Sentences with phrase «surprise hit that took»

There wasn't really anywhere for the story to go after 2008's surprise hit Taken, and this movie quickly proves that.

games ™ chats to Rocket League's Jeremy Dunham about the surprise hit that took over everyone's life on psn and PC

Not exact matches

Here on Inc.com we've covered studies showing that a sedentary office life can take a terrifying toll on your health (even if you hit the gym regularly, unfortunately), as well as surprising research showing sitting might actually also make you dumber too.

While the success took the some analysts by surprise, a closer look finds 5 factors turned it into a hit.

You might need to take a pill to figure out if you'll be hit with a surprise ATM fee even if you're a customer of this huge bank.

The film took in $ 67 million, a surprise hit that was buoyed in part by a built - in audience familiar with the bestselling book the movie is based on.

Hitting bottom usually takes us down enough pegs to realize we actually have problems with drinking (you'd be surprised how many drunken days and nights can pass before an alcoholic actually starts to even consider there just might be a problem, the rationalizations are amazingly strong and persistent), but then there's actually asking for help and doing what is suggested.

(A famous story about Nelson is that one afternoon he noticed, to his mild surprise, that he had hit two balls into divots he had taken during a morning round.

lets hit them with all we got 2 (this the game i feel that we should use the 2 strikers with nothing to lose it might surprise Monaco) strikers up top and pace on the wings with passion skill and luck we can take them we have nothing to lose just attack wave after wave i would rather lose knowing we did everything we could to score and win then whimper out quietly lets go gunners

i really would be surprised if in the next few games we did nt do really well now that i) we are taking some long shots as well as short, and ii) our strikers have tasted what its like to hit the target.

Garbed in all white costume, Shatta Wale took the stage by surprise with his hit song «Chop Kiss».

Expected to face an easy reelection, Mayor de Blasio hit the campaign trail Sunday with a warning: Voters could face an ugly surprise if they take the outcome for granted.

The other problem is that the scale of the difference is masked more readily by variability, events such as Krakatoa, and the needs of statistics to hit significance levels... TBH I haven't done the math, but we shouldn't be surprised if we now achieve in a year, in emissions terms, what would have taken most of the nineteenth century to manage.

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Just like that, a new wave of websites has hit the internet and taken it by surprise!

Sublimely trashy, this conceptual sequel to 1997's surprise hit, «Anaconda,» doesn't expect to be taken any more seriously than its schlock predecessor, and keeps its tongue - in - cheek thrills flowing rapidly.

This sequel to the surprise 2012 hit Pitch Perfect finds the Bellas taking on the world (especially the Germans) at an international a cappella competition.

In 2013, he took on a supporting role in the surprise hit Orange is the New Black, playing Larry Bloom.

Was it fair to take money from loyal supporters who wouldn't receive a share of the profits if the film became a surprise hit?

Max's violent outburst comes back to haunt him; Tara discovers that she can remain aware of her actions when her new alter, Shoshana, takes over; Kate's music video is an Internet hit; Charmaine receives surprising news from her doctor.

When his shepherding of Cushman hits an unexpected snag, it costs Jerry his relationship with hard - as - nails NFL publicist Avery Bishop (Kelly Preston) and opens the door to the awkward but inevitable courtship of Dorothy, whose young son Ray (Jonathan Lipnicki) has taken an immediate liking to the agent — who is surprised and touched by his own seemingly endless tolerance for the tyke.

Fans of the surprise 2012 hit Ted will find plenty to love in this sequel, in which Seth MacFarlane takes the same approach: throwing every kind of gag at the screen in the hopes that...

«Despicable Me 2» (2013) Box Office Take: $ 971m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 19 Back in 2010, Universal's animated feature «Despicable Me» proved a surprise worldwide smash, but few would have anticipated that its sequel would have become the third - biggest animated movie of all time, and until «Furious 7,» Universal's biggest hit ever.

This year's big winner is Silver Linings Playbook, the «sleeper hit» of TIFF which took everyone by surprise.

Secondly, Liam Neeson is an actor I would happily watch in anything, and that includes yet another unnecessary sequel to his surprise 2008 hit Taken.

His career took off when he starred in Amenábar's feature film debut, the surprise hit THESIS (1996), followed by OPEN YOUR EYES (1997) where he played alongside Penelope Cruz and received a Goya nomination for his performance.

