Sentences with phrase «of box office grosses»

2014 might not have been the best in terms of box office grosses or bums in seats, but there were a lot of really great movies across every genre.

Below is a chart of box office grosses over the course of the year (the weekly domestic averages from 2000 - 2010):

The rise of territories such as China, Russia and South Korea has spurred a 33 percent growth in the international box office, and foreign markets contributed 70 percent of box office grosses in 2013.

Of the box office grosses for «Kung Fu Panda» 3 and 4, I'd guess.

Not exact matches

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To put the importance of the overseas box office into perspective, all of the 10 highest - grossing films of 2016 made more money overseas than domestically (the top film, Disney's Captain America: Civil War, made almost 65 % of its $ 1.15 billion total through international release).

Others, like Avatar director James Cameron and Interstellar «s Christopher Nolan, have argued that the startup threatens the health of the movie industry, which turned in a record year in 2015 in terms of overall box office gross.

Each of the two previous films have generally positive Rotten Tomatoes ratings, and they fared reasonably well at the box office ($ 170 million in global gross for Cloverfield and $ 110 million for 10 Cloverfield Lane) for lower - budget movies.

Spotlight is one of a handful of frontrunners for Best Picture and its box office gross is just $ 38 million — which would make it one of the lowest - grossing Best Picture winners.

In fact, half of the top 10 grossing films of the year came from Walt Disney Studios — which hauled in $ 3 billion in domestic box office, Disney reported.

In perhaps the most notorious example of Oscar's underdog favoritism, in 2010, The Hurt Locker — released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the box office — beat Avatar which had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful movie ever made.

This year's field of Best Picture nominees features eight movies with widely variant box office performances, from 20th Century Fox's (FOX) The Martian «s leading $ 228 million in domestic gross to Room, which barely cracked $ 12.5 million in ticket sales.

In fact, of those eight films, five of them have made less at the box office than Crash, which is currently the fifth - lowest grossing film of the past four decades (in terms of sales adjusted for inflation).

All this sets up The Force Awakens — the seventh chapter in the Star Wars franchise that takes place 30 years after The Return of the Jedi — to break the record for the highest grossing opening weekend at the box office.

Meanwhile, 2016 was the fifth - straight year that Paramount failed to out - gross any of the other six major Hollywood studios at the domestic box office.

Paramount released a number of notable big - budget flops in 2016, including Ben Stiller's comedy sequel Zoolander 2 ($ 28.8 million in domestic gross) and a Ben - Hur remake that Paramount co-financed with MGM, which only grossed $ 26.4 million domestically, according to Box Office Mojo.

Released in February, Deadpool is the biggest movie of 2016 so far with $ 330 million in domestic box office gross and a worldwide haul of more than $ 700 million.

The film passed the worldwide gross of 2003's «The Matrix Reloaded» ($ 742 million) for the top spot after box - office numbers came in Monday.

Because of James Cameron's involvement and its huge box - office gross, «Avatar» probably had these nominations in the bag before any Academy voter even saw the movie.

The movie, which focuses on the titular superhero who is king of the fictional African country of Wakanda, is forecasted to pull in as much as $ 165 million in domestic box - office gross for its debut over the four - day President's Day holiday weekend.

The five films Murdoch's 20th Century Fox division put out this summer season (which runs from the first weekend in May through Labor Day in the entertainment industry) grossed $ 783 million as of earlier this week, according to film revenue - tracking website Box Office Mojo.

In fact, all of the previous 10 best picture winners, prior to last night's win by The Artist, have grossed the far majority of their box office money before the Academy Awards.

Paramount's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot was one of August's surprise successes with $ 149.6 million in ticket sales, while The Walt Disney Company (DIS) scored the hit of the summer with Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which broke the opening - weekend box - office record for August on its way to grossing $ 258 million in the U.S. and more than $ 500 million worldwide within less than a month of its release.

Still, Fifty Shades of Grey earned more than $ 338.4 million from global box offices and had become Universal Studios» highest - grossing R - rated film internationally.

