Sentences with phrase «become surprise hits»

Sometimes, niche games can become surprise hits, or develop a cult following.

The book became a surprise hit as a hardcover and caught the attention of Penguin, who purchased the paperback rights from Savas Beatie.

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

Was it fair to take money from loyal supporters who wouldn't receive a share of the profits if the film became a surprise hit?

What You Need To Know: Three years after his Swedish - language adaptation of «The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo» became a surprise hit, director Niels Arden Oplev is crossing the Atlantic to reunite with his Lisbeth Salander, Noomi Rapace, on this hard - boiled crime thriller.

After the original Dead Island became a surprise hit in 2011, developer Techland began pre-production on a sequel.

The original film became a surprise hit in 2013 that pleased audiences and critics alike (the film has an 86 % positive rating on RottenTomatoes.com) so one hopes that this follow - up can do the same.

This is everything a Hulk movie should be, and it's likely to become the surprise hit of the summer season.

However, «Pitch» became a surprise hit, performing above expectations at the box office (it eventually grossed more than $ 65 million domestically).

Her columns, couching financial advice in shopping metaphors, become a surprising hit, and sparks begin to fly with her editor (Hugh Dancy).

When American Pie became a surprise hit in 1999, it became absolutely unavoidable that we'd see a «second helping» before too long.

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

A little more than a year after «Bad Moms» became the surprise hit of summer 2016, the inspirationally lax trio of mothers is back for another, more seasonally focused round in «A Bad Moms Christmas.»

His debut, 2015's precise and economical Ex Machina, was an exploration of artificial intelligence that became a surprise hit and Oscar winner.

Nisekoi: False Love started as a digital only title for Weekly Shonen Jump and became a surprise hit for Viz Media.

From Software's spiritual series, Demon Souls and Dark Souls, have become a surprise hit for the publisher, so adding a third platform would be a wise business move, in Dealspwn's humble opinion.

From reaching the top of the Steam charts to launching exclusively for consoles on Xbox One, PUBG became a surprise hit.

The comic became a surprise hit and the first volume was followed with an annual issue as well as a Year Two continuation of the series.

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

Apple had long been rumored to be working on a device meant to take on the Echo, which has become a surprise hit since Amazon released it nearly three years ago.

Not exact matches

Back in 2014, Whiplash became a surprise critical hit, garnering award - season nominations and attention for its young writer and director Damien Chazelle.

Secondly, Wenger needs to become far more flexible when it comes to his formation selections... remember this is the same individual that hadn't used a 3 - back system for 20 years and only conceded to the experiment when the proverbial shit hit the fan... you know it killed him to adopt «Conte's» system, which is probably why he resisted so long; in fact his stubbornness to adjust even earlier might have cost us the 4 hole... much like most sports that have tactical formations, every team should have a «base» offensive and defensive scheme, but they likewise need to have some inherent flexibility depending on the opposing teams tactics and / or when specific substitutions are made... how many times have you watched a Wenger - run team make a late substitution but not change their shape on the pitch... furthermore, how many times have you seen our team fail to make the necessary adjustments at halftime due to Wenger's tactical stubbronness, which often led to giving up goals in the early minutes of the second - half... the best teams in the world know how to make halftime adjustments whereas we always seem to be surprised when the opposing team throws a wrinkle into the mix following halftime... this my friend is soccer 101

So when The Hunger Games or Wonder Woman or Black Panther becomes an enormous hit, everybody is utterly shocked (except for those of us who've been clamoring for those films since childhood), and the entertainment journalists write articles about this surprising new development, and explain why it may never happen again.

However, this was weirdly marketed as a right wing screed upon its initial release in 1973 (and became a surprise runaway boxoffice hit especially a huge following within the drive - in theatre circuit in the South where some theatres ran it for over a year).

Scorsese desaturated the color in the final shoot - out and got an R, and Taxi Driver surprised its unenthusiastic studio by becoming a box - office hit.

The surprise hit of 2012 was Pitch Perfect, a comedy that has become a cult classic in the intervening years.

