Sentences with phrase «of the biggest hits of»

One of the biggest hits of the 1948 - 1949 Broadway season, the classic Cole Porter musical + Kiss Me, Kate was triumphantly revived in 2000, running over 881 performances in New York and winning a Tony Award in the process.

Despite critical disdain for its chaotically amped - up special effects and paper - thin story, The Mummy Returns went on to become one of the biggest hits of the summer.

The Sting became one of the biggest hits of the early»70s; grossing 68.5 million dollars during its first run, the film also picked up seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Adapted Score for Marvin Hamlisch's unforgettable setting of Scott Joplin's ragtime music.

«The Spanish Prisoner», non-subtitled and non - «foreign», may well prove to be one of the big hits of the festival, and I wouldn't be surprised at all to see Oscar consideration eventually.

The disaster flick was one of the biggest hits of 1996 (second only to «Independence Day») and featured a good mix of thrills, laughs and some incredible special effects for its time.

Running up to the aforementioned «Make Me Feel», the Zoë Kravitz - featuring «Screwed» surely stands to reason to be one of the biggest hits of summer pop of 2018, while its thrilling transition into «Django Jane» is one of Monae's most powerful moments, hardly giving a breath to a constant three - minute battle - rap, before becoming a diatribe, returns to the summery - pop of the «Stand by Me» re-worked «Pynk» featuring Grimes.

Briefly: One of the biggest hits of Sundance last month was Richard Linklater «s third collaboration with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, Before Midnight.

The George Miller directed film was one of the biggest hits of last year and went on to earn Oscar nominations in various categories.

Godzilla — One of the biggest hits of the year lumbers through to home video.

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.

In the 1984 movie phenomenon, one of the biggest hits of its year and the winner of 8 Oscars, he's played by Roy Dotrice and factors in heavily to the film's haunting imagery (and poster).

Universal's thriller, Breaking In, took one of the biggest hits of the weekend, rounding out the top 5.

Then, Knocked Up was one of the biggest hits of the summer with its own hot reviews and massive gross - to - budget ratio.

If one were to ignore the global box office and consider undisclosed marketing costs, two of the biggest hits of the year — Get Out and It — signal a growing hunger for smart, stylish horror films made on a modest budget.

Two years after his bruising drama «Whiplash» won over critics and audiences alike, 31 - year - old Damien Chazelle is poised to have one of the biggest hits of this year's Oscar season with his captivating musical, fusing old - fashioned Hollywood magic with an emotional reality more akin to «A Star is Born.»

That said, we are talking about one of the biggest hits of the previous generation, so let's see whether there would be a market for a remaster of Red Dead Redemption or not.

It was marketed on the back of its connection with Wonder Woman, one of the biggest hits of the year.

Footage from the film premiered at Comic Con and was one of the biggest hits of the convention.

While not one of the big hits of summer, Schmucks just about met box office expectations, narrowly clearing its $ 69 million budget with a $ 73 M domestic gross.

This is the first year where those not in the animated branch can vote here, so beyond the expected Coco, The Breadwinner and Loving Vincent, I'm going with Despicable Me 3 and * sigh * The Boss Baby because they're two of the biggest hits of the year.

The film, viewed by many as the best title of the growing DC Extended Universe, was unquestionably one of the biggest hits of 2017, but it's also guaranteed to be watched time and time again by fans at home for decades to come.

That should be within reach based on Washington's consistently solid box office record and whatever boost comes from having Pratt accept a deuteragonist role coming off headlining two of the biggest hits of the last two years.

Back in 2001, Angelina Jolie's Tomb Raider was one of the biggest hits of that year.

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.

But after stewing in development hell for a few years, both of those things happened and now Deadpool is one of the biggest hits of the year.

There is no one obvious reason to explain how this fourth movie reversed the decline experienced on M: I - 3 to become one of the biggest hits of 2011.

The Kindle was one of the big hits of Christmas 2011.

Owen is just 28 years old and in the middle of pursuing her Ph.D. in English literature — but her first novel could be one of the biggest hits of the summer.

The YotaPhone 2 — which sports a traditional AMOLED display on one side of the phone and a low - power, (nearly) always - on e-ink display on the back — has been one of the bigger hits of this year's CES show, thanks to those dual faces.

It's fair to say that the Destiny 2 hype train is at full speed prior to launch this month, and considering the substantial player base Destiny had, the sequel is shaping up to be one of the biggest hits of the year.

One of the biggest hits of 2015 both critically and commercially, the Game Of the Year edition features an additional 50 hours of morally ambiguous story content!

Geoffrey Farmer's Leaves of Grass is one of the big hits of dOCUMENTA (13).

Inhabitat: Tom Dixon on Sustainable Design by Jill Fehrenbacher «Tom Dixon, design pioneer and all around renaissance man, was one of the big hits of the recent HauteGREEN festivities, where he spoke about issues, concerns and contradictions in sustainable design, including materials, production, recycling and economics.»

That said, we are talking about one of the biggest hits of the previous generation, so let's see whether there would be a market for a remaster of Red Dead Redemption or not.

Not exact matches

When a relationship hits a serious stage and couples get married or commit to each other in some big way, people are often too overcome with excitement or too overwhelmed by the prospect of spending forever with this person to have a deep discussion about where their priorities lie.

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.

Prestige hits also tend to attract bigger stars, and they shoot on location instead of sound stages, which increases the bill further.

Big commodities players, hit hard by falling prices in recent years, are also eagerly awaiting Belt and Road, since so much of the early spending will flow toward raw materials.

Some haven't been happy about it, while others are gleefully trying to take full advantage of the media attention generated by the biggest (and most embarrassing) story to hit Toronto in decades.

He also wants to hire an enterprise sales force that hits the ground running to keep BlackBerry on the radar of its biggest business customers.

Seattle - based PopCap, meanwhile, was acquired by giant Electronic Arts in 2011 for $ 750 million, and Finland's Supercell, which currently rules the mobile roost with its hit Clash of Clans, last month netted a cool $ 1.5 billion after Japanese telecom provider Softbank purchased a 51 % stake, which values the company at $ 3 billion — or bigger than Zynga.

In Dick's case, Wedbush Securities estimates that the whole hunting segment, not just firearms, make up only 10 % of company sales and that the moves announced by Dick's would have at most a small impact on sales, with the biggest threat coming from a hit to store traffic.

Some lenders say they'll be taking a big hit from these regulations, regardless of market response.

Big private car retailer DVG Automotive Group has released its results for the 2015 financial year, showing a tightening economy had not significantly hit its sales ahead of the sale of a majority stake to Japanese interests.

Increasingly, there's a new technological race in which hedge funds and other well - heeled investors armed with big - data analytics instantly analyze millions of Twitter messages and other non-traditional information sources to buy and sell stocks faster than smaller investors can hit «retweet.»

«We're not getting people with big medical bills, chronically sick people who would hit those lifetime caps or be denied because of pre-existing conditions.

You often hear stories about a business owner that remortgaged his or her house and was on the verge of bankruptcy when they hit it big.

In Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals, Curry hit a 3 - pointer then stared down former Thunder big man Serge Ibaka while the ball was in the air.

Jun didn't give any further details, so it's not clear which devices will hit the US market, nor if any of the four big carriers will sell them in their retail stores.

The odds of hitting it big with your very first idea is extremely rare.