Sentences with phrase «put new franchises»

This meant they could drive player contract prices down, pick and choose where to put new franchises, and have cities competing for the team.

Not exact matches

Unlike many franchises that put out a new edition every couple of years, the sports game cycle is set to the clock of real life.

Seattle's new minimum wage law groups franchises with large businesses, putting the pressure on independent franchisees to increase workers» pay at an accelerated pace (a move that sparked a discrimination lawsuit from the IFA).

Owning a franchise business is an ideal venture for those who are new to business ownership or those who have business experience, but do not want to do all of the legwork of putting together a company from scratch.

«Many new franchise systems are out there letting anyone franchise no matter what their qualifications are or where they want to put the location,» Stritzel maintains.

The league would not have moved a team out of Philadelphia just to put a third franchise in the greater New York area.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled a plan to put tax free zones on upstate SUNY campuses, where new businesses and those poached from out of state can set up without paying property, sales or franchise taxes for a decade.

That's why it's right to put the East Coast Mainline back in private hands Main From Tony Lodge: Why new rail franchises must not become new railopolies»

While the fascists at the Star Wars franchise are firing directors for failing to conform to formula, Marvel takes an agreeable leap forward by putting New Zealand actor / director Taika Waititi in charge of one of its superhero blockbusters.

Description: This trailer puts epic moments from the new and the old side by side, showing players just how much the franchise has evolved over the past eight years.

This trailer puts epic moments from the new and the old side by side, showing players just how much the franchise has evolved over the past eight years.

Director David Yates clearly has his sights set on franchise country again — since rounding off the POTTER cinematic saga he ruffled the BBC's feathers by putting a new Doctor Who film in development, with TARZAN perhaps forming another opening gambit until that can be finalized.

After a live - action bedroom opening which lets Carly Simon put her own spin on the Sherman Brothers» theme song (beginning Simon's short - lived association with the franchise), we open with the new material on Christmas Eve, as friends come over to Pooh's to decorate his house and tree.

«[With the Sonic franchise] devs were trying to put new formulas and tricks into the games,» he points out.

Instead, director Gary Ross has assembled a talented and diverse female cast to put a new spin on the franchise.

Two new comic book film franchises launch in 2015, and we now know who'll be putting sound to these superhero flicks.

Enjoying a celebrated franchise reboot in 2013 courtesy of publisher Square Enix, the game itself has never been better and the folks crammed into smart Hollywood suits wisely cast rising star Alicia Vikander to put a new spin on the resurrected character.

And so came «Alien» in 1979, a film that broke new ground in visual effects, established a hugely successful franchise and cult following, made Sigourney Weaver a star and put Scott on the map.

Universal Pictures is set to put a new spin on this monster franchise, returning to its original horror roots.

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 if the big news of Disney acquiring Lucasfilms and planning a new franchise trilogy wasn't enough, the studio is already putting the plan into motion, locking an Academy Award winning writer to pen «Episode VII.»

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice PG - 13 for intense sequences and action throughout and some sensuality Extended Cut Rated R sequences of violence Rotten Tomatoes Score: 27 % Available on DVD, Blu - ray, Blu - ray 3D and 4K Ultra HD With the huge success that Marvel has had with their Avengers franchise, DC has moved into that space with this new Justice League intro that poses an angry Batman who sees a threat in the newest disasters surrounding Superman — and thus tries to put an end to the alien hero.

I'll admit I'm a little disappointed that Resident Evil 7 is making a serious departure from the more action - oriented style of recent Resident Evil releases (though I will heartily admit that Resident Evil 6 was a bit of a mess to put it lightly), however I am also excited to see how Capcom is planning to retool the franchise for a new generation of gamers.

Plus, in the studio's obvious effort to reboot the franchise, it put the feature films New Mutants and X-Men: Dark Phoenix into play, and ordered the X-Men themed TV series The Gifted.

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 10th April to Sunday 12th April 2015... Despite four new enteries cracking the top ten, none could put up any kind of challenge to reigning box office champ Fast & Furious 7, with the latest instalment in the action franchise adding another # 5.4 -LSB-...]

Domestically, there doesn't appear to be much interest in a new Lara Croft, which puts WB in a tight spot when it comes to developing a franchise.

