Sentences with phrase «worse at the box office»

They may not care if World War II spy thriller «Allied» did badly at the box office, or if everyone else seems to love «La La Land.»

(Yes, it did even worse at the box office than 1989's dismal Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, the one Trek movie trekkies never speak of!)

Which probably explains why this remake starring George Clooney of a somewhat obscure early 1970s «art house» flick of the same name flopped so badly at the box office: it wasn't what people expected at all.

Many have stated that this one of the reasons why it performed so badly at the box office, outside of the negative reviews.

It's extremely difficult — and expensive — to film in water, and the price of failure can be massive (see Waterworld, which went wildly over budget and torpedoed Kevin Costner's career as an A-Lister, or Cutthroat Island, which performed so badly at the box office that its production company went bankrupt).

Though it fared worse at the box office than any picture he's made since 1994's Ed Wood, it was also his best film in that span.

Will Smith's Collateral Beauty bombed badly at the box office this weekend, but not for a lack of star power.

I was stunned that Cinderella Man did as badly at the box office as it did, since I think it was a beautifully done piece of utter bullshit.

Reviled by critics upon its initial release (Ebert dismissed it as a «freak show» for instance) and doing badly at the box office, this 1982 horror movie by cult director John

Reviled by critics upon its initial release (Ebert dismissed it as a «freak show» for instance) and doing badly at the box office, this 1982 horror movie by cult director John Carpenter has undergone a bit of a rehabilitation recently — partly because of Gen X fans who recall it vividly and partly because horror flicks strangely enough became more tame and predictable with the years.

Not exact matches

Though he's a punching bag for critics, Bay's movies — from the action - comedy «Bad Boys» to the thrilling «Armageddon» — have grossed over $ 2.1 billion at the United States box office in his career.

-- all as bad as bad can be, but they share the ability to have them drooling in the aisles and at the box - office.

They also probe how well the next George Clooney drama will do at the box office and how bad the next flu season will be.

And there's more bad news for salt (aside from it tanking at the box office... ok, ok we're done): In a recent study, scientists found that people who consumed more than 4,000 mg of sodium per day have more than twice the risk of having a stroke compared to people who consumed less than 1,500 mg of sodium per day.

I love sending out christmas cards, I get a few boxes at TJMaxx (they always have so many good ones, for so little money) and stamps aren't too bad... we have to support the post office after all!

HollywoodNews.com: It was good news / bad news at the box office this weekend.

But prior to Girls Trip, the last raunchy comedy that did succeed at the box office was roughly sixteen months ago, that being STXfilms» Bad Moms which opened to $ 23.8 M, legged out to a 4.8 x multiple of $ 113.2 M while ultimately clearing a $ 50M - plus profit off a $ 2oM production cost.

Although the Stallone picture is fun in a «so bad it's good» way, it was a total misfire, flopping at the box office and earning disdain from Dredd's comic book creators.

In the wake of a number of star - studded big - budget comedy features waning at the box office (read Ghostbusters), and once - upon - a-time comedy king Adam Sandler now reaching his core audience on Netflix, A Bad Moms Christmas serves as an example of how feature film economics have also changed in a climate where streaming has impacted theatergoing for mid-and-low budgeted films.

That labor of love, The Room, would gross a mere $ 1,800 at the box office and be uniformly derided by the critics as one of the worst movies ever made.

Another factor is that Paramount suffered one of their worst years at the box office in 2017, ending the year at a financial loss thanks to Baywatch, Ghost in the Shell and Transformers: The Last Knight.

Ashby, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and is seeking distribution, will earn him the acting cred, while Paper Towns will undoubtedly cement his box office status — both roles making those «bad movies» a thing of the past.

Its action badly framed and serving mainly to remind that if you can make Scott and Chow look like martial artists, there's no real point in martial artists anymore except as stand - ins for non-martial artists, Bulletproof Monk is completely disposable and, like most other Western vehicles for Eastern stars, disturbingly violent at its denouement for the, I guess, salacious foreign box office.

Bad Moms landed just below War Dogs, also with an estimated $ 6 million, but has managed to break $ 100 million in revenue and continues to be a strong winner at the box office.

Michael Bay's Transformer movies are unique in that they always get bad reviews but make a fortune at the box office.

Terminator: Genisys made $ 350m at the global box - office, but clunked worse than a Stan Winston created exoskeleton.

