The hype around the new Lionsgate movie Kick-Ass is the kind of thing studios dream about.
" 'Kick-Ass' was the most buzzed-about thing from Comic-Con last year, " panelist Holtreman said.
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The use of Big Ass Fans has led to huge gains in energy efficiency.
They tryin' to write me off, so I got this diamond pendant with a thick-ass rope chain.
People were showing up at early screenings in Kick-Ass T-shirts dressed as the various adolescent faux superheroes.
Early on, a very dear friend told me very matter-of-factly to treat this cancer as a pain-in-the-ass inconvenience.
You start and finish the challenge on a rooftop in a fixed position with a big-ass sniper rifle.
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Armstrong thus becomes a bad-ass American folk hero, a Robin Hood in stars and stripes, if you like.
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"I have enough self-awareness to realize that I pretty much made an ass of myself last year, " he said.
It probably has its origins in the military, Adams says, where it was originally "kicking ass and taking names".
And actually I became the lead vocal pain in the ass to get things done very different for Bungie.
No here-say or supposition that could come and bite him in the ass.
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For a while it was Paloma, until she threatened to report his ass.
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Johnson, 20, played the young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy and was seen last year in comic book movie Kick-Ass.
In his book on Jamie Dimon, Last Man Standing, Duff McDonald describes Prince as the ultimate ass-kisser to Weill.
The training sequences are fun (Cruise gets knocked on his ass again and again), and the big battles are thrilling.
In a play-it-safe world where the most common marketing advice is to tone it down, Big Ass Fans has stopping power.
The U.S. was bad-ass, too, with 155% more phones sold, or 3x what IDC was forecasting for the overall smartphone category.
The E Street Band has come back to bring the power, hour after hour, to put a whup-ass session on the recession.
Based on a 2008 comic book, Kick-Ass tells the story of a group of high school vigilantes who dress up as superheroes.
When they do, the only guy who escapes is Pope, a smart-ass who has slayed a skitter or two in his day.
Do I think rationing would be a kick ass driver for innovation?
" That sounded good, and so after our last game, which I won easily, I also yelled out, "I'm a grown-ass man.
"'Kicking ass' is acceptable vulgarity, " says Michael Adams, professor of English language at Indiana University-Bloomington and author of Slang: The People's Poetry.
But that was worse: up to your ass all day in sticky juice, with acid eating into the cuts on your hands.
Going into last weekend it looked like the new Lions Gate movie Kick-Ass was going to be a big box office winner.
They have access to the codes, they can clean it up, add to it, and distribute it worldwide to kick some conficker ass.
Their ranks include Christopher Nolan, of The Dark Knight and Inception fame, and Matthew Vaughn, director of Kick-Ass and the upcoming X-Men: First Class.
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