Take a look at the loglines for some of
the top box office movies (FilmDailyTV).
Not exact matches
As the year comes to a close, the domestic
box office is on pace to set another new industry record just one year after
topping $ 11 billion in domestic
movie ticket sales for the first time ever.
2016's
movie industry highlights include a monster year for Walt Disney, as the Mouse House set a new yearly global
box office record, becoming the first studio to ever
top $ 7 billion in worldwide ticket sales.
But why will it be The Spongebob
Movie: Sponge Out Of Water that winds up taking American Sniper's place at the
top of the
box office?
Deadpool became the first R - rated
movie to
top $ 100 million in domestic
box office sales over its opening weekend, pulling in an impressive $ 135 million in North America and a whopping $ 260 million worldwide, according to
box office research firm Rentrak.
(Interestingly, though, the
movie that finally pushed «Compton» out of its
top box -
office spot?
Typically,
top movie talent negotiate a cut of the «back end» — what a studio makes from
box -
office sales, global distribution, and syndication.
(In fact, 4 of the
top 10 highest - grossing films at the domestic
box office so far in 2016 are animated
movies.)
And if the coming big releases «Jumanji» or «The Greatest Showman» (a Fox
movie, by the way) do knock «The Last Jedi» from the
top spot in the coming weeks, Disney still earned $ 5 billion - plus at the worldwide
box office for the third year in a row (Warner Bros. hit that mark this year for just the second time in its history) and is likely to surpass WB as the
top - earning studio at the domestic
box office for the year.
Had Marvel served up another big helping of the same big, dumb action fare that's dominated summer
movies for the last 40 years, the MCU has enough built - in fans to propel Guardians 2 to the
top of the
box office.
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.»
This weekend, James Cameron's science - fiction epic Avatar
topped the
box office for the third straight week, shooting past $ 1 billion worldwide, only the fifth
movie ever to hit that mark.
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.
The amount of gun violence in
top - grossing PG - 13
movies, which can be seen by children of all ages, has continued to exceed the gun violence in the biggest
box -
office R - rated films, a new analysis published in the journal Pediatrics shows.
The researchers compiled a database of the weekend
box -
office returns for the
top 10
movies in 17 different countries over three years.
«Transformers: Dark Of The Moon» (2011)
Box Office Take: $ 1,124 billion 21st Century
Box Office Ranking: 7 The
top - grossing
movie in the «Transformers» franchise is also the second least shitty of the series, but given the track record of the series, that still precludes a high level of shittiness.
«Finding Nemo» (2003)
Box Office Take: $ 937m 21st Century
Box Office Ranking: 25 «Finding Nemo» will surely be bounced out of the
Top 25 all - time grossers within a few weeks, thanks to «Age Of Ultron» (with «Minions,» «Spectre» and «Star Wars» likely to push it further down, too), but for a time, it was one of the top 5 movies of all time, and that was a measure of the confidence that Pixar was beginning to develop with this, their fifth theatrical feature, and one of their be
Top 25 all - time grossers within a few weeks, thanks to «Age Of Ultron» (with «Minions,» «Spectre» and «Star Wars» likely to push it further down, too), but for a time, it was one of the
top 5 movies of all time, and that was a measure of the confidence that Pixar was beginning to develop with this, their fifth theatrical feature, and one of their be
top 5
movies of all time, and that was a measure of the confidence that Pixar was beginning to develop with this, their fifth theatrical feature, and one of their best.
The
movie had a $ 34.5 million
box -
office debut beating Paramount's hit horror film «A Quiet Place» for the
top spot on this weekend's
box office charts.
The
movie was a
box office hit in Belgium and became the
top - grossing Flemish film of all time.
Every year is a good year for action cinema, at least from a financial standpoint: If you count superhero
movies, the genre pretty much has the
top of the
box -
office charts on perpetual lockdown.
After one month in theaters, Wonder Woman broke the $ 700 million barrier at the worldwide
box office this past weekend, thereby becoming one of the
top 100 highest - grossing
movies ever released; the news came mere days after the film surpassed all three previous installments to become the largest DCEU release at the domestic
box office.
Exalted audiences and approving critics confirm the hype: Black Panther's opening weekend
box office numbers has usurped 2012's The Avengers as the
top - grossing domestic opening for a Marvel
movie at $ 235 million, and the picture has a 97 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The most critically - acclaimed
movie of the summer, a pulse pounding historical action picture with high exit - polling scores as well, may very well repeat at the
top of the
box office this weekend.