While the Warner Bros. comedy tripled its budget at the box office, it will only be remembered for being one of Sandler's worst comedies yet, providing audiences didn't immediately wipe it from their memory when they walked out of the theater.

Too bad it only earned $ 2.6 million at the box office.

The schizoid career of director David Gordon Green (George Washington, Your Highness) finds a comfortable middle ground here in terms of adult subject matter, though like his last film, 2015's Sandra Bullock spin - doctor flick Our Brand is Crisis, Stronger has stalled badly at the US box office.

Finally, Neil throws down a Fat Guy Five of his favorite films of Fantastic Fest while Kevin ridicules him for his bad plot synopses and gloats over the fact he's better at predicting box office winners.

The first Bad Moms managed to greatly exceed box office expectations last year, and despite its cookie - cutter premise and execution it turned out to still be an enjoyable time at the movies.

Combined with the success of films like «Game Night» ($ 104 million) and «A Bad Mom's Christmas» ($ 130 million), raunchy comedies may be making a slow recovery at the box office after a 2017 that saw most of them flame out.

Things haven't been going so well for Nicolas Cage lately, with the critics and at the box office, but his latest flick, Seeking Justice, doesn't look all that bad, but maybe that's thanks to Guy Pearce more than anything.

He began his career at Home Box Office in the 1980s, where he programmed bad Corey Haim movies for Cinemax.

The sci - fi adventure marked his seventh straight flick that has opened in the # 1 slot at the box office, a run which started with Ali and has also included The Pursuit of Happyness, Hitch, Bad Boys II, Men in Black II and I, Robot.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of transcendent filmmaking in the The Lost City of Z and A Ghost Story, it was the age of foolish Spider - Man remakes / reboots / regurgitations, it was the epoch of a magnificent enquiry into belief by the evergreen Martin Scorsese, it was the epoch of the incredulous return of Mel Gibson in a box office hit, it was the season of Michael Haneke shining a light on our uncaring societal malaise, it was the season of manifold more people watching Baywatch, it was the spring of Aki Kaurismäki's warm - hearted but politically pressing The Other Side of Hope, it was the winter of despair at the box office results of masterpieces like Certain Women, Aquarius and The Death of Louis XIV, we had Yorgos Lanthimos» Kubrickian masterpiece before us, we had a new Kingsman film before us, we were all going direct to cinematic Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

After thwarting bad buzz to earn an impressive $ 540 million at the global box office, Paramount and Skydance Prods.

Just how badly did the star's new DJ drama do at the box - office this weekend?

From «The Ring» to «Don't Breathe», here's the best and worst of the horror films that thrived at the box office.

However, Bad Moms earned $ 180 million at the worldwide box office on a budget of $ 20 million, positioning it as a resounding success for STX.

The past six months have been pretty sluggish for comedies at the box office, with high - profile movies like This Is 40 and Guilt Trip faring worse than expected, but comedy's dry spell seems to be over.

The latest sequel fared far worse with critics than the three «classic» Vacation movies (Vacation, European Vacation, and Christmas Vacation), and despite much higher ticket prices Vacation failed to beat the 1983 original and Christmas Vacation at the U.S. box office.

Good moms go to heaven; Bad Moms get money — nearly $ 185 million at the box office, on a budget not much more than a tenth of that — and, apparently, a super fast - tracked sequel.

The movie, which was released last summer to negative reviews but still managed to gross over $ 300 million at the box office, won Worst Director for Shyamalan.

At the box office, Inherent Vice became the director's worst - performing film since his debut Hard Eight played just 29 theaters in the winter of 1997.

As, say, Con - Air or the Fast and Furious films have shown, bad writing can be overcome — at least at the box office — with eye - popping set pieces.

This is the sequel to the 2016 comedy hit Bad Moms, which earned $ 113.2 million at the domestic box office.

There was Scarlett Johansson dealing with the death of a stripper in the dark, intermittently funny Rough Night, Toni Collette and Molly Shannon leaving the kids at home in Fun Mom Dinner, the cast of Bad Moms returning with diminishing returns in A Bad Moms Christmas and Tiffany Haddish transforming into a one woman comic phenomenon in crowd - pleasing box office hit Girls Trip.

For a movie that kinda bombed at the box office, that ai nt half bad.

Louis Letterier's The Incredible Hulk, indisputably the worst film yet in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, brought very little to the table, but just about managed to outgross its predecessor at the box office.