Sentences with phrase «hit the box office»

According to rival Hasbro, the property generates about $ 100 million in sales in the years when a feature film hits the box office.

And then there's the other kind — the late - breaking, high - profile, A-list titles designed to hit the box office and Oscar voters» consciousness.

Ordinarily, dud movies end up stuck with boring ol' January slots, but Deadpool «s fandom has already proven that they're willing to drop everything and hit the box office during that time period, so perhaps Fox hopes to strike gold twice.

Amazon also didn't crack the best picture category in 2018, with its hit box office comedy starring Kumail Nanjiani.

From today's point of view it seems impossible, but All the President's Men hit box office pay dirt.

Richardson feels that this relationship between interactive ebooks and films can be used as a vital marketing tool for the film industry by generating consumer interest in films before the hit the box office.

Not exact matches

Even with the potential for major flops, Hollywood's movie franchise model is here to stay, but history shows us that the studios that aim for critical success with their sequels tend to land more hits at the box office.

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

Bakish is focused on turning around the business after years of falling domestic ad revenues and poor ratings as younger viewers increasingly watch content online, while Paramount has suffered from a lack of box - office hits.

But «Ready Player One,» based on a 2011 novel, is vying for moviegoers at a time when the box office has been dominated by serial tales of comic - book superheroes and sequels to established hits, making it tougher for new material to shine.

It isn't a surprise that Gal Gadot, the star of the box office hit film «Wonder Woman» made the list.

Over the course of a decade, January saw a total of 88 wide releases, only two of which were box office hits.

But that one hit turned out to be The Dark Knight, a blockbuster that broke box office records that have since been broken again, by The Avengers.

Fox is the studio behind box - office hits like «Deadpool,» «The Martian,» and «The Revenant.»

In an industry constantly starved for raw material, the 70 - year - old author's work stands out as an untapped resource — a fact that's now been recognized by a new Canadian company created for the purpose of turning the British writer's bestsellers into box - office hits.

The Toronto - based company announced Wednesday that the hit superhero film accounted for 22 per cent of its box office revenue in the first quarter.

Box office sales for Perth's two major arts festivals have remained steady against last year's figures, with Perth Festival on track to make $ 3.8 million and Fringe World Festival hitting $ 10 million.

Paramount's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot was one of August's surprise successes with $ 149.6 million in ticket sales, while The Walt Disney Company (DIS) scored the hit of the summer with Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which broke the opening - weekend box - office record for August on its way to grossing $ 258 million in the U.S. and more than $ 500 million worldwide within less than a month of its release.

As for Owning Mahowny, the movie wasn't exactly a box office hit, but it did garner impressive reviews, which shouldn't surprise anyone considering its protagonist was played by one of the greatest actors of our time.

Just for the record, Paul Newman was an actor, a superstar one at that, who ruled the box office in his heyday in the 1960s and»70s with such iconic hits as «The Hustler,» «Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid» and «The Sting.»

The story of a lovable alien stranded on earth, the movie was an immediate hit, and it earned $ 435 million at the domestic box office, the equivalent of $ 1 billion today.

As for the moviegoing public, it's hard to say how much of a box - office hit Fox Searchlight could suffer as a result of the negative publicity around Parker.

And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros. hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the top - earning studio at the domestic box office for the year.

Franchises like «Fast and the Furious» and «San Andreas» are the latest hits that have brought his lifetime worldwide box - office gross to over $ 5.9 billion, and coming up he's got «Baywatch» and «Jumanji.»

The film has killed it at the box office for its opening weekend and has already hit $ 1 billion worldwide.

With «The Fate of the Furious» hitting theaters on Friday, and looking to make box - office dollars as over-the-top as its stunts, here we look back on the incredible career of «The Rock» from a failed football run and WWE to bona fide movie star:

The surprise hit of the year, having the best opening ever for an R - rated movie ($ 132.4 million) and earning over $ 780 million at the global box office, was also the most illegally downloaded movie of 2016, according to TorrentFreak.

In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, Disney ran through a list of Iger's accomplishments as CEO in 2015, including «record - breaking enthusiasm» for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as well as other box office hits such as Pixar's Inside Out and Marvel's Avengers sequel.

While most major studios were dodging box - office bombs, Pascal's Spider - Man 2 won big, scoring $ 771 million worldwide and adding to Sony's string of hits.

To do the same, businesses do not necessarily need to wait for opportune moments like the next Super Bowl blackout or a newly released box office hit.

In addiiton, Universal Pictures hit $ 5 billion at the global box office over the holidays for the second time ever.

With the best Rotten Tomatoes score for any Bay movie (66 %), the mix of action and lighthearted moments made it one of the biggest box - office hits of the year.

