Sentences with phrase «first franchise based»

Not exact matches

«If someone is thinking of entering into business ownership for the first time, they should be able assess how much liquid cash they are willing to risk, and what their lifestyle goals are, and whether they have an exit strategy,» says Anne Barr, president of the Dallas - based advising firm Franchise Opportunity Specialist.

It's an incredible first - and third - person story - based action franchise that enables players to build a character, a crew, and relationships across dozens — and, for some people, hundreds — of hours and three games.

In its quarterly report released Monday, the New Jersey - based real estate and franchise giant reported $ 1.2 billion in revenue, a 2 percent increase compared with the first quarter in 2017, which it said was driven by increases in home sale transaction volume, valued at $ 100 billion.

The first thing many of us think about when it comes to the future relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity is Skynet — the fictional neural net - based group mind from the «Terminator» movie franchise.

The UPS Store ranked # 57 overall and first in the printing and shipping category in the «Franchise Times 200,» a ranking of over 500 franchise networks based on their worldwide sales and lFranchise Times 200,» a ranking of over 500 franchise networks based on their worldwide sales and lfranchise networks based on their worldwide sales and locations.

The company is the first U.S. - based restaurant concept to have a franchise in the Asian country, Head says.

«This marks two momentous occasions for Walk - On's — adding a veteran - owned franchise to the family and the first Walk - On's to go onto a military base,» said Scott Taylor, Walk - On's Enterprises President & COO.

The NFL and Electronic Arts teamed up for the first full 32 - team esports football league based on the Madden NFL franchise.

Recently, in an industry first, Pantone, Illumination Entertainment and Universal Partnerships & Licensing created an official new PANTONE Color, Minion Yellow, based on the Minions from Universal Pictures and Illumination's Despicable Me global film franchise, including this summer's blockbuster hit, Minions.

Created by Blizzard Entertainment, and based on the Warcraft series of RTS games first released in the mid 1990s, WoW expanded on the early Warcraft single player franchise and is now a vibrant multiplayer world, where players may engage in roleplaying, PvE.

It is first mentioned in The Witcher 2 A look at the new trailer for the upcoming Netflix show based on the successful video game franchise «The Witcher».

FIFA 13 on Wii U was based on the gameplay of the previous entry in the franchise, with FIFA 12 features like the Player Impact Engine and Precision Dribbling «optimized for Wii U.» While the game didn't offer the new elements seen in the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of FIFA 13, it contained Wii U-specific features like first - person free kicks on the GamePad.

Celebrating its first anniversary, Fandango FanShop offers a wide variety of exclusive and limited edition movie gear, collectibles, jewelry, fashion accessories, home goods, fine art and posters, based on popular films and franchises.

When Sega of America was first teasing that they might bring their music / rhythm franchise based around Hatsune Miku and friends to the West, they did so by having the Vita release — Project Diva f — on display at E3.

The Stephen King novels will be produced by Universal Pictures, with Akiva Goldsman set to write the first movie and a TV series based on the franchise.

While there's still a Steven Spielberg - produced TV series reportedly in production based on Master Chief and the iconic first - person - shooter franchise for XBox, the version fans were originally excited for would've been helmed by «District 9» director Neill Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson.

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.

Players kept time and tapped to the rhythm of the game \'s numerous stages all based on tracks spanning the Final Fantasy franchise, from the very first adventure to XIII.

 The game is the first fully downloadable game based on Lara Croft and not only includes a new isometric view in the brand new single player adventure, but also includes a franchise first two player offline cooperative experience.

With the franchise returning to a casual platform for the first time since 2010, however, Namco Bandai knew they'd need a lot more than brand recognition to overcome the stigma usually associated with app - based racers.

Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is a role - playing crossover title between the Mario franchise and Ubisoft's Rabbids series released for the Nintendo Switch, as well as being the first and only turn - based tactics game in the Mario franchise.

Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald return to produce and Barry Sonnenfeld, who directed the first two films of the franchise, will direct the film from a screenplay written by Ethan Cohen, based on the comic book by Lowell Cunningham.

Characters discuss the seemingly endless franchise of fictional Stab movies, based — at least at first — on the «real world» events we've been watching (They've gotten less concerned with reality, we learn from a character who bemoans the phony fifth movie's time - travel plot).

The fact that the Star Trek franchise is based on the enterprise - which is destroyed in the first 5 minutes actually made this one a little more interesting for me.

