Sentences with phrase «box series as»

Not exact matches

It was renewed again for one year in December 2014, just as DWA was under the gun on Wall Street after a series of box - office misses.

Finances aside, Target's bigger challenges are stubbornly centred on unhappy customers whose loyalty has been stretched thin by a series of supply - chain snafus and prices that many perceived to be out - of - whack with both big - box competitors and the company's own reputation as a quality discounter.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

Yet if we consider the show's track record as satellite channel Sky Atlantic's biggest draw, the fact that DVD box sets of the first series are lodged in every online store's top ten list, and the reports that it's «the most illegally downloaded show in television history» -LRB-!)

Following the announcement of Liberty's proposals for the 2021 season on Friday, Aston Martin President and CEO Andy Palmer tweeted that the proposed plans effectively tick all of the boxes Aston Martin needs to compete in the series as an engine manufacturer, rather than just a title sponsor to Red Bull Racing.

We have full regulation box lacrosse goals at every camp and introduce 2v2 pick series, shooting off screens, stop and pop shots, as well as an array of other box specific skills.

And as if that isn't enough, as part of my Boston Mamas Fourth Birthday Giveaway Series, Equal Exchange generously is gifting one lucky winner with the delightful gift of coffee and chocolate (one 5 lb bag of whole bean coffee + 1 box of 150 mini chocolates; $ 82 value).

As I wrap up this year's «It Takes a Village to Pack a Lunch» series, I want to talk about the all - important topic of lunch box gear.

David Blunkett spoke about Welfare Reform as part of the Too Difficult Box lecture series on Thursday 7 February 2013

In most cases, what you get for your money is a box with three or four 9 volt batteries connected in series with a switch to turn it on, a light bulb in the circuit which will light up if the terminals are accidentally touched together (it acts as a fuse which won't blow in case of a short circuit), a couple of leads with clips and two silver electrodes which in most cases are small gauge silver wires.

In this low - impact, slow - motion exercise, you go without pausing through a series of motions named for animal actions — for example, «white crane spreads its wings» — or martial arts moves, such as «box both ears.»

What is dead is the Harry Potter film franchise that milked Brit author J.K. Rowling's seven bestsellers for eight movies, a global box - office take of $ 6.3 billion, and the Hollywood heavyweight title as the most lucrative film series in, well, ever.

The Walking Dead's third season finale does what it has to do to tick all the expected boxes, and while not as high as the series has been, it's still more than solid.

After a decade of dominating the worldwide box office with offerings ranging from the superlative to the so - so; it seems that all roads taken by the Marvel Cinematic Universe point us to the beginning of the end of the series as we've known it with AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR.

It was clearly designed as the first in a series of films but its historic box - office failure ensured that it is a one - off.

«The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies» (2014) Box Office Take: $ 955m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 23 When the «Lord of the Rings» series arrived at the start of the century, their tactility, wit and humanity served as a blessed relief for epic fantasy fans after the airless «Star Wars» prequels had disappointed so.

As we get ready to hide under a cardboard box for one last time, it'll be a bittersweet farewell to a series we hold close to our hearts.

But it mainly exists to stretch out the series for a long as possible to rake in more box office treasure.

As superheroes dominate the box office, it was inevitable that someone would reboot this popular series about a quartet of crime fighters with unlikely special powers.

From papers flying and computers sparking as Snake battled an invisible ninja robot in a series of office cubicles to the fact that you could sneak safely past a lair of wolves by hiding inside a cardboard box they'd peed on, Metal Gear Solid rewarded players who experimented with and explored the extremes of its innovative sandbox.

While art isn't about ticking boxes and selling a preconceived political philosophy, the act of surrendering your attention to a two - hour movie (or an 18 - hour TV series masquerading as a movie) revolves around experiencing someone else's POV and reflecting upon it afterwards.

Our box office wrap - up for the weekend of March 22, featuring new releases such as «The Divergent Series: Insurgent» and «The Gunman.»

This latest move is just one in a series of US and European efforts to tackle what many see as a definite shift in the industry towards reliance on loot boxes.

A mystery puzzle box thriller doused in mood and dread, the film tells the story of a village paralyzed by fear as a series of brutal murders grip the sleepy hamlet, while a peculiar illness seems supernaturally linked to everything going to hell in a handbasket.

With the entirety of the original «Flintstones» released to DVD in season sets and a since - discontinued and soon - replaced 24 - disc complete series box set, as well as all the one and only season of «Pebbles and Bamm - Bamm», Warner Home Video has started to turn to those one - off specials for release through the Warner Archive Collection, where the Hanna - Barbera Classic Collection banner lives on in a less prosperous marketplace.

The saga of deteriorating discussions between Konami and Metal Gear Solid series creator Hideo Kojima has once again taken a turn, as Konami has decided to remove Kojima's name from Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain box art.

And then the topic of Pixar as reliable geniuses, practitioners of a kind of ruddily American innovation, will be put back in the box until it is dragged out all over again the next time a Pixar film is released, to be repeated with much the same series of beats.

