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It was a box office success grossing $326 million worldwide.
The Wonder Woman phenomenon extends far beyond its box office success.
Wonder Woman was a massive box office success for Warner Bros.
That's also been reflected in Black Panther's monumental box office success.
Its box office success proved that ambition and diversity actually works.
After the box-office success of "Joker," DC and Warner Bros.
Their box office success is different from more commercial, mainstream movies.
It all depends on the box office success of Alita: Battle Angel.
The critical acclaim, the box office success, and it changed the culture.
Batman v Superman's box office success is good news for Warner Bros.
What are the takeaways from Captain Marvel's already overwhelming box office success?
"Joker" is a box-office success despite not being released in China.
His comeback against Cerrone is expected to be a box office success
A pile of Oscar nominations does not guarantee box-office success, though.
"Venom" pulled off its big box office success despite some awful reviews.
However, a film's box office success may not always translate into toy sales.
However, "Endgame's" third straight box office success didn't come without a little competition.
It proved to a huge box office success and is currently still in theaters.
It was a box office success, the fourth highest-grossing movie of the year.
Aja: Unfortunately, I feel like Joker's massive box office success means that Warner Bros.
The film was both a critical and box-office success and brought him fame.
Women fueled the box-office success of Wonder Woman to the tune of $821M worldwide.
But Jones found both critical and box-office success by teasing out some familiar themes.
So it should come as no surprise that the film was a box office success.
And both are box office success stories, with Hidden Figures looking like a genuine hit.
What this big October showing underlines is that there's not one formula for box office success.
"Wonder Woman" hit theaters last weekend and has been a massive critical and box-office success.
With the box-office success of The Nun, The Conjuring franchise has hit a new high.
He often leads these films to box office success, though critical acclaim does not always follow.
"Wonder Woman" has been a critical and box office success, garnering more than $821 million worldwide.
While his works were often critically panned, Mr. Chow had an eye for box-office success.
But all of it — the box office success, the cultural impact — pivoted on an audacious decision.
The 'Twister' effect "Twister" enjoyed considerable box office success and maintains legendary status in the meteorological community.
That's why the box office success matters, even if it has no meaningful impact on your life.
The movie was a low-key box office success, and its critical bona fides were for real.
The film was a box office success, earning about $112 million with a budget of $23 million.
These remakes, released in the last decade, have far exceeded the box office success of their predecessors.
Mattel's rival Hasbro has found box-office success with theatrical releases based on its "Transformers" toy line.
Box office success doesn't always equate to Oscar-worthiness, but Sully's estimated $35.5 million debut doesn't hurt.
Box-office success and multiple sequels followed, but the filmmaker became disenchanted as the years wore on.
But beyond its box office success, The Host is, quite simply, a wildly entertaining film, horror or otherwise.
We'll be over here staring into the film's billion-dollar box office success and slipping slowly into despair.
The company is already talking about how its streaming service will complement that kind of box office success.
Girls Trip, the first comedy since 1994 to star four Black women, was a huge box-office success.
Still, that box-office success and critical acclaim has yet to translate into actual recognition at awards shows.
But box office success doesn't necessarily lead to awards recognition, and the Gal Gadot starrer was left out.
Sunday's estimated result throws serious doubt onto what had been high hopes for a box office success story.
In 2014, after the box office success of "Man of Steel," an Aquaman film was put into production.
In the 2010s, not even bankable stars, big marketing campaigns or impressive CGI could guarantee box office success.
But just because video game movies have been poorly reviewed doesn't mean they haven't seen box office success.
All feature diverse casts and crews, and have found critical acclaim as well as box-office success last year.
The company said the box-office success of Transformers movie spin-off "Bumblebee " charged sales of its action toys.
She had scored an Oscar and box-office success by playing a shy bookkeeper who found love in Moonstruck.
For a start, big-budget sequels, typically the safest route to box office success, generated ragged holiday weekend sales.
The original film was a massive box office success when it hit theaters in 2016, grossing $746 million worldwide.
The box office success of "The Lion King" and growth in the company's theme parks business drove the lift.
Wonder Woman was a box office success, defying expectations and hauling in $821 million worldwide during its theatrical run.
Movie review sites like Rotten Tomatoes are often inundated with users trying to manipulate a film's box office success.
Bad Santa was a box office success, earning $76.5 million at the box office against a $23 million budget.
The film is the fourth in the popular Toy Story franchise, and looks to continue the brand's box office success.
Of course, there was no guarantee that "Solo" would have been a box office success in December, even with tweaks.
It became a box office success grossing over $61.1 million worldwide in three months on a budget of $12 million.
But there are plenty of obstacles to Infinity War reaching the domestic box office success of some of its predecessors.
However, Lionsgate box office success was limited in 2015, with several big budget products yielding less-than-spectacular ticket sales.
Marvel movies make billions of dollars, but the studio hasn't translated that box office success into big budget video games.
The Results: A major box office success, with $355 million (about $587 million in today's dollars) and two Oscar wins.
" ARTS An article on Sunday about the box office success of "Toy Story 4" misstated a plot point in "Yesterday.
The box office success of the new film adaptation of Stephen King's "It" has put evil clowns front and center.
Oscar Hunt Despite box office success and critical praise, female filmmakers are largely being left out of Hollywood's awards season.
But for the most part, the relationship between the Oscars and a movie's box-office success is a complicated one.
The box office success of both of those films was powered to a large extent by conservative viewers and conservative media.
