Sentences with phrase «released box office hit»

To do the same, businesses do not necessarily need to wait for opportune moments like the next Super Bowl blackout or a newly released box office hit.

Not exact matches

Over the course of a decade, January saw a total of 88 wide releases, only two of which were box office hits.

Paramount's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot was one of August's surprise successes with $ 149.6 million in ticket sales, while The Walt Disney Company (DIS) scored the hit of the summer with Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which broke the opening - weekend box - office record for August on its way to grossing $ 258 million in the U.S. and more than $ 500 million worldwide within less than a month of its release.

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.

DreamWorks has turned out hits such as «Shrek» and «Kung Fu Panda,» but it has lately released box - office disappointments, including «Turbo» and «Rise of the Guardians.»

Jarmusch and «The Neon Demon» director Nicolas Winding Refn rubbed elbows, along with Chloe Sevigny — the star of Amazon's specialty box office hit «Love & Friendship» released theatrically through Roadside Attractions.

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.

While we were all impressed with Sam Mendes» suburban drama on release (it was a box office hit and won the best picture Oscar in 2000), it's not aged particularly well.

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.

Released in January, the Jordan Peele horror - comedy became a box office hit.

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.

SNUB: «The Big Sick» The Amazon Studios release was a hit with audiences, earning $ 43 million at the domestic box office.

Cop Out had all the makings of a box office action / comedy hit when it was released into theaters back in February.

«Avengers: Infinity War» is dominating the box office at the moment, but this week another highly anticipated Marvel movie is set to be released, as «Deadpool 2» is finally hitting theaters.

As Hollywood touts great wins for diversity and inclusion with recent films like «Black Panther» and «Wonder Woman» shattering box office records, a new study from GLAAD asserts that representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people in 2017 films released by the major studios hit a six - year low.

The story of a pair of teens riding cross country on stolen bicycles to try and find cocaine washed ashore following a drug bust gone wrong went on to become the biggest local hit of the year at the Irish box office while also picking up awards at Fantastic Fest and is now gearing up for international release.

Paramount Pictures» breakout horror hit «A Quiet Place» may return to the top of the box office charts in its third weekend of release, unseating the big - budget Dwayne Johnson arcade game adaptation «Rampage.»

The surprise box office hit of the summer, The Fault In Our Stars will be released in a Blu - Ray / DVD Combo Pack on September 16th.

That year, fortyish David O. Russell — the eldest of the group by a decade — followed up his delightfully neurotic Flirting With Disaster with the bravura Three Kings; Paul Thomas Anderson built on his Boogie Nights reputation with flawed masterpiece Magnolia; Wes Anderson offered the sly subversion Rushmore (technically a 1998 film but not released nationally until February 1999); and 29 - year - old M. Night Shyamalan hit box - office gold with the surprisingly mature thriller The Sixth Sense.

Clint Eastwood's war biopic featuring Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller has broken a box office record in the US before its nationwide release - looks set to be a hit.

«Infernal Affairs» was a critical and box office hit when first released winning seven of its sixteen Hong Kong Film Awards nominations.

Although we now know that it went on to be a massive box office hit and took home a sack of Oscars, the release of Gladiator, which was their most expensive film to date, represented the unimaginable: a $ 103 - million attempt to resurrect the long - dead ancient Roman epic, a once steadfast Hollywood genre that has been defunct since the mid-1960s when big hits like Ben - Hur (1959) and Spartacus (1960) were eventually overshadowed by colossal financial failures like Cleopatra (1963)(not to mention 1980's notorious big - budget hard - core epic Caligula).

I pointed out yesterday that Fox Searchlight is operating on a different plane when it comes to turning out the vote for its movies, and alongside the aforementioned surprise little hit of the final quarter of 2007 ($ 85 million and counting), further evidence arrives in the form of Tamara Jenkins» The Savages, which, despite not (yet) having connected at the box office (it's made only $ 3.6 million in a month and a half of release), garnered an expected Best Original Screenplay nomination, but also a Best Actress nod for Laura Linney, probably coming at the expense of Angelina Jolie and A Mighty Heart.

A Mirror Mirror Rated PG for some fantasy action and mild rude humor Available on DVD and Blu - ray The first of two Snow White tales to be released this year hit with a thud at the box office in March, even with blockbuster actress Julia Roberts attached as its star.

Unappealing marketing did not dissuade moveigoing audiences, as the Sky High boasted strong legs at the box office, turning it into a nice mid-sized hit which outperformed a number of summer releases that held far higher hopes, such as Cinderella Man, Bewitched, and Kingdom of Heaven.

Aside from that pretty wonderful holiday short film / commercial released last month, things have been pretty quiet for director Wes Anderson in the wake of 2014's The Grand Budapest Hotel, which was a critical darling, a box office hit, a genuine Oscar contender, and very much the best movie released that year.

There's also a ton of great non-Halloween releases, including two major Sundance hits, summer box office smashes, and a neat complete series TV set.

Although it seems like a big movie nowadays, Braveheart wasn't a particularly big hit at the box office at the time of its release, only really making its money back after the Academy Award for Best Picture fueled its interest in home video.

A bonafide, sure fire, box office hit if it ever gets released, Jiro follows the titular 85 - year - old sushi chef as he goes about explaining the hows and whys of his acclaimed 10 - seat restaurant.

Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy Sixteen years after Thomas Riedelsheimer's first portrait of the visionary landscape artist, «Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time,» became a national box - office hit through Roxie Releasing (and helped save the Roxie Theater in S.F.), the two reunite for an update.

You wouldn't quite call it a sleeper hit (it didn't even reach $ 10m at the box office), but there's been talk of a sequel to the hockey comedy Goon ever since its release back in 2011.

Marvel has been having a great run at the box office thanks to Black Panther's unprecedented success, and it's likely going to hit the gold pot on April 27, when Avengers: Infinity War will release on the big screen everywhere.

When the movie was released in 2012 it was a big box office hit.

But before they hit on the new releases, they give their take on the box office, and Kevin quickly reviews the films from the previous week that were not screened.

While the movie didn't exactly do an impressive job at the box office, its subsequent home video releases have made it its own kind of underground hit.

The Irish film's gross box - office to date now reaches over 2 Million Euro, making it the biggest Irish release here since The Wind that Shakes the Barley and The Guard is now on its way to becoming one of the biggest film hits of the summer, all the while working a pair of purple y - fronts.

With Black Panther poised to hit theaters on February 16th and the long - awaited Avengers: Infinity War on May 4th, it already seems like a foregone conclusion that Marvel will dominate box office sales numbers once both respective films have released domestically and internationally.