Sentences with phrase «big box office movie»

And female driven movies were usually the biggest box office movies at that time.

Not exact matches

China's box office revenue is still swelling at double - digit rates after years of breakneck growth and, with Hollywood know - how and bigger budgets, Chinese movies are gaining momentum as they find ways to play on domestic themes and improve production quality.

Movies with big box office showings like «Wonder Woman» and «The Hunger Games» were also popular among DVD renters, as were cult classics like «The Big Lebowski» and Christopher Nolan's «Memento.&raqbig box office showings like «Wonder Woman» and «The Hunger Games» were also popular among DVD renters, as were cult classics like «The Big Lebowski» and Christopher Nolan's «Memento.&raqBig Lebowski» and Christopher Nolan's «Memento.»

Released in February, Deadpool is the biggest movie of 2016 so far with $ 330 million in domestic box office gross and a worldwide haul of more than $ 700 million.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

This is huge because the types of movies that usually only have second big weekends at the box office usually fall under one of two categories: They're either a comic book movie or sequel.

And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros. hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the top - earning studio at the domestic box office for the year.

The movie also holds the record for the biggest opening day at the domestic box office with $ 119.1 million, biggest opening weekend at the domestic box office with $ 247.96 million, and various others.

This weekend, it crossed the $ 1 billion mark in its worldwide box - office totals, after beating out the four - day totals of Disney's last big movie, Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

The movie took in an estimated $ 85.3 million, according to Exhibitor Relations, setting the record for the biggest - ever R - rated opening weekend at the box office in March.

Black Panther is already the biggest movie of 2018, and now the latest superhero blockbuster from Marvel and Walt Disney is on the precipice of cracking $ 1 billion in worldwide box - office revenue.

With the best Rotten Tomatoes score for any Bay movie (66 %), the mix of action and lighthearted moments made it one of the biggest box - office hits of the year.

Last week, Ryan Reynolds» hard - edged superhero movie Deadpool had the biggest opening weekend for an R - Rated movie in American box office history, and brought in more than $ 260 million globally.

Had Marvel served up another big helping of the same big, dumb action fare that's dominated summer movies for the last 40 years, the MCU has enough built - in fans to propel Guardians 2 to the top of the box office.

By any measurement — cast, anticipation, box - office take — Avengers: Infinity War is one of the biggest movies of all time, so RELEVANT decided to grant it our biggest review of all time.

Plus, she is a very big star right now and this movie will need some star power if it's going to break even at the international box office.

In the hands of director J.J. Abrams, it lived up to the hype to become not only the biggest box office hit of the year, but also one of the most fun action movies we've seen in a long time.

The amount of gun violence in top - grossing PG - 13 movies, which can be seen by children of all ages, has continued to exceed the gun violence in the biggest box - office R - rated films, a new analysis published in the journal Pediatrics shows.

More often than not, the undeniably talented comic actor's hits (Billy Madison, Big Daddy, The Longest Yard, Click ad nauseum) personify him not only as an arrested adolescent but a perpetually (and psychotically) angry one; the box office success of movies as unpleasant as those reveals things about their fans that I'm not sure I want to know.

Just because «Hope Springs» has well known stars with historically big box office draw does not a good movie make.

Crafting a modestly budgeted movie about ordinary, nothing special people thrust into extraordinary circumstances and showing heroism means a big box office hit.

Her first big movie break was as a lead in Paul Verhoeven's thriller Basic Instinct Jeanne has also starred along side Tom Cruise's as his wife in the box - office hit The Firm.

CinemaCon 2016 is bringing a look at several new movie posters for some of this year's biggest box office releases.

«Despicable Me 2» (2013) Box Office Take: $ 971m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 19 Back in 2010, Universal's animated feature «Despicable Me» proved a surprise worldwide smash, but few would have anticipated that its sequel would have become the third - biggest animated movie of all time, and until «Furious 7,» Universal's biggest hit ever.

