Sentences with phrase «cult audience followings»

Scrubs, 30 Rock, and My Name is Earl received some critical recognition, but only garnered mild or cult audience followings.

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The result — a tale of a young teenage boy who believes his epic sci - fi novel has been stolen for use by one of his writer heroes, and the battle that ensues between them — is a movie that this time might be too strange for a mainstream audience, but based on the Hesses» track record, could very well gain a cult following for years.

«Louis Theroux has a large following in those countries but he's developed a sizable cult audience in the U.S. as well with his documentaries, and we're optimistic that his fans will share our interest.»

The eventual «Long Kiss Goodnight» movie hedged fairly close to Black's revised draft, but the movie, while attracting an almost instantaneous cult following, never connected with large audience and eventually made less than $ 90 million worldwide, a shameful showing considering how much better American action movies tend to fare overseas.

It's not like anyone can possibly be surprised that even Sci - Fi thought the show was too kooky for mainstream audiences to ever embrace it, but at least we can take comfort in the fact that it's built a small but loyal cult following over the years.

2014 didn't have a cult film in the making like What We Do in the Shadows, or a true sleeper like Straight Outta Compton (or Spy, for that matter), or a blockbuster hitting the sweet spot for audiences and critics alike like Mad Max has done, or a traditional standalone nonfranchise blockbuster like The Martian, or an animated film with the acclaim of Inside Out, or a little horror movie that could like It Follows, or an unexpected independent drama that ran forever like Room....2015 was a year like 1999 or 1994.

While Tank Girl has amassed a cult following over the last 20 years (it has the highest audience rating of any film on this list), it did not fare well with critics and performed horribly at the box office.

While I find it hard to believe that it will find what can be considered to be a large audience, American Ultra does have the chance to develop a cult following.

How this film went completely under the radar of critics and audiences is a shame, but hopefully its strong potential of having a word - of - mouth cult following once it is released on DVD will be realized.

Most of The Following is spent building up your trust level with the local cult by doing side missions so that you can gain an audience with The Mother, a mysterious entity who seems to have the answer for the zombie outbreak.

Following on from the original cult classics there's bound to be some overlap, though we've yet to see the extent to which Shenmue has been modernised for both fans and new audiences.

The previous game in the Mother series, EarthBound, tanked during the Super NES generation in North America compared to other Nintendo - released titles of the day, and so the franchise was effectively declared dead in the west despite the rabid cult audience that sprang up in the years that followed.

This brought him a cult following and an instant audience for his earlier Felix the Cat work.