South Africa's entire film industry generates less money than the budget of a single Hollywood blockbuster.
Like the familiar plot-lines of a Hollywood blockbuster we already know what happens next.
Part of this sense of ordeal has to do with the epic length of the ever-lengthening Hollywood blockbuster.
One thing that might be revealed at Comic-Con is that Mass Effect will become yet another 3D Hollywood blockbuster.
It may have been a Hollywood blockbuster when it opened three-quarters of a century earlier, but it was beginning to fall apart.
The missions are superbly varied - as are the levels - with action-packed sequences that could have emerged straight from a Hollywood blockbuster.
They would much rather sit through a Hollywood blockbuster, thank you.
Hollywood blockbuster Les Miserables - for which some scenes were also filmed in Winchester - was nominated for BAFTAs and Academy Awards for its costume design.
The soundtrack to the Hollywood blockbuster Les Miserables climbed up two places in the album chart from five to three, while Ben Howard's Every Kingdom stayed at four.
Meanwhile, the surveillance techniques that really worked for preventing Faisal Shahzad from making a scene from many a Hollywood blockbuster come true are vendor watchmen and cell phone tracking.
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For example, I can guarantee you that MySpace had a lower conversion rate to signup from its homepage when it decided to sell out full page advertisements for the next Hollywood blockbuster movie.
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The 33-year-old, who has reached global success by performing on the soundtrack of Hollywood blockbuster Brave, says that at university in Glasgow she concentrated on playing instruments in a band rather than singing alone.
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Through "Video on Demand powered by Qriocity" customers can instantly rent from a growing library of thousands of Hollywood blockbuster movies across Sony's 2010 models of network-enabled BRAVIA TV, Blu-ray Disc player and Blu-ray Disc Home Theater system.
It is a movie that has virtually no special effects, manicured stars, illicit humor or any of the other so called successful ingredients of a Hollywood blockbuster yet it had a very good opening weekend.
He and South African shark expert Craig Ferreira have teamed up with the crew of a Padstow fishing boat to search for a great white shark - the creature made infamous by the Hollywood blockbuster Jaws.
Apologizing to no one, Duke Nukem Forever is the high-octane video game equivalent of a Hollywood summer blockbuster.
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Both games are shaping up to be blockbusters and many gamers will pick up a copy of each, since Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games are option for the more Hollywood summer blockbuster thrill ride, while DICE is crafting a massive online multiplayer experience.
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He's remained a pop icon, thanks in part to a certain series of blockbuster, Hollywood comedies.
Targeting niches was one strategy that helped small proprietors like Kim survive in a world increasingly dominated by big chains like Blockbuster, Hollywood Video and Movie Gallery.
Our rationale for trying to buy Hollywood Video was for Blockbuster to orchestrate an orderly downsizing of the store based rental business while we developed our online business.
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The situation reminds me of the broken merger in 2004 and 2005 between Blockbuster Video and Hollywood Video.
That's why some Hollywood veterans who have tried the blockbuster game in the past are increasingly interested in smaller films.
Many have suggested that the only solution for publishers is to re-imagine themselves as Hollywood studios and go fishing for blockbuster hits such as the next Harry Potter or Twilight series.
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With last year's The Dark Knight, Warner Bros. once again managed to produce that rarest of Hollywood creatures: a billion-dollar blockbuster equally beloved by critics.
Only time will tell whether bookstores will go the way of Blockbuster ( BBI), Hollywood Video, et al, which have been forced to shrink or close bricks and mortar stores in the face of new technology and distribution.
Result: Blockbuster and Movie Gallery (which now owns Hollywood Video) together have closed nearly 800 stores out of 10, 000 over the last year and a half.
"Silver Linings" star Lawrence won a Golden Globe and has become one of Hollywood's hottest talents, with part two of her blockbuster franchise, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, " due out in November.
All of which is a bit rich coming from such a big, big budget blockbuster, a movie that seems destined to inflate Hollywood costs still further at a time when mid-budget pictures are being squeezed out.
With almost a blockbuster per week scheduled for the rest of the season, Hollywood looked like it was in for a profitable summer.
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