The key to navigating Hollywood these days is attach yourself to a superhero movie franchise of some kind to
guarantee a hit movie every few years so you can run off and join darker, weirder, more eclectic projects without a care in the world.
But, the presence of these celebrities don't always
guarantee a hit movie.
Not exact matches
Per The Hollywood Reporter, this Jennifer Juniper Stratford film is a «science fiction tale told in the style of classic B -
movies and outfitted with practical special effects, laser beams and lunatic ideas which are
guaranteed to make it the next big midnight
movie hit.»
Gone Girl, released tomorrow, is another of those
movies that are almost
guaranteed to be a smash -
hit, mainly because they're based on a bestselling book.
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.
Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black all have huge
hits under their belts and putting all three of them in one
movie, seems to be a
guaranteed money maker.
I feel like the fact that its premise all but
guaranteed that it'd be nominated — so long as Christopher Nolan had merely
hit a bunt that got him to first, instead of a home run — has sort of inured us to how weird the
movie truly is.
The
movie is practically
guaranteed to be a mammoth
hit, because who can resist those ads?
Whereas for several years, every new Disney Channel Original
Movie was
guaranteed to
hit DVD within a year of its debut, Disney hasn't even bothered to put a number of recent productions in stores.
Marvel has
guaranteed hits like Avengers: Infinity War, but
movies like Strange or Black Panther or Captain Marvel could easily get awry if they don't treat them with the same tender love.
Even if a Mario film deal does go through, an actual
movie wouldn't be
guaranteed to
hit theaters any time soon; the WSJ suggests it «wouldn't come out for several years.»