Sentences with phrase «strong box office tracking»

The critical acclaim and strong box office tracking, with reports expecting an opening weekend take to quadruple the film's $ 5 - million production budget, put Peele's career as a multi-hyphenate filmmaker in a promising position.

Not exact matches

Written by Bird and Damon Lindelof (Lost), the film is as shrouded in mystery as any release this year, but Bird's track record at the box office and with critics (see sidebar) bodes well for his latest, as does the strong supporting cast of Hugh Laurie, Judy Greer, Kathryn Hahn, and Keegan - Michael Key.

It remains to be seen if «Guardians of the Galaxy» will achieve the lofty financial heights of its fellow recent Marvel Studios films — though, given tracking, strong marketing and the already - announced sequel, box office success certainly feels inevitable.

According to the three historians on the DVD's excellent commentary track, the film did enjoy strong box office returns and was anything but a creative failure, but Castile is symbolic of the epic productions studios couldn't indulge in as often, until TV forced a return to bug budget epics during the fifties, in the form of pseudo-moral Biblical sagas in CinemaScope and stereophonic sound.

But while the reviews of Zemeckis» films were for the most part slightly favorable, the box office returns were regularly beneath expectations, which were heightened on the bases of the filmmaker's steep budgets and strong track record.

It began a little more than a year ago, when I'll See You in My Dreams, a tiny independent drama from a fledgling company starring the then -72-year-old Blythe Danner, a well - liked actress with no box - office track record whatsoever, grossed an unexpectedly strong $ 7.4 million in theaters.

The Intern added to Meyers» strong commercial track record, its $ 76 million domestic and nearly $ 200 million worldwide grosses putting it not terribly short of past box office triumphs like It's Complicated and Something's Got ta Give.