Sentences with phrase «box office success with»

Vogt - Roberts delivered a fast - paced, action - packed take on King Kong with Skull Island, which was a box office success with over $ 566 million worldwide.

Meanwhile, rival studio Disney has found considerable box office success with similarly pitched fare such as Alice in Wonderland ($ 1bn), Cinderella ($ 500m) and Maleficent ($ 758m), and is currently mounting an ambitious program of further live action fantasy remakes.

Switching to another genre, writer / director Victor Salva enjoyed a measure of box office success with Jeepers Creepers, an eerie if rather jumbled tale of two very stupid high school grads hunted by a demonic, bat - like creature which emerges every 23 years to hunt the most fear - prone folks of a small mid-western town.

Back in the early 1990s, director Renny Harlin had been an action director worth noting, leading thw ay to box office success with Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger and The Long Kiss Goodnight.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

The director has achieved box office successes with his Bourne movies (Supremacy and Ultimatum), but with this film he is able to incorporate his «you are there» faux - documentary approach to a...

Wright's career which began with a bang with back - to - back critical and box office successes with 2005's Pride & Prejudice and 2007's Atonement, both garnering numerous Oscar nominations.

Not exact matches

Even with the potential for major flops, Hollywood's movie franchise model is here to stay, but history shows us that the studios that aim for critical success with their sequels tend to land more hits at the box office.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Paramount's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot was one of August's surprise successes with $ 149.6 million in ticket sales, while The Walt Disney Company (DIS) scored the hit of the summer with Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which broke the opening - weekend box - office record for August on its way to grossing $ 258 million in the U.S. and more than $ 500 million worldwide within less than a month of its release.

Similarly, Black Panther «s early success is already dispelling industry concerns that a superhero movie revolving almost entirely around black characters could resonate with a general audience and earn the same box - office popularity as other (whiter) blockbusters.

«Get Out» combines societal issues with mainstream box office success, a rare but winning combination.

CNN: Targeting «Les Miserables» to Christians pays off at the box office In spite of tepid reviews from some film critics, «Les Miserables» is booming at the box office, and that financial success can in part be traced to a group of its biggest boosters: Christians, particularly evangelicals whom NBC Universal went after with a microtargeted marketing strategy.

Disney had an amazing year in terms of box office, but that doesn't exclude some of their smaller hits, including this film about a chess prodigy in Uganda who tries to balance her success with responsibility to her family.

Okorafor said she was buoyed by the global success of the summer box office hit «Wonder Woman» — the first superhero movie to star a woman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywood.

Overall, it is an enjoyable film with a fast - moving plot and almost certain to be a box office success.

Although Teachout, author of Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United, showed how irked many upstate and liberal Democrats were with Cuomo two years ago — the New York Times noted that she was the «strongest challenge to an incumbent governor since primaries for the office were established in New York in 1970» — she hasn't had much electoral success.

The studio does not appear to have any releases on tap that will match The Big Short's best picture nomination (with the possible — if unlikely — exception of Richard Linklater's upcoming spring release Everybody Wants Some), while its box office fortunes ride in large part on the success of upcoming Star Trek and TMNT sequels.

Freestyle Releasing had some box office success last year with faith - based dramas like Woodlawn and Do You Believe?

Four years after setting box - office records with «Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid», actors Paul Newman and Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill re-teamed with bigger commercial success with «The Sting» which became one of the top ten highest grossing films of 1973.

Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill re-teamed with similar success for The Sting.

It achieved success, despite being shown in 811 theaters worldwide and having a relatively low box office gross.The film's love scenes between Colin Farrell's character and the then 14 - year - old Kilcher caused some controversy, resulting in the film studio deleting several scenes with Farrell to avoid child pornography accusations.

Obviously, these types of pictures are not completely new, but the recent critical and often box office success of this subgenre with «Looper,» «Gravity,» «Her,» «Snowpiercer,» «Ex Machina» and «Mad Max: Fury Road» is noteworthy.

Gillan's coast - to - coast move coincides with major career milestones in a year in which she's already starred in «Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,» a December release that blossomed into one of the year's biggest box office successes, flexing comedic chops alongside costars Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black — only she did it all backwards and in abbreviated short - shorts.

Even with the box office success of «Deadpool,» the sequel's writers say a big budget isn't necessary for the Cable team - up.

Then, in 1984, Zemeckis landed his first big box - office success with «Romancing the Stone,» giving him enough clout to make any movie he wanted; «Back to the Future's» timing was finally right.

Ultimately though, the goal for this film may be merely be a healthy portion of the late summer box office, with any awards success the icing on the cake.

This heist film with a sensational cast, such as Edward Norton, Seth Green (who, ironically, was Vince and E's nemesis in Entourage) and rapper turned actor Mos Def was both a box office and critical success, doing even better than its theater run with DVD sales.

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.

Sharing the honour with the likes of Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac and Lupita Nyong «o, the film is, no doubt, set to be a huge box office success.

Having gone from one of the few actors in Hollywood whose association with a film would guarantee it box office success to being in a string of high - profile disasters, Arnold Schwarzenegger's career (political and thespian) needed a shot in the arm, and what better way than by resurrecting his most popular character for one more outing.

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.

««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.

Its success has given the U.S. box office a major lift, with 2018 grosses up 7.3 % to $ 1.64 billion as of Feb. 19, according to comScore.

With artificial intelligence thriller Ex Machina proving a big success at the box office both here and across the pond, writer / director Alex Garland has plenty of momentum for whatever he wants to make next.

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.

In addition to the success of the original film, looming over the Merc with a Mouth's second big screen adventure was Marvel Studios» Avengers: Infinity War, which has dominated the box office since its late April, having grossed just more than $ 1.8 billion in global ticket sales to date.

So, with a practical effect driven reboot that pays homage to its predecessor at every turn while still creating its own identity, Evil Dead became a big box office success upon release on April 5, 2013.

For one, if there was ever any doubt that Sandra Bullock was going to be in the mix for «Gravity,» that's been disposed of with the film's monster box office and critical success.

The 2016 box office has been abundant with success.

Alec — who is set to co-host next year's Academy Awards with Steve Martin — also claims his movie career has been a flop because he hasn't been a huge box - office success.

Roberto Benigni — With La Vita é bella Benigni undermines an insurmountable wall for European Cinema, or at least non-English-speaking cinema, and I don't only mean its box - office success and omnipresence at the Oscars.

With the box office success that has followed The Mask, Dumb And Dumber, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty and Yes Man an obvious indicator of his amusing infamy, it comes as no surprise that these roles take pride of place on his resume.

With indigenous stories in the midst of a cinematic renaissance started by the international applause and box office success of Samson And Delilah and continued by Mad Bastards and Here I Am, Ivan Sen's third feature Toomelah (after Beneath Clouds and Dreamland) traverses familiar territory.

The road to box office success for movies based off of video games is potholed and strewn with broken down, bombed out carcasses (remember BloodRayne and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale?).

But then adult animation has never really been good box office material and with the recent successes of the older generation of actors reprising their iconic roles I don't see why they don't try that.

According to Box Office Mojo, Ant - Man has grossed $ 500,628,768 worldwide, with the final push coming from its success in China, where it has earned nearly $ 100 million in just under two weeks.

In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.

And Good Deed Entertainment, which found surprising box office success and an Oscar nom with last year's Loving Vincent is heading out this weekend with musical - drama American Folk.

Thanks to the cult popularity of the former, the box office success of the latter, and the critical acclaim of both, Black is back behind the camera (and the keyboard) with The Nice Guys.