Sentences with phrase «of box office returns»

This is the Army is based on an Irving Berlin Broadway revue, which donated virtually all of its box office returns to the war effort.

Likewise, The Departed received only 0.4 % of its box office returns after winning best picture, also due to a relatively early release date.

Not exact matches

The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first time in a decade.

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.

1983's «Return of the Jedi» earned $ 309 million at the domestic box office, the equivalent of $ 725 million today.

But unlike other films with more direct Christian messages, churches are much less likely to buy out theaters in bulk as they did for «Son of God» and «God's Not Dead,» a move that brought those films big returns at the box office.

Early estimates place the opening weekend returns for Avengers: Infinity War at $ 250 million, making it the highest - earning opening weekend of all time at the domestic box office.

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.

That is, they should be given a monopoly to use the city streets to wire the homes of a community, but in return should be required to carry all kinds of services — news (Cable News Network), information (The Weather Channel, Financial News Network), entertainment (Home Box Office, Cinemax), sports (ESPN), children programming (Disney), ethnic (Spanish Information Network, Black Entertainment Television), and religion (VISION TV in Canada, VISN in the U.S.).

The Disney - Marvel movie «Black Panther,» which finds the superheroic T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) returning to his remote African kingdom to assume the throne, roared into theaters over the weekend as a full - blown cultural event, breaking box office records and shattering a myth about the overseas viability of movies rooted in black culture.

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

If you leave feedback as soon as you return your box to the post office, this will speed up the process of them sending out your next box.

And heading off to the Post Office with a huge box of returns will help even more!

As with AP2, official word is that this is the final portion of American Pie.Still, I suspect that, depending on box - office returns, American Baby, AmericanDivorce and (seeing how fast these «kids» are aging) American Menopause can't be too far behind.

A bunch of impressive set pieces stitched together rather than a good story convincingly told, this gargantuan production should ride Brad Pitt «s name, teeming action scenes and widespread interest in all things zombie to strong box office returns, particularly internationally.

Batman Forever (1995), in which she played the hero's love interest, Dr. Chase Meridian, fared somewhat better, but did little in the way of establishing Kidman as a serious actress even as it raked in mile - high returns at the summer box office.

I've never been a fan of the Shrek movies, and the third entry in the series dutifully continues with everything they do that's annoying and irrational, mainly because the formula has always resulted in giant box office returns.

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.

Sure, it received a shocking box office return, raking in almost $ 30,000,000.00, but the word of mouth never spread.

Recalling John Milius» 1982 hit Conan the Barbarian (another film that launched the cinematic action career of a then - little - known athlete named Arnold Schwarzenegger), the sword - and - sandal adventure raked in 36 million dollars on its opening weekend and stayed at the top of the box office in the weeks following its impressive debut.Though he would return to the ring for the remainder of 2002, it didn't take Johnson long to soften on the prospect of a return to the silver screen — and with the following year's The Rundown, he did just that.

Upon returning to Hollywood in 1963, her career took a nosedive: Her comeback vehicle The Stripper performed poorly at the box office, and A New Kind of Love — another project with Newman — did not fare much better.

«The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey» (2012) Box Office Take: $ 1,017 billion 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 16 Hard to recall, but there was a time we felt excited by the prospect of a return to Middle Earth under the guiding hand of Peter Jackson.

Our box office wrap - up for the weekend of July 10, 2016, featuring new release Secret Life of Pets and returning champ Finding Dory.

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.

Grossing $ 90 million at the domestic box office (the equivalent of $ 228 M today), the film was the fourth biggest earner of 1983, trailing only Return of the Jedi, Terms of Endearment, and Flashdance, the latter two also part of a banner year at Paramount under the guidance of rising, Disney - bound Hollywood power players Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

Disney and Marvel managed to snag yet another box office record from themselves this weekend, with THR reporting that Ryan Coogler's Black Panther is now the most successful superhero movie — in terms of domestic box office returns, anyway — of all time.

The 2010 box office hit Red was directed by Robert Schwentke, who spent this past summer enduring awful feedback for R.I.P.D. Instead, Red 2 was helmed by Dean Parisot — it proved to be a smooth changing of the guard, made easier by the fact that the same duo who wrote the first picture, Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, returned for this follow - up.

