It should be no surprise to investors that Apple ( AAPL) is set to have a blockbuster quarter, as both the iPad and the newest iPhone were released in the second quarter.
If you really have a potential blockbuster, a venture capitalist or two might come sniffing around with a checkbook and backbreaking term sheets.
It wasn't until Tarceva extended the lives of patients with non-small cell lung cancer that it became clear that OSI and Genentech actually did have a potential blockbuster on their hands.
Still, this study is yet another positive for Zometa, a drug many have speculated could be a blockbuster.
One could easily say that no one could have predicted a freak blockbuster like the Missoni launch.
It's probably true that the major studios have fallen into a blockbuster-tentpole syndrome.
It may have been a Hollywood blockbuster when it opened three-quarters of a century earlier, but it was beginning to fall apart.
The advantage of these kinds of films is that they tend to be relatively cheap to make, so Never Say Never doesn't have to be a blockbuster to turn a healthy profit for Viacom.
The missions are superbly varied - as are the levels - with action-packed sequences that could have emerged straight from a Hollywood blockbuster.
Abrams and his production company Bad Robot have a proven track record of blockbuster movies that feature complex action, heartfelt drama, iconic heroes and fantastic production values with such credits as Star Trek, Super 8, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, and this year's Star Trek Into Darkness.
Expectations for the medicine, once widely seen as a potential blockbuster, have dropped.
But drugmakers, try as they may, have so far failed to produce a blockbuster weight-loss pill that's safe and reliable.
Already this year, HMV, the U.K.'s last music chain, camera retailer Jessops and the U.K. arm of DVD rental firm Blockbuster have entered administration, a form of bankruptcy, while electrical business Comet and sports store JJB Sports closed their doors toward the end of last year.
In the past, a change in a risk factor might have been enough for a drug to be approved and even become a blockbuster.
So in one company, investors have a very appealing combination: the potential for blockbuster drugs, revenues from drug-delivery systems and products now on the market.
Third, in the past, big drug companies' blockbuster pills have been targeted at as a wide a group of patients as possible.
With that in mind, Axelrod is limiting her exposure to the sector, especially on big name pharmaceuticals like that have faced a dry spell in coming up with new blockbuster products.
"This group is going to lead the next advance, " predicts Berry, who points out that many companies are trading at a discount to their cash reserves and have blockbuster products in the pipeline.
For Merck and Schering-Plough, recent setbacks have lent a new urgency to the need for a new blockbuster.
The action represents a major setback for a drug that had once been thought to have blockbuster potential.
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Would James Cameron have made his blockbuster film if the Titanic had been a common passenger ferry filled with common laborers?
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Here's a cute one, from a Yale student: Why doesn't Blockbuster have customers rewind before watching?
Possibly, and given that the trend for hiring CDOs has largely originated in the media industry, out of all three brands, Blockbuster would probably have benefited the most from such a person.
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These blockbuster deals generated a lot of buzz, but have become a tough sell in the current economic and political climate.
As such, in order to make profits, each Star Wars film will theoretically have to gross towards the upper-ends of what constitutes a global blockbuster each time out.
The administrators have previously said Blockbuster UK would keep trading while it tries to find a buyer.
The launch's demand appears to have been built on Motorola's original Droid, which itself was a blockbuster thanks in part to a buy-one-get-one-free promotion at Verizon.
Moreover, League adds, if you had only one copy of a blockbuster film running in several auditoriums, you'd have to jury-rig a setup in which you would run the film through multiple projectors, an arrangement that was both clumsy and dangerous.
Next month, Yahoo could announce a blockbuster partnership with Facebook or Apple or Google and they already have one with Microsoft.
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