Sentences with phrase «more box office returns»

The friend could think Bait 3D, the latest big budget Aussie flick to come along in an effort to snare more box office returns than critical adulation, sounds completely ridiculous and scoff at your notion.

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But unlike other films with more direct Christian messages, churches are much less likely to buy out theaters in bulk as they did for «Son of God» and «God's Not Dead,» a move that brought those films big returns at the box office.

And heading off to the Post Office with a huge box of returns will help even more!

Gru, his girls and his vast army of minions return in Despicable Me 2, the follow - up to the blockbuster 3D CGI feature that grossed more than $ 540 million at the worldwide box office and became the tenth biggest animated film in domestic history.

These terrific box office numbers are exceeding expectations every day as more and more people discover «Gravity» for the first time or return to enjoy it again and again.»

More to the point, «Midnight in Paris,» is Woody Allen's highest - grossing film, with box office returns of $ 151 million worldwide, according to Vanity Fair.

Even more important to Peele than the box office return was the personal response from fans.

Thankfully, the film did okay at the box office with a $ 44 million dollar return and is probably going to get even more back with home video / digital sales, and deservedly so.

The following year, box office performances seemed to suggest that animation would always be Disney's predominant forte; a trio of dramatically affecting and darker than usual live action productions (Return to Oz, The Journey of Natty Gann and One Magic Christmas) earned no more than $ 14 million individually, the second and third Touchstone releases (Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend and My Science Project) did not make great dents in the charts, and summer animated release The Black Cauldron, the top - grossing new film with over $ 21 million, was clearly

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of transcendent filmmaking in the The Lost City of Z and A Ghost Story, it was the age of foolish Spider - Man remakes / reboots / regurgitations, it was the epoch of a magnificent enquiry into belief by the evergreen Martin Scorsese, it was the epoch of the incredulous return of Mel Gibson in a box office hit, it was the season of Michael Haneke shining a light on our uncaring societal malaise, it was the season of manifold more people watching Baywatch, it was the spring of Aki Kaurismäki's warm - hearted but politically pressing The Other Side of Hope, it was the winter of despair at the box office results of masterpieces like Certain Women, Aquarius and The Death of Louis XIV, we had Yorgos Lanthimos» Kubrickian masterpiece before us, we had a new Kingsman film before us, we were all going direct to cinematic Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

James Cameron declared Genisys the satisfying sequel his franchise has lacked since he turned over the writing and directing reins on 2003's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, but don't pay that endorsement too much mind, even if box office king of the world Cameron, who receives a characters credit and nothing more here, has little to gain from it (until 2019, when rights to the series return to him).

After that film's mediocre box office return and slightly above - average critical reception, 20th Century Fox and director Ridley Scott decided to make its sequel a little more Alien - like to please fans.

After a series of box office disappointments, Johnny Depp returns with his finest performance of his career in Black Mass, the story of the rise and fall of Whitey Bulger, Boston's most Read More →

After Sherlock Holmes» great success at the box office, a sequel was more than inevitable, and thus Guy Ritchie returned to the franchise that helped rejuvenate his wavering career with A Game of Shadows.

So, given that the only people who would have any interest at all in this movie would be gamers - and maybe anyone with a lust for bald - headed bar - coded killers - the $ 100 million box - office bucks surely has to be seen as a more than satisfactory return.

The drawback is that - like so many Marvel origin films - the features of the heroes's powers are offered in careful (read: budgeted) measure, as if box office returns are required first, before more elaborate sequences will be paid for in sequels.

Your weekend edition of The Week in Star Wars returns with the latest from Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars: The Last Jedi home entertainment details and box office, more from Rian Johnson's new trilogy, Liam Neeson on a potential return and more... Let's kick things off this week with Solo: A Star Wars -LSB-...]