21.   If they represent a plunge in venerability, the three Eddie Murphy vehicles nicely exemplify the degenerative consequences that usually overtake spinoffs of hit movies.

22.   In the hit movie Independence Day, an alien ship fired a blue ray at the Empire State Building that leveled the skyscraper and most of New York City.

23.   In return, the movie studios would willingly distribute hit movies over the Internet, soaking up all that vacant bandwidth.

24.   Its Blade comic, while not a major title, also sparked a modest hit movie.

25.   Joel Paley and Marvin Laird wrote the character of Sylvia St. Croix long before Patrick Swayze discovered that, in pantyhose, he had a hit movie.

26.   Looking back on the history of small screen knockoffs, much-loved hit movies often make for pretty uninteresting prime-time fare.

27.   Of course, one hit movie based on a Zoetrope story could pay for the whole shebang.

28.   One of the perversities of television spinoffs is that they often take a hit movie and eliminate the very reason for its success.

29.   Our TV memories are often your hit movies.

30.   Pixar Inc., his latest venture, made the computer-generated hit movie Toy Story.