Sentences with phrase «film tops a year»

The film topped this year's «Sight and Sound» poll of international critics.

The «Star Wars» film tops a year that included the breakout success of Patty Jenkins» rousing «Wonder Woman,» which featured an entire island of wise and mighty Amazons, and offered such confident combatants as Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) in «Thor: Ragnarok.»

Not exact matches

Among the top five films of 2016 was The Jungle Book, a remake of a 49 - year - old movie.

In fact, half of the top 10 grossing films of the year came from Walt Disney Studios — which hauled in $ 3 billion in domestic box office, Disney reported.

In 2003, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King became the rare popcorn event film to achieve mass appeal, earning $ 377 million in its theatrical run, and also emerge with the year's top Oscar honor.

«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

«Homecoming» may be the sixth Spider - Man movie from Sony in 15 years, but it's by far one of the top two films in the entire franchise.

The same year he was filmed using the n - word in footage that didn't air on Top Gear, and yet kept his job.

Last year, women comprised a meager 7 percent of directors for the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & Film.

Still, while Guardians of the Galaxy has vaulted past its summer of 2014 competition, the movie is still barely inside the top 20 grossing Disney films of all - time and it entered Labor Day weekend slightly behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier for the company's (and the industry's) best - performing film of the year.

Fifty Shades of Grey dominated this year's Razzies, taking home five top prizes at the annual award ceremony that recognizes the worst in film.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

That puts the Sony Pictures film on pace to swing to a $ 120 million opening, short of the record - breaking $ 151 million debut of 2007's Spider - Man 3 but according to Variety topping even the sunniest expectations for the film, which stars 21 - year - old actor Tom Holland in the title role.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

Last year, worldwide sales of Wonder Woman topped $ 821 million, making it the highest - grossing superhero origin film of all time.

In fact, the last time a year's highest - grossing film also took home the Best Picture Oscar was in 2003, when the top film was The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which raked in more than $ 500 million in adjusted domestic sales.

The blockbuster flop John Carter cost the company $ 200 million in 2012, but two months later came the year's top - grossing film, The Avengers.

Female leads comprised 24 % of protagonists in the 100 top domestic grossing films last year — five percentage points fewer than in 2016.

Many of the top - grossing films of this year have earned a significant percentage of their revenues from China.

«It's kind of an unusual year - almost all of the top films have relatively little explicit religious dimensions to them,» said Brent Plate, a writer who teaches religious studies at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.

Following the earnestly simple motto of «sharing the films we love with widest audience possible,» Drafthouse Films debuted in 2010 with the theatrical release of Four Lions, which was named of Time Magazine's «Top 10 Films Of The Year.»

For more than 30 years, Busy Bees Co-Packing has specialized in contract packaging services, such as shrink wrapping (clear and printed film), end - load and top - load cartoning, blister pack sealing, skin packaging, assembly, gluing, variety pack fulfilment, labeling, and many more.

Retired NFL defensive end Stephen White heads to the film room to evaluate some of the top prospects in this year's draft.

And the precedents of Ronaldo's own path to the top — this is a man with his own feature film, his own museum, his own range of footwear — suggests that he isn't planning on becoming a bit - part player any time over the next five to 10 years.

Typically film studios won't release their top films until late in the calendar year so the film will be fresh in the heads of both critics and voters.

Yoenis Cespedes is a fine replacement for Torii Hunter, David Price is one of the only pitchers who could replace Max Scherzer at the top of a rotation, and Anthony Gose's talent would probably play Austin Jackson's talent in a film adaptation, so it's not as if they're that much different from last year's.

That's what Jurek has been doing for years, and it's what the film says had a huge part in his ability to refuel and press on through the rain and wind and eventually reach the top of Mount Katahdin.

Sections may include who won the World Series and other sports championships as well as a cost of living comparison — who knew a carton of milk was only $ 1.20 in 1985 — films that came out the same year they were married and chart topping songs of the year.

The Tory veteran was filmed earlier this year making disobliging comments about four top Tories, apparently unaware that the camera was rolling.

