Sentences with phrase «made franchise history»

With their own anniversary up next year (their 20th), the Predators made franchise history on Sunday by advancing to the Western Conference final for the first time.

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.

Not exact matches

The first three «Hunger Game» films raked in over $ 2.3 billion worldwide, making it one of the most successful film franchises in recent history.

According to Nielsen, the movies have pulled in more than one billion viewers since they were originally shown in theaters, making it one of the most - watched movie franchises in TV history.

That kind of bold artistic vision pays off: Activision Blizzard announced this week that it shipped $ 500 million worth of games to retailers, good enough to make Destiny «the biggest new video game franchise launch in history.»

Papa John's early history reads like many pizza franchises: A young John Schnatter figures he can make a better pizza and begins delivering pies from a glorified broom closet in his father's Jeffersonville, Ind., bar.

It's that background and history that gives Espresso Americano the edge against other coffee franchises, and North America Director David Kubena says the company's knowledge will serve it well as it works to make greater inroads into the North American market.

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The No. 1 pick in the 2011 NFL Draft made good on almost all of his promise with the Panthers last season, leading them to the second Super Bowl in franchise history.

«We're about to make the most important decision in the history of this franchise, the new franchise.

There was a lot to process in the immediate aftermath of Game 2 in Washington — the Blue Jackets» run at franchise history, the Capitals» crisis of confidence and the offside review that held up the full celebration — but both the national and local announcers caught the skill that it took Matt Calvert to make his one - handed game - winner possible, walling off a defender with his free hand and using his plant leg for stick leverage to lift the puck into the top corner.

They picked up their first W in Franchise history on Sunday and against a group in Team Widen that has made the Semis in each of the past two seasons.

Fun fact: The Bulls» franchise actually has the two worst teams in NBA history to ever make the playoffs, although this 1985 - 86 team is most notable for a few reasons.

The Packers are 11 - 5 all - time in NFC / NFL Championship games, while the Falcons have only made it to the NFC Championship game three other times in franchise history.

The Yankees hadrolled out 11 starting pitchers (including five who made their major leaguedebuts) while going 21 - 29, the sixth - worst 50 - game start in the franchise's 107 - year history.

We've had a lot of success, won a lot of games, made the playoffs for the first time in franchise history four years in a row, but not won one playoff game.

Just taking his strikeout rate at Triple - A and copy / pasting it into the majors would make him one of the greatest strikeout hitters in franchise history, too, so it's not as if it's taken him this long to become a starter because he's been blocked by better players.

«Mangold made his first Pro Bowl in 2008, and finished with the second-most all - star honors in franchise history.

Dwight Clark making The Catch got the dynasty going, and thus will remain the biggest play in franchise history for the foreseeable future.

Watch us make our first pick in franchise history!

The Nuggets have made at least 10 three - pointers in their last six games, which is the second - longest active streak in the league, and the second - longest streak in franchise history (12 games streak from February 4 to March 1, 2017).

Then, a few hours later Team SigEp also made history by becoming the first Franchise in any All Sports Series League to ever win Three consecutive Championships.

Chicago, though, joins the Blue Jays and Indians as teams that have advanced, and made a little franchise history in the process: the Cubs have never made it to the NLCS in consecutive years, and the last time they were even in the postseason two years in a row (2007 and 2008) they were eliminated in the NLDS.

Stuck in one of the worst runs of results in franchise history, the Seattle Sounders front office is reportedly set to make some significant changes.

One of the few last successful horror franchises in modern history would have to be the Paranormal Activity flicks where it goes to show, that a film that makes noises in another room can scare the living hell out of millions of people.

The first few years of his career following the departure from the show were somewhat lackluster, but Smits eventually landed the role of Senator Bail Organa in the second and third Star Wars prequels, a move that would permanently cement him in film history in the minds of at least one very large fanbase.In addition to his work with the Star Wars franchise, Smits also made an inevitable return to the small - screen mid-decade with a prominent role on NBC's The West Wing during the show's 2004 - 2005 season.

The addition of vehicles in Skylanders: Superchargers isn't the most creative new gimmick in the franchise's history, but it's well - implemented enough to make this a solid series entry.

