Sentences with phrase «of dollars franchise»

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Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

John Schnatter, father of the global billion - dollar pizza franchise, explains how he builds a «culture of entrepreneurship» that encourages employees to motivate themselves.

Some of the biggest cracks so far have shown up at ESPN, the multi-billion dollar broadcasting behemoth controlling access to a huge swath of programming from almost every major sports franchise from the National Football League to Major League Baseball.

While some franchises, like Domino's and Jimmy John's, were built with a delivery fleet at the heart of their model, retroactively adding a similar fleet to, say, McDonald's would cost franchisees millions of dollars with no guarantee of a sales bump.

Poised to secure GolfTEC's position in the $ 62 billion golf industry, Assell needed a million - dollar influx of cash to expand his market - leading, high - tech, golf instruction business - he wanted to double the number of company - owned stores and expand the company's franchise operation.

Sure, some franchises cost thousands — even millions — of dollars to start.

Those whose prowess is exceptional can earn tens of millions of dollars over their career and help the franchises for which they play generate hundreds of millions in ticket sales and TV revenue.

The output of franchise establishments in nominal dollars in 2013 will increase 4.3 percent (following a 4.9 percent increase in 2012) from $ 769 billion to $ 802 billion (an increase of $ 33 billion).

The Qaeda North Africa affiliate is now considered one of the best armed and wealthiest of the Qaeda franchises across the world, largely because of millions of dollars gained in kidnapping ransoms, drug proceeds and illicit trafficking in fuel and tobacco, General Ham said.

«These recognitions show individuals that the Anago franchise model appeals to many different groups of people, who can find long - term success in the ever - growing, 100 billion dollar commercial cleaning industry,» Povlitz added.

But there are aspects of franchising to consider before ponying up tens of thousands of dollars for a franchise.

Also, Menchie's Franchise Development Managers have experience helping franchise candidates explore other sources of financing, such as home equity lines of credit and self - guided IRAs, which can allow you to start a business using pre-tax dollars without penalties or paying income tax on the start - upFranchise Development Managers have experience helping franchise candidates explore other sources of financing, such as home equity lines of credit and self - guided IRAs, which can allow you to start a business using pre-tax dollars without penalties or paying income tax on the start - upfranchise candidates explore other sources of financing, such as home equity lines of credit and self - guided IRAs, which can allow you to start a business using pre-tax dollars without penalties or paying income tax on the start - up dollars.

Other franchises, such as restaurants, hotels, and resorts, can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars — which is something most people do not have on hand.

On the far end of the scale, there are franchises like resorts and luxury hotels, which employ can employ hundreds of people, plus subcontractors for cleaning services and maintenance, and can cost millions of dollars.

There are franchises that have a buy - in price of only a few hundred dollars.

When it comes to starting a standard and large scale cleaning company with several outlets in key cities in the United States of America, a cleaning company that can carry out pressure cleaning and any other form of cleaning services on a commercial level and a company with the intention of selling franchise, then you should look towards budgeting well one million, five hundred thousand dollars ($ 1.5 million).

When it comes to starting a standard and large scale cleaning company with several outlets in key cities in Australia, a cleaning company that can carry out pressure cleaning and any other form of cleaning services on a commercial level and a company with the intention of selling franchise, then you should look towards budgeting well one million, five hundred thousand dollars (AUD$ 1.5 million).

The Fair Work Commission has axed Domino's Pizza's long expired agreements that paid thousands of workers significantly below minimum rates, leaving the franchise facing tens of million of dollars in higher labour costs.

A letter to franchisees said those franchisees offered a reduced tenure would be offered an amount equal to the greater of two times the initial franchise fee, which is a far cry from the hundreds of thousands of dollars, or in some cases $ 1 million - plus, franchisees paid for stores on the secondary market, including goodwill.

The New York State Public Service Commission is taking legal action against the parent company of a local cable television and internet provider, threatening a million - dollar fine and possible re-evaluation of its cable TV franchise deal in New York City.

According to a lawsuit filed by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office against the corporate franchiser that owns Domino's Pizza, the computer system used by franchises across the state systematically undercounted hours worked by employees, shortchanging them hundreds of thousands of dollars.

«We have companies that spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the past couple of years, competing for a casino franchise license, so this is a valuable commodity.»

«Number one [is] uncertainty and volatility linked to currency exchanges... like the rouble and the dollar [and] there are all these Brexit consequences that everyone is still discounting but we have still yet to see over a 12 - month period,» says López, who has overall responsibility for the areas of retail, franchise management and global expansion.

Hollywood's endless factory line of sequels, rehashing of ideas and exhuming of dormant franchises to rake in the box office dollars has lent a soap opera feel to blockbuster season.

While I understand the studios desire to squeeze every last dollar out of the franchise, they should have made one exceptionally good film instead of taking the risk of separating the material.

