Also, until Pirates of the Carribean 2 dethroned it, Halo 2 had enjoyed the highest grossing opening weekend of any entertainment product ever released (
box office movie releases, other game releases, CDs, etc).
Not exact matches
Though Warner Bros. is overjoyed by the
box -
office success and acclaim of its latest DC Comics Extended Universe
release, according to reports, it didn't sign on the
movie's director, Patty Jenkins, for a sequel.
In perhaps the most notorious example of Oscar's underdog favoritism, in 2010, The Hurt Locker —
released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the
box office — beat Avatar which had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful
movie ever made.
Released in February, Deadpool is the biggest
movie of 2016 so far with $ 330 million in domestic
box office gross and a worldwide haul of more than $ 700 million.
This Christmas 2005
release definitely underperformed at the
box office, perhaps because audiences didn't want to spend their holidays watching a
movie with so many gruesome deaths.
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.
Still, in 2007 The Simpsons
Movie was
released to theatres amid much fanfare and hype — including a marketing campaign that turned actual 7 - Eleven stores into fictional Kwik - E-Marts — grossing more than $ 525 million at the
box office.
It seems that every time Marvel (owned by Disney) comes out with a new Avengers
movie (
released two weeks ago), or Fantastic Four (later 2015
release), or X-Men (2016
release), or Captain America (2016), film, we hear all about how it's breaking some
box office record.
The latest James Bond film, Spectre
releases in November, and although Craig is thought to be under contract for at least one more Bond
movie, some speculate that he might leave early if the
movie does well in the
box office...
Obviously, the future Batman
movie is still a rumor, and a lot can change in three years, but with a
box office schedule full of Marvel
releases, there's a good chance we'll be getting more Batman soon, as well...
If online piracy displaces ticket sales, these
release lags should hurt a
movie's international
box -
office receipts.
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This list was compiled in August 2012 on the basis that the films were popular in the era of
release as well as successful at the
Box Office and have» T is the season to watch lots of films... and Christmas
movies have certainly been lucrative over the years.
The Texas - based importer of Asian films has been
releasing more and more English - language
movies in recent years, and that change in emphasis may explain a doubling of
box office receipts from 2013 to 2014.
CinemaCon 2016 is bringing a look at several new
movie posters for some of this year's biggest
box office releases.
This summer's
box office got a little hotter Monday, as Paramount Pictures shifted the
release date of its Tom Cruise tentpole
movie «Mission Impossible 5» from Christmas Day to July 31.
Once the film gets a wide
release in January, the competition will be next to nothing, leaving the
movie to take in some decent
box office.
Released on March 3, the third and perhaps final Wolverine stand - alone
movie has made more than $ 616 million at the
box office globally.
After one month in theaters, Wonder Woman broke the $ 700 million barrier at the worldwide
box office this past weekend, thereby becoming one of the top 100 highest - grossing
movies ever
released; the news came mere days after the film surpassed all three previous installments to become the largest DCEU
release at the domestic
box office.
2013 saw the
release of two «Terrorists Take Over the White House
Movies» and Olympus Has Fallen was the winner in that particular showdown, outgrossing the glossier and far more expensive White House Down at the
box office.
Some of these
movies include «Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping,» a comedy film starring Andy Samberg, which is now in theaters and the longevity of which at the
box office remains to be seen; «Central Intelligence,» another comedy which stars Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson and which will be
released on June 17; and «The Shallows,» a
movie about a woman trying to escape a shark which stars Blake Lively.
Here's a partial list of
movie budgets, based on publicly
released information — obviously, these numbers aren't entirely ironclad, and they disagree with other sources, like
Box Office Mojo.
Masterminds was originally set to
release in August of last year, but those plans fell through due to a bankruptcy within the film's distributor, although honestly the fact that the
movie is now
releasing in the month of September a little over a year later might actually benefit its
box office performance, as the
movie actually co-stars 3/4 of the Ghostbusters reboot (Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones).
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.
In the spirit of the season,
Box Office Mojo has released a list of 2013's top domestic box office movies (as of December
Box Office Mojo has released a list of 2013's top domestic box office movies (as of Decemb
Office Mojo has
released a list of 2013's top domestic
box office movies (as of December
box office movies (as of Decemb
office movies (as of December 1).