The film lacks the comedic element one would expect from O'Brien, but that is because the intent of this picture is not to make you laugh but rather to capture O'Brien in his most purest form; and a man who at the moment is on the rebound from a bitter disagreement, which saw him walk away from the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting.

Details are light on this big Pokémon RPG for now, but whenever it arrives, it will be the first one to make it to a home console in the franchise's 21 - year history.

He'd done more work than a lot of the other independent directors that made the leap, having made three features (Brick, The Brothers Bloom and Looper) and directed some very well received episodes of Breaking Bad, but it's hard to imagine any of that adequately prepared him for directing the middle chapter of the new trilogy in biggest franchise in movie history for the biggest studio on the planet.

So strap on your Plasma Beams and power up those Varia Suits because this past week, we here at Nintendo Wire have enjoyed a trip down memory lane through Metroid's extensive 30 - year history, exploring what makes the series such an influential legend in the gaming industry — not to mention one of my favorite gaming franchises of all time.

Though his argument was a bit tenuous («that delaying the Tonight Show into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting»), the way he stood his ground made him a hero, regardless of comedy tastes.

Pollak, Nerdist podcast co-host Matt Mira, history professor John Putman, actress Jeri Ryan, NASA engineer Bobak Ferdowsi, and make - up effects artist Doug Drexler sat down at the Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles to talk about Trek — the documentary returns to them many times as it moves from the franchise's beginning through the last movie of the original run.

Pictures, have grossed more than $ 7.7 billion to date worldwide at the box office, making Harry Potter the largest - grossing film franchise in history.

Through the Assassin's Creed franchise, Ubisoft has found a great way to take history, add a spin to it, and make it an amazing adventure through time for gamers.

MW3 Collection # 1 includes an unprecedented breadth and variety of content for Call of Duty ® downloadable release — four brand new multiplayer maps Liberation, Piazza, Overwatch and Black Box along with new Special Ops Missions Black Ice and Negotiator, marking the first time Special Ops has been made downloadable online in franchise history.

Call of Duty, the biggest franchise in history, makes more money in its first week sales than ANY Hollywood blockbuster has and probably ever will.

So strap on your Plasma Beams and power up those Varia Suits because for the next week, we here at Nintendo Wire are going on a trip down memory lane through Metroid's extensive 30 - year history to explore what makes the series such an influential legend in the gaming industry — not to mention one of my favorite gaming franchises of all time.

So strap on your Plasma Beams and power up those Varia Suits because this past week, we here at Nintendo Wire have enjoyed a trip down memory lane through Metroid's extensive 30 - year history, exploring what makes the series such an influential legend in the gaming industry — not to mention one of my favorite gaming franchises of all time.

This makes it the fastest selling game in the history of the Final Fantasy franchise.

Aerith Gainsborough «Midgar's Flower Girl» DLC: For you true Final Fantasy fans, we wanted to make sure you got a DLC code to put Lightning in one of the most recognizable costumes in franchise history.

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.

Outpost terrain being different each time also helps to keep it fresh and makes for some of the best combat yet in the history of the franchise.

The excitement surrounding the Call of Duty franchise had never been higher, with Modern Warfare 2 bringing in $ 310 million in first day sales across the United States and UK, making it the largest entertainment launch in history, with a reported 8 million players competing online in the game in the first 5 days post-launch.

For veteran players of the franchise, the roster will seem rather familiar as the franchises full cast of characters makes a return to the Three Kingdoms era of China's history.

While previous franchise knowledge almost certainly enriches the experience, the razor sharp presentation and gameplay make the game fun regardless of your prior Halo history.

Activision Publishing, Inc., announced today that the company sold more than 0 million of Destiny into retail stores and first parties worldwide as of day one, making the game the biggest new video game franchise launch in history.

The truth is that although the Zelda franchise has not been the most accessible franchise in gaming history, The Wind Waker HD did more to make itself accessible to disabled gamers than any previous title in the series.

When you think about some of the best franchises in video game history, there's a huge chance Halo is going to make it onto that list.

To mark this epoch - making event, and to give me an excuse to dust off some really ace old games, here's a potted history of the critically acclaimed franchise so far.