Sentences with phrase «on box office returns»

It's sad to say that Walker's death no doubt had a large impact on the box office returns, but it at least proved that Wan was capable of delivering a solid film that wasn't a horror movie, even amidst a tragedy.

While the film community scrutinizes every decimal point on the box office returns for summer's superhero blockbusters and Academy Awards hopefuls, the horror genre has quietly been churning out some of the most profitable films in the industry recently.

The young adult craze («Twilight,» «The Hunger Games») has recently crashed («Beautiful Creatures,» «Vampire Academy,» «The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones»), and the media has decided that the fate of future young adult film adaptations will live and die on the box office returns of «Divergent.»

I hope he's not basing this on the box office returns for Kick Ass.

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.

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.

I immediately re-packed the pink, stuck on the returns sticker provided & dropped the box at post office — easy peasy!

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.

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.

Stoller got his start in TV, writing for Judd Apatow's series «Undeclared,» and after his underrated rom - com «The Five - Year Engagement» flopped at the box office, he had his eye on a return to TV, with this semi-autobiographical project based on his own time at an ad agency, which he wrote, executive produced and directed.

After pretty much destroying the box office this past weekend, and on track to take home a cool $ 1 billion dollars, «Iron Man 3» is a triumphant return for writer / director Shane Black.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of transcendent filmmaking in the The Lost City of Z and A Ghost Story, it was the age of foolish Spider - Man remakes / reboots / regurgitations, it was the epoch of a magnificent enquiry into belief by the evergreen Martin Scorsese, it was the epoch of the incredulous return of Mel Gibson in a box office hit, it was the season of Michael Haneke shining a light on our uncaring societal malaise, it was the season of manifold more people watching Baywatch, it was the spring of Aki Kaurismäki's warm - hearted but politically pressing The Other Side of Hope, it was the winter of despair at the box office results of masterpieces like Certain Women, Aquarius and The Death of Louis XIV, we had Yorgos Lanthimos» Kubrickian masterpiece before us, we had a new Kingsman film before us, we were all going direct to cinematic Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

Travis Fimmel, who returns as lead Ragnar Lothbrok on the History Channel's hit series Vikings later this year, has also seen his film stock rising with well - received perfs in Rebecca Miller's critically - acclaimed Maggie's Plan and Universal / Legendary's Warcraft, currently at $ 430 million worldwide box office.

Even if the returns were far from Hollywood's biggest heavyweights and even considerably shy of mid-range hits like Charlotte's and Terabithia, at least they didn't squarely add the film to the box office bomb category that's full of YA non-starters like Vampire Academy, Beautiful Creatures, Cirque du Freak, and so on.

James Cameron declared Genisys the satisfying sequel his franchise has lacked since he turned over the writing and directing reins on 2003's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, but don't pay that endorsement too much mind, even if box office king of the world Cameron, who receives a characters credit and nothing more here, has little to gain from it (until 2019, when rights to the series return to him).

The box office returns for her current thriller Girl on the Train, promoted largely on her name and face alone, suggest the former but bestsellers do come with their own pull.

Finding Nemo may not have managed to crack the top slot at the box office — it was up against The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — but its success both at the multiplex and on home video (it's the biggest seller of all time, apparently) heralded a new age of animated blockbusters.

The studio is most likely waiting for the weekend box office results to announce any sort of follow - up, and there's no kind of preliminary word on whether first time director Tim Miller could return as well.

And just because you produce a surprise box - office hit with a return on investment the envy of major studios everywhere doesn't mean you should greenlight a sequel, let alone two sequels.

Critics have not been impressed by the film and the crowded opening weekend box office returns have been kind of dismal, but that won't have been for any lack of effort on John Cusack's part.

But while the reviews of Zemeckis» films were for the most part slightly favorable, the box office returns were regularly beneath expectations, which were heightened on the bases of the filmmaker's steep budgets and strong track record.

If the box office returns on his last couple of films weren't any indication, Tarantino's still got stronger pull than Lou Ferrigno...

To see this, I've taken every film nominated for an Academy Award, separated them based on whether they received a win or not, and overlaid their weekly box office returns based on the time of that year's award ceremony.

It's as if the writers (Ben Zazove, Kevin Cecil, and Andy Riley) were unenthusiastically grasping for an opening before settling on simply relaying their initial brainstorm when tasked to come up with a sequel to 2011's featureless and inoffensive Gnomeo and Juliet, a film whose box office returns apparently warranted a second chapter.

The Tom Cruise action series likewise began in the 1990s and had its box office returns start to decline on the third installment.

George Chrysostomou on legacy characters... Franchises have a lot of bankable qualities, but one thing that will forever boost the box office of a much loved film saga is the continuation of a well known individual's story, or the return of a legendary character, one that people would actually pay money to see return to -LSB-...]

Certainly, the rapid decline in box office returns of the recently released Body of Lies suggests that film failed to find much of an audience, when on paper it should have been a winner.

Senior Staff Writer Scott Davis returns with his weekly look at what's on offer in the world of Blu - ray... Box - office juggernaut American Sniper, comedy sequel Hot Tub Time Machine 2 and the second season of Netflix's Orange Is the New Black Season 2 are on the agenda this week... American Sniper A juggernaut of massive -LSB-...]

A key drop box is located outside our back door on the north side of our property for keys returned when office is closed.

Your weekend edition of The Week in Star Wars returns with the latest from Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars: The Last Jedi home entertainment details and box office, more from Rian Johnson's new trilogy, Liam Neeson on a potential return and more... Let's kick things off this week with Solo: A Star Wars -LSB-...]

• 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