Our
box office wrap - up for the weekend of November 15, 2015, featuring new
release Love the Coopers - plus holdovers Spectre and The Peanuts
Movie.
Tepid reviews and dismal
box office performance put this
movie at odds with the directors» previous efforts, but fans of the film will nevertheless be pleased to find the DVD and Blu - ray
release on store shelves this Tuesday, January 26.
It's been said that depression is highest after the holidays, and that's certainly the case at the
box office, where the earliest months of the year traditionally serve as a dumping ground for the
movies that the major studios didn't have the time or intestinal fortitude to
release during the rest of the year.
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But walking away with the Golden Popcorn for
Movie of the Year won't be easy, as J.J. Abrams» space opera will be squaring off against
box office behemoths Avengers: Age of Ultron, Creed, Jurassic World, Straight Outta Compton and the newly
released Deadpool.
It could be argued, of course, that any
movie that exposes in its first two scenes its abject dependency on another
movie released only nine months earlier has to be in some kind of trouble, but only if freshness rather than
box -
office success is the issue.
Marvel Studios, which kicked things off with Iron Man in 2008, has
released 17 films that collectively have grossed more than $ 13 billion at the global
box office; 5 more
movies are due out in the next two years.
At the specialty
box office, A24's buzzy horror
movie «Green Room,» starring Patrick Stewart as a diabolical neo-Nazi club owner, grossed an estimated $ 215,000 as it expanded onto 30 screens a week ahead of its nationwide
release.
Released to much acclaim, The Fighter was described by Sports Illustrated as «the best sports
movie of the decade» and went on to earn $ 129 million at the global
box office.
The film flopped at the
box office — it was
released soon after 9/11 and America didn't seem to be in the mood for a
movie in which a jetliner's loose turbine engine crushes a suburban house.
The
movie's
box office performance was somewhat mediocre as well, considering the production and marketing costs, which the $ 85 million domestic gross failed to recoup, while still placing the film above all but three
movies released in the easygoing two months comprising cinema's «fall» season.
We have witnessed the
release of quite a few superhero
movies and all of them had made their way to the top of the
box office.
The first two Hotel Transylvania
movies have grossed almost $ 750 million at the global
box office, with Hotel Transylvania 2 still pulling in the cash at the
box office following its
release this September.
With the horror - franchise Paranormal Activity going strong (the three
movies released so far have brought in an excess of half - a-billion dollars) and recent religious horror films doing well in the
box office (The Devil Inside), the Paranormal Activity folks are...
Realizing that he can just keep
releasing his
movies directly to The People, bypassing those pesky critics and
box office numbers, for pretty much the rest of his career, Adam Sandler has announced that he's extending his film deal with Netflix for another four
movies.
Every Friday, as the new
releases are sluiced out, advertised in flashing neon over the
box office of your local multiplex, it's become a case of picking one film and catching the other one later, if at all — it's like
movies are pitted against one another in gladiatorial combat.
This upcoming month features a whole slate of interesting
releases, and as such GeekScholars
Movie News is ready to reveal their Rotten Tomatoes and Opening
Box Office Predictions for:
It is beyond belief that this
movie could have been numero uno in the
box office when it was
released.
The
movie will also get a wide international
release this weekend, including China, the second - biggest
box -
office market.
Whatever the reasoning behind Valiant's quiet theatrical run (and we might not ever know), the film wound up with a grand North American
box office total of just $ 19.5 million, making it handily the all - time lowest - grossing widely -
released computer - animated film in the continent (by comparison, 2002's Jonah: A VeggieTales
Movie earned $ 6 million more) and putting it just slightly ahead of the $ 18 million gross of DisneyToon Studios» modest off - season traditionally animated
release Pooh's Heffalump
Movie.
It stayed in Japanese theaters for more than ten months when it was
released there in July 2001 and made over $ 234 million, becoming the highest - grossing
movie in the country's
box office history.
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.
While Super Troopers only made a very mild splash during its
box office run, which is not bad considering the
movie made roughly $ 23 million against its $ 3 million production budget) as well as facing mixed reviews from critics, the
movie itself found its popularity on home
release.
Deadline is reporting the
movie posts no # 2 thus far in the
box office of the limited
releases of this year.
«Avengers: Infinity War» is dominating the
box office at the moment, but this week another highly anticipated Marvel
movie is set to be
released, as «Deadpool 2» is finally hitting theaters.