Sentences with phrase «of box office blockbusters»

Star Wars is once again the crowning king of box office blockbusters.

On his own, Bruckheimer has continued his streak of box office blockbusters, including Armageddon (1998, with Bruce Willis), Remember the Titans (2000, with Denzel Washington) and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003, starring Johnny Depp).

Not exact matches

Of course, even over-hyped, big - budget blockbusters can turn into major flops at the box office.

The blockbuster box - office performance of «Avengers: Infinity War» has reinforced the power of movie - going, comScore senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian told CNBC on Monday.

The blockbuster box - office performance of «Avengers: Infinity War» has reinforced the power of movie - going, comScore's Paul Dergarabedian says.

Despite the performance of «Guardians of the Galaxy» last weekend, which opened to US$ 94 million at the North American box - office, there have been few other blockbusters in the third quarter.

While Fandango did not release specific figures for Black Panther «s first day of advance ticket sales, the film's fast start should put it on the path toward a blockbuster box - office debut next month.

We already know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens set records at the box office, but on Tuesday we will find out more about the blockbuster film's ultimate impact on Walt Disney's (dis) bottom line in the first quarter of the entertainment giant's fiscal year.

The first superhero blockbuster film of 2018 is gearing up for a huge box - office opening this weekend.

Of course, if box - office totals experience a major rebound next summer, then any concern over the state of the summer blockbuster may go out the windoOf course, if box - office totals experience a major rebound next summer, then any concern over the state of the summer blockbuster may go out the windoof the summer blockbuster may go out the window.

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.

Ticket sales were down about 24 % this summer as delays and an expanding summer blockbuster season cut down the number of reliable box - office smashes.

The Academy dubbed it the year's best movie, but it is still an indie film and — Oscar bump or not — it will fall well short of any blockbuster's box - office gross.

Black Panther is already the biggest movie of 2018, and now the latest superhero blockbuster from Marvel and Walt Disney is on the precipice of cracking $ 1 billion in worldwide box - office revenue.

The movie certainly seems to be following a similar script to many of its Disney - Marvel superhero predecessors that rode major marketing campaigns and favorable critical buzz (Black Panther has a 97 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes) on their way to becoming global box - office blockbusters.

Already proving to be one of the most divisive blockbusters in years, hardcore fans» backlash against The Last Jedi didn't slow it down at the box office, with the new Star Wars movie taking in an estimated $ 220 million.

Enter UrLife, the brainchild of Jack Giarraputo — a prolific Hollywood producer of blockbuster films at Disney, Paramount, Sony, Fox and Warner Bros. that have grossed over $ 3.5 billion at the box office worldwide (to include 14 films with his producing partner Adam Sandler).

A group of Japanese scientists have surprised themselves by being able to predict the success or failure of blockbuster movies at the box office using a set of mathematical models.

Hollywood's endless factory line of sequels, rehashing of ideas and exhuming of dormant franchises to rake in the box office dollars has lent a soap opera feel to blockbuster season.

Sheen's next major success was also a comedy, the 1991 military - film satire Hot Shots, and while box - office blockbusters tended to elude him, Sheen worked steadily over the next several years, and racked up a respectable number of box - office successes.By this time, Sheen had developed a reputation as a hard - living star who spoke his mind regardless of the consequences, but his fun - loving image began to take on a darker hue in the mid -»90s.

Coco may not be a blockbuster but, regardless of how it performs at the box office, it's a welcome return to a variety of animated fare that prizes inspiration over safety.

A ten - year - old genius inventor must rally his neighborhood pals to build an armada of spaceships and rescue their parents from a goopy alien race in time for dinner in this computer - animated box office blockbuster from Nickelodeon.

Host David Steinberg interviews the show business legends, lifelong friends who got their start writing for television variety shows and became comedy motion picture directors, each with a string of classic box office blockbusters to his name.

The box - office success of Planet prompted 20th Century - Fox to assign Schaffner another potential blockbuster, the Oscar - winning Patton (1970).

The following year, Walters appeared in a small role in one of the year's biggest box - office blockbusters, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, as well as a number of TV projects.

For such a slow, snowbound month, January sure is busy: talking about Sundance, talking about the Oscars, talking about the political ramifications of not recognizing Selma vs. the blockbuster box office of American Sniper.

A surprise box office smash, this melodrama wound up becoming a big of an out of nowhere blockbuster.

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.

But for a remarkable amount of time he ruled the global box office, with one summer blockbuster after another, picking up two Oscar nominations along the way.

QUEENSLAND, Australia (February 17, 2015)-- Production has commenced on location in Australia on Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer Films» epic comedy adventure «Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,» directed by Espen Sandberg & Joachim Rønning («Kon - Tiki»), the fifth entry in the blockbuster franchise inspired by the classic Disney Theme Parks attraction, which has reaped $ 3.7 billion in worldwide box office.

Ben Stiller's NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM franchise may have done a hat - trick of December box - office blockbuster business, with Christmas Day releases almost guaranteeing that rare occurrence of when takings go up in teh second week, but the sequel we've all been waiting for is ZOOLANDER 2.

