Sentences with phrase «mamo summer box office»

With Memorial Day weekend on the horizon, the overall domestic summer box office is ten percentage points lower than it was at this time last year.

This past season produced Hollywood's worst summer box office in over a decade, leading BMO Capital Markets analyst Gerrick Johnson to reduce his price target on Hasbro (has) and Mattel.

Okorafor said she was buoyed by the global success of the summer box office hit «Wonder Woman» — the first superhero movie to star a woman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywood.

Batman Forever (1995), in which she played the hero's love interest, Dr. Chase Meridian, fared somewhat better, but did little in the way of establishing Kidman as a serious actress even as it raked in mile - high returns at the summer box office.

It is drags major ass in the middle but it is a still a great popcorn flick and will no question take the crown for summer box office.

Ultimately though, the goal for this film may be merely be a healthy portion of the late summer box office, with any awards success the icing on the cake.

For one thing, the recent track record of these late summer dramas is decidedly mixed - while The Help indeed connected with Oscar, Lee Daniels» The Butler's summer box office went unrecognized by the Academy, and it is the latter film that Get On Up seems to resemble more, what with it being a biopic that attempts to tell the entire life story of its subject, which, as discussed in the previous installment in regards to Unbroken, is a questionable proposition with today's Academy.

It's summer box office records during the second month of the year.

That's a good sign for Labor Day — the summer box office's official expiration date.

The summer box office season, as decreed by Box Office Mojo, begins on the first Fridawy of May, and finishes on Labour Day Weekend — so this year that will be from May 4th to September 4th, exactly four months.

Another weekend, another big - budget misfire at the summer box office.

No doubt: The World War II movie that hit big at the summer box office garnered eight nominations, including the first directing nod for Thomas» husband, Christopher Nolan, and a best picture nomination for both of them.

The summer box office is starting to wind down and we have two intriguing, but mostly low - profile releases this week; the buddy comedy The Hitman's Bodyguard and the NASCAR heist flick, Logan Lucky.

TIFF is over and the summer is over, which means it's time to conclude the Mamo Summer Box Office Contest for 2012!

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Hollywood's biggest summer box office players usually target young men, but «Mamma Mia!

The film exceeded expectations by racking up $ 17 million at the summer box office — on a micro budget of $ 700,000.

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Following its disastrous run at the summer box office, Around the World may find more of an audience on DVD.

That was enough to make this psychological thriller the division's second highest - grossing release of 2006, but its nearly $ 8 million intake was still a tiny blip on the summer box office radar and the unquestionably weak link on Williams» potent annual earnings report (which included modest political comedy Man of the Year and cinema's currently reigning king Night at the Museum as well).

Especially since the Hollywood trades, like the Hollywood Reporter, keep writing about how Warner Bros needs a critical and commercial hit and is hemorrhaging after their disappointing summer box office results (see also: Entourage, The Man from Uncle and We Are Your Friends).

STX just had a monster summer box office hit with Bad Moms, but they tried last year to make Secret in Their Eyes happen with two huge Oscar winners and that went nowhere.

As for Tom Cruise's career — Knight & Day (with Cameron Diaz) is scheduled for release on June 25th right in the thick of the summer box office competition.

In other words, the summer box office will kick off earlier than expected (the first weekend in May is historically considered the official start of the summer season).

Fret not: Such high - mindedness has little diminished MacFarlane's appetite for locker - room humor, gross - out sight gags and bounteous pop - culture in - jokes, which should make «Ted 2» the season's go - to attraction for arrested - adolescent males of all ages, and continue Universal's beary good summer box office.

«Avengers: Infinity War» is expected to dominate the summer box office, and may challenge fellow Marvel title «Black Panther» as the highest - grossing title of 2018.

The summer box office hit wasn't really considered an award movie, yet Elgort made the cut over more expected names like Adam Sandler or Kumail Nanjiani.

Hollywood's award - season prognosticators are busy divining the Oscar chances of prestige pictures like Christopher Nolan's summer box office hit Dunkirk against festival darlings such as Guillermo del Toro's Venice - winning aquatic interspecies love story The Shape of Water and unseen 800 - pound gorillas like Steven Spielberg's Pentagon Papers exposé The Post.

It's only April, but the summer box office is already heating up.

Amidst the superhero blockbusters and animated hits dominating the summer box office, the indie dark comedy Joshy quietly hit select theaters this past weekend.

With «Avengers: Infinity War» crashing into theaters this weekend, the summer box office bonanza is officially in full swing.

There's also a ton of great non-Halloween releases, including two major Sundance hits, summer box office smashes, and a neat complete series TV set.

A fateful Sundance Film Festival screening of D.E.B.S. — the action / comedy that Robinson wrote, directed, and edited — reportedly caught the eye of a Disney executive and before her debut picture made it to theaters, Robinson was already in the helm of Fully Loaded, the $ 70 million production with which Disney placed its summer box office hopes.

Becoming only Spielberg's second summer box office underperformer as director (following A.I.), The Terminal grossed $ 78 million domestically.

Ramona and Beezus made a much smaller impact on the summer box office, however, earning a modest $ 26 million domestically and barely anything overseas.

Critically acclaimed roles in cult hits like «American Splendor» and «Sideways» — both of which he was snubbed out of Oscar nominations for — and the summer box office flop, «Cinderella Man» — which he was nominated for, but still didn't win — have all catapulted the actor into a newfound superstardom, but he deserves every minute of it.

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While the summer box office heats up with new blockbusters, Blu - ray is giving us the chance to revisit some of the biggest hits, looking better than ever in June.

David Ayer's film is tracking through the roof, suggesting a blockbuster opening the likes of which the wan American summer box office desperately needs.

Not exact matches

2 continued its box office reign this weekend, while King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is the summer season's first major flop.

TORONTO — Several box - office flops and a lack of family movies left Cineplex Inc. (TSX: CGX) suffering the fallout during the first few months of the summer movie season.

Overall, the 2014 summer box - office totals are down about 24 % from last summer with just this final holiday weekend left to try to make up some of that difference.

Rupert Murdoch's company was one of the few to find success in an otherwise sad summer at the box - office.

Of course, if box - office totals experience a major rebound next summer, then any concern over the state of the summer blockbuster may go out the window.

The five films Murdoch's 20th Century Fox division put out this summer season (which runs from the first weekend in May through Labor Day in the entertainment industry) grossed $ 783 million as of earlier this week, according to film revenue - tracking website Box Office Mojo.

This summer's box - office totals have also suffered from the expansion of blockbuster season as a handful of films likely to be among the year's biggest releases are slated to come out this fall, among them best - selling novel adaptation Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the latest Hunger Games installment.

Paramount's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot was one of August's surprise successes with $ 149.6 million in ticket sales, while The Walt Disney Company (DIS) scored the hit of the summer with Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which broke the opening - weekend box - office record for August on its way to grossing $ 258 million in the U.S. and more than $ 500 million worldwide within less than a month of its release.

The success of Guardians, no matter how relative, has helped Disney settle into second - place, behind Fox, in the summer box - office race as the company's five summer films have made a total of $ 624.6 million, at an average of almost $ 125 million per film.

Ticket sales were down about 24 % this summer as delays and an expanding summer blockbuster season cut down the number of reliable box - office smashes.

The Hurt Locker's box - office juice was also drained by its summer release — a fact that made it harder for the film to capitalize on the eventual «Oscar bump.»