Sentences with phrase «grossing films year»

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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.

«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.

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.

In fact, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was the first woman to direct a superhero movie and the film ended up as the highest - grossing movie ever helmed by a woman (along with being last year's third - highest grossing film domestically).

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.

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.

In the Best Picture race, the biggest hits were the World War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales, good for 14th place on the box office charts, and Jordan Peele's horror film «Get Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk» with $ 176 million in domestic sales.

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.

(Mud alone grossed more last year than every Roadside film put together collected in 2012.)

At one time Anchorman 2 was a musical, but that was years ago when Paramount didn't believe it was worth spending money on a sequel to a film that grossed $ 85 million (though it has only grown in popularity since its 2004 release).

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.

Domestic grosses include all money collected in 2013 (including for films originally released in 2012 that carried over into the new year).

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.

Though it was last year's # 2 movie overall (domestically), it looks like it will be the lowest - grossing film in the Hunger Games series.

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.

Warner could easily end up with the year's two highest - grossing films in The Dark Knight Rises and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

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.

Because that film business is very sick indeed; Fox was the only major studio not to reach $ 1 billion in domestic grosses last year, and its U.S. receipts dropped an astounding 34 % compared to 2010.

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.

Sony's Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is officially the studio's highest - grossing film ever at the domestic box office, overtaking Sam Raimi's Spider - Man ($ 403.7 million) which has owned the title for the past 16 years.

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).

A year ago Sam was celebrating the fact that she'd directed Universal's highest grossing R - rated film.

The Joss Whedon - directed «Ultron» is the year's top - grossing film domestically and is expected to pass the $ 400 million mark this weekend, adding to its $ 1.15 billion global haul for Disney.

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.

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.

(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.»

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?

The original movie grossed a little over $ 60 million worldwide back in 2001 from a budget of just under half of that, though the film has a huge following and gained a progressive cult status in the years that have passed since then.