Sentences with phrase «smash hit with audiences»

Though Divorce hasn't been quite the smash hit with audiences or critics that, perhaps, HBO had hoped it would be, the HFPA will likely find it hard to resist nominating four - time Golden Globe winner Sarah Jessica Parker for her new series.

The comedy played last year's SXSW festival and proved a smash hit with audiences who ate up Michael Showalter «s confident directorial debut.

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In the same category is David Wain «s «Wanderlust» and Nicholas Stoller «s «The Five - Year Engagement,» which both inexplicably failed to connect with audiences, but nevertheless managed to contain more laughs than your average smash - hit comedy.

One of the biggest surprise smash - hits of the last decade, the first Deadpool had no real right to be as entertaining and amusing as it was and benefited greatly from an audience across the globe that didn't expect it to be nearly as proficient as it was, so in many ways Deadpool 2 has a lot more weight thrust upon its shoulders in today's climate, with many eager fans awaiting more of Ryan Reynolds playing Ryan Reynolds under the guise of a tight red gimp suit.

Occasionally, movies work for audiences simply because they want them to — which may have been the case with «Revenge of the Nerds,» an erratically funny 1984 college comedy — full of raw, predictable gags — that became a surprise smash hit.

As Michael Atkinson has written for Criterion, «Without its iconic precedent, there would have been no Humphrey Bogart, no John Garfield, no Robert Mitchum, no Randolph Scott, no Jean - Paul Belmondo (or Breathless or Pierrot le fou), no Jean - Pierre Melville or Alain Delon, no Steve McQueen...» Soon after Pépé, Renoir's antiwar masterpiece Grand Illusion hit, and it was an even bigger smash, cementing Gabin's superstar status; in this and all of his most successful roles (La bête humaine, Le jour se lève), Gabin played some form of working - class social outcast, and he always provided audiences with a strong point of identification.

Still, the Marvel juggernaut was far from the only smash hit to come out last month, as director / star John Krasinski's horror - thriller A Quiet Place struck a chord with audiences.

Add in the fact that a vote for the film also represents a vote for the much - mourned UK Film Council — oh, and that it just happens to be a smash hit with British audiences — and the royal biopic would likely have been a lock for the top prize even without the support of major US guilds.

The sequel to the Academy Award ® - winning animated smash hit, «Happy Feet 2 ″ returns audiences to the magnificent landscape of Antarctica, reuniting us with the world's most famous tap - dancing penguin, Mumble (Elijah Wood), the love of his life, Gloria (Alecia Moore -LCB- Pink -RCB--RRB- and their old friends Ramon and Lovelace (Robin Williams).

Jeffrey Dean Morgan endeared himself to audiences with his recurring role on ABC's smash hit series, Grey's Anatomy (2005).

These titles, in turn, are attracting audiences, with some self - published books even becoming bona fide smash hits.

The show proved to be a smash hit with the New York art audience, drawing more than 180,000 visitors.