Sentences with phrase «star of the box office»

It isn't a surprise that Gal Gadot, the star of the box office hit film «Wonder Woman» made the list.

The stars of box office hit Black Panther team up with Iron Man, Thor and the cast of Guardians Of The Galaxy in the latest trailer for Avengers: Infinity War.

Not exact matches

The Disney film shattered box - office records over the weekend, edging past «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» to set the highest opening weekend of all time.

The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first time in a decade.

Studio revenue for the quarter increased 22 percent to $ 2.1 billion, powered by the box - office success of «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» and animated movie «Zootopia.»

«After achieving its historic opening weekend at the global box office, Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues to thrill audiences and break records in Imax theatres worldwide,» said Greg Foster, CEO of Imax Entertainment.

All this sets up The Force Awakens — the seventh chapter in the Star Wars franchise that takes place 30 years after The Return of the Jedi — to break the record for the highest grossing opening weekend at the box office.

Life - to - date sales for the Call of Duty franchise exceed worldwide theatrical box office for Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, two of the most successful entertainment franchises of all time.»

Disney's «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» could mean hundreds of millions in unanticipated box office revenue for IMAX, according to JPMorgan.

We already know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens set records at the box office, but on Tuesday we will find out more about the blockbuster film's ultimate impact on Walt Disney's (dis) bottom line in the first quarter of the entertainment giant's fiscal year.

Walt Disney Co said in a statement on Saturday that Star Wars: The Force Awakens had generated box office receipts of $ 890.3 million globally through Dec. 25 and would pass $ 1 billion this weekend.

The film «Everest,» a thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Josh Brolin in which a group of climbers are engulfed a blinding blizzard, is currently in the top five at the North American box office.

«The Croods,» starring Nicholas Cage and Emma Stone as members of a Caveman family, will be the first feature released since the studio's domestic box - office bomb, «The Rise of the Guardians» last November.

With «The Fate of the Furious» hitting theaters on Friday, and looking to make box - office dollars as over-the-top as its stunts, here we look back on the incredible career of «The Rock» from a failed football run and WWE to bona fide movie star:

This weekend, it crossed the $ 1 billion mark in its worldwide box - office totals, after beating out the four - day totals of Disney's last big movie, Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, Disney ran through a list of Iger's accomplishments as CEO in 2015, including «record - breaking enthusiasm» for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as well as other box office hits such as Pixar's Inside Out and Marvel's Avengers sequel.

2016 featured a $ 2 billion box office from Star Wars: The Force Awakens and four other films that either hit $ 1 billion or came within inches of that mark.

The earnings don't deduct taxes or fees for agents, managers of lawyers and are compiled based on data from Nielsen, Pollstar, Box Office Mojo, Songkick, IMDB and sometimes the stars themselves.

After critical success during the first 15 years of his career, Scorsese found the industry pivoting as tent - pole franchises like Indiana Jones and Star Wars set box - office records and turned Steven Spielberg and George Lucas into household names.

According to Entertainment Weekly «the last time a movie with a real star - on - star love scene topped the yearly box office... was 16 years ago when Jack and Rose fogged up the inside of a town car in Titanic.»

The deal between Li Ka - shing and Murdoch was largely motivated by the pressure on his network caused by the announcement of Turner (CNN which spends some US$ 15 million to develop production capacity in Asia), Time - Warner's Home Box Office (on cable in some eight Asian countries), Capital Cities / ABC ESPN (the sports network), the Discovery Channel, and Hong Kong - based Television Broadcasting Inc. to compete with Star TV in 1994 after the launch of a Chinese communications satellite.

Already proving to be one of the most divisive blockbusters in years, hardcore fans» backlash against The Last Jedi didn't slow it down at the box office, with the new Star Wars movie taking in an estimated $ 220 million.

EPL is gonna be a box office this season, with the amount of stars that EPL clubs have.

Okorafor said she was buoyed by the global success of the summer box office hit «Wonder Woman» — the first superhero movie to star a woman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywood.

The invites from the star of «Non-Stop» and «The Lego Movie» — currently the top two movies at the box office — and from Teamsters Joint Council 16, which reps many of the carriage workers, went out on Friday.

This colorful spoof of pirate movies had all the makings of a classic farce and yet sank straight to Davy Jones» locker at the box - office, for despite it's all - star international cast of famous comedians, and despite the fact that it was largely co-written by «Monty Python» - veteran Graham Chapman and former «Fringie» Peter Cook, the darned thing just wasn't funny.

The Giver has an unsavory reek of box - office calculation about it, from the overworked «teens - must - save - a-world-ruined-by-adults» plot to the casting of pop star Taylor Swift in a small and irrelevant role.

Hoping to boost the show's box - office value, Graham has cast his temperamental ex-wife, film star Lilli Vanessi (Rachel York), in the role of the shrewish Katharine.

Arguably the only true movie star that Hollywood has produced in the 21st century (he may not be able or willing to launch an original property, but his personal box office appeal is on par with many of today's major franchises), Johnson has proven that he's one of the most charismatic performers on the planet.

Though Vanilla Sky's sometimes surreal trappings found the film receiving a mixed reception at the box office, the same could not be said for the following year's massively successful sci - fi chase film Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg, or of the historical epic The Last Samurai, directed by Edward Zwick.For his next film, Cruise picked a role unlike any he'd ever played; starring as a sociopathic hitman in the Michael Mann psychological thriller Collateral.

