Sentences with phrase «other blockbusters in»

Despite the performance of «Guardians of the Galaxy» last weekend, which opened to US$ 94 million at the North American box - office, there have been few other blockbusters in the third quarter.

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In the past year, Stripe has struck blockbuster deals to support Apple Pay, the Cupertino, California, tech giant's digital wallet, as well as Google's Android Pay and payment capabilities for other Silicon Valley luminaries including Facebook, Twitter, Lyft, Pinterest, and Salesforce.

2015 was a blockbuster year in which one tech icon, Hewlett Packard, split itself in half and two others, EMC and Dell attempted to navigate a more - complicated - by - the - minute plan to combine themselves into one.

Summer blockbusters trade in expectation, but it's hard to figure out what to expect from «Ant - Man» other than the prerequisite visual effects and Paul Rudd charm.

On the other hand, Biogen has its roots in a Cambridge start - up founded in 1978 by MIT and Harvard scientists working in small, separate labs on then - radical theories, pursuing research dead ends and racking up debt until blockbuster drugs for treating leukemia, MS, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma brought major commercial success.

To compete, other studios could also merge — giving us essentially a movie version of the NBA's super-team syndrome — or they could amp up efforts to infiltrate streaming, leaving their movie studios as an output for major blockbusters that audiences still want to watch in theaters.

Uber's blockbuster success has sparked copycat business models and other on - demand services, anchored in a mobile app.

After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Unfortunately, in Mel Gibson blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, Caviezel isn't given much to do other than holler in agony.

I read somewhere (or did I see this in a blockbuster movie) that your taste buds change every 7 years or so, so I guess I'm still in store for several other rounds of changes.

He is featured in several documentaries including: the blockbuster Forks Over Knives, Eating You Alive, Food Matters, PlantPure Nation and others.

The other games in this group go to the next highest - ranked committee teams, paired to give us at least one blockbuster game.

Oh, yeah, the Rangers» new rightfielder, one of six players acquired from Detroit for Juan Gonzalez and two others in a blockbuster November trade, was also along for the trip.

But different varieties of capitalism generate comparative advantages for different high value added sectors: as we have seen, high risk high innovation financial sectors are located in Liberal Market Economies (as well as many other business service sectors, commercial law, and also biotech, blockbuster software, and radical innovation in electronics).

The Lib Dems used to be the most relaxed - no Ben Gurion airport - style security, use your proper conference pass if you fancy, but the game would be to find how many other passes you could wave in front of some elderly volunteer to gain admittance: your BBC pass, your blockbuster video card - even your Caffé Nero loyalty card.

The maker of Suboxone, a blockbuster drug that helps people control their opioid addiction, engaged in anti-competitive business practices, coercing patients to use an oral strip because the tablets were set to face generic competition, according to a federal lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and 35 other Attorneys General.

In July, temperatures in a key region were more than 2 °F above average, a departure that comes in second only to the blockbuster El Niño of 1997 - 1998, the event by which all other El Niños are judgeIn July, temperatures in a key region were more than 2 °F above average, a departure that comes in second only to the blockbuster El Niño of 1997 - 1998, the event by which all other El Niños are judgein a key region were more than 2 °F above average, a departure that comes in second only to the blockbuster El Niño of 1997 - 1998, the event by which all other El Niños are judgein second only to the blockbuster El Niño of 1997 - 1998, the event by which all other El Niños are judged.

She wrote a book about her strategy in The Every Other Day Diet, although this was not the blockbuster success of the 5:2 diet.

• The ultimate food and wine pairing is when the flavors of both are good on their own, but together they make a blockbuster combination and accentuate the best in each other.

A junior - league rip - off of Rocky (and countless other boxing films), the movie doesn't just borrow from Stallone's proto - Reaganite blockbuster — it all but samples it, sprinkling in bits and pieces from most of the other go - for - it sagas (The Karate Kid, An Officer and a Gentleman) that Rocky made possible.

Many film fans assume that Mitchell won his 1939 Best Supporting Oscar for his portrayal of Gerald O'Hara in the blockbuster Gone With the Wind; in fact, he won the prize for his performance as the drunken doctor in Stagecoach — one of five Thomas Mitchell movie appearances in 1939 (his other films that year, classics all, were Only Angels Have Wings, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame).

The inevitable love triangle is not as important a storyline as in other teenage blockbusters, with it being almost an inconvenience to the strong female lead of Katniss.

In no other sense, however, does the word «logical» apply to writer - director Luc Besson's return to blockbuster form — which is to say, his latest aggressively stylish, self - consciously feminist, gratuitously globe - trotting pulp - trash extravaganza.

Just as they did with «21 Jump Street» and «Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs» before this most ambitious undertaking, co-helmers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller irreverently deconstruct the state of the modern blockbuster and deliver a smarter, more satisfying experience in its place, emerging with a fresh franchise for others to build upon.

Written and directed by Karen Leigh Hopkins, the film's tone looks to be all over the place, but it's good to see James Badge Dale as something other than a supporting character in an action blockbuster.

