Sentence examples for gross close to from inspiring English sources
Jon Favreau's ambitious mounting of Rudyard Kipling's children's adventure was a hit out of the gate, stampeding to a huge $103.6m opening in the US, and going to on to gross close to $1bn worldwide.
With a week to go until the opening show in Miami's SunLife Stadium, the tour is on pace to sell almost 1 million tickets, and gross close to $100 million.
Of course, there are exceptions: the two $200-million-grossing films, "Shrek" and "The Mummy Returns". And although "Pearl Harbor" may not be the monster hit Disney hoped for, it should gross close to $200 million domestically.
Well, the video-game industry grosses close to twenty billion dollars a year — more than Hollywood — and is growing much faster than the market for personal computers.
It had been playing to full houses almost since its opening on Feb. 13 and was grossing close to $300,000 a week.
Maybank says the sales have been grossing close to $70,000 each, with 92% of goods sold.
With word-of-mouth likely to prove positive, the movie could end up grossing close to $200 million — especially given that the next family film due out, Disney's "Mr. Peabody & Sherman," isn't being released until March.
The film made back most of its production and promotions budget the day it opened, grossing close to $6,000 in the first hour, and nearly $25,000 during its first week, landing it on Variety's list of the week's 50 top grossing films.
Now the only question, and it may be purely trivia, is if opening in December with a much lower-than-normal (for Illumination) debut weekend translates into huge holiday legs and a domestic gross close enough to Despicable Me ($256 million back in 2010) to not be of much concern.
Titanic cost more than $200 million, but still turned a profit thanks to a worldwide box office gross of close to $2 billion.
1.1 Objectives Focus on the new channels to increase sales beyond the $1 million mark by Year 3. Maintain a gross margin close to 60%, despite the sales increase.
