Sentences with phrase «franchise characters from»

Not exact matches

If you're like me and grew up playing Nintendo game consoles like the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super NES, Nintendo 64, and GameCube, you likely have fond memories of characters like Chun - Li and Ken from the «Street Fighter» franchise.

Spider - Man: Homecoming, the latest film starring the famous Marvel Comics character and the second reboot to the franchise, pulled in $ 50.5 million from 4,248 locations in its opening on Friday night.

May 1 - Toy maker Hasbro Inc has agreed to acquire children's entertainment and merchandising franchises, including the characters of the superhero TV show Power Rangers, from Saban Properties LLC in a deal valued at $ 522 million in cash and stock, the companies announced Tuesday.

Although there were a range of hit properties, including the movie Frozen, much of the earnings increase came from assets related to Marvel, whether it was movies like Guardians of The Galaxy or merchandise sales involving characters from the Avengers» franchise.

Frozen also has what Disney (DIS) calls «franchise» potential, which means that its characters and themes will translate across the company to everything from toys to theme park rides to interactive characters.

From LeDell Eackles to Nick Young, John «Hot Plate» Williams to Andray Blatche and Gheorghe Muresan to JaVale McGee, Washington's professional basketball franchise is known for its fringe characters.

In many ways, Halo 3: ODST marks a bold departure from the franchise formula, with story, characters, atmosphere and multiplayer that are refreshingly, surprisingly different.

, and a franchise - reinforced false sense of security coupled with a complete departure from character (Kent's as dour as Supes, and selfish to boot?).

The film, which is based on a television series (which was itself a spinoff from the Wallace & Gromit franchise), boasts a tremendously appealing stop - motion animation style that's heightened by an assortment of affable characters, and it's worth noting, too, that the movie's total absence of dialogue in no way hinders one's ability to get caught up in the briskly - paced narrative.

In a wonderful cartoon world populated by Mii characters, the players are able to play twelve different games, inspired by Nintendo biggest franchise, from Super Mario to Zelda.

Third, the field has to be winnowed from the very start, and it's tough to see certain much - liked characters killed off, some forever and others for whatever passes for «forever» in a corporate comic book franchise.

In fact, after two disastrous «Aliens vs. Predator» motion pictures, the heat - sensing thrill was pretty much gutted from the franchise, with any hope for the alien character to reign triumphantly once again squandered on filmmakers incapable of gruesome imagination.

The 50 - year - old actor was revealed to have joined the cast of the eighth movie in the franchise as the mysterious character DJ, and after fans suggested his character is Ezra Bridger from «Star Wars Rebels», director Rian Johnson has insisted that isn't true.

The Jack Kirby - created, Fantastic Four spinoff characters will get their own movie — separate from that franchise, unless this mess is all worked out by then — focusing on this advanced race evolved from the Kree's genetic experiments on early man.

This mutant is a character from the X-Men franchise.

The latest collection captures our favorite characters from The Hunger Games franchise.

Actor Jason Segel («How I Met Your Mother»), seemingly noticing the rash retirement forced onto The Muppets back in 1999 (when their last feature film, the slipshod «Muppets from Space», was released) and the lack of good old family humour and fozzie fuzzy, pitched a relaunch of the film franchise to Disney (who now have the rights to the characters).

Love him or hate him, Tingle is probably the most contentious character from the Legend of Zelda franchise.

Alicia Vikander (Jason Bourne, Ex Machina) stars as Lara Croft, the main character from the long - running video game franchise that follows an explorer who always seems to get caught up in danger and intrigue among historical artifacts and ruins.

It allowed players to build a party by choosing from several of the characters from each of the main entries in the franchise before embarking on a rhythm - based journey to save the universe.

But co-directors Anthony and Joe Russo and primary screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely adroitly use Thanos» hunt to yoke together stories and characters that range from the pompous gods of the Thor chronicles to the practical jokers of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise.

I've seen knockoff characters from famous franchises, as well as some horrifying unspeakable monsters (NSFW!)

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.

There are some protagonists from earlier entries — as well as all - new faces, such as lead characters Rowan and Lianna — but this is clearly a package aimed at modern followers of the franchise, and thanks to the focus on switching between units during battle, you'll get more of a chance to familiarise yourself with each one than you perhaps did in Hyrule Warriors.

