Promoters always hastened to place their choice tickets in the hands of the wealthy speculators, and only the man who knew the man who knew the fellow who had an in with the guy at the box office ever came up with a good seat for a contest of any importance.

In announcing Jorda's return, the orchestra also announced that the sale of single tickets for the 50th anniversary season will start at the Sherman Clay box office on Wednesday.

Over his long and successful career spanning over 50 years, he directed over 400 motion pictures, many of them highly acclaimed, such as the 1949 box office smash, Sands of Iwo Jima.

This film was a critical and box office failure, but has gained a modern following.

The film earned over $ 60 million at the domestic box office, a strong return for a film that cost only $ 5 million to produce.

The Movie has now become the most successful movie musical of all time and has been named the number one box office smash of 2008, and the biggest-selling DVD ever in the UK.

In a career spanning over 40 years, he is probably best known for his suspense and crime thriller films, including such box office successes as the horror film Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible.

" Greetings " ultimately grossed over $ 1 million at the box office and cemented De Palma's position as a bankable filmmaker.

Some of these movies ( Mission: Impossible, Carlito's Way ) worked and some others ( Mission to Mars, Raising Cain, Snake Eyes, The Bonfire of the Vanities ) failed at the box office.

Of these films, The Bonfire of the Vanities would be De Palma's biggest box office disaster, losing millions.

The film debuted at # 5 at the North American box office and eventually grossed a modest $ 16, 624, 456.

On its opening weekend, Braveheart grossed US $ 9, 938, 276 in the United States and $ 75. 6 million in its box office run in the United States and Canada.

It earned less at the box office than his previous features and received mixed reviews ; some viewers were displeased with Chaplin's politicising.

It was also a box office failure.

In mid 2000s, the trend of " gross-out " movies is continuing, with adult-oriented comedies picking up the box office.

The movie Office Space ( 1999 ), which lost money during its box office run, managed to turn significant profits when word-of-mouth made it a popular video rental and purchase.

" Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire ( 2001 ) had a disappointing box office performance but is considered to be a " cult favorite " because of its unique art and animation style inspired by comic book artist Mike Mignola.

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Patkin's appearance in the coaching box was the sort of promotional stunt that delighted fans but infuriated the American League front office.

He has also appeared in box office hits such as Days of Thunder, Hot Shots !, Twister, Liar, Liar and New Year's Eve.

It was a modest box office success, but received critical acclaim, earning a score of 96 % on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes.

Barrymore forged an image as a manipulative teenage seductress, beginning with the film Poison Ivy ( 1992 ), which was a box office failure, but was popular on video and cable.

Barrymore has continued to be highly bankable, and a top box office draw.

The second offering from the company was Charlie's Angels ( 2000 ), a major box office success in 2000 that helped solidify the standing of both Barrymore and the company.

Although the film was less than successful at the box office in the wake of 9 / 11, it reached cult film status after the DVD release, inspiring numerous websites devoted to unraveling the plot twists and meanings.

`` When I was a kid '', Maris told a sportswriter last week, `` I used to follow Williams every day in the box score, just to see whether he got a hit or not ''.

One of the errors had originally been ruled a hit, but the Cleveland third baseman sent a note to the press box after the eighth inning, saying he had made an error, and the ruling was changed.

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.

Lynne's comeback with ELO began in 2000 with the release of a retrospective box set, Flashback, containing three CDs of remastered tracks and a handful of out-takes and unfinished works, most notably a new version of ELO's only UK number one hit " Xanadu ".

It remains the biggest box office hit of all time in Norway ( Caprino Studios claim it has sold 5. 5 million tickets to date ) and was also released in many other countries.

The film was a box office hit and sequels began to get produced on a yearly basis.

Although several reviews were critical of the film – Pauline Kael said it " staggers along " and Stanley Kauffmann thought Cukor's direction was like " a rich gravy poured over everything, not remotely as delicately rich as in the Asquith-Howard 1937 Pygmalion " — the film was a box office hit which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and the Directors Guild of America Award after having been nominated for each several times.

It remains the biggest box office hit of all time in Norway ( Caprino Studios claim it has sold 5. 5 million tickets to date ) and was also released in many other countries.

He also released the four-CD box set, Star Time, featuring nearly all of Brown's hit recordings.

He received excellent reviews, with the New York Journal American rating it one of his best performances, and the film, made for Universal, was a box office hit.

Also in 1933 Whale directed the romantic comedy By Candlelight which got good reviews and was a modest box office hit.

The movie was a box office hit, grossing more than $ 106 million at the United States box office and grossed over $ 212. 7 million worldwide.

It was Dixit's first hit at the box office.

The movie, which became the most commercially successful film of all time when it was released — along with his Oscar-nominated performance as Paul in Last Tango in Paris ( 1972 ), another smash hit — revitalized Brando's career and reestablished him in the ranks of top box office stars, placing him at number 6 and number 10 in Top 10 Money Making Stars poll in 1972 and 1973, respectively.

He finished out the decade of the 1970s with his controversial performance as Colonel Walter Kurtz in another Coppola film, Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), a box office hit for which he was highly paid and that helped finance his career layoff during the 1980s.

Sin City was a critical hit in 2005 as well as a box office success, particularly for a hyperviolent comic book adaptation that did not have name recognition comparable to the X-Men or Spider-Man.

This film was a modest hit at the box office, grossing over $ 38 million in the United States and over $ 75 million worldwide, and earned several awards and nominations.

His career now suffering from back-to-back box office failures, Peckinpah once again was in need of a hit on the level of The Getaway.

The hit was so vicious, it prompted Jerry Green, a Detroit News columnist sitting in the press box with fellow journalists, to say in a deadpan, that the game was over.

2009 proved to be especially good for Bullock, giving the actress two record highs in her career, as earlier in the year she released The Proposal, with co-star Ryan Reynolds, a huge hit that took in more than $ 314 million at the box office worldwide, making it her most successful picture to date.

The then-fledgling film company Miramax decided to promote the film in the US where it became a sleeper hit, earning $ 62 million at the box office.

Receiving lousy reviews and box office during its previews in Washington, D. C., rewrites and restaging helped ; it was a smash Broadway hit and ran for 964 performances.

Along with the short line, service line, and side wall these lines define the doubles box, where the non-serving doubles partner stands during the serve ; 36 inches from the side wall is another set of lines which, along with the short line and the service line, define an area that the server must not enter if he wishes to hit a drive serve between himself and the nearest side wall.