But video game blockbusters are a little different from film blockbusters, where the term originated.
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They extend existing beloved blockbusters like Star Wars, Toy Story, and Cars, while developing new blockbusters like Frozen.
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Blockbusters, little films The Oscars have also faced criticism in recent years for focusing on art-house content over blockbusters.
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"We have blockbusters: 'Magic Flute,' ' La Bohème,' " he said.
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You have ten potential blockbusters in the next few years.
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But don't let the indies get lost amid the blockbusters.
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But the factors sorting blockbusters from turkeys will be new.
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Like so many recent summer blockbusters, it's overstuffed with plot.
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"Hamilton" certainly doesn't follow the path of any previous blockbusters.
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This year's film slate includes a number of potential blockbusters.
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They've made blockbusters, like the Chris Chelios deal in 1999.
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It had to do with the quality of the blockbusters.
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Disney's movie studio turned out three blockbusters in the quarter.
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So how did she go from indie films to blockbusters?
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Before long, making summer blockbusters had become standard practice Hollywood.
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Next year, Disney will release another strong slate of blockbusters.
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The cases before the justices on Tuesday were not blockbusters.
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But there are still 11 Blockbusters open across the country.
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Seriously, just let this dude make all the blockbusters already.
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The subgenre has also seen its share of genuine blockbusters.
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And as the 2014 Godzilla shows — it's a film that boasts strong storytelling and moral gravity and some pretty awesome monster work — blockbusters don't have sacrifice one for the other just because they're blockbusters.
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Studios would occasionally launch huge blockbusters, yes, but they would be part of a slate of movies produced at various budgetary levels, and the smaller films would help compensate for any trouble with the blockbusters.
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Like so many blockbusters, it is at times melodramatic and corny.
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Everything — from the latest blockbusters to your bank statements — is online.
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Headlines * Roche says new drug launches will offset ageing blockbusters on.ft.
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Critics aren't supposed to like blockbusters more than the general public.
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That doesn't mean blockbusters don't or can't have something to say.
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Nor is it the stuff of blockbusters, or franchises, or superheroes.
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When they do flock to the cinema it is for blockbusters.
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Now, she's the breakout star of two of summer's biggest blockbusters.
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These shoestring imitation movies confuse viewers looking for genuine Hollywood blockbusters.
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This month, it's all about the classic summer blockbusters of yesteryear.
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Both were remarkable blockbusters about young, cheeky college kids in love.
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An ensemble award wouldn't automatically mean more blockbusters in the mix.
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They include Marvel blockbusters to Korean tear-jerkers and action movies.
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And once he got successful, he did not jump to blockbusters.
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Blockbusters are no longer developed; they're reverse engineered from previous successes.
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Summer was for blockbusters; fall was for movies with Oscar hopes.
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But parallels to other summer blockbusters are what animate The Meg.
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We have 240 blockbusters in line, which is the most in industry.
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And I like the fact that it's a diverse set of blockbusters.
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But at least that short list of female-directed blockbusters is growing.
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At cinemas in the capital, Yakutsk, local productions often outgross Hollywood blockbusters.
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"You don't have to wait until May to release blockbusters any more."
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A ton of market research and consultancy bills go into blockbusters games.
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That changed with the advent of "Star Wars", summer blockbusters and sequels.
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He's worked on Terminator, Robocop, Transformers, and other big-bot-centric blockbusters.
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To see where previous blockbusters fell, we've marked a few for reference.
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This is all to say that Hollywood is mostly making blockbusters now.
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It's also why this list is overwhelmed with blockbusters and populist hits.
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In 2017, our blockbusters didn't just ask if humankind could be saved.
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Like most consumers of summer blockbusters, rap listeners love themselves a sequel.
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The year's first blockbusters make their loud, blustery entrances into movie theaters.
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One of the few remaining Blockbusters on Earth, located in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Inside, you'll discover more, from Hollywood blockbusters to subtitled art-house favorites.
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The massive market of Chinese moviegoers is traditionally friendly to Hollywood blockbusters.
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What do you do with blockbusters that could be "best picture" nominees?
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That suggests investors are taking fewer wagers and betting on proven blockbusters.
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Those include independent films, documentaries, comedies, non-English-language titles, and blockbusters.
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The Wachowskis painted houses and wrote comic book scripts before creating blockbusters.
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"We all have a kinship with the other Blockbusters," Harding told CNN.
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She will lead Dune, one of 2020's biggest blockbusters, next year.
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Is Apple going to flex its muscles and try to produce blockbusters?
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Go deeper: Disney smashes box office records with more blockbusters to come
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If Mr. Price's books never became blockbusters, they did garner critical praise.
