Sentences with phrase «box office successes like»

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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.

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.

Neither his metaphorical, poetic style nor his theological probing is the stuff that Hollywood likes to shape into box - office successes.

Perhaps its unexpected box office success can be attributed in part to the popular reaction against an entertainment industry whose laser - like concentration is on big - budget franchise and sequel films.

Its box - office success was even greater than Saturday Night Fever's, becoming a perennial fan favorite and, like its predecessor, spawning a massively popular soundtrack LP.

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

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Much like its loveable CGI star, Paddington 2 has proved to be that rarest of creatures, a sequel that surpasses the original, and now it's replicating the critical success at the box office.

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.

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.

But it looks like many of those women directors simply aren't getting opportunities to make meaningful mainstream movies, even after scoring significant critical and box - office success.

Seems like it was only yesterday that I was scoffing at the chances of «300» conquering the box office and trumpeting the surefire success of «Redline.»

While the box office success is certainly welcome news to Marvel executives, past superhero missteps like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad reveal that films can both me lucrative and poorly received by critics and audiences.

Unlike the War in Iraq / Afghanistan, WWII seems to dominate the box office like no other period of worldly conflict, so it shouldn't be too difficult for Jolie's film to find success, especially given the fact that distributing studio Universal has had a consistent outpour of hits since 2012's Les Misérables.

Combined with the success of films like «Game Night» ($ 104 million) and «A Bad Mom's Christmas» ($ 130 million), raunchy comedies may be making a slow recovery at the box office after a 2017 that saw most of them flame out.

For the most part, the movies still suck, but following the box office success of films like «Taken» and «Ride Along,» the studios seem more willing to give higher - profile titles a chance to perform against the weaker competition.

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.

The report says that Hollywood is at a tipping point with both the Time's Up and #MeToo movements and the huge box office successes of films like «Black Panther» and «Wonder Woman.»

Many would be familiar with the 1982 movie which was only a modest success at the box - office but later developed a cult - like following.

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).

Jennifer Lawrence has made great strides in attempting to transform from the box office bombshell behind the success of films like The Hunger Games series, and the odd critical success of Silver Linings Playbook or Joy, into a legitimate, respected thespian, and with her most recent leading role in her then - paramour, Darren Aronofsky's mother!

Jennifer Lawrence has made great strides in attempting to transform from the box office bombshell behind the success of films like The Hunger Games series, and the odd critical success of Silver Linings Playbook or Joy, into a legitimate, respected...

It also feels like a perfect film for the times: the US box office successes of both Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty are indicative of a period in which Americans are much more reflective and self - critical than is customary; aside from its homage to the country's most revered president, Spielberg's film is a reminder of the enduring battle between American idealism and bigotry, and between its White House and Congress.

Murphy would try a couple of R - rated excursions with his misfire follow - ups, Vampire in Brooklyn and Metro, but would achieve box office success only by putting his newfound love of slapstick and silliness in more family friendly fare like The Nutty Professor and Doctor Dolittle.

Grossing over $ 1.3 billion at the box office, it was a balance — like most big - budgeted Disney films — that proved to be a success.

Like Wonder Woman (and Deadpool last year), it's a box office success from a comic book genre that is actually one of the best reviewed films of the year.

While Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past may have great success at the box office (like most superhero films these days), fans may have a few things to say to the director when all is said and done.

After a few rough weeks at the box office where nearly everything not named The Jungle Book (movies like The Huntsman: Winter's War and Mother's Day) failed to click with viewers, medications the new month offers a few movies that offer great potential for runaway success.

The company says it will begin to invest in films so it can share in their success beyond the box office, including on other platforms like streaming, DVD, and on - demand.