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Today, Gormley is looking to capitalize on Blockbuster's fall from grace with the rollout of Canada's first franchised video rental kiosks.
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In 1981, after five years as a Wendy's manager, Tom Pogemiller opened the first of his four Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre restaurants, a franchise operation founded in 1978 by video - game wizard Nolan Bushnell.
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».
The video, seen above, kicked off production and features the cast inviting fans to make franchise history as the first fans to ever win a walk - on role in a Star Trek movie.
The «Mama» director is venturing into franchise territory for the first time with a video game adaptation
It's not a chronological follow - up to Angelina Jolie's Tomb Raider franchise but will see the character in her younger days on her first real adventure (much like the 2013 video game).
The studio reformed itself into an independent video game developer separate from Konami, and Kojima announced that the first title in their new franchise - Death Stranding - would be released exclusively on the PS4, which made sense since Sony Interactive Entertainment would be publishing the game.
The first episode of Telltale Games» The Walking Dead: Michonne is another fantastic adventure and faithful video game adaptation of The Walking Dead comic book franchise.
My hope is that it's a solid entry in the franchise that this generation of kids can adore the way I did the first two films, the cartoon series, and the video game tie - ins.
They've also announced dates for some forthcoming films like the sequels to Fifty Shades of Grey, and also shifted some films arriving over the next few years, such as the video game adaptation Warcraft from Duncan Jones, the sci - fi sequel Pacific Rim 2 from Guillermo del Toro and the first official movie that kicks off Universal's classic movie monsters franchise reboot, The Mummy.
This week's home video releases include a Bruce Willis action flick, a new entry to the «Saw» franchise and Drew Barrymore's first feature as a director, but it's a documentary about late pop star Michael Jackson that leads the pack in terms of both quality and stature.
Films adapted from video games have now been around long enough for the first major franchise reboot (Hitman and Street Fighter don't count), and while this new Tomb Raider movie has more honourable intentions than the shallow Angelina Jolie - starring films from 2001 and 2003, it too suffers from the inherent superficiality that tends to plague video - game adaptations.
The Tomb Raider video game franchise has seen new life since its gritty and realistic reboot from which the film draws its inspiration from, but the first Tomb Raider trailer - like many of our «first looks» at 2018 movies so far - and poster failed to impress.
Although the franchise was largely a financial success and the first movie is often considered one of the better examples of a video game - to - movie adaptation, the Resident Evil franchise attracted mostly negative reviews throughout its six - film run.
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.»
First up we have a bunch of posters and banners for Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth installment in the successful video game zombie franchise.
The Tomb Raider franchise was first launched in 1996 with the original video game for PC, PlayStation and Sega Saturn consoles and is one of the more popular gaming titles.
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.
With Vikander stepping in for Angelina Jolie, Roar Uthaug's Tomb Raider is an attempt to rekindle a video game - adapted franchise that faded quickly the first time around.
The whole thing looks and feels like an extended episode of some Starz series, and you almost get the sense that first - time feature film director Aleksander Bach is attempting to ape the Resident Evil movies, another franchise with bad writing, silly action and only the most tenuous connection to the video games that inspired it.
It's been over 13 years since Beckinsale first played Selene in Underworld — watch our video interview below to hear why she decided to bring the heroine to the screen for a fifth time and why co-star Theo James contends that Beckinsale is «the core of the franchise,» though previous reports suggested James» character David would be taking the reins as the center of a fifth film.
[youtube video link for mobile viewing] Following up our hands - on walk through of the BlackBerry Bold 9790, I spent some time at BlackBerry headquarters with the first touchscreen in the Curve franchise, the BlackBerry Curve 9380.
Which is why it is puzzling that Amazon would more closely align its tablets — which at least saw moderate success when the first Kindle Fire tablet launched in November 2011 — with a struggling phone and burgeoning streaming video box, rather than the e-reader franchise that started the company on its hardware path.
For the first time, the Jurassic Park franchise comes to LEGO video games, spanning more than two decades of epic films from Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, including Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, as well as the highly anticipated Jurassic World, opening today.
LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game will be based in the world of the globally successful film franchise, incorporating storylines, locations and characters from the first three films («Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,» «Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest» and «Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End») as well as the upcoming fourth film, «Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.»