One of the more popular characters from the Shrek franchise steps into the starring spotlight here, in an adventure whose locale is rather different from the familiar swamp - forest - castle fairy - tale settings of the parent films.

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We don't know whether Sonic's addition will come as a part of a story pack, level pack, team pack or fun pack and we don't know what additional characters from the Sonic franchise will also be appearing.

Namco Bandai today announced Saint Seiya Brave Soldiers, described as «a new fighting game that will feature an all - star cast of characters from one of the most beloved and well received Japanese anime franchises.»

Marvel's 10 - year plan reaches a penultimate crescendo with its biggest crossover event yet, as just about every major character from every solo franchise in the company's shared universe drops in to take on scavenger - hunting intergalactic heavy Thanos (an unrecognizable Josh Brolin).

For those who don't know, Tauriel is a character played by Evangeline Lilly in the final two installments of the franchise, one of two female characters in the entire story (both added from outside the source material), and the only character that is a complete invention of the film universe.

There are over 70 characters from the franchise but this time there are no transformations.

Whether you're a die - hard Monster Hunter or an obsessive amiibo collector, or in fact anywhere in between, you can set your sights on Play - Asia right now and pick up a trio of Monster Hunter amiibo figures depicting different characters and monsters from the franchise in mini, adorable figure form.

The game was a huge crossover title with characters from various franchises like Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Mega Man, Tekken, Tales of Vesperia and more.

Unfortunately his version of Johnny Storm feels like a rejected character from The Fast and the Furious franchise.

There's nothing particularly original or insightful to set this teen - dystopia thriller apart from the crowd, but strong characters will build some anticipation for the next instalment in the franchise.

There was the wide mix of characters available and playable worlds from the franchise, but there was also a huge error in its setup.

Since Deadpool 2 is expected to lead into a full X-Force film, the change in scope could provided a natural way to remove the character from the Fox franchise.

VICTORY CROWLEY, from writer - director Adam Green, is the fourth installment in the HATCHET franchise, resurrecting the legendary character of Victory Crowley himself for more mayhem and destruction.

The DLC, available now, adds more characters and goodies from across Capcom's other franchises, including Street Fighter, Darkstalkers and Final Fight.

As its predecessor established back in 1999, though, the Silent Hill franchise cranks the creepy dial up to 11 almost as soon as the experience begins when you learn that this is a letter from the lead character's James» wife.

With filming for the second instalment in the franchise now underway, Brolin has taken to Instagram to share an image from the set — chiefly, of him in the make - up chair, receiving his transformation into the character of Cable, a time - travelling soldier.

This number increases to well over 100 when you take into account that some characters, like Sloth from Goonies, can transform into multiple characters from the franchise.

In Project X Zone 2, players will create teams using characters from these franchises and take part in turn - based battles.

Two characters from one of Disney's more popular cartoon franchises Phineas and Ferb — sleuthing platypus Agent P and the titular Phineas — are joining the ruckus in Disney Infinity's Toy Box on April 1.

From Aaron Taylor - Johnson's words, the Quicksilver character will still be all about super speeds, but for Scarlet Witch and her over-powered abilities, there remains a big question mark and it depends on just how deep into crazy Joss Whedon wants to go with the franchise.

With close to 80 characters (plus CG characters numbering in the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands), multiple diverging / converging storylines, and an 18 - film franchise to service, Avengers: Infinity War has a tremendous amount of ground to cover, both literally and figuratively, from New York, Scotland, and Wakanda on Earth, to parts known and unknown in the deepest reaches of space, not to mention putting our favorite and not - so - favorite superheroes through one ringer after another.

As a standalone piece, separate from the Alien franchise, this film could have met with applause from fans of somber science fiction, instead of the sneers of those who love the characters and direction as delivered through Aliens.

Two characters from one of Disney's more popular cartoon franchises Phineas and Ferb — sleuthing platypus Agent P and the titular Phineas — are joining the ruckus in Disney Infinity's Toy Box on...

Characters from the franchises listed below make up some of the game's roster; others will be announced later.

The character did finally get an introduction in the spinoff X-Men Origins: Wolverine with Canadian actor Taylor Kitsch taking on the role, but suffering from the same adaptation issues most international characters face in the franchise - he lost his accent and wasn't the «Ragin» Cajun» fans know and love from the books.