Sentences with phrase «even bigger franchise»

While the whole internet is squabbling over who will be the next Ant - Man director (now that Edgar Wright has parted ways with Marvel) another piece of news has dropped: Alleged Ant - Man director hopeful Ruben Fleischer may direct an even bigger franchise, Ghostbusters 3.

Even the biggest franchises on the Xbox One haven't been performing as well as Sony.

Not exact matches

But that one stat, the success rate of franchised businesses vs. independent shops, has had the biggest impact, even though its origins are dubious.

Robert Purvin, who believes his 1994 book The Franchise Fraud was the first to cast doubt on The Stat, contends it has had an even bigger impact.

Yes — even in this economy, big franchises are seeking single - unit franchisees just like you.

«While the winners are likely to emerge as even larger and more durable franchises, we see the battle as a negative for both big wireless and cable.»

Ubisoft Montreal is carrying roughly the same number of big franchises — Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Rainbox Six and possibly even the Mighty Quest for Epic Loot — yet it has eight times the number of Toronto employees.

It seems like every time Marvel can't possibly increase the scope of a franchise, they figure out a way to make their movies even bigger.

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.

Although many will suggest that Robson has a personal vendetta of sorts aimed squarely at the Grinch who stole soccer, that doesn't make his words any less truthful... such tactics are nothing new... in the U.S.this business practice has become so common that even the players regularly use the media to manipulate public opinion (LeBron James did likewise to rally public support for himself and away from his teammate, Kyrie Irving, who has asked to be traded)... whether for contract leverage or to rally support for or against certain players, this strategy can be incredibly effective at times, but when it misses the mark it can be dangerously divisive... for a close - to - the - vest team like Arsenal to use such nefarious means to manufacture a wedge between the fans and it's best player (again), is absolutely despicable... for the sanctimonious higher - ups who demand that it's players adhere to a certain protocol regarding information deemed «in house» or else to intentionally spread «fake» news or to provide certain outlets with privileged information for such purposes is pretty low indeed... no moral high ground here, just a big club pretending to be a small club so that they can continue to pull the wool over the eyes of a dedicated, albeit somewhat naive, fan base... so not only does this club no give a shit about it's fans, this clearly shows that clubs primary interests aren't even soccer related... for all intent and purposes Kroenke doesn't care if we're a soccer club or a tampon factory as long as we continue to maximized his investment... stay woke people... great to see more and more people commenting on the state of the franchise... this club needs to be held accountable for it's actions

Series creator Chris Carter has even written a third entry in the franchise's film department and, based on what the ratings will be like, we'll probably see more X-Files in the future, whether in terms of more episodes or a big blockbuster of a movie.

Even fueled by Reynolds, whose likability is practically a super power, a new director in David Leitch («John Wick» and «Atomic Blonde»), charismatic new costars like Zazie Beetz («Atlanta») and Julian Dennison («Hunt for the Wilderpeople»), bigger stakes (and more money to execute them), «Deadpool 2,» suffers from the sequelitis that typically threatens gimmicky gambles turned tentpole franchises.

Even Thor seems a bit nonplussed by the big story of all these movies, referring to the convenient MacGuffins that keep showing up in this franchise as «colorful, glowing Infinity Stone things.»

The big difference between the two is that even though Halloween III had nothing to do with the franchise who's moniker it carried, it was actually a very solid movie.

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.

During the conversation, Diesel revealed that not only is Justin Lin returning to direct the supposedly - final two sequels in this long - running franchise, but that they will be even «bigger» than the previous movies:

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.

Proclaimed «the next big franchise» before production even began, this first chapter of Suzanne Collins» trilogy manages to live up to the hype.

The committed star pulls off the same magic trick to even more impressive effect than usual with Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy's directorial debut after toiling away as a screenwriter on less pedigreed fare like Real Steel and Two for the Money as well as big brother Tony's most recent Bourne franchise effort.

With bigger, more epic action sequences, a more intriguing story, fleshed out characters, a multiplayer component, and damn near perfect combat mechanics, Uncharted 2 was an excellent sequel and still the best game in the franchise (even though Uncharted 4 was really, really good!).

This expansion will include even more blockbuster franchises and create bigger and better gameplay opportunities, increasing the selection to 30 of the world's most popular franchises.

The first part of the franchise released in 2016 and became the biggest R - rated grosser ever and with the trailer of Deadpool 2, it looks like this one will be even better.

The machines got bigger and noisier with each new entry in the Pirates franchise, and even though Verbinski kept them whirring along sequence by sequence, they started to resemble something that would swallow a small child in the Industrial Age.

