Sentences with phrase «surprising hit movies»

Julia Roberts, 50 starred in one of the most surprising hit movies of the year: «Wonder.»

Leitch pulls no punches in his follow - up to the surprise hit movie, spinning a story of revenge and family, intertwining Wade Wilson's (Ryan Reynolds) life with Cable's (Josh Brolin), a superpowered liability named Russell (Julian Dennison) and a bunch of other mutant misfits.

Not exact matches

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.

The film took in $ 67 million, a surprise hit that was buoyed in part by a built - in audience familiar with the bestselling book the movie is based on.

This was a great movie — had the boys in stitches and we've almost watched it as many times as Cars 2 (the surprise hit of 2 years ago!!!)

It should come as no surprise that nanotech hits many of the fear buttons in the psychometric paradigm: It is a man - made risk; much of it is difficult to see or imagine; and the only available images we can associate with it are frightening movie scenes, such as a cloud of robots eating the Eiffel Tower.

As the superhero movie world shudders in the immediate wake of Avengers: Infinity War (a film I was pretty bored by), this week on store shelves lands Ryan Coogler's (Creed) Black Panther, one of the most successful films of the decade and a surprise hit across the globe.

Gregory and I spar a bit on what we think the Oscar chances for Joy and The Hateful Eight will be and Gregory pulls out a couple of potential «surprise» movies that no one is talking about in the race that could hit big with Oscar.

The characters in «Reach Me» embrace the titular tome the way the characters in Christian propaganda movies (like this year's surprise hit «God's Not Dead») find themselves drawn to the Good Book.

«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.

The movie followed two lovers, Clarence (Christian Slater) and Alabama (Patricia Arquette), who tried to navigate the turbulent waters of a mob heist and elopement whilst contending with all the hassles that usually surround such endeavors (surprised parents, hit men, cops, Bronson Pinchot).

Steven Soderbergh's surprise hit male - stripper movie Magic Mike gets a sequel, with Soderbergh's longtime assistant director Gregory Jacobs in the director's chair.

As such, I went into London Has Fallen with a bit of hope, although there is rarely a more dreary prospect than sequels to surprise hit action movies.

Perhaps one of the most surprising hits of 2014, John Wick was the movie that relaunched the career of Keanu Reeves and gave us an action film that was simple, well directed and featured fantastic practical action.

The fun of the original movie — the surprise hit of last summer, which grossed more than $ 110 million — was that it was small and sweet; Rodriguez made the effects look good, and he did it for cheap.

It's subsequently not surprising to note that After Earth hits a palpable after the protagonists find themselves unable to communicate, with the pronounced emphasis on Kitai's solo exploits ensuring that the movie's second half simply doesn't fare as well as the first.

The first installment a surprise hit that coasted on a novel combination of savvy music design and an affable cast led by Anna Kendrick; there were enough B - sides left over to for a watchable second movie; now, the premise is stretched so thin that someone thought it would be a good idea to pad it with an action - suspense subplot involving Fat Amy's (Rebel Wilson) long - lost father / international crimelord (John Lithgow with a sketchy Australian accent).

Occasionally, movies work for audiences simply because they want them to — which may have been the case with «Revenge of the Nerds,» an erratically funny 1984 college comedy — full of raw, predictable gags — that became a surprise smash hit.

Other fans expressed surprise that hit comic book movie Deadpool didn't pick up a single nomination, even in technical categories.

Deadpool was a surprise hit for the studio: After Reynolds spent years lobbying to get a standalone Deadpool movie made, the film about the «Merc with the Mouth» ended up becoming the highest grossing rated - R film of all time.

After the character was such a big hit in The LEGO Movie, it is no surprise that Batman gets his own film.

Why it might be good: Guardians of the Galaxy was the surprise hit of 2014, and according to us here at Flickering Myth, the best Marvel movie to date.

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

There wasn't really anywhere for the story to go after 2008's surprise hit Taken, and this movie quickly proves that.

Firth was the second - best thing about the 2015 scally - spy movie, a super-stylized surprise hit from «Kick - Ass» director Matthew Vaughn that racked up a cool $ 414 million worldwide, and Harry Hart's death was a loss.

American producers are always looking for material to turn into movies, so it's no surprise that they continually remake European hits.

