Sentences with phrase «of box office failure»

The studio also released just one critical dud (I Am Number Four, also a bit of a box office failure) last year after releasing three such films in 2010.

There were plenty of box office failures as well (like financial flops like Fantastic Four and cinematic duds like Fifty Shades of Grey) but overall, the local cineplex offered an eclectic mix of strong films that overshadowed many of the disappointments.

Not exact matches

Fox's decision to finally move forward with the film followed a years - long process in which Reynolds, director Tim Miller, and writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick had to fight through various obstacles (including the box office failure of another Reynolds superhero movie, 2011's Green Lantern) to get the movie made.

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.

Immediately lambasted by critics upon release in 2002, the visually extravagant film proved a notable failure at the box office - with the dubbed stateside version of the film taking exceptional heat.

Columbus» track record with family - friendly hits like Home Alone and Mrs. Doubtfire went down much easier than Gilliam's history of quarelling with studios and his multiple (but undeserved) box office failures.

Unfortunately, Kiss of Death was a critical and box - office failure, as were his successive suspense thrillers Jade, Cold Around the Heart, and Body Count.

A baker's dozen of books featuring the character of Ezekiel «Easy» Rawlins were penned by author Walter Mosley, and it's a shame the box office failure of Devil in a Blue Dress prevented any more mysteries from making the leap from page to screen.

Steven Spielberg's expensive animated adventure Tintin was a box office failure based on its domestic total, and while that film has grossed nearly $ 300 million in the rest of the world, its foreign receipts are attributable to Sony, who handled global distribution.

It was clearly designed as the first in a series of films but its historic box - office failure ensured that it is a one - off.

Nevertheless, with the stink of critical and box office failure, How Do You Know comes to DVD and Blu - ray on Tuesday.

Despite suggestions that Suicide Squad would be a box office failure, a new report puts it as one of the most profitable movies of the summer.

Valerian's box - office failure might stymie development on any other $ 200 - million indies like this one, but at least we've got this wonderful, overstuffed, ridiculous feast of a movie - a movie that had me guffawing and applauding throughout its gloriously bloated runtime.

Since Sucker Punch failed to conquer the box office, there's been lots of speculation about why it was a box office failure.

There's a reason more established directors stay away — Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Donnie Brasco, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) saw his reputation permanently dinged by the box - office failure of Prince of Persia, a Disney adaptation of a famed platform game, while Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) took on the mighty task of adapting Warcraft to the screen and was greeted by punishing reviews for his years of work.

A baker's dozen of books featuring the character of Ezekiel «Easy» Rawlins were penned by author Walter Mosley, and it's a shame the box office failure of Devil in a Blue Dress, the screen adaptation of the first Rawlins novel, prevented any more mysteries from making the leap from page to screen.

The direct - to - the - screen movie musical (as opposed to the adapted play or remake) has been an endangered species for decades and the box office failure of Newsies back in 1992 nearly killed it.

Not as bad as you may think it is given the huge box office failure, but definitely not as good as it should have been, Supernova is little more than a waste of time and money with nothing new to offer to anyone watching it.

(Ridley Scott and George Miller collaboration maybe...) Yes, it was a box office failure, but the novel is considered one of the greatest Sci - Fi works ever.

I just hope that the failure of this and the recent Noah at the box office doesn't mean the temporary end of biblical epics in Hollywood.

The dual failure of Exodus: Gods and Kings and Gods of Egypt demonstrates just how ineffective whitewashing is when it comes to the box office.

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).

Its box office figures proved greatly disappointing, but the director's cut suggests that this particular «failure» will age like a bottle of fine merlot.

Ryan Reynolds» career has been on life support for several years... his natural charisma seemed unlikely to prevail against a succession of roles in miserable box office failures.

It proves that bad jokes can bomb not once but twice if offered consecutively (Bad Company, because it fears correctly that its target audience won't understand a joke unless it's repeated, does two Czech language jokes and two New Jersey jokes one after another to a rising chorus of crickets), and it will demonstrate by its inevitable box - office failure that even the dumbest members of the audience have the animal sense not to sit through something this appalling a second time.

Bad luck seems to rain down on a lot of our action heroes and I'm not just talking about Arnie and Sly's recent box - office failures.

Tony Black on the box office failure of The Huntsman: Winter's War... So it seems we have the first confirmed box office dud of 2016: The Huntsman's Winter War, positioned as a potential new fantasy franchise under the Universal banner.

Despite being a box - office failure, an ever - growing amount of film - lovers consider this film to be a sci - fi masterpiece.

According to the three historians on the DVD's excellent commentary track, the film did enjoy strong box office returns and was anything but a creative failure, but Castile is symbolic of the epic productions studios couldn't indulge in as often, until TV forced a return to bug budget epics during the fifties, in the form of pseudo-moral Biblical sagas in CinemaScope and stereophonic sound.

