Sentences with phrase «grossing film of the year»

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.

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

The most recent film in the Fast and the Furious franchise, for example, grossed $ 1.2 billion worldwide, making it the second - highest grossing film of the year.

Renoir never worked for Zanuck again; although Swamp Water was one of the top - grossing films of the year, he was bitter about it and should be.

It was a huge hit and spawned, inevitably, a sequel, «Kung Fu Panda 2,» which debuted at Cannes and is, thus far, the No. 1 animated film, and the 12th highest - grossing film of this year.

The Empire Strikes Back was the highest - grossing film of the year; Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate was met with devastating financial and critical failure, to the extent that United Artists went bankrupt.

«Star Wars: The Last Jedi» — the eighth episode in the long - running space saga — overtook Disney's live - action remake of «Beauty and the Beast» on New Year's Eve to become the top - grossing film of the year in the United States and Canada.

The Japanese - language version of «The Wind Rises» was released in July and has been a major hit in Japan, where it has grossed $ 120 million and is the highest - grossing film of the year so far.

Its $ 1 - 2 million box office is dwarfed by its co-nominee «Toy Story 3,» the top - grossing film of the year.

If there was any doubt to the validity of Disney's goal to make non-family movies, 1987's numbers removed it as Disney's top four films again hailed under the Touchstone name and included the first and fourth top - grossing films of the year in holiday season releases Three Men and a Baby and Good Morning, Vietnam, each earning well over $ 100 million and easily deserving classification as a «blockbuster.»

The film is already the biggest movie of the summer, recently passing «Transformers: Age of Extinction,» and is on track to become the top grossing film of the year.

Disney has big expectations for its live - action remake of Beauty and the Beast following the success of last year's version of The Jungle Book which, by the end of 2016, sat high in the top ten highest grossing films of the year.

He also is the co-host of the podcast «The People vs Oscar,» where he pits the Best Picture winner and highest grossing film of each year against each other («Snow White» vs «The Life of Emile Zola» anyone?).

The next year he'd star in Three Men and a Baby, the top - grossing film of the year, in addition to Police Academy 4, and the year before he starred in the critical and commercial hit Cocoon, where his costars were people like Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, not the guy who makes all the crazy noises with his mouth.

The current trend dates back only to the fall of 2000, when the enjoyable Jerry Bruckheimer production Remember the Titans became the studio's second highest grossing film of the year.

Suicide Squad is now the eighth highest grossing film of the year.

Beginning with the moneymakers, the highest grossing film of the year so far is Disney's live - action adaptation of «Beauty and the Beast.»

After a quick (and well - regarded) cameo in last year's utterly terrible Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Warner Bros. finally gave Wonder Woman her own movie, the smash hit from director Patty Jenkins that's currently the second highest grossing film of the year.

Not exact matches

«Jaws» became the highest grossing film of all time until «Star Wars» beat it out two years later.

Last year, with sales of $ 821 million, Wonder Woman became the highest grossing superhero origin film of all time.

Eight years after James Cameron «s Avatar premiered and became the highest - grossing film of all time, a theme park replicating the film's locale has opened at Walt Disney World.

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.

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.

It's worth noting that another Fox Searchlight film, Birdman, was among the lowest - grossing Best Picture Oscar winners of all - time, but it went on to gross more than $ 100 million worldwide, while 12 Years a Slave (another slavery - themed period drama) grossed $ 187 million in global ticket sales, according to Box Office Mojo.

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

The Academy dubbed it the year's best movie, but it is still an indie film and — Oscar bump or not — it will fall well short of any blockbuster's box - office gross.

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.

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

What you need to know: Frozen remains one of Disney's (DIS) hottest properties more than a year after it became the highest - grossing animated film of all time.

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.

Surrounded by the 25 band members of The Tennessee Kids and featuring show - stopping performances from one of the highest - grossing tours of the decade, the film is a culmination of the singer's 134 shows and 2 years on the road.

The film did only a fraction of the business of, say, the previous year's Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, but it did earn a few favorable reviews even as it repulsed critics such as Roger Ebert.Thereafter, Fleming's career waxed extremely uneven from a critical standpoint, though his grosses remained generally favorable throughout and the projects kept rolling in.

And Disney could also claim four of the year's 10 highest - grossing films worldwide, led by first - place Iron Man 3, which collected over $ 1.2 billion globally.

Pixar's last two films — 2011's Cars 2 57 and last year's Brave 69 — were the lowest - scoring and (adjusting for inflation) lowest - grossing of the animation studio's impressive history.

While Lionsgate posted the year's highest - grossing film (domestically) in Catching Fire, that was one of only three positively reviewed films released by the studio in 2013.

Best animated film nominee The Croods, Fox's highest - grossing film last year (though with just $ 587 million worldwide, good for 11th place overall), was one of just two Oscar nominations for the studio (the other came for John Williams» Book Thief score).

2013 brought Variance its highest - grossing film to date in the form of Dave Grohl's music doc Sound City, which, in turn, gave the tiny but innovative distributor its best - ever year at the box office.

Disney also had four of the year's 10 highest - grossing films (in North America), including 2014's # 1 movie in Guardians of the Galaxy.

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.

Sony also had the lowest per - film average gross of the six major distributors in 2011, and its foreign box office growth (which includes a nice total for The Adventures of Tintin, for which Sony held the foreign distribution rights) didn't prevent the studio from finishing fifth in global market share for the second straight year.

Despite huge hits like the final Harry Potter film (2011's highest - grossing title) and, to a lesser extent, the second Hangover movie, Warner Bros. also experienced a surprisingly large number of flops last year.

As the production grew, the airline continued to fund it and gave it in - flight distribution long before its theatrical release; in spite of this, it was still the highest grossing film in Japan that year.

The Walk finished with a domestic gross of just $ 10.1 million, making it by far the biggest flop of Zemeckis» directing career (though much less costly than the mocap family film Mars Needs Moms that he produced) and one of the biggest financial disappointments of the year.

Sobering the proceedings is a look back to last Sundance, where The Big Sick went on to gross nearly $ 40 million last year, and Wind River right behind it at $ 34 million to be the top - grossing prestige films of 2017, with both coming out of this festival.

In 2013 Marvel Studios delivered # 1 openings for Marvel's Thor: The Dark World, which grossed over $ 640 million worldwide and Marvel's «Iron Man 3,» which grossed over $ 1.2 billon worldwide and was the highest grossing film of the calendar year.

The film even began to stir Best Picture talk on the occasion of # 2 below, and it's currently sitting pretty as the fifth - highest grossing film domestically on the year (though «Avatar» will eventually push it down to # 6, but still).

Grossing $ 90 million at the domestic box office (the equivalent of $ 228 M today), the film was the fourth biggest earner of 1983, trailing only Return of the Jedi, Terms of Endearment, and Flashdance, the latter two also part of a banner year at Paramount under the guidance of rising, Disney - bound Hollywood power players Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

For right now however, here's our ranking of the 25 highest - grossing films of the last 15 years: we know which films are the biggest of the century, but which are the best of the biggest?

This is one of the best openings for a foreign language film this year, a category that includes Music Box Films» The Innocents, which is currently approaching a $ 1 million U.S. gross.»