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It's why, when would-be blockbusters receive negative reviews, like Batman v.
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We need giant blockbusters now, and that's where we're gonna spend our money.
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Unlike some other indie directors, Baker has no plans to transition to blockbusters.
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None of them were Marvel-sized blockbusters, but they didn't aim to be.
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The blockbusters, all of a sudden, look like models of inclusiveness and ambition.
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This is actually at the lower end of average for most Hollywood blockbusters.
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Maybe we'll someday see some character appearing in one of the upcoming blockbusters.
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But new blockbusters aren't the only Disney franchises getting new content on Disney+.
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Now you can check some recent blockbusters with a scene-by-scene breakdown.
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Many American blockbuster drugs are also blockbusters abroad only at significantly lower prices.
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Our movie reviewer has an interesting argument about all the summer franchise blockbusters.
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Per Lowe's orders, big blockbusters would no longer be available on the app.
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"Perhaps one day he'll be creating blockbusters for Amazon Studios!" the representative said.
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Or Blockbusters paying for an analysis showing Netflix makes watching movies more difficult.
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Straddling regional excellence and western blockbusters, the line-up had something for everyone.
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The 22017s The early part of the '281s saw few major horror blockbusters.
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"This term is loaded with meat-and-potatoes cases, not blockbusters," he said.
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FYI, Simpson's Hollywood credits include blockbusters like "Roots" and "The Naked Gun" trilogy.
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It was the sort of breathtaking production once reserved for summer movie blockbusters.
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Mark Miller and Bryan Hitch gave readers summer blockbusters in comic-book form.
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Memorial Day means blockbusters, horror tales and indie comedies are headed your way.
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The big television winners, "Succession" and "Fleabag," are terrific shows, but hardly blockbusters.
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Puppets, murder, Sesame Street lawsuits—that's what summer blockbusters are made of... right?
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Having feared that the Chinese box office revenue stream would dry up as a result of the trade war, Beijing's scrapping of its own blockbusters "leaves a big opening for Hollywood blockbusters to show, even over the summer," USC's Rosen said.
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The pro critics are being far kinder to the CGI-heavy blockbusters than audiences!
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Alibaba's investment in "Green Book" marks a shift from Chinese companies' fixation on blockbusters.
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The film debuts in theaters in August and will compete with other summer blockbusters.
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A divide between movie audiences and critics happens all the time — especially with blockbusters.
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While these numbers seem to suggest that women haven't scored blockbusters, history proves otherwise.
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The Darkest Minds might be one of the most relevant blockbusters of the year.
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In an era of blockbusters with ensemble casts 100 actors deep, Solo feels lean.
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Cineworld's results were lifted by blockbusters such as "Avengers: Infinity War" and "Black Panther".
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It blamed the lackluster growth on one thing: no House of Cards-style blockbusters.
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We're talking tentpole blockbusters that people will see even if they get awful reviews.
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Yes, the big blockbusters have all already had their moment (for the most part).
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In good news, at least they will be caught up on the latest blockbusters.
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South Korean blockbusters typically cast Koreans with jarringly bad accents in Japanese villains' roles.
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Lisa Jakub is a former child actor who starred in major blockbusters like Mrs.
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Some summer blockbusters actually subscribe to a less-sexualized version of action movie events.
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You had Prince of Persia, which apparently soured Jake Gyllenhaal on blockbusters for years.
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A wave of blockbusters featuring exploding landmarks has been rolling non-stop ever since.
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The most successful of them dwarf the revenues of even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters.
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Numerous blockbusters from the 1980s are set to be remade in the coming years.
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But where those movies are loud, bombastic action blockbusters, Bumblebee is something else altogether.
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Basically, his life was pretty fascinating long before he started working on Hollywood blockbusters.
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Dalian Wanda would also start co-investing in global blockbusters next year, Wang added.
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The world's second-largest theatrical industry usually provides a major boost for Hollywood blockbusters.
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Blockbusters are always going to feel a little more like product, assembled by committee.
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For blockbusters, the 2016 remake of "The Magnificent Seven" is free for Prime members.
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Most movies would be instant blockbusters with $96 million in opening-weekend ticket sales.
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The studio has created some of the biggest blockbusters of the last ten years.
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How does it feel to have traded art-house movies for big studio blockbusters?
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Unlike Hollywood blockbusters, there were no special effects, speeding cars or epic battle scenes.
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It took years before Blu-ray versions of new blockbusters began outselling DVD releases.
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In 2019, competing with companies like Disney means having blockbusters that capture people's attention.