After successfully guiding Skyfall to critical acclaim and huge box office returns around the globe, director Sam Mendes has decided not to return for the next installment of the James Bond franchise.

Reynolds previously teased the impending return of Deadpool with a surprise short that screened before Logan, another R - rated Marvel flick that was a box office hit, in March.

Our box office wrap - up for the weekend of October 11, 2015 featuring new release Pan, the nationwide expansion of The Walk, and returning champ The Martian.

Our box office wrap - up for the weekend of October 30, 2016, featuring new release Inferno and returning champ Boo!

The series seems prepped to defy the laws of diminishing box office returns that define most franchises.

The film debuted Friday against xXx: The Return of Xander Cage, a Vin Diesel - starring action flick that garnered $ 20 million for second place at the domestic box office.

Since returning to film following his stint as governor of California, Schwarzenegger has not proved to be a box - office draw.

Here's our box office report for the weekend of May 4th, 2014 — featuring the return of everyone's favorite webslinger in «The Amazing Spider - Man 2.»

Our box office wrap - up for the weekend of April 24, 2016, featuring new release The Huntsman: Winter's War and returning champ, The Jungle Book.

With the public paying in advance, box office returns, home video sales, and cable television deals would all be gravy instead of merely recouping production and marketing costs.

More to the point, «Midnight in Paris,» is Woody Allen's highest - grossing film, with box office returns of $ 151 million worldwide, according to Vanity Fair.

Our box office wrap - up for the weekend of May 15, 2016, featuring new release Money Monster and returning champ Captain America: Civil War.

Our box office wrap - up for the weekend of May 22, 2016, featuring The Angry Birds Movie, Neighbors 2, and returning champ Captain America: Civil War.

Returning to «Fantastic Beasts,» given its new story and timeline within J.K. Rowling's magical world, the title has been something of a box office question mark — especially in predicting how it will stack up against the «Harry Potter» movies.

Other highlights in this strand include: the World Premiere of Thierry Poiraud's DO N'T GROW UP, a stylish and inventive film about a group of teens on an unnamed island who wake up to find their youth facility eerily abandoned; the World Premiere of Jon Spira's affectionate documentary ELSTREE 1976 about the bit performers who appeared in George Lucas» box office behemoth Star Wars; GHOST THEATER, the latest film from director Hideo Nakata, the forerunner of J - horror; GREEN ROOM, Jeremy Saulnier's latest exercise in edge of the seat suspense, starring Patrick Stewart, Imogen Poots and Anton Yelchin; returning for the third year running, Sion Sono screens LOVE AND PEACE, his tale of punk rock and talking turtles; and the fantastically prolific Takashi Miike's riotous, unruly gangster vampire concoction YAKUZA APOCALYPSE.

Perhaps it was inevitable that anything following «Thriller» would be considered a commercial disappointment, at least comparatively speaking, but with the disappointing box office returns of 1985's «Into the Night» coming immediately after the controversy of actor Vic Morrow having been killed during the filming of Landis's segment in «Twilight Zone: The Movie,» it's fair to suggest that Landis was probably looking forward to an upturn in his fortunes.

Originally, Oscar - winning director Sam Mendes said he felt «physically ill» at the prospect of returning to the spy series — even after smashing box office records and racking up awards nods.

Was it just a matter of the money people looking at the box office returns and going, «Wow, these people know how to make hits»?

With this summer's disappointing box office returns for the troubled production of «The Lone Ranger» — following a string of disappointments including «The Sorcerer's Apprentice,» «Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,» «G - Force» and «Confessions of a Shopaholic» — Bruckheimer has had a rocky time of it lately on the big screen.

Picked up by CBS Films out of Toronto, «The F Word» may generate solid box office returns in limited release due to Radcliffe's star power and the commercial nature of its genre, but seems unlikely to have long - term theatrical prospects.

Still, box office returns at the time of each film's release suggest that removing the villain from a franchise is not the best thing to do if you want the film to make money.

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.

Nobody was quite ready for the runaway success of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, but based on the box office returns it appears that there are a lot of people who might want to hear what Dwayne Johnson has to say about a potential follow - up.