Sentences with phrase «mainstream success with»

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.

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.

The following year, McCarthy achieved massive mainstream success with her supporting performance in the 2011 comedy film «Bridesmaids» starring Kristen Wiig.

Starting out in cult comedies like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore before finding giant mainstream success with The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy.

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.

Not exact matches

Bathroom spray deodorizer Poo - Pourri redefined the sweet smell of success with its hit viral video «Girls Don't Poop,» which vaulted the product from kitschy novelty to mainstream sensation.

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.

«Get Out» combines societal issues with mainstream box office success, a rare but winning combination.

Religion News Service: On Grammy weekend, Christian music bounces back Many experts say thanks to artists like TobyMac and Lecrae, the contemporary Christian music industry is experiencing a revival, with strong sales, record - breaking tours, and new success in the mainstream charts.

Thus have the neoconservative Jews sought — so far, to put it mildly, with mixed success — to convince their mainstream fellow Jews that the growing political strength of Christian believers is not a danger to them, that, on the contrary, in the long run it will conduce far more to the security and well - being of their children and grandchildren.

Other contemporary Christian musicians, as the music industry designates them, have crossed over to mainstream pop with some success.

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.

We do realize Tide hasn't won any awards for being a «green» detergent, and we have to balance that with the success rate we see of customers using Tide or other mainstream detergents.

We also use / used all of the cloth diaper detergents we sell with great success and do recommend these when a parent wants to wash their diapers with a more natural detergent or for those who have issues with mainstream detergents.

But the successes are modest compared with those in South Korea, where the anti-evolution sentiment seems to be winning its battle with mainstream science.

With online dating becoming very mainstream as a source of dating success stories, those new to online dating are most likely to give it a chance in this key period of the year.

Sprouted flours are going from alternative to mainstream and by substituting this with their everyday flours / grains it just may be that special something that helps the ladies get one step closer to success on their Mission Makeover.

He's also a director who has flirted with mainstream success in the past, so it may come as no surprise to learn that Refn is reported to be teaming up with screenwriters Neil Purvis and Robert Wade — co-writers of five James Bond outings including Skyfall and Spectre — on an as - yet untitled Asian - set action thriller.

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.

It should come as no surprise that the key ingredient to the soundtrack's roaring success is the return of original series composer David Wise, who made a triumphant return with Tropical Freeze after an extended hiatus from scoring mainstream titles.

The First Wives Club was a major success story for so many reasons: an original mainstream comedy, a movie about women over 50, a movie that recognized the comedic potential of actresses like Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn... with every year that goes by, the movie seems more and more like a miracle.

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.

The game is popular enough with hardcore gamers to ensure financial success, but without the mainstream, there is no way the game will near GTA 5's success.

Running around an hour, Waiting For Twilight, made during the filming of Twilight Of The Ice Nymphs (1997)-- and preceding much of the director's more mainstream successes — highlights the methods, family life and career of this great director through clips and talking - head interviews with friends and critics.

Chances are Rockstar wants to recreate the immense success of their previous release with Red Dead Redemption 2, but to achieve that they will need to hook the mainstream audience just like they did with GTA.

Kevin Macdonald is one of those rare directors who has had commercial success with both documentary and mainstream films.

Coming off a decade where the American genre film devolved into lowest - common - denominator investments and blockbusters ballooned skyward on the backs of sequels and franchises, Refn's modest exercise in crime pastiche and car - chase nostalgia parlayed both the exhaustion of Hollywood's narrative resources and — perhaps more importantly — the gathering mainstream curiosity in independent music's preoccupation with the sound and feel of the 1980s (the film's soundtrack has become one of the most popular word - of - mouth successes of the decade).

Brick is probably not a movie that will have strong mainstream appeal, but for those that love independent films, the noir classics, old - fashioned detective stories, or just enjoy seeing something they haven't quite seen before, Rian Johnson's experiment will prove to be a success with you.

GTA Online's massive success has given them a taste of what it's like being a truly mainstream developer with a mainstream product, and with audiences this big, the rules change.

It has also been a standout year for LGBT cinema, with a number of titles breaking into the mainstream cinemagoing public's conscientious: the aforementioned Moonlight being a strong example, but also Beach Rats, God's Own Country and Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name continuing their festival successes into their general theatrical releases.

Chase, of course, was instrumental in escalating the beloved humor magazine — co-founded in 1970 by Doug Kenney, who'll be played by Will Forte in the movie — from cult success into a mainstream name with his starring role in the brand's various Vacation films.

It's been a particularly great year for horror movies, some of which broke into the mainstream with both financial and critical success, and some of which are still looking for their audience.

The Tickells are apparently willing to beat the drum until people listen, and this movie, with its attention - span - friendly cutting and narration by Jason Bateman, seems poised to find more mainstream success.

Even better, its worldwide success at the box - office demonstrated that an ambitious and original work can be just as popular with the mainstream audience as just another remake or comic - book adaptation.

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.

The idea that character traits like perseverance, zest, and optimism have more to do with long - term success than even academics gained mainstream traction with the recent publication of Paul Tough's book How Children Succeed.

As most educators have found, placing students with disabilities in mainstream math classes is not enough to ensure their success.

Placing students with disabilities in mainstream math classes is not enough to ensure their success; more targeted efforts are essential.

Indeed, even Subaru's recent success depends on hot - selling mainstream crossovers with CVT automatics.

It certainly looks like Nissan are intent on building on their success with mainstream crossovers like the Qashqai and Juke by turning their Z cars in to a high - riding crossover with the commanding driving position car buyers love, but with the performance and handling of a sports car.

It's hard therefore to argue with sales success as the Prius has transcended niche status into mainstream.

Here's how the indie success story typically goes: little - known new author puts out a book, which skyrockets in popularity in sales and eventually attracts a lucrative deal with a mainstream publisher.

The company has had small success in their enterprise segment of tablets and are hoping for a mainstream win with the Slate 8.

I looked over the DellArte site, but I don't see any mention of potential future success with a Harlequin mainstream imprint.

In reality, self - publishing offers anyone with a manuscript and a credit card the opportunity to publish, and the success rate is less than one percent... Self - published books have yet to offer the quality and originality sometimes lacking in books produced by mainstream publishers.

Given that Kobo has seen tremendous success with larger screens and 13.3 inch readers are made by mainstream companies like Sony, should Amazon do a second generation Kindle DX?

As indie authors continue to find success writing and publishing (and selling) their works, mainstream publishers are playing catch - up with the boundaries of what readers want... and apparently, what they want is a few more sh ** s to give.

How independent writers become known and respected will probably vary wildly with each successful author, but I'm confident there will be critical and commercial successes outside of the mainstream publishing industry.

I think my early hunch about self - publishing going mainstream is being borne out, so the success of the site has a lot to do with its timing.

Would E.L James have had the same success if Fifty Shades of Grey had started out with a mainstream, traditional publisher?