Sentences with phrase «surprising box office»

Whatever the case, Ghost Protocol's resounding, surprising box office success was in stark contrast to the year's many other underperforming sequels.

One of the more surprising box office hits of last year was the magician adventure pic Now You See Me.

And Good Deed Entertainment, which found surprising box office success and an Oscar nom with last year's Loving Vincent is heading out this weekend with musical - drama American Folk.

Martin Saunders reflects on the surprise box office hit, The Help, and what it has to say to the Church in 2011...

Named for its orange color palette, the film was shot on an iPhone 5S with a tiny budget, becoming a surprise box office hit this summer.

Go behind the wheel of this summer's biggest surprise box office hit with extensive bonus materials exploring its unique driving and music - infused production, including making - of featurettes on stunt driving with the cast, music, choreography, and orchestrating some of the best car chases in cinematic history.

A surprise box office smash, this melodrama wound up becoming a big of an out of nowhere blockbuster.

Last year the surprise box office hits included the heist thriller Now You See Me, the comedy We're the Millers and Woody Allen's drama Blue Jasmine.

Zack Snyder's stylishly violent swords and sandals epic, 300, was a surprise box office smash (taking in $ 456 million worldwide in the spring of 2007), but no one kids themselves into believing that his cinematic vision was not responsible for that chest - beating comic book adaptation being so enjoyable to watch.

Last year the surprise box office hits included the heist thriller Now You See Me, the comedy We're the Millers and...

August: Osage County and Philomena weren't expected to show up [here], but Fruitvale Station and Lee Daniels» The Butler seem like natural fits for the producers to acknowledge, what with one being a breakout film with real world political heft, and the other a surprise box office smash that took A LOT of producer wrangling to get financed and made.

2012's Magic Mike was a surprise box office hit and critical success.

It was also a surprise box office hit.

The surprise box office hit of the summer, The Fault In Our Stars will be released in a Blu - Ray / DVD Combo Pack on September 16th.

A surprise box office smash upon its release, this powerful film is an enduring paean to faith in the face of fundamentalism.

I did not care for 2013's surprise box office hit Now You See Me.

Kingsman: The Secret Service wasn't just a surprise box office smash — it was one of the most pleasantly surprising wide releases of 2015.

The 50 - year - old Sicario star hasn't even appeared in the role but it seems that Fox are predicting the follow - up to one of 2016's surprise box office smashes will be just as big — if not bigger — according to That Hashtag Show.

I Can Only Imagine, a faith - based film from Roadside Attractions, is a surprise box office hit.

Not exact matches

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

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.

As for Owning Mahowny, the movie wasn't exactly a box office hit, but it did garner impressive reviews, which shouldn't surprise anyone considering its protagonist was played by one of the greatest actors of our time.

The surprise hit of the year, having the best opening ever for an R - rated movie ($ 132.4 million) and earning over $ 780 million at the global box office, was also the most illegally downloaded movie of 2016, according to TorrentFreak.

Producer and environmental activist Laurie David — wife of comedian Larry David — assumed that NSTA would be all too happy to send its members free copies of An Inconvenient Truth, the climate change tutorial by the former vice president that was a surprise hit at the box office.

A group of Japanese scientists have surprised themselves by being able to predict the success or failure of blockbuster movies at the box office using a set of mathematical models.

The sequel to 2016 ′ s surprise hit — which proved that the global box office could not only stomach a comic - book character who swears and slays, but was desperate for such a bad widdle boy — is the closest Hollywood's superhero industrial complex has come to appealing directly to the mind of a Grade 5 classroom.

Scorsese desaturated the color in the final shoot - out and got an R, and Taxi Driver surprised its unenthusiastic studio by becoming a box - office hit.

With Avengers set to clean up at the Box Office this weekend, trotting out and agenda of colourful, mindless fun and popcorn, it is no surprise that Christopher Nolan and company put out the grimmest, moodiest, downer of a trailer possible for The Dark Knight Rises.

The Scarlett Johansson action flick (if you can even call it that) has been the surprising hit of the last month, generating $ 97 million in box office receipts over the last three weeks.

