Sentence examples for on first release from inspiring English sources

The film bombed on first release, only to be lovingly embraced as a cult classic.

It got an R-rating in the US – maybe why it only made $15m on first release.

Perhaps it was this unfamiliarity that contributed to the film's failure on first release, a bruising experience that helped make it Charles Laughton's sole directorial credit.

On first release, I found myself underwhelmed by the way that part was written, but on a second viewing his performance had energy and consistency.

It's a movie I didn't like much on first release, but every time I see it on television, its energy and knockabout humour keeps me watching.

On first release the movie had vague, not entirely coincidental, links with that odd cultural spasm; its posters featured hard-hats, by then a loaded rightwing symbol, including one sported by Jack.

This may be one of the reasons Office Space didn't succeed on its first release.

"Guyville" sold only a few hundred thousand copies on its first release.

(This movie cost a then massive $1.42m but was a flop, losing nearly $800,000 on its first release).

On the first release two birds left the flock and spent about a week living in a quarry before returning to the aviary last week.

Not on the first release.