Sentences with phrase «movie was a smash hit»

But another superhero movie was a smash hit in 2008: Iron Man, the beginning of Marvel's entire cinematic universe and a movie about a man who realizes that his power has been used toward evil ends, so he decides to start using it toward good ones.

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But for Gunn, if studios simply chase trends — in this case, a movie that boasts about having a «hard R» rating — the genre will suffer: «After every movie smashes records people here in Hollywood love to throw out the definitive reasons why the movie was a hit.»

«Hoodwinked» wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't a smash hit, either, and the stash of spoofable fairy tales is now as empty as Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard.

A smash hit on the drive - in circuit, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry was a key film in the post-Easy Rider road movie genre, for although it retained the explosive fatalism of the others within the movement, it did away with their taciturn, enigmatic protagonists.

Now that Deadpool has become a monster hit, there are a billion articles about how ground - breaking this R - rated, raunchy, fourth - wall - smashing superhero movie really is.

The movie is still an excruciating 251 days away still (February 16th, 2018) but the teaser and the poster for Marvel's sure - to - be smash hit The Black Panther have arrived after the jump...

Hot on the heels of the smash hit horror It, producer Roy Lee is turning his sights to the Japanese sci - fi property Ma.K for his next project, with THR reporting that Lee is teaming up with former Universal exec Scott Bernstein to develop a live - action movie for Warner Bros..

Director Martin Scorsese was voted by the group as Best Director for his smash hit movie The Departed, while Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) was named Best Actor, and Helen Mirren (The Queen) continued her march to the Oscars as she was named Best Actress as both actors brought characters to real, and even sympathetic, life.

Occasionally, movies work for audiences simply because they want them to — which may have been the case with «Revenge of the Nerds,» an erratically funny 1984 college comedy — full of raw, predictable gags — that became a surprise smash hit.

Unlike today, the Oscar movies were hits / smash hits and the blockbusters were award - worthy, since the beginning.

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.

While most not being very good beside the first Transformer movie the films have been a smash hit at the box office.

Soon to be a smash hit blockbuster, Justice League will be hitting the big screen as a better than epic movie!

A sequel of the global smash - hit The Protector, this extreme fight movie is an endlessly intense, nerve - racking film full of daredevil stunt scenes and amazingly choreographed fighting moves that will pump hot blood through the body of all action fans!

Jennifer «s song «The Hanging Tree» was a surprise smash hit from the previous movie.

Think of a recent smash - hit movie comedy: chances are Judd Apatow will have had a hand in it.

A sequel to director Ruben Fleischer's smash hit has been in development ever since that first movie hit theaters, but despite some close calls, it has thus far not gotten off the ground.

The first Yo - kai Watch movie opened on December 20th, and it was a smash hit even before it came out with over 1 million tickets pre-purchased... an all - time record for TOHO (the distributor)!

On the other hand, Invincible's sense of impish, self - reflexive playfulness has much in common with recent animated smash The Lego Batman Movie, while the saga's relatively obscure nature should mean Rogen and Goldberg have plenty of time to really craft their movie, rather than being in thrall to marketing execs desperate to hit toy sales deadlMovie, while the saga's relatively obscure nature should mean Rogen and Goldberg have plenty of time to really craft their movie, rather than being in thrall to marketing execs desperate to hit toy sales deadlmovie, rather than being in thrall to marketing execs desperate to hit toy sales deadlines.

Freeman, who recently starred in Marvel's smash hit superhero movie Black Panther, told Jocks and Nerds magazine that the idea is based on a dream he had.

As Black Panther continues to smash box office records as one of the biggest superhero hit movies in years, critics and fans alike have marveled at how amazing the cast was in the film.

The Hangover 3, the third movie in the smash - hit comedy franchise, is already in the works according to Zach Galifianakis.

Few actors get to star in a monster commercial smash that is also a zeitgeist hit, but that was Joshua Leonard's experience with The Blair Witch Project, which turned a meager $ 60,000 production budget into almost $ 250 million in worldwide theatrical receipts, and owned the summer of 1999 (and beyond, in the form of countless spoofs, homages and far less inspired rip - offs) like no other indie movie of its time.

By the end of the run, the movie was a bona fide smash hit.

Arthur Curry, a.k.a. Aquaman, fairs a lot better, and considering his solo adventure is set to hit theatres in December of 2018 it's hardly surprising his underwater world of Atlantis is the most fully realized new location in the movie outside of Themyscira, already introduced this past summer in the box office smash Wonder Woman.

Eye - popping special effects ensure that this movie will be a smash hit, and while it's entertaining for most of its excessive running time, the cheesy script fails to live up to the grandeur of the physical production.

The IMDb list includes two Marvel blockbusters, one Pixar smash, two sequels, a Sundance hit that did not succeed at the box office, a hip hop origin myth, and seven movies that are packed with action thrills including flicks directed by Ridley Scott, George Miller, Denis Villeneuve.

While its box office success might lead you to expect Disney embracing the movie and identifying it with the company name, the way they did for the smash hit Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the gradually appreciated The Nightmare Before Christmas, Gnomeo & Juliet comes to video next week with its Touchstone branding (now largely reserved for the DreamWorks Pictures productions Disney is distributing) intact.

When: June 10th Why: Speaking of surprise hits, the tale of system - fighting, bank - robbing magicians was a huge box office smash and made for a fun, if shallow, time at the movies.

After a quick (and well - regarded) cameo in last year's utterly terrible Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Warner Bros. finally gave Wonder Woman her own movie, the smash hit from director Patty Jenkins that's currently the second highest grossing film of the year.

A Bug's Life was the first of Pixar's computer - animated movies to come out after their 1995 smash hit Toy Story, and has always unfairly lived in that film's shadow.

The movie hits keep rolling as comic book movies are going to bombard fans this summer, smashing the box office Hulk style.

Otherwise every traditionally published book would be a runaway bestseller and every Hollywood movie a smash hit at the box office.

The six - month - long contest aims to find a manuscript that has the potential to be a smash hit in books and beyond — from movies, to video games, to graphic novels, to merchandise.

Last year was filled to the brim with video game movies, and while very few of them were smash hits that isn't stopping other studios from trying their own spin.

Compared, for example, to something like seeing a movie in the theaters or buying tickets to the smash Broadway hit Hamilton, TV is pretty cheap.