The days where you absolutely had to see a hit movie in 3-D are over.
The new rules mean that even a hit movie will probably show an upfront loss.
Hollywood is watching to see if moviegoers will turn a live-action 3-D movie into a Transformers-size hit.
If the movie is a hit, expect studios to focus even more development dollars on films aimed at an international audience.
If Taken 2 turns out to be as big a hit as the first Taken movie, Neeson will be able to significantly up his asking price.
Not every superhero movie is a hit I might be the only one who sat through all of Daredevil but I thought the Avengers was really good.
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But for now this debut is unlikely to see a cinema release and will go straight to iTunes as Madonna believes the low-budget movie will be a bigger hit as an Internet download.
Consider the recent jailing on felony charges, later dropped, of a woman for camcordering a few minutes of the hit film New Moon while attending a birthday party at a movie house.
Such blinkered reverence is at odds with the world in which the Beatles and Bond came to stardom, when the spending power of neophyte teenagers dominated pop culture and a song or movie could be top of the pops or a box office hit one week and gone the next.
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The band's popularity has enjoyed a resurgence thanks to the hit Mamma Mia movie last year.
To say that movie streaming has been a hit would be an understatement.
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Releasing new titles in hit movie series is always a sales driver, but neither camp has the clear lead here.
The movie has already proved a hit with critics at international film festivals, and is scheduled for screening at the biggest independent festival in the U.S., in Flagstaff, Arizona.
The movie has proved a huge hit for Disney even though many analysts predicted that a cartoon with a cranky old man as the lead would never live up to Pixar's previous successes.
The movie, which was a hit at Sundance, tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a Frenchman living in Los Angeles who was filming a documentary on the world of street art, including his holy grail, Banksy.
That event propelled the movie into a box office hit, and the coincidence of a well-made fictional film with a real-life event with a very similar plot line led to a huge increase of public fears around the safety of nuclear power, and likely set the nuclear power industry back by decades.
The 1976-to-1980 period was particularly testosterone-intensive--as not a single actress appeared in more than one hit movie.
And it was a hit first in its original, movie version in 1968, then on Broadway in 2001, and back in the movie theaters in 2005.
Even if this movie were to become a cult hit (which it achingly wants to be), one cannot imagine that upon repeated viewings it would make any sense.
What's more, the hit movie An Inconvenient Truth displayed a side of Al Gore natural and good-humored that was often missing during his campaign eight years ago.
It was a triple hit--for Lohan, for the movie and for Fraser Ross, the founder of Kitson.
Not many people my age send an email to ask friends to hit the town, or go see a movie.
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Winnie was hoping the film would be a hit, not only because he is a devout Spider-Man fan, and it's a movie he has waited nearly his whole life to see, but also because its success could increase his net worth by several zeros.
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Tom Hooper's adaptation of the popular stage hit enjoyed the biggest ever UK opening for a movie musical, beating a record set by Mamma Mia!
Movie stars are absolutely necessary to launch a hit picture.
Mark Rachesky, a Wall Street investor who likes to stay under the radar, has made a paper fortune this year off of Twilight and another hit movie, The Hunger Games, thanks to his own investment saga that saw him take on his mentor, the billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
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And protection in case you pull a Ryan Gosling move such as the ones featured in the hit movie Crazy, Stupid, Love.
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Yet the overseas success of "A Separation" has improved its performance in Iranian theaters, where the film had been a box-office hit and theaters extended its run after the movie won awards at international festivals.
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