" His ability to direct a string of classic literary adaptations into huge box-office and critical successes made him one of " Hollywood's most bankable moviemakers " during the 1930s and 1940s.

The film was a huge box-office success, winning four Academy Awards, reviving interest in animation made for theaters, and popularizing the in-depth study of the history and techniques of animation.

Pixar's string of critical and box-office successes continued with Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up and Toy Story 3 all receiving rave reviews, earning huge profits, winning awards, and overshadowing Disney's in-house offerings until Cars 2 in 2011 ended the streak when it proved a critical and relative commercial disappointment.

The cooperative had the good luck to open in 1695 with the première of William Congreve's famous Love For Love and the skill to make it a huge box-office success.

Star Wars ( 1977 ) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1978 ), were box-office hits that brought about a huge increase in science fiction films.

" Malcolm's main issue with the film was that he had a " feeling that a constant struggle was going on between a desire to make a huge box-office success and the effort to make character as important as stunts.

The film was a huge box-office failure.

The movie was a huge box-office hit, thus repeating the success of Cliff Richard's earlier film The Young Ones ( 1961 ).

The film was a huge success at the box-office, and two years later became the first Disney film to have a sequel, 1963's Son of Flubber.

However, due to its huge budget — including $ 160 million in production costs and $ 81. 1 million in distribution expenses — its box-office take amounted to barely half of its expenses.

Infernal Affairs became a huge box-office success in Hong Kong, even being deemed as a " box-office miracle " at a time when Hong Kong cinema was said to have been lacking in creativity.

The film was a huge box-office success and Miho won a number of awards including Best Actress at the 38th Blue Ribbon Awards, the 17th Yokohama Film Festival and the 18th Hochi Film Award.

Previews had not been promising, and when released in April 1957, after being in production for 20 months, The Spirit of St. Louis was a box-office failure mainly due to its huge budget ( running at $ 6 million, more than twice the original budget ).

However, since the box-office success of MGM's 1951 motion picture version of the musical Show Boat, in which the boat was inaccurately redesigned as a deluxe, self-propelled steamboat, the image of a showboat as a large twin-stacked vessel with a huge paddle wheel at the rear has taken hold in popular culture.

The huge box-office success was due to the emotional appeal to a large number of audience.

BAO has released five albums to huge success in Sweden, all containing hit singles.

The title song became a huge hit in Sweden for Gemini.

Although it only reached # 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, it proved to be a huge hit worldwide.

The show proved a huge hit, being one of the most popular on television by the mid-1950s.

The film was a huge hit and for Huston, a triumphant directorial debut.

The next year, Green Day put out Dookie, which became a huge hit, selling nine million albums in the United States in just over two years.

The same year, huge waves, or “ rollers ”, hit the island causing 13 ships anchored off Jamestown bay to be wrecked.

Based on the hit song by C. W. McCall, the film was an attempt to capitalize on the huge success of Smokey and the Bandit ( 1977 ).

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 song Destiny became a huge hit in the underground circle.

There was a huge hole where it hit the first time.

Nevertheless, it was a huge hit in Europe, grossing nearly three times its $ 5 million budget among French audiences, and highly praised amongst North American film students.

Their first album's fourth single Alright was a huge international hit that established the band's reputation.

The band Basement Jaxx had a huge hit in 2002 with " Where's Your Head At?

Hicks was a huge hit in the UK and Ireland and continued touring there throughout 1991.

Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with the leads, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being played originally by Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, was a huge hit in New York and London.

That, along with huge pre-sales and a cast performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, helped ensure the expensive production was a hit.

The first, pre-release single, " Musik non stop " ( Music Non Stop ), a disco-rock song, became a huge radio hit and helped bring recognition for this album.

The first single " Dom andra " (" The Others ") became a huge hit on Swedish radio.

MGM capitalized on her relationship with Gilbert after their huge hit, Flesh and the Devil by costarring them again in two more hits, Love ( 1927 ) and A Woman of Affairs ( 1928 ).

Joe Williams toured with the band and was featured on the 1957 album One O ' Clock Jump, and 1956's Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings, with " Every Day ( I Have the Blues )" becoming a huge hit.

