Sentences with phrase «box office successes as»

After decades of abrasive stand - up comedy, acting roles in both teenage - beach - girl and serious movies, and contributing to making the «Toy Story» films huge box office successes as Mr. Potato Head, Don Rickles left the world stage at the age of 90 when he passed away suddenly at his home in Los Angeles.

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Its success at the box office, many people are going to see that as a tribute to Paul Walker and what he brought to the franchise.»

The success of Guardians, no matter how relative, has helped Disney settle into second - place, behind Fox, in the summer box - office race as the company's five summer films have made a total of $ 624.6 million, at an average of almost $ 125 million per film.

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).

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.

After critical success during the first 15 years of his career, Scorsese found the industry pivoting as tent - pole franchises like Indiana Jones and Star Wars set box - office records and turned Steven Spielberg and George Lucas into household names.

Black Panther was not a guaranteed success, but as reception came back positive and box - office estimates speculated nine - digit figures, people began to assume it would make a lot of money.

Actually, I don't view success at the Box Office as «the» measure for «Truth,» rather, as an indicator of people's high interest in the subject matter, hence spirituality.

The movie, while only a modest box - office success, garnered impressive reviews from mainstream movie critics as well as an impressive 77 % on Rotten Tomatoes4 and a four and a half star rating on Amazon5, where the movie remains available for viewing.

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.

Even if «Gravity» did not win big at the Oscars it would have been easy to call the film a success, in part due to its box office take as well as furthering awareness of space exploration and helping foster curiosity about NASA and their programs.

More often than not, the undeniably talented comic actor's hits (Billy Madison, Big Daddy, The Longest Yard, Click ad nauseum) personify him not only as an arrested adolescent but a perpetually (and psychotically) angry one; the box office success of movies as unpleasant as those reveals things about their fans that I'm not sure I want to know.

And Gordon's got Jeffrey Combs in one of the great comedic performances (undoubtedly so, as Jim Carrey aped Combs in most of his films to box office success) but he's also got a very difficult role for David Gale.

Sheen's next major success was also a comedy, the 1991 military - film satire Hot Shots, and while box - office blockbusters tended to elude him, Sheen worked steadily over the next several years, and racked up a respectable number of box - office successes.By this time, Sheen had developed a reputation as a hard - living star who spoke his mind regardless of the consequences, but his fun - loving image began to take on a darker hue in the mid -»90s.

But, as his projects grew bigger and more ambitious, the results seemed to grow less interesting, and in the 70s, he was badly in need of a box - office success - which he didn't find.

Despite writing the book and screenplay of «Fast Times At Ridgemont High» (1982), the film that established the parameters of»80s teen movies; despite establishing or redefining a host of contemporary film stars; despite major box office success, despite an Oscar, despite his role as a pop music shaman — there's little written about Crowe's work as a writer and director.

If major US studios think they can churn out substandard films, using product - placement to cover the cost of scatter - shot television advertising as a route to box office success, then they, like the Spartans themselves, are doomed.

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.

It's the personal project director William Friedkin chose to make after the runaway successes of «The French Connection» and «The Exorcist,» and its soaring costs and box office demise — buried under the release of «Star Wars» — more or less ended his career as an A-list director.

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.

Whether you're looking at contemporary cinema or the classics, the Tomatometer can serve as shorthand for a film's critical reception, if not its box office success.

««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.

The Revenant, while it may still be rocking the box office, also missed an opportunity here to claim its post as frontrunner after its hefty nomination tally and Globes success.

The sleek and stylized «Atomic Blonde» enthrallingly continues Theron's success in the action genre, after she starred in such noteworthy entries as the 2015 Oscar - winner, «Mad Max: Fury Road,» and this spring's box - office hit, «The Fate of the Furious.»

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Piggybacking on the success of Public Enemies, released only a few weeks earlier, G.I. Joe was Tatum's first bona fide box - office smash as a leading man.

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.

So, while Derrickson's superhero epic is unlikely to go down as the MCU's biggest box office success, it's a sizable hit all the same.

Kevin Hart has proven himself quite the master of the genre, given the success of such box - office hits as The Wedding Ringer, Get Hard and Ride Along 1 and 2, to name a few.