When Dottie, who happens to be a virgin (completely surprised), becomes Killer Joe Cooper's sexual retainer after her bumbling brother and father can not come up with the money for the deposit on the hit, things really start to get f'd up.

Named for its orange color palette, the film was shot on an iPhone 5S with a tiny budget, becoming a surprise box office hit this summer.

«Despicable Me 2» (2013) Box Office Take: $ 971m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 19 Back in 2010, Universal's animated feature «Despicable Me» proved a surprise worldwide smash, but few would have anticipated that its sequel would have become the third - biggest animated movie of all time, and until «Furious 7,» Universal's biggest hit ever.

Occasionally, movies work for audiences simply because they want them to — which may have been the case with «Revenge of the Nerds,» an erratically funny 1984 college comedy — full of raw, predictable gags — that became a surprise smash hit.

You'll see them becoming surprise summer hits and making waves next Oscar season.

Deadpool was a surprise hit for the studio: After Reynolds spent years lobbying to get a standalone Deadpool movie made, the film about the «Merc with the Mouth» ended up becoming the highest grossing rated - R film of all time.

Riggs» source book has already spawned a 2014 sequel, titled «Hollow City», so don't be surprised if Fox ends up fast - tracking a sequel should Burton's Miss Peregrine's movie adaptation become a hit with audiences.

Considering the fact that STX's raunchy broad comedy Bad Moms became a surprise summer hit in 2016, it should come as no shock that a sequel would be ordered quickly.

With Burn Notice being one of cable's biggest hits, I'm surprised he hasn't become a bigger presence in theaters, although that may be due to a number of factors (e.g. scheduling, preference, pay, etc.).

In 1995, the first edition of his holiday anthem «The Chanukah Song» became a surprise radio hit.

Arriving nearly 40 years after the original «Rocky» became an indie sensation that surprised with a Best Picture Oscar win, the $ 35 million production is already a hit with critics (93 percent positive on Rotten Tomatoes).

My Dinner With Andre, directed by Louis Malle from a script by Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, who play fictionalized versions of themselves, became the surprise indie hit of 1981 and a cult film on the art house circuit.

Although there are no concrete plans currently in motion, George Miller has been promising another Mad Max movie from pretty much the moment Fury Road became the surprise blockbuster hit of 2015.

The story of how Po [Jack Black] becomes the Dragon Warrior — despite the skepticism of the Furious Five Masters, Crane [David Cross], Mantis [Seth Rogen], Monkey [Jackie Chan], Tigress [Angelina Jolie] and Viper [Lucy Liu]-- is one of the year's surprise hits, critically as well as at the box office.

It would not surprise me if The First Wives Club became a word - of - mouth hit with women, especially older ones; the feminist message, the three stars, and the outrageous comedy will probably be enough.

Superhero smash hit Logan has become an unlikely horse in the awards race after its screenplay won a surprise nomination in the Writers» Guild of America shortlist.

It seems like just yesterday when Seth Rogen and Zac Efron engaged in a battle of wits in the 2014 comedy Neighbors, which became one of the surprise hits of the summer, taking in in more than $ 270 million worldwide from just an $ 18 million budget.

After A Quiet Place became a surprise critical and financial hit, John Krasinski is in high demand.

But for many people, there's just no replacing the campy original, a fun if predictable romp that went on to become one of the surprise hits of the summer of 1985.

News about the sequel shouldn't come as a surprise, given that the film just became Johnson's biggest domestic box office hit of his career, surpassing «Furious 7.»

Produced for just $ 20 million, «John Wick» became a surprise 2014 hit for Lionsgate, grossing $ 78.7 million worldwide.

Unfortunately, their musical comedy about WWII, titled «Springtime For Hitler,» becomes a huge surprise hit, which is the worst thing that could happen to them.

It's for that very reason that I wouldn't be surprised if The Replacements became a substantial late - summer hit; everything about it is calibrated just so for broad audience «satisfaction.»

What surprised us most about the muscle car with a historic moniker, though, was how comfortable it became when you left the strip and hit the road.