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Jeff Bock, a box office analyst with Exhibitor Relations, declared to Variety. But Ben-Hur isn't the only epic fail. Proving that Americans aren't impressed with much of Hollywood's summer slate, there have been multiple flops, including the Ghostbusters remake, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Star Trek Beyond, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Legend of Tarzan, Warcraft, X Men: Apocalypse, and the Steven Spielberg directed fantasy, The BFG. Still, as The Wrap just reported, North American ticket sales are up 2.84 percent over 2015 receipts at this time. The films have cumulatively earned an astounding $4.14 billion domestic in figures calculated from 108 days after the first Friday in May until Aug. 22. This summer suffered from the problem of perception versus reality. – Paul Dergarabedian of comScore	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
You can't wipe the slate clean. We'll live with the fact it's been 50 years since we won a tournament but all we can do is hope the players approach this one with a relaxed attitude, my fear as a coach would be that the players take anxiety on to the field, that they're weighed down when they go out and don't play as well as they like, imagining the headlines. – Roy Hodgson	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
With 'slate' voting we no longer have proper democracy in the party. They have become voting cattle. – Siphiwe Nyanda	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are likely to have a battle in Cleveland to decide who is the nominee, if you don’t want to see Donald Trump as the nominee, … then I ask you to please vote for the men and women on this slate. – Ted Cruz	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
EA has a really good slate coming up, over the next year it looks like it's positioned to do fairly well. – Mike Hickey	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Now we start off with a clean slate and will likely see more long trades since the market expects prices to rise in the future. – Kent Bayazitoglu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Cruz looks to be well-positioned in Texas, the challenge for him is that a lot of other states are also on the slate for Super Tuesday. – Patrick Murray	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There’s not a set of rules to shoot in VR or 360 degrees, it’s a blank slate for how these cameras are going to be used. – Corey Rich	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Let's be frank: The House is broken, we are not solving problems. We are adding to them. And I am not interested in laying blame. We are not settling scores. We are wiping the slate clean. Neither the members nor the people are satisfied with how things are going. We need to make some changes, starting with how the House does business. – Paul Ryan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Memories are good, bad and ugly & they occupy all the space in your mind, leaving very little for present moment awareness. Life flows towards you constantly and total memory occupation makes you miss the present moment celebration. Clean the slate & reboot your mind, don't memorize, be available to life every single moment and MickeyMize. – Mickey Mehta	added by Mickeymized 8 years ago
I wouldn't say Bernie Sanders has a clean slate. But Bernie Sanders certainly is an unknown factor and I think tomorrow is an opportunity for Bernie Sanders to define Bernie Sanders. – Arturo Vargas	Found on CNN 8 years ago
With Hillary her image of course was known, but she was going to get a fresh start, she paid her dues, she had been a public servant as secretary of state, she was going to start with a fresh slate. – Charles Krauthammer	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In 2012 the leadership was so determined to defeat the left-wing incumbent (President Barack Obama) that we never fully developed our own narrative, the 2016 Republican super PACs have names that imply a clean slate, a new beginning. – Michael Wissot	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It’s designed to be a detoxification for 21 days, so this is short term. It’s designed to get you back into conversation with your body so that you can create a clean slate. – Sara Gottfried	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's up for grabs. It's a clean slate regardless of if you've run before, naturally those two (Huckabee and Santorum) have the name recognition and database of people who supported them in the past, but by and large voters are going to say, 'Let me take a good look at all of these candidates.'. – Steve Scheffler	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is worth noting that vendors on the Android side of the business have struggled to gain traction with 12-inch and larger slate tablets. Apple’s approach is experience oriented, so IHS expects the launch will be paired with a well-developed use case for the larger size, and new applications that take full advantage of the larger screen area. – Rhoda Alexander	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Werner's still kind of in there, he makes a point of clacking the slate and he's just always there ... Wim is connected in his own way to the same degree, but it comes off as a little more gentle. – James Franco	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
As the slate for the next 2 years has come together, it felt like the right time to transition into this new role. – Amy Pascal	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The slate is going to be wiped clean for me in 2014 but it's a career for me and I think you've got to look at it in a broad sense, i definitely want to keep doing what I've been doing. It was a lot of fun last season and it sure is fun to play well in the big events but I'd like to play ever better. So I'm looking forward to the challenge of being even better this year. – Jimmy Walker	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

