Sentences with phrase «become major hits»

We at Haogamers pride ourselves of finding some of the very best indie games before the general public, but we're even happier when those games become major hits, even household names in the gaming community.

Some break through and become major hits: Stardew Valley is Switch - bound, as is Towerfall.

Gil was sold by Valencia so the club would be able to comply with FFP and, at 22, could become a major hit at Villa Park.

The event was captured in an award winning documentary in 1970, the movie Woodstock, a soundtrack album, and Joni Mitchell's song which commemorated the event, and became a major hit for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, as well as the chart - topper for Matthews Southern Comfort.

Rocking the previously shameful bag shape as a crossbody bag has become a major hit in menswear, and we're not mad about it.

Though the love story between a Parisian prostitute and a cop - turned - lover in disguise was a lesser effort, Irma la Douce became a major hit for the trio.

The film had a modest cinematic showing in the United States but became a major hit in the United Kingdom, setting Taratino up for further success with his even more widely acclaimed Pulp Fiction.

He will also be seen in December starring alongside James Franco in The Interview, which is expected to become another major hit for the actor.

At 25, English actor, Nicholas Hoult is having one of his best years yet, seeing Mad Max: Fury Road become a major hit while he was filming his role...

At 25, English actor, Nicholas Hoult is having one of his best years yet, seeing Mad Max: Fury Road become a major hit while he was filming his role in next year's X-Men: Apocalypse.

After Angelina Jolie's Unbroken became a major hit last year, expectations grew for her 2015 drama By the Sea.

The Protege5 is one of those quiet little success stories — the automotive equivalent of a small independent feature film that catches on and becomes a major hit.

But with a heavy population of German immigrants at the time in New York City, he became a major hit.

Annie's Story of Stuff became a major hit primarily because it was easy for both adults and children to understand the downside of consumerism and capitalism.

Glass tile has become a major hit in the backsplash designing field.

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Its profits and stock took a hit in 2016 and 2017, due to write - offs from a poorly timed earlier bet: Signature had become a major financier of permits for New York taxi drivers, just in time for the Uber era.

Samsung Canada scored a major hit when a simple Facebook exchange became international news.

When no major privacy problems with the device surfaced, Amazon's smart speaker became a surprise hit product.

Dec 29, 2016 Identity theft has become a hot topic in the news, especially after major retailers like Target and Michael's were hit by large - scale security breaches.

Nava became only the fourth player in major league history to hit a grand slam in his first at bat and the second to do it on the first pitch.

Day improved to 20 - under at one point in the round, becoming just the second player ever to hit that mark in a major championships.

Johnny Bench became the 41st player in major league history to hit 300 homers when he clouted his 13th of the season against the Mets.

Miami Marlins outfielder Ichiro Suzuki tripled in the seventh inning against Chris Rusin of the Colorado Rockies on Sunday, becoming the 30th player in major league history with 3,000 career hits.

With a two - run homer in the bottom of the sixth inning to put Chicago up 5 - 1 over the Braves, Bryant became the only player in franchise history to hit at least 25 home runs in his first three seasons in the major leagues.

For the year, all Rodriguez had done was take the major league lead in home runs (17), RBIs (49) and runs (43); become the first player to hit eight homers in Yankee Stadium in April and the first to drive in 10 runs in a game there; and move within two homers of becoming the first player (chart, page 41) to hit 400 before his 30th birthday.

This year, its pharmaceutical division scored a major hit with the arthritis drug Celebrex, whose launch became the most successful ever.

Hurricane Harvey became the first major hurricane (Category 3 +) to hit the U.S. since Wilma in 2005.

Surprisingly, the answers to both of those questions were «yes» when Ted earned solid reviews and became a major box office hit this summer.

Seventeen years after The Shaggy Dog became one of Disney's biggest live action hits, the studio ushered into theaters a sequel, titled The Shaggy D.A., as its major Christmas 1976 release.

Tushingham was to become one of the major stars of British cinema in the sixties, with hits in both The Knack... and How to Get It and Doctor Zhivago, but the spiky, vulnerable Jo is undoubtedly her most memorable role.

