Sentences with phrase «office hit movies»

With dozens of box office hit movies and several Academy Award nomi...

The actor, who starred in the box - office hit movie Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan,...

The actor, who starred in the box - office hit movie Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Jack Black and Nick Jonas, took to Instagram to celebrate the success of the first movie and to break the news that he's already working on the sequel.

Not exact matches

Even with the potential for major flops, Hollywood's movie franchise model is here to stay, but history shows us that the studios that aim for critical success with their sequels tend to land more hits at the box office.

As for Owning Mahowny, the movie wasn't exactly a box office hit, but it did garner impressive reviews, which shouldn't surprise anyone considering its protagonist was played by one of the greatest actors of our time.

The story of a lovable alien stranded on earth, the movie was an immediate hit, and it earned $ 435 million at the domestic box office, the equivalent of $ 1 billion today.

And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros. hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the top - earning studio at the domestic box office for the year.

With «The Fate of the Furious» hitting theaters on Friday, and looking to make box - office dollars as over-the-top as its stunts, here we look back on the incredible career of «The Rock» from a failed football run and WWE to bona fide movie star:

The surprise hit of the year, having the best opening ever for an R - rated movie ($ 132.4 million) and earning over $ 780 million at the global box office, was also the most illegally downloaded movie of 2016, according to TorrentFreak.

With the best Rotten Tomatoes score for any Bay movie (66 %), the mix of action and lighthearted moments made it one of the biggest box - office hits of the year.

In the hands of director J.J. Abrams, it lived up to the hype to become not only the biggest box office hit of the year, but also one of the most fun action movies we've seen in a long time.

Though Jesus was not a box - office hit, Campus Crusade had other things in store for the movie.

This weekend, James Cameron's science - fiction epic Avatar topped the box office for the third straight week, shooting past $ 1 billion worldwide, only the fifth movie ever to hit that mark.

Smartphones are tucked away, allowing friends and family to enjoy the magic of the movies together while they laugh, cry or sit on the edge of their seats watching the latest box office hit.

Okorafor said she was buoyed by the global success of the summer box office hit «Wonder Woman» — the first superhero movie to star a woman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywood.

Director Shawn Levy, whose box - office hits give critics meltdowns (Cheaper By the Dozen, The Pink Panther, both Night at the Museum movies), puts frisky energy into the fights, especially when Charlie and son take a junk - pile robot named Atom and build him into a contender.

More often than not, the undeniably talented comic actor's hits (Billy Madison, Big Daddy, The Longest Yard, Click ad nauseum) personify him not only as an arrested adolescent but a perpetually (and psychotically) angry one; the box office success of movies as unpleasant as those reveals things about their fans that I'm not sure I want to know.

Crafting a modestly budgeted movie about ordinary, nothing special people thrust into extraordinary circumstances and showing heroism means a big box office hit.

Her first big movie break was as a lead in Paul Verhoeven's thriller Basic Instinct Jeanne has also starred along side Tom Cruise's as his wife in the box - office hit The Firm.

That movie's already made $ 1.3 billion at the box office and hasn't even hit the home video market.

«Skyfall» (2012) Box Office Take: $ 1,109 billion 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 9 Twenty - three movies in, James Bond finally hit the billion dollar club, with «Skyfall» nearly doubling the gross of previous franchise high «Casino Royale.»

«Despicable Me 2» (2013) Box Office Take: $ 971m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 19 Back in 2010, Universal's animated feature «Despicable Me» proved a surprise worldwide smash, but few would have anticipated that its sequel would have become the third - biggest animated movie of all time, and until «Furious 7,» Universal's biggest hit ever.

Okay, perhaps we're being a bit unfair — Warcraft definitely had its moments, even if it was kind of a mess overall, and The Angry Birds Movie was a bonafide box office hit — but the fact remains that on the whole, audiences have had very good reason to be skeptical about video game movies for a very long time.

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.

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

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.

It's not clear if Free Fire will be a box office success when it hits North American theaters next month, but it's easily one of the most entertaining movies you'll see all year.

It's hard to imagine «Hit and Run» getting as large of a theatrical release as it did (or even one at all) without the involvement of Bradley Cooper, not only due to his box office drawing power, but because his amusing, against - type turn as a dreadlocked ex-con is about the only good thing the movie has going for it.

Their first movie, «Training Day» was a major hit in the box office and led to both men receiving Oscar nominations, with Denzel Washington winning an Academy Award for best actor.

The movie also hit big at the box office.

No doubt: The World War II movie that hit big at the summer box office garnered eight nominations, including the first directing nod for Thomas» husband, Christopher Nolan, and a best picture nomination for both of them.

Deadpool was a surprise hit, breaking box office records for an R - rated movie.

While most not being very good beside the first Transformer movie the films have been a smash hit at the box office.

TheWrap's Summer Movie Preview: Outside of «Avengers,» «Deadpool 2,» and «Ant - Man & The Wasp,» there are only a few surefire box office hits this summer

Reported to be one of the biggest box office hits of all time in its native Chile, Pablo Larrain's The Club is also a movie that works in neat tandem with another title on this list — Tom McCarthy's Spotlight.

With Avengers: Infinity War set to become the fastest movie ever to hit $ 1 billion gross at the global box office (possibly later today), the thirst for a videogame based on Marvel's Dream Team of superheroes has never been stronger.

In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.

Laura Butler IT only opened in one US cinema over the weekend, but Michael Fassbender's indie movie Frank has already been declared a hit at the US box office.

The wunderkind's previous two movies — 2013 Sundance darling Fruitvale Station, about the killing of Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man shot in the back by police while facedown on an Oakland subway platform; and 2015's Rocky reboot, Creed, about a young boxer who grows up in juvenile detention and learns to channel his anger in the ring — were both critical and box - office hits, leaving little doubt Coogler was up to the challenge.

After building over $ 468 million in global box office this year with The LEGO Movie, Warner Bros. has three more LEGO - branded films set to hit theaters in the next four years, Kevin Tsujihara announced today as part of WB's super-sized shareholder announcement.

Ordinarily, dud movies end up stuck with boring ol' January slots, but Deadpool «s fandom has already proven that they're willing to drop everything and hit the box office during that time period, so perhaps Fox hopes to strike gold twice.

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Video game adaptations haven't traditionally been huge box office hits, with only one movie, 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, earning over $ 100 million domestically.

Insidious was one of the early signs that Blumhouse's strategy of turning modestly budgeted horror movies into box office hits would be viable going forward.

After The Lego Movie had hit big with audiences and at the Box Office, I knew that Warner Brothers would not only greenlight the sequel but develop several spin - off films as well.

Alongside The Unjust, box office hit The Man From Nowhere features in the «Crime and Punishment» section, whilst black comedy Shim's Family and Blue Dragon Film Award winner The Show Must Go On join Oki's Movie in «Extraordinary Ordinary Families».

In fact, if an indie movie does become a breakout hit at the box office, chances are it most certainly debuted at Robert Redford's three decade old film festival.

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Melissa McCarthy has enough clout in this town and in this industry, after standout performances in the massive box - office hits «Bridesmaids,» «The Heat» and «Identity Thief,» to make pretty much any movie she wants.