Sentences with phrase «of the biggest hits ever»

The Harry Potter films and movies were one of the biggest hits ever.

Not exact matches

World's no. 1 container shipper and one of Denmark's largest companies Maersk was hit by major cyber attack in June, one of the biggest - ever disruptions to hit global shipping.

Facebook was hit with one of its biggest scandals ever when multiple outlets reported that a researcher's app pulled personal information about 270,000 users and 50 million of their friends, then passed that data to Cambridge Analytica.

The only event to have a bigger impact on electricity service was Typhoon Haiyan, one of the largest tropical storms ever to make landfall and the deadliest storm ever to hit the Philippines:

With the declared number of compromised payment cards being in excess of five million, the current hacking attack is amongst the biggest and most damaging to ever hit retail companies.

In his seventh big league game last September, Jackson hit a 475 - foot homer off Seattle's Mike Moore that was one of the longest balls ever hit in Royals Stadium.

For the entirety of the Game it felt like who ever came up with one more big hit would take the W. On the Pikes side..

An imaginary friend (who's a bigger troublemaker than your child ever could be) might be dreamed up to help your child deal with feelings of guilt and remorse following a moment of lost control, such as hitting a playmate.

«The TUC's March for the Alternative on 26 March promises to be one of the biggest events that we have ever organised, but local campaigns and protests that do not hit the national headlines could well make just as much an impact in those constituencies where there are coalition MPs with small majorities.

People are already suffering under David Cameron's cost of living crisis and now, thanks to his failure to stand up to the big energy companies, consumers will be hit by ever high bills, with SSE increasing prices by nearly 10 %.

LANDOWNERS will lose out on millions, trillions, billions of dollars if Chesapeake ever hits the big one.

Correction: LANDOWNERS will lose out on millions, trillions, billions of dollars if Chesapeake ever hits the big one?

One person close to the process said concerns by some of the developers seeking to handle one of the biggest public projects ever to hit Western New York began early in the process.

For a song by an act who'd only ever had one big hit and one reasonable hit in the 19 years they'd been making music, to achieve the success that they did with this track (which included # 1's in regions that they'd never succeeded in before) was something of a miracle.

The result was a relaunching of the name that exceeded expectations and became the biggest hit of Cruise's career, one with so many hits already that few stars will ever match it.

Although it represents a significant roll of the dice as the most expensive project ever undertaken by the filmmaker's EuropaCorp shingle, «Lucy» should capitalize on its strong international elements and Johansson's bankability to become Besson's biggest worldwide hit as a director since «The Fifth Element,» no small feat for an f / x-heavy original property in this over-franchised day and age.

One of the biggest superhero movies ever made is hitting theaters, but those who are new to the Marvel universe absolutely SHOULD NOT start with Avengers: Infinity War.

«Despicable Me 2» (2013) Box Office Take: $ 971m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 19 Back in 2010, Universal's animated feature «Despicable Me» proved a surprise worldwide smash, but few would have anticipated that its sequel would have become the third - biggest animated movie of all time, and until «Furious 7,» Universal's biggest hit ever.

Ryan Coogler's Marvel movie is drawing in audiences at a pace only a few films ever released can match, and within the next week it is likely to pass the domestic runs of some of last year's big superhero hits like «Thor: Ragnarok,» «Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

«DRAGON QUEST IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies is one of the biggest games ever to hit Nintendo DS, with an incredible amount of content for every kind of player to enjoy,» said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing.

We all know that everyone buying this Blu - ray would be mostly for «Frozen Fever», one of Disney's biggest hits ever.

It is without a doubt one of the biggest blockbusters to ever hit the screen, with a cast so stacked that we couldn't mention them all.

Ever since Jack Johnson really hit it big, I have become big fan of surf music.

Ever since The Hangover became one of the biggest hits of 2009, Bradley Cooper has remained just on the outskirts of becoming a bankable leading man.

It comes at the tail end of the prolific Dennis Quaid's most prolific era, rounding up unqualified successes like The Big Easy and Innerspace (and unqualified miscues like D.O.A.) and serving as a handy career summary for Hackford, who hit it big with the revered cheese classic An Officer and a Gentleman, which he's been dutifully remaking in one form or another ever sinBig Easy and Innerspace (and unqualified miscues like D.O.A.) and serving as a handy career summary for Hackford, who hit it big with the revered cheese classic An Officer and a Gentleman, which he's been dutifully remaking in one form or another ever sinbig with the revered cheese classic An Officer and a Gentleman, which he's been dutifully remaking in one form or another ever since.

Told with a brilliant 3D canvas, «Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter» is one of the most original ideas to ever hit the big screen.

The data is compiled, the numbers are crunched, and the results are published in the form of an unnervingly comprehensive breakdown of some of the most awesome artistic endeavours ever to hit the big screen.

Now, the case takes another turn as one of Disney biggest hits ever gets ready to debut on Blu - ray.