What makes «Year of the Rat» so vital is how, incidentally or not, it goes from denouncing the auteur theory (through not only the typically insecure observations of actors, but also the deflective statements of Morgan and long - time creative partner Wong) to validating it: In a coda, we see that the movie's poor box - office showing has shaken Morgan and only Morgan to the core; call filmmaking a «collaborative effort» to your heart's content, but as William Shatner, of all people, opines on the recent Star Trek V discs, at the end of the day no one on the set has as much emotionally invested in the picture's success as the person at its helm.

As predicted, February brought the box office success of Fifty Shades of Grey, and Kingsman: The Secret Service managed to win over both critics and audiences alike (read our review).

The truth is that «Slumdog» would likely be a BAFTA favourite even if it weren't primed for Oscar glory — a true British success story, from a popular but largely unsung hometown filmmaker, featuring a British lead actor from a high - profile Channel 4 TV drama, it's been a massive local box - office success, and has enjoyed nearly the same level of critical adulation here as in the States.

«The Fabulous Baker Boys» isn't the most scintillating screenplay, and its runaway box office success probably says more about the year it was released than the film itself, but it's a wonderfully sumptuous throwback to the grand glamour of old - school Hollywood — and none of its stars were ever quite as luminous, before or since.

As of this writing, the film has grossed almost $ 49 million at the domestic box office, an enormous success for an arthouse film, and the second highest gross of Anderson's career after The Royal Tenenbaums.

Mr. Gray points to «Ratatouille,» the animated comedy about a rat who aspires to be a chef, as one of the few movies of 2007 that was both a box - office and critical success.

In terms of box - office success, the movie world is see - sawing between sub-genres such as slasher, psychological, paranormal, teen, comedy - horror, found - footage and «torture porn».

While the nominated films are championed by various award bodies and critics alike, box office success rarely correlates with movies deemed as being «best picture» worthy.

Wilson's string of box office successes also include Little Fockers, the third installment of the blockbuster Fockers series, opposite Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro; Marley & Me, with Jennifer Aniston, based on the popular memoir by John Grogan; the Night At The Museum franchise opposite Robin Williams and Ben Stiller; the smash hit comedy Wedding Crashers, opposite Vince Vaughn; the romantic comedy You, Me And Dupree; and as the voice of Lightning McQueen in Disney's Cars and Cars 2.

A massive hit in China after smashing box office records to become the highest - grossing domestic film of all time, Jiang Wen's action comedy «Let the Bullets Fly» sadly didn't have as much success overseas.

«This is the perfect addition to our ongoing slate, giving us the ability to work on already existing franchises that have had such lucrative success at the box office, as well as a great starting ground to our newfound relationship,» stated TWC COO David Glasser.

However, Bad Moms earned $ 180 million at the worldwide box office on a budget of $ 20 million, positioning it as a resounding success for STX.

This is where I remind you, yet again, that Catherine Hardwicke excelled as the director of Twiight (the first film in the Twilight series) but as soon as Twilight became a box office success, control of The Twilight Saga was ripped away from Hardwicke and the FOUR additional films in the franchise were all helmed by male directors.

Upon its release in July, «Mr. Holmes» found success as a rare independent film that went up against the summer blockbusters and not only found critical acclaim, but also performed exceedingly well at the box office.

Phillips, who has made some interesting films in the past such as Old School, Starsky & Hutch and Due Date, has enjoyed enormous box - office success in the past few years with The Hangover, and also its sequel, The Hangover Part II, which suffered artistically from the fact that it was basically a reprise of the original film, only with the gags having worn off dramatically.

Literally an out of this world experience, the Ridley Scott directed The Martian came a long way from its start as a blog by author Andy Weir to having Matt Damon on board and a global box office success of more than $ 570 million.

«As Tears Go By» was a critical and box office success.

He'll make his full - on bid for crossover success with 2011's «Wolverine» sequel; in the meantime, «Black Swan» is Aronofsky's most box office - friendly effort to date, blending a trippy psychological thriller storyline with a marquee cast that includes Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis as dueling ballerinas — who just happen to make out.

Black Panther has been a runaway success at the box office and amongst the critics as the Marvel movie stuns audiences across the globe.

The idea is that box office success for a movie centered on a nonwhite superhero and cast could inspire Marvel to produce and create more movies like Black Panther in the future (the studio's previous 17 films have all featured white men as the superhero leads).

«Django» has stormed the holiday movie season on the back of promising early reaction as well as both the stellar box - office and critical reception from «Inglourious Basterds,» but as Tarantino explains in a new Playboy interview, he can predict the success waning.