One of the best reviewed
movies of this or any year, the Alfonso Cuarón - directed dramatic thriller has
topped the
box office for three consecutive weekends in North America as well as internationally, holding the number one spot in every major market in which it has opened.
New Line Cinema's Stephen King adaptation «It» floated to the
top spot in this weekend's
box office charts, breaking the record for the largest opening of a horror
movie ever, and blowing past analysts» $ 55 - million projections to the tune of $ 117...
The global cultural phenomenon of «Black Panther» has dominated the
box office charts emerging as the third biggest
movie of all time domestically with over $ 665 million — the first film in eight years to spend five weeks at No. 1 — and rising to the global
top 10 of all time with over $ 1.3 billion.
In the spirit of the season,
Box Office Mojo has released a list of 2013's top domestic box office movies (as of December
Box Office Mojo has released a list of 2013's top domestic box office movies (as of Decemb
Office Mojo has released a list of 2013's
top domestic
box office movies (as of December
box office movies (as of Decemb
office movies (as of December 1).
In the last few months of 2017 (which saw female - led
movies top the year - end
box office and female stories dominate the Emmys), the entertainment world was rocked by scandal, starting with the revelations about Harvey Weinstein, which were followed by accusations against executives, longtime actors and some of the industry's most powerful men.
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Given that the beginning of the summer
movie season is just about here, let's take a look at the ungodly amount of films that'll be opening over the course of the next four months and see what looks good, what looks awful, and what will
top the
box office whether it sucks or not.
The new superhero
movie directed by Scott Derrickson (Sinister) and starring Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game) has already charted to the
top of the
box office over the course of the past two weekends, and has made well over $ 150 million in domestic ticket sales alone.
In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the
top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «
movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant
box -
office success.
Its confusion is understandable: Warners
topped the
box office this weekend with «Kong: Skull Island,» and «The Disaster Artist» is a biopic starring Franco as Tommy Wiseau, the Ed Wood - like director of the craptastic midnight
movie phenomenon «The Room.»
The big winner of the holiday season is Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which earned $ 52 million over the three - day weekend, which was enough to surpass Beauty and the Beast and take the
top spot at the
box office biggest
movie of 2017.
The Georgia - filmed
movie, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, put up a huge weekend on
top of a huge holiday week and finishes out the year with around $ 185 million at the
box office on only a $ 90 million production budget.
Sci - fi sequel Transformers: Age Of Extinction has destroyed its rivals to land at the
top of the U.K.
box office chart.The action
movie, starring...
We have witnessed the release of quite a few superhero
movies and all of them had made their way to the
top of the
box office.
The
top box office draw for fans of ridiculous action this week is undoubtedly 2 Guns — a buddy action
movie starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg.
In 2010, the only
movie to retain the
top spot of the US
Box Office for three consecutive weeks was Inception.
Young Leonardo DiCaprio doppleganger Dane DeHaan, who just
topped the
box office this month in the generally well - received found - footage
movie Chronicle, is set to play the murderer Lucien Carr.
Back in Time came to DVD and Blu - ray last year the same October week that the
movies topped the
box office for a day (the day that Marty and Doc visited in the future in Part II) and the aforementioned Blu - ray collection come about.
As expected, Warner Bros.» «The Lego Batman
Movie» easily kept hold of the
top spot at the
box office after a Presidents Day weekend that produced the lowest revenue since 2013.
That puts it in the
top five on the all - time domestic charts, and makes it the biggest superhero
movie in U.S.
box office history.
Fox's «Deadpool 2» brought in $ 125 million this weekend, giving it the second - highest opening ever for an R - rated
movie and ending the three - week reign of Disney's «Avengers: Infinity War» at the
top of the North American
box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The Working Title
movie topped the U.K.
box office charts for three weeks and grossed $ 90 million worldwide.
Paul Newman's rugged American good looks, piercing blue eyes and irresistible air of weary virility made him a
top box -
office attraction for decades and a genuine
movie star in the great tradition of Hollywood.
Marvel reigns supreme at the worldwide
box office once again as «Iron Man 3» finally hits the
top spot as highest grossing
movie of 2013 after two...
Superhero
movies are the
top performers at the
box office.
It was a good weekend at the
movies overall, a $ 180 million haul — a 4 percent increase from last year's Thanksgiving
box office — spread relatively evenly over the
top 12.
And while the subject matter of children and young teenagers fighting one another to the death may lead some parents to think twice about bringing their own kids to the picture, the
movie is sure to
top the
box office as well as produce sequels (two books remain to be adapted) in the future.