Sentences with phrase «film boxes it up»

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The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first time in a decade.

Now, with 10 days on screen, it appears director Christopher Nolan's final entry in his three - film Batman epic won't live up to early box office hopes.

The first superhero blockbuster film of 2018 is gearing up for a huge box - office opening this weekend.

As U.S. box - office receipts decline, some Chinese investors and U.S. media execs are pairing up to make big bets on China's film industry.»

All of the films also have the unenviable task of going up against Croods 2 — an animated film that features the voice of box office competition - crusher Nic Cage...

Hollywood's biggest names, from box office superstars to indie film up - and - comers, were delighted to discover their own box of hand - crafted John Kelly Chocolates tucked inside the coveted «swag bags» they received at an exclusive pre-Oscar gifting suite at L'Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills this year.

The Natural Products Expo client services team also advises bringing extra packing tape to close up the boxes you're shipping back, plus stretch wrap film and a wide black marker.

For the bread — wrap it up well in cling film and pop into an air - sealed box.

Whether you're stuck on the hamster wheel of first dates or running out of good films to see with your significant other, sometimes the best thing to do to shake up your love life is to go to an out - of - the - box date spot.

Adam Sandler struggled with «Grown Ups,» though that film's box office returns suggested that the moviegoing masses did not mind.

It's all presented in a very over-the-top fashion, and with the exception of the fantastic look and sound of the film, it's quite astonishing people ate this up so readily at the box office and came back for more.

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 when the films about men are box office flops (e.g. Silence, Steve Jobs), I bet no one blames the men for not showing up to support their man - movies.

Following a substantial role in the independent romantic comedy Better Than Chocolate (1999), Crewson seemed to be on the verge of adding another hit to her resumé as one of Robin Williams» original owners in the fantasy Bicentennial Man (1999), but the film failed to live up to box - office expectations.

The film finished production almost two years ago and to avoid what was seen as a box office risk, the company ended up selling the rights internationally to Netflix, who will debut it just weeks after the US release.

Take away the three films from Music Box's new genre film label Doppelgänger Releasing, and that Metascore average jumps up to 71.4.

But last year, that average shot up 14 points, and Strand collected nearly 80 % more in box office receipts than it did in 2010, despite continuing to release mostly obscure films.

And so we're tweaking our «Best of the 21st Century» formula (check out our Horror Films, Animated and Music Documentary features) to look instead at the top - grossing films of the century to date, and seeing how, in this season of bottom lines and billions and box office bombs, the 25 reigning champions of the century stack up against each other in terms of quality.

Pushing a message as frothy as this one with points scored along political lines and with an almost complete lack of syrupy sentimentality to gum up the works, the film's inevitable box - office victory (penguins are more of a sure thing nowadays than Harry Potter) is cause for celebration, in no small part because Miller is one of the few directors who deserves the freedom to do whatever the hell he wants.

Film4 has developed and co-financed many of the most successful UK films of recent years, Academy Award ® - winners such as Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, Lenny Abrahamson's Room, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Asif Kapadia's box office record breaking documentary Amy and Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, in addition to critically - acclaimed award - winners such as Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner, Chris Morris's Four Lions, Shane Meadows» This is England, Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin and David Mackenzie's Starred Up.

The Paul King - directed film, a follow - up to 2014's box office smash, has scored 168 «fresh» reviews, without a single «rotten».

(Oddly, one joke that is given time to breathe — and one of the film's few visual gags — is the bit featured in the trailer where Barinholz gets Poehler's music box stuck up his butt; it works better in the movie than in the trailer, but it's still a juvenile choice for a centerpiece.)

Gru, his girls and his vast army of minions return in Despicable Me 2, the follow - up to the blockbuster 3D CGI feature that grossed more than $ 540 million at the worldwide box office and became the tenth biggest animated film in domestic history.

For one thing, the recent track record of these late summer dramas is decidedly mixed - while The Help indeed connected with Oscar, Lee Daniels» The Butler's summer box office went unrecognized by the Academy, and it is the latter film that Get On Up seems to resemble more, what with it being a biopic that attempts to tell the entire life story of its subject, which, as discussed in the previous installment in regards to Unbroken, is a questionable proposition with today's Academy.

Female driven films used to drive the box office, and those films, in turn, often showed up in the Best Picture race.

What I'm not so fond of is the cop - out ultimately taken by the filmmakers, who can't seem to follow through on their promisingly metaphysical premise (let alone the theme of obsessive love), electing instead to eliminate all ambiguity — now would be the time to dig up that gift - wrapped box I told you about earlier — which reduces the film, in the end, to little more than a cheap, if rather expensive - looking, joke.

Part of that is surely the demands of early sound recording, which was recorded directly on film with noisy cameras that were boxed up to blimp the sound.

The latest film, Black Panther, ended up being one of the most successful Superhero Debut movie of all time and generated record box office gross worldwide surpassing even Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

«Labyrinth» has the edge because the box - office is surprisingly strong for a subtitled film and because it is up for six Oscars, a sure sign that academy members really like it.

But with the financial message sent at the box office, it appears that we will be forced to watch at least another mess of a film before they hopefully give up on them.

A prequel to the genre mash - up «Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame,» Hark's film is billed on its back cover box as «the Sherlock Holmes of 7th century China,» which is a good if ultimately rather reductive shorthand.