There's a theory in American entertainment: there can never be too much of a good thing, particularly a gazillion dollar grossing movie franchise.

Its story of a sadistic plutocrat who likes to punish women in his sex dungeon and insist that they sign nondisclosure agreements accounts for millions of book sales and a billion - dollar movie franchise, consumed eagerly by an enthusiastic female audience.

Let us now pay homage to the film that started a billion - dollar franchise and begat a cottage industry of lesser copycats.

Director J. J. Abrams («Lost,» «Alias») brings his unique blend of action and drama to the billion - dollar franchise.

«Skyfall» (2012) Box Office Take: $ 1,109 billion 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 9 Twenty - three movies in, James Bond finally hit the billion dollar club, with «Skyfall» nearly doubling the gross of previous franchise high «Casino Royale.»

As its final act unfolded, you could see millions — if not billions — of dollars worth of franchises being unassembled before your eyes; characters that people hold close to their hearts crumbling away to nothing.

Our studio had its first ever $ 1 billion worldwide grossing film in Michael Bay's hit «Transformers: Dark of the Moon;» we successfully re-launched our «Mission Impossible» franchise with Tom Cruise, JJ Abrams and Brad Bird; our latest installment in the «Paranormal Activity» franchise had another $ 100 million dollar success; our first original animated film «Rango,» from director Gore Verbinski, earned rave reviews and more than $ 100 million at the domestic box office; and we released global phenomenon «Super 8,» directed by JJ Abrams, who will now direct the newest «Star Trek» for 2013.

Persona 5 came in second behind Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and had «the strongest debut month for any title in Persona franchise history, with packaged dollar sales five times that of the previous best - selling debut, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4,» according to NPD analyst Mat Piscatella.

What started as a way of parodying the «Scream» films (themselves ostensibly a parody of the horror genre to begin with) has evolved into a franchise which takes shots at pretty much any movie it wants, from «Million Dollar Baby» to «Brokeback Mountain.»

At the top of the list, the billion - dollar big guns: franchises, superhero movies, animated kid - flicks and single - serving comedies — the whole high - calorie / low nutritional monoculture diet the studios would prefer us to subsist on, like docile teenage boys easily distracted by big bangs and shiny objects.

Entertainment Weekly has the first look at the upcoming Terminator: Genisys with an article subtitled «How To Save A Billion - Dollar Franchise» — a strategy that includes the casting of faces new and scientifically - validated - as - old, an irritating (and therefore memorable) name, and finally, a proper marketing push.

Thanks to the participation of Danny Glover (freshly bankable from the Lethal Weapon franchise) Burnett was able to raise a budget of over a million dollars.

But it's not a perfect world and money is a factor, especially when it comes to investing hundreds of dollars in buying the games and collecting the figures now available across three major game franchises.

With the horror - franchise Paranormal Activity going strong (the three movies released so far have brought in an excess of half - a-billion dollars) and recent religious horror films doing well in the box office (The Devil Inside), the Paranormal Activity folks are...

The director of the Monster Hunter series, Kaname Fujioka, never intended to create a multi-million dollar franchise, according to a recent interview with Famitsu magazine.

Die Hard was such a blockbuster hit, it not only created a 5 - movie billion - dollar franchise, but also inspired a plethora of wannabe knockoffs like Under Siege, Sudden Death, Passenger 57, Executive Decision, Cliffhanger, Speed, and The Rock.

Daniel Casey has been set to write the script for «Fast and Furious 9,» the ninth installment of Universal's billion - dollar franchise.

Today, at a grand unveiling at the 007 stage at Pinewood Studios, director Sam Mendes revealed the title of the 24th James Bond film - and the follow - up to the franchise's first billion - dollar grosser, Skyfall - will be SPECTRE.

The other theory is that the franchise's public relations benefits, from loudly donating a portion of opening week ticket proceeds to an important conservation cause to simply promoting environmentalism and ecological awareness, outweigh the relatively minor financial losses suffered by this multi-billion dollar corporation.

Daniel Radcliffe's screen test was the beginning of a legacy that would expand into eight films (nine if you include the upcoming Eddie Redmayne — starring prequel, «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them») and a $ 15 billion - dollar franchise.

If you're a young actor who has just been an integral part of a multi-billion dollar fantasy film franchise, what do you do next?

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has just closed a deal with Bryan Singer to direct X-Men: Apocalypse, the next installment of its billion - dollar Marvel mutants franchise.

Mistakes happen even to professionals, and even with blockbuster franchises and millions of dollars on the line.

No vampire fangs, no ability to see into the future; this is just ordinary Ashley Greene proving she's got something to offer even without the bells and whistles of a multimillion dollar franchise.

That prediction has come to pass, marginally, as the $ 2 billion - dollar franchise adapted from Suzanne Collins» YA novels comes in for a landing, but you also might just as well go back and read the review of Part 1, since it holds generally true of the somewhat more eventful Part 2.