Most adults, in the U.S. at least, don't want to be sword-wielding elves long enough to let a gamemaker turn a profit.
Most companies with half a billion in revenues do find a way to turn a profit.
The advantage of these kinds of films is that they tend to be relatively cheap to make, so Never Say Never doesn't have to be a blockbuster to turn a healthy profit for Viacom.
The deadline to enter is this week and some prospective contestants are also looking to solve a societal problem and simultaneously turn a profit.
While top-shelf stars like Ferrell and Cage often sell more tickets, he says their movies are often that much more expensive to produce and, as a result, rarely turn a sizable profit for their studios.
Along with a stock symbol comes the demand to turn a profit, to control costs.
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Cleaning product company Method, however, set out to prove that a company could reuse and recycle and still turn a profit.
Every offering prospectus must disclose the risks, the amount being raised, potential box office and the length of time a production will have to run before it can turn a profit.
Away from the mass market handsets of the Samsung Galaxy range, the Nokia Lumia Windows Phone, and the monolithic iPhone, the boutique smartphone has a much lower production run, has a greater affinity with their users, and still turn a profit to keep the boardroom happy.
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The Peris, who kept a majority stake in the company, expect to turn a modest profit this year.
It was a temporary measure intended to allow families to receive food aid from relatives abroad following a series of devastating hurricanes, but in a country of shortages it was soon being used to turn a profit.
Those firms may get a boost themselves if investors think they're likely to turn a profit.
Of India's three listed airlines, a budget carrier, Spicejet, was the only one to turn a profit in the most recent quarter.
For a pricey show like Mad Men to continue it needs to turn a good profit.
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Even aol, a poster child for crazy bubble valuations, showed that it could turn a profit as early as 1992.
For a company to hire a new person, the company must conclude that it will turn a larger profit by hiring that person than by not hiring that person.
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Electricity comes fitfully: a huge headache for factories that need to operate around the clock to turn a profit.
Companies without a voice service to defray the cost of data infrastructure will find it impossible to turn a profit and will be taken over or will fold.
But securing a World Series appearance guarantees at least seven postseason home games, pretty much ensuring that the club will turn a profit in the inaugural year of its expensive new crib.
There was a mini-internet revolt the last time NBC Universal's TV chief started talking about ways to actually turn a profit from Hulu and the search for a balance continues.
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The Pac-12 Networks will turn a small profit in their first year, Scott said.
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Either way, some of the properties will begin to turn a profit this year.
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The company thinks it can turn a profit by exploiting California's auto emissions program.
Some agencies even turn a profit, which can be used to subsidize other state services.
Woehrle says it will turn a profit by the end of the fiscal year, June 30.
Some franchisees' struggles to turn a profit forced them to close, reducing Quiznos's royalty income.
Now chief executive Robbie Bach has said it will turn a profit by 2007.
Puris says his firm should turn a profit next year as more projects take shape.
But Qualcomm, though it should have dominated the new business, couldn't turn a profit.
It took seven years after the deal for the Parisian design house to turn a profit.
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