Sheen's next major success was also a comedy, the 1991 military - film satire Hot Shots, and while box - office blockbusters tended to elude him, Sheen worked steadily over the next several years, and racked up a respectable number of box - office successes.By this time, Sheen had developed a reputation as a hard - living star who spoke his mind regardless of the consequences, but his fun - loving image began to take on a darker hue in the mid -»90s.

The studio does not appear to have any releases on tap that will match The Big Short's best picture nomination (with the possible — if unlikely — exception of Richard Linklater's upcoming spring release Everybody Wants Some), while its box office fortunes ride in large part on the success of upcoming Star Trek and TMNT sequels.

For those who don't know, «The Room» was the brainchild (for lack of a better word) of one Tommy Wiseau, a mysterious nobody who wrote, directed, produced and starred in the 2003 vanity project, a box - office dud that has gone on to become a staple of raucous, sold - out midnight screenings.

Co-starring Survivor contestant turned thespian Colleen Haskell, Schneider's tale of a car accident victim imbued with superhuman powers after being pieced back together with animal organs kept the low - brow rolling while marking his territory among the ranks of the more successful transitions from SNL player to big screen star.Later, in the 2000s, Schneider frequently alternated between starring in his own films (The Hot Chick, Duece Bigalow: European Gigolo), and supporting his old pal Sandler (The Longest Yard, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry), with few on either side truly managing to ignite the box office or his career momentum.

After substantial parts in two high - profile box - office disappointments, Terms of Endearment sequel The Evening Star (1996) and the Sandra Bullock - Chris O'Donnell historical romance In Love and War (1996), Astin focused on work in more idiosyncratic independent films.

Together they've made «Insurgent» into less of a youthful romance and more of an action - heavy science fiction story, the kind of rat - a-tat tale that used to star grown - ups before teens ruled the box office.

He also made westerns (in the»40s he was teamed with sidekick Al «Fuzzy» St. John), and was on the list of Top Ten Western Stars at the box office in 1936.

Though Con Air was a disappointment from a critical perspective, it was the top box - office action film of the year and audiences thrilled to the kinetic action sequences that also cemented Nicolas Cage's abilities as a viable action star (following on the heels of Bay's previous mega-hit The Rock [1996]-RRB-.

The Marvel Studios sequel starring Robert Downey Jr. dominates the box office and earns the fifth best opening weekend of all - time!

Katharine Hepburn, in one of the «icy» roles that would later earn her the onus of «box office poison», stars as Mary Stuart, who serves as the Queen of Scotland until she is jealously put out of the way by her British cousin, Queen Elizabeth I (Florence Eldredge).

, created stars out of the principal supporting cast, and made director Cameron Crowe box office gold.

The new Footloose, it turns out, is not all that different — in plot, characters and themes — from the original, which was a box - office hit and made a star of Kevin Bacon, playing a spirited city teenager who moves to a small town where dancing is banned and who endeavours to overturn the law so he and his classmates can hold a proper senior prom.

Much like its loveable CGI star, Paddington 2 has proved to be that rarest of creatures, a sequel that surpasses the original, and now it's replicating the critical success at the box office.

Identity Thief, which stars Jason Bateman as the victim of McCarthy's (yep) identity thief, opened in first place by a landslide, earning $ 36.6 million over the weekend despite a severe winter storm that caused several movie theaters in the Northeast to close temporarily, Box Office Mojo reports.

«The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies» (2014) Box Office Take: $ 955m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 23 When the «Lord of the Rings» series arrived at the start of the century, their tactility, wit and humanity served as a blessed relief for epic fantasy fans after the airless «Star Wars» prequels had disappointed sOf The Five Armies» (2014) Box Office Take: $ 955m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 23 When the «Lord of the Rings» series arrived at the start of the century, their tactility, wit and humanity served as a blessed relief for epic fantasy fans after the airless «Star Wars» prequels had disappointed sof the Rings» series arrived at the start of the century, their tactility, wit and humanity served as a blessed relief for epic fantasy fans after the airless «Star Wars» prequels had disappointed sof the century, their tactility, wit and humanity served as a blessed relief for epic fantasy fans after the airless «Star Wars» prequels had disappointed so.

Brendan Gleeson stars in the critically acclaimed Irish box - office smash hit Calvary — from John Michael McDonagh, the writer and director of The Guard.

Having pulled in $ 1.1 billion at the global box - office to date, Skyfall is currently the 007th highest - grossing movie of all - time, and sees Daniel Craig starring alongside the likes of Judi Dench, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Albert Finney, Ben Wishaw and Bérénice Marlohe.

Gillan's coast - to - coast move coincides with major career milestones in a year in which she's already starred in «Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,» a December release that blossomed into one of the year's biggest box office successes, flexing comedic chops alongside costars Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black — only she did it all backwards and in abbreviated short - shorts.

Despite writing the book and screenplay of «Fast Times At Ridgemont High» (1982), the film that established the parameters of»80s teen movies; despite establishing or redefining a host of contemporary film stars; despite major box office success, despite an Oscar, despite his role as a pop music shaman — there's little written about Crowe's work as a writer and director.

Despite the star power of the female led movie, Ocean's Eight faces an uphill battle at the box office.