Sentences with phrase «office hit film»

Biography: Mark Addy is best known for his role as Dave Althorpe in 1997's box - office hit film «The Full Monty,» which received a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast.

It isn't a surprise that Gal Gadot, the star of the box office hit film «Wonder Woman» made the list.

Not exact matches

According to rival Hasbro, the property generates about $ 100 million in sales in the years when a feature film hits the box office.

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

The Toronto - based company announced Wednesday that the hit superhero film accounted for 22 per cent of its box office revenue in the first quarter.

The film has killed it at the box office for its opening weekend and has already hit $ 1 billion worldwide.

2016 featured a $ 2 billion box office from Star Wars: The Force Awakens and four other films that either hit $ 1 billion or came within inches of that mark.

In the Best Picture race, the biggest hits were the World War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales, good for 14th place on the box office charts, and Jordan Peele's horror film «Get Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk» with $ 176 million in domestic sales.

Disney had an amazing year in terms of box office, but that doesn't exclude some of their smaller hits, including this film about a chess prodigy in Uganda who tries to balance her success with responsibility to her family.

Portraying small role in a film was a office hit, and soundtrack came out on the ellen degeneres.

Schwartzman followed the film with a supporting role in The Princess Diaries (2001), a family comedy starring Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway that proved to be a runaway hit both among critics and at the box office.

The biggest of the non-major distributors, TWC saw its box office receipts grow by nearly 36 % last year compared to 2014 (thanks to hits like Paddington and 2014 holdover The Imitation Game), even as the overall quality of its films declined.

The first film was a huge hit, taking more than eight times its budget at the box office and winning over critics and audiences alike with its intelligent storytelling and witty script.

Following a substantial role in the independent romantic comedy Better Than Chocolate (1999), Crewson seemed to be on the verge of adding another hit to her resumé as one of Robin Williams» original owners in the fantasy Bicentennial Man (1999), but the film failed to live up to box - office expectations.

L.A. - based Roadside once again saw half of its films (including Chilean drama Gloria and festival hit Dear White People) earn positive reviews, but its Metascore average (and box office grosses) fell a bit compared to 2013.

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.

The film was a box - office hit, grossed nearly US$ 83 million in China.

The box - office hit, The Devil Wears Prada is the highest grossing film of her career.

Named for its orange color palette, the film was shot on an iPhone 5S with a tiny budget, becoming a surprise box office hit this summer.

Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box - office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.

His films were huge box office hits, were critically celebrated, and won numerous international awards, yet he is not a household name, even among many cinephiles.

David Fincher was once attached to the film but departed due to «creative differences» after Universal reportedly wanted to portray Shyamalan's 2008 film «The Happening» as a massive box office hit, including a scene where «The Happening» won Best Picture over Fincher's «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.»

Bleeker Street's ensemble heist film, Logan Lucky, was a hit with critics, but failed to makes waves at the box office.

The film hit theaters July 3, 1985, and topped the box office for 11 weekends.

The movie had a $ 34.5 million box - office debut beating Paramount's hit horror film «A Quiet Place» for the top spot on this weekend's box office charts.

Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master GEORGE A. ROMERO, is one of the great stories of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box - office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.

The movie was a box office hit in Belgium and became the top - grossing Flemish film of all time.

Courtesy of an unprecedented 15consecutive weeks at the apex of the domestic charts and strong internationalappeal, the film became the leading box office hit of all time.

We always like to end our weekend box office reports with a little reminder to «Support your local indie theater, boys and girls,» and with the roster of films hitting art house and repertory cinemas in 2011, it was an especially great time to stray away from the sticky floors and text friendly megaplexes.

The film is framed as a documentary — think The Office or Best in Show — and follows Harding from the trailer park with her foulmouthed mother (played by Allison Janney, who is already generating Oscar buzz) to the skating arena to the infamous Nancy Kerrigan hit that would define her life from there on out.

The film, directed by David Ayer, was a solid box office hit, grossing $ 745 million worldwide and the studio subsequently announced that it was working on a «Suicide Squad» sequel.

Emerging from the 2014 Toronto film festival with ecstatic reviews, audience buzz and a $ 12.5 m deal from Paramount, Rock's major comeback film, which he also wrote and directed, seemed as if it would be a box - office hit, too.

Our studio had its first ever $ 1 billion worldwide grossing film in Michael Bay's hit «Transformers: Dark of the Moon;» we successfully re-launched our «Mission Impossible» franchise with Tom Cruise, JJ Abrams and Brad Bird; our latest installment in the «Paranormal Activity» franchise had another $ 100 million dollar success; our first original animated film «Rango,» from director Gore Verbinski, earned rave reviews and more than $ 100 million at the domestic box office; and we released global phenomenon «Super 8,» directed by JJ Abrams, who will now direct the newest «Star Trek» for 2013.

The film team review Judi Dench and co's second jaunt to India in the sequel to the global box office hit

Indeed, the first time the film's weekend box office was less than its opening weekend was January 26th — a full month after the movie first hit theaters.

The latest of these, AMERICAN REUNION, focusing on the 4 boys no longer trying to lose their virginities but instead lamenting their lost youth, proved a great standalone film and a box office hit.

Box Office: «G.I. Joe: Retaliation» may not have hit the first film's $ 54.7 million mark, but $ 41.2 million on a $ 11,078 per theater average is still a very solid start.

But as Deadpool points out early the film, the risk paid off and Deadpool was a smash box office hit.

Look at «The Hangover», because the first film was so well liked the sequel became an even bigger hit, but because the sequel was considered to be inferior by critics in general, the 3rd film really suffered and paid the price as it came nowhere near the previous films domestic box office grosses.

Despite a catchy soundtrack that features the Fixx, the Blasters and Dan Hartman's massive chart hit «I Can Dream About You,» the film flopped at the box office back in 1984.

If that had happened, sure, the film would have been a guaranteed box office hit (rather than the indie darling this has the potential to become) but he probably wouldn't have filled the character with quite the pathos that Duplass does.

With the potential to also be a box office hit Universal looks to continue riding the wave of a financial year unmatched in film history.

Improbably, his unpleasant 2002 film The Piano Teacher even finished off its run as a bona fide box - office hit.

The film would probably need to be a critical and box office hit to be honestly given a realistic awards run and it's in the tech guilds that it will do that.

Cooper has starred in comedies such as the 2001 film «Wet Hot American Summer,» 2005's «Wedding Crashers,» and the 2009 box office hit «The Hangover» and earned his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the 2012 film «Silver Linings Playbook.»

Despite critical acclaim and his indie cred, Baumbach has never had a bonafide hit at the box office — The Squid and the Whale is his highest grossing film at just $ 9.4 million.

Less than a week after it hit theaters, Marvel's Black Panther has already recorded an impressive $ 242 million at the box office and in doing so has smashed the notion that «black films don't sell.»

With the dominance of superhero films in the past decade, it was also quite different in the mid-90's, as Hollywood star Wesley Snipes, who was in a wave of box - office hits that skyrocketed him to superstardom, took a bold initiative to make a film about the Black Panther, which was supposed to release many years ago.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I (Lionsgate, Blu - ray, DVD, VOD), the number one box office hit of 2015, follows the lead of the Harry Potter and Twilight series by splitting the final book into two film installments, making this the third of four films.

His two biggest films, Office Space and The Idiocracy, went straight to DVD in Britain but became cult hits thanks to their cutting observations about the general stupidity of humanity.