Sentences with phrase «popular entertainments like»

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The deal also includes popular entertainment properties like X-Men, Avatar, and The Simpsons, according to a press release.

Spotify's business model may give it a chance to stand out from companies like King Digital Entertainment — makers of popular mobile game Candy Crush — which received a less - than - sweet reception in its public stock debut yesterday.

With upcoming initiatives like Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch League, an attempt to make the competitive scene of their popular Overwatch first - person shooter more like traditional sports leagues, that may change.

The entertainment world is currently bringing us names like Rue, Prim and Cato (from The Hunger Games), Grayson (from television's Revenge) and Adele and Cyrus (from these so - popular songstresses).

As the magazine's Editor - in - Chief, she created innovative and popular columns like Fit Rx, which applies exercise programs to combat specific health ailments, and Top Trainer, which focuses on how top athletes and entertainment figures stay in shape.

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

Perhaps its unexpected box office success can be attributed in part to the popular reaction against an entertainment industry whose laser - like concentration is on big - budget franchise and sequel films.

Rather this is more like a slickly made popular entertainment that turns a familiar formula on its head to make it thoroughly engaging again.

After watching a film like Pulse, I feel a bit insulted that movie executives think so little about the intelligence of the American movie - going public that the vast majority of the attempts at popular entertainment are completely stripped of anything remotely resembling a thought - provoking element, eschewing those in favor of noise, special effects and music stimuli to try to induce a subconscious reaction in the audience.

(Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray all Coen staples, were also the adult cast of Moonrise Kingdom) As the two filmmakers working today that do not operate in franchises or sequels, but still make popular entertainment on a significant scale, they feel like increasingly rare birds in the American movie landscape.

I don't know who the Harold Bloom of the film world is, but if you found someone like that and said to him, «Compare Jaws with 400 Blows by Francois Truffaut,» he'd just laugh and say, «Well, Jaws is a piece of crappy, popular entertainment, but 400 Blows is cinema.»

When Disney acquired Marvel Entertainment in 2009, the first mandate was to create a world for the most popular characters, like Iron Man and the Incredible Hulk.

The Volkswagen e-Golf tech includes a lot of entertainment options, like SiriusXM Radio with a complimentary 3 - month subscription for commercial - free listening to hundreds of stations spanning popular radio to sports games.

While popular television programs about the world of advertising like the series Mad Men have made good fodder for their entertainment value, it's altogether something else to read a novel based on the ins and outs of corporate advertising.

Ape Entertainment, who has made a name for itself in graphic digital content by developing award - winning ebooks out of some of the most popular and bestselling video games from the iTunes store, like the comic book based on Cut The Rope, has now launched its DreamWorks comics app.

Their catalog includes some of the world's most popular entertainment brands such as Star Wars, Star Trek, and My Little Pony; award - winning editions of classic comics including the Artist's Edition line; and # 1 New York Times bestsellers like Love Is Love and March, the first graphic novel ever to win the National Book Award.

NOOK lovers can now enjoy the best in reading and entertainment on NOOK with access to one of the world's largest digital reading content catalogs, with more than 700,000 Android apps and games, millions of songs, thousands of movies and TV shows, plus popular Google services like the Chrome ™ browser, Gmail ™, YouTube ™, Google Search ™ and Google Maps ™.

Also try other popular digital magazines like People en Español, People StyleWatch in our Entertainment Magazines section.

Now customers can enjoy the best in reading and entertainment with access to one of the world's largest digital reading content catalogs, with more than 700,000 Android apps and games, millions of songs, thousands of movies and TV shows, plus popular Google services like the Chrome ™ browser, Gmail ™, YouTube ™, Google Search ™ and Google Maps ™.

When you publish your book through BookBaby, we will make it available in Baker & Taylor's entertainment media catalog, as well as popular eBook stores like the Kindle Store, iBooks, and many more.

The building opened in 1929 and was a popular entertainment spot during the 1930's and 40's when the likes of Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman and Harry James played there.

Like Stanley Park, it's one of Vancouver's most popular visitor attractions, and a thriving shopping and entertainment hub for locals as well.

As you plan your Nashville Tennessee vacation or business trip, we are the best in the area with our location near popular Nashville destinations like Grand Ole Opry, Ryman Auditorium, Gaylord Entertainment Center, Gaylord Opryland Hotel, Opry Mills, The Hermitage, and many, many more.

Founded in 1994 as an online bookstore, Amazon.com soon diversified into entertainment and software, later adding popular goods, like apparel, furniture, and toys.

In addition, Sands Ocean Club is just minutes from the shops and restaurants of Barefoot Landing, and such popular live entertainment attractions like The Alabama Theatre, The Carolina Opry, Dolly Parton's Pirates Voyage and more.

When you stay at Wyndham Ocean Walk located on a beautiful stretch of pedestrian - only beach and a part of the 80 000 square - foot Ocean Walk Village complex it is like two vacations in one a beachside retreat that is within walking distance of the most popular entertainment choices and activities Daytona has to offer.