Earlier this year the huge critical and box office success of Zootopia (98 % on Rotten Tomatoes and $ 341M domestic) is more than enough to keep the blockbuster in a very solid second place.

We live in a wondrous world where a film which breaks box office records in Denmark prominently features a chronic masturbator (the inimitable Mads Mikkelsen in his least embraced role in a year in which he's been part of every worthwhile blockbuster tentpole) and a reasonable - sounding description of the logic behind certain forms of bestiality.

According to figures from Box Office Mojo, the 20th Century Fox blockbuster, which was displaced at the top of the...

Ted became a surprise blockbuster when it was released in summer 2012, and holds the record for the highest - grossing original R - rated comedy of all time with global box - office takings of 549.4 million dollars (# 329.5 million).

His debut turn behind the camera, however, came a lot later than the scripts that made his name (you can read our rundown of those right here), and while it was hardly the box office blockbuster it may have been hoped the «Lethal Weapon» writer would turn out, it's in fact a great, great film; a hugely enjoyable comedy / murder msytery / noir hybrid romp with plenty of meta flourishes and sideways - winking humour.

There was a time when Roland Emmerich was one of the biggest directors working in Hollywood, both in terms of box office numbers and spectacle, but lately his FX - heavy blockbusters have started to feel somewhat dated and hokey.

Video game movies are usually received poorly by critics and aren't exactly blockbusters when it comes to the box office but the success of the recent Tomb Raider movie shows that its possible to make a decent movie that's based on a video game franchise.

Of the small sampling of Hong Kong films I've seen, the ones I've liked best are not usually the pop action blockbusters but some of the so - called art movies, which in some cases have been box - office failures (largely because there is no art - movie market in Hong Kong): Yim Ho's Homecoming (1984), Wong Kar - wai's Days of Being Wild (1990), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991), and Yim Ho and Tsui Hark's King of Chess (1991Of the small sampling of Hong Kong films I've seen, the ones I've liked best are not usually the pop action blockbusters but some of the so - called art movies, which in some cases have been box - office failures (largely because there is no art - movie market in Hong Kong): Yim Ho's Homecoming (1984), Wong Kar - wai's Days of Being Wild (1990), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991), and Yim Ho and Tsui Hark's King of Chess (1991of Hong Kong films I've seen, the ones I've liked best are not usually the pop action blockbusters but some of the so - called art movies, which in some cases have been box - office failures (largely because there is no art - movie market in Hong Kong): Yim Ho's Homecoming (1984), Wong Kar - wai's Days of Being Wild (1990), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991), and Yim Ho and Tsui Hark's King of Chess (1991of the so - called art movies, which in some cases have been box - office failures (largely because there is no art - movie market in Hong Kong): Yim Ho's Homecoming (1984), Wong Kar - wai's Days of Being Wild (1990), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991), and Yim Ho and Tsui Hark's King of Chess (1991of Being Wild (1990), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991), and Yim Ho and Tsui Hark's King of Chess (1991of Chess (1991).

While no blockbuster of Blind Side proportions, Soul Surfer performed quite respectably at the box office, grossing nearly all of its $ 44 million in America.

In one of two blockbuster adaptations to showcase his shining star this year (the other being the inexplicable feature - length translation of a little game called Battleship), Taylor Kitsch leads the weekend as the title character in John Carter, leaping miles in a single bound and surely climbing the box - office charts too.

By this, Barbera means the high - profile putative blockbusters — your Star Wars, your Terminators, your Guardians of the Galaxy — which have no need for a paparazzi - draped red - carpet launch to boost their box - office takings, and any festival appearance would be purely down to the vanity of the film - makers involved.

From cult classics to box office blockbusters, child actor to leading man, the movies he has been such a memorable part of are staples for any avid movie buff's collection and his public life has been something to be proud of as well.

Happy to be there: The one gaudy blockbuster that did make the field was «Into the Woods,» a movie audiences soundly forgot quickly out of the Christmas box office.

I bet this movie fails in box - office as first one fail (i mean wouldn't sell as blockbuster) but I guarantee when we see it for first time, astonishing memories of that TIME doesn't repeat again.

The National Board of Review has named the dystopian - future blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road the best film of the year, while the box office goliath The Martian grabbed three awards, taking best actor for Matt Damon, best director for Ridley Scott and best adapted screenplay for Drew Goddard.

Even outside of established franchises there's been evidence that blockbuster movies don't need big (white) Hollywood stars to perform well at the box office.

Playlist Adam McKay (The Big Short) planning a Dick Cheney biopic which may star Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Steve Carell LA Times comedian Don Rickles has died at 90 Vulture Interesting observations: blockbuster filmmakers are making the same single parent family drama inbetween their visual fx movies Movie City News on the tired false notion that «movie stars don't matter anymore» in terms of box office which we're seeing a lot of post Ghost in the Shell opening and which we see every time a star driven movie fails essentially.

After three weeks atop the chart, Minions has been knocked from pole position at the UK box office by Marvel's latest superhero blockbuster Ant - Man, which debuted in first place with an opening weekend of # 4,011,345.

Surprise, surprise... two more upcoming blockbusters have decided to pull the trigger at the last minute and shoehorn in some 3 - D effects in order to increase their chances of box office success.