Finally, The Theory of Everything held up well enough for releasing company Focus Features, bringing in an estimated $ 2.5 million at the box office over the weekend, enough to gain a marginal profit against a $ 15 million budget... and still ahead of the critically acclaimed Wild, the Reese Witherspoon - starring film based on the memoir of Cheryl Strayed, which picked up a few theaters and some revenue in the form of an estimated $ 1.6 million.

The film rung up $ 1 billion in box - office receipts in a mere 11 days, the fastest of any film in cinema history; it's the 34th...

Brave is enjoying its time in the limelight, racking up over $ 66 million last weekend and gearing up for a box office battle with Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike, which may be another good film from the famed director, but I hardly think families will be viewing the stripper - focused film together.

Made for $ 40m, the film ended up losing $ 10m at the box office but went on to have a second life on home video and DVD.

But with a $ 120 million budget, the profitability of «Rampage» is still up in the air, as box office analysts who spoke with TheWrap agree that the film likely has just two weekends to make its money before Marvel's «Avengers: Infinity War» gobbles up screens and consumers.

Back in 2014, Transformers: Age of Extinction was roundly trashed by critics but the film ended up being the only release to pass $ 1 billion at the box office that year.

After an update on Twitter from Box Office Mojo said the film would be released in 3D, people began worrying about a terrible, hasty 3D conversion akin to the atrocities committed in the moving pop - up book of Clash of the Titans or The Last Airbender.

So after those films were dropped for the Music Box run, «what we ended up with was a disproportional emphasis on the»70s.»

With five Oscars under its belt, legions of devoted fans including those prone to dressing up and singing along, and having taken so much box - office cash that it is in the top 10 highest - grossing films of all time, The Sound of Music is comfortably, and indisputably, a resounding hit.

After a couple of slow weekends, the specialty box office perked up with the release of a couple of anticipated titles, though not all of the luster was concentrated in films with marquis names attached.

A James Cameron film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't typically the kind of title that ends up at the Specialty box office, but a restored 3D version going out in several hundred theaters via a distributor that typically handles French titles in the U.S. makes for interesting bedfellows.

Other films reviewed include Bite, Tale of Tales and Phantom of the Theater, and the show wraps up with bold box office predictions and the world - famous home cinema round - up!

Zhang and Gong broke up; Gong tried Hollywood («Chinese Box,» «Miami Vice») and worked with Wong Kar - wai; Zhang turned to Zhang Ziyi for his films; and the Chinese film market has undergone a sea change.

Other highlights in this strand include: the World Premiere of Thierry Poiraud's DO N'T GROW UP, a stylish and inventive film about a group of teens on an unnamed island who wake up to find their youth facility eerily abandoned; the World Premiere of Jon Spira's affectionate documentary ELSTREE 1976 about the bit performers who appeared in George Lucas» box office behemoth Star Wars; GHOST THEATER, the latest film from director Hideo Nakata, the forerunner of J - horror; GREEN ROOM, Jeremy Saulnier's latest exercise in edge of the seat suspense, starring Patrick Stewart, Imogen Poots and Anton Yelchin; returning for the third year running, Sion Sono screens LOVE AND PEACE, his tale of punk rock and talking turtles; and the fantastically prolific Takashi Miike's riotous, unruly gangster vampire concoction YAKUZA APOCALYPSUP, a stylish and inventive film about a group of teens on an unnamed island who wake up to find their youth facility eerily abandoned; the World Premiere of Jon Spira's affectionate documentary ELSTREE 1976 about the bit performers who appeared in George Lucas» box office behemoth Star Wars; GHOST THEATER, the latest film from director Hideo Nakata, the forerunner of J - horror; GREEN ROOM, Jeremy Saulnier's latest exercise in edge of the seat suspense, starring Patrick Stewart, Imogen Poots and Anton Yelchin; returning for the third year running, Sion Sono screens LOVE AND PEACE, his tale of punk rock and talking turtles; and the fantastically prolific Takashi Miike's riotous, unruly gangster vampire concoction YAKUZA APOCALYPSup to find their youth facility eerily abandoned; the World Premiere of Jon Spira's affectionate documentary ELSTREE 1976 about the bit performers who appeared in George Lucas» box office behemoth Star Wars; GHOST THEATER, the latest film from director Hideo Nakata, the forerunner of J - horror; GREEN ROOM, Jeremy Saulnier's latest exercise in edge of the seat suspense, starring Patrick Stewart, Imogen Poots and Anton Yelchin; returning for the third year running, Sion Sono screens LOVE AND PEACE, his tale of punk rock and talking turtles; and the fantastically prolific Takashi Miike's riotous, unruly gangster vampire concoction YAKUZA APOCALYPSE.

Even Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson is excited for this movie to be a box office bonanza, though it will mean giving up his record to a new highest - grossing MCU origin film.

It's almost a cliche at this point to mention that the films the end up on critical best lists (whether print critics or bloggers), the films that end up the year's box office champions, and the films nominated for Oscars are pretty much three different groups of films.

The Georgia - filmed movie, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, put up a huge weekend on top of a huge holiday week and finishes out the year with around $ 185 million at the box office on only a $ 90 million production budget.

Director Chris Renaud (who co-directed Despicable Me and its sequel) and Yarrow Cheney (who served as a production designer on both films) helmed this new animated film that could clean up at the box office this weekend.

August: Osage County and Philomena weren't expected to show up [here], but Fruitvale Station and Lee Daniels» The Butler seem like natural fits for the producers to acknowledge, what with one being a breakout film with real world political heft, and the other a surprise box office smash that took A LOT of producer wrangling to get financed and made.