Sentences with phrase «sleeper hit film»

Not exact matches

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

This often happens with sleeper hits indicating that word of mouth is keeping them buzzing but it's much much rarer with films that open as big as Wonder Woman did.

Pattinson, the British star of Twilight, tops the bill in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, tipped as one of the key titles to screen, while Efron takes the lead in Paperboy, the new film from Lee Daniels, whose social drama Precious was a sleeper hit two years ago.

Although the film didn't connect as strongly with mass audiences (although it's considered a «sleeper hit,» you have to wonder what it could have done if it had been released after Whedon's little art house film «The Avengers «-RRB- and more than a few critics found it befuddling and arch (it's neither), «The Cabin in the Woods» is the kind of movie that will ultimately live on as a deserved cult classic, perfect for drunken film studies students and bored kids at slumber parties alike.

Toy Soldiers is a very entertaining action film that updates 1981's sleeper hit Taps.

Now you can relive the sleeper hit that birthed an unspeakable evil on film audiences everywhere: torture porn.

After The Maze Runner became a sleeper hit, the cast knew they'd be back for films based on the next two novels by John Dashner.

The actor, who starred in one of the big sleeper hits of last year, Gareth Edwards «micro-budget creature flick «Monsters,» last night was announced as having won the second lead in The Playlist's single most anticipated film of the next few years, «Cogan's Trade,» Andrew Dominik «s follow - up to «The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.»

As much as the film may have deserved a theatrical release, where it very realistically could've become a sleeper hit, I feel as though I should harbor more resentment than I actually do.

Sverak won the foreign film Oscar for his art house sleeper hit Kolya (1996) about a stepfather and his little boy and his latest called Barefoot is another childhood tale set in the countryside during World War II.

The sensibilities of this film were more directly reprised for last year's sleeper hit, Eight Below.

His first try proves an early candidate for sleeper hit of the year, a film that manages to balance... Continue reading Get Out

The film was a sleeper hit at the box office and went on to become one of the top DVD rentals.

With that said, however, this year's pickings don't look as bad as usual, with a surprising amount of action films led by big - name stars, some of which have real sleeper hit potential.

Other highlights from 2016 (and also must see films) have included the very informative and poignant documentary, «Maya Angelou and Still I Rise,» by Rita Coburn Whack and Bob Hercules; Mick Jackson's «Denial,» the gripping Holocaust denial tale with compelling performances from Rachel Weisz and Timothy Spall; Paul Verhoeven's «Elle,» with its great Isabelle Huppert performance; the remarkably thoughtful sci - fi film, «Arrival,» by Denis Villeneuve; Tom Ford's «Nocturnal Animals,» with its outstanding performances from Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon; David Mackenzie's «Hell or High Water,» this summer's sleeper hit; Cristian Mungiu's «Graduation,» winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes; and Cristi Puiu's «Sieranevada,» winner of the top prize at this year's Chicago International Film Festival.

The original film was a huge sleeper hit, and Warner Bros. wanted to chase that high.

At the film's recent Los Angeles press day, the cast and crew let slip a few fun facts behind the making of the sleeper hit of the Summer.

2014 didn't have a cult film in the making like What We Do in the Shadows, or a true sleeper like Straight Outta Compton (or Spy, for that matter), or a blockbuster hitting the sweet spot for audiences and critics alike like Mad Max has done, or a traditional standalone nonfranchise blockbuster like The Martian, or an animated film with the acclaim of Inside Out, or a little horror movie that could like It Follows, or an unexpected independent drama that ran forever like Room....2015 was a year like 1999 or 1994.

A sequel to Scott Derrickson's 2012 sleeper hit has been long in the works, and today we've finally been given our very first look at the Ciaran Foy - directed sequel, which picks up in the aftermath of the original film.

Best - case scenario: Audiences everywhere will see what the Sundance attendees saw in James White, and the film becomes a critically acclaimed, awards - nominated sleeper hit.

Bad Moms was a sleeper hit of 2016 and when the film hit DVD, I found out why.

Already a significant sleeper hit in the US, the film breaks Goldwyn's rule into pieces, insisting on the educational value any mainstream portrait of impairment is bound to have, and inviting us all, kindly, to drop our guard.

And when that film became a sleeper hit, Affleck was suddenly in demand as a filmmaker as much as he'd ever been as an actor.

IT (2017, R), based on the Stephen King novel, is the sleeper hit of the year: an R - rated horror film about a group of children haunted and hunted by a demonic clown (Bill Skarsgard).

Even with a somewhat spotted past (Mission Impossible 2 is fun though objectively not the greatest film accomplishment), the Mission Impossible franchise is one of my sleeper hit favorites, with the last two entries — the aforementioned addition from Brad Bird and J.J. Abrams «Phillip Seymour Hoffman - starring threequel — delivering some of the series» absolute best material.

If you remove that associative stain, though, the film is, in essence, a non-genre sleeper hit aimed squarely at adults and thus theoretically Oscar compatible...

Nobody remembers this now, but back then, the trades were counting on the reunion of Silverado collaborators Lawrence Kasdan and Kevin Costner to deliver the sleeper hit of the summer; although back then everybody involved in the production tried to pawn off the film's failure on the growing cult of Tombstone, the fact is that Wyatt Earp is, if not the most boring movie ever made, perhaps the second-most.

The film, which already has distribution rights with the Weinstein Company, is probably one of the most buzzed films at the festival due to the fact that Carney is the genius behind the Sundance sleeper hit Once as well as the well regarded Begin Again from 2014.

But if you factor in a Disney film, writing an Oscar - winning song for The Muppets, a sleeper hit HBO sitcom, and the fact that this musical - comedy duo is one of the funniest and most talented acts to come along in two decades — well, an explanation begins to take shape.

Ryan Coogler is the mastermind behind the camera for a sleeper hit starring Jordan titled Fruitvale Station, one of the years best films back in 2013, and the crazy thing is, Coogler was only 26 years old.

In advance of the screening, the latter film has been something of a comparison point — the premise, of an ex-con (Cage) in the Deep South befriending a troubled kid (Sheridan) whose family are in dire economic straits, seems to be eerily similar to Jeff Nichols» acclaimed sleeper hit.

The film that was off everyones radar quickly became the runaway sleeper hit of the Summer.

The original 2012 film proved to be a sleeper hit, and its 2015 sequel was an even bigger financial success.

The first film directed by the co-scripters of the sleeper megahit «The Hangover,» Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, «21 and Over» is hitting a theater near you March 1st after a somewhat delayed release.

Following the success of his directorial debut Napoleon Dynamite (2004), all of Hess» subsequent films have failed to crawl out of the shadow of the indie sleeper hit.

My sincere hope is that this film becomes an after - the - fact sleeper hit in the vein of Blade Runner or Office Space; but if it makes just a few people interested enough to check out the Scott Pilgrim series?

Starring Joseph Gordon - Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, it's decidedly imperfect, but with the genre in dire straits, the film's visual invention and melancholy tone clicked with audiences, and after Fox Searchlight picked it up, it became a sleeper hit, taking $ 32 million domestically, and almost as much again abroad.

Naomi has tried to balance her career between mainstream and independent films, but her past performances in art - house sleeper hits like «21 Grams» and «I Heart Huckabees» have displayed her amazing talent for diving no - holds - barred into any character.

This included the recently released «Wonder Woman» movie, Damien Chazelle's «La La Land» and the 2014 sleeper hit action film, «John Wick.»