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The Hunger Games books were giant best-sellers, and the movie adaptations were blockbusters.
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That is — it was buying talent that would help it make its own blockbusters.
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And Watts's film is a visual treat; to be fair, many Marvel blockbusters are.
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And that alone gives Salyut-7 a quality not often seen in equivalent American blockbusters.
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It's an interesting match for IMAX, which more frequently features explosive blockbusters than romantic musicals.
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The original "Secret Life of Pets" was one of the most surprising blockbusters of 2016.
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Ethan Hawke passed on one of the biggest blockbusters of all time in dramatic fashion.
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Disney has so far released four major blockbusters this year, with more on the way.
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But it's about as far away from those kind of blockbusters as you can get.
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My Hero Academia approaches superheroes from a different perspective than you get with Western blockbusters.
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It would be an understatement to say that a lot of us love superhero blockbusters.
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They roll out the blockbusters in the summer and their prestige items in the fall.
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A time of superheroes, raunchy comedies, family-friendly animated fare and other big, noisy blockbusters.
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So, without further ado, these are this year's blockbusters, ranked from highest grossing and down.
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But because blockbusters are the surest bets, that's where the studios increasingly funnel their energy.
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One point of interest if your interest is money: YouTube's unboxing videos are absolute blockbusters.
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Deadpool was a breath of fresh, salty air in a sea of PG-13 blockbusters.
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Imax has built its business on superhero blockbusters, frenetic action movies and visually stunning epics.
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While blockbusters themselves tend to be predictable, the actual term "blockbuster" has a surprising origin.
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Why do you think there's such emphasis on spectacle in blockbusters in the Chinese market?
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And here's Casualty, Grange Hill, Panorama, and Blockbusters: I could continue but I'll stop there.
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For your convenience and my pleasure, I've summarized the upcoming summer blockbusters in haiku form.
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Cult films, Hollywood blockbusters and old classics are enjoyed in agreeable temperatures, even after sunset.
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Initial coin offerings were blockbusters, with more than $6 billion in funding raised in 2017.
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All of this term's blockbusters were added to the court's docket before Justice Scalia died.
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Here are 10 1980s blockbusters that are being resurrected, whether you like it or not.
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Taylor Swift and Adele both showed it was possible, but their albums were exceptional blockbusters.
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And if Redoine's escapades sound like stories from Hollywood blockbusters, and it's because they are.
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The summer movie season is home to some of the biggest blockbusters of the year.
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In the North American market, the types of games that become blockbusters are comparatively homogeneous.
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But national parks are not theme parks, market-driven to match the latest entertainment blockbusters.
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The addition of a category for blockbusters was immediately assailed by some prominent film critics.
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Mainland China's film industry has historically struggled to produce blockbusters which resonate with international viewers.
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The dark history of 20th-century entertainment is that media blockbusters seek to become monopolies.
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The Oscars are a vehicle to promote smart films that aren't destined to be blockbusters.
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These blockbusters are intended to appeal to everyone, everywhere—but they leave many people cold.
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This similar trend can also be observed in similar blockbusters like Pirates of the Caribbean.
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It's not that Hollywood movies, and even Hollywood blockbusters, can't handle a darkly cynical tone.
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But I'd take a good rom-com over the generic romantic subplots in blockbusters any day.
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"Blockbusters have in the past often received awards," said Doug Stone, president of Box Office Analyst.
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Instead of the blockbusters of previous eras, these were ideal venues for experimental and independent films.
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With the failure, Novartis's stable of potential new blockbusters has now been trimmed to 12 medicines.
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Does the BBFC ever feel pressure from big film companies to give blockbusters a lower rating?
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All of the AAA blockbusters are going to be across the Xbox One family of devices.
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For Disney, this is the year it released four global blockbusters, with several more to come.
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Harry Potter - Complete 8-Film Collection See Details All eight Harry Potter films were absolute blockbusters.
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Mnuchin has mainly engaged in entertainment outside of Wall Street, producing a number of Hollywood blockbusters.
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The screenplay boasts, in the manner of many Hollywood franchise blockbusters, a whole lot of screenwriters.
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Today, corporations use focus groups to study and sell everything from frozen foods to summer blockbusters.
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Chris' marital impropriety was one of many blockbusters in the affidavit, which was released on Monday.
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Bryan Singer's 2000 X-Men movie marks the beginning of the modern era of superhero blockbusters.
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Disney plans to launch its own subscription-based video service and withhold its blockbusters from Netflix.
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He has two big 2017 blockbusters in the works — Thor 3: Ragnarok and Kong: Skull Island.
