Not exact matches
That live - watching has translated into
big advertising sales for networks and huge broadcasting
rights fees for owners
of NFL and NBA
franchises and other professional sports teams.
The
biggest potential snag is finding the
right franchise partners; the people who will buy a local branch
of your company and run it as their own.
The Resident Evil
franchise has been through so many changes over the past decade and going back and remaking this particular game on this
big of a scale is a difficult task to get
right.
Sometimes it slips the mind just how varied developer Deep Silver's back catalogue really is,
right up until two
of their
bigger franchises are put side by side in a bundle.
The animated movie
of 2014 that really kicked you
right in the feels, How To Train Your Dragon 2 balanced the swooping, soaring excitement
of seeing loveable characters blast fire at bad guys on the backs
of winged wyrms with an emotional side that saw fans
of the
franchise blubbing into their Hiccup - emblazoned
Big Gulps.
Since acquiring the
rights to the collection
of the collection
of timeless tales in the early Sixties, Walt Disney has adapted them to both the
big and small screens, even extending the popular
franchise in recent years by creating sequels for such peripheral characters as Tigger (2000), Piglet (2003) and Heffalump (2005).
That landed him
right at the deep end, hired by Leonardo DiCaprio «s Appian Way company to adapt an Atlantic Monthly article into «The Infiltrator,» a thriller about a British spy undercover in the I.R.A. Again, that film's not yet made it out
of development hell, but it worked, as Zetumer is perhaps the only man to have written for two
of the
biggest espionage
franchises — he did a script polish on 007 entry «Quantum
of Solace,» and was hired by Universal (albeit without the knowledge
of Paul Greengrass, hence the director's exit from the
franchise) to write an unused draft for a fourth «Bourne «movie.
Considering Gears
of War is one
of Microsoft's
biggest franchises,
right next to Halo, there's been surprisingly little hype surrounding Gears
of War: Judgment, especially in comparison to the vast advertising campaign that was behind Gears
of War 3.
Then, you add Arc System Works to the mix, developers
of serious pedigree with Guilty Gear, BlazBlue and Persona 4: Arena all being highly successful in their own
right, and you combine their efforts for a Dragon Ball game, one
of the
biggest multimedia
franchises in the entire world.
That's not to say the products
of these mediums are above reinterpretation in a creative sense, but executives (that's a key word
right there) must always balance the risk
of destroying
franchise potential (and there's another) with the chancer's reward
of cashing in on a
big name.
The WWE
franchise is no laughing matter, and since its humble beginning it has become one
of the
biggest selling sports entertainment
franchises of all time, selling out PPV's left and
right, making movies, music and yes, video games.
Based on the
biggest fighting game
franchise of all time, Tekken: Blood Feud offers high - octane action and compelling character - driven storylines, bringing the fight
right to the comic page!
The Resident Evil
franchise has been through so many changes over the past decade and going back and remaking this particular game on this
big of a scale is a difficult task to get
right.
Even though I have never played any
of the other games in the Re; Birth strand
of the
franchise I found that Hyperdimension Neptunia Re; Birth3: V Generation did a good job
of not making me feel alienated and it has definitely opened my eyes to one
of the
bigger franchises on the PlayStation Vita
right now!
The Japanese brand is in rude health
right now, owing to a steady stream
of big - hitting titles from both original and existing
franchises.
Right around the same time, publisher Take - Two announced that they had delayed a «highly - anticipated title» from one
of their
biggest franchises.
To celebrate QuakeCon, Bethesda's yearly iD Software - centric convention
of all things tech and gaming, the publisher has got a ton
of pretty amazing sales going on
right now for all their
biggest franchises.