Ostensibly a spin - off from Volition's popular Saints Row series, at first glance it comes off as some kind of bastard love child of the aforementioned franchise and online hero shooters like Overwatch, with a base foundation seemingly built for an open - world, multiplayer experience, or at least online co-op like its spiritual successor, but is paradoxically nearly an entirely solo experience.

Based purely off the first trailer for Mission: Impossible — Fallout, it would appear that writer / director Christopher McQuarrie and star Tom Cruise are bent on delivering everything they've brought to the evergreen spy action franchise, with yet another slight ramp up in the stakes.

While Fate series has seen multiple games throughout its life, this is the first time the developers have made an action game based on the Fate franchise.

Legendary Entertainment and The Pokémon Company announced today they will partner to launch the first - ever Pokémon live - action film franchise based on DETECTIVE PIKACHU, a new character and story in the Pokémon universe.

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Devil's Third is an action game that combines elements of melee combat — as per director Itagaki's previous work on the critically - acclaimed post-reboot Ninja Gaiden franchise — and cover - based shooting from both third - and first - person perspectives.

Although Suzanne Collins, the author of the novels on which the franchise is based, has a screenplay credit in the first of the four films (along with two male co-writers) all four films were directed by men.

The franchise already has a ravenous fan base going in to the first film of the series, and with a talented cast of young talents and seasoned vets in tow, Divergent has a strong chance of setting itself apart in the sea of YA contenders vying for the attention of young fanatics.

Michael Mann (Collateral, Ali) returns to the franchise that first brought him to prominence with Miami Vice, based on the wildly popular 1980s television show for which he served as executive producer.

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Transformers 5 (Transformers: The Last Knight) is aimed to be a continuation of the mega Hasbro movie franchise but also a fresh start for newcomers that will launch - you guessed it - a share cinematic universe Marvel style) with the first spinoff coming in 2018 based on Bumblebee.

Batman: Assault on Arkham is the first movie based on the popular Batman: Arkham Asylum video game franchise and tells the origin story of this bad guy team - up.

The Lara Croft character (based off of the character from the «Tomb Raider» video game franchise) was first seen on the big screen in 2001's «Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.»

The standard - bearer of the entire genre, so to say, Civilization has always been one of the first franchises to come to mind when someone says «turn - based strategy».

Since its release however, Oddworld Inhabitants has closed and the UK - based Just Add Water Limited has taken over the franchise's reigns, first releasing a high - definition remake of Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath.

In the UK she's still very well regarded based on the Alien franchise shooting the first three movies at Pinewood.

Based on the comic series originally started by Chris Claremont and Bill McLeod (though heavily inspired by the art of Bill Sienkiewicz), the film will be the franchise's first straight - up horror film, and it looks as though the story will primarily take place within the confines of a dilapidated hospital.

George Chrysostomou on original screenplays vs. franchises... After watching Edgar Wright's critically and commercially successful Baby Driver, it struck me that this was the first movie I had watched in a while that was not only imaginative and unique, but was not based on any source material such as a novel or comic series, not a -LSB-...]

There's an element of «seeing it to believe it» built into the presentation: Expectations based on the history of a mostly direct - to - video franchise, an aging action - hero cast, and a patently absurd premise so conspicuously contradict the art - house sensibility of the film itself that you can hardly blame the first wave of audiences for feeling wowed by the shock.

When: January 23rd Why: Based on the first of four novels in Kyril Bonfiglioli's Charles Mortdecai series, the movie finds Johnny Depp trying his hand at goofball comedy as an Inspector Clouseau - type character with franchise potential.

Detective Pikachu is the first live - action movie based upon the enormously successful Pokemon franchise will see Smith's character teaming up with Pikachu to investigate the kidnapping of his father.

My take: For quite a while now, there's been a cloud of uncertainty hanging over Fantastic Four, 20th Century Fox's reboot of its movie franchise based on Marvel Comics» first superhero team.

Being the first Level Pack that didn't have an existing character - backed franchise to base its design on, TT Games had to work extra hard to make this pack match the caliber of the others.

Based on DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon franchise, School of Dragons is one of the first massively multiplayer online role - playing games (MMORPG) to incorporate basic science educational features in its gameplay.

This is the closest we have come to realizing the groundbreaking vision of education innovator Ted Kolderie, who first wrote about the critical nature of breaking the exclusive franchise of traditional school districts holding parents captive based on zoned attendance.

Dark Horse has had the franchise for over 20 years, during which they not only spun out a series of prequels and sequels that added to the Star Wars universe but also, in the past year, launched two new series: Star Wars, which was set in the world of the first movie, and The Star Wars, a comic based on George Lucas's first draft of the screenplay.