Sentences with phrase «commercial hit»

At least in Bad Teacher, he's got his first big commercial hit.

I think there are real opportunities in technology for disabled or disadvantaged people, and these will translate into great commercial hits.

Coming off the back of two biggest commercial hits of his career, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS and BLUE JASMINE, Woody Allen is already currently at work on his next project even with the latter still in theatres.

It was also the best place to play the huge commercial hit Destiny in 2014, and what it currently lacks in big - money true exclusives, it more than makes up for with the sheer volume of pure indie goodness on its online store.

But given that Hotel Transylvania was a massive commercial hit for Sony Pictures Animation, Count Dracula (Adam Sandler) and his monster friends are returning for more comic misadventures in Hotel...

Funnily enough, The Last Jedi and Welcome to the Jungle also faced off against a movie musical last December (namely, The Greatest Showman), yet all three films managed to become massive commercial hits.

After his 2005 debut Yahaan, a contemporary warzone romance, he enjoyed a critical and commercial hit with Vicky Donor, a smart farce that found favour with international audiences drawn to its «sperm - donor» premise.

Then again, Nintendo really hit the ground running with the Switch: It sold 10 million units in its first year on the market, grounded by a strong lineup of critical and commercial hits like «The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild» and «Super Mario Odyssey.»

These are the early favorites in a year lacking for major commercial hits; for the Academy, cultural impact is less and less defined by box - office success.

And while the founders of ForeverSpin (No. 3) had a little more optimism than that, they weren't remotely prepared for their product to become the instant commercial hit it did.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, after spending several hundred thousand dollars bashing Scozzafava, switched its ad traffic over the weekend to a new commercial hitting Hoffman.

The self - financed commercial hits airwaves a week after a Quinnipiac University poll found that 51 % of New York City voters disapprove of the mayor's job performance, his lowest rating since Nov. 2003.

Judging by the number of extremely pointed jewelry commercials hitting the airwaves («you've been together a long time... like, a long, long time... like a loooooooong, long time... hint, hint») and the sudden infestation of hearts on basically everything, it must be time for everyone's favorite February holiday!

It's the latest, and biggest example, of Marvel landing a critical and commercial hit by relaxing the cookie - cutter approach of many of its earlier films.

LeRoy's schmaltzy and literary romantic melodrama, about a WWI vet who suffers from amnesia, was a huge commercial hit due to Greer Garson and Ronald Colman's acting and the fact that it was released in the midst of WWII.

A few years ago, you might have assumed that this would be a surefire commercial hit, but after Zootopia and The Jungle Book so thoroughly exceeded expectations (each soon to enter the billion dollar worldwide club), Disney could easily withstand this underperforming (which it might), only to rebound in three weeks with Pixar's guaranteed profitable Finding Dory.

A History of Violence was a moderate commercial hit, doubling its budget at the box office, but the critics loved it even more, with Rolling Stone's Peter Travers calling it a film with «explosive power and subversive wit» made by a «world - class director at the top of his startlingly creative form,» and Roger Ebert praising its complexity hiding behind a superficial simplicity.

In addition to starring in the critical and commercial hit film Get Out — which just crossed the $ 100... Read More

Nineteen years since his Academy Award win for Leaving Las Vegas, twelve since his last nomination for Adaptation, and seven and a half since his last definitive commercial hit (National Treasure: Book of Secrets), Cage has hit hard times.

The game is a sequel to the 2011 critical and commercial hit Deus Ex Human Revolution.

«The Grand Budapest Hotel» became writer - director Wes Anderson's first breakout commercial hit, earning over $ 115 million at the international box office.

The rejection of Wall ▪ E shows the stranglehold that the actors» branch has on voting (the thinking: «no actors = we're not voting for it for Best Picture, since it didn't employ as many of us»), while the stiff - arming of The Dark Knight, especially in light of the embrace of past commercial hits, underscores ingrained genre snobbery, pure and simple.

After restoring some pride to the DC Extended Universe back in May with the release of the critical and commercial hit Wonder Woman, Warner Bros. hit a major bump in the DCEU road later in the year with Justice League.