I may be a bit late writing this review seeing as Breath of the Wild debuted a little more than a month ago but I really wanted to take the time to explore as much of the world as possible and let this new experience in the classic franchise sink in before I put a review together.

A police inspector tracking down Victor and his new pal gets an origin story of his own, one that puts him in line to become the Lionel Atwill character if this movie becomes a franchise, which we ought pray it does not.

30 years after the iconic role that put Arnold Schwarzenegger on the map, the actor returns to the franchise with Terminator Genisys, the first in a brand new trilogy about an apocalyptic future where Read More →

Maybe this is a minority view: I thought Toby Maguire was superb as Spider - Man, thank you, and rebooting the franchise so soon was more about Hollywood's appetite for comic - based blockbusters than any groundswell for putting a new face on t...

For example: I've just published a new ebook (non-fiction) and at first I thought it would be just targeted for bike owners and people looking for extra income (How To Make Money With Your Bike) and after I wrote it, I contacted a nationwide sign franchise with 575 stores, and proposed they become the publisher if we also put in an order form, within the ebook, that links their website with the reader.

During her presentation, she announced that her «Put Me in the Story» personalized book division — we covered it Tuesday — is going into one of its several brand - franchise relationships with the Lemony Snicket line to produce a new series of personalized picture books priced in the $ 30 range and ripe, of course, for adjacent gift - merchandise development.

Just gonna put my thoughts out there... Driveclub is a new franchise, it's unfair to say that it is nowhere near the standard of a game such as Forza.

Whether we're talking about HD remakes, revived franchises, or prequels and sequels a plenty, an insanely large portion of publishers are greenlighting new versions of old games, pinning their hopes — and bottom lines — on gamers» willingness to put on rose - colored glasses and bathe in sepia tones.

Such new additions to the FIFA franchise include the ability to make substitutions on the go without pausing the game, whilst improved crowd reactions and atmospheres put you in the centre of the action.

When Halo: Reach tied up Bungie's Halo saga, they were able to put it in a bow and gift it to Microsoft's new Halo team, meanwhile Bungie were finally left to pursue their own universe, free of the creative constraints that being consigned to a single, multi-million selling franchise can sometimes do.

One of the first franchises used to put the new generation of hardware to the test was one of the most popular science fiction series of all time: Star Wars.

Personally, I'd love to see some sort of new single player expansion announced for Mass Effect Andromeda, but with rumors swirling that BioWare Montreal has moved on to other projects and the Mass Effect franchise put on hold, I'm thinking that is no longer likely.

Reinvigorating interest in what was presumed to be a dead franchise, 2K Marin scrabbled to appease fans, both new and old, by once again changing the mechanics to allow for greater tactical control by putting the player in charge of a small team and reintroducing the strategic elements it had previously eschewed.

Why start a brand new iteration of a trilogy of your biggest franchise and put the first game of this new trilogy on a console that was being replaced in a year?

It's not a terrible game at all, but it is one that new players to the franchise should put on the backburner until they know if Dynasty Warriors is their cup of tea.

Take your team all the way in Madden NFL 17 and put yourself at the center of your team's Championship run in Franchise mode, delivering all - new ways to play and more decisions to make.

«That means we're putting all our creative support, and all our expertise in creating blockbuster franchises, into a colossal Destiny Beta that we believe will set a new bar for the next generation of games.

Monster Hunter: World puts the previously handheld - centric franchise's intensity in full blast, bringing in the classic mechanics and mixing it up with some new gameplay.

For a portable version of the Assassin's Creed franchise, and as someone new to the franchise, I found that Liberation is a well - polished and well put - together bit of goodness.

While others take established games and put a new swing on the franchise.

A superb game collection, compatibility with all DS games and massive first - party support (i.e. excellent new entries from classic franchises) means that you'll rarely be able to put it down, even if the stereoscopic 3D is a bit of a gimmick.

I'm in the camp of old - school fans of the franchise and loved Awakening for bringing in new fans and making subtle changes to put a bigger emphasis on pairing up units.

The thing, though, is that gamers have short memories, and Konami has incredible franchises - if Konami started treating those franchises with respect, and started putting out brand new games in them that are worthy of the long history of those IP?

Previous entries in the God of War franchise have sold over 4 million units throughout their shelf life, putting the new God of War on track to match its predecessors or to set a new series sales record.