31.   Poor weather on the East and West coasts, along with more hit movies stocked at its stores, could help.

32.   Pixar, for example, had no intention of doing its IPO until after the hit movie Toy Story was out.

33.   Sales for the second quarter were soft, partly because of a lack of hit movies from Hollywood, Redstone said.

34.   Software programs based on hit movies or cartoon characters often do well.

35.   Surveys show that the weary business travelers who pay the top fares demand the latest hit movies, including action-thrillers.

36.   The book became a huge best seller in hardcover and paperback, with more than three million copies sold worldwide, and then was a hit movie.

37.   The company has been hurt by a shortage of hit movies that customers can rent out.

38.   The continuing interest in the story of the Titanic, the unsinkable ship that sank, has obviously been heightened by the current hit movie and Broadway musical.

39.   The conventional wisdom of Hollywood these days is that no female stars can guarantee a hit movie the way Tom Hanks and Jim Carrey can.

40.   The counterintuitiveness of shifting from hit movie to Broadway opera is just what appeals to Luhrmann.