Sentences with phrase «from success at the box office»

Aside from success at the box office, there was nothing about 2012's rather uneven fantasy Snow White and the Huntsman that screamed out for a sequel.

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CNN: Targeting «Les Miserables» to Christians pays off at the box office In spite of tepid reviews from some film critics, «Les Miserables» is booming at the box office, and that financial success can in part be traced to a group of its biggest boosters: Christians, particularly evangelicals whom NBC Universal went after with a microtargeted marketing strategy.

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.

It was a minor success at the box office, but earned him praise from critics and a couple of Golden Globe nominations for Grier and Jackson.

What makes «Year of the Rat» so vital is how, incidentally or not, it goes from denouncing the auteur theory (through not only the typically insecure observations of actors, but also the deflective statements of Morgan and long - time creative partner Wong) to validating it: In a coda, we see that the movie's poor box - office showing has shaken Morgan and only Morgan to the core; call filmmaking a «collaborative effort» to your heart's content, but as William Shatner, of all people, opines on the recent Star Trek V discs, at the end of the day no one on the set has as much emotionally invested in the picture's success as the person at its helm.

Aside from their awards success, the modestly budgeted «Shape of Water» and «Three Billboards» have done well at the box office.

Even the childless and animation - adverse have a heartwarming success story to celebrate on this unusually optimistic weekend at the movies: Lady Bird, which dropped from No. 8 to No. 11 this week, nevertheless adding a healthy additional $ 4 million to its $ 10 million - and - counting domestic box - office haul.

With all of the good movies from 2007, Death Sentence is low on the list of success both critically and at the box office.

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu has never had much box office success (Best Picture nominee Babel is his only film to break $ 20 million domestically), but that hasn't prevented every movie of his from getting at least one major Oscar nomination.

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.