The biggest
worldwide box office hit in the genre was «Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time,» with $ 335 million worldwide, and that's a film generally deemed to have been a flop («Lara Croft: Tomb Raider» is the biggest domestic grosser, with $ 131 million).
Here are today's eight most successful Mexican film directors, with each listed with his or her biggest
worldwide box office hit (box office figures are from Box Office Mojo).
Not exact matches
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.
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.
Franchises like «Fast and the Furious» and «San Andreas» are the latest
hits that have brought his lifetime
worldwide box -
office gross to over $ 5.9 billion, and coming up he's got «Baywatch» and «Jumanji.»
The film has killed it at the
box office for its opening weekend and has already
hit $ 1 billion
worldwide.
While most major studios were dodging
box -
office bombs, Pascal's Spider - Man 2 won big, scoring $ 771 million
worldwide and adding to Sony's string of
hits.
The runaway
hit had a production budget of $ 28 million, but earned $ 60.2 million at the
box office during its debut weekend and amassed a total of $ 201 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mo
box office during its debut weekend and amassed a total of $ 201 million worldwide, according to Box Office
office during its debut weekend and amassed a total of $ 201 million
worldwide, according to
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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.
«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 film, directed by David Ayer, was a solid
box office hit, grossing $ 745 million
worldwide and the studio subsequently announced that it was working on a «Suicide Squad» sequel.
Our studio had its first ever $ 1 billion
worldwide grossing film in Michael Bay's
hit «Transformers: Dark of the Moon;» we successfully re-launched our «Mission Impossible» franchise with Tom Cruise, JJ Abrams and Brad Bird; our latest installment in the «Paranormal Activity» franchise had another $ 100 million dollar success; our first original animated film «Rango,» from director Gore Verbinski, earned rave reviews and more than $ 100 million at the domestic
box office; and we released global phenomenon «Super 8,» directed by JJ Abrams, who will now direct the newest «Star Trek» for 2013.
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.
«Zootopia» is the unit's fourth consecutive
hit, following 2012's «Wreck - it - Ralph» ($ 471 million global
box office), 2013's «Frozen» ($ 1.28 billion
worldwide, plus three times as much in still - growing licensing and merchandising revenues) and 2014's «Big Hero 6» ($ 658 globally).
Pacific Rim
hit theaters in summer 2013 and grossed just $ 101 million at the domestic
box office but went on to take in over $ 400 million
worldwide.
It oozed with violence and machismo and was a smash
hit at the
box office — taking in over $ 450 million USD
worldwide.
The film was well received by the critics and a popular
hit, but at the
box office, it paled next to Saving Private Ryan, which took in half a billion dollars
worldwide.
In 1994, Dumb and Dumber became an unexpected
box office hit, grossing over $ 247 million
worldwide and launching an already rising star in Jim Carrey into another stratosphere.
The movie opened with a major success with a
box office hit of $ 236 million
worldwide and earned several accolades.
Last year's Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was an unexpected financial smash
hit for the studio that has grossed $ 957 million
worldwide and is still going at the U.S.
box office, four months after its December 2017 opening.
One of Hollywood's most sought after talents, Peli wrote and directed the
box office hit «Paranormal Activity,» which launched a successful franchise for Paramount having grossed more than $ 576 million
worldwide from three installments to date.
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...
Travis Fimmel, who returns as lead Ragnar Lothbrok on the History Channel's
hit series Vikings later this year, has also seen his film stock rising with well - received perfs in Rebecca Miller's critically - acclaimed Maggie's Plan and Universal / Legendary's Warcraft, currently at $ 430 million
worldwide box office.
Steven Spielberg's «Ready Player One» is a
hit, pulling in $ 181 million
worldwide in
box office receipts during its inaugural weekend, and giving the filmmaker his biggest success since «Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull» a decade ago.
Both films were major
hits, scoring more than $ 250 million at the
worldwide box office each.
In this thrilling follow - up to the
worldwide,
box -
office hit Ghost Rider, the world's darkest hero takes on the ultimate bad guy: the devil, himself.
What You Need To Know: Given that the original trilogy was near - universally beloved, a giant
box -
office hit (taking close to $ 3 billion
worldwide) and even managed to be win a record haul of Oscars with its last installment, getting «The Hobbit,» J.R.R. Tolkien «s novel set, and written, before «The Lord of the Rings» proved surprisingly tricky, with rights issues and studio bankruptcy holding the project up for years, even before original director Guillermo del Toro bailed.
Sony Pictures scored a major
hit with its recent reboot Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, with the film holding its own against Star Wars: The Last Jedi and pulling in a hefty $ 931 million at the
worldwide box office.
«Wonder Woman» has been a superheroic
hit for Warner Bros., ranking as the No. 2 movie of 2017 (after «Beauty and the Beast») and earning more than $ 410 million at the domestic
box office and in excess of $ 817 million
worldwide.
Silent Hill has sold more than seven million video game copies
worldwide, earning more than $ 100 million at the
box office with the first film, Silent Hill, and spawning a
hit comic book series and graphic novels.
It ended up the second biggest
box office hit behind Jurassic Park, earning close to half a billion dollars
worldwide.
In another exciting development, Oscar ® winner Bill Condon will follow his
worldwide smash Beauty and the Beast, one of this year's biggest
hits — which crossed $ 1 billion at the global
box office and became the most successful musical of all time — by directing Bride of Frankenstein from a screenplay by Koepp.
It also was a
box -
office hit, grossing more than $ 235 million
worldwide.
Morgan wrote the first installment, which proved to be a breakout
hit, pulling in $ 363 million at the
worldwide box office.