Sentences with phrase «bit of a box office»

The Tree of Life, however, was a bit of a box office dud, and the studio lacked any real hits outside of The Descendants.

The studio also released just one critical dud (I Am Number Four, also a bit of a box office failure) last year after releasing three such films in 2010.

The makers of this film know that these films have a bit of a box office ceiling, in that the Muppets, while popular in the United States, don't fare quite as well at the worldwide box office.

Not exact matches

They opened the already - sterilized bit box, a violation of planetary protection protocols that caused the office to downgrade Curiosity's sterility.

L.A. - based Roadside once again saw half of its films (including Chilean drama Gloria and festival hit Dear White People) earn positive reviews, but its Metascore average (and box office grosses) fell a bit compared to 2013.

Okay, perhaps we're being a bit unfair — Warcraft definitely had its moments, even if it was kind of a mess overall, and The Angry Birds Movie was a bonafide box office hit — but the fact remains that on the whole, audiences have had very good reason to be skeptical about video game movies for a very long time.

If this doc doesn't make that list, it will probably recede from most radars and not quite live up to its strong word of mouth and potential (although $ 700,000 at the box office is nothing to scoff at) which would be tragic in my mind, because it is one of the best documentaries of the year and if it gets on the shortlist, it has a good chance of getting nominated (but not to win, as I'll explain in a bit.)

««Jumanji» gets the MVP box office award for Super Bowl weekend with a stunning late run ascension to the number one spot as «Maze Runner» adds to its total and «Winchester» enjoys a bit of counter programming success amidst a sea of Oscar contenders over what is a typically slow moviegoing weekend,» said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst with comScore.

It's not easy to understand why anyone agreed to fund this film, as the box office drawing power of Nicolas Cage is a bit suspect after a string of stinkers like this bizarre, unscary medieval...

Though the opening weekend box office didn't inspire much confidence in that hypothetical sequel, Reese did explain a bit of where they saw that story going.

Blame sequel fatigue; Pixar has started dipping back into their own library of content and though the public made Finding Dory one of the most successful films of the year at the box - office, the Oscar voters clearly favored something a bit more original.

The live action attempt at adapting Where the Wild Things Are created quite a bit of buzz, but in terms of box office numbers, it barely earned back its $ 100 million production budget.

In the meantime, Marvel has announced it's readying another, albeit less ambitious, crossover event based on Avengers: Infinity War that will see a bit of the box - office juggernaut bleeding into the hottest video game in the world right now, Fortnite.

Unfortunately, this Cheat Sheet has to end on a bit of a sour not as this week's box office turned out to be an incredible disappointment.

BOX OFFICE BEAT DOWN: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Takes a Bite Out of the Holiday Box Office with $ 69 MOFFICE BEAT DOWN: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Takes a Bite Out of the Holiday Box Office with $ 69 MOffice with $ 69 Million

«Death at a Funeral,» directed by Frank Oz, looks like it could be a bit of dark hilarity, but the lack of a big name in the cast won't do it any favors at the box office; conversely, «You Kill Me» is filled with recognizable faces — Dennis Farina, Philip Baker Hall, Ben Kinglsey, Tea Leoni, Bill Pullman, and Luke Wilson — but probably won't get a fair shake theatrically because it's being distributed through IFC Films.

Other films reviewed include Bite, Tale of Tales and Phantom of the Theater, and the show wraps up with bold box office predictions and the world - famous home cinema round - up!

Other highlights in this strand include: the World Premiere of Thierry Poiraud's DO N'T GROW UP, a stylish and inventive film about a group of teens on an unnamed island who wake up to find their youth facility eerily abandoned; the World Premiere of Jon Spira's affectionate documentary ELSTREE 1976 about the bit performers who appeared in George Lucas» box office behemoth Star Wars; GHOST THEATER, the latest film from director Hideo Nakata, the forerunner of J - horror; GREEN ROOM, Jeremy Saulnier's latest exercise in edge of the seat suspense, starring Patrick Stewart, Imogen Poots and Anton Yelchin; returning for the third year running, Sion Sono screens LOVE AND PEACE, his tale of punk rock and talking turtles; and the fantastically prolific Takashi Miike's riotous, unruly gangster vampire concoction YAKUZA APOCALYPSE.