The amount of marketing spend and social media buzz, he says, are a much more reliable predictor of box office success.
The film was a huge critical and box office success, and more than eight decades later, it's easy to see why.
First, the studio cruised into the year riding a wave of box office success thanks to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
A year ago, Black Panther permanently impacted popular culture with its groundbreaking images of African heroism and massive box-office success.
Witness the box-office success of movies like "Horrible Bosses" and "Revenge of the Nerds," in which bullies get their comeuppance.
Despite Little Women's box office success and the massive critical praise it received, the film has been overlooked this awards cycle.
The film is the latest from "Inception" director Nolan, who has enjoyed box office success with a string of unconventional blockbusters.
Because Wonder Woman is a smashing box office success, Gadot now has an advantage in negotiating a bigger payday for herself.
At least part of the sensational Black Panther box office success is due to the fact that the movie dropped in February.
Though it received mixed reviews, its early box-office success could entice Disney to take more risks in the future, Davis said.
In one bit, he shares a hilarious anecdote about his dad calling up amid the box office success of Independence Day (1996).
Black Panther's box office success is all the more noteworthy in the context of the Marvel blockbuster it is poised to unseat.
While the teen romantic comedy didn't find overwhelming box office success at the time, it eventually became somewhat of a cult classic.
The horror genre has some of the highest ROI in film, and "Get Out" was pretty artistic, critically acclaimed, box-office success.
If there is eventually a Wonder Woman 2 — and with the film's box office success and positive reviews, why wouldn't there be?
And while its films have been creatively successful — especially 2012's The Pirates — box office success has been harder to come by.
Cavill's reported $14 million paycheck for his work on "Man of Steel" is likely the result of the film's box office success.
The film was a box office success, sparking a slew of similar, voodoo-fear-inducing zombie films in the 1930s and '40s.
While "Black Panther" garnered critical acclaim as well as box office success, that won't mean it will easily nab the win in February.
In addition to its box office success, Black Panther held a special place in the hearts and minds of a lot of fans.
Despite the strong box office performance - and a robust pipeline - fears over the decline in ESPN viewers has overshadowed the box office success.
The recent box-office success of "Bridget Jones's Baby" may be indicative of a nostalgia for the boom days of the early 2000s.
The film has so far proved a box office success, raking in more than $70 million in North America in its opening weekend.
The box office success of Jon M. Chu's Crazy Rich Asians has sealed the deal and development is moving forward on a sequel.
While the film received mixed reviews upon release, it was a box office success earning about $75 million in the U.S. box office.
She charmed audiences in female-centric hits at a time when the Indian film industry relied on male actors for box-office success.
The box-office success suggests that "Waitress" is destined to become a hit, joining "Hamilton" and "School of Rock" from the last season.
This past weekend, two of the most famous comic book heroes of all time punched each other senseless to big box office success.
Thanks to the box-office success of "It," the timing could hardly be better to have a new series with a King connection.
To be clear, even before Iger, Disney was no stranger to mining IP for both box office success and its broader corporate aims.
After the box-office success of the movie, talkies began to take over, ushering out silent films as well the genre's staple stars.
Something that had nothing to do with the director's Palme d'Or win for "Parasite," international box office success or becoming an Oscar nominee.
The film's box office success is partly due to a state campaign to promote home grown films, sometimes at the expense of foreign ones.
Spurred by the smashing box-office success of Wonder Woman, Warner Bros, the company's movie division, announced a December 2019 date for a sequel.
Whether or not the Potter record stands, the box office success for BvS is a validation of the studio's long-term DC Comics plan.
That solidly earned the film an R rating (216+ without an adult), but that hasn't stopped the film from being a box office success.
After months of doubt about Catfish's veracity, its improbable box office success was swept out from under it by a mundane song licensing lawsuit.
"Django Unchained," Tarantino's biggest box office success to date, bowed with $26.5 million over the holidays, and went on to earn $425 million globally.
More so than the films of old, holiday movies of the new era have become defined by star power and their box-office success.
On Saturday, the Broken Lizards wrote that the creation of a "Super Troopers 3" would be contingent on the second film's box office success.
His biggest competition comes from Denzel Washington, for "Fences," a best-picture contender and a growing box-office success, which Mr. Washington also directed.
It largely depends on word of mouth, and Parasite's unusual box office success and big awards push from distributor Neon paid off big time.
The movie industry continues to ignore audiences of color, to its own detriment, given the box office success of movies that do feature diverse casts.
The show has enjoyed box office success and recently broke a theater record for grossing over $1.5 million in a single week in late May.
There are so many factors behind what makes a movie a box office success and those factors have changed since the earliest days of cinema.
Releases like Sony's Slender Man are achieving solid box office success, but the internet trend of grassroots legend creation could lose steam at any time.
After the massive box office success of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle last year, Kevin Hart has confirmed that a sequel is in the works.
There's still just a big barrier for R-rated movies to achieve the kind of box office success that more crowd-pleasing options can deliver.
The educator and mathematician spoke to Reuters about how the box office success of "Super 30", starring popular actor Hrithik Roshan, has changed his life.
It played an important part in reviving the comic-book movie genre in cinemas, which eventually led to the box office success of Marvel Studios.
Indeed, she makes it all look so easy, but so does Witherspoon who carried the first two movies of this franchise to box office success.
But you can still make those types of movies and allow people to share in the box office success by deferring part of their money.
