Sentences with phrase «defy box office predictions»

Films like that (and others like the 2014 drama Unbroken and the 2013 war film Lone Survivor) defy box office predictions and it would be great to see Hollywood embrace such patriotic and original stories (one hopes that Eastwood's next film Sully — about the pilot who overcame the odds and safely landed a disabled plane in the Hudson River — will fit the bill).