During one race I was surprised and dumb struck for a moment as another car ahead of me took a bad turn and hit another car just right and caused a wreck, the car flipped a couple times and the rest of the racers made their way around the mishap.

This sequel to the surprise hit adaptation of a popular video game, Mortal Kombat, sees John R. Leonetti (The Butterfly Effect 2), cinematographer for the first film, take over the reigns from Paul W.S. Anderson as director, mostly to disappointing results.

Along with all of those other games that hit stores today comes Sega's Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F 2nd, the latest in a growing line of rhythm games featuring the vocaloid (electronic) singer who recently took David Letterman by storm and / or surprise.

«Smokin» Aces» didn't quite live up to its potential, but «The A-Team» was a lot more fun than it deserved to be, and «The Grey» looks like it could be yet another surprise hit for star Liam Neeson along the lines of «Taken.»

Sure, it's really no surprise as there were no new wide releases entering the competition, but still, the veterans took some rather hard hits.

There were two sequels to the surprise hit film of 1937 — Topper Takes a Trip (1939) and Topper Returns (1941), and it also spawned a TV series.

It seems like just yesterday when Seth Rogen and Zac Efron engaged in a battle of wits in the 2014 comedy Neighbors, which became one of the surprise hits of the summer, taking in in more than $ 270 million worldwide from just an $ 18 million budget.

With the release of the film's Blu - ray this week, Honest Trailers takes aim at M. Night Shyamalan's latest, surprising hit, Split.

«When «Hell» broke, it took everyone by surprise, not just us,» writes Tom Maxwell, formerly of Squirrel Nut Zippers, in his new memoir Hell — named after the hit single the band released in 1996.

Nevertheless, I put it on the penultimate tier with Best Film Editing (which may have taken a hit from ACE) and Best Supporting Actor (which has a few hopping off the Christian Bale train in favor of Geoffrey Rush following a surprising BAFTA win, but I find that ill - advised, considering how that organization clearly didn't respond to «The Fighter»).

The audience took to Twitter to voice vehement disagreement, and my co-emcee and I — we were just as surprised as everyone else — did our best to distance ourselves from the remarks and hit the reset button on the evening.

After all these years this V12 is still an engine rich in thrills and enjoyment and can still surprise you when it hits its sweet spot and takes off as the revs rise past 4000rpm.

Parallel parked the way they were up there, I'm surprised it wasn't shorter than it is — a lot of these cars are smashed by their bumper overriders and the noses are all cracked; the front takes a hit and they flare at the wheel arches.

It was an immediate hit that took JLR completely by surprise.

If you haven't been around a new Grand Cherokee in a while, you will be surprised when you slide behind the wheel... previous versions of the top Jeep took hits for their general lack of refinement, but the Grand Cherokee has rebounded with significant improvements to ride quality with the eight - speed automatic transmission and its smooth, refined shifts, and antilock disc brakes.

Steve Laube of The Steve Laube Agency believes the Christian retail industry, like any other retail industry, has taken a hit by the «Amazon effect,» and he says while the closing of Family Christian Stores is «bad news, it's not necessarily a surprise.»

But just as they plan to take the next step, the team is hit with a surprising setback.

Romance, mystery and thrillers may capture all the headlines, but take a peek at non-fiction categories and you'll find many writers (who aren't Kon Mari surprise hits and celebrities) making a more than decent income.

The Times points out that sales of dedicated e-reading devices have also taken a hit, but that's not too surprising considering how popular tablets and smartphones are — both of which can also fulfill the e-reader role.

I'm rather surprised any e-pubs put their work into print, since I've heard some pretty discouraging stories about authors» electronic royalties taking a big hit due to returns of their print titles.

Grahame - Smith, who unleashed the zombie mashup on the world with the surprise 2009 hit Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and went on to write the bestseller Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, is being taken to court by Hachette for breach of contract.

But surprise, my portfolio didn't take a hit at all - for once!!!

Were you surprised that it took such a hit last year, given that Berkshire shareholders are such buy and hold investors?

Twenty years after the breed took its first major PR hit in the media, Sports Illustrated returned to show us a different face of the dog, one that invokes sympathy and even surprise from a re-educated public.