Sentences with phrase «box office hit ever»

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The surprise hit of the year, having the best opening ever for an R - rated movie ($ 132.4 million) and earning over $ 780 million at the global box office, was also the most illegally downloaded movie of 2016, according to TorrentFreak.

In addiiton, Universal Pictures hit $ 5 billion at the global box office over the holidays for the second time ever.

This weekend, James Cameron's science - fiction epic Avatar topped the box office for the third straight week, shooting past $ 1 billion worldwide, only the fifth movie ever to hit that mark.

«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.

Based on the hit Broadway play, Grease would be a bigger hit than anyone could ever imagine, setting a box office record for a musical back in 1978.

And next year, when Batman and Superman share screen time for the first time ever in a live - action feature, expect more box office milestones to be hit for the major studios.

Our studio had its first ever $ 1 billion worldwide grossing film in Michael Bay's hit «Transformers: Dark of the Moon;» we successfully re-launched our «Mission Impossible» franchise with Tom Cruise, JJ Abrams and Brad Bird; our latest installment in the «Paranormal Activity» franchise had another $ 100 million dollar success; our first original animated film «Rango,» from director Gore Verbinski, earned rave reviews and more than $ 100 million at the domestic box office; and we released global phenomenon «Super 8,» directed by JJ Abrams, who will now direct the newest «Star Trek» for 2013.

A top - notch actress who managed to remain a complete unknown as far as the general moviegoing public was concerned (spending over a decade starring in numerous art - house flicks for ex-husband Nicolas Roeg probably had a lot to do with that), Theresa Russell enjoyed a soupçon of mainstream success when she co-starred in Twentieth Century Fox's production of Black Widow, an ever - so - modest box office hit ($ 25 million) back at the start of» 87.

With Avengers: Infinity War set to become the fastest movie ever to hit $ 1 billion gross at the global box office (possibly later today), the thirst for a videogame based on Marvel's Dream Team of superheroes has never been stronger.

Ever since Get Out hit theaters, people have been talking about it — from how it's more than just a horror flick to the records it's breaking at the box office.

A bonafide, sure fire, box office hit if it ever gets released, Jiro follows the titular 85 - year - old sushi chef as he goes about explaining the hows and whys of his acclaimed 10 - seat restaurant.

You wouldn't quite call it a sleeper hit (it didn't even reach $ 10m at the box office), but there's been talk of a sequel to the hockey comedy Goon ever since its release back in 2011.

While the summer box office heats up with new blockbusters, Blu - ray is giving us the chance to revisit some of the biggest hits, looking better than ever in June.