So far this season, despite box office success and massive critical praise, when it comes to awards, Little Women has been notable for its absence.
It wasn't a box office success at the time of its release, but has a cult following and earned Bale acclaim for his terrifying performance.
Then "Hustlers," which found critical acclaim and box office success when it opened in September, earning over $150 million worldwide on a $20 million budget.
Iger led the company through major acquisitions and record-breaking box office success, but he leaves the role at an uncertain time for Disney's future.
But if the movie turns out to be an international box office success, then [the plot] will also be seen as having contributed to that.
" But Kimmel introduced the broadcast as "a night for positivity," and cited, among other things, the box-office success of "Black Panther" and "Wonder Woman.
The mogul's name used to be synonymous with Oscars, box office success, and a bull-in-a-china-shop style of managing Hollywood talent and publicity.
Crazy Rich Asians star Ken Jeong says the film's massive box-office success this summer has already revolutionized the experience of Asian Americans working in Hollywood.
We also discussed the week's streaming and entertainment news, including a bizarre special from Netflix, continuing outages at Hulu, and Black Panther's extraordinary box office success.
Fresh off the box office success of "Love, Simon," this new film from Craig Johnson also depicts a teenage boy coming to grips with his homosexuality.
Disney will donate $1 million to help develop STEM programs in the U.S., following the runaway box-office success of "Black Panther," it was announced Monday.
A critical and box office success, it explores the dynamics of five Lebanese women at different life stages in modern Beirut, where the movie was filmed.
As best-picture contenders expand into more theaters ahead of the big night, the relationship between Oscar recognition and box-office success is a tricky one.
A film starring the actor which was released during the 85 days he spent in jail before being freed on bail was a roaring box office success.
Producer Jon Shestack of Air Force One , Waiting, and Dan in Real Life fame will help Frank make the leap from exuberant illustrator to box-office success.
Under that logic, we might as well substitute every high-performing, man-dominated franchise with a woman character, and call it a box office success in advance.
A Star Is Born was a critical and box office success upon its release last year, earning eight Oscar nominations and one win, for Best Original Song.
The massive box office success marked the highest-scoring domestic launch ever for a PG-rated film, as well as the highest July film opening in history.
Nonetheless, Chu and the film's stars shone bright at Sunday's ceremony, and hey, there's all that critical acclaim and box office success they can fall back on.
One of the strongest assets lesser-known characters have is the lack of expectations that come with turning a marquee superhero into an instant box-office success.
Despite his recent box office success, the Central Intelligence star said he always puts his family first and never wants to let fame get in the way.
Standing on the shoulders of King-centric box office success, Flanagan delivered a transcendent journey full of scenes that ought to be iconic in their own right.
It was released in 1980 to major box-office success but mixed reviews, although many critics now consider it the best film in the "Star Wars" series.
He knew how to blast small films to box office success, and deliver polished dramas like "The King's Speech" and popular attractions like the "Scary Movie" franchise.
The revival of the rom-com can't just be traced to Netflix: This was also the summer of Crazy Rich Asians and its massive box office success.
"Pay It Forward was not a box-office success and I went to movie jail for quite a long time," Leder told The New York Times in 2015.
Henrik Sedin will write a story about how Vancouver's own Ryan Reynolds isn't a movie star, then print a retraction after remembering the box-office success of Deadpool.
But on a more serious note, Cannon has some very high expectations to contend with, even in the aftermath of Wonder Woman's massive box office success in 2017.
If we're going to boycott the Oscars, we also need to boycott the movie studios determined to ignore the box office success of movies featuring people of color.
He had signed on to play Owen Grady in Jurassic World in 2013, and when the movie came out in 2015, he once again achieved box office success.
It wasn't the first or the best of its genre, but the movie was a box office success and spawned a couple of decent sequels during the 1990s.
Applying tools such as "neural networks," — sophisticated algorithms loosely modeled on the brain — one can predict everything from stock prices and box office success from social media data.
Why to watch: Amazon and Netflix have both made major investments in content, but Bezos' box office success and critical acclaim are inching him ahead of Reed Hastings.
When the film was released in December 1995, it was an immediate box office success, but some critics suggested its violent action sequences were too scary for children.
"Spider-Man," played in 2002 by Tobey Maguire, quickly became a huge box office success for Sony, and arguably prompted Marvel to enter the superhero flick game themselves.
A Palme d'Or winner, a box office success story and an Oscar contender, Bong Joon Ho's "Parasite" was, by any measure, one of 2019's most significant films.
Three years later, the critical and box-office success of "Tom Jones," which won three Oscars including best picture, made him a millionaire at the age of 27.
Marvel's Black Panther is a cultural phenomenon, a historic box office success that's brought in rave reviews and sparked conversation all over social media and traditional media alike.
Election was not a box office success when it was first released, but the film was met with critical acclaim and has remained a fan favorite comedy ever since.
Studio revenue for the quarter increased 22 percent to $2.1 billion, powered by the box-office success of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and animated movie "Zootopia," Reuters said.
Keep in mind that Chan had just starred in Rumble in the Bronx, his first movie to become a box office success at home and in the United States.
It was a once-in-a-lifetime confluence of events that led to the film's massive box-office success (in the US, it's the highest grossing film in history).
The R-rated superhero movie was in many ways a first for the genre, proving that an adults-only audience could carry a comic book adaptation to box office success.
The 2016 anime film Your Name, a charming body-swap romance that became anime's biggest box office success, features a catalog of gorgeously rendered landscapes worthy of an art gallery.