Cuomo's added commitments are topped off by the extension of $ 420 million a year in state tax credits for film and TV production — the most generous giveaway of its kind in the country.

Violent content was compared with that from the two top - grossing films for adults released in the same year as each of the cartoons, excluding those tagged as «action» or «adventure,» because these are often marketed to children.

In recent years, the lab has developed and expanded upon its method to make graphene foam by using a commercial laser to transform the top layer of an inexpensive polymer film.

Perth - born Gemma Ward, one of the top models of the 2000s, who subsequently took a 6 - year hiatus, has made her long - awaited return first on the Prada catwalk and, then, in a major campaign (and accompanying film) for classic Australian brand, Country Road.

While I was overwhelmingly negative on the year's biggest film to date, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, I recognized that the top - shelf effects and the 3D were perfect for the material.

Valletta's roles — given the actress» off - camera motherhood and intermittent magazine work — accumulated slowly over the next several years (in films such as the Nicolas Cage holiday vehicle The Family Man and the Danny DeVito - directed black comedy Duplex); as a result, Valletta only ascended gradually to top billing.

Scott notes that the film was originally set in Italy, years ago (it was supposed to be his second (instead, he made Top Gun).

The film, directed by John Lee Hancock, won AFI's 2014 «Movie of the Year» Award and was recognized by the National Board of Review in their «Top 10 Films» and chronicles the true story of the development of the 1964 Walt Disney film Mary Poppins.

Outstanding filming and narration from friends, coworkers, put this movie into the top 10 of the year for me.

Like two of the year's other standout American films, Kelly Reichardt's «Old Joy» and Ryan Fleck's «Half Nelson,» it's a movie of ideas in which the ideas flow effortlessly out of the material instead of being plastered on top with a heavy cement roller (as in «Crash,» «Babel» and «Little Children»).

Their new film, «Tully,» brings the trio back in top form, creating one of the year's best films so far.

In just its second full year of operation, the New York - based A24 managed to release 11 films, with one (Under the Skin) landing on quite a few critic top - 10 lists, and two others (the Tom Hardy - starring Locke and the just - released A Most Violent Year) also greatly impressing reviewyear of operation, the New York - based A24 managed to release 11 films, with one (Under the Skin) landing on quite a few critic top - 10 lists, and two others (the Tom Hardy - starring Locke and the just - released A Most Violent Year) also greatly impressing reviewYear) also greatly impressing reviewers.

But can you please expand it to show the top 30 films, like you've done for previous years?

Below, we collect every year - end Top Ten list published by major film critics and publications.

Below is our updated running tally of the films most frequently mentioned by individual critics on the year - end Top Ten lists.

The film, which won the top prize this year at the Director's Fortnight sidebar, is primarily concerned with the body and brain of Brady (Brady Jandreau) a rising rodeo champ whose career is cut short by a major head injury.

The documentary - first distributor improved the quality of its output in 2014 compared to the prior year, and cracked the top 10 in our rankings despite having just one «great» film: the art doc (or is it a «rockumentary»?)

Another arthouse staple that regularly appears near the top of our annual rankings, Kino Lorber had its best year in recent memory in 2015, achieving a nearly 90 % success rate — and a year - leading total of five separate titles scoring 81 or higher — despite an ambitious 27 - film release slate.

Recalling John Milius» 1982 hit Conan the Barbarian (another film that launched the cinematic action career of a then - little - known athlete named Arnold Schwarzenegger), the sword - and - sandal adventure raked in 36 million dollars on its opening weekend and stayed at the top of the box office in the weeks following its impressive debut.Though he would return to the ring for the remainder of 2002, it didn't take Johnson long to soften on the prospect of a return to the silver screen — and with the following year's The Rundown, he did just that.

Though Con Air was a disappointment from a critical perspective, it was the top box - office action film of the year and audiences thrilled to the kinetic action sequences that also cemented Nicolas Cage's abilities as a viable action star (following on the heels of Bay's previous mega-hit The Rock [1996]-RRB-.

Four years after setting box - office records with «Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid», actors Paul Newman and Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill re-teamed with bigger commercial success with «The Sting» which became one of the top ten highest grossing films of 1973.