Sentences with phrase «by box office returns»

Judging by the box office returns, I'm not alone.

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Ladd was later told by his local contacts that, in Japan, silence was the greatest honor to a film, and the subsequent strong box office returns confirmed its popularity.

«The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey» (2012) Box Office Take: $ 1,017 billion 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 16 Hard to recall, but there was a time we felt excited by the prospect of a return to Middle Earth under the guiding hand of Peter Jackson.

The 2010 box office hit Red was directed by Robert Schwentke, who spent this past summer enduring awful feedback for R.I.P.D. Instead, Red 2 was helmed by Dean Parisot — it proved to be a smooth changing of the guard, made easier by the fact that the same duo who wrote the first picture, Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, returned for this follow - up.

Picked up by CBS Films out of Toronto, «The F Word» may generate solid box office returns in limited release due to Radcliffe's star power and the commercial nature of its genre, but seems unlikely to have long - term theatrical prospects.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of transcendent filmmaking in the The Lost City of Z and A Ghost Story, it was the age of foolish Spider - Man remakes / reboots / regurgitations, it was the epoch of a magnificent enquiry into belief by the evergreen Martin Scorsese, it was the epoch of the incredulous return of Mel Gibson in a box office hit, it was the season of Michael Haneke shining a light on our uncaring societal malaise, it was the season of manifold more people watching Baywatch, it was the spring of Aki Kaurismäki's warm - hearted but politically pressing The Other Side of Hope, it was the winter of despair at the box office results of masterpieces like Certain Women, Aquarius and The Death of Louis XIV, we had Yorgos Lanthimos» Kubrickian masterpiece before us, we had a new Kingsman film before us, we were all going direct to cinematic Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

By Greg Hernandez HollywoodNews.com: It may have been nominated for a few Razzies and didn't break any box office records but I quite enjoyed «Burlesque» which was Christina Aguilera's film debut and Cher's return to films after a far too long hiatus.

Thanks to Fandango, we've got our first cast photo from the upcoming sequel Now You See Me: The Second Act, which features returning stars Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco and Michael Caine joined by new additions Lizzy Caplan (The Interview) and Daniel Radcliffe (Horns)... The follow - up to the 2013 box office hit -LSB-...]

Now, it is a fair question to ask why anyone who hates Edward Snowden would ever go see a film about him in the first place (especially a film about Edward Snowden directed by Oliver Stone) and sadly, the box office returns seem to indicate that even the whistleblower's partisans sat this one out.

Critics have not been impressed by the film and the crowded opening weekend box office returns have been kind of dismal, but that won't have been for any lack of effort on John Cusack's part.

And usually sequels are inspired by only one thing: box office returns.

Paramount has lagged behind the competition in box office returns and in creating the kind of global franchises that are prized by studios.

The 1996 stop - animation version, backed by the dynamic duo of producer Tim Burton and director Henry Selick (who previously teamed up for The Nightmare Before Christmas), remains a cult favorite amongst «90s kids despite a dismal box office return — it made less than $ 30 million in the U.S.

Driven largely by their nearly annual output of celebrated animated features, the company saw rises in box office returns, acclaim, awards, and stock price.

BIG NUMBER $ 277 million, the gross box - office returns worldwide for Blumhouse's Split, directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

Allied wasn't absolutely pilloried by other critics (our own Mr. Dowd gave it a totally fair B), but overall it earned decidedly mixed reviews and unremarkable box office returns upon its Thanksgiving release.

If you send your papers by certified mail, return receipt requested, your spouse must sign the receipt, even if the mail is delivered to a post office box.