Sentences with phrase «grossing films»

Of the 10 highest - grossing films of 2017, nine of them were a part of established movie series.

These totals will make The Last Jedi one of the highest - grossing films of all time both domestically and internationally.

The three highest - grossing films last year all centered female protagonists.

This political comedy about the exposing of corruption in Washington was among the top grossing films of 1939.

Dark Skies has the ignoble distinction of being one of the most expensive and lowest - grossing films of producer Jason Blum, a man whose recent credits are advertised in the marketing instead of the cast or director.

Despite the blockbuster success of «Wonder Woman» and other femme - led films, the number of female protagonists was down 5 percent in 2017's 100 top - grossing films, according to the latest edition of the annual «It's a Man's (Celluloid) World» report.

Only one of the 10 highest - grossing films of 2017 was not a remake, a sequel or part of an extended comic book universe.

In March, Avengers: Infinity War broke Black Panther's ticket pre-sale record — indicating Disney will soon own six of the top ten highest grossing films of all time.

With Black Panther's success, Disney now owns half of the top ten highest grossing films of all time, with Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($ 2.06 b) coming in third overall behind only James Cameron's Avatar ($ 2.78 b) and Cameron's Titanic ($ 2.18 b).

But in reviewing the 945 top - grossing films since 1950, the researchers behind the report for the American Academy of Pediatrics did identify several PG - 13 titles that had a noticeably higher level of violent acts per hour than other similarly rated movies.

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.

It will be one of the highest grossing films of all time with good reason.

And here, eight years later, Downey is one day away from the release of one of the year's most anticipated, likely highest - grossing films.

Packaged in a standard width black keepcase and housed in the all - important cardboard slipcover, Howl's deals three inserts: a double - sided scene selection list, a double - sided ad for the forthcoming DVD releases of Disney's two highest - grossing films of 2005, and a fold - open mini booklet promoting all the Ghibli films issued under the Disney banner and various publications tied to My Neighbor Totoro and Howl's.

The year's top - grossing films to date, for instance, include five that could make the visual - effects shortlist: «Captain America: Civil War,» «Deadpool,» «Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,» «X-Men: Apocalypse» and the potential front - runner, «The Jungle Book.»

Now there are two black directors ranked in the top 15 highest grossing films of all - time, with Ryan Coogler and «BP» passing Gray's $ 1.23 billion worldwide cume for the eighth «Fast & Furious» film

Like Miramax before it, A24 has also found success with sci - fi and horror genre films; Ex Machina and The Witch are the company's highest - grossing films thus far, and it has a few horror movies keyed up for this year as well.

The prequels to the wildly popular STAR WARS trilogy of the 70's and 80's rank among the top - grossing films ever produced worldwide.

Photo by: Keith Munyan You probably recognize her enduring performances from Misery, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Blind Side or one of the highest - grossing films of all time — Titanic.

«Avengers: Infinity War» is already one of the top - grossing films of all time, while «Black Panther» is the top - grossing superhero pic of all time domestically.

I think most critics would aspire to that ideal, see for example the flabbergasted responses to this week's New York Times column lambasting the Oscars for failing to be relevant because they didn't give awards to the highest - grossing films.

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.»

In 2013, only two of the year's top 100 grossing films were directed by females: the Carrie remake was directed by Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry) and Frozen was co-directed by Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck.

Titanic is the only one of the top 50 highest grossing films of all time to win with only four receiving nominations.

Perhaps the biggest surprise about Home Alone is not that it is liked by many people, especially as a movie to watch around Christmas — it's that it would become a mega-blockbuster, shooting straight up to become one of the top grossing films of all - time.

The People's Secret Speech: Operation Y and Shurik's Other Adventures, 1965 Of the twenty highest - grossing films in the history of the Soviet...

The percentage of women directing independently produced documentaries (39 %) is stunning when compared to the percentage of women directing top grossing films in 2011 (5 %).

Of course, he made reference to Black Panther, but was it everything we hoped and dreamed it would be following the instant hit the film was — a film that is still climbing in ranking as on of the biggest grossing films of all time as it recently hit number three?

And yet, here we are in 2012, and Channing Tatum has two of the year's top grossing films (in this and 21 Jump Street), with two more wide releases to come at the end of next month, one of which (Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike) is based on his life.

The goal is not only to provide a setting to watch the first African - American superhero lead a film in the Marvel cinematic universe, but also empower children of color to partipate in the arts and help change the fact that of the the 100 highest - grossing films of 2016, roughly a quarter lacked any black characters (stemming from a lack of representation amongst directors, actors and screenwriters).

Kid Galahad was no exception, ranking as # 37 for the top grossing films of 1962.

In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.

Not the least for its inevitable fate as one of the top - grossing films of the summer.

With a $ 275 million global weekend total, the film now has $ 1.16 billion worldwide, passing the global total of «Captain America: Civil War» and becoming one of the top 15 highest grossing films of all - time.

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.

With three varied $ 100 million - grossing films to his name (The Vow, 21 Jump Street, Magic Mike), Channing Tatum has been the biggest box office draw of 2012, a stark turnaround from his three underwhelming performers last year.

How many of the top 10 grossing films had a superhero character?

Having already earned $ 665 million domestically, Black Panther is one of the top three highest - grossing films stateside, behind only Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($ 936.7 million) and Avatar ($ 760.5 million).

According to the Motion Picture Association of America, half of movie audiences in America are women — in fact, three of the top five highest - grossing films in 2016 were attended by majority female audiences, yet the landscape of critics in America is distinctly male - dominated.

Resembling a children's movie for grown - ups while reining in Del Toro's worst tendencies, its hybrid form holds clear appeal for another year when the highest - grossing films replace humans with costumed superheroes and animated creatures, our postmodern costume dramas.

It is among the ten highest - grossing films ever made.

Out of the 20 highest grossing films last year, only two of those films were rated R.»

Employment statistics for women in the director's chair are as grim as ever: only 9 percent of the top 250 domestic grossing films and 28 percent of supposedly diverse festival films had a female director in 2015; in TV, only 18 percent of first - time episodic directors were women over the five - year period from 2009 to 2014.

Arriving just a year after Home Alone became one of the all - time highest grossing films, who could blame Paramount for taking the mischievous kid approach for their ad campaign?

Captain America: civil War is set to be one of the highest grossing films of all time because a) it's almost an Avengers film, b) it introduces Black Panther and Tom Holland's perfect take on Spider - Man, and c) it's just that good.

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?

Lopez's last two films were the highest grossing films of 2010 and 2011 for Chile adding to the magnetism of Aftershock.

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.

According to a 2017 report from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, women comprised 18 % of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 domestic grossing films.

The Avengers films were the two highest grossing films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but Black Panther roared past them and is setting standards previously unheard of for a solo comic book hero not named Batman or Iron Man.