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi roared to a triumphant box office success in its opening weekend, bringing in more than $220 million in America, and $450 million worldwide.
"Feud" will unfold largely on the set of the film, a garish psychodrama that went on to critical and box office success, and an enduring reputation as a camp classic.
In recent years, only the apparently indestructible "Mission: Impossible" franchise has provided him with a steady vehicle for his talents as well as for a ride to box-office success.
Quarterly earnings and revenues at the Walt Disney Company got a lift thanks to the box office success of "The Lion King" and growth in the company's theme parks business.
Why it matters: Disney's box office success this year is attributable in part to a years-long strategy to invest in major tentpole franchises, like Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars.
"There's no question that audiences demand more diverse representation in movies, rightly so, and the recipe for box office success equally includes the quality of the final product," Robbins said.
Bow Wow was out in L.A. when he threw shade ... and when you look at the box office success of the first film ... you can't really disagree with the guy.
The Patty Jenkins-directed film hit theaters on Friday and became a critical and box office success, breaking records for the biggest opening weekend for a film directed by a woman.
Eight years after co-writing their box office success Bridesmaids, Wiig and Mumolo are teaming up with Lionsgate for a new movie called Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.
When God's Not Dead made over $9 million its opening weekend, on its way to an eventual $60.8 million domestically, headlines framed the box office success, as usual, as a shocker.
Meanwhile, the road to box office success is littered with video games that were turned into movies, but failed to draw in audiences as enthusiastic as the gamers that embraced them.
Walt Disney posted disappointing quarterly earnings Tuesday, as the media giant enjoyed huge box-office success but saw growth in its key media networks and parks segments fall short of estimates.
But anime titles like Your Name, which was a massive box office success, are specifically interested in the intimate, internal stories of their characters, with the backdrop of stunning fantasy elements.
The box-office success of its "Spider-Man: Homecoming" film has also fueled hopes of a rise in earnings for Sony's pictures business, which is still working through a restructuring plan.
"If you look at the fees I'm paid, versus the fees men are paid who have fewer credits and less box office success than I do, it hasn't changed," she said.
Since Disney acquired Marvel in 2009 for $4 billion, it has become one of the Mouse House's most lucrative assets thanks to the box-office success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Audience Score: 80%The critical and box-office success of the 2017 live-action "Beauty and the Beast" likely led Disney to put a slew of other remakes in the pipeline.
I think for women who haven't yet negotiated themselves into those favorable positions, because they haven't had huge box office success, it's hard to earn the same as a male counterpart.
It remains to be seen whether "A Wrinkle in Time" will experience anything like the same box-office success and emotional resonance with African-American audiences that "Black Panther" has had.
That would be Jordan Belfort, the disgraced 1990s stockbroker canonized by Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street," Martin Scorsese's biggest international box office success to date.
From the Academy Award-winning Get Out, to the global box office success of Black Panther, it seems Hollywood is finally recognizing the need for more diverse stories, actors, and crew members.
There was once a time when romantic films actually had box office success, and didn't require one of the romancers to be in a superhero costume to get a major studio's attention.
Check out the companies making headlines after the bell Tuesday: Disney shares slumped after the entertainment company posted disappointing quarterly earnings, as unexpected parks and media network results offset box-office success.
Owning those huge properties would likely mean that any sort of re-reboot of the Tron story would come up against a high bar, given the box office success of those properties.
But the fact still remains that the surest way to box office success — even as budgets continue to balloon — is to make a superhero movie or an animated film about talking animals.
Since The Force Awakens' brilliant re-entry two years ago, Disney also has found box-office success with the first Star Wars standalone movie, 2016's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Constance: I loved the smart, glitzy spectacle Lorene Scafaria created with Hustlers — which, it's worth noting, was an uncontested box office success, even if it got locked out from most awards consideration.
Yet as that happy meal reference indicates, not only do these franchises potentially generate box office success, but they offer plenty of ancillary benefits, in everything from merchandising sales to theme park attractions.
The box-office success of Todd Haynes's 1950s drama introduced audiences to a new form of seduction: The I'll-have-what-she's-having creamed spinach with two poached eggs and a dry martini.
Even as big star failed, others like "Lipstick Under my Burkha", "Hindi Medium" and "Newton", made on smaller budgets and depending entirely on their stories, received critical acclaim and enjoyed box office success.
It's hard to overstate Wayne's World influence: One of the landmark successes of importing Saturday Night Live sketches to the big screen, it also paved the way for Mike Myers' box-office success.
It was not a box-office success in Germany, leading Mr. Brauner to observe disappointedly that the test of "whether the German cinema public has become politically more mature" had "clearly negative" results.
Despite the outrage from some movie goers, critics and priests, The Exorcist had enormous box office success, raking in $400 million worldwide at the box office, which was especially unusual for R-rated films.
It's kind of remarkable that The Witch was as much of a critical and box-office success as it was: This is a 1630s-set movie about God-fearing Puritans plagued by evil forces.
Nevertheless, the film emerged as a modest box-office success, and today it remains some of the most interesting work by its three leading men (plus it has an incredible cameo by Robin Williams).
As Genie, Smith would follow in the footsteps of the late Robin Williams, whose freewheeling, side-splitting performance in the original 1992 animated film helped propel it to box office success and critical acclaim.
