Sentence examples for solid opening from inspiring English sources

They failed because the marketing made the movies look terrible, the reviews confirmed that fact, and word of mouth crushed them after respectively solid opening weekends (remember, Batman & Robin still opened to $43 million and Star Trek Nemesis still did $18 million).

Despite an onslaught of negative reviews and a concerted effort by India's tax collectors to impede the film's opening day screenings, India's big budget fantasy-adventure Puli scored a solid opening day domestic gross of 216 million rupees (US$3.3 million) on Wednesday.

This is a solid opening weekend for what will likely be a leggy run (it only opened on about 2300 screens).

Yet when "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" opened this weekend, it did what most "Mission" movies do — it earned a solid opening and stuck the landing.

It's crucial to team success, having a solid opening partnership who understand each other's game.

The Hockeyroos and Australia's netballers had solid opening round wins over Malaysia and Wales respectively.

Thanks to a number of solid openings and those seven films at £1m-plus, takings are 16% up on the previous weekend.

"Lego" has dominated the multiplex over the last three weekends, but the No. 1 box office spot looks like a tossup with "Non-Stop" and "Son of God" poised for solid openings, according to people who have seen pre-release audience surveys. .

Just since May, Bana has ridden the coattails of one of the year's biggest hits (Star Trek), earned great notices for a comic supporting turn (Funny People) and now can have a rock-solid opening weekend with his name above the title in a genre where success has eluded him.

Expect Tim Hortons to ride its strengths and continued investor interest in restaurant stocks to a strong opening and a solid first day.

The MCU blockbuster opened with a solid $22 million opening day but was thwarted by poor word of mouth even with a sky-high $67m Fri-Sun debut.