Hitler's order offered German capitalists, badly hit by the great recession, the prospects of huge profits.

It was a runaway hit and earned huge profits for the studio.

The film was a huge hit and one of the highest grossing movies of the year.

After obtaining power, the vast majority of " idealistic " reformers gained huge possessions of state property using their positions in the government and became business oligarchs in a manner that appeared antithetical to an emerging democracy.

Anderson faced a huge number of obstacles as a non-major party candidate: having to qualify for 51 ballots ( which the major parties appeared on automatically ), having to raise money to run a campaign ( the major parties received close to $ 30 million in government money for their campaigns ), having to win national coverage, having to build a campaign overnight, and having to find a suitable running mate among them.

Lauren Hutton became the first model to receive a huge contract from a cosmetics company and appeared on cover of Vogue 25 times.

Wayne previously appeared in only one big-budget western, The Big Trail ( 1930, directed by Raoul Walsh ), which was a huge box office flop.

VisiCalc was an enormous success, so much so that a huge number of clones appeared.

Finally, a hideous, giant churl, carrying a huge axe, appeared at Emain Macha.

Now that Parks was a full-fledged star, Columbia kept him busy in elaborate productions ( including a couple of costume epics ) until he appeared in the sequel, Jolson Sings Again ( 1949 ), which was another huge boxoffice hit.

The Introduction discusses the structure of the novel, the Onegin stanza in which it is written and Pushkin's opinion of Onegin ( using Pushkin's letters to his friends ); and gives a detailed account of both the time over which Pushkin wrote Onegin and the various forms any part of it appeared in publication before Pushkin's death ( after which there is a huge proliferation of the number of different editions ).

The Chinese first appeared in large numbers in the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1858 as part of the huge migration to that colony from California during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush in the newly-declared Mainland Colony.

However, late one night, the spirit of Qu Yuan appeared before his friends ( that is, he resurrected from the dead ) and told them that the rice meant for him was being intercepted by a huge river dragon.

In the mean time, both Sun and Moon got shocked by lord Krishna's thought and appeared before Krishna stating that this will create a huge imbalance in the entire Universe.

After a shaky start, the production became a huge success ; Grossmith appeared in it for more than 700 performances, in four different West End theatres, and he later calculated that Sebastian Smith as the leading man must have played the part about 1, 000 times in London and on tour.

In spite of the huge amount of French literature discussing the Black Mass ( Messe Noire ) at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century — no set of written instructions for performing one, from any purported group of Satanists, turned up in writing until the 1960s, and appeared not in France, but in the United States.

On Taishō 7 ( 1918 ), an event known as " The Kouma War " took place, where a huge demon appeared at Nihonbashi in Tokyo.

Russell saw that the strange apparition was a huge bull sea lion leading a herd of six sea lions … Their undulations as they swam appeared to form a continuous body, with parts showing at intervals as they surfaced and dived.

Bandai's racing car set, which first appeared in 1962, became a huge success.

The Invasion of 1910, which originally appeared in serial form in the Daily Mail newspaper from 19 March 1906, was a huge success.

She appeared in the 1983 Jerry Herman revue Jerry's Girls ; that same year she played the role of the miserable middle-aged actress Dotty Otley on Broadway in Michael Frayn's farce Noises Off, a huge hit.

A huge spread of shoulders and a chest like a barrel were the other parts of him which appeared above the table, save for two enormous hands covered with long black hair.

He never disappointed his audiences ; he always appeared exactly 365 days later at the appointed place, usually met by huge crowds.

White wanted Gray to focus on the acoustic telegraph which promised huge profits to the exclusion of what appeared to be unpromising competing inventions such as the telephone.

Her story was that a man appeared before them with a huge bludgeon and killed the three only stunning her.

Then, at 2: 50 p. m., the " lid " moved, and huge cumulonimbus clouds -- anvil-topped thunderheads -- seemingly appeared out of nowhere all along the Ohio-Pennsylvania border.

Considered as a divine sign, a huge deer appeared and showed were could the army pass across.