The runaway hit had a production budget of $ 28 million, but earned $ 60.2 million at the box office during its debut weekend and amassed a total of $ 201 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mobox office during its debut weekend and amassed a total of $ 201 million worldwide, according to Box Officeoffice during its debut weekend and amassed a total of $ 201 million worldwide, according to Box Office MoBox OfficeOffice Mojo.

Whether Infinity War can catch Black Panther (whose long, leggy run meant it was still in the top five at the box office last week, more than two months after its opening) in the US and Canada seems unlikely, but it should become the year's top hit internationally without too much trouble.

(Though Black Panther performed respectably overseas, it's the rare box office hit that made more than 50 percent of its gross domestically.)

2016 featured a $ 2 billion box office from Star Wars: The Force Awakens and four other films that either hit $ 1 billion or came within inches of that mark.

Every time Disney has another hit, you can count on the bears to come out of their dens and grumble about how ESPN subscriber numbers, not box office receipts, are what really matter.

DreamWorks has turned out hits such as «Shrek» and «Kung Fu Panda,» but it has lately released box - office disappointments, including «Turbo» and «Rise of the Guardians.»

In this video I'm going to show you a great way to get better keywords out of the Google Adwords Keyword tool if you haven't seen the previous video you'll want to watch that video where I show you how to get better search volume numbers from both google adwords as well as some other sources to get better estimates for the amount of times that keyword is searched each month i'll put a link in the video here so that you can click that video if you haven't seen that yet let's get started now if you want better results from the Google Adwords Keyword planner you have to work a little differently than everyone else so most people come to the Google Adwords Keyword planner and they simply click on this search for new keywords using a phrase, website, or category and then they just paste a bunch of keywords into this text box so let's say as an example that these were our starting keywords ok so let's say we have the keywords «fishing tips» «fishing tackle» «fishing for bass» «fishing rod» and «fishing reel» what most people do is that they would simply come here and they would copy this they would paste it into this field and they would hit Search and they would get back their results and that's fine but one little tip that will help you get much better results is only paste in one key word at a time so instead of pasting all these in just paste in the single keyword «fishing tips» and then proceed from there to pull that those results up and you'll get this back if you click right here you can download the ideas you'll notice they're 701 here listed so if we download these ideas will download them to a CSV file comma separated value file you can open that with notepad you can open it with excel open office when you're finished putting all your ideas and individually you will now have a bunch of different common separate value files containing the keywords and the search volume I've already gone ahead and done that just to save time on the video but i want to show you what happens when you use this method versus just pasting in the keywords like most people do so here you'll see this column here represents these two columns here represent if we had pasted in all of the keywords at once and click search at google adwords keyword tool is one that showed you and you'll see we have a total of 706 results we got back when we did that this column this column here represents what happens when we paste one key word at a time and then download the file paste the second keyword download the file and then we just simply grab those terms and copy them and you'll see now we have a total of 1,915 keywords now what I've done with the highlighting here is to show you anything that's not highlighted in this column is a keyword we would not have gotten back had we pasted in all the keywords at once you can see there's lots and lots of keywords here we would not have seen know your competitors and the company's you're competing against they're using probably the simple method just pasting a bunch of keywords sitting search and then looking through those terms to find their terms if you will take the extra few minutes it takes doesn't take long to simply go in and paste one key word at a time you will get back a ton of great keywords that others aren't seeing because they're using this other method and in actuality when I ran the numbers there's a total of 3.8 million searches represented by these keywords here that you would miss if you simply just copied and pasted those five terms and hit search the Google Adwords Keyword planner once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there are so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and Keyword Grouper Pro is completely free there's not even an opt in you just simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns and know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business

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.

Disney had an amazing year in terms of box office, but that doesn't exclude some of their smaller hits, including this film about a chess prodigy in Uganda who tries to balance her success with responsibility to her family.

In the hands of director J.J. Abrams, it lived up to the hype to become not only the biggest box office hit of the year, but also one of the most fun action movies we've seen in a long time.

Though Jesus was not a box - office hit, Campus Crusade had other things in store for the movie.

This weekend, James Cameron's science - fiction epic Avatar topped the box office for the third straight week, shooting past $ 1 billion worldwide, only the fifth movie ever to hit that mark.

Martin Saunders reflects on the surprise box office hit, The Help, and what it has to say to the Church in 2011...

Avengers, Furious 7, and Jurassic World were all huge hits at the Chinese box office.

Smartphones are tucked away, allowing friends and family to enjoy the magic of the movies together while they laugh, cry or sit on the edge of their seats watching the latest box office hit.

Anyway, the new theme song has now appeared online and you can already tell it was composed by the same dude who worked on box office hits like the Avengers.

Okorafor said she was buoyed by the global success of the summer box office hit «Wonder Woman» — the first superhero movie to star a woman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywood.

Producer and environmental activist Laurie David — wife of comedian Larry David — assumed that NSTA would be all too happy to send its members free copies of An Inconvenient Truth, the climate change tutorial by the former vice president that was a surprise hit at the box office.