Sentences with phrase «runaway hits»

Pokémon comics, games, animation and toys are runaway hits worldwide.

«What Distimo discovered this time is that, for a variety of reasons, Android generates far fewer runaway hits.

The first three books in her Alien Sex Slave Series — «Alien Love Slave,» «The Sex Arena,» and «Alien Sex Cove» — were runaway hits, she says.

All were filmed, edited with a bit of style, and set to music; all became runaway hits on YouTube and had the media beating a path to Block's door.

There are some standards or units of instruction that, for whatever reason, you know aren't going to be runaway hits with students.

The series is popularly credited with starting the stealth genre with Metal Gear Solid, one of the original PlayStation's runaway hits.

The previous two Hulk films haven't exactly been runaway hits at the box office, and the Thor movies had the weakest legs of the bunch in terms of revenue, so the pairing works.

The new law is a runaway hit with business leaders.

Some analysts questioned the deal and, indeed, while there were some successes, it wasn't a runaway hit.

On Monday, King Digital Entertainment, the maker of runaway hit game Candy Crush Saga, filed for an initial public offering in the U.S.

The device has been a runaway hit for Amazon: During the holiday season, the company has now sold out of Echo Dot speakers completely for two years running, and the Dot finished the season as the top - selling product overall on Amazon.

«La La Land» was the runaway hit of 2016 — the film emulated classic movie musicals to sell a feeling of nostalgia.

The runaway hit had a production budget of $ 28 million, but earned $ 60.2 million at the box office during its debut weekend and amassed a total of $ 201 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo.

Cook described AirPods, another popular «Other» product as a «runaway hit» that the company is still working to keep in stock.

One cool October afternoon in Vancouver, British Columbia, I took my place in line to see what the critics had deemed the runaway hit of the 1986 World's Fair.

«When Hendrick's was first released, it wasn't a runaway hit.

These will be a runaway hit on holiday cookie trays (and everyone will be shocked and think you're a total rock star if you admit how you made them!).

It was a runaway hit at breakfast this morning.

My chocolate mug cake recipe has been a runaway hit and if you'd like to keep things really simple, you could absolutely just stick to that for Valentine's day.

The runaway hit of our cookbook club was the beautiful beet pesto pasta.

Then there are these, simply known as the Ace sneakers that will be a runaway hit (pun intended) for Gucci as well.

To top it all off I go with a matte lipstick in a neutral shade, I usually go for Runaway Hit from mac, but today I chose Honey Love from them as well.

Filled with quotable lines («They mostly come at night... mostly), and great character performances including scenes of wall to wall action galore and the ultimate showdown with the heroine and the Mother that brought audiences to there feet when «Aliens» became the runaway hit of 1986.

Schwartzman followed the film with a supporting role in The Princess Diaries (2001), a family comedy starring Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway that proved to be a runaway hit both among critics and at the box office.

The four stumble into a back - country recording studio to cut a record that, unbenownst to them, soon becomes a runaway hit.

The show quickly became a runaway hit, garnering a large and loyal audience as well as Emmys and Golden Globes.

Matt's gameshow «The Box» is now a runaway hit.

Well, after the runaway hit that the Monster Hunter series has turned out to be, it's no surprise that everyone and their grandmother is out to catch lightning in a bottle twice with the same formula.

Though this bizarre film was a runaway hit in Pakistan, it made very few waves outside of the country.

When news broke that Get Out, Jordan Peele's runaway hit horror movie, would be in the «best motion picture» Golden Globes category for musicals and comedies, the backlash was swift — due in no small part to the movie being an important expression of racial themes.

perfectly preserves what made the original title such a runaway hit, while also adding in some pleasant surprises and new features, starting with the game's core experience: the multiplayer modes.

There's more to come, including the runaway hit of the festival: Rat Film!

A critical sensation and a runaway hit in its original theatrical form in 1928, the play proved even more of a trendsetter when it first hit the screen in 1931.

The film builds on the foundations laid out in Rupert Wyatt's runaway hit, Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) and continues the legacy of chief chimp Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his simian uprising.

But sources tell Page Six that following the LA premiere of runaway hit «Black Panther» in January, Usher looked to be on the prowl.

As a result, Dreamworks Animation's new comedy / adventure Home - which comes from the executive producer of How to Train Your Dragon - has the opportunity to become a runaway hit.

Marvel's Howard the Duck all but disappeared after his eponymous 1986 film failed miserably and entered the pantheon of terrible comic book movies, but the character is primed to make a triumphant return, thanks in no small part to a funny post-credits scene in this year's runaway hit, Guardians of the Galaxy.

Why It Could Fail: While last year's similarly toned black comedy, The Guard, managed to reap near - universal acclaim from the nation's critics, I wouldn't call it the runaway hit that would make waves at Oscar.

What was poignant and charming in Masayuki Suo's film, which was a runaway hit in Japan and the U.S., has become obvious and formulaic in the American version, written by Audrey Wells and poorly directed by Chelsom.

Bad Moms, the year's biggest R - rated comedy — a runaway hit with audiences and critics alike — is coming to Digital HD on October 18, 2016 and Blu - ray ™, DVD and On Demand on November 1, 2016, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

They are an easy way to capitalize on fan interest following a runaway hit but more often than not are as much fun as warmed - up leftovers.

After he made 1999's twist - hinging runaway hit The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan seemingly had the power to write his own ticket, and he chose to make Unbreakable, which turned out to be a twist - hinging, modest success.

Goon wasn't a runaway hit, though it's certainly a solid sports comedy, so it doesn't have much to live up to except to please fans of the original, which has become sort of a cult favorite.

When news broke that Get Out, Jordan Peele's runaway hit horror movie, would be in the «best motion picture» Golden Globes category for musicals and comedies, rather than drama, the backlash was swift — due in no small part to the movie being an important expression of racial issues.

Briefly: Tim Burton «s The Nightmare Before Christmas, directed by Henry Selick, wasn't a runaway hit when it originally opened.

The latest cast announcement from HBO's runaway hit is that Colin Farrell will join the lineup starting next season...

«Black Panther,» directed by Ryan Coogler, is a movie that doubles as a movement, or at least a moment that feels groundbreaking in the same way that last year's runaway hit «Wonder Woman» inspired millions of women.

Writer / director / producer Ryan Murphy is best known for creating some of the most popular shows on TV including the WB's cult - classic Popular, FX's award winning and groundbreaking series Nip / Tuck and Fox's current runaway hit Glee.

Written and directed by Jean - Claude La Marre (the Pastor Jones franchise), Chocolate City is basically a blackface version of Magic Mike that trades shamelessly in the same sort of titillating fare which made that flick a runaway hit a few years ago.

It was a huge comedown from «Little Miss Sunshine,» the duo's debut film, which was a runaway hit in 2006 and earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Alan Arkin.