Sentences with phrase «biggest box office smashes»

Most of the biggest box office smashes were worthwhile films — Guardians of the Galaxy and The LEGO Movie, for example.

He's been a Hollywood icon for over 30 years and has starred in some of the biggest box office smashes in history as some of the most recognisable characters on our screens.

Experimental in its approach, candid about sex, and vicious in its attacks on American conformity and consumerism («Plastics»), the film, adapted by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham from Charles Webb's book, also became a rallying cry for the period's youth, widening the generation gap and emerging as one of the biggest box office smashes of its decade.

But, while there had been a steady stream of small Holocaust movies, none — apart from perhaps the Oscar - winning Diary Of Anne Frank (1959)-- had, understandably, been big box office smashes.

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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.

«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.

A surprise box office smash, this melodrama wound up becoming a big of an out of nowhere blockbuster.

With two big BAFTA wins on Sunday for screenplay and lead actor Casey Affleck, a very good shot at taking a WGA Original Screenplay award this coming Sunday, a domestic box office gross nearing $ 50 million, and six Academy Award nominations Manchester By The Sea is riding higher than even anyone expected after its smash Sundance debut over a year ago.

CONNIE AND CARLA (Grade: B +): It's Nia Vardalos» second big movie and, surprise, she outdoes «My Big Fat Greek Wedding» in this offbeat, charming comedy that is surprisingly less implausible than her fairy tale box - office smabig movie and, surprise, she outdoes «My Big Fat Greek Wedding» in this offbeat, charming comedy that is surprisingly less implausible than her fairy tale box - office smaBig Fat Greek Wedding» in this offbeat, charming comedy that is surprisingly less implausible than her fairy tale box - office smash.

As Black Panther continues to smash box office records as one of the biggest superhero hit movies in years, critics and fans alike have marveled at how amazing the cast was in the film.

The 50 - year - old Sicario star hasn't even appeared in the role but it seems that Fox are predicting the follow - up to one of 2016's surprise box office smashes will be just as big — if not bigger — according to That Hashtag Show.

In another exciting development, Oscar ® winner Bill Condon will follow his worldwide smash Beauty and the Beast, one of this year's biggest hits — which crossed $ 1 billion at the global box office and became the most successful musical of all time — by directing Bride of Frankenstein from a screenplay by Koepp.

At the end of February it smashed through another milestone after it already recorded the biggest Monday at the box office of all time (in the US), earning $ 40.2 million.

Sandler began his career as a stand - up comedian and joinedSaturday Night Live as a writer and featured player before starring in, producing and writing numerous films, including the box office smashes The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, The Longest Yard, Big Daddy, Anger Management, 50 First Dates, Click, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2.

But less than two years later, Wes was back, and the reaction to «The Grand Budapest Hotel» was even warmer: it won rave reviews, and has proven a legitimate arthouse box office smash, taking in over $ 150 million so far, more than twice his previous best haul, and a bigger take than other hefty pictures like «The Monuments Men,» «Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit» and «Transcendence,» among others.

Quickly ramping up to become the biggest event in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and in turn become a historically monumental Box - Office smash, the movie brings together many of the heroes and villains introduced across 18 movies to do battle with; the mad villain, Thanos.

2008 was a big year for Krome, with two LucasArts titles — Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for Wii, PS2, and PSP and The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels for Wii — seeing retail release alongside Scene - it: Box Office Smash, which it produced for Microsoft.

Pratt Faculty Member Tim O'Brien is an illustrator and portrait painter whose intricately detailed and imaginative illustrations have most recently been translated to the big screen courtesy of the box office smash, The Hunger Games...