Even outside of established franchises there's been evidence that blockbuster movies don't need big (white) Hollywood stars to perform well at the box office.

She's worked with great directors and other great actors in big and small movies, she's been a key part of one of the biggest franchises of all - time and has even proved she can lead a summer action film by herself.

Aired by Fox just one other time after it premiered and later dropped from syndication, the superficially disturbing «Home» went on to become the show's best - selling episode on VHS; it was but a matter of time until some enterprising producer recognized the franchise potential in its heartland troglodytes — and it was even more inevitable that they should be paired with a WB cast - off for the first big - screen vehicle, since no modern horror flick is complete without one.

The jump to the big screen from the 3DS also massively suits the franchise as everything from the environments, to the character models and even the eating sequences, have had a big budget overhaul.

Even someone like Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, who got to make a mid-budget movie in between his indie breakthrough and big blockbuster, still ended up making a mid-budget movie in a major franchise (the Rocky spinoff Creed).

Aside from its excellent sales, the game was also a big favorite amongst critics, topping many best of the year lists and even helping to renew Hollywood's interest in basing a new Tomb Raider film, starring Alicia Vikander (Jason Bourne) as Lara Croft, on the rebooted video game franchise.

Even if you aren't familiar with the early installments of this franchise starring Mel Gibson, it looks like this reboot with Tom Hardy will still be quite the spectacle on the big screen.

Since acquiring the rights to the collection of the collection of timeless tales in the early Sixties, Walt Disney has adapted them to both the big and small screens, even extending the popular franchise in recent years by creating sequels for such peripheral characters as Tigger (2000), Piglet (2003) and Heffalump (2005).

I think it's fair to say that even the biggest fan of the Resident Evil franchise would have trouble distinguishing the movies apart.

We may love the Skywalkers, but the Star Wars franchise is much bigger than them, even though our love - affair with the galaxy far, far away did begin with Luke Skywalker.

Even after five years, Ridley Scott's Prometheus is just as polarizing as it ever was — it took the Alien franchise that Scott started back in 1979 and spun it in an entirely new direction, asking some big questions along the way: who created us and why?

I would even claim they are harder to do than a big budget franchise film.

Who knows, but we can only guess that with the reception of «The Bourne Legacy» still a question mark, and Matt Damon's returning to the series an even bigger guessing game at this point, it's probably nice to have something franchise ready in reserve to continue pursuing a path that has served them well thus far.

Even though Transformers may be a worldwide box office sensation, it should come as no surprise that there are international rip - offs of big franchises like this.

There's no secret that Sony has big aspirations for the Bond franchise and they're even looking towards the future.

He's a director capable of putting his own stamp on these films even with the pressures and expectations of big studios and big franchises are scratching at his door.

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.

For example, the big - name game title selection is spotty; you'll find Angry Birds, Monopoly, Dead Space, Madden, Plants vs. Zombies, and Need For Speed, but none of the other big franchises like NBA Jam, Dungeon Hunter, Infinity Blade, Real Racing, or even Scrabble or Words With Friends.

Here's the big question revolving around the Nook: Can Barnes & Noble's Nook unit, even with help from Microsoft, hold its own against the likes of Amazon's Kindle franchise as well as a bevy of 7 - inch tablets?

How Fire Emblem ended up getting 5 reps while DK (a MUCH bigger franchise) hasn't even got it's MAIN villian yet is beyond me... but hey a mii fighter costume is just as good... * blegh *

I think they may have pulled a Nintendo and secured Vanquish 2 exclusive to Xbox platforms, Actually they may have gone back to Sega like they did with the original xbox and secured a bunch of their games for xbox exclusivity... thats the only way I see them making a quick and big splash with fans... if they announced new studios under their umbrella thats great but fans are not going to see those rewards until the next generation as it will take a few years to get those IP's whether brand new or existing franchises up and running... thats how I see them making shock and awe, IF they even pull that off.

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.

I just thought Nintendo / Game Freak / Pokemon Company (whomever is running the show) would have brought out even bigger guns for one of their most successful franchises.

This is a big deal for those involved in terms of developers and Publishers but in the grand scheme of things if this is a big deal you have to talk about the franchise's they're missing as even bigger deals.

Even though player choices aren't a big part of AC III, I felt like it would have been a nice change of pace and a good ending to the entire series, but of course Ubisoft enjoys large piles of money and the Assassin's Creed franchise will live on as the ending shows.

While Nintendo's E3 2017 livestream didn't even go a full 30 minutes, Reggie Fils - Aimé and company wasted no time announcing big name sequels to some of Nintendo's most popular franchises, along with expansions and ports that will bring even more content to Nintendo's wildly popular Switch console.