Captain Marvel's box office success comes despite the efforts of online trolls who tried to sink the movie's online audience scores with fake reviews and low ratings on sites like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB.
The critical and box-office success of "Get Out" and the very existence of big-studio productions like "Black Panther" are good reasons to revisit the remarkable, complex story of black filmmaking in America.
Red Hot, Candy's (Maggie Gyllenhaal) film, is set to be a box office success, but there's a problem: Harvey (David Krumholtz) and Frankie (James Franco) sold the rights to the film to rival mobsters.
The Avenger films have grossed a combined total of over $4.9 billion worldwide for Disney and Marvel, according to Box Office Mojo, representing about 28 percent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's global box office success.
However, films based on video games have a pretty terrible track record in Hollywood so far, and Sher and her fellow executives have their work cut out to turn console hits into box office success.
It hasn't always been easy: Despite critical acclaim for her feature debut, Thirteen, and the record-shattering box office success of the first Twilight film, she, like many women directors, has faced some career hurdles.
Captain Marvel's box office success also comes in the face of online trolls who tried to sink the movie's online audience scores with fake reviews and low ratings on sites like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB.
Based on a book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, the film's box-office success has helped Katherine Johnson (Henson), Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) and Dorothy Vaughan (Spencer) get the widespread recognition they deserve.
After what Hayek said was a fight to get Weinstein to open the film in one theater each in Los Angeles and New York, Frida eventually earned box-office success as well as six Oscar nominations.
What's most valuable about these two relatively forgotten moments in Prince's career is that they're both far better examples of the two things that made the Purple Rain movie the box office success that it was.
For example, "Monuments Men" (2014), with recent Oscar winners Jean Durjadin and Cate Blanchett, as well as with nominees George Clooney, Matt Damon and Bill Murray, ended up with tepid reviews and lackluster box office success.
The film's box office success is predominantly attributed to its considerably better international showing (accounting for 74.3 percent of its total earnings), versus its pretty average domestic numbers (making up only 25.7 percent of the total).
After the huge box office success of "The Force Awakens" which came out last year, fans are now awaiting the next installment, "Star Wars Episode VIII", currently in production and due for release in December 2017.
" Gender reversals in reboots are not new for Hollywood: A "Ghostbusters" with a cast of women was a critical and box office success last year, and women will be the outlaws in the upcoming "Ocean's 8.
Gadot won both critical plaudits and box office success for "Wonder Woman", which was directed by Patty Jenkins, and she is confident that the experience from that film helped her reprise the character in "Justice League".
And that's repeatedly proven to be a successful approach: Movies like Get Out, Hidden Figures, and Wonder Woman, for example, have broken through the glut of monochromatic big-budget mediocrities to achieve huge box office success.
Though critics gave Blade middling reviews, fans loved the film and, in many ways, its box office success paved the way for the multiple expansive cinematic superhero universes we're all contending with today, for better or worse.
But much of Black Panther's box office success actually seems to be coming from word-of-mouth and social media, spurred on by fans eager to share the experience, regardless of what trolls on Twitter might say.
It's not clear whether Fasts 9 and 10 will be straight sequels or something else, but given Furious 7's impressive box office success, it'd be surprising if Diesel and his driving buddies called it quits there.
A box-office success in France — and the country's foreign-language Oscar submission — "Mustang" met with mixed reviews in Turkey, where one critic described it as "disturbingly Orientalist," and its own Oscar committee passed on the film.
The news of a Crazy Rich sequel in development confirms what has been widely suspected since the film's release (and what Chu has been hinting at) in the wake of the movie's opening-weekend box office success.
THE ARTS An article on Tuesday about the box-office success of the Broadway musical "A Bronx Tale" misstated the gross receipts in a recent week for another musical, the revival of "Hello, Dolly!" starring Bette Midler.
If there's one person still in blissful disbelief over Straight Outta Compton's critical acclaim, box office success and its SAG nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast, it's rising star Jason Mitchell (aka Eazy-E in the film).
Furthermore, Civil War's box office success bodes well for Marvel's upcoming films centered on Spider-Man and Black Panther, two characters who were introduced in Civil War and lauded as some of the best parts of the film.
In the mid-70s, following the critical acclaim and box office success of Shaft and Superfly, a whole new crop of black films were mass produced in Hollywood — many capitalizing on and subverting negative stereotypes of black Americans.
The studio has been on a tear remaking, remixing, and revisiting its old classics, to great box-office success; Mary Poppins Returns, with its nostalgia-inducing premise and family-friendly holiday release date, will surely be no different.
Marvel selling the X-Men to Fox resulted in the 2000 hit movie X-Men, and its box office success — more than $290 million worldwide — showed Sony and Marvel that superhero movies could haul in mountains of cash.
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The very low-budget "Clerks," set in the New Jersey convenience and video stores where Mr. Smith had worked in real life, won accolades at the Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals and was a surprise box-office success.
In Germany, where "Toni Erdmann" has been a box-office success for an art-house film, Ms. Ade (pronounced ah-DAY), 40, is seen as an outlier whose sui generis vision doesn't fit into any established comic traditions.
He wowed critics with his intense performance as the marauding king Alauddin Khilji in "Padmaavat", tasted box-office success with "Simmba", and even married his dream girl, the actress Deepika Padukone – all in the space of a year.
It's hard to push Jackie Chan's questionable support for the Chinese police state to the back of your mind, but one way to do so is watching his first box office success, The Legend of the Drunken Master.