Some are slam - dunk commercial hits, including The Mandatory Fall Comic Book Blockbusters (Marvel's «Thor: Ragnorak» and DC's «Justice League» which offers up not only Ben Affleck's Batman and Henry Cavill's Superman but brings along Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman and introduces Jason Momoa as Aquaman), as well as the latest in the Star Wars saga, «Star Wars: The Last Jedi,» which picks up the tale where «The Force Awakens» left off.

The next year he'd star in Three Men and a Baby, the top - grossing film of the year, in addition to Police Academy 4, and the year before he starred in the critical and commercial hit Cocoon, where his costars were people like Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, not the guy who makes all the crazy noises with his mouth.

Amazon Studios will reportedly scale back its funding of indie films, shifting its programming strategy to favor commercial hits.

They emerged from the 1970s with classic films to their names, works that defined and altered the ways movies were made and watched; they remained figgureheads of the American industry for four decades, delivering critical and / or commercial hits again and again.

That design can be off - putting if handled poorly, as it was in The Blind Side, one of the worst Oscar - winning movies of recent years and an enormous commercial hit that flourished on churchgoer word - of - mouth.

Conceived at Max's Kansas City and inspired by the Hotel Chelsea (where it was mostly shot), Andy Warhol's three - and - a-half-hour underground opus was also an unlikely commercial hit, a split - screen endurance test of nonnarrative vignettes featuring the Pop artist's menagerie of eccentric New York personalities — the cultural progenitors of histrionic reality TV.

And hoping it can become a critical and commercial hit along the lines of 12 Years A Slave, it'll have an awards - friendly release in the US.

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A while back we saw this BlackBerry Tag commercial hit YouTube, and now a few more have arrived on the channel as well.

The PlayStation 3 Slim is generating tons of interest which will undoubtedly increase when commercials hit North American televisions all at the tune of $ 299.

Lead designer on the critical and commercial hit series of Uncharted games from the Sony - owned developer Naughty Dog, Richard Lemarchand has a long history in the commercial games industry.

To the thriving community of gamers who eagerly devoured the critically acclaimed (and smash commercial hit) BioShock, the words meaning is absolutely concrete.

As one example, military first person shooters are popular, but no game that requires the player to be bored, tired and dirty for 99 % of the play time is going to be a runaway commercial hit.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 8 - Consumers throughout the country will become more familiar with the benefits of using a Trusted Choice agency and the new brand identity when new Trusted Choice television commercials hit the national airwaves in March, says Trusted Choice Board Chairman Ronald A. Smith, CPCU, president of Smith Sawyer Smith Insurance in Rochester, Ind..

The first real collaboration between Jobs and Jony Ive, the G3 became a massive commercial hit at a time when Apple really needed one.

Given that track record, Jacobson hasn't just found a pony — she's ridden a unicorn through Hollywood, developing stories that she genuinely loves and turning them into commercial hits.

The Big Short has already been a rather unexpected critical and commercial hit in the US, and hits screens here on January 22.

Earlier this year, the studio scored a critical and commercial hit with «How To Train Your Dragon,» last year they had the hit «Monsters Vs. Aliens» and with «Madagascar» and «Kung Fu Panda» they have two solid franchises (and that's not counting the «Shrek» series).

Director Jeff Nichols might be unfamiliar to mainstream audiences, and his previous films Shotgun Stories and Take Shelter weren't huge commercial hits, but they've fared extremely well in critical circles.

Yes, at number seven this year is Anthony and Joe Russo's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which kicked off the 2014 superhero season back in May and delivered another critical and commercial hit for Marvel Studios.

Then again, Nintendo really hit the ground running with the Switch: It sold 10 million units in its first year on the market, grounded by a strong lineup of critical and commercial hits like «The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild» and «Super Mario Odyssey.»

But Merzenich's greatest commercial hit could come with a $ 395 treatment called the Brain Fitness Program, marketed by Posit Science, in which he has a minority interest.

The deceptive simplicity of these two words «best» and «selling» makes it seem like the book in question must have been a major commercial hit, raking in cash for both the author and publisher.

One of the biggest commercial hits of all time, Mutiny on the Bounty still faced stiff competition from The Informer, which won four out of six Oscars compared to Mutiny's lone statue.