Sentences with phrase «runaway box office success»

«The Fabulous Baker Boys» isn't the most scintillating screenplay, and its runaway box office success probably says more about the year it was released than the film itself, but it's a wonderfully sumptuous throwback to the grand glamour of old - school Hollywood — and none of its stars were ever quite as luminous, before or since.

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It's the personal project director William Friedkin chose to make after the runaway successes of «The French Connection» and «The Exorcist,» and its soaring costs and box office demise — buried under the release of «Star Wars» — more or less ended his career as an A-list director.

After the runaway success of many YA adaptations over the last few years, it was just a matter of time before their appeal died down and after The Divergent Series: Allegiant opened to poor box - office last weekend, it seems the strain is well and truly showing on the sub-genre.

Todd Phillips» The Hangover was one of the biggest comedy successes in recent memory; a runaway success at the box office, it also made stars out of its three leads Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms.

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.

Black Panther has been a runaway success at the box office and amongst the critics as the Marvel movie stuns audiences across the globe.

After a few rough weeks at the box office where nearly everything not named The Jungle Book (movies like The Huntsman: Winter's War and Mother's Day) failed to click with viewers, medications the new month offers a few movies that offer great potential for runaway success.