Samaja Beachside Villa is a four - star villa resort located on Jalan Camplung Tanduk in Seminyak, also known as Jalan Dhyana Pura.Although not in a beachfront location, the resort is only 200 meters from the popular sunset beach of Seminyak, easily access by foot, and is within only a half - hour transfer from the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Tuban.The convenient location also provides ease of access to the highlights of dining, shopping and nightlife that the Seminyak beach resort area has to offer.The Seminyak Square shopping complex is only a 10 minute taxi ride east, so are the upscale entertainment spots on the Jalan Petitenget area, the likes of Ku De Ta and Potato Head Beach Club.

Qualified applicants can find rewards points cards that offer multi-point bonuses for gas station purchases, plus additional bonus rewards in other popular categories, including things like grocery store and entertainment purchases.

Airlie's famous main street closes for the weekend to host two massive street parties featuring live entertainment plus you'll get to enjoy the regions warm winter days while taking in specialty events like the popular Comedy Gala and Frocktails fashion show.

Day trips to popular beach resorts like Cavtat and Mlini are the perfect way to spend a tranquil day of sand and sea, before returning to the sophistication of Dubrovnik for your evening entertainment.

Accompanying elements like virtual reality platforms, retro gaming consoles and a comprehensive menu by world - renowned chef José Andrés set the arena apart as an unrivaled esports entertainment experience for both casual and professional gamers, or even non-gamers who want an insider's look at what's quickly becoming one of the world's most popular spectator sports.

Much like SOPA, PIPA isn't exactly the most popular legislation on the internet, yet one of the driving forces behind it is the Entertainment Software Association, which represents the videogame industry in all matters legislative and judicial.

A collection of Namco's most popular arcade games from the decade of big hair, and valley - speak, is now available on your Xbox video entertainment system (Like, totally!).

The game currently has over 64 million likes on its Facebook page and is now considered the most popular app on Facebook surpassing Farmville 2 and while it certainly brings money to its developer King Digital Entertainment plc, its success in the gaming industry is apparently not enough to guarantee its publisher an impressive performance on Wall Street.

The stellar lineup includes Sony Computer Entertainment's Executive Vice President, Development, Phil Harrison; French MTV Best Music Award - winning directors, the brilliant Alaux, Houplain and de Crécy from H5; game designer legend Tetsuya Mizuguchi; hyper - active Tokyo pop designer collective FuriFuri; game designer and master of eccentric excellence Masaya Matsuura; up - and - coming wireless game studio Newtgames; plus a new edition of GAMEHOTEL's popular Designer Toy Showcase featuring urban vinyl figures by the likes of Michael Lau, Eric So, Brothersfree, and other Hong Kong designer stars (see below for full lineup details).

Just like Nintendo Entertainment System, the Famicom has been notably popular, and also seems to have limited stocks in Japan.

Where movies like The Fast and the Furious don't take themselves too seriously, and much of the entertainment value comes from the sheer ridiculousness of it all, Payback takes itself far too serious to be enjoyable and the moments that it doesn't come off as hacky attempts at humor and pot shots at popular culture.

Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) today announced a new free - to - play business model for its popular massively multiplayer online (MMO) game DC Universe Online (DCUO)-- where players have the freedom to become legendary, fighting alongside DC Comics icons like Superman, Batman and The Joker in an ever - evolving online action adventure that has seen players log -LSB-...]

The icon for the game looked legit, the screenshots looked like they were pulled directly from the popular indie title and the developer was listed as «StudioMDHR Entertainment Inc..»

It looks like things are about to get up to speed in «DC Universe Online,» as Sony Online Entertainment has announced a Flash - centric downloadable expansion for the popular multiplayer game.

Influenced by both the avant - garde performance of artists like Vito Acconci and Richard Foreman as well as forms of popular entertainment, particularly stand - up comedy, Michael Smith has been cultivating his own idiosyncratic brand of performance art since the late 1970s.

Denny takes on popular entertainment and consumer cultures, creating aquarium - like sculptures, which quote in an ironic - melancholic way the former status object of the television set as an item of furniture and living room altar.

Rainer's task - like dances, Schneemann's sensuous appropriations of popular entertainment, and Acconci's behaviorist - inflected tests highlight the body's unintended movements as vital reminders of embodied struggle amid the constraining structures in contemporary culture.

This will come into play, in particular, in the living room and in home entertainment scenarios, where Alexa will start to offer consumers more than just information on what's popular on TV tonight, for example, or what she thinks you might like to watch.

Other popular ARKit - only app categories include utilities (like AR measuring tapes or eBay's tool for finding the right shipping box), entertainment apps (like the AR children's book, My Very Hungry Caterpillar), lifestyle apps (like the now numerous apps for helping consumers shop furniture by placing items in their own rooms via AR), photo and video apps (like Holo), and educational apps.

With over 40 million units sold, the PS4 is on the cutting edge of home entertainment, with unprecedented advancements in hardware and gaming tech, as well as incredible games like the ever - popular Grand Theft Auto, Star Wars Battlefront, and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, to name just a few.

Twelve percent of homeowners have turned to smart home devices to control their lights, locks, and video cameras; also popular are smart entertainment systems like Roku and smart climate control systems like Nest.