Sentences with phrase «quite good box office»

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And while Gladiator was by no means a failure, and did well at the box office, it never quite managed to be the film we all expected it to be.

In the seven years since that threequel set box office records and earned a Best Picture nomination, the studio has had some generally liked if not quite loved triumphs (Finding Dory, Brave, Monsters University), one film that most would agree is at least in contention of «masterpiece» status (Inside Out), and some perplexing, unprecedented misses (Cars 2 & 3 plus the aforementioned Good Dinosaur).

Look at Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, and this review's subject, Escape from New York: That's quite a run of films that are well remembered by many fans today, even if they didn't all set the box office ablaze.

2014 already brought us the modestly effective teen tearjerker adaptation, The Fault in Our Stars, which performed quite well at the box office.

Lousy box office and middling - to - poor reviews ensure that these filmmakers probably won't get carte blanche next time out, and while their results aren't quite strong enough to place on my legit best - of list, the auteur madness sure was fun while it lasted.

If this doc doesn't make that list, it will probably recede from most radars and not quite live up to its strong word of mouth and potential (although $ 700,000 at the box office is nothing to scoff at) which would be tragic in my mind, because it is one of the best documentaries of the year and if it gets on the shortlist, it has a good chance of getting nominated (but not to win, as I'll explain in a bit.)

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Hampered at the box office by its perceived similarity to the previous year's «The Truman Show,» it still offered the actor a chance to carry a picture, and he managed quite well, thanks to the natural zaniness he brought to the part.

To its makers, the most troubling thing about Chipwrecked would have to be its box office performance, which was quite good, but not nearly as good as its blockbuster predecessors.

The makers of this film know that these films have a bit of a box office ceiling, in that the Muppets, while popular in the United States, don't fare quite as well at the worldwide box office.

The film has already earned well over 100 million dollars at the box office, but our critic says it's not quite as good as he expected it to be.

It's hard to deny that recent remakes Friday the 13th (2009), Fright Night (2011), Fame (2009) and so on all figured their namesake originals would provide millions of free marketing and extra dollars at the box office, but by virtue of being remakes of well known, and usually quite popular, films they have to work harder to convince audiences that they are worth the time.

All three Big Five sweepers did quite well at the box office, but none rank among the inflation - adjusted all - time highest grossers list.

The film did quite well at the box office and for some it was a bit more then what was expected.

Two big movies in recent months have much in common: they're fictionalized accounts of real events, they're written and directed by top Hollywood players, and they're doing quite well at the box office.