Then, in 1984, Zemeckis landed his first big box - office success with «Romancing the Stone,» giving him enough clout to make any movie he wanted; «Back to the Future's» timing was finally right.

«The Avengers» (2012) Box Office Take: $ 1,519 billion 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 2 It might have inspired the current glut of superhero movies and extended universes, but «The Avengers» didn't become the third - biggest - grossing movie in history because of corporate synergy.

But all of McConaughey's qualities, along with bringing - in big bucks at the box office and delivering one - of - a-kind dramatic performances, make him true movie - star material.

Since then, the zombie movie has been a staple at the cinema and at home, with offerings ranging from the totally»80s classic Night of the Comet to the biggest box office zombie flick yet, World War Z. Because there are only so many ways to serve up brains, and with TV's The Walking Dead doing an excellent job of that on a regular basis, filmmakers are taking unique approaches to zombies and treating them as characters, not just mindless threats.

One of the biggest box office successes of the decade is a movie that just sounds completely moronic on paper.

But also there are some huge big - budget movies that gobble up box office numbers the way adolescent boys on the football team gobble up lunch.

I went on to write, «What is less certain is how the movie performs at the box office, lacking the big effects of The Hobbit and Walter Mitty, the anticipated R - rated flair of American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street, and the big audience reactions of Anchorman 2.»

2013 has definitely been a year of big comic book movies so far, with Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel both performing laudably at the box office, but one comic book adaptation that seems to have flown under the radar is acclaimed South Korean director Bong Joon - ho's (The Host, Mother) dystopian sci - fi drama Snowpiercer.

The movie also hit big at the box office.

The global cultural phenomenon of «Black Panther» has dominated the box office charts emerging as the third biggest movie of all time domestically with over $ 665 million — the first film in eight years to spend five weeks at No. 1 — and rising to the global top 10 of all time with over $ 1.3 billion.

He was plucked from obscurity and chosen to star with her - the biggest Arab movie star and # 1 box office draw - in 1954 ’s

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.

Now, she not only has a new CD, The Real Thing, but can also currently be seen in theaters making her impressive big screen debut in the nation's # 1 movie at the box office, Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married.

Reported to be one of the biggest box office hits of all time in its native Chile, Pablo Larrain's The Club is also a movie that works in neat tandem with another title on this list — Tom McCarthy's Spotlight.

Since then, he's banked big box - office bucks and become part of Hollywood's A-list with movies like G.I. Joe, The Vow and, of course, Magic Mike.

If there's a fourth Narnia movie - and that's a kinda big if, judging by the unspectacular box office performance of the last two films - Walden Media executive Michael Flaherty has confirmed it will be prequel book The Magician's Nephew, skipping the arguable highpoint of the series, The Silver Chair, and the entertaining but racially problematic The Horse and His Boy.

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The big winner of the holiday season is Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which earned $ 52 million over the three - day weekend, which was enough to surpass Beauty and the Beast and take the top spot at the box office biggest movie of 2017.

«Gravity,» of course, was one of the biggest movies of 2013, grossing more than $ 716 million at the global box office and winning seven Oscars (on 10 nominations).

Not many people would have been willing to wager before the start of the summer movie season that «The Avengers» would emerge as the best superhero film of the year (especially with «The Dark Knight Rises» still to come), but Marvel's big gamble proved everyone wrong, making beaucoup bucks at the box office on its way to becoming the third highest grossing movie of all - time.

(And like the hero in the movie, the novice actor and his ensuing film franchise went on to win big at the box office as well.)

After The Lego Movie had hit big with audiences and at the Box Office, I knew that Warner Brothers would not only greenlight the sequel but develop several spin - off films as well.

Even outside of established franchises there's been evidence that blockbuster movies don't need big (white) Hollywood stars to perform well at the box office.

I won't make any remarks about how I can't remember anyone clamoring for a second Men in Black movie, because apparently this largely pointless sequel made big bucks at the American box office during its opening weekend.

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