Sentences with phrase «last box office»

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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.

Happily, there is a strong thirst and fandom for horror: Get Out, released last winter, was nominated for four Oscars and earned $ 176 million in domestic total gross, according to Box Office Mojo.

With Memorial Day weekend on the horizon, the overall domestic summer box office is ten percentage points lower than it was at this time last year.

The studio's horror movie «The Quiet Place,» which opened last weekend, was No. 1 at the box office, garnering $ 50 million in ticket sales in the United States and Canada.

Part of the problem is the copany's films disappointed at the box office last year.

Despite the performance of «Guardians of the Galaxy» last weekend, which opened to US$ 94 million at the North American box - office, there have been few other blockbusters in the third quarter.

While the film is set to break numerous box office records, it's strong, inclusive characters will have a lasting impact.

On this last point, consider that the year's three major adaptations have already combined for more than $ 1 billion at the U.S. box office, and all three pictures are still showing in theaters.

After its record - breaking debut last weekend, Straight Outta Compton once again topped the box office, bringing in an estimated $ 26.8 million and handily beating this weekend's three other new releases.

Disney's «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» could mean hundreds of millions in unanticipated box office revenue for IMAX, according to JPMorgan.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

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.

He points out that North American box office receipts have increased 6.8 % over last year at this time, while attendance should grow by 9.6 % to 17.7 million people.

Overall, the 2014 summer box - office totals are down about 24 % from last summer with just this final holiday weekend left to try to make up some of that difference.

In fact, all of the previous 10 best picture winners, prior to last night's win by The Artist, have grossed the far majority of their box office money before the Academy Awards.

«The Croods,» starring Nicholas Cage and Emma Stone as members of a Caveman family, will be the first feature released since the studio's domestic box - office bomb, «The Rise of the Guardians» last November.

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.

This weekend, it crossed the $ 1 billion mark in its worldwide box - office totals, after beating out the four - day totals of Disney's last big movie, Star Wars: The Last Jlast big movie, Star Wars: The Last JLast Jedi.

The film that triggered the devastating cyberattack on the studio last month, which the United States says was launched by North Korea, opened Thursday in 331 independent theaters with a $ 1 million box office and $ 1.8 million over the subsequent three days, according to Sony.

The movie was relatively successful at the box office — especially considering it was made on a budget of about $ 6.5 million — but it was still the lowest - grossing winner since 1987's The Last Emperor at the time.

Black Panther only needs roughly $ 60 million worldwide at this weekend's box office to reach $ 1 billion after pulling in roughly $ 122 million globally last weekend.

Based on data from Box Office Mojo, the blog reports that «China accounted for $ 500 million or just 7.7 percent of the $ 6.5 billion worldwide net revenue» from the thirty - two films that Hollywood got into China last year on a revenue - sharing basis.

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.

The company said in its earnings release that the segment suffered from a difficult comparison to last year's first quarter, when Frozen performed well at the box office.

The company's first film in the franchise, released last year, made about $ 350 million in worldwide box - office sales.

The FBI executed search warrants last week on Cohen's office, home, security deposit box and hotel room.

Although the films Alibaba Pictures Group has invested in like So Young (by actress - turned director Zhao Wei, who is also a major shareholder of the company) and Tiny Times (by popular writer Guo Jingming) have recorded remarkable box - office revenues, the company has yet to turn a profit, with a net loss of HK$ 443.54 million for the first half of last year.

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.

Last week, Ryan Reynolds» hard - edged superhero movie Deadpool had the biggest opening weekend for an R - Rated movie in American box office history, and brought in more than $ 260 million globally.

Had Marvel served up another big helping of the same big, dumb action fare that's dominated summer movies for the last 40 years, the MCU has enough built - in fans to propel Guardians 2 to the top of the box office.

Despite fierce criticism from some conservative Christians, «Noah» was the top box - office draw last weekend, raking in $ 44 million in the United States.

Your office hours consist mostly of meditating on last night's MLB box scores, playing Farmville, or — plug your ears Edith — watching lesbian threesome videos.

«Soul Surfer,» the feature film based on the true story of surfer Bethany Hamilton being attacked by a shark and her journey back to surfing, opened last weekend in the fourth spot on the box office charts - partly a testament to its appealing family - friendly message and a marketing campaign that heavily targeted religious groups.

Live - action Disney movies have been hugely successful at the box office in the last few years: The Jungle Book, Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland have taken in more than two and a half billion dollars at the global box office.

According to Entertainment Weekly «the last time a movie with a real star - on - star love scene topped the yearly box office... was 16 years ago when Jack and Rose fogged up the inside of a town car in Titanic.»

The Last Jedi «s number puts it on track to compete with Avatar for the second - highest domestic box - office total ever, behind only Force Awakens.

Already proving to be one of the most divisive blockbusters in years, hardcore fans» backlash against The Last Jedi didn't slow it down at the box office, with the new Star Wars movie taking in an estimated $ 220 million.

For the last three years Trabert has served as president of the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I. Every weekday morning, after a seven - mile bike ride, a cup of coffee and a close look at the box scores in the sports section, Trabert, who lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., steps into his home office, fires up the fax machine and gets to work.

There's a reason why the former only brought in three million at the box office while The Last Jedi is going to earn more than several small countries» annual GDPs.

Last night I waited for a friend outside the box office and watched the throngs of people entering.

Broadway limped through the last week of February, with many established productions suffering seasonal box - office slowdowns and new shows just starting up.

Steve: I always used PCs prior to the last basically eight months, except for a little bit at Scientific American's offices we have Macs, and then I got an iPhone and the aesthetics — and this is well known territory, but for me, it's new — I bought a Mac book recently and everything right down to the bag that they put the box in at the Apple store is so elegant and purposeful; I mean the bag doubles as a backpack, you're never going to throw it away.

Deadpool was one of the biggest hits at the box office last year.

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Last weekend we went to Dynamite Bay, where I tested out some of the swim gear to have hit my post office box in recent weeks.

This tale of doomed romance set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War was the last in a string of box office disappointments from director Sidney J. Furie before he struck gold again with Iron Eagle (1986).

Though Vanilla Sky's sometimes surreal trappings found the film receiving a mixed reception at the box office, the same could not be said for the following year's massively successful sci - fi chase film Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg, or of the historical epic The Last Samurai, directed by Edward Zwick.For his next film, Cruise picked a role unlike any he'd ever played; starring as a sociopathic hitman in the Michael Mann psychological thriller Collateral.

Much like last year and the year before, this year's Movie Studio Report Card evaluates both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six major studios (and many indie distributors) in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of 2011.

Millennium also lacked any box office hits last year, and the studio itself was put up for sale last spring.