Sentences with phrase «box office draw»

A number of the biggest names in big screen comedy saw their value as box office draws take a dive in the summer of 2009.

The actor has been a solid box office draw for decades but this will likely end up his lowest grossing film in 20 years.

This film is proof it still isn't necessary despite the huge box office draw of the first film.

He's never what's wrong with a film and more often than not he's the major box office draw.

Considering the massive box office draw the IP has proven to be, we can safely assume Chapter Two will draw in some fairly substantial names.

Perhaps the largest draw to the film other than the subject matter is its cast, though it should be noted that none of the fine cast are substantial box office draws.

With three varied $ 100 million - grossing films to his name (The Vow, 21 Jump Street, Magic Mike), Channing Tatum has been the biggest box office draw of 2012, a stark turnaround from his three underwhelming performers last year.

Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson, stars of the New Line buddy action comedy «Central Intelligence,» are among a precious few in Hollywood who have emerged as box office draws in the past five years.

The top box office draw for fans of ridiculous action this week is undoubtedly 2 Guns — a buddy action movie starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg.

Certainly he has proven to be a huge box office draw over the past decade or two, but those are when he is playing wacky characters in offbeat comedic movies.

It's interesting to see how the past nine years have taken Ferrell and Kattan in such different directions, with Ferrell today earning $ 20 million paychecks as a fairly reliable box office draw and Kattan being relegated to TV movies, voiceover jobs, and low - profile Broadway work.

Hell or High Water, for instance, was the biggest independent box office draw of 2016, raking in about $ 27 million domestically.

now that he is legitimately the only box office draw they have left (given how Jon Jones has pretty much turned into a pariah and pending how GSP's return plays out,) Conor still holds the cards, unfortunately.

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

Vaughn, once one of the industry's most reliable comedic box office draws, infuses some offbeat humor into his character early on that doesn't quite fit.

Now at 21, she's worked with many of the greatest filmmakers, including Wes Anderson, Peter Jackson and Peter Weir, shared the screen with Cate Blanchett and Bill Murray, and continues to grow as an international box office draw.

Recommendation: A likely underwhelming box office draw due to its title, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is an authentic, emotional film about a life in transition.

As Depp is the main box office draw, whose international fame far exceeds that of Lone Ranger portrayer Armie Hammer, the two characters have undergone a major shift in terms of their importance and screen time, with Depp not only headlining the flick, but Tonto is given more screen time and more importance to the story than ever before.

That's somewhat a good thing for Chastain and McAvoy, since they'll be out of the spotlight and off the covers of those awful tabloid magazines, but it also means they aren't guaranteed box office draws like a Tom Cruise or Sandra Bullock.

Despite the lack of general interest, Culkin was still a red - hot box office draw, and the film did make a decent amount ($ 44 million), but few were truly feeling any love for the film, especially in seeing cutesy Culkin act like an arrogant crackpot.

I suspect fans of period dramas will fill cinemas around the country for this film, with the added box office draw card of Scarlett and Natalie, not to mention Eric for the girls.

A movie studio fixer joins forces with one of its stars to locate one of their biggest box office draws who has been kidnapped by communists.

It's an original musical starring Hugh Jackman as the entrepreneur who rose from poverty to become a world - famous purveyor of the odd and unusual, employing people with abnormalities — freaks — as primary box office draw.

After three hits, Sandler seemed to have established himself as one of our biggest and most consistent box office draws, and expectations were high for his next flick, Little Nicky.

Vaughn and Ferrell have established themselves as serious box office draws, and Old School shows them in typical characters.

Marvelâ $ ™ s latest screen heroes are not well known to most moviegoers, so the film lacks the kind of built - in fan base that makes such iconic characters as Batman, Spider - Man and the X-Men automatic box office draws.

Grodin probably would have been a better fit as the star of the film, but Martin was clearly a much bigger box office draw at the time, although the film ultimately did poorly at the box office anyway.

Steve Martin (Novocaine, Bowfinger) and Queen Latifah (Chicago, Brown Sugar) definitely fit that mold, and one might expect this to be less - than - stellar fare given that Martin is no longer a top - shelf box office draw and Latifah hasn't been tested in a leading role to date.

One would think by having two very popular box office draws joining forces, this flick would be invincible.

With an attractive slim box office draw in Cameron Diaz — and an equally slim budget of just $ 19 million — this flick is already a financial gem for Sony / Columbia.

Last month Harvey Weinstein said they're looking at Venice to premiere the film, which will quickly be followed by an August 31st release date in what he hopes will be box office draw thanks to the expected popularity of Tom Hardy post -» The Dark Knight Rises.»

Jerry Lewis was a major box office draw in the 1950s and 1960s, and as a «total filmmaker» has a significant profile in film studies, as Chris Fujiwara's book and Murray Pomerance's edited collection show.26 Brooks has his champions in popular film criticism, Kehr chief among them.

More interesting, however, are the oblique career paths Flynn parlayed during his reign as a top box office draw: journalist during the Spanish Civil War (which resulted in accusations of Nazi sympathies, and treason); ocean explorer and novelist, and his efforts to be his own boss via the aborted production of «William Tell,» in 1953.

Add Schwarzenegger no longer being a huge box office draw and it seems fair to say: there's a real chance that history could repeat itself, when it comes to Terminator: Genisys» attempt to start a new trilogy.

In terms of building a career, there's nothing quite like it, and it's something we've commented on before — with the rise of names like Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbender and Taylor Kitsch, actors who are, as yet, unproven as box office draws, and yet find themselves linked to every high - profile role in town.

That was quite evident in the box office draw.

The first film to establish Ferrell as a box office draw — and still his highest - grossing film to date — is this Jon Favreau - directed holiday comedy that finds the comedian playing a naive man raised by Santa's helpers who goes in search of his biological father in Manhattan.

Watching Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson's career rise from the most electrifying man in the WWF / E to surviving The Scorpion King and The Tooth Fairy to become a box office draw is exciting because it means that The Rock is our new everyman.

It's hard to imagine «Hit and Run» getting as large of a theatrical release as it did (or even one at all) without the involvement of Bradley Cooper, not only due to his box office drawing power, but because his amusing, against - type turn as a dreadlocked ex-con is about the only good thing the movie has going for it.

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...

But increasingly, over the last several years, it seems Hollywood has decided to cash in on the phrase as some sort of box office draw — whether or not the content of the film asks for it — as though summoning the country's name alone is going to put butts in seats in a way that would be unachievable otherwise.

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

But though O'Neal at the time was a box office draw, Kubrick uses his weaknesses to the film's strengths.

I mean, sure, George Clooney is a box office draw but I'd only seen a couple TV spots for this one.