"Mainstream success" refers to when something, such as a person, product, or idea, becomes widely popular and accepted by the general public. It means that it has gained widespread recognition and achieved high levels of popularity and appeal.
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Here are the stories about seven self - published books that ultimately
found mainstream success and were adapted into films.
Again, remember that for a product to be a
huge mainstream success, it needs to appeal to multiple demographics — the average consumer, not the geek or tech savvy.
With 2015's The Lobster, Greek weirdo auteur Yorgos Lanthimos achieved a surprising level of
mainstream success in the States, given his film was about a dystopian alternate reality where people are turned into animals if they fail to find a mate in 45 days.
Pulling off the tricky balancing act of aiming
for mainstream success while keeping one's street cred intact, songs like «Ghost of You» and «Predictable» abandon the band's mall - rat roots in exchange for more mature influences like U2 and Muse.
This struck a chord with me as the coming year promises to be a new beginning for our community which came together in 1999 as the Open EBook Forum (OEBF) to develop open standards for digital books, reinvented itself in 2005 with a broader remit when it became the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), and then found
mainstream success with the development of the key EPUB standard.
Do you think this film will lead Charlie Day into
more mainstream success for his comedic talents, apart from his years of stellar work on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?
I exaggerate, but Josh Gad has certainly become one of the hardest - working people in Hollywood in the past few years since he broke
into mainstream success with Frozen, quickly accumulating movie credits like Beauty and the Beast and Murder on the Orient Express.
Daydream is a new platform, so it's unclear whether the Daydream View will achieve
mainstream success like the company's Chromecast streaming device.
NEW YORK (AP)-- Jim Harrison, the fiction writer, poet, outdoorsman and reveler who wrote with gruff affection for the country's landscape and rural life and
enjoyed mainstream success in middle age with his historical saga «Legends of the Fall,» has died at age 78.
Booksellers such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble also benefit from these types of novels, as they transcend a small minority of bookhounds and
become mainstream success stories.
The price is exactly what could prevent the Chevy Volt
from mainstream success even though some 2012 car reviews says the car is having so much advantages.
A top - notch actress who managed to remain a complete unknown as far as the general moviegoing public was concerned (spending over a decade starring in numerous art - house flicks for ex-husband Nicolas Roeg probably had a lot to do with that), Theresa Russell enjoyed a soupçon of
mainstream success when she co-starred in Twentieth Century Fox's production of Black Widow, an ever - so - modest box office hit ($ 25 million) back at the start of» 87.
Between Switch, PSN, Steam, and even XBL, the shmup genre churns out some real winners these days, even if they'll never again quite
reach mainstream success like before (Gradius, Ikaruga - those eras).
Steam Greenlight, Steam's answer to the hundreds (if not thousands) of indie game submissions to the service, has definitely changed the way indies have to market their games, while simultaneously offering a (slim) chance
at mainstream success.
The price is exactly what could prevent the Chevy Volt from
mainstream success even though some 2012 car reviews says the car is having so much advantages.
But beyond the nearing
mainstream success story of Bitcoin are the other hopefuls eagerly waiting for their turn to stay in the spotlight for a much longer time.
We get the example of Wayne Wang, who rode «Chan is Missing» into indie success and
middling mainstream success — including Amy Tan's «The Joy Luck Club.»
She appeared in the erotic romance 9 1/2 Weeks before finding more
mainstream success playing reporter Vicki Vale in the first Batman movie.
With an instinct for self - promotion, she evolved from «kindergarten circuit» stripper to star actress and director, and
occasional mainstream success, by her late 20s.
Even his music career is taking off, with Childish Gambino going from a side project of interest to comedy nerds to Grammy -
nominated mainstream success.
He clearly had the talent — and the connections — but
mainstream success eluded him, and Zoolander has the bite of the rejected.
Her first role was as an orphan taken in by a hitman in the 1994 action film Léon: The Professional, but
mainstream success came when she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (released in 1999, 2002 and 2005).
For Gerwig it is her most pronounced and definitive role to date, and it evokes her earlier mumblecore films rather than her
recent mainstream success.
If you haven't seen Juno yet, you really are missing out on a very fun, winningly quirky film
whose mainstream success shouldn't dissuade you from thinking it's as true to the «indie spirit» as we claim it to be.
Starting out in cult comedies like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore before finding
giant mainstream success with The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy.
The black - and - white story of famous «freak» Joseph Merrick, is certainly stylish, but it's still a very classically told, «straight» story, which showed that Lynch could also
court mainstream success.
Provided the Koreans are indeed eyeing a stateside release, since such dirt - cheap gizmos have found
mainstream success mostly in so - called emerging markets of late.
With a touching tribute to someone who is arguably his country - music analog — two guitar virtuosos who achieved massive
mainstream success once they stepped up to the vocal mic — he defied my expectations.
Psyonix design director Corey Davis spoke at GDC about the reasons why Rocket League managed to
capture mainstream success, while its predecessor, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket - Powered Battle - Cars, didn't — despite the PS4 title and its PS3 counterpart being «basically the same game».
In his loft studio in the East Village, Hujar focused on those who followed their creative instincts and
shunned mainstream success.
They were obviously being tongue - in - cheek, yet their words also offered a shrewd insight: Not only had the media image of the artist's lifestyle become part and parcel of artistic practice but, after Warhol, art now offered a path to a kind of
mainstream success typically reserved for other quarters of culture.
Amazon has been building the world's most popular e-book readers for nearly a decade now, beloved low - cost Fire tablets since 2011, also dabbling in smartphone manufacturing at one point, and achieving
unexpected mainstream success with Echo and Tap intelligent speakers.
But despite Huawei's growing
global mainstream success, the Chinese OEM's hero devices continue to elude America's big four mobile carriers.
After dabbling in wearables for a couple of years, trying its hand (no pun intended) at both smart bands and smartwatches with
little mainstream success, the time has (almost) come for San Francisco - based gaming hardware specialist Razer to release its rookie smartphone effort.
A «rapper who happens to be Christian,» Lecrae has already
enjoyed mainstream success — collaborating with hit artists, topping the Billboard charts, and appearing on TheTonight Show.
The Tesla Roadster helped dispel the stigma around EVs, but it was unclear if it could be parlayed into mainstream success