Instead we are presented with an absolute turd of a film with shockingly bad «action» set pieces (despite not actually requiring major action set pieces for the plot), dreadful visuals that might as well be that «Gladiators» TV show complete with glitter and sparkles, a god awful thrash / heavy metal soundtrack just in case you forgot this film was suppose to be tough and your obligatory dire big name cast hot of the heels of other poor major blockbusters (yeah stick him / her in it, big name, can't go wrong, doesn't matter if they actually fit the role or not pfft!).

Since that time, the star of Dracula Untold has been seen in a wide variety of films - including several blockbuster franchises: Clash of the Titans, Fast and Furious 6, and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, among others - with upcoming roles in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and The Crow reboot.

Riddick — Vin Diesel's other passion project may not be the blockbuster phenomenon of the «Fast & Furious» franchise, but you've got ta admire his efforts in keeping Riddick going.

Of course that ignores the superb The Jungle Book, which made life in the wild seem just as thrilling as other recent blockbusters.

The game looks almost as good as the other blockbuster shooters, plays just as well, but has a story that is not only gripping but features some of the best writing in a video game for many years.

Often neglected in favor of other seasons, autumn storms into September wielding countless eclectic offerings that provide the possibility of more mature material in comparison to the bullying blockbusters that terrorize theatres throughout the summer.

The decision by Warner Bros to release the film in the fall seems to be a shrewd one, to give it some distance from what could be their other big blockbuster, Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, which opens on July 21.

It was funny, slick, bright, brisk, lighthearted, and exciting, or, in other words, all the things that this year's summer blockbusters are not.

Welcome to Kirby Star Allies, the next big blockbuster for the Nintendo Switch that cleverly uses the mechanics of this innovative console well, including the ability to play with four other players in this thoroughly enjoyable side - scrolling platformer.

Whether it can join «The Force Awakens,» «Avatar» and «Titanic» in the elite $ 2 billion club will depend on how it performs in later weeks, when it will have to share theaters with other anticipated films like «Deadpool 2» and «Solo,» as well as counter-programming blockbusters like «Ocean's 8.»

I'm glad to see a sudden resurgence by him in such films as the eventual blockbuster Captain America: The Winter Soldier as well as a few others listed on IMDb.

Either because of bad word of mouth, or because practically everyone who had wanted to see the movie in the first place had done so already in that first weekend, or because of competition from other high - profile blockbusters.

Among other things, Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, has spawned a blockbuster 1998 IMAX documentary, a 2007 Canadian miniseries, a 24 - hour webcam feed,

In one of two blockbuster adaptations to showcase his shining star this year (the other being the inexplicable feature - length translation of a little game called Battleship), Taylor Kitsch leads the weekend as the title character in John Carter, leaping miles in a single bound and surely climbing the box - office charts toIn one of two blockbuster adaptations to showcase his shining star this year (the other being the inexplicable feature - length translation of a little game called Battleship), Taylor Kitsch leads the weekend as the title character in John Carter, leaping miles in a single bound and surely climbing the box - office charts toin John Carter, leaping miles in a single bound and surely climbing the box - office charts toin a single bound and surely climbing the box - office charts too.

Laura Butler Her other half is the star in a major Hollywood action blockbuster but Madeline Mulqueen has insisted that she will be steering clear of adopting a «Transformers theme» for her wedding to actor Jack...

Microsoft, on the other hand, keeps running the blockbuster road and after Lords of the Fallen offers another AAA action - adventure game Xbox fans will fall in love with.

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Openly trolling the ambitions of other modern comic - book movies, the sequel to Deadpool, the surprise hit that cast Ryan Reynolds as the self - destructive and puerile Bugs Bunny figure of the present superhero blockbuster landscape, mostly outdoes its predecessor in terms of style and satirical intent: Now that he's...

He's surrounded by a diverse international cast, not all of whom are given much to do (a half - assed love interest is horrendously underwritten) and the film's clear attempts to appeal to a Chinese audience don't feel as tokenistic as they have often felt in other blockbusters.

Three bigger «blockbuster» titles are about to be added to the Vault, and though they're not available today, EA's promised that they'll arrive «later this year» — in other words, within the next two months.

Bobby Cannavale isn't nearly as entertaining as he has been in other films this year (Spy, Annie) as the fiancée of Scott's ex-wife Maggie, played by Judy Greer... getting yet another small, thankless role in a blockbuster this summer (she was previously seen in Tomorrowland and Jurassic World).

Among the certainties in the world of film criticism — there will be a series of pieces bemoaning critics» inability to stop a terrible summer film from becoming a blockbuster; Armond White will often stake out a position in opposition to many of his fellow critics; movies about middle - aged men having their mid-life crises sorted out by women well out of their league will always receive mostly kind notices; etc. — there's one that stands above all others.

Decider great piece by Joe on the rise of the bad seen as villain in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and other blockbusters Decider Joe also counts down the 10 times Globes were more fun than Oscars (10?

Though his name was known in many circles on the basis of his first two movies (and in others for his marriage to Madonna), British filmmaker Guy Ritchie was something of a niche brand until helming 2009's blockbuster Sherlock Holmes and its nearly as successful 2011 sequel.

And the presence of one massive - budget sci - fi blockbuster in my end - of - year list, plus another couple in the honourable mentions and plenty of other good ones besides, suggests that even blockbusters still have something to offer cinemagoers.