Sentences with phrase «giant blockbusters of»

From indie games made by a team of four people to giant blockbusters of epic proportions, there were surprises to be found in every corner — leading to one of the most varied and interesting game of the year lists in Gaming Trend history.

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The technology giant is hoping to make Watch, a device that displays emails, tracks fitness activity and, of course, tells time, into a yet another blockbuster product in line with the iPhone and iPad.

We already know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens set records at the box office, but on Tuesday we will find out more about the blockbuster film's ultimate impact on Walt Disney's (dis) bottom line in the first quarter of the entertainment giant's fiscal year.

In September, Bloomberg News reported that Dell was planning to fire roughly 2,000 to 3,000 employees in light of its blockbuster roughly $ 63 billion acquisition of business technology giant EMC, which also closed that month.

The search giant set the standard for the kinds of employee perks that have spread through Silicon Valley and its intern experience even got the Hollywood treatment in the rollicking 2013 blockbuster «The Internship.»

The U.S. - based drug giant's quarterly financial report fell just short of analysts» revenue expectations despite an impressive haul from new drugs like the cancer immunotherapy blockbuster Keytruda.

Tottenham Hotspur make the daunting trip to Borussia Dortmund on Thursday evening, for the first leg of their blockbuster Europa League round - of - 16 tie with the Bundesliga giants.

The giant firms are counting on this class of drugs to bolster profits that will be hurt by the imminent expiration of patents on many small - molecule blockbusters.

The story of how, over 30 years after its debut, a relatively innocent arcade game starring a giant ape and other oversize beasts underwent a corporate transmogrification and became a turgid, logy sci - fi / action blockbuster.

It obviously doesn't hurt that it was a giant blockbuster and one of the best reviewed films of the year.

This particle - smashing blunder's direct - to - video quality is the newest example of Netflix's schematic programming as the streaming giant overextends while grabbing a piece of blockbuster profitability.

I fear for director Colin Trevorrow's career should the movie not be a giant success, because although he showcased real potential with his debut film, «Safety Not Guaranteed,» the world of Hollywood blockbusters is a totally different game.

John Carney, the writer / director of both films, has crafted something so overwhelmingly lovely that the folks who normally avoid all the summer blockbusters due to their lack of heart (or overabundance of giant transforming aliens) might be able to throw up their hands and say «Finally a summer movie for the rest of us», especially considering the competition this weekend.

People usually bemoan the lack of a strong human element in big blockbusters like this, but while «Godzilla» aims to remedy that by placing the focus more on them than the giant monsters doing battle, the characters are so bland and thinly written (with the exception of Bryan Cranston's scientist, who has a smaller role than is hinted at in the trailers) that it only makes things worse.

The big news with this blockbuster adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved fairytale isn't that Steven Spielberg is making his second motion - capture animated movie following 2011's «Tintin», or that he's hauled in a super-impressive cast including Mark Rylance as the Big Friendly Giant, plus Bill Hader, Rebecca Hall and Penelope Wilton as the Queen.

The era of the modern blockbuster didn't arrive with Star Wars in the summer of 1977, but actually a few years earlier with this Steven Spielberg - directed movie about a giant shark terrorizing a small coastal community (as if you needed to be told that).

Cannes is getting a giant blockbuster as part of their gala this year with this Han Solo origin story.

After all, Johnson's well - regimented workload is generally stocked up with things that make his fans happy: Stuff like working out, talking shit, and making roughly 20 big action blockbusters a year, all of which inevitably end up making giant...

Aside from the fact that this NBC series This Is Us is at the height of its popularity, he also has a small role in the blockbuster giant Black Panther.

Opening May 22, the AWFJ Movie of the Week is Tomorrowland, the new summer family blockbuster from Disney and director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol), who co-writes with Damon Lindelof (Prometheus, World War Z) and newcomer Jeff Jensen.

But while you wait, you can experience at least one part of the film festival experience right now: an in - depth discussion about independent cinema with festival founder Robert Redford and indie filmmaker turned blockbuster giant George Lucas.

Not to mention, the lack of any blockbuster games from the video game giant further added to their woes.

It's unlikely the future digital Jamie Oliver cookbook blockbuster will be self - published — but will Oliver appoint Penguin, or a new player like BBC, perhaps through its Lonely Planet acquisition or US media giant NBC, both of which now have ebook operations with access to cash and multimedia expertise?

«The book industry had a steady increase of costs without an increase in sales,» says Miller, analyzing how conglomeration caused publishing giants to scrabble for the same blockbusters, driving advances higher.

In the middle of all the massive blockbuster releases like Battlefield 1 and Tomb Raider, Giants Software has decided to release a more niche title, Farming Simulator 17.

This practical rate will surely result to blockbuster sales of the giant video company prior to its commercial release as Nintendo fans have been intently waiting for the upcoming Nintendo NX Kingdom Hearts 3.

In a blockbuster story, The New York Times reported that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has subpoenaed oil and gas industry giant ExxonMobil to «determine whether the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about how those risks might hurt the oil business.»