Sentences with phrase «big hit films»

The X-Men have more legs than they've ever had at the moment, with big hit films like Logan and Deadpool (itself its own franchise) and TV shows like Legion and The Gifted.

Gone Girl — $ 11.1 million [4th week; $ 124 million]-- The fall's biggest hit so far is showing fantastic staying power in its fourth week and by next week will have eclipsed «The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button [Blu - ray]» as Director David Fincher's biggest hit film.

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«But what it actually did is it allowed films to do even bigger visual effects and we had to enhance what they did — whether it's an asteroid hitting the ground or blowing 10 cars up in the air.

In the Best Picture race, the biggest hits were the World War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales, good for 14th place on the box office charts, and Jordan Peele's horror film «Get Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk» with $ 176 million in domestic sales.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the latest of the Narnia Chronicles to hit the big screen, is not so much a children's story as a film about growing up... More

While the film likely won't hit big screens until next year (you can check out its Indiegogo campaign here), Appel says there are steps you can take to ensure your trip to Tulum — or any popular beachside tourist destination — is easy on the land.

The Big Short hits UK cinemas these are the best films about.

While the 80s have been a heyday for nfl big hit compilation videos, nfl films had been producing them since at least 1968, when the incredibly - titled super 8 film bone crunchers made its way to shops.

These superfit actors from across the pond may have spent a ton of time filming some of this year's biggest television and movie hits, but they also carve Directed by Shana Feste.

Director James Cameron's 1986 blockbuster follow - up to Ridley Scott's Oscar winning science - fiction / horror flick that became one of the biggest grossing films of 1979 asks a good question to a successful hit... How do you make a successful sequel to a film in which much of the suspense comes from learning about the mysterious monster?

It is nice to see the cast back together again and with the plethora of other bad animated films that hit the big screen today; this reviewer will always take another Shrek feature film... or even a Christmas Special.

Following Orgazmo (1997), the Parker film that Stone produced, and BASEketball (1998), in which he starred with Parker, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut hit movie screens across the country during the summer of 1999.

Though its Metascore was slightly below that of the first film, Kung Fu Panda 2 was an even bigger hit, out - grossing all but three other films so far in 2011.

The film's opening scenes establish that he's welshed on many debts and unlikely to hit a big payday with any of the third - rate tin cans he puts into the ring.

Also despite it being Terrible it was a big hit in Korea landing in there highest grossing films of all time.

It's just a shame that the little gems that stick out in memory so heavily, don't reflect the end product that «Mississippi Grind» has to offer; the film is at its core, a so - so gambler, who hits it big but doesn't know when to walk away, overplaying his hand and leaving with a much smaller windfall.

Doug, a groom - to - be, and his three groomsmen pile into a car and head to Vegas for a night on the town before the big day, and the film's slightly unexpected sense of detail emerges once they hit the road.

It will be extremely hard for the studio to match those figures in 2016, as many of its biggest franchises are sitting out the year and Universal's planned 21 - film slate doesn't feature any sure - thing blockbuster hits aside from (maybe) a still - untitled Bourne sequel.

This film could have and rightly should have been a big hit but we don't live in a fair world so..

... the film was a sensation, becoming a big hit and spawning a whole industry of southern - fried vigilante lawman action pictures.

When talking about cynical marketing campaigns, it's usual to point to terrible films that become big hits through licensing, advertising and sponsorship deals, but the other side of the coin is John Carter.

The biggest of the non-major distributors, TWC saw its box office receipts grow by nearly 36 % last year compared to 2014 (thanks to hits like Paddington and 2014 holdover The Imitation Game), even as the overall quality of its films declined.

But that hasn't stopped Black Panther, which may go on to be the biggest hit of the year — a prospect unheard of for a film released in the doldrums of February.

Obviously, the big question regarding The Disaster Artist is whether you need to see The Room before watching it, or if experiencing the cult hit enhances this film.

I thought that Free Fire might be reminiscent of the rise of Tarantino knockoff films in the 90s (The Big Hit, 2 Days in the Valley, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Suicide Kings) but this movie actually made me yearn for a Tarantino knockoff.

Akin's film is the penultimate title to premiere in competition at Cannes, and while it doesn't seem headed for big awards, it still hit me hard in ways I didn't quite expect.

But after that film became Dreamworks» biggest hit (which it remains to this day), Jeffrey Katzenberg and his cohorts sought to eke out the series, providing more money at the expense of allowing genuine creativity to flourish.

