Sentences with phrase «commercial hit with»

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.

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The FCC later said that it was hit by «multiple» cyberattacks shortly after the show aired designed to «bombard the FCC's comment system with a high amount of traffic to our commercial cloud host.»
The chart above shows that the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that commercial crude oil inventories at OECD countries could hit their lowest in two years by the end of 2017, coinciding with a sharp drop in U.S. inventories.
So far in our Super Bowl commercial review, we have an ad that was too scared to hit a man in the beans with a football and an ad for poop - hiding spray that's scared to use the word «poop.»
Emma Slater, Professional Dancer on ABC's hit show, Dancing with the Stars, is making her commercial debut in a piece that showcases her flawless sunless tan courtesy of Vio - 7, a unique blend of bronzer pigments designed to counter any orange undertones.
Likewise their targetability — some vendors can even match voter databases with commercial databases to hit ONLY past voters in a given Congressional district, just one example of the ability of search advertising to reach a defined audience with the right message at the right time.
With youth unemployment hitting a record high and the total number of people out of work the highest since the Tories were last in office, the Public and Commercial Services union says the government must take urgent action to reverse the damage it is doing to our economy.
BROWN HITS GRANITE STATE AIRWAVES... Former Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts will go up Monday with his first television commercial in his Republican Senate bid in neighboring New Hampshire.
As temperatures in some areas hit 48 °C, the heat becomes a particular problem for some commercial airliners with that maximum operating temperature, Wired reports.
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 accessories specialist kept Gucci growing with commercial hits.
Sure, you didn't quite hit it off with that commercial pilot, but wasn't it interesting to hear about all the place he's traveled?
Lloyd will report to UK Country Manager Romain Bertrand, and will be focusing on increasing brand consideration, hitting commercial goals and liaising with the company's PR teams in the US and Australia.
Other artists also have found ways to work with dating apps: Hilary Duff, a regular Tinder user for real dates, used the app's interface in her latest music video, and Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst is the director behind recent commercials for eHarmony, the dating service that has worked with Natalie Cole and used her hit, «This Will Be,» in TV and radio ads.
I imagine some folks at Marvel were worried if moviegoers would accept a miniature crime fighter with such a refreshingly uncool name — and the bizarre power of commanding ants — but the film was a critical and commercial hit, especially overseas.
With the commercial power of movies for adults already in question, Brooks» track record (two hits, two flops, and one in between) should not have justified anywhere near that kind of spending.
While the Disney - mandated «Frozen» shakes up some of the studio's formula for animated musical fairy tales with its progressive female - centric narrative, it's still a slick piece of commercial entertainment that's virtually impossible to disentangle from the facile pop melodies of its hit single, «Let It Go.»
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.
Director: Allison Anders: She's been commercial (directing episodes of the first season of Sex In The City - though no one knew at the time it would be the hit it is) to a total indie freak (even with the upcoming Things Behind The Sun).
Neither could be called a hit domestically and with that, David Fincher shockingly seems to have eclipsed Spielberg as a commercial draw.
The filmmakers behind the season's biggest commercial and critical hit, «Gravity» — director Alfonso Cuaron; his son, Jonas, with whom he wrote the screenplay; and producer David Heyman — are in Los Angeles this week, the beginning of what is likely...
Struggling in the wake of the commercial disappointment of 1983's The King of Comedy, Martin Scorsese hit the reset button on his career with this paired - down, Soho - shot guerilla comedy.
With Opening Day arriving March 29, it's time to get into the spirit of the season with some of the biggest baseball movies that all hit a commercial home With Opening Day arriving March 29, it's time to get into the spirit of the season with some of the biggest baseball movies that all hit a commercial home with some of the biggest baseball movies that all hit a commercial home run.
Other films meriting mention include Robert Altman «s final picture, «A Prairie Home Companion ``; Mel Gibson «s Aztec - thriller, «Apocalypto ``; Tom Tykwer «s kinetic (perhaps too kinetic) «Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ``; John Cameron Mitchell «s low - budget erotica,» Shortbus ``; Richard Linklater's live - action rotoscoped Philip K. Dick adaptation «A Scanner Darkly ``; Spike Lee «s biggest commercial hit, the entertaining heist film, «Inside Man ``; Michael Mann «s flawed, but interesting «Miami Vice ``; Bryan Singer «s unfairly maligned «Superman Returns; «Nicole Holofcener «s wryly observational «Friends with Money,» the over-estimated, but enlivening horror «The Descent,» and «13 Tzameti.»
When: June 22nd Why: Woody Allen may be coming off the biggest commercial success of his career with «Midnight in Paris» (a film that also netted him another Oscar for Best Original Screenplay), but unfortunately, that can only be seen as bad news for his next European adventure, because Allen hasn't had back - to - back hits in over a decade.
