Sentences with phrase «scored box office hits»

French Canadian auteur Denis Villeneuve scores another box office hit with critically acclaimed Sicario.

She scored a box office hit opposite Steve Carell in the movie adaptation of Get Smart, and received the best reviews of her career for her role as a recovering addict dealing with grief in Rachel Getting Married.

Not exact matches

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.

While most major studios were dodging box - office bombs, Pascal's Spider - Man 2 won big, scoring $ 771 million worldwide and adding to Sony's string of hits.

With the best Rotten Tomatoes score for any Bay movie (66 %), the mix of action and lighthearted moments made it one of the biggest box - office hits of the year.

Despite scoring a string of major hits at the box office, the House of Ideas isn't bulletproof.

He scored a huge hit last year playing Big Daddy in the Chinese action blockbuster Wolf Warrior II, a global box office phenomenon and now the biggest grossing film in Chinese history.

Exhibit A: Trading on both a hit book and an established director whose name is enough to give an entire generation the warm and fuzzies — not to mention the multitude of references to other dopamine - triggering nostalgic properties contained within — Ready Player One got the high score at the domestic box office this weekend with $ 53.2 million.

Both films were major hits, scoring more than $ 250 million at the worldwide box office each.

This year they score with blockbusters «Toy Story 3» (both number one at the box office and one of the best reviewed films of 2010) and «Inception,» Hollywood hits «The Social Network» and «True Grit» and success stories «The King's Speech» and «Black Swan.»

Sony Pictures scored a major hit with its recent reboot Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, with the film holding its own against Star Wars: The Last Jedi and pulling in a hefty $ 931 million at the worldwide box office.

With Ready Player One hitting high score levels of box - office receipts, it's no surprise to learn that rival studios wish to hit «continue» on Ernest Cline adaptations, with Universal keen to move ahead with a movie based on his 2015 novel Armada.

The box office hit and critical favorite took home five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Jean Dujardin and Best Score for Ludovic Bource.