Justin Simien's debut film — a big hit at this year's Sundance Film Festival — looks at the state of race relations on the campus of Winchester University through the lives of four black students.

It's too bad this film didn't really hit it on the big screen but the performances are superb and you have to love Hayden's voice - she's a great singer.

The film was one of MGM's biggest hits in 1942 — indeed, one of the biggest in the studio's history.

One problem, of course, is that Universal also managed to release just two good films all year — the very same two movies that also were its biggest hits of the year.

The success of the film led to a job directing the 1989 big - budget version of Batman; a darkly lavish, gothic production, the film proved to be a huge hit, securing Burton a place on the roster of A-list directors.His next film, 1990's Edward Scissorhands was the tongue - in - cheek gothic tale of an artificial boy put together by a benign scientist, who dies before he can complete the boy; as a result, the fabricated youth has hedge clipper - like scissors for hands.

The Big Hit was a seriously crappy film, but at least it was FUN (and HOT).

But what Relativity lacked in quality, it made up for in ticket sales, thanks mainly to just two films: the surprise Bradley Cooper hit Limitless, and Tarsem Singh's Immortals 46, a rare big - budget film for the distributor.

Funny man Jim Carrey is a leader in the business, and this film may follow the success of «There's Something About Mary» and be a big hit.

The Sting became one of the biggest hits of the early»70s; grossing 68.5 million dollars during its first run, the film also picked up seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Adapted Score for Marvin Hamlisch's unforgettable setting of Scott Joplin's ragtime music.

The scene effectively conveys the king - of - the - world high of a solid drug rush, and the film has just enough of an edge that I winced each time they hit the glass, convinced that one of them would take that big fall into the canyons of L.A. Elizabeth Hurley, meanwhile, is very pretty and sports a lovely English accent but seems to have been airlifted in from an entirely different movie.

Which of this year's fantastical science fiction and fantasy films at SXSW will hit the big time this year?

Per The Hollywood Reporter, this Jennifer Juniper Stratford film is a «science fiction tale told in the style of classic B - movies and outfitted with practical special effects, laser beams and lunatic ideas which are guaranteed to make it the next big midnight movie hit.»

This often happens with sleeper hits indicating that word of mouth is keeping them buzzing but it's much much rarer with films that open as big as Wonder Woman did.

But the film — the story a young jazz drummer (Miles Teller) who attends one of the best music schools in the country under the tutelage of the school's fearsome maestro of jazz played by J.K. Simmons — would have to be a breakout hit to make the increasingly mainstream ranks of Oscar's big category.

Film School Rejects a new short film starring Oscar Isaac available to watch online Deadline a huge list of in - development franchises - what's the next big sci - fi fantasy hit?

Wes Anderson's film leads the pack with 11 nominations, while homegrown hits The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything also fare well — but there's big disappointment for Mike Leigh's Turner biopic

If either of those films are a hit at Sundance, chances are they'll go on to even bigger things, because over the years the festival has become a formidable launching pad for actors, directors and their movies.

Director Barry Sonnenfeld badly needed a hit after Wild Wild West and Big Trouble and so he went down the tried and tested route of making a sequel to his most popular film so far, the entertaining Men in Black (not a film that was exactly crying out for a sequel, but still).

The video (shown above), titled 10 Years of Fandom, takes a look at the growing fan - base of the MCU, with footage from some of the studios» biggest hits — starting with Tony Stark's very first Iron Man armour shown in his first solo film and jumping to the latest Marvel release, Black Panther.

Smith played Miss Shepherd in Bennett's hit 1989 play and takes on the role again in this hugely entertaining, big - hearted and funny film adaptation directed by his long - standing collaborator Nicholas Hytner (The History Boys).

He's done a few shorts, and two documentaries, but his three feature films so far — the comedy «The Ape,» the Sal Mineo biopic «Sal,» and Hart Crane tale «The Broken Tower» — haven't exactly become big hits or critical favorites.

Director / writer Joseph Kosinski «s story (the script is credited to Karl Gadjusek and Michael DeBruyn, with William Monahan and Michael Arndt among those who worked on the film too) cribs liberally from other more familiar sci - fi tales, including one recent cult hit which mentioning the name of would likely tip you off to the film's big secrets.

Ryan Coogler's Marvel movie is drawing in audiences at a pace only a few films ever released can match, and within the next week it is likely to pass the domestic runs of some of last year's big superhero hits like «Thor: Ragnarok,» «Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.