There are a variety of factors contributing to box office success, from the relatively high cost of movie tickets to the high number of films that are in theaters, giving people a lot of variety to choose from.
The album, which features songs by Lady Gaga and her fictional pop-star counterpart Ally, plus Cooper (as Jackson Maine) singing compositions by Jason Isbell and Lukas Nelson, is riding the film's box-office success to real-world reach.
A film studies graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara, he said horror is being taken more seriously in part because it's where box office success meets the political consciousness of the Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements.
Four years later she repeated her box-office success with "A League of Their Own," a sentimentally spunky comedy about a wartime women's baseball league with an ensemble cast that included Madonna, Geena Davis, Rosie O'Donnell and Mr. Hanks.
Get Out was more than a box-office success; with the film, Peele became his own Dr. Frankenstein, injecting the genre with fresh nuance and ultimately showing that horror could be more than what we had come to expect.
Venom is aiming for box-office success, and it's already on track to achieve it: The film is slated to rake in much more money than A Star Is Born in the films' opening weekend, despite its low critical reception.
Not only is this terrific news for the movie industry, which is always struggling to keep its head above water, it's also a helpful illustration of the different factors that can contribute to box office success in a crowded release schedule.
Wreck It Ralph 2 is scheduled for 2018, a Frozen follow-up has entered production, and after the box office success of Zootopia there's little doubt that somewhere a pitch for the continuing adventures of Judy Hopps is being hatched.
Hasbro reported a surprise quarterly profit on Tuesday as the box-office success of Transformers movie spin-off "Bumblebee" charged sales of its action toys, putting the company's shares on track for their best day in more than two decades.
Considering Marvel's deep war chest of hits like Iron Man, Captain America: Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War, the three Avengers movies, and the two Guardians of the Galaxy films, Black Panther's domestic box office success is a major feat.
The film was announced in February following the debut (and impressive box office success) of Split, a film that wasn't marketed as having any relation to the beloved 2000 thriller Unbreakable; it revealed the connection only in its final minutes.
The suspenseful picture, directed by Sidney Lumet, resonated with moviegoers across the board and was not only a box office success but an Academy Awards favorite, nabbing six nominations, although winning just one, which Ingrid Bergman attained for Best Actress.
The vast box office success of Ocean's 8 delivers the same message that similar hits like Wonder Woman, Girls Trip, and Bridesmaids did: Not only do women want to see movies about women — they'll turn up in droves to do so.
" That is despite the box office success of big budget films with female leads, including Jennifer Lawrence in "The Hunger Games" franchise, Shailene Woodley in the "Divergent" series, Scarlett Johansson's "Lucy" and newcomer Daisy Ridley in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Disney continues to ride off of the box office success of "Beauty and the Beast," closing in on a 52-week high today at $113.16 a share after analyst Anthony DiClemente from Instinet raised his price target for the entertainment company.
The undeniable box office success of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" goes beyond the $529 million it grossed during opening weekend: Economists say it was probably responsible for many of the 15,000 jobs added in the movie industry in December.
Much as Facebook and Twitter have had to grapple with false stories aimed at inciting violence or disrupting elections, movie review aggregators like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb are often besieged by users trying to manipulate a film's box office success.
Even with the involvement of two heavy-hitter cultural producers — two-time Grammy Award-winning music video director Melina Matsoukas, and Emmy award-winning writer and queer cultural icon Lena Waithe — and major box office success, Queen & Slim was no exception.
Based on the wildly successful series of books (the first one in the trilogy was published in 2005) by Stephenie Meyer, the Twilight series proved an instant smash hit and box office success — even if critics didn't immediately warm up to it.
The box office success of Ocean's 8 may or may not lead to more films like it, but if it had failed, some executive somewhere surely would have used it as an example for why big women-led studio productions just aren't viable.
Among the current crop of offerings, Amazing Stories feels like close to a slam dunk, because if the combination of Spielberg and nostalgia can make Ready Player One a box office success story, then, well, surely it can work on anything, right?
LOS ANGELES – As many learn of Ford Motor's improbable victory over Ferrari more than 50 years ago thanks to the box-office success of the "Ford v Ferrari" movie, the American automaker has its sights set on a new competitor for 2020.
Despite the empirical reality that "diverse" casts enjoy larger audiences and greater box office success (most recently demonstrated by the overwhelming global success of Black Panther), the lily-white female coming-of-age genre does not seem to be dwindling in popularity.
Although Mr. Spielberg has found box office success in recent years with historical dramas like "The Post" and "Bridge of Spies," his would-be crowd-pleasers, including the motion-capture fantasies "The BFG" and "The Adventures of Tintin," have been ticket-selling disappointments.
Streaming The recent box-office success of "Hidden Figures," an inspirational movie based on a true story about three African-American female mathematicians who played crucial roles at NASA in the 21982s, again has people talking about Hollywood's relative neglect of black audiences.
Not to be confused with the 2017 Jake Gyllenhaal sci-fi nonstarter of the same name, the Ted Demme-directed, Brian Grazer-produced feature reunited him with Martin Lawrence, who'd played a noteworthy role supporting Murphy in the 1992 box office success Boomerang.
In 2010, Den of Geek's Simon Brew noted that fans were forced to care about box office numbers — something that up until semi-recently was largely a conversation among trades, analysts, and people who made the actual thing — because box office success translated to continuation.
That's why so many people seem to be hoping that the strong critical and box office success of the widely released romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians, which features an entirely Asian cast playing a variety of character types, will help change the media landscape.
