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Despicable Me First Animated Franchise To Hit $5B: Here Are The Top Grossing Movie Franchises Ever
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 1:34pm | 913Media company Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) has another reason to celebrate with its Despicable Me franchise hitting the $5 billion milestone with the recent success of "Despicable Me 4" in movie theaters. Here's a look at the important milestone and how it stacks up to other movie franchises...
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Hasbro Secures $500M In Bonds As Part of Strategic Turnaround
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 5:57pm | 369Hasbro Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS) has raised $500 million of corporate debt through a sale of 10-year bonds, its first bond sale since 2019. The toy giant behind staples such as Monopoly, Beyblade and Play-Doh and film franchises Transformers and G.I. Joe issued debt with yields of 1.6% above treasury bills...
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Hasbro Apologizes To Activision Blizzard For Claiming Lost Transformers Games: Comments 'Were Made in Error'
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 - 4:55pm | 650Hasbro, Inc (NASDAQ: HAS) has apologized to Activision Blizzard, Inc (NASDAQ: ATVI) for saying that the company had misplaced Xbox 360-era Transformers games like "Transformers: War for Cybertron" and its sequel "Fall of Cybertron." In an interview with Transformers World 2005...
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Activision Lost Old Transformers Games, Hasbro Hopes They'll Be Found If Microsoft Deal Goes Through
Tuesday, August 1, 2023 - 6:02pm | 446Hasbro, Inc (NASDAQ: HAS), the toy company behind the Transformers franchise, is interested in bringing back the well-received Microsoft Corporation's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Xbox 360-era Transformers games like "Transformers: War for Cybertron" and its sequel "Fall of Cybertron."...
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Unleash The Power of Optimus Prime On TikTok: Text-To-Speech Feature Gets A Heroic Upgrade
Friday, May 12, 2023 - 6:49am | 781ViacomCBS’s (NASDAQ:VIAC) Paramount Pictures has teamed up with ByteDance-owned TikTok to incorporate the iconic voice of Optimus Prime into the platform’s text-to-speech functionality. What Happened: Paramount Pictures has teamed up...
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Mattel Expects To Issue 400% Loss, Embraces Diversity With New Barbie And Toy Partnerships
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 - 10:52am | 446Mattel Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) is expected to report a year-over-year decline in earnings when it issues its results for the quarter ending March 2023, according to analyst expectations. By The Numbers: The toymaker is expected to post a quarterly loss of 25 cents per share on revenues of $740.74...
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Move Over Pikachu, Is It Time To Catch LeBron James? Pokemon Go Maker Plans New NBA Game
Thursday, June 30, 2022 - 12:22pm | 702The gaming company that brought the successful “Pokemon Go” mobile app to life has its sights set on a professional sports league with a similar goal of getting people outside to play. What Happened: Niantic is working on a licensed game from the National Basketball Association (NBA)...
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Transformers Augmented Reality Game Coming From Studio Behind 'Pokemon Go'
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 - 5:04am | 453The company responsible for one of the most popular mobile games of the last decade will turn its efforts to creating a game based on the popular Transformers brand. What Happened: Niantic Labs, the company best-known for creating “Pokemon Go,” is creating “Transformers: Heavy...
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The Story Of Jack Wu: From 'Transformers' Fan To Robot Creator
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - 8:31am | 692Jack Wu is the co-founder and CEO of a robotic aerial security company: Nightingale Security. He grew up in a military family and, while other kids were watching cartoons, his dad had him watch military documentaries with him – because they only had one TV. “My passion for military...
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John Cena Has A Neck Made Of Steel (Perfect For His New 'Transformers' Role)
Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 2:56pm | 511World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE) superstar John Cena did some dangerous outside-the-box promotion for his recently-announced leading role in Viacom, Inc. (NYSE: VIAB)'s “Transformers” spin-off movie “Bumblebee.” On Tuesday’s episode of "...
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IMAX Touts Success Of Marvel's 'Captain America' Opening In China
Monday, May 9, 2016 - 10:28am | 269IMAX Corporation (USA) (NYSE: IMAX) announced over the weekend that the release of Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS)'s "Captain America: Civil War" achieved a record-level debut in China. IMAX said the film grossed $10 million across 283 IMAX screens in China. The company added that the film is on pace to...
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CinemaCon 2016: Paramount Continues Franchise Push While Keeping Eye On Award Season
Sunday, April 17, 2016 - 6:27pm | 551Over the last few days, Hollywood took a trip to Las Vegas for the annual CinemaCon event. It was there that exhibitors from all around the country came to see what movies are going to be burning up their screens through the rest of the year and beyond. This is a studio-by-studio recap of the...
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Viacom's 'Transformers' Sequels Causing Trouble For Time Warner
Saturday, February 13, 2016 - 11:37pm | 698Over the past few years, Viacom, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB)'s Paramount has relied very heavily on franchises to succeed at the box office. From "Mission Impossible" to "SpongeBob SquarePants," the Viacom-owned studio has had a ton of recognizable IP at its disposal. On Friday, Paramount unveiled it had...
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What Can Comcast Investors Expect From 'Jurassic World' This Weekend?
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 8:34am | 383While American moviegoers are gearing up for the release of the latest installment of the iconic “Jurassic Park” franchise, “Jurassic World,” Comcast Corp (NASDAQ: CMCSA) investors are eagerly awaiting the movie’s weekend box office numbers. This year has...
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Hasbro-DreamWorks Merger Is 'Interesting' And 'Irrational'
Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 4:13pm | 483Investors are definitely intrigued by the rumor that Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) and DreamWorks Animation Skg Inc (NASDAQ: DWA) will merge. As of this writing, shares of DreamWorks were up more than 11 percent. Hasbro, however, was trading down more than 4 percent. "Obviously [CEO Jeffrey...