Sentences with phrase «profitable film of its time»

Relatively new players Artisan picked it up for $ 1 million and took $ 140 million in the U.S alone, making it one of the most profitable films of all time.

It achieved phenomenal success, capturing the imagination of a generation and became the most profitable film of its time.

That's not only because it's going to be the follow - up installment to one of the most profitable films of all time, but also because of how much of a change in creative direction Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom appears to be when compared to its Colin Trevorrow - directed predecessor.

Not exact matches

YouTube hasn't just been a place to upload amateur videos for some time now — currently the platform boasts a fleet of wildly profitable multi-channel networks that could very well become the film studios of the future.

The son of Darryl F Zanuck, co-founder and one - time production head of 20th Century - Fox, Richard Zanuck successfully escaped his father's shadow by becoming a chief executive at Fox himself, and later producing with David Brown some of Hollywood's most profitable films, including the massive hit, Jaws (1975), which at the time was the highest grossing film ever.

The film became the top - grossing superhero origin movie of all time, along with the most profitable superhero movie to be helmed by a female director.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

That speedy timing was also employed on Burton's last Disney film, the absurdly profitable Alice, which went on to become a winner of two technical Oscars while also ranking among 2010's best - selling titles.

With a product that spawned various lines of toys that sold by the millions, and had television shows and an animated movie to its name, The Transformers: The Movie in 1986, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood turned it into a hugely profitable film franchise, having now made over $ 3.7 billion across its four recent movies.

After all, given my immersion in movies, movie biz and movie buzz, this is the one time each year when my otherwise useless font of film trivia knowledge can actually prove profitable to readers.

The 1990s might need produced quite a few profitable horror films, nevertheless it is not remembered as one of many style's strongest a long time.