Sentences with phrase «modest box office successes»

, which were modest box office successes but hardly serious filmmaking.

In France, they were relatively popular for their collaboration on the spy parody OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, and its sequel OSS 117: Lost in Rio, which were modest box office successes but hardly serious filmmaking.

Not exact matches

The movie, while only a modest box - office success, garnered impressive reviews from mainstream movie critics as well as an impressive 77 % on Rotten Tomatoes4 and a four and a half star rating on Amazon5, where the movie remains available for viewing.

A top - notch actress who managed to remain a complete unknown as far as the general moviegoing public was concerned (spending over a decade starring in numerous art - house flicks for ex-husband Nicolas Roeg probably had a lot to do with that), Theresa Russell enjoyed a soupçon of mainstream success when she co-starred in Twentieth Century Fox's production of Black Widow, an ever - so - modest box office hit ($ 25 million) back at the start of» 87.

Many would be familiar with the 1982 movie which was only a modest success at the box - office but later developed a cult - like following.

District 9 is a South African science fiction film, which achieved huge box office success, despite its relatively modest budget.

Director Simon West's 1997 actioner was a modest success at the box office, grossing $ 224 million worldwide, and while it was a...

That adaptation was a relatively modest success, having grossed $ 57 million at the box office, but it wasn't necessarily loved by critics.