Sentence examples for respectable opening from inspiring English sources

Hollywood had itself a very merry Christmas at the US box office as three films broke the record for a Christmas Day opening; even Tom Cruise's Valkyrie managed to defy critics and land a respectable opening haul.

The critical underdogs With a 25% Fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes, Law Abiding Citizen was hardly a critics' favourite, but the grisly vigilante flick shrugged off the one- and two-star attacks to post a respectable opening of £1.49m.

Brazil were dominating possession with Croatia holding out for what would have been a respectable opening draw.

Boris Avrukh writes, "The Budapest Gambit is almost a respectable opening; I doubt there is a refutation.

The film had generally favorable reviews -- a B+ average from the readers and critics polled by Entertainment Weekly -- and a respectable $30.1 million opening weekend at the end of June.

The sci-fi epic fell a respectable 29% from its opening weekend, and has now delivered £12.13m after 10 days.

Those who had seen the figures said the show had been taking in anywhere from $40,000 to $70,000 a day since opening, a respectable amount for a new musical, but by no means that of a big hit.

Previews of £595,000 pushed its opening to a respectable £2.17m, but that's significantly behind the pace of its $36m£23.4m4m) US debut in July.

Overseas, "Battleship," inspired by the Hasbro board game, has taken in about $227 million since opening last month, a respectable total but not enough to make the expensive film profitable without better support from the United States, analysts say.

However, we know Frank Moses and the others didn't get pink-slipped at the end of Red 2 because D.C. Comics has commissioned several new products in the Red franchise and the movie did a very respectable 18.5 million dollars on its US opening weekend.

In Chelsea, the few galleries that had opted out of Thursday night's rat king of openings still attracted respectable numbers.