Of course, regardless of when the film hits theaters, the new movie will likely be met with a great deal of fan fervor: In addition to its box office success, Wonder Woman was a big hit with critics, earning a Rotten Tomatoes score of 93%.
But it was producer David O. Selznick who made adapting the novel into his passion project and brought the film to the screen, where it became the biggest box office success of its era (it's still the biggest of all time when adjusted for inflation).
It's that spirit, derived from Gene Roddenberry's original TV series, that continues to move many viewers, and that, thanks to its box-office success, was responsible for all the "Star Trek" movies and series that followed and continue to flourish, for better or worse.
But the director's status as one of the last auteurs standing and the movie's general critical acclaim (not to mention its amazing box office success) also don't make him or it above criticism, especially when the movie stumbles in portraying women or people of color.
It may not be the top-grossing film of the entire year, but it still out-earned some 700 other films in 2016 alone (never mind its continued box office success in 2017), making it far from an obscure pick on the Academy's part.
LOS ANGELES — The disconnect between Hollywood's taste and that of the masses has rarely been more sharply drawn as it was over the weekend, as the stylish "Atomic Blonde" sputtered and "The Emoji Movie" pushed past horrified critics to become a box office success.
The pointed omission of Singer's name at the Oscars is rather undermined when in the background he still stands to make a phenomenal amount of money -- possibly $40 million -- due to the film's unexpected box office success, which will receive a post-Oscars boost.
It was less than three decades ago that Ghost, starring two of Hollywood's biggest names at the time — Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore — became a surprise box office success by telling the story of a murdered man attempting to communicate with his lover from the afterlife.
Quentin Tarantino's revisionist dream of late-60s LA, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, was a massive box office success and just about the only artful and wholly original movies in 2019's otherwise tepid, sequel-plagued summer movie season, but apparently, it wasn't enough for Tarantino.
That box office success is even more impressive given that the weekend before Halloween is usually considered a dead zone for theaters, but it speaks to a hunger for stories about women facing obstacles that seem insurmountable, rooted in many women's frustrations with our current political climate.
The idea is that box office success for a movie centered on a nonwhite superhero and cast could inspire Marvel to produce and create more movies like Black Panther in the future (the studio's previous 17 films have all featured white men as the superhero leads).
Similar to past years, the 103 film slate features many high-profile tentpole films that have a strong likelihood of box office success, some of which have already proven to be domestic and international successes including 'Deadpool,' 'Captain America: Civil War', 'Zootopia', 'Finding Dory,' and 'Suicide Squad.
A few days earlier, to celebrate the box office success of "Night School," she posted a video to Instagram of her more au naturel self: barefaced and gorgeous, wearing an orange hair bonnet and sweats, skipping along the sidewalk of her neighborhood in South Los Angeles.
You remain unlikely to see Asian-Americans in lead roles in big studios films without the hint of tokenism, even after the box office success of this year's "Crazy Rich Asians," the first studio film with an all-Asian cast since "The Joy Luck Club" in 21965.
"The Princess Bride" — Rob Reiner's swashbuckling fairy tale sendup about Buttercup (Robin Wright), the reluctant wife-to-be of the loathsome Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon), and her one true love, the farmhand Westley (Cary Elwes) — was a modest box-office success when it premiered in 22002.
David J. Peterson, who created Dothraki and Valyrian for Game of Thrones and has written two books on conlangs, also credits the box office success of 2004's The Passion of the Christ, a movie entirely in Aramaic — not a conlang but a dead language unrecognizable to its audience.
He was doing something closer to what his Aloha costar Bradley Cooper did for his own high profile, bulking up to play Navy SEAL Chris Kyle in Clint Eastwood's 213 American Sniper, a movie whose unexpected box office success was due in part to its red-state appeal.
The reason the movie's box office success is so important is that it offers proof to studio executives and anyone else calling the shots in Hollywood — not just at Marvel, but at rival studios — that people will go see a movie about a black superhero set in Africa.
Alongside the art world, Hollywood is re-examining its own history of exclusion: it clung to the assumption that a film with a black cast couldn't sell tickets until very recently, when the box office success of "Black Panther" and "Get Out" proved that kind of myth untenable.
Only time will tell if the eighth DC Extended Universe film will be able to hold up to the box office success of its predecessors, but regardless of the numbers, one thing is for sure: Harley's story definitely added some necessary color to DC's drab and dreary repertoire.
Six years ago, Disney and Mattel, which at the time was licensed to make Disney's "Frozen" and "Disney Princesses" franchise-related toys, were caught flat-footed by the demand for "Frozen" merchandise after the first film hit theaters during the 2013 holiday season and enjoyed major box office success.
And in a moment when even the most apolitical narratives take on political significance, A Quiet Place's box office success may be a sign of unified hope that perhaps we can all get through our fraught current sociopolitical era with our families — and our capacity for listening to one another — intact.
This, alongside the aesthetic and thematic concerns, seems to be one Anderson's big takeaways from watching (and, later, working with) Altman; after a few early, half-hearted stabs at box-office success, he seems to have resigned himself to making movies for himself, and whomever else decides to play along.
A box office success, the film operates on many levels: as a family-friendly conversation-starter about racism in France, as an exploration of the history of taste and cultural appropriation, as a vehicle for Mr. Sy to flex his comic muscles and as a story about the hazards of success.
