Sentences with phrase «hit it big as»

Many have strong feelings against Snyder's Sucker Punch but when it was released in 2011 we had no idea the slimey Blue Jones would go on to hit it big as Poe Dameron in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

But while the former is a struggling screenwriter, the latter has hit it big as the editor of a trendy magazine.

Not exact matches

For many, hitting the bigger social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn will provide great paths to your marketplace.

A bit of stolen merchandise is no big deal for Amazon — it recently hit a market value of $ 500 billion — but the snafu may serve as a rather embarrassing wake - up call for the retail giant.

CEO Brian Cornell also worked to revamp the company's food business as well as launch new brands like Cat & Jack and Pillowfort labels for kids that have so far been big hits.

As evidenced by the video and recent reports from test patients, the gear is a big hit (here's a photo gallery).

It's this lack of clarity over the changes at Whole Foods that may be the biggest issue for the brand, as it's been hit by a slate of negative articles and even held a summit to address angry partners.

While their customer and financial data may not be as big of a catch as, say, that of Target or some other global big - box retail chain, there are plenty of opportunities to hit mom and pop operations.

But the guild has recently upped its efforts to organize the story - shapers behind some of the biggest hits on TV, and these cases have been seen by many in the labor law community as a hardball tactic in that crusade.

All of Britain's big four supermarkets — market leader Tesco, Wal - Mart's Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons — have seen sales and profits hit as they cut prices to stem the flow of shoppers to German discounters Aldi and Lidl.

It means if your investments take a big hit as you are nearing retirement or in the early years of retirement, your losses can be much more devastating than if they had occurred earlier in your life.

The premise of all these pitches is that you can take any good idea for a product, service or network (typically someone else's idea, who is already hitting it out of the park) and shrink that business down to a narrower target population or niche, or to a certain kind of consumer, and instantly turn the process of serving that smaller segment into a big business as well.

She had a major win this year after her Emmy - winning role as Celeste in the HBO show «Big Little Lies,» which was a hit with critics and fans alike.

Even if investors trade frequently, they aren't as likely to get hit with a big tax bill as they would for actively managed offerings.

Starting up when you're 13 may not be easy, but for some it could mean landing big bucks — as ABC's hit show «Shark Tank» looks for fodder on school campuses.

But for the most part, solar panels are just as big and ugly as they were when they hit the market more than four decades ago.

United Continental Holdings Inc. is likely to take at least a $ 265 million financial hit from Hurricane Harvey because of the carrier's reliance on Houston as one of its biggest hubs, an airline analyst said.

Peabody Energy, the nation's biggest coal producer, has been on a gradual slide down the Fortune 500 over the past few years, as falling demand for coal hit it hard.

Lending from big banks dried up in 2009 and 2010, as the recession hit many small business hard.

That sort of efficiency is a big deal, given the nation's sky - high health care costs — costs that are likely to increase in the short term as the new wave of Obamacare - covered insurees hits the system.

In March, when Netplex's stock price reached $ 19 a share, it looked as if Sachs had hit it big.

It's joined socially - conscious hits like Nina Simone's «Mississippi Goddam» and Billie Holiday's «Strange Fruit» as bigger than music.

& # 9660 Big Oil has been seen as a corporate bad boy ever since the U.S. Supreme Court broke up John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil in 1911, but its reputation would hit a new low 99 years later.

Adidas (AG) will become one of the club's biggest sponsors along with Chevrolet, which recently replaced Aon as Manchester's shirt sponsor, meaning Wayne Rooney and company will hit the pitch at Old Trafford with the Chevy logo blaring across their chests next month.

Snap's biggest challenge as it hit the market Thursday will be convincing investors of its profitability, investment expert Paul Meeks told CNBC.

And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros. hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the top - earning studio at the domestic box office for the year.

The photo gallery above is a reminder of both the might of Mother Nature and the potential danger of nuclear power, as well as a warning for what could happen the next time a big earthquake hits.

The Wyoming brewery has a terrific assortment of IPAs as part of its catalog, but the GABF newcomer «Drunken Master,» a double IPA, is the big hit among showgoers.

Some of the numbers weren't a big surprise, given the company's financial forecast in March, when the company said it expects to hit as many as 96 million subscribers this year.

As a stopgap, which I hit on in our hotel room the night before the factory was supposed to finish a big order, we put in a balled piece of tissue to push the cable away from the antenna.

So it was ready when restaurateurs hit on retro diners as the next big thing.

Considering the hit Dragons» Den has been for the CBC, it came as no surprise when the Mother Corp announced its latest business reality show, The Big Decision.

The move was a big hit with Canadians, although the «natural» ingredients trend is no longer as novel as it was back in 2010.

The report raises questions about Magic Leap's ability to live up to its billing as one of the next big tech hits, based on its flashy demos presenting robots with blasters overlaid on the real world.

Big banks shares overall were taking a hit before the bell as traders were disappointed as well in earnings from JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup.

I've never really cared for service outage stories, such as the big one that hit Rogers's wireless network on Wednesday.

But they're hitting savings big - time, which is acting as a detriment to consumption.

What's at stake for big cell phone companies with the iPhone 6 hitting stores in one week as they fight to sign up more customers?

Instead of being content with slowly growing richer each year as their dividends and interest compound, they try to hit a hole - in - one, damaging their capital with big losses.

At Taco Bell, Niccol has largely been credited for mastering mobile ordering and introducing food options such as Doritos tacos and Nacho Fries, which were a big hit among customers.

Under Armour founder Kevin Plank took a big hit to his compensation last year as a result of the Baltimore - based athletic apparel brand's disappointing performance in 2017.

As a big week of earnings winds down, Canada's corporate citizens reported a mix of hits and misses Thursday evening.

The trend continued Wednesday with a decline of as much as 9.7 per cent, the biggest drop since June 2016, to $ 252.10 U.S.. Its unsecured bonds have also hit all - time lows ahead of the release of first - quarter production results expected next week.

April 2016 Quick Hits: This month marked the last big stock purchase I had this year as I've begun saving up cash for a 2017 transition to the civilian sector.

That framework's been in place since the early 1990s, we have hit the target over that 20 year period, the average inflation rate's pretty close to 2.5 per cent, so we regard that as successful by the terms of the definition that we set ourselves and I think that's made a big contribution to economic stability more generally and I don't think it's an accident that that period of fairly low predictable inflation has coincided with pretty good sustained growth in the economy.

«This will be a big hit to Tesla's reputation because the automaker has been seen as a leader in both passenger safety and advanced technology,» Brauer added.

He is fulll of bull crap - the main reason why he is lowering the price is because his reputation took a big hit and no other investors would touch him as he is now toxic or also known as a villain.

Rather than take another reputational hit by trying to overturn a rule billed as pro-consumer, the big firms said they preferred putting the effort into complying with it.

WeWork, which is said to be raising as much as $ 4 billion at a valuation of more than $ 20 billion, is still on its way to hitting $ 1 billion in annual revenue this year — though CEO Adam Neumann said at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017 that it's not quite as simple as betting big on enterprise deals.

AB InBev posted weaker - than - expected fourth quarter earnings as slowing sales in Brazil hit the bottom line of the world's biggest brewer.