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by Bill Chambers The partnership of Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin yielded a giant box office hit last time out with their alien invasion picture Independence Day, a film critically dissed in large part because it was populated with stereotypes: we knew who the smart guy was because he wore glasses and a pocket - protector; who the gay guy was because Harvey Fierstein's dialogue was set to flaming; who the hero was because he promised to «whoop E.T.'s ass.»

Filmmaker Raoul Peck had a box office hit last year with his Oscar - nominated box office success I Am Not Your Negro, which incidentally took Best Documentary at the recent BAFTAs.

Millennium also lacked any box office hits last year, and the studio itself was put up for sale last spring.

Not exact matches

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

Box office sales for Perth's two major arts festivals have remained steady against last year's figures, with Perth Festival on track to make $ 3.8 million and Fringe World Festival hitting $ 10 million.

And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros. hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the top - earning studio at the domestic box office for the year.

Whether Infinity War can catch Black Panther (whose long, leggy run meant it was still in the top five at the box office last week, more than two months after its opening) in the US and Canada seems unlikely, but it should become the year's top hit internationally without too much trouble.

In the Best Picture race, the biggest hits were the World War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales, good for 14th place on the box office charts, and Jordan Peele's horror film «Get Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk» with $ 176 million in domestic sales.

Deadpool was one of the biggest hits at the box office last year.

Last weekend we went to Dynamite Bay, where I tested out some of the swim gear to have hit my post office box in recent weeks.

The biggest of the non-major distributors, TWC saw its box office receipts grow by nearly 36 % last year compared to 2014 (thanks to hits like Paddington and 2014 holdover The Imitation Game), even as the overall quality of its films declined.

The Scarlett Johansson action flick (if you can even call it that) has been the surprising hit of the last month, generating $ 97 million in box office receipts over the last three weeks.

Last year's adaptation of the Marvel character — which starred Ryan Reynolds in the title role — was a surprise hit both critically and commercially, generating nearly $ 800 million worldwide at the box office.

Ridley didn't mention her singing aspirations last night, but did marvel at how much her life has changed since being cast by Abrams in the what has become the biggest box office hit in Hollywood history.

«Black Panther» star Chadwick Boseman, «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» breakout Kelly Marie Tran and «Wonder Woman» herself, Gal Gadot, all will be presenting at the Oscars after headlining three of Hollywood's biggest recent hits, both in terms of box office and representation.

Last year the surprise box office hits included the heist thriller Now You See Me, the comedy We're the Millers and Woody Allen's drama Blue Jasmine.

Indeed, the film is yet another box office win for 38 - year - old DiCaprio, who helped turn Quentin Tarantino's «Django Unchained» into a hit last winter.

«Rogue One: A Star Wars Story» will fly into theaters Dec. 16, on the heels of last year's box office record - smashing hit «Episode VII — The Force Awakens.»

At the end of this week's episode, Joanna and Richard discuss a film that is in no way hoping for awards, but has gathered a lot of attention anyway: last weekend's box office hit Kingsman: The Golden Circle.

Last year the surprise box office hits included the heist thriller Now You See Me, the comedy We're the Millers and...

He scored a huge hit last year playing Big Daddy in the Chinese action blockbuster Wolf Warrior II, a global box office phenomenon and now the biggest grossing film in Chinese history.

«Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,» starring Felicity Jones, will fly into theaters Dec. 16, on the heels of last year's box office record - smashing hit «Episode VII — The Force Awakens.»

One of the more surprising box office hits of last year was the magician adventure pic Now You See Me.

Ultimately Chan's accomplishments, however breathtaking, seem to have more to do with the Guinness Book of World Records than they do with the history of art — though it's worth adding that, according to the New York Times, Rumble in the Bronx was the number - one box - office hit in mainland China last year.

The short story is that The Wackness is an amazing film that could be a huge hit, and that Sony Pictures Classics has had almost nothing but box office flops for the last two years.

Last year, Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World continued Marvel Studios» dominance at the box office, as the beginning of «Phase 2 ″ for the studio's Shared Cinematic Universe, following The Avengers becoming a massive critical / financial hit.

Last year's Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was an unexpected financial smash hit for the studio that has grossed $ 957 million worldwide and is still going at the U.S. box office, four months after its December 2017 opening.

The film has already been pulling in some decent cash overseas after hitting plenty of international territories last weekend, and it's bound to have a good weekend at the domestic box office as well.

There has been steady buzz for this first look online (and not just from movie obsessed folk like us at The Film Experience) since dropping late last night, so we may also have a big box office hit on our hands.

STX just had a monster summer box office hit with Bad Moms, but they tried last year to make Secret in Their Eyes happen with two huge Oscar winners and that went nowhere.

What You Need To Know: Given that the original trilogy was near - universally beloved, a giant box - office hit (taking close to $ 3 billion worldwide) and even managed to be win a record haul of Oscars with its last installment, getting «The Hobbit,» J.R.R. Tolkien «s novel set, and written, before «The Lord of the Rings» proved surprisingly tricky, with rights issues and studio bankruptcy holding the project up for years, even before original director Guillermo del Toro bailed.

Last summer Now You See Me, the movie about bank - robbing magicians, trucked to over $ 117 million at the domestic box office, qualifying it as a sleeper hit.

«Batman v Superman,» which introduced Gadot's Wonder Woman, was the third biggest hit at the box office in Lebanon last year.

Sony Pictures scored a major hit with its recent reboot Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, with the film holding its own against Star Wars: The Last Jedi and pulling in a hefty $ 931 million at the worldwide box office.

After striking out with critics and losing money at the box office, where it grossed just $ 16 million domestically on a $ 26 M budget, The Raven hit stores last week from Relativity Media's home video distributor Fox on DVD and in the two - disc Blu - ray + DVD + Digital Copy combo pack reviewed here.

Aside from that pretty wonderful holiday short film / commercial released last month, things have been pretty quiet for director Wes Anderson in the wake of 2014's The Grand Budapest Hotel, which was a critical darling, a box office hit, a genuine Oscar contender, and very much the best movie released that year.

That should be within reach based on Washington's consistently solid box office record and whatever boost comes from having Pratt accept a deuteragonist role coming off headlining two of the biggest hits of the last two years.

John McTiernan's The Last Action Hero — in which Arnold Schwarzenegger's titular killing machine walks out of his own movie into a kid's real life — might have been a bigger hit, had it not been blown away by the arrival of the Jurassic Park box - office phenomenon the following week.

Last week, Lionsgate let it slip that Philip Seymour Hoffman had been cast as Plutarch Heavensbee in the greatly anticipated sequel to this year's box office hit The Hunger Games.

Just last year, Get Out ($ 255 million) and the aforementioned Girls Trip were two of the biggest box - office hits relative to their budgets; 2015's Straight Outta Compton made over $ 200 million thanks a strong showing overseas; and the diversely cast Fast & Furious franchise is eight movies deep and showing no signs of slowing down.

Last weekend's box office was lower than expected with Kingsman: The Golden Circle failing to hit $ 40 million, The LEGO Ninjago Movie barely earning $ 20 million, and Friend Request recording the worst wide opening of all - time with a mere $ 2 million across 2,500 screens.

State how many box - office hits were superhero movies in the last five years.