The box office success of Crazy Rich Asians and the summertime buzz surrounding two Netflix releases, Set It Up and To All the Boys I've Loved Before, offer a potent reminder of something big: It wasn't very long ago that the romantic comedy was a mainstay of Hollywood's annual box office strategy.
Wonder Woman's continued box office success is a testament to its positive word-of-mouth, and although Man of Steel earned a bigger domestic opening when it bowed in 2013 — $116.6 million as opposed to $103.3 million for Wonder Woman — Man of Steel saw a much steeper drop from week to week.
Though Prince was already becoming a major force in pop music at the time, the 1984 film — a modest critical and box office success with more than $68 million domestic — launched him to rock-god status and ensured instant-classic status for the soundtrack, which sold more than 25 million copies worldwide.
Even There Will Be Blood, his previous Day-Lewis collaboration and biggest box office success (though still bringing in a fairly modest $40 million domestic), is a spectacularly idiosyncratic piece of work played in an often off-putting key, impudently thumbing its nose at conventional redemption arcs and the niceties of prestige drama.
The film has been a critical and box office success in Spain, where it's the 15th highest grossing film of the year (and only the third non-Hollywood film on the list.) It's been compared to early work from Spanish Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodóvar, and even managed to outgross Almodóvar's latest.
"Fifty Shades" may have been a huge global box office success for Universal, guaranteeing sequels, but the film proved a bust with critics and saw it scoop six nominations for worst actor, worst actress for Dakota Johnson, worst director for Sam Taylor-Johnson, worst screenplay, worst screen combo and the coveted worst film prize.
"I don't know what it is about that movie, but that's the one movie that I've done that, like, on Halloween people dress up like the characters, and people always say lines from that movie to me," said Murphy, who also found box office success with franchises like Beverly Hills Cop and The Nutty Professor.
Roald Dahl's novel has sold more than 40 million copies; the original film ("Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," starring Gene Wilder) is beloved; a 2005 remake ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") with Johnny Depp was a box-office success; and familiar family fare is always in demand among the tourists who dominate Broadway audiences.
With the box-office success of 2018's Love, Simon, a perfect teen romance that finally starred a gay lead character, or the upcoming Billy Eichner gay rom-com produced by Judd Apatow, there is some progress being made, but that doesn't mean straight rom-coms no longer have to be held accountable for their gay characters.
After the massive box-office success of the live-action The Jungle Book in 2016 and the live-action Beauty and the Beast in 2017, Walt Disney Studios seems to have gone all-in on the idea of remaking its own animated classics, replicating those films' most memorable images and musical numbers with actors and CGI.
The Oscar-nominated songwriting team is currently riding a one-two punch of critical and box office success with two massive hit projects: La La Land, the breakthrough movie musical for which they wrote the lyrics — and Dear Evan Hansen, the sold-out Broadway smash that's already a frontrunner for a Tony Award for best new musical.
In a weird way, A Star Is Born's box office success worked against it, because the debates around the film — over its treatment of pop music, its depictions of women's agency, and its storytelling around mental illness — grew so much bigger so much more quickly than they would have if the movie wasn't such a giant hit.
In fact, ScarJo is 20 years younger than the next-youngest moneymaker in the top 10, Avengers and Iron Man 2 co-star Robert Downey, Jr. Harrison Ford topped the list of box-office success stories, followed by Samuel L. Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks, Downey, Jr., Eddie Murphy, Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, and Michael Caine.
Of all the films nominated for Oscars this year, "Get Out" almost certainly had the most impact, with its unapologetic message (white liberals are racist too), box office success ($255 million worldwide on a $4.5 million budget), and four Oscar nominations, including best picture, actor and director, a stunning haul for an edgy comedy-horror picture.
A critical and box office success at home and abroad, Parasite continues its theatrical release with an awards season afterglow, becoming the first film not in the English language to win the Best Picture prize in the history of the Academy Awards, and the first South Korean film to win the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or.
It's got a lot going for it: box office success, big stars, a charming (if a bit generic) origin story in Bradley Cooper's directorial debut, a lot of catchy music (with a Grammy-winning single in "Shallow"), and a time-tested story that has been nominated for Best Picture every time it's been remade, though it's yet to win the big prize.
Every winter, Bollywood, just like Hollywood, pulls out all the stops in hopes of scoring awards and holiday box office success Some of the year's most buzzed Bollywood releases were Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, which quickly fell under fire for an entitled protagonist, and the upcoming Befikre, whose advertising campaign takes care to emphasize that Indian movies are cool with kissing now.
Saving Private Ryan became an instant box office success when it debuted on July 24, 1998, grossing $216.8 million domestically, making it the highest-grossing film of 1998 in the U.S. The goal for Spielberg, who won the Academy Award for Best Director, was to make viewers feel as immersed in D-Day as possible, as Hanks, 62, goes on to explain.
His idea paid big dividends: Pee-wee's Big Adventure (which marked director Tim Burton's feature film debut and was scored by Danny Elfman) was a bona fide box office success, grossing $40 million off its $6 million budget — the 19th-highest-grossing movie of its release year, 1985, ahead of other cult classics like Weird Science, The Black Cauldron, and The Sure Thing.
Aside from the inherent ridiculousness of the premise (which rests on the idea that dancers who are phenomenally talented in one style will be utterly lost in others, a theory So You Think You Can Dance has repeatedly disproved), On Pointe hits many of the same beats as the first film, a strategy the Step Up franchise has used to box office success.

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