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* The top 15 highest-grossing film series of the decade are ( in order from highest to lowest grossing ): Harry Potter-film series, Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean-film series, Spider-Man-film series, Shrek-film series, Ice Age-film series, Transformers-film series, X-Men-film series, Batman-film series ' Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Star Wars Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, The Matrix-film series ' The Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions, The Chronicles of Narnia-film series, Mission: Impossible-film series ' and The Mummy-film series.
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The club's current position comes within 15 years of their being one of the top sides in Welsh football, winning the old format Welsh Football League in 1991 and 1992, but being relegated in 1993 after just one season in the newly formed League of Wales.
Three innings by Lara were placed in the top 15 ( the most for any batsman in that range ).
Released in October 1987, it became a breakthrough hit for Eric B & Rakim outside the U. S., reaching # 15 in the UK and the top 20 in a number of European countries.
Charlton then lifted the League One trophy on 5 May 2012, having been in the top position since 15 September 2011, and after recording a 3 – 2 victory over Hartlepool United, recorded their highest ever league points score of 101, the highest in any professional European league that year.
On the top of the tower is a four-bar neon clock that indicates the time by displaying different colours in 15 minute intervals, blinking at the change of the quarter.
She continued to enjoy steady success during the 1990s and 2000s ; her 2000 album A Day Without Rain sold 15 million copies, and became the top selling new age album of the 2000s in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
On top of that, there were two instances of British troops killing civilians out of revenge or frustration, at Portobello Barracks, where six were shot and North King Street, where 15 were killed.
Max Roach was particularly known for using a 14 inch top with a 15 inch bottom.
In recent years, Japan has been the top export market for almost 15 trading nations worldwide.
In a 2006 survey of " 15 of the world's top travel writers " by The Observer, Palin named Peru's Pongo de Mainique ( canyon below the Machu Picchu ) his " favourite place in the world ".
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Hi Infidelity spawned four hit singles written by Richrath and Cronin, including the # 1 " Keep On Loving You " ( Cronin ), the # 5 " Take It on the Run " ( Richrath ), " In Your Letter " (# 20 ) ( Richrath ), and " Don't Let Him Go " (# 24 ) ( Cronin ), and remained on the charts for 65 weeks, 32 of which were spent in the top ten, including 15 weeks atop the Billboard 200.
From such comparisons it can be estimated that an additional 14 or 15 lines of hieroglyphic inscription are missing from the top register of the Rosetta Stone, amounting to another.
Morrall was the top passer of the game, with 7 out of 15 completions for 147 yards, with 1 interception.
Staubach finished the regular season as the NFL's top rated passer ( 101. 8 ) by throwing for 1, 882 yards, 15 touchdowns, and only 4 interceptions.
" Apollo X " would have replaced the LEM carried on the top of the S-IVB stage with a small space station slightly larger than the CSM's service area, containing supplies and experiments for missions between 15 and 45 days ' duration.
By the Academic Ranking of World Universities, one of its campuses, UC Berkeley, is ranked second worldwide among public and private universities, and three — Berkeley, Los Angeles, and San Diego — are ranked among the top 15.
Prior to the promulgation of the Master Plan, UC was to select from the top 15 %.
The University of Tulsa College of Law Review ranks in the top 15 % of most cited legal periodicals as ranked by Washington and Lee University.
At the top level, these hierarchies are organized into base types, 25 primitive groups for nouns, and 15 for verbs.
* August 15 – August 18 – The Woodstock Festival is held in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
* January 15 – London haberdasher John Hetherington wears a silk top hat in public and attracts a large crowd of onlookers.
* McLean ranks among the top 15 hospitals worldwide receiving National Institutes of Health grant support.
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( 1982 ) as the highest-grossing film in Japan – and Princess Mononoke ( 1997 ), which also claimed the top box office spot until Titanic ( 1997 ).
Four of the top seven highest-grossing films worldwide of all time have some British historical, cultural or creative dimensions: Titanic, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
With a gross of $ 30. 5 million equating to earnings of $ 12. 2 million, From Here to Eternity was not only one of the top grossing films of 1953, but one of the ten highest-grossing films of the decade.
The film became another box office success and was among the top five highest-grossing films of the year.