The excellent 70 - minute «The Making of The Larry Sanders Show,» an in - depth look back at the development, production and evolution of the series, was originally produced for Sony's 2007 box set, as were many of the commentary tracks (including the series debut and finale) and interviews (including a reunion featurette with Shandling, Torn and Tambor discussing working together on the show and «The Writer's Process» with Shandling and Judd Apatow), while new commentary tracks and more interviews supplement the original collection.

Wilson's string of box office successes also include Little Fockers, the third installment of the blockbuster Fockers series, opposite Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro; Marley & Me, with Jennifer Aniston, based on the popular memoir by John Grogan; the Night At The Museum franchise opposite Robin Williams and Ben Stiller; the smash hit comedy Wedding Crashers, opposite Vince Vaughn; the romantic comedy You, Me And Dupree; and as the voice of Lightning McQueen in Disney's Cars and Cars 2.

Factory's TAMI Show & The Big TNT Show, and Criterion's Blow - Up on Blu - ray, as well as 20th Century Fox's Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Series DVD box set.

Released in 1994, Stargate grossed almost $ 200 million at the box office, and spawned an entire franchise, which includes the series Stargate SG - 1 and direct to video movies such as Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum.

Travis Fimmel, who returns as lead Ragnar Lothbrok on the History Channel's hit series Vikings later this year, has also seen his film stock rising with well - received perfs in Rebecca Miller's critically - acclaimed Maggie's Plan and Universal / Legendary's Warcraft, currently at $ 430 million worldwide box office.

PBS is releasing «Downton Abbey: Seasons 1, 2 & 3» as a limited edition box set which includes all three seasons of the series, as well as a bonus documentary, «Secrets of Highclere Castle.

Even if the big - screen revival of the HBO series about a movie star (Adrian Grenier) and his posse does technically qualify as a film, it's still questionable whether writer - director Doug Ellin has ever seen any other movies, given the Mortal Instruments - level movie - within - the - sorta - movie that he presents not as a goof on Hollywood hubris but as an uncompromising masterpiece that eventually makes half a billion dollars at the box office.

As heroine of the Tomb Raider series since 1996, it's hard to miss her protruding «assets» embossed on box covers aimed (like the gun she's always holding) squarely at the hormonally charged male teenage gaming market.

This is where I remind you, yet again, that Catherine Hardwicke excelled as the director of Twiight (the first film in the Twilight series) but as soon as Twilight became a box office success, control of The Twilight Saga was ripped away from Hardwicke and the FOUR additional films in the franchise were all helmed by male directors.

As Disc Three of «The Up Series» box set, the A / V specs on 28 Up aren't very impressive, though they are, of course, a product of their time: hazy and indistinct, the fullscreen video transfer looks fine in bright situations but suffers under darker ones.

If you have given up on this show then you have given up on what the DVD box blurb accurately describes as «television's most addictive and creative series.»

Then faltered, at least creatively as the box office didn't seem to suffer, with the third film in the series, X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), and the franchise's first spin - off, X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).

As explained in the theme song, an infectious rap by Schoolly D, that trio consists of Frylock, a sarcastic box of French fries (voiced by Carey Means); Master Shake, a narcissistic dairy drink (voiced by Dana Snyder); and Meatwad, a transcendently stupid blob of ground beef (voiced by Dave Willis, who co-created the series with Matt Maiellaro).

But Pusher also feels familiar, and doesn't so much build in tension as it does check off a series of second act boxes en route toward Frank's attempted flight.

That's set to continue as, following the release of the final film in the series this weekend «Fifty Shades Freed», the movies are pegged to pass the $ 1 billion mark in the worldwide box office.

As a result, we have the Harry Potter Ultimate Edition, the first in a proposed series of eight, all collected in highly decorative boxes with the year of his attendance at Hogwart's marked on the side.

Black Box is a unique medical series starring Kelly Reilly as Catherine Black (above left), a world famous neurologist at the state of the art medical facility known as The Cube.

Very quietly (and to disappointingly middling box - office), we got the best Star Trek movie of the revived franchise this year, with a thrilling adventure yarn that served as a fine tribute to series stars Leonard Nimoy and Anton Yelchin, who both died before the film was released.

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, the fifth installment in the long - running Tom Cruise series, crossed 100 million dollars at the box office this weekend, keeping its title as the number one movie in America, according to EW.com.

The Gardens Between is a stylish new puzzler, in which you control two friends as they embark across a series of quirky puzzle box islands.

WHY: Robert Schwentke's «RED» was such a surprise hit at the box office that you can hardly blame Summit Entertainment for wanting to fast - track a sequel, and although it doesn't quite pack the same punch as its predecessor, «RED 2» is still a lot of fun thanks to its star - studded cast, including series newcomers Catherine Zeta - Jones and Anthony Hopkins.

In a few years, the Lost in Space movie will likely live on not as a series but as the obscure answer to a trivia question: What film ended Titanic's 15 - week reign at the top of the weekend box office?

Kore - eda dares, in an age of Hollywood superheroes and grandiose threats to the universe, to believe that audiences also want to see something as simple and as simply complex as a group of sisters sharing a series of meals, smelling the scent of a grandmother in a boxed up summer kimono, making a family recipe, and scratching a new mark in the doorframe of the family home to note the height of a little sister.