Franchises

Kohl’s Corp. KSS 2.44% received takeover bids from private-equity firm Sycamore Partners and retail holding company Franchise Group Inc., FRG -0.69% according to people familiar with the matter. Sycamore’s bid values the Wisconsin department-store chain in the mid-$50s a share, while Franchise Group offered around $60, some of the people said, equating to…

via Marvel Studios Everyone has their own favorite franchise, but the discourse surrounding them has grown increasingly questionable in the age of social media, where even the most boneheaded or misguided of takes have a platform to gain some serious traction among the online community. Today’s entry into the never-ending debate is at least designed to be deliberately incendiary, but that hasn’t prevented netizens from unloading both barrels upon each other with increasing levels of sarcasm, shock, and…

Source: iMoreWhat you need to know Apple Arcade is a video game service that is available to Mac and iOS users via subscription. New games come to the subscription service regularly. June games include Cooking Mama Cuisine!, Frogger and the Rumbling Ruins, and Air Twister. Apple Arcade has been around since 2019 and regularly introduces new games to the subscription service for Mac and iOS users to enjoy. Among the games coming in June come from well-known franchises or creators. Firstly there's Cooking Mama Cuisine!,…

Ahead of Geoff Keighley’s not-E3 but also sorta kinda E3 Summer Games Fest next week, Sonic Team has released an extremely short teaser for Sonic Frontiers. I know there’s a vocal subset of the gaming community that hates when a new, vaguely open world-looking game gets shown and the gaming press calls it “Breath of the Wild meets X,” so I’m not going to do that. Instead, I’m going to say it looks like Breath of the Wild and Horizon Zero Dawn had a baby with Sonic. (Please don’t Google “X has a baby with Sonic.”)…

Capcom is considering the revival of some of its dormant franchises, depending on how much demand there is from fans. That’s according to a new investor relations Q&A, in which Capcom was asked what plans the company has for its dormant intellectual properties (via, VGC). Answering the question, a Capcom executive shared “we are currently putting together plans for our pipeline based on-demand data from the market.” “Going forward, we will continue to take customers’ wishes into consideration while devising our title…

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is perhaps the most popular media franchise in the world, and no aspect lends itself more to this distinction than its characters; each film seems to have more cameos and crossovers than can be reasonably kept track of, and it seems as though a brand new hero or villain makes a splash every other month. The serialized nature of the franchise lends itself well to all of these characters, but even Marvel Studios can’t help but mishandle a hero or two with so many different arcs to…

When Johnny Deep Was Willing To Reduce His Salary To Attract Big Franchises After Ugly Trial With Amber Heard ( Photo Credit – Instagram ; Wikimedia ) Everyone is aware that Hollywood actor Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s tumultuous marriage life, domestic violence allegations and legal battles, have cost Depp his career. Many brands and other production houses have refused having any working relationship with the actor. The most shocking was when Disney fired the actor from his role in Fantastic Beasts…