Sentence examples for and its box from inspiring English sources

Even if previews are added to Ben-Hur's opening tally, 56 films have opened bigger in the UK so far in 2016, and its box office is far from the blockbuster numbers it needs to achieve profitability.

But the Latin turn was hardly preordained, and its box office success is far from guaranteed.

But the fact that Manhattan is just across the bridge has always lowered Brooklyn's profile, and its box office draw.

It's an unarguable fact that there's no automatic equation between a film's quality and its box office, and that marketing campaigns simply reflect conventional wisdom about a film's monetary worth.

Thanks to Argo's big Bafta wins the previous weekend, Ben Affleck's film expanded its screen count by 219% (up to 115 cinemas) and its box office by an even healthier 286%, pushing the real-life thriller through the £6m barrier.

Buoyed by its seven Bafta wins the previous Sunday, The Artist saw its screen count expand by 62% (up from 175 to 283), and its box office rise by an impressive 103%, returning to the top 10.

But the breadth of a film's distribution and its box-office take are no more measures of its merit than is the quantity of online discussion that it inspires.

But the breadth of a film's distribution and its box-office take are no more measures of its merit than is the quantity of online discussion that it inspires.

So Clare disembarked with reluctance at Port Suez and was only reunited with the Gerd Maersk and its boxes several thousand nautical miles away in Malaysia.

Last week Lego released a sequel to The Lego Movie, and its box-office sales beat every other movie showing in America.

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