In an alternate universe, Edgar Wright (The Cornetto Trilogy, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Spaced) would have directed Ant - Man, Ant - Man would have become an even bigger commercial and critical hit than it was two years ago, and Wright would have moved on bigger and better projects with even more creative control, in...
Against all odds, this sequel, «Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan» (1982) would prove to be a critical and commercial hit and the scene in which Spock gives his life to save the crew of the Enterprise would prove to be a devastating punch in the gut at the end of its hugely entertaining story — the power of Spock's final moments with his friend Kirk were such that even those who had never seen «Star Trek» before were moved by it.
What really hits home is that Hazanavicius equates commercial failure with artistic failure — that is to say, artworks which don't connect with an audience are ultimately worthless.
Abrams was hired not for a remake, but a reboot and he was expected to bring a comfort with contemporary effects / action entertainment to this long - lucrative universe that hit commercial rock - bottom on 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis.
Anderson is one of the most amazing filmmakers around, but his recent films have not had the commercial success they've deserved and this is yet another gem like Inherent Vice, The Master and his last film with Lewis, the modern hit There Will Be Blood.
Few actors get to star in a monster commercial smash that is also a zeitgeist hit, but that was Joshua Leonard's experience with The Blair Witch Project, which turned a meager $ 60,000 production budget into almost $ 250 million in worldwide theatrical receipts, and owned the summer of 1999 (and beyond, in the form of countless spoofs, homages and far less inspired rip - offs) like no other indie movie of its time.
Rocketing to superstardom with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Carrey rode a steady stream of massive hits for the first half of the 1990s (including The Mask and Dumb and Dumber) until The Cable Guy, a dark comedy that commanded Carrey his $ 20 million pay day (the biggest at the time) but also made for his first commercial failure.
Director Doug Liman has helmed some massive hits (The Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith), but in 2014 is by no means a hot property, with his latest film (2010's Fair Game) well - liked by critics but a commercial flop.
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.
After the disastrous «Exorcist II», original «Exorcist» author William Peter Blatty came on board to both write and direct this entry, setting the series back on course with dazzling visual panache, even if the film wasn't a commercial hit.
The drama has been a critical and commercial hit, grossing more than $ 35 million worldwide, but Paramount didn't get an opportunity to distribute it, according to a studio source with knowledge of the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly.
When he ended up directing the smash - hit stoner comedy Pineapple Express, what should've been a step - up in his career turned out to bring out the worst, with commercial and critical failures like Your Highness and The Sitter following it.
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.
Coming off of Feig's commercial and critical success with Ghostbusters stars McCarthy and Wiig in the 2011 hit Bridesmaids, his newest comedienne - led comedy could come out on top with the additional support of Garcia, Williams and Walsh.
Already a critical and commercial hit, Marvel's Black Panther will reportedly set its sights on Oscar gold with an awards campaign from Disney.
Director Shane Meadows Cast Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley He's got some Front You could hear the British film industry breathe a collective sigh of relief when writer - director Shane Meadows got the breakthrough hit he so richly deserved after much critical but little commercial success with his previous films.
What if you are hit with a completely unique compliance requirement that no commercial LMS has considered?
As a bonus, we are treated to a fitting tribute of David Bowie with his hit «Starman» playing during the commercial.
The 5000 beats of a master tearjerker.I exaggerate, but seriously there seems to be a very well tread path in commercial fiction and stories to hitting the key beats, and this category of advice resonated the best with my own style.
Currently Looking For: Fiction that hits the sweet spot between commercial and literary with interesting settings and a strong narrative voice; mystery (particularly cozies and crossover literary — think Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger), literary thriller, and psychological suspense; and memoir by writers who connect the events of their lives to readers through incredible storytelling, as well as a wide variety of prescriptive and narrative nonfiction and gift books.
Either way with the Fire Phone not exactly being a commercial hit and with reports that Amazon could be thinking of giving up on smartphones, we wouldn't be surprised if it isn't restocked, but we'll keep our eyes peeled anyway.
The upcoming BlackBerry KeyTwo has been certified for commercial sale by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), arming it with the last piece of documentation required to hit the shelves in the...
«Bindu is perfect for her new role: with her proven entrepreneurial skills, commercial savvy, and deep understanding of the global travel market, she will hit the ground running.»
The new service was hit by several delays, and has yet to commence, with the carrier stating in March 2016 that «We firmly believe in the potential of Central America, and remain keen to link the Emirates network to the region,» adding that «We will retain staff in Panama City to continue developing our presence, as well as commercial opportunities with our industry partners, and will launch by the end of 2016 or early 2017 as soon as conditions allow.»
The commercial is for Rhythm Heaven, the new DS game finally reaching beyond Japan, where it is already a hit, to North America April 5 (along with the DSi) and Europe May 1.
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