Jeff Bock, a box office analyst with Exhibitor Relations, declared to Variety. But Ben-Hur isn't the only epic fail. Proving that Americans aren't impressed with much of Hollywood's summer slate, there have been multiple flops, including the Ghostbusters remake, Alice Through The Looking Glass, Star Trek Beyond, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Legend of Tarzan, Warcraft, X Men: Apocalypse, and the Steven Spielberg directed fantasy, The BFG. Still, as The Wrap just reported, North American ticket sales are up 2.84 percent over 2015 receipts at this time. The films have cumulatively earned an astounding $4.14 billion domestic in figures calculated from 108 days after the first Friday in May until Aug. 22. This summer suffered from the problem of perception versus reality.

– Paul Dergarabedian of comScore

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

You can't wipe the slate clean. We'll live with the fact it's been 50 years since we won a tournament but all we can do is hope the players approach this one with a relaxed attitude, my fear as a coach would be that the players take anxiety on to the field, that they're weighed down when they go out and don't play as well as they like, imagining the headlines.

– Roy Hodgson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

With 'slate' voting we no longer have proper democracy in the party. They have become voting cattle.

– Siphiwe Nyanda

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are likely to have a battle in Cleveland to decide who is the nominee, if you don’t want to see Donald Trump as the nominee, … then I ask you to please vote for the men and women on this slate.

– Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

EA has a really good slate coming up, over the next year it looks like it's positioned to do fairly well.

– Mike Hickey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Now we start off with a clean slate and will likely see more long trades since the market expects prices to rise in the future.

– Kent Bayazitoglu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Cruz looks to be well-positioned in Texas, the challenge for him is that a lot of other states are also on the slate for Super Tuesday.

– Patrick Murray

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There’s not a set of rules to shoot in VR or 360 degrees, it’s a blank slate for how these cameras are going to be used.

– Corey Rich

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Let's be frank: The House is broken, we are not solving problems. We are adding to them. And I am not interested in laying blame. We are not settling scores. We are wiping the slate clean. Neither the members nor the people are satisfied with how things are going. We need to make some changes, starting with how the House does business.

– Paul Ryan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Memories are good, bad and ugly & they occupy all the space in your mind, leaving very little for present moment awareness. Life flows towards you constantly and total memory occupation makes you miss the present moment celebration. Clean the slate & reboot your mind, don't memorize, be available to life every single moment and MickeyMize.

– Mickey Mehta

added by Mickeymized
8 years ago

I wouldn't say Bernie Sanders has a clean slate. But Bernie Sanders certainly is an unknown factor and I think tomorrow is an opportunity for Bernie Sanders to define Bernie Sanders.

– Arturo Vargas

Found on CNN
8 years ago

With Hillary her image of course was known, but she was going to get a fresh start, she paid her dues, she had been a public servant as secretary of state, she was going to start with a fresh slate.

– Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In 2012 the leadership was so determined to defeat the left-wing incumbent (President Barack Obama) that we never fully developed our own narrative, the 2016 Republican super PACs have names that imply a clean slate, a new beginning.

– Michael Wissot

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It’s designed to be a detoxification for 21 days, so this is short term. It’s designed to get you back into conversation with your body so that you can create a clean slate.

– Sara Gottfried

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's up for grabs. It's a clean slate regardless of if you've run before, naturally those two (Huckabee and Santorum) have the name recognition and database of people who supported them in the past, but by and large voters are going to say, 'Let me take a good look at all of these candidates.'.

– Steve Scheffler

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It is worth noting that vendors on the Android side of the business have struggled to gain traction with 12-inch and larger slate tablets. Apple’s approach is experience oriented, so IHS expects the launch will be paired with a well-developed use case for the larger size, and new applications that take full advantage of the larger screen area.

– Rhoda Alexander

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Werner's still kind of in there, he makes a point of clacking the slate and he's just always there ... Wim is connected in his own way to the same degree, but it comes off as a little more gentle.

– James Franco

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

As the slate for the next 2 years has come together, it felt like the right time to transition into this new role.

– Amy Pascal

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The slate is going to be wiped clean for me in 2014 but it's a career for me and I think you've got to look at it in a broad sense, i definitely want to keep doing what I've been doing. It was a lot of fun last season and it sure is fun to play well in the big events but I'd like to play ever better. So I'm looking forward to the challenge of being even better this year.

– Jimmy Walker

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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