2017 did continue a now three - year trend of
the domestic box office hitting over $ 11 billion, three years in which a Star Wars film has topped the domestic box office every year.
News about the sequel shouldn't come as a surprise, given that the film just became Johnson's biggest
domestic box office hit of his career, surpassing «Furious 7.»
Not exact matches
Bakish is focused on turning around the business after years of falling
domestic ad revenues and poor ratings as younger viewers increasingly watch content online, while Paramount has suffered from a lack of
box -
office hits.
The story of a lovable alien stranded on earth, the movie was an immediate
hit, and it earned $ 435 million at the
domestic box office, the equivalent of $ 1 billion today.
And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide
box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros.
hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the top - earning studio at the
domestic box office for the year.
In the Best Picture race, the biggest
hits were the World War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales, good for 14th place on the
box office charts, and Jordan Peele's horror film «Get Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk» with $ 176 million in
domestic sales.
Courtesy of an unprecedented 15consecutive weeks at the apex of the
domestic charts and strong internationalappeal, the film became the leading
box office hit of all time.
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.
Look at «The Hangover», because the first film was so well liked the sequel became an even bigger
hit, but because the sequel was considered to be inferior by critics in general, the 3rd film really suffered and paid the price as it came nowhere near the previous films
domestic box office grosses.
The first Jumanji was a big
box office hit, grossing $ 100.4 million at the
domestic box office during its run.
In 2013, Ron Howard's Rush wasn't even able to break even at the
domestic box office, and went on to become more of a financial
hit overseas.
Peele won for his culturally defining
hit, Get Out, which made $ 176 million at the
domestic box office.
SNUB: «The Big Sick» The Amazon Studios release was a
hit with audiences, earning $ 43 million at the
domestic box office.
Pacific Rim
hit theaters in summer 2013 and grossed just $ 101 million at the
domestic box office but went on to take in over $ 400 million worldwide.
Subtract Dunkirk and Get Out — two pre-season
hits that elbowed their way into the awards line - up — and the year's remaining seven Best Picture nominees have been stuck at an average of about 4.5 million
domestic box -
office viewers each.
The
domestic total has
hit $ 113.5 million while the international
box office is at $ 118 million.
«Neighbors 2,» out on May 20, looks to join this illustrious club of R - Rated comedy
hits at the
domestic box office, something the first «Neighbors» was able to do.
Black Panther is still in theaters and is close to
hitting the $ 700 million mark at the
domestic box office.
Exhibit A: Trading on both a
hit book and an established director whose name is enough to give an entire generation the warm and fuzzies — not to mention the multitude of references to other dopamine - triggering nostalgic properties contained within — Ready Player One got the high score at the
domestic box office this weekend with $ 53.2 million.
New Line Cinema's sequel to the surprise 2013 horror
hit «The Conjuring» is set to dominate the weekend, even as it faces off against Universal's big - budgeted video game adaptation «Warcraft, which is expected to tank at the
domestic box office.
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.
The film has already been pulling in some decent cash overseas after
hitting plenty of international territories last weekend, and it's bound to have a good weekend at the
domestic box office as well.
While not one of the big
hits of summer, Schmucks just about met
box office expectations, narrowly clearing its $ 69 million budget with a $ 73 M
domestic gross.
Last summer Now You See Me, the movie about bank - robbing magicians, trucked to over $ 117 million at the
domestic box office, qualifying it as a sleeper
hit.
«Wonder Woman» has been a superheroic
hit for Warner Bros., ranking as the No. 2 movie of 2017 (after «Beauty and the Beast») and earning more than $ 410 million at the
domestic box office and in excess of $ 817 million worldwide.
On Wednesday night, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1
hit $ 333.2 million at the
domestic box office, making it the highest - grossing film of 2014 - yep, even higher than Guardians of the Galaxy.
First, at the
domestic box office, Black Panther's total has
hit $ 652.5 million which puts it ahead of Jurassic World ($ 652.3 million) to become the # 4 movie of all time.
This is the sequel to the 2016 comedy
hit Bad Moms, which earned $ 113.2 million at the
domestic box office.
On Wednesday night, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1
hit $ 333.2 million at the
domestic box office, making it the highest - grossing film of 2014 — yep, even higher than Guardians of the Galaxy.
The biggest worldwide
box office hit in the genre was «Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time,» with $ 335 million worldwide, and that's a film generally deemed to have been a flop («Lara Croft: Tomb Raider» is the biggest
domestic grosser, with $ 131 million).
A total
hit, but earned less at the
domestic box office and worse reviews (73 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) than the stellar first Iron Man — which is not what Marvel likes to see.