Sentences with phrase «by box office success»

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.

Studio revenue for the quarter increased 22 percent to $ 2.1 billion, powered by the box - office success of «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» and animated movie «Zootopia.»

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.

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).

Despite being panned by critics, the box - office success of Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice teaches us about engaging young men in spiritual,... More

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.

A group of Japanese scientists have surprised themselves by being able to predict the success or failure of blockbuster movies at the box office using a set of mathematical models.

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.

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.

Interesting to note is that although The Shape Of Water was dwarfed by Dunkirk and Get Out's box - office success, it's still the highest grossing Best Picture winner of the past five years.

Despite big box - office success and unexpected summer magic, no one thought Edgar Wright's heist film had the gas to make it to awards season — even the iPod wearing, street - dancing, mostly mute titular character played by Ansel Elgort.

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.

Video game movies are usually received poorly by critics and aren't exactly blockbusters when it comes to the box office but the success of the recent Tomb Raider movie shows that its possible to make a decent movie that's based on a video game franchise.

Blanchett concluded by suggesting the relative box office success of «Blue Jasmine» shows audiences are «interested in stories led by women, and they can also make money.»

Directed by Brian DePalma, the movie was a box - office success and earned star Sissy Spacek an Oscar nomination.

celebrated the box office success of «Avengers: Infinity War» by having Marvel's actors recite insults people tweeted at them

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.

Shawn Levy is not a director who shatters expectations; he mostly meets them, sometimes to winning effect (the two Night at the Museum movies) and almost always to box office success (Date Night, Cheaper by the Dozen).

Following the box - office success of John Wick: Chapter 2, which made around $ 170 million on a more than respectable $ 40 million budget, it was quickly announced by director Chad Stahelski that a third instalment was in the works.

«Heaven's Gate» (1980) Given carte blanche for time and budget after the success of «The Deer Hunter,» Cimino made an epic Western that became an unmitigated disaster at the box office and was widely panned by critics — until a full directors - cut restoration in recent years began to turn the tide in terms of its legacy.

Yet Cumberbatch's wide appeal isn't defined simply by traditional success indicators of critical acclaim and box office.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Box office aside, C.M.B.Y.N. seems perfectly on track to become an Oscar success story, following a path set by 2017's best - picture winner Moonlight.

Its success at the box office might be somewhat hampered by a PG - 13 rating, which could have probably been shaved down to PG, given that the film is mostly a «family - friendly» endeavor that only flirts with dark story moments.

Despite the fictional box office success of its movie star, Entourage sputtered in the real world, opening in fourth place and barely tripling that first weekend gross (the 47th worst put up by a 3,000 + theater release) en route to a front - loaded $ 32 million domestic and weak $ 12 million overseas.

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.

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.

These are the early favorites in a year lacking for major commercial hits; for the Academy, cultural impact is less and less defined by box - office success.

Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box office tracker comScore, said: «Marvel methodically created the perfect blueprint for the success of Avengers: Infinity War over the past year by delivering four great films in a row in the run up to this monumental weekend.

That movie was a success by pretty much any available metric: box office (an eye - popping $ 980 million worldwide), critical appraisal (89 percent approval on Rotten Tomatoes), and the countless millions of American children (two of whom reside in my house) who spent weeks singing the movie's anthem, «Let It Go» — a likely shoo - in for Best Song — from the moment they got up in the morning to the moment they were asleep at night.

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.

After the box office success of Angry Birds, a sequel — The Angry Birds Movie 2 — was announced by Sony Animation.

«You're gauged by the success of the franchise,» says box - office analyst Paul Degarabedian.

By all accounts, Doctor Strange should be Marvel's next success story, but in the event that it flops at the box office, star Benedict Cumberbatch has a back up plan in place - working at a comic book shop.

The company is projected to cross the $ 6 billion global box office threshold by the end of the day, nudged over the line by the success of Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

20th Century Fox is heading in a new direction that has been spearheaded by the success of past X-Men movies, but more recently the big box office and critical success of Logan and Deadpool, both R - rated and gritty.

That adaptation was a relatively modest success, having grossed $ 57 million at the box office, but it wasn't necessarily loved by critics.

, brooding music by Jerry Goldsmith (Oscar winner for The Omen) and it is not difficult to see why the movie has achieved both the cult status and box office success it did... a hit with both horror and sci - fi fans, it spawned three sequels: Aliens (in 1986), Alien 3 (1992) and Alien Resurrection (1997).

She wrote, directed and starred in three feature films, Sudden Manhattan, I'll Take You There and Waitress, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, was purchased hours later by Fox Searchlight Films, and went on to critical acclaim and box - office success.

The box office success of films such as Bringing Down The House, Cheaper By the Dozen 2, and Father Of The Bride Part II have established him as one of Hollywood's most popular comedic actors.

It was dumped initially by MGM because of its supposed «difficulty» but was subsequently the winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or and a box - office and critical success in the US.

This milestone marks the high point of an already exciting year for Virtuos, which has seen the company achieve a string of record - breaking successes, including: contributing art to 50 % of the top 10 best - selling games on XboxOne and Playstation 4; shipping XCOM Enemy Within for IOS, the third title developed in China to exceed the 85 % Metacritic Metascore * (the other two titles were also co-developed by Virtuos); and providing 3D models for Transformers: Age of Extinction, which has become China's top - grossing box office game of all time.

As the majority of critics will never have played an Uncharted game in their life, their reviews will undoubtedly be coloured by their memories of the good Dr. Jones (the closest cinematic analogue) which, combined with the almost universally negative perception of video game movie adaptations that already exists, could severely limit the film's box office success.

To determine exposure to smoking in films (Figure 1), we first counted occurrences of smoking in each of 601 popular contemporary films, selected according to box office success.6 Next, we estimated exposure to these films by asking whether the respondent had seen each of a set of 50 film titles, randomly selected from the larger pool.