Sentences with phrase «becoming mainstream successes»

David Mamet ---- «House of Games «If it feels like some of the writers on this list kind of lucked into direction having written a film (or several) that became a mainstream success thereafter, there are a few others whose writerly voice was already so established that the idea of having them direct a straightforward genre film is kind of inconceivable (see also: Charlie Kaufman).

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Paladino, who has been making noises about running for governor again in 2018, recently said he sees himself in Trump and believes the billionaire developer's success proves that his own brand of political incorrectness is becoming more mainstream.

With online dating becoming very mainstream as a source of dating success stories, those new to online dating are most likely to give it a chance in this key period of the year.

But after the success of such dating websites as Match and OkCupid, online dating has quickly become a powerful industry and our today's mainstream activity.

I exaggerate, but Josh Gad has certainly become one of the hardest - working people in Hollywood in the past few years since he broke into mainstream success with Frozen, quickly accumulating movie credits like Beauty and the Beast and Murder on the Orient Express.

Speaking about The Florida Project, Baker lamented that it took a big name like Willem Dafoe for the film to become a more mainstream success and get award nominations.

Coming off a decade where the American genre film devolved into lowest - common - denominator investments and blockbusters ballooned skyward on the backs of sequels and franchises, Refn's modest exercise in crime pastiche and car - chase nostalgia parlayed both the exhaustion of Hollywood's narrative resources and — perhaps more importantly — the gathering mainstream curiosity in independent music's preoccupation with the sound and feel of the 1980s (the film's soundtrack has become one of the most popular word - of - mouth successes of the decade).

On that latter note, KHNH has been a trailblazer of sorts on the global marketplace, opening up territories that had previously not been so receptive to Indian film fare — most notably, Germany, where this film's massive success established a major market there for Bollywood, which has now become a bit of a mainstream entertainment staple there.

Released new in 2016, the 2nd generation Chevrolet Cruze looks set to follow in the mainstream footsteps of the first model in becoming a huge success — the Cruze is after all Chevrolet's biggest seller worldwide, selling 3.5 - million units since 2008.

How independent writers become known and respected will probably vary wildly with each successful author, but I'm confident there will be critical and commercial successes outside of the mainstream publishing industry.

This struck a chord with me as the coming year promises to be a new beginning for our community which came together in 1999 as the Open EBook Forum (OEBF) to develop open standards for digital books, reinvented itself in 2005 with a broader remit when it became the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), and then found mainstream success with the development of the key EPUB standard.

The latter is yet to become a «mainstream success» and progress has slowed down, no thanks to the rising popularity of «Fortnite.».

Unfortunately, unlike the «mainstream» console / PC market, mobile games didn't become popularized in the public eye as paid commodities; a large part of why games like Angry Birds and Clash of Clans have seen so much success is because anyone with a smartphone or tablet can download and play them free of charge.

It was due to the mainstream success of Space Invaders, that led to action games becoming so popular.

Many expected the platform to break into the mainstream, mainly off the success of PlayStation VR, but the market's still finding its feet as the technology improves and the hardware becomes more affordable.

They were obviously being tongue - in - cheek, yet their words also offered a shrewd insight: Not only had the media image of the artist's lifestyle become part and parcel of artistic practice but, after Warhol, art now offered a path to a kind of mainstream success typically reserved for other quarters of culture.

But when it reached tipping point and became mainstream, it spawned entirely new industries, and many of today's most valuable companies — from Apple to Google to Amazon — built their businesses on top of the internet or at least rode this wave to success.

Thanks to Amazon's Alexa - fueled record holiday season and Google's own impressive success with its Google Assistant - powered smart speakers, voice - controlled digital assistants haven't just reached the mainstream but are becoming ubiquitous.

Underlying both much of the year's drama and continued future uncertainty is a simple question: Can bitcoin scale as it continues to capture mainstream attention, or will it become a victim of its own success, with alternative cryptocurrencies waiting in the wings to overtake it?