But the latest Die Hard movie with Bruce Willis, titled A Good Day To Die Hard, opens on 14 February and is expected to buck the trend.
Fourth place was claimed by A Good Day to Die Hard, the fifth instalment in Bruce Willis's 25-year-old action franchise.
The overall trajectory doesn't bode well for Bruce Willis' A Good Day to Die Hard, which opens in two weeks.
Obviously, A Good Day to Die Hard has already earned more than each of those aforementioned flops, though, and it shouldn't be written off as a misfire.
Of course, old habits tend to die hard.
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He attributes such sniping to die-hard Kennedy haters, who he assumes will always harass him.
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In the meantime, Lucasfilm , the production company behind Star Wars, is appealing to die-hard Star Wars fans.
The total is down this year, but it's hard to believe that any people die because they can't heat their homes properly.
The scoring crown may be viewed as ornamental to die-hard basketball fans and analysts, who recognize that Anthony won the title by playing somewhat less efficiently than Durant.
By offering a television program that went behind-the-scenes to create compelling storylines, the NHL found a means to making its brand of hockey and the personalities within it accessible to die-hard fans, casual fans, and probably a good many who never even knew they could be interested in any of it.
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Sports television, which started out in the 1950s as a crude but meaningful alternative to going to a game, was surely no adequate substitute for the die-hard football fan who wanted to be in the stadium.
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Today, companies are trying to create die-hard fans and followers by harnessing or engineering cultural movements.
In 1985, Disney released "Return to Oz, " an underappreciated live-action sequel that continues to please die-hard Oz fans but no one else.
And, as generations of children can attest, parents are constantly trying to offer up healthy snacks such as bananas, raisins, oranges and pretzels, but to the die-hard candy user, this stuff is near beer.
From the hardcore gamer fragging an opponent on a first person shooter to a die-hard MOBA or MMO player engaging with thousands of players online, gamers can get a competitive advantage from excellent audio quality and positional accuracy.
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From "Die Hard Trilogy" to "Batman Forever" to the many games based on "Star Wars, " the formula might seem like a no-brainer -- if a movie earns millions at the box office, why not extend the marketing plan from action figures and posters to something interactive, like a video game?
Up to half of hospitalized patients with MRSA die with it, although it is hard to parse out how many of the deaths are due to the infection and how many are due to the underlying illnesses that put them in the hospital in the first place.
To be fair, I get that the legions of die-hard "Star Wars" fans are partially to blame for your latest twist of the knife.
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A. Anxious and frustrated to the point that Thursday's do-or-die Game 5 is going to be hard to watch.
Even the most die-hard bear has to be at least a little nervous.
"We want the most die-hard basketball fan to walk in and say, 'Yeah, they did it right, that was real, '" Kail said.
One more product pick we recently came across that can enable die-hard football fans to catch multiple games on the go is the Dish Network Tailgater Portable Satellite Antenna and ViP 211k receiver.
The league ran a contest, searching for a couple of die-hard fans willing to spend practically every waking moment there watching all 2, 430 Major League Baseball games this season on a massive wall of 15 televisions, and sharing their experiences with other fans.
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Boba Fett might not be as familiar to people who are not die hard Star Wars fans.
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When it comes out with a new iPhone, for example, die-hard Apple fans race to buy new ones.
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Live Free or Die Hard on the Apple TV to HD VOD and witnessed exactly what we'd suspected: cable did look worse.
This didn't work in the preproduction unit I tested, but it's hard to imagine that this is a feature to die for.
Of course, cynics and die-hard progressives might object to the above evidence on the grounds that it was driven by an explosion of income gains.
Dirty habits die hard and the only way to encourage auto makers to adopt clean technology is a short sharp shock in the fuel price.
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