Repressive measures taken by the British government to quell Indian nationalist agitation meant that expansions of the franchise regarding legislative councils were met by mistrust: Indian politicians in Bengal refused to participate in the 1920 elections, and formally adopted a policy of boycott and non-cooperation.
I think about it, and I realize there’s been some version of a Batman or Spiderman or Superman franchise since I was a boy, since before I was a boy.
I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you’ll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the ‘Lost’ world.
I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process.
You just can’t put a ‘3’ after the title of the film. If you have a franchise that has worked, it does not mean that you can go on making it.
Everything I’ve tried to do at Laika, searching for an artful blend of darkness and light, intensity and warmth, humour and heart, I wanted to bring to the Transformers franchise.
I don’t think I’m ever really going to run the risk of disappearing into a Marvel franchise. I just don’t know how I would fit into a catsuit.
There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie – hence the ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ franchise – but not for hopefully years on the air. It’s a sight gag, not a story.
For ‘Ghostbusters,’ the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It’s not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it’s LeBron or anybody that contributes.
As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald’s and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
One of the strengths of the ‘Resident Evil’ game franchise is that they keep changing it up.
Yeah, I mean, I was growing up with the ‘Rocky’ movies. Im a big fan of the franchise. My father was a big fan of the franchise, too.
Not only does Yahoo! have a unique franchise, it increasingly has industry-leading tools, technology and, most importantly, people.
The range of ‘Doctor Who’ is, I would argue, bigger than the range of any other television program or movie franchise.
I wish they could do away with the franchise tag.
With a franchise movie, it’s got to turn the wheels of the industry, and the studio has to have them. So you start with a release date. They say we’re going to make a new ‘Bourne’ film, and it comes out summer of X. Then they start on a script, and invariably, the script is not ready in time.
If you can get a second-round pick that makes it, it’s unbelievable for that franchise, what you save and all the other things to build. You’re always looking for guys like that.
Star Wars’ was a sell-out from the start, and that is just about the only remarkable thing about this depressingly mediocre franchise.
I can say I’m not doing ‘X-Men.’ I love the franchise, and I love the people who make them on and off screen.
The woeful tales of ‘Super Mario Bros.’ and ‘Street Fighter’ have taught studios that merely slapping a name to a movie is not enough to bring in the fans of the franchise. Also, the way games now unfold their stories more parallels that of a movie, with characters and plot points actually meaning as much as a high score.
I knew very little about ‘Spider-Man’. I grew up more in the ‘Superman’ generation. ‘Spider-Man’ – I didn’t know so much. But it is a really successful franchise, and I’m happy to be involved with it.
I’ve been a huge fan of virtually every incarnation and spin-off of the ‘Star Trek’ franchise (don’t get me started on ‘Voyager,’ though), but there’s something about the purity of the original series that really appeals to me.
Before sequels became the most reliable way to make a buck, Bond set the standard for lavish serial adventures. Before Hollywood found gold in multimillion-dollar adaptations of comic-book characters – in the Superman, Batman and Spider-Man blockbusters – Bond was the movies’ first big-budget franchise superhero.
It’s been a dream come true, you know, just making it to the NBA and being drafted by a great franchise like Boston.
The themes, ideas and the characters from ‘Skyfall’ can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story.
It’s easy to get caught up in a moment and think, ‘Oh, I’ve been offered some giant studio film or a superhero franchise or some actor wants to meet with me about a project they want to do.’ And it’s easy to get caught up in a moment because it’s flattering. But you can’t do a movie because it’s flattering.
Dabangg’ is an actor-driven franchise.
When I got the name ‘The Franchise,’ the gimmick, and turned it into what it became, I put my heart and soul into that.
Mantle didn’t want to stick out, but he did. He didn’t wish to be treated as special, but he was. He was uncomfortable being the center of attention, but he was the centerfielder for the most famous franchise in sports.
If I ran a national burger franchise – which I don’t – I’d make it a rule that no two customers can be greeted with precisely the same words and that every third customer must be grossly insulted as a matter of course. Just to keep the atmosphere nice and lively. And to keep the staff laughing.
Everyone in the world knows ‘Spider-Man.’ And to be accepted into such a large franchise was overwhelming.
Whether it’s with a ‘Metroid’ experience or a ‘Donkey Kong’ experience, we’re constantly looking to push the envelope on the IP versus doing sequential small iterations with a particular franchise.
I really like action movies. The ‘Die Hard’ franchise. And the ‘Bourne’ movies.
I think that ‘Fox & Friends’ audience is going to increase. That franchise in the morning is very important to any television operation because they make money.
Within the structure of ‘Scream 4,’ there is the film within a film, but that’s been part of the ‘Scream’ franchise since ‘Scream 2,’ when you had the ‘Stab’ franchise.
The making of the Barack Obama franchise far exceeded the skill set of Washington’s best. In fact, the recipe for Mr. Obama’s global popularity can be attributed less to political minds and chance than to the enduring power of Hollywood.
‘Fast and Furious’ is the only franchise that I’ve directed that I did not create from scratch. So it definitely was an eye-opening experience for me coming to that world. I had to be respectful of the roles that had been established by the filmmakers before me, and I was cool with that.
We made too many expensive movies trying to offset the loss of the ‘LOTR’ income. There was a lot of pressure to re-create that franchise, which turned out to be unhealthy for us, because it’s such a once-in-a-lifetime success. It would be like trying to re-create ‘Avatar’ over and over again.
If a franchise wants me, they’ll take me.
My passion for ‘Star Trek’ is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.
I have made my mark as an actor and I have also established myself as a producer with a franchise like ‘Dabangg.’
There have been discussions of doing ‘The Demon Cycle’ on both large and small screen scale, and while there is no project currently in development, I think the series has both the big imagery and complex character development to have legs either as a TV series or film franchise.
You cannot take bank interest rates very sharply down: you will lose your deposit franchise.
I think Chennai, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Mumbai have very loyal fans. That’s the beauty of franchise cricket.
It took me a while to understand the meaning of a franchise: the reasons why you see lawyer, doctor, cop shows. It’s not because anyone in their right mind says, ‘You know, what’s the most fascinating thing in the world?’ It’s because you need something new that happens every week in a frame.
The Celtics are an amazing franchise and a great organization to play with.
IPL is a T20 franchise tournament combining cricket and Bollywood to offer entertainment.
Real Housewives of N.Y.C.’ is the best of the franchise because we EVOLVE!
We are definitely doing ‘Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety 2,’ it’s a great franchise to take forward.
The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