(In fact, 4 of the top 10 highest - grossing films at the domestic box office so far in 2016 are animated movies.)

The movie was the highest - grossing film of 1985, taking in $ 211 million at the domestic box office, the equivalent of $ 458 million today.

It's worth noting that another Fox Searchlight film, Birdman, was among the lowest - grossing Best Picture Oscar winners of all - time, but it went on to gross more than $ 100 million worldwide, while 12 Years a Slave (another slavery - themed period drama) grossed $ 187 million in global ticket sales, according to Box Office Mojo.

Fortune decided to take a look at the 10 highest - grossing science - fiction movies of all time, using data from Box Office Mojo and adjusting for inflation.

Yes, James Cameron, who holds box - office records for not one, but two of the highest - grossing films of all time, took time out of making the next three «Avatar» sequels to read over an early «Deadpool» script.

Much like trolls» attempts to affect Black Panther «s status as a critical darling, the Twitter posts describing fake attacks at movie screenings also seemed to be part of a racist campaign meant to scare people away from theaters in order to hurt the film's overall box - office gross (again, a major fail).

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.

The movie was relatively successful at the box office — especially considering it was made on a budget of about $ 6.5 million — but it was still the lowest - grossing winner since 1987's The Last Emperor at the time.

«Shape of Water,» for example, won for best picture and only grossed $ 57 million at the US box office.

(Though Black Panther performed respectably overseas, it's the rare box office hit that made more than 50 percent of its gross domestically.)

5) Information on the combined box office gross of the world's 10 most profitable actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman, Robert Downey, Jr., Eddie Murphy, Tom Cruise, Stanley Tucci, Scarlett Johansson and Ian McKellan from boxofficemojo.com

To date it has grossed an incredible $ 437m worldwide on box office sales, making it one of the highest - grossing British films of all time.

To wit: the unsurprising box - office grosses of James Cameron's state - of - the - art Avatar.

(The same media that encouraged specious skepticism about the film's box - office prospects is also the media that heralded its box - office triumph» «The highest - grossing film of all time!

The third of C.S. Lewis» «Narnia» books to make it to the big screen almost didn't happen when Disney lost the faith after the «disappointing» returns for «Prince Caspian,» with its worldwide box office gross of $ 419 million.

The weekend box office saw some major upsets, not the least of which was Pacific Rim: Uprising being the movie to finally topple Black Panther as the highest - grossing weekender in the United States.

A largely unknown story outside of teen reader circles, it has become a juggernaut, breaking records for advance cinema booking, recording the biggest opening weekend for a non-sequel in Box Office history, and grossing double its substantial budget within a week.

The actual earnings for the movie over the weekend were actually a gross total of $ 22.5 million, which made the second slot at the Box Office.

The film, Black Hawk Down, with its depiction of U.S. military prowess in Somalia, grossed over $ 110 million dollars at the box office.

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).

The amount of gun violence in top - grossing PG - 13 movies, which can be seen by children of all ages, has continued to exceed the gun violence in the biggest box - office R - rated films, a new analysis published in the journal Pediatrics shows.

According to Box Office Mojo, «Gravity» grossed $ 704.9 million worldwide, $ 270.5 domestically and $ 434.4 million overseas, with an estimated budget of $ 100 million.

In a most unusual turn of events, the picture not only received many outstanding reviews in the press, but became the top box - office grosser of its weekend.

While most critics dismissed the film, it charmed a handful of others (such as Kevin Thomas and Rita Kempley) and did outstanding box office for a programmer, grossing several times its original budget.

Total domestic box office grosses were up over 6 % in 2012 (to a record $ 10.83 billion), while the number of tickets sold also increased by a similar percentage after falling to a 16 - year low the year before.

* Domestic Gross (here and in all remaining tables on this page) includes box office grosses through January 19, 2015 (including estimates for the holiday weekend of January 16 - 19) for any 2014 releases that are still playing in theaters.