His critical hit The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was a box - office failure; his scrappy indie (and awards hopeful) The Birth of a Nation ended up being a P.R. disaster.

After the box office failures of New York, New York, Raging Bull and The King of Comedy, Scorsese returned to independent filmmaking with After Hours (1985), an interesting if minor work.

THR further claims that the script for the standalone Van Helsing film is still being polished, with more time being spent to tighten up it, along with the scripts for the Dark Universe movies in the wake of The Mummy's critical failure and less - than - anticipated box office.

It's extremely difficult — and expensive — to film in water, and the price of failure can be massive (see Waterworld, which went wildly over budget and torpedoed Kevin Costner's career as an A-Lister, or Cutthroat Island, which performed so badly at the box office that its production company went bankrupt).

Despite the box office failure of the second live - action Smurfs movie, Sony is going ahead with a CG Smurfs movie, Get Smurfy.

Since the box office failure of that Judd Apatow dramedy, the serious Sandler has appeared somewhat less frequently, and movies like Men, Women & Children haven't done much to generate interest in this corner of his career.

Although we now know that it went on to be a massive box office hit and took home a sack of Oscars, the release of Gladiator, which was their most expensive film to date, represented the unimaginable: a $ 103 - million attempt to resurrect the long - dead ancient Roman epic, a once steadfast Hollywood genre that has been defunct since the mid-1960s when big hits like Ben - Hur (1959) and Spartacus (1960) were eventually overshadowed by colossal financial failures like Cleopatra (1963)(not to mention 1980's notorious big - budget hard - core epic Caligula).

If the film can hold well through the month of December it should come out okay, but if it doesn't, then count this as a box office failure.

Rejected by reviewers and moviegoers put off by John Carpenter's wholehearted embrace of state - of - the - art special effects technology, this remake of the 1951 classic THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD was a box office failure, but subsequently acquired a strong following.

The major ripple in the top box office waters was really the Diary of a Wimpy Kid sequel, despite all critical failure and audience rejection climbing to the top of the box office.

That's not to call it wildly commercial, however, and it seems like a smart ploy on producer Scott Rudin's part to start here in Cannes and plan a long - term roll - out; this is not a quick, immediate sell and could benefit from some of the lessons learned after the box - office failure last year of Paul Thomas Anderson's equally acclaimed The Master.

The Animated Feature nominees tend to lean towards studio fare (even box office failures) so expect to see the likes of Coco, Ferdinand, The Boss Baby and / or any number of sequels that hit this year like Cars 3, Despicable Me 3 or The LEGO Batman Movie.

Pan «s failure at the box office is a reminder that the retelling of an origin story is often a tricky expedition.

Judging by the relative box - office failures of 2001's equally dim - witted Pearl Harbor and A.I., I wouldn't be so quick with that assumption.

2011 brought us a strong spring season with release of «Jane Eyre,» «Hanna» and «Paul,» a strong box office with «Battle: Los Angeles» and spectacular failure in «Sucker Punch.»

Fear of failure - both critically, and at the box office - compelled Scott to shorten his $ 25 million fantasy epic to around 90 minutes.

Very quickly, they are able to gather information about Tag Kern, his recent box - office failures, his suspicious girlfriend, his new project with Red Eclipse studios, and his devotion to thinly - veiled Scientology stand in «The Church of Us».

Lasting First Impressions of Tron Evolution: Battle Grids from Disney Interactive In 1982, Disney released a highly experimental movie which, despite the stunning imagery found in the film, was a failure at the box office.

A couple days ago in the NYTimes, Holland Cotter, extremely agitated by the sorry state of the art world, ranted about the detrimental effect big money has had on art production, the lack of cultural diversity, the failure of art schools, the high rents, museums» focus on the box office, conservative art criticism, and more.

• Welcome customers as they approach the box office counter and inquire into their movie preferences • Provide information on running movies and show timings along with seat availability • Take customers» information (such as name and age) and punch it into the system for verification purposes • Provide customers with information on age - appropriateness of their desired movie and ensure that identification is properly conducted for rated films • Issue tickets to customers and ask them to verify seat, movie and date information on them • Accept credit card and cash payments for sold tickets and tender change and receipts • Handle reservations for shows over the telephone and in person and ensure that any cancellations are managed according to cinema protocols • Balance cash registers against tickets sold and ensure that any discrepancies or problems are immediately handled • Create and maintain reports of sold tickets and cinema income and provide feedback to managers regarding movies» success or failure • Assist in booking entire cinema halls for special screenings and issue tickets / passes to authorized guests and support staff • Ascertain that leaflet racks are fully stocked and that the counter is properly cleaned and maintained • Issue auxiliaries such as 3D glasses and ensure that returned glasses are counted and stored properly