WIP may not have hit any major strides (though a Best Picture nominee one year after it became a brand wasn't too shabby), but I believe Bob Berney had built something -LSB-...]

WIP may not have hit any major strides (though a Best Picture nominee one year after it became a brand wasn't too shabby), but I believe Bob Berney had built something special at Picturehouse, a company that was beginning to look like a real home for filmmakers and visions you can't put into little boxes.

Just about every major comedy released under an R - rating in the past few years (including «The 40 - Year - Old Virgin,» «Wedding Crashers,» «Knocked Up» and «Superbad») have gone on to become instant hits, and though «The Brothers Solomon» doesn't even come close to the quality of any of those films, it'll have no problem convincing the general public otherwise.

*** The following review contains spoilers for the first Major League *** Five years after Major League became a hit on home video, the sequel is released, which finally answers the question, «What happened to the team after they won the division?

«Lay the Favorite» Synopsis: A ditzy thirtysomething stripper - turned - cocktail - waitress (Rebecca Hall) becomes involved with a group of geeky fiftyish men who have found a way to work the sportsbook system in Las Vegas to their advantage What You Need To Know: Directed by Stephen Frears («The Grifters,» «The Queen» «Tamara Drewe «-RRB-, a filmmaker who has admittedly had a hit - and - miss career, but featuring a pretty much all - star cast of Bruce Willis (always good in the hands of a real filmmaker), Rebecca Hall, Catherine Zeta - Jones, Vince Vaughn, Laura Prepon and Joshua Jackson, it's hard not to be intrigued by a mid-sized dramedy that's not being made by either a major studio or a mid-sized indie.

When Ted opened in 2012 it became a surprise hit, and it established MacFarlane as a major film director.

While drugs are a major motif in the film, it is ultimately about not fitting in, which is probably why it has become such a hit with young people.

After a few false starts for commercial e-paper-based e-readers in the mid-2000s, Amazon's original Kindle, launched in 2007, became an instant hit and gave the technology a major push.

MEG hit every major best - seller list, including # 19 on the New York Times list (# 7 audio), and became a popular radio series in Japan.

Macklemore is the first indie group (an artist or group without the backing of a major record label) in nearly two decades to top the Billboard charts with «Thrift Shop» and «Can't Hold Us»; another hit, «Same Love» celebrates same - sex marriage, becoming a standard protest / civil rights anthem.

Mallory's paranormal romance books have become such a hit that she just signed a three - book deal with a major publishing house.

In 2008 when the markets took a major hit, these guarantees became major balance sheet liabilities to carriers as you can well imagine.

When she hit the road in 2012, she started Be My Travel Muse at the same time, and over time, it has become a major resource for women planning solo trips.

The game has its moments, but never really becomes more than a short burst of time filling between major games, at the best of times it just works, other times it can get glitchy, sure it's easy to control the bike, but for one reason or another the AI can't do it to save their lives, it doesn't help that their as light as a small child and have about as much physical tolerance as one too, one hit can be all you need to dethrone your competition only for them to get back up and get stuck in a wall, or to the back of a parked car.

Since Rocket League debuted on the Playstation 4 and PC last year the game has become a major smash hit that has redefined sports like Soccer and made them fun in a brand new way.

In March 2012, Seon released Cubemen on Steam, Desura, Mac App Store and iOS App Store (iPad2 +) and it instantly became a world wide hit, topping the charts in all of the major regions and hitting # 1 game in Australia and top 5 game in 38 countries.

The Multicoloured monogram became an instant hit, toted by major celebrities of the period.

When no major privacy problems with the device surfaced, Amazon's smart speaker became a surprise hit product.

Far from major upgrades over previous generations, Amazon's «all - new» Fire 7 and HD 8 are affordable enough to become hits, including in Kids Editions.

Meanwhile, the next major hit among the mobile gamers becomes Pockemon Go, but the Windows users are not sure if this title will ever reach their platform.