on a commercial level and a company with the intention of selling
franchise, then you should look towards budgeting well one million, five hundred thousand
dollars ($ 1.5 million).
When it comes to starting a standard and large scale cleaning company with several outlets in key cities in Australia, a cleaning company that can carry out pressure cleaning and any other form of cleaning services
on a commercial level and a company with the intention of selling
franchise, then you should look towards budgeting well one million, five hundred thousand
dollars (AUD$ 1.5 million).
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.
Please note that Creutz refers to the Mario game
franchise as a whole, but not a single Mario game has managed to harvest 6 billion
dollars on its own.
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.
As Star Wars: The Force Awakens nears 2 billion
dollars worldwide (it will be the third film to do so if it happens), it's a great time to check out what is known to be a major influence
on the popular
franchise.
Mistakes happen even to professionals, and even with blockbuster
franchises and millions of
dollars on the line.
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.
As opposed to the growing universe of The Avengers, the X-Men saga seems less a
dollar - driven mega-brand these days than an interweaving, incestuous
franchise bent
on its own redemption.
Having steamrolled the competition
on its way to becoming the first billion
dollar instalment in the
franchise (and the seventh biggest film of all - time), Universal's Fast & Furious 7 -LSB-...]
The interwebs are focusing mainly
on The Walking Dead, which Telltale hopes will become a multi-million
dollar franchise, but what's set my cold cynic's heart aflutter is the news that Fables will also be getting the videogame treatment.
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.
No longer working
on the Spider - Man IP, the studio is now entrusted with development
on Activision's biggest, billion
dollar franchises.
The studio's head of
franchise development Oskari Hakkinen revealed that the original $ 10
dollar price point that was listed
on the DLC menu of the game for the two episodes — 560 MS points is worth $ 7 in real money — was just a placeholder.
It's unclear how much money people spend
on these loot boxes exactly but publisher Activision has called Overwatch a billion -
dollar franchise, which indicates that the game is raking it in.
While Bobby Kotick said the titles, «don't have the potential to be exploited every year
on every platform with clear sequel potential and have the potential to become $ 100 million
dollar franchises,» Phil Harrision sees it as a personal challenge to prove him wrong.
Based
on its performance in March alone, Clash Royale could be a new billion -
dollar - a-year
franchise for the Finnish developer.
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.
As I said, I love this game — I consider it among my favorites, even within the Mario
franchise, and it's available
on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console for less than five U.S.
dollars — hard to beat that!
Activision is spending half a billion
dollars on Bungie's Destiny with an eye
on doubling its money and setting up a new
franchise that it hopes will top games charts for many years to come.
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.
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.
The device, which has so far only been listed one the company's Indian site, will be available for purchase
on December 14, one day before «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» — the latest entry in Disney and Lucasfilm's multibillion -
dollar franchise — hits theaters.
Many people eagerly post their resumes
on a job aggregator only to be contacted for jobs they do not want, such as
franchise opportunities or life insurances sales or other jobs that require you to put thousands of
dollars down to get started.
As far as the
franchise tax is concerned you would have to be grossing over a million
dollars in sales before you have to pay taxes
on that.
That's another difference — not a significant one — but there is a difference in structure in the
franchise business in Canada versus the U.S.. Also, awards will be based
on dollar for
dollar, U.S.
dollar to Canadian
dollar.