Sentences with phrase «biggest box office success»

So, while Derrickson's superhero epic is unlikely to go down as the MCU's biggest box office success, it's a sizable hit all the same.

But of everything he directed, this was his biggest box office success.

Gillan's coast - to - coast move coincides with major career milestones in a year in which she's already starred in «Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,» a December release that blossomed into one of the year's biggest box office successes, flexing comedic chops alongside costars Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black — only she did it all backwards and in abbreviated short - shorts.

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

So, with a practical effect driven reboot that pays homage to its predecessor at every turn while still creating its own identity, Evil Dead became a big box office success upon release on April 5, 2013.

Bad Moms is a very fun and very funny movie that was also a big box office success.

It's an interesting choice to helm this small film after directing one of the biggest box office successes of all time.

The last two Star Trek films were big box office successes, with both films grossing over $ 225 million domestically.

Not exact matches

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.

CNN: Targeting «Les Miserables» to Christians pays off at the box office In spite of tepid reviews from some film critics, «Les Miserables» is booming at the box office, and that financial success can in part be traced to a group of its biggest boosters: Christians, particularly evangelicals whom NBC Universal went after with a microtargeted marketing strategy.

Even if «Gravity» did not win big at the Oscars it would have been easy to call the film a success, in part due to its box office take as well as furthering awareness of space exploration and helping foster curiosity about NASA and their programs.

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.

A felicitous contract at Universal led Edwards to his first big box - office successes, including the Tony Curtis film Mister Cory (1957) and Cary Grant's Operation Petticoat (1959).

GORP is basically your typical raunchy sex - comedy except it was made decades before the genre came too have the big box - office success that most have today.

Perhaps its unexpected box office success can be attributed in part to the popular reaction against an entertainment industry whose laser - like concentration is on big - budget franchise and sequel films.

The studio does not appear to have any releases on tap that will match The Big Short's best picture nomination (with the possible — if unlikely — exception of Richard Linklater's upcoming spring release Everybody Wants Some), while its box office fortunes ride in large part on the success of upcoming Star Trek and TMNT sequels.

Four years after setting box - office records with «Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid», actors Paul Newman and Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill re-teamed with bigger commercial success with «The Sting» which became one of the top ten highest grossing films of 1973.

But, as his projects grew bigger and more ambitious, the results seemed to grow less interesting, and in the 70s, he was badly in need of a box - office success - which he didn't find.

Even with the box office success of «Deadpool,» the sequel's writers say a big budget isn't necessary for the Cable team - up.

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 former would prove to be a massive cult hit and one of his biggest box - office successes to date.

With artificial intelligence thriller Ex Machina proving a big success at the box office both here and across the pond, writer / director Alex Garland has plenty of momentum for whatever he wants to make next.

In addition to the success of the original film, looming over the Merc with a Mouth's second big screen adventure was Marvel Studios» Avengers: Infinity War, which has dominated the box office since its late April, having grossed just more than $ 1.8 billion in global ticket sales to date.

Despite big box - office success and unexpected summer magic, no one thought Edgar Wright's heist film had the gas to make it to awards season — even the iPod wearing, street - dancing, mostly mute titular character played by Ansel Elgort.

Fresh off his biggest success ever at the box - office in Iron Man 3, director Shane Black is pursuing...

Searchlight's biggest Sundance success story was 2006's «Little Miss Sunshine,» which it picked up in Park City for $ 10.5 million and turned into a $ 60 million box office hit that earned two Oscars.

Todd Phillips» The Hangover was one of the biggest comedy successes in recent memory; a runaway success at the box office, it also made stars out of its three leads Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms.

Steven Spielberg's «Ready Player One» is a hit, pulling in $ 181 million worldwide in box office receipts during its inaugural weekend, and giving the filmmaker his biggest success since «Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull» a decade ago.

However, with the setting of the film being in a fictional African country, race and African cultures are a big part of the film's plot and its box office success.

It may not have enjoyed quite the box office success that a wide Christmas Day release could have brought, but Sony's controversial comedy The Interview has become the studio's biggest VOD release of all time following its arrival on YouTube, Google Play and Microsoft Xbox on Tuesday evening, with the film pulling in over $ 15 -LSB-...]

Fresh off his biggest success ever at the box - office in Iron Man 3, director Shane Black is pursuing an Oscar winner & an Oscar nominee to star in his follow - up

Finding Nemo may not have managed to crack the top slot at the box office — it was up against The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — but its success both at the multiplex and on home video (it's the biggest seller of all time, apparently) heralded a new age of animated blockbusters.

Scoring the second biggest box office weekend opening of the year so far, «Ready Player One» looks set to be a huge success for director Steven Spielberg, and its incredible cast of talented actors.

Catherine Hardwicke is clearly still on a high after the box office success of Twilight, and thus gets a nice big, juicy budget for Red Riding Hood, a dark retelling of the fairy tale we all know well.

First weekend box office is currently the most important measure of any big budget action picture's success.

Thanks to some unbridled critical and box office success, practically everyone in the world knows the big stars of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Grossing over $ 1.3 billion at the box office, it was a balance — like most big - budgeted Disney films — that proved to be a success.

The Sound of Music, Funny Girl, or indeed The Greatest Showman, whose stealth success at the box office since it opened five weeks ago has quietly become the biggest film story of the new year.

The biggest success story at the box office this weekend was the limited release of «The Master,» Paul Thomas Anderson's critically acclaimed new drama.

A huge success at the box office (read our review), earning more than big - budget tentpoles Tomorrowland and Terminator Genisys, it was also Apatow's biggest critical hit since Knocked Up.

The one surprise - not a big one - was the strength of «True Grit,» a big box - office success that has been coming on in recent weeks as an alternative to «The Social Network» for best picture.

Starring Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain and Chiwetel Ejiofor, The Martian also continues to perform strongly outside the world's biggest box office and could be on course to mimic the huge success of similar space - themed efforts such as Gravity ($ 723m in 2013) and Interstellar ($ 675m last year).

This year, it made it the biggest box - office success in the running for Best Picture at the Oscars.

Marvel has been having a great run at the box office thanks to Black Panther's unprecedented success, and it's likely going to hit the gold pot on April 27, when Avengers: Infinity War will release on the big screen everywhere.

At the box office, Paul Feig's Spy, George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road and Francis Lawrence's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 (which again topped the domestic box office for a fourth straight time this weekend, according to the Los Angeles Times) have all been big successes.

20th Century Fox is heading in a new direction that has been spearheaded by the success of past X-Men movies, but more recently the big box office and critical success of Logan and Deadpool, both R - rated and gritty.

The studio has had a rough year at the box office and might want to seriously take a look at putting Metal Gear into production sooner rather than later, as Vogt - Roberts could land some serious offers if Skull Island is a big success.