Sentences with phrase «movies top the year»

In the last few months of 2017 (which saw female - led movies top the year - end box office and female stories dominate the Emmys), the entertainment world was rocked by scandal, starting with the revelations about Harvey Weinstein, which were followed by accusations against executives, longtime actors and some of the industry's most powerful men.

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As the year comes to a close, the domestic box office is on pace to set another new industry record just one year after topping $ 11 billion in domestic movie ticket sales for the first time ever.

2016's movie industry highlights include a monster year for Walt Disney, as the Mouse House set a new yearly global box office record, becoming the first studio to ever top $ 7 billion in worldwide ticket sales.

Among the top five films of 2016 was The Jungle Book, a remake of a 49 - year - old movie.

The sixth installment of the horror series underperformed last year, grossing around $ 60 million worldwide, whereas the previous movie topped $ 100 million.

Apple has released its year - end lists for the top music, movies, apps, and more, and hip - hop albums swept several of the top spots.

«Homecoming» may be the sixth Spider - Man movie from Sony in 15 years, but it's by far one of the top two films in the entire franchise.

He topped himself the next year with this imaginative sci - fi classic, which held the title of highest - grossing movie in history until Spielberg topped it with «Jurassic Park» in 1993.

Still, while Guardians of the Galaxy has vaulted past its summer of 2014 competition, the movie is still barely inside the top 20 grossing Disney films of all - time and it entered Labor Day weekend slightly behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier for the company's (and the industry's) best - performing film of the year.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

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.

While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.

There have been comparatively few leaks compared to last year's awards season (so far), when a single group called Hive - CM8 leaked more than a dozen of 2016's top movies, including James Bond movie «Spectre,» «Legend,» «Steve Jobs,» «Creed,» and Quentin Tarantino's «The Hateful Eight» — before it even came out in the cinemas.

After all, last year's top - grossing movie, the third installment in The Hunger Games series, was nominated for exactly zero Academy Awards.

«But these franchises are the top movies of the year.»

At the time, Smith was only addressing the underrepresentation of women, who comprised less than a third of all speaking characters in the 100 top - grossing movies in the previous year.

Part of that likely has to do with the absence of many truly great movies this year, and the fact key contenders — like «The Shape of Water» (the pick by the directors and producers guilds) and «Get Out» (the WGA's original screenplay winner)-- come from genres that seldom receive top awards recognition.

The live action Beauty and the Beast has been the top - grossing movie of the year so far, which is a good sign for the company's other live - action remakes in development such as The Lion King and Mulan.

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.

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.»

Researchers at the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University looked at the top 700 highest - grossing movies of 2014 — which make up almost all of the year's major theatrical releases — to see how many featured women in prominent production roles.

The movie Top Gun came out my senior year of high school.

The movie easily ranks in my top 3 of the year thus far.

And lately, Leonard Maltin's 2014 Movie Guide has been making a cameo because you never can tell when, in between multiple 12 - tops getting rapid - fire cookie plates, you just have to know what year Chinatown came out (because you were just in Los Angeles, um, in Chinatown).

JAMES DEAN A 24 - year - old Californian, James Dean burst into sudden prominence this year as one of Hollywood's top young movie actors with a sensitive performance in East of Eden that drew critical raves.

can you just imagine a top level club being so desperate that they would hire Wenger to manage their club... I guarantee that there is no truth to this story except the fact that he might have considered leaving Arsenal for a split second then he proceeded to lock himself in Kroenke's closet and threatened to harm himself with the plastic fork he always carries in his breast pocket, just in case there are free samples at the grocery store, until he was promised 2 more years... at which point they embraced one another in such an awkward fashion that Kroenke's mustache got stuck in Wenger's coat zipper... two hours or so later, once they were finally separated, they retired to Kroenke's private lounge where they watched his favourite movie «Major League» then played a quick game of Monopoly

Another of the top choices for this year is the Barbie Blooming Thumbelina Doll, based on the main character in the Barbie movie, a Twillerbee named Thumbelina.

If you've already seen this year's big movies and read the top - selling books, here's a look at some of the best offerings outside your usual media diet.

The researchers compiled a database of the weekend box - office returns for the top 10 movies in 17 different countries over three years.

On top of working on the popular CW show, which wrapped up in March of this year, Dobrev appeared in three movies, two of which are in postproduction.

This wraps up my top Hallmark: Countdown to Christmas movies for this year.

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I did a post on my favorite Christmas movies years ago, but thought I'd do an updated edition today, and just narrow it down to my top five.

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Pittsburgh tops this year's list with a casual dinner and two movie tickets costing $ 77.80.

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Ok 2011's top movies didn't enjoy the sort of buzz that surrounds next year's big titles, but there was

I came to this forum after many years of following MAJ as one of my top five reviewers (the others being Ebert, Berardini, Zacharek and Edelman), and not too long after I found her slaughtering a movie that apparently everyone liked but we two.

The film, directed by John Lee Hancock, won AFI's 2014 «Movie of the Year» Award and was recognized by the National Board of Review in their «Top 10 Films» and chronicles the true story of the development of the 1964 Walt Disney film Mary Poppins.

Outstanding filming and narration from friends, coworkers, put this movie into the top 10 of the year for me.

Like two of the year's other standout American films, Kelly Reichardt's «Old Joy» and Ryan Fleck's «Half Nelson,» it's a movie of ideas in which the ideas flow effortlessly out of the material instead of being plastered on top with a heavy cement roller (as in «Crash,» «Babel» and «Little Children»).

Visually, the movie doesn't attempt to top every previous Pixar effort — something that would be difficult considering the studio's output in recent years.

Of course, Wall - E still went on to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but it's interesting to note that this year, with so many great animated movies to choose from, the Annies decided to go back and honour Pixar's Up with their top prize.

The year's not quite over yet, but as of now, Observe and Report is my pick for funniest movie of the year, as well as a lock for my Top 10 of» 09.

Such Moving Pictures Clayton picks his top 11 of the year The Film Doctor and his wife discuss Birdman and crisis of identity The Backlot does a readers poll of the greatest gay movies but YIKES some of the titles and their rankings.

Currently my number two of the year behind LEGO Movie — but nothng will top that!

But I'm 25 movies in now for the year, and nothing recently has been able to crack the top five (in order): A Serious Man, Star Trek, Moon, The Hurt Locker and The Hangover.