It may be surprising for you to learn that in a country with more than one billion people, the fastest growing film industry in the world, and a 10 billion rmb (1.5 billion usd) box office gross in 2010 alone, there is hardly any professional film criticism accessible to its public.When I say hardly any, I mean that there is an absence of professional film critics who work for major, national publications and media outlets, and thus a lack of regular film reviews of new Chinese movies, at least for the mass audiences.

«Despicable Me 2» (2013) Box Office Take: $ 971m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 19 Back in 2010, Universal's animated feature «Despicable Me» proved a surprise worldwide smash, but few would have anticipated that its sequel would have become the third - biggest animated movie of all time, and until «Furious 7,» Universal's biggest hit ever.

After a surprising turn out in the Box Office, the latest Rocky movie directed by Ryan Coogler has shocked and awed audiences and critics.

WHY: We all knew that a sequel to 2010's «Alice in Wonderland» was bound to happen, especially after raking in just over $ 1 billion at the box office, but what's most surprising is that it took this long to get made.

Some of the big question marks that remain would be Helen Mirren in Hitchcock, Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty, how well Silver Linings Playbook does with critics, box office and the Academy, who gets a surprise nomination at the Globes.

Last year's adaptation of the Marvel character — which starred Ryan Reynolds in the title role — was a surprise hit both critically and commercially, generating nearly $ 800 million worldwide at the box office.

Serving up more of the same but without the surprise element of the first, Deadpool 2 is going to be another box - office smash and introduces us to one of the Marvel universes most exciting new characters in the form of Cable but there's the feeling that this franchise as a standalone entity has already spent a fair portion of its blood - soaked and pop - culture infused fuel tickets.

The winner of this week's struggle for box - office dominance should surprise no one: It was Black Panther, coming in at No. 1 for the fifth week in a row and becoming only the seventh film ever to gross more than $ 600 million domestically.

With a substantial ($ 453m) take at the box office and strong reviews, it's no surprise that Rupert Wyatt's film is the first in a new series of Planet of the Apes movies, even less so given the series» history of spawning sequels.

The nominations for the 72nd Annual Golden Globes Awards have been revealed... and there are a few surprises in the motion picture categories — most notably the complete absence of any nominations for Interstellar (except for its musical score, and even the box office washout Noah got that much attention).

Zombieland surprised many when it proved to be a sleeper hit at the box office in 2009.

Reynolds previously teased the impending return of Deadpool with a surprise short that screened before Logan, another R - rated Marvel flick that was a box office hit, in March.

Ted became a surprise blockbuster when it was released in summer 2012, and holds the record for the highest - grossing original R - rated comedy of all time with global box - office takings of 549.4 million dollars (# 329.5 million).

DVD Review: Considering its poor box office performance, it's not all surprising to discover that the single - disc release for «Sunshine» feels remarkably neutered.

Deadpool was a surprise hit, breaking box office records for an R - rated movie.

So it shouldn't come as a surprise that all of that acclaim translated into box office gold.

The only surprises this holiday weekend probably came in the form of your family's gift exchanges, as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story handily beat the box - office competition.

With the box office success that has followed The Mask, Dumb And Dumber, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty and Yes Man an obvious indicator of his amusing infamy, it comes as no surprise that these roles take pride of place on his resume.

But it's Beltrami's knack for experimental arias that horror auteurs crave, and so when when John Krasinski needed a guy who could melt sounds and notes on the surprise silent horror box office sensation A Quiet Place, to Beltrami's Malibu, CA studio the director went.

Shot by Academy Award - winning cinematographer Robert Elswit, who has worked with Anderson ever since Hard Eight, scored by singer - songwriter Michael Penn, edited by the great Dylan Tichenor, who started as an apprentice on Robert Altman's movies and went on to do great films such as Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Brokeback Mountain and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Paul Thomas Anderson's epic drama went on to garner three Academy Award nominations, did reasonably well at the box office by tripling its initial investment and, more importantly, showcased the surprising talent and determination of one of the few brilliant filmmakers of American contemporary cinema.

«Jumanji» has proven a surprise hit for Sony, with this weekend marking the third in a row that the film has topped the box office despite strong challenges from Fox's «The Post» and several other openers.