In 1990, there were about 3.5 smoking scenes per box-office hit.
The box-office hit was honoured with four Bafta film awards on Sunday and will be up for eight Oscars at the Academy Awards on 24 February.
The 1987 production of "Fences, " the only August Wilson box-office hit, struggled to bring in African-American audiences, as did Russell Simmons's "Def Poetry Jam" in 2002.
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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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As for Bushnell, she got a book deal, landed an HBO series that lasted six years (and still sees daily syndication worldwide), and that series ultimately spurred two critically panned but box office smash-hit feature films.
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Over the next half-decade Seacrest added a countdown show, a morning radio show, a daytime talk show, a celebrity news show and a plum spot on every red carpet in town--which earned him a scene-stealing cameo in 2007's summer box office hit, Knocked Up.
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.
"As I was looking at the box-office numbers rolling in that weekend, the power of local content really hit me, " says Mr. Panitch.
Over the same period in 2009, record-breaking blockbuster Avatar was in its second week of release and box office hit Sherlock Holmes had just opened.
Though CBS ' (nyse: CBS - news - people ) The Late Show host is widely believed to have bombed during his one attempt to host the Oscars, the show, in which box office hit Forrest Gump beat out Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption for Best Picture, was the second-most-watched in the last 25 years.
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