Sentence examples for the highest opening from inspiring English sources

Jonathan Liebesman's film's Chinese start is respectable – Hollywood's ninth biggest of 2014 – benefitting from its association with producer Michael Bay, whose Transformers: Age of Extinction is the highest opening ($92m) and highest-grossing ($301m) film in the territory.

Worldwide and outside North America, X-Men: Days of Future Past has the highest opening weekend and is the highest-grossing film in the series.

In North America, X-Men: The Last Stand has the highest opening weekend and is the highest-grossing film in the series.

It was the highest-grossing film in its opening weekend in India and had the highest opening day collections for a Bollywood film.

Morbidly, it says a great deal about the US that American Sniper opened its assault on moviegoers on Martin Luther King weekend – who was himself murdered by a sniper – by shattering records with the highest grossing opening weekend ever in the month of January (and the highest opening weekend of octogenarian Eastwood's entire career).

The UK managed the highest opening outside North America, with $10.4m.

Nathaniel Kahn's "My Architect" has become a sleeper hit in the weeks since it opened at Film Forum, with the highest opening-week gross in the theater's history.

"Passion" had the highest opening-day ticket sales of any February film in Hollywood history.

Down the chart, Al Green scored the highest opening-week chart position of his career: his acclaimed new album, "Lay It Down" (Blue Note), moved 34,000 copes to reach No. 9.

At the time of release, Jab Tak Hai Jaan set records for the highest opening-day earnings in Singapore and Pakistan by grossing $100,000.

The late ticket release helped spark excitement, as reflected in the high opening prices on StubHub.