It grossed over US $ 61 million that year, placing it among the top ten highest-grossing films of 1985 ( in the US ).
Rocky II was an enormous box office success, and finished in the top three highest-grossing films of 1979, in both the North American market and worldwide.
That same year, she received her first Golden Globe nomination as New Star of the Year for her role in The Sweet Ride opposite Michael Sarrazin, and played Steve McQueen's girlfriend in the police drama Bullitt, which was among the top five highest-grossing films of the year.
The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time.
The latter turned out to be the year's biggest box office hit, subsequently being listed ninth on a list of top ten highest-grossing British films.
At the time, these figures put it within the top ten highest-grossing films of all-time.
Jaws 2 remained on Varietys list of top ten box office hits of all time until the mid-1990s, and was the highest-grossing sequel in history until Rocky II the following year.
Other sources place the adjusted figure lower, but still put it near the top of the List of highest-grossing Bollywood films.
The Lion King still stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated feature ever made, being the top money-maker among all films in North America in 1994.
Since 2006, Guggenheim is the only filmmaker to release three different documentaries that were ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time ( An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for ' Superman ').
It was overshadowed by the continuing success of Home Alone ; which opened in theaters three weeks earlier, but ended up being one of the top 100 highest-grossing films of all time.
Six films starring Loiri are in the top 20 list of the highest-grossing domestic films in Finland.
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Charley Simonelli, top Universal-International film studio exec, makes an honest man out of this column.
The project involved 3, 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by airplanes.
When " Rock Around the Clock " appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks.
In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the early 1930s, while the music hall tradition strongly influenced film comedy into the 1940s with Will Hay and George Formby among the top comedy stars of the time.
Celebrities may be known around the world ( e. g., pop stars and film actors ), within a specific country ( e. g., a top Australian rugby player ); or within a region ( e. g., a local television news anchor ).
* Prominent socialites, elite aristocrats and royal families, top level professional athletes, chart-topping musicians and pop singers, television and film actors with lead roles on prominently scheduled television shows and hit box office movies, internationally recognized supermodels and models are almost invariably celebrities.
While it ’ s true that the top television and film actors have become movie and television stars, musicians and pop singers that become pop stars, or athletes that become sports stars often become celebrities, the other professionals that play a more peripheral role in the entertainment sphere, such as television, music, and film directors and producers, screenwriters, playwrights, and animators are less likely to attain celebrity status ( albeit there are some exceptions, such as directors Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and animator Seth MacFarlane ).
As a result, she slipped from the list of top box office stars, last appearing in the top ten in 1966 with the hit film The Glass Bottom Boat.
Both columnist Liz Smith and film critic Rex Reed have mounted vigorous campaigns to gather support for an honorary Academy Award for Day to herald her film career and her status as the top female box-office star of all time.
In March 1982, the month before Paul Schrader's film Cat People came out, Bowie's title song, " Cat People ( Putting Out Fire )", was released as a single, becoming a minor US hit and entering the UK top 30.
The album bore the transatlantic top ten hit " Blue Jean ", itself the inspiration for a short film that won Bowie a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video, " Jazzin ' for Blue Jean ".
David Abelevich Kaufman () ( 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954 ) — better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov, or Vertof (, " spinning top ") — was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist.
Critic Roger Ebert was and remains today a champion of the film, including it on his all-time top ten best films list.
According to a survey by The Washington Post, The Thin Blue Line made dozens of critics ' top ten lists for 1988, more than any other film that year.
Scott Spiegel's humorous influence can be seen throughout the film, perhaps most prominently in certain visual jokes ; for instance, when Ash traps his rogue hand under a pile of books, on top is A Farewell to Arms.
The film routinely features at the top in various polls for the greatest movies ever.
Among Rotten Tomatoes ' Cream of the Crop, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television, and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 71 % based on 24 reviews.
The top actors of the era are now thought of as the classic film stars, such as Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Greta Garbo, and the greatest box office draw of the 1930s, child performer Shirley Temple.
Among his leading films was It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), which became the first film to win all five top Oscars, including Best Picture.
It Happened One Night ( 1934 ) became the first film to win all five top Oscars ( Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay ).
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