But nearly a couple of months after being released in the United States, the film hit the big screen in China where it landed $ 27 million in a single day, making it the 4th best opening day ever for a Hollywood movie in China, just behind Furious 7, The Avengers: Age of Ultron and Transformers: Age of Extinction.

It's just over a month until Ready Player One hits the big screen, and it's exciting for multiple reasons — it's Steven Spielberg's long - awaited return to all - out blockbuster territory, it steps into a new frontier of virtual reality - infused filmmaking, and it's set to be perhaps the most densely packed meta pop culture adventure ever.

Ever since the first film hit it big in 2008, studio executives have been snapping up young adult novels in the hope of hitting the same vein, but, aside from «The Hunger Games» the handful of attempts that have hit theaters so far, like «Beastly» and «I Am Number Four,» mostly disappeared without a trace, and not just because they starred Alex Pettyfer.

Matt Rodgers on the best ever video game movie scenes... The first part of 2018 will see two high profile videogame adaptations hit the big screen in an attempt to do what 2016's Assassin's Creed couldn't, by breaking a curse which has stretched back as far as 1993's infamous Super Mario Bros. movie.

The biggest issue is the writing and performance of the cat; it is designed to be a surly scot with a psychotic streak, and it certainly hits those beats, but does so in a way that is clearly designed to be funny without ever actually eliciting even a chuckle.

Set in 1944 New York, the film documents the final year of Jenkins» life, as she finds a dependable pianist / composer in the ever - nervous Cosme McMoon (Simon Helberg of «The Big Bang Theory»), makes a personal recording that becomes a unlikely radio hit, and even gets to perform to an enthused sell - out audience at Carnegie Hall.

Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon «s Sausage Party is the most ridiculous film of the summer and without a doubt the most inappropriate animated film ever to hit the big screen.

Then there's director Ryan Coogler, who was already a critical darling with his indie debut film «Fruitvale Station» and his «Rocky» spinoff «Creed,» but now has his blockbuster calling card as the director of one of the biggest hits Hollywood has ever seen.

But fans of the Canadian director's more genre - led fare were encouraged by the news a couple of years ago that he would write, and possibly direct, a new version of «The Fly,» the 1986 film about a scientist (Jeff Goldblum) who accidently crosses his DNA with the humble insect of the title, that was arguably the director's biggest ever crossover hit.

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy was one of the biggest hits of the year, and a hefty amount of the film's success is due to Pratt's wonderfully playful (and ever - so - slightly dickish) performance as Star - Lord.

As a sequel to one of Netflix's biggest ever hits gets greenlit, we explore sci - fi's problematic relationship with race

Director: Brad Peyton Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandria Daddario, Hugo Johnstone - Burt, Ioan Gruffudd, Archie Panjabi, Will Yun Lee and Paul Giamatti Plot: The biggest quake to ever hit America rocks California and a family, struggling over a recent divorce, are trapped in the middle of it.

With The Room, Wiseau inadvertently created one of the worst movies of all time but also one of the biggest cult hits ever.

Possibly the catchiest song ever written, the anthem stormed the Billboard charts in the fall of 1996, making the ditty a bigger hit than the movie ever was.

He was later killed in Joss Whedon's the Avengers, only to return as the lead in ABC's hit action drama Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Fans have wondered if we'd ever see a return of Agent Coulson on the big screen.

But the key member of the so - called «mumblecore» independent film movement reached a new level last year, when his romantic comedy Drinking Buddies was a modest hit, especially on V.O.D. Working with established stars like Anna Kendrick, Olivia Wilde, and Jake Johnson, Swanberg made his work available to a bigger audience than ever — which puts more attention on the two new films he had showing for audiences in January alone.

Music Box Films released it at the start of May, and it's proved a bit of a sleeper hit, taking nearly $ 1m so far, one of the company's biggest hits ever, so track it down if you can.

While the summer box office heats up with new blockbusters, Blu - ray is giving us the chance to revisit some of the biggest hits, looking better than ever in June.

(Also nearly stuck there when one of the biggest snow - storms ever hit NYC)

One of the most extraordinary and beautiful cars ever to reach production, the world's first hypercar (hitting close to 220mph while the McLaren F1 was still climbing off the drawing board) was vilified at its birth in 1992, by those who'd put down a deposit on its original # 361,000 price (which would rise to over # 400,000 by launch), for not having the 500bhp V12 engine, four - wheel drive and scissor doors promised in the concept and, at nearly 7ft wide, being too big for British roads.

When we were on a high speed blast and suddenly hit a go slow zone, the GT's brakes — the biggest iron units ever fitted to a Bentley at roughly 16.5 - inches in front with 10 - piston calipers clamping down on them — hauled it down with authority and without a bunch of clutch and grab in the process.

It feels nothing short of rabid in a straight line, with the kind of throttle response that only ever comes from a big, atmospheric engine that revs high and hits hard, everywhere.