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Not all sequels become blockbusters, or get a 93% Rotten Tomatoes score, as Thor: Ragnarok did.
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There's everything from comedies and dramas, Netflix originals and HBO blockbusters, zany comedies and serious dramas.
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In the 1970s, blockbusters (the original Star Wars, Superman, Jaws) generally earned the respect of critics.
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Both films offer sci-fi devotees a welcome change from superhero blockbusters and "Star Wars" episodes.
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So if Hollywood is making mostly blockbusters, it needs a place to put all of them.
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The weak start is especially noteworthy given November's history as a platform for fall season blockbusters.
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The candy of cinema, blockbusters are designed to titillate, and not necessarily to provoke deep thoughts.
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His earliest acting credits include minor roles in blockbusters such as Terminator (226) and Aliens (26).
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But at least superhero blockbusters don't try to remind you of films from 30 years ago.
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Run by Chris Meledandri, it has churned out blockbusters like "Minions" and the "Despicable Me" franchise.
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But — compared to other superhero blockbusters — there is a lot riding on the new Wonder Woman.
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Blockbusters like Seymour Hersh's scoop on the My Lai massacre were the exception to the rule.
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I want more from even my blockbusters, but that's not really what frustrated me about Solo.
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Some of the biggest blockbusters of recent years have prominently featured trickers on their stunt teams.
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I hope that game developers, from blockbusters to sub-indie hobby projects, keep that spirit alive.
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Racking up endorsements and signing on for blockbusters aren't the only ways to secure serious scrilla.
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Recent blockbusters like Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians, hailed as breakthroughs for African American and
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In 2020, five of the biggest and most anticipated studio blockbusters will be directed by women.
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This is how the "Game of Thrones" budget and audience compares with other big network blockbusters.
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But the Trump era has spelled an end to his near-monopoly on brokering political blockbusters.
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It rose from issuing pirated recordings to producing film music for Bollywood blockbusters like "Aashiqui" (22016).
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Mr. Bong soon became a household name in South Korea, directing several other critically acclaimed blockbusters.
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Perhaps everyone has a memoir in them — but only some lives are instant and undeniable blockbusters.
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Like those blockbusters, there's a built-in fan base that's been crafted for years and years.
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Streaming-era blockbusters can sound like flat digital blueprints of what their music might have been.
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Unlike some blockbusters, there's precious little fat found on its two-hour-and-23-minute frame.
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"The list also features a handful of blockbusters that broke records, including "Fifty Shades of Grey.
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What's more, homegrown movies in China sometimes face steep challenges in the shadow of Hollywood blockbusters.
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We're creating patient populations just as we're creating medicines, to make sure that products become blockbusters.
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Obst: Don't forget that Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan (and Ridley Scott) are among the only directors who make commercial blockbusters — or at least, if not blockbusters, big studio movies that reliably are nominated for Oscars, and that is a lot to ask of this diversifying academy.
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The Harry Potter franchise is strong enough to turn movies into blockbusters, even without its titular character.
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And I'm really stretching the definition of "appeal" for Alice, one of the worst blockbusters ever made.
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Prosecutors say recent patriotic blockbusters by CJ, a food and entertainment conglomerate, were produced under state pressure.
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Only 40 cases are on the list so far, and there are no real blockbusters among them.
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But this is the first game to flagrantly try to capture the vibe of the blockbusters series.
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Kellogg's released special Shrek-green squares and Ice Age-inspired treats to coincide with those summer blockbusters.
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I'd claim the game lacks subtlety, but compared to the political blockbusters of Peter Berg, it's Bulgakov.
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She starred in some of Hollywood's most acclaimed blockbusters, but offscreen, Kelly McGillis faced almost unimaginable struggles.
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But this has turned into another reckoning for the tech industry, as some anticipated blockbusters fall flat.
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Like much Chinese sci-fi, the story is both darker and more grandiose than many Western blockbusters.
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After back-to-back summer blockbusters, Chris Hemsworth is looking forward to some downtime with his family.
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The Academy may have forgotten about 2017's most beloved blockbusters, but the Lonely Island sure hasn't.
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Don't Wake The Night is about as far away from those spectacular blockbusters as you can get.
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Disney's "Captain Marvel," which opens Friday, is the first of many potential blockbusters coming down the pike.
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He acted in blockbusters such as "Deewaar" (Wall) and "Kabhi Kabhie" (Sometimes) alongside Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan.
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By 2017, Efron continued to star in big-screen blockbusters, but some like "Baywatch" were critical failures.
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" After "Friends," Ribisi appeared in blockbusters like 2009's "Avatar," 