Sentence examples for opened bigger from inspiring English sources

In fact, if you strip out the preview figures from the Potter opening numbers, Fantastic Beasts opened bigger than the first six Potter films, and is beaten only by the debuts of The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (£18.32m, no previews) and Part 2 (£23.77m, no previews).

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.

The last time a Burton movie opened bigger was in 2010, with Alice in Wonderland.

It opened bigger than summer franchise pictures including X-Men: Apocalypse (£7.35m, including £2.05m in previews) and Jason Bourne (£7.60m, including £2.29m in previews).

Number three in the series this weekend opened bigger in China ($58.3m, a record for animation in a country lukewarm on the genre) than in the US ($41.3m).

Guardians has also opened bigger than Marvel's Iron Man (£5.47m including £667,000 in previews), Thor (£5.45m including £2.34m in previews) and Captain America: The First Avenger (£2.98m).

"Born This Way" opened big, at 1.1 million, but then fell 84.3 percent to 174,000.

Shutter Island has already opened big in the US, and will presumably do likewise here.

His grandfather, Marty Rotker, opened Big Top, a local chain of toy and stationery stores.

Stone's new film, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, has just opened big in the US.

"Jaws" may have opened big because Universal marketed it well and released it widely, but it stayed big because people liked it.