Riggs» source book has already spawned a 2014 sequel, titled «Hollow City», so don't be surprised if Fox ends up fast - tracking a sequel should Burton's Miss Peregrine's movie adaptation become a hit with audiences.

Filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who turned «The Lego Movie» into a surprise hit, act as producers on «The Lego Batman Movie,» having given up the directors» and screenwriters» chairs to Chris McKay and Seth Grahame - Smith, respectively.

Openly trolling the ambitions of other modern comic - book movies, the sequel to Deadpool, the surprise hit that cast Ryan Reynolds as the self - destructive and puerile Bugs Bunny figure of the present superhero blockbuster landscape, mostly outdoes its predecessor in terms of style and satirical intent: Now that he's...

Leading the cast of misfits is Chris Pratt who was the voice of Emmett in this year's biggest surprise hit, The Lego Movie.

It's a smaller movie, but a potential surprise hit.

Jennifer «s song «The Hanging Tree» was a surprise smash hit from the previous movie.

This is everything a Hulk movie should be, and it's likely to become the surprise hit of the summer season.

Talking with Collider at the press event for The LEGO Ninjago Movie, producers Dan Lin and Chris McKay have revealed some new details about the sequel to the surprise hit of 2014, centred on the famous plastic bricks.

The first movie's origin story of this group of space renegades was a surprise hit with both Marvel comic aficionados and newcomers like myself.

It has a fairly generic name, it stars Gerard Butler, it's derivative of better heist movies, and yet its surprisingly entertaining performances and clever plot have helped make it into a surprise hit.

After years of being the biggest (and in many cases, the only) horror movie franchise in theatres around Halloween, the Saw franchise was dethroned last year by Oren Peli's surprise hit Paranormal Activity, which outgrossed Saw VI by a fairly wide margin.

They are either hired before a film is seen at all, based on hope and expectations, or they are hired after a movie gets a lot of attention — at a film festival, for example — or is a surprise hit.

While it is a pleasant surprise that Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising has something to say about gender equality, unfortunately the actual jokes of the movie are hit and miss.

Although there are no concrete plans currently in motion, George Miller has been promising another Mad Max movie from pretty much the moment Fury Road became the surprise blockbuster hit of 2015.

That concept comes to life in this surprise hit horror film, a movie that drops a self - absorbed college student (Jessica Rothe) into a deadly day that just won't end, a day that always ends with her grisly murder no matter what she does to stop it!

Maybe when I see the movie fleshed out, Zyder will hit me with a few narrative surprises.

Cannes 2014: The elusive Malick surprises buyers by showing up to hawk a movie, while the not - so - elusive «Hunger Games» cast hits the town

Openly trolling the ambitions of other modern comic - book movies, the sequel to Deadpool, the surprise hit that cast...

Made up of mostly home - grown filmmakers, from director Jenkins and writer Tarell Alvin McCraney to producer Andrew Hevia, not to mention the young actors Alex R. Hibbert and Jaden Piner, their movie is undoubtedly 2016's surprise breakout hit.

It's the first nomination in the category for everyone except Paul Thomas Anderson — surprising especially given the presence of Christopher Nolan and Guillermo del Toro, both beloved filmmakers with many hit movies under their belts.

I pointed out yesterday that Fox Searchlight is operating on a different plane when it comes to turning out the vote for its movies, and alongside the aforementioned surprise little hit of the final quarter of 2007 ($ 85 million and counting), further evidence arrives in the form of Tamara Jenkins» The Savages, which, despite not (yet) having connected at the box office (it's made only $ 3.6 million in a month and a half of release), garnered an expected Best Original Screenplay nomination, but also a Best Actress nod for Laura Linney, probably coming at the expense of Angelina Jolie and A Mighty Heart.

The pair scored hits with I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry in 2007 and Grown Ups in 2010, but it was the enormous, surprise success (grossing over $ 100 million) of James» 2009 leading man vehicle Paul Blart: Mall Cop (produced by Sandler) that cemented James» status as a full - blown movie star.

Arthur Curry, a.k.a. Aquaman, fairs a lot better, and considering his solo adventure is set to hit theatres in December of 2018 it's hardly surprising his underwater world of Atlantis is the most fully realized new location in the movie outside of Themyscira, already introduced this past summer in the box office smash Wonder Woman.