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Or rather, watch the first in a series of training tutorial videos that'll convey the extra dose of realism and tactical warfare developer Codemasters has injected into the franchise beyond any doubt.
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The first Mega Man game is now 30 years old and it began what is undoubtedly one of the most important platforming franchises in the history of video games.
The 9th game in the Forza franchise, the 3rd game in the Forza Horizon based franchise and the first one in the Forza Horizon franchise to be released for PC, Forza Horizon 3 is an open world racing video game developed by Playground Games and published by Microsoft Windows.
For most video gamers in the west, both the Touhou franchise and the bullet hell shooter genre are two things that probably aren't something that isn't very well known to most, especially the first of that list.
The latest LEGO adventure is far from the first for TT Games; the video game developer has produced brick - based adaptations of a number of big deal franchises, including Star Wars, Batman, «Jurassic World,», Marvel and many more.
Allow me to join in the chorus of video game reviewers admitting that Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate is my first real trip into this Capcom franchise.
When I first heard that Telltale Games was going to make a video game based on The Walking Dead franchise, I honestly didn't know how to feel about it.
With its roots in isometric real - time tactics, Syndicate seems to have conformed to modern video game mechanics by being the first game in the franchise to be a first person shooter.
With Dragon Ball Xenoverse, Bandai Namco Games is striving to create one of the most ambitious DRAGON BALL video game experiences ever; with an expansive online multiplayer world, a multitude of game modes, and for the first time ever... players can create their own fully customizable characters and actually play a part in rewriting the classic franchise's History!
For the first time, the Jurassic Park franchise comes to LEGO video games, spanning more than two decades of epic films from Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment,...
One of the most successful first - person shooter video game franchises in the world has a pair of powerful women leading the charge on Xbox One's Halo: The Master Chief Collection (due November 11th) and 2015's Halo 5 Guardians.
If you are a fan of the Wolfenstein franchise, you will be happy to hear that Bethesda Softworks and Machine Games released a short video featuring a cutscene from their much - anticipated first - person shooter Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus.
There's no denying that coming in completely new not only to the Super Mega Baseball franchise but without playing a single baseball video game ever, the controls were a bit of a struggle at first.
[15] On December 12, 2006, during a press conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Dragon Quest franchise, Square Enix announced that Dragon Quest IX would be released exclusively for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console, making it the first main Dragon Quest title to debut on a handheld.
The game marks a new pinnacle for the franchise, and today Nintendo gave the world its first look at the immense, living and breathing world of the Wii U version of the game at the E3 video game trade show in Los Angeles.
Tager, Makoto, Nu and Es were featured in the game's first reveal video showing only characters from one of the franchises that will take part in the crossover title.
Grand Theft Auto is one of the biggest franchises in video game history and it is set to make it's mark for the first time on the Nintendo DS.
The film, based on the long - running video game franchise from Konami, has been in development hell since it was first announced, but Anderson's always been on as director and writer.
The latest installment in the best - selling music / rhythm video game franchise, Guitar Hero World Tour transforms music gaming by expanding Guitar Hero's ® signature guitar gameplay into a cooperative band experience that combines the most advanced wireless instruments with new revolutionary online and offline gameplay modes including online Band Career and 8 - player «Battle of the Bands,» which allows two full bands to compete head - to - head online for the first time ever.
The latest instalment in the # 1 best - selling video game franchise of 2007, Guitar Hero World Tour transforms music gaming by expanding Guitar Hero's signature guitar gameplay into a cooperative band experience that combines the most advanced wireless controllers with new revolutionary online * and offline gameplay modes including Band Career and 8 - player «Battle of the Bands,» which allows two full bands to compete head - to - head online for the first time ever.
Video Games Live was the FIRST in the world to officially perform music from game franchises such as Kingdom Hearts, Halo, Warcraft, Sonic, Myst, Tron, Metal Gear Solid, Tomb Raider, StarCraft, Diablo, Civilization, God of War, Skyrim, BioShock, Mass Effect, Silent Hill, Shadow of the Colossus, Assassin's Creed, Uncharted, Street Fighter, Megaman, Resident Evil, Tetris, Earthworm Jim, Journey, DOTA, Red Dead Redemption, Destiny, Monkey Island, Cave Story and MANY MORE!
It's the video game equivalent of a blockbuster movie franchise and was one of the first to utilise performance techniques that are now commonplace throughout the industry.