Bit of a phenomenon, Night Watch did extremely good box office in its native Russia and was quickly picked up for U.S. and international distribution by Fox Searchlight, Fox's «indie» distributor.

20th Century Fox / Chernin Entertainment's Red Sparrow is no soaring eagle at the box office even with a bit of a lift of $ 17M.

Whatever force — depression, weather, online review aggregators — that's been taking a bite out of this summer's box office receipts appears to have been repelled by the power of scary clowns; Deadline reports that Andy Muschietti's Stephen King adaptation It is on track to have one of the most successful opening weekends...

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone have been having quite a bit of trouble re-establishing themselves as B - movie box office stars.

While some critics might be a bit miffed by «comic book movies» and in their criticism, the MCU movies have found their «golden ticket» formula of success with public (i.e a mixture of heart, humor, and blockbuster superhero nuances), raking in millions upon millions at the worldwide box office with each new release.

The flick, starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling, has earned just $ 74 million in total in the US box office, rendering the film a bit of a disappointment in financial terms.

Flying in the face of Never Say Never Again's presumably - vindicating box - office success, the disc's documentary supplements are a bit more straightforward in establishing the film's general worthlessness.

Your weekend edition of The Week in Star Wars has some good news for those worried about Carrie Fisher in Episode IX, some bits from Episode VIII and the Han Solo movie and some great box office news for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story... One last time, I would like to push you along -LSB-...]

Expected high ratings for this year's Oscar telecast on Sunday are likely to take a bite out of box - office revenue on that day, some analysts are...

When: October 5th Why: Though it's one of those sequels that doesn't really need to exist, the original film was so much fun (not to mention made a decent bit of coin at the box office) that it's not surprising Fox was so quick to greenlight another installment.

The Big Lebowski is a sneaky bastard, failing at the box - office — as works absolutely clear about their time often do — and locating itself in the crucible of time as every bit as relevant as contemporaries The Truman Show, The Matrix, Election, even Fight Club, and especially Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will take a bit out of the box - office pie in June, and based on the early reactions to the very first screening in Madrid last night, the film's odds of success are high!

The R - rated metatheatrical romp broke box office records, proving that superhero movies could get a bit more adult and still rake in tons of money.

This seems to indicate that 20th Century Fox has quite a bit of faith in the highly anticipated sequel to surpass the expectations set by the first movie, and draw in even larger box office numbers.

Animated movies tend to produce favorable box office returns but it's a bit of a head scratcher as to why Dreamworks Animation would pump well over $ 100 million into this project.

Reviled by critics upon its initial release (Ebert dismissed it as a «freak show» for instance) and doing badly at the box office, this 1982 horror movie by cult director John Carpenter has undergone a bit of a rehabilitation recently — partly because of Gen X fans who recall it vividly and partly because horror flicks strangely enough became more tame and predictable with the years.

Though it'll be interesting to see whether the behind the scenes problems (including a bloated budget and reported head butting between Forster and star Brad Pitt) have bled onto the film, if the finished product is any bit as good as the source material promises, Paramount will surely view it as a small victory regardless of its box office performance.

The embrace of negativity and cynicism — as much a staple of contemporary commercial filmmaking as the standard happy Hollywood ending was of yore, and every bit as much an evasion of reality — is proffered dishonestly, as if it were simply arrived at by looking at the world rather than at the box - office grosses in Variety.

Yes, the Coroner's office doesn't list dog bite as a cause of death for anything (probably because they're so rare there isn't a check box for it).

The bite - size, individual servings and the array of flavor combinations in chocolate sampler boxes make them easy to share with everyone at the vet's office, except for the pets of course.

Even though having an OP Thanos running over enemy players fits the tone of the box office smash hit Infinity War, it's good to see Epic Game balance the limited time event out a bit so players still enjoy themselves.

I have been going through boxes of items I had in my former office to see if I really need to keep things — I can be a bit of a pack rat.