Sentences with phrase «of big summer blockbusters»

Box office expectations: With a hefty $ 180 million budget, Warner Bros. is hoping that Legend of Tarzan will be one of their big summer blockbusters of 2016.

i heard a few people coming out of the cinema saying «well that was cheesy» and it just made me think well what did you expect, you've just paid to come see one of the biggest summer blockbusters going and it's the Third in the sequel.

Not exact matches

Either way, it's looking like a disappointing start to the summer for Warner Bros., which has several big - budget releases planned for the rest of 2017, none of which are total locks to be blockbusters.

This summer's box - office totals have also suffered from the expansion of blockbuster season as a handful of films likely to be among the year's biggest releases are slated to come out this fall, among them best - selling novel adaptation Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the latest Hunger Games installment.

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles...

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

Tomorrowland, Disney's big - budget summer blockbuster that's based on the future - themed parts of its theme parks, comes out in a month.

Houston's lack of assets was ultimately its biggest downfall as it tried to work its second blockbuster trade of the summer.

A big slice of «meh» dumped into the no man's land between Ready Player One and a certain high - profile Marvel movie, Rampage is an afterthought that barely qualifies as a distraction for those waiting for the summer blockbuster season to kick off in earnest.

An historical aside: The big movie of 1975 was «Jaws,» which created the phenomenon of the summer blockbuster and made Steven Spielberg one of the most famous men in the world.

As one of the first big romantic comedies of the US summer silly season — Ghosts of Girlfriends Past doesn't count as it stars Matthew McConaughey — The Proposal bears the burden of expectation built up within fans of the genre during a very serious January and February as well as the commencement of the blockbuster releases in March and April.

Big summer blockbusters are so rarely optimistic that it's tricky to know how to take this movie, its utopian view of the future is a refreshing antidote to both dystopic - nightmare thrillers and those blood - boiling, doom - and - gloom...

Universal Pictures has today debuted the second trailer for Ted 2, this summer's big comedy sequel Seth MacFarlane's 2012's blockbuster success, which grossed almost $ 550million worldwide to become the highest - grossing original R - rated comedy of all time.

«The Hunger Games» is the biggest film to open outside of the summer blockbuster season, as well as the biggest nonsequel film debut in history.

We'd be remiss in not mentioning the biggest movie story of the year so far, Joss Whedon «s «The Avengers,» which isn't just the third biggest movie of all time at this point, but also a tremendously entertaining summer blockbuster, one of the better examples of the form in recent years.

This summer could be the biggest blockbuster season ever recorded, with a stellar slew of sequels, reboots and fresh new stories.

It's the middle of the summer, which means lots of big budget blockbusters are about to hit screens!

Picked up by Fox Searchlight following its Sundance premiere, «I Origins» is likely to perform well in limited release due to its genre hook, particularly if it's released as a form of counter-programming to bigger studio efforts in heat of the summer blockbuster season.

While the summer movie season always comes with its slew of big blockbusters — some good, some bad, few memorable — anticipation is very high for Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation.

That big moment charged the hype machine for the film in a way that major summer blockbusters aren't capable of achieving with an entire year of buildup and spoiler - filled trailers, making this film one of the most talked about projects in the past year simply due to the fact that no one knew what it actually was.

In a bad blockbuster summer, «Suicide Squad» might be worst offering yet, and one indicative of a bigger problem.

It's a sign of the changing of the times that 15 years ago this combination of A-list stars would have been one of the biggest events of the year, whereas now Money Monster is a sleeper bit of counter-programming for viewers seeking out a more adult alternative to the mammoth blockbusters flooding in for the summer movie season.

A leviathan that has temporarily ducked back under the surface after pulverizing multiplexes all summer long, Christopher Nolan's symphonic blockbuster is not only one of the biggest studio films of the year ($ 523.7 million worldwide for a historical epic about one of modern history's greatest non-events), it's also one of the best.

That a tiny British film — with no big stars, no high concept, no flashy source, a story most appreciated by thirtysomethings but featuring tweens, released in no more than 152 theaters during the start of summer blockbuster season — didn't set the States ablaze?

During this recent exclusive interview with Collider, the undeniably charming James Badge Dale (who plays the Lone Ranger's older brother, Texas Ranger Dan Reid) talked about how cool it is to be in three of the biggest blockbusters of the summer (Iron Man 3, World War Z and The Lone Ranger), how The Lone Ranger was the most physically demanding, finding a treehouse out in Canyon de Chelly where he could grab a nap between takes, the process of finding the perfect cowboy hat for his character, working with a horse that was scared of gunfire, and the experience of cowboy boot camp.

A big slice of «meh» dumped into the no man's land between «Ready Player One» and a certain high - profile Marvel movie, «Rampage» is an afterthought that barely qualifies as a distraction for those waiting for the summer blockbuster season...

This month is a bit lighter on the blockbuster, though it does feature a pair of the summer's biggest heavy - hitters.

Now remember, Emmerich is the guy who directed Independence Day, Godzilla, and The Day After Tomorrow, so it's safe to say he's your big summer blockbuster kind of guy.

The summer months often bring a slew of prospective blockbusters, as studios trot out their annual selection of big - budget spectacles.

The film has become one of the summer's biggest blockbusters and disproved the notion that female - driven superhero films do not sell.

In the meantime, you can see Neeson on the big screen in either the currently - playing Wrath of the Titans, this summer's Battleship board game move adaptation, the aforementioned second installment in the Taken franchise this fall - or (POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT) a certain upcoming, hotly - anticipated blockbuster that the actor was recently officially confirmed to appear in.

One can appreciate the decision not to make the title character of a big summer aspiring blockbuster a wholly loathsome personality, but the dramatic makeover robs Maleficent of her wicked appeal, defies her name, and renders her kind of boring and ineffective.

Amongst the nominees for «summer's biggest boom», Iron Man ranks slightly ahead of the crowd in being the first all - comic produced blockbuster to hit our screens.

Soderbergh's latest has reached for that sense of scale associated with a summer film, and does well to release after all the bigger blockbusters have had their run.

As we inch toward summer blockbuster season, one of the biggest question marks on the calendar is the video game adaptation Warcraft.

Moviegoers have been complaining about Hollywood's lack of originality for years now, especially with popular toys like Transformers and Battleship being adapted into big summer blockbusters, but everyone seems to forget that Paramount made a film based on the Parker Brothers board game «Clue» nearly three decades earlier.

The move follows the extraordinary success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which was the first Star Wars movie to premiere outside the traditional summer blockbuster window and smashed numerous records, including biggest domestic and global debuts of all time as well as the biggest domestic second and third weekends, en route to becoming the highest grossing domestic release of all time with over $ 861.3 million and the third biggest global release ever with $ 1,886.7 billion.

With Dunkirk and Detroit summer release, we might get two big time Oscar contenders coming out of the summer blockbuster

Still, it's a fine send - off for a series that redefined the look and feel and ambition of the super-hero genre, the summer blockbuster and the big - budget studio tentpole all in one go.

If the movie is a big hit - not a certainty in a summer of underperforming blockbusters like «Poseidon» and «Mission: Impossible III» - you can be sure there will be spinoffs like «Wolverine: The Prequel» or «Magneto: The Early Years.»

In a cute bit of cross promotion from New Zealand, the folks at Walt Disney in the southern hemisphere have used the emotions from this summer's Pixar Animation film Inside Out as a way to help one of Disney's other big summer blockbusters, The Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Here, it's as if the machinery of making a big - budget, comics - inspired summer blockbuster has swallowed him whole.

One of the festival's big summer blockbuster premieres (others include Wanted and Hellboy II: The Golden Army, as noted here) the Journey debut is open to the public.

Bridesmaids is one of the few comedies coming up in this summer of big - budget blockbusters and it looks like it's going to be a decent estrogen - infused counterpart to the off - the - wall guy humor of The Hangover Part II.

Even with all the cinematic accoutrements — the music, the comedy, Wright's penchant for attention - grabbing camerawork — there's a purity to Baby Driver's vehicular mayhem that's extremely refreshing in a summer movie season where even the best blockbuster action movies tend to devolve into a cacophony of pixels by the big final battle.

While the details are familiar from Sam Raimi's 2002 film, they play out in a more relaxed manner: The Amazing Spider - Man is every inch a blockbuster, but it doesn't have the urgency of most big - budget summer movies.

Despite a big summer blockbuster budget of $ 130 million and a prime early May release date — exactly the same spot that worked for Gladiator five years earlier - Heaven failed to find an audience.

Something of a small miracle, «The Way Way Back» is such a refreshing, smartly enjoyable reprieve from the summer movie season's barrage of superhero fare and big - budget blockbusters that you feel blue when it must come to an end.

While summer is reserved for big blockbuster action, there will be a few family friendly endeavors trying to snag the attention of all the kids who will be out of school for the season.

One of these trends is the fact that with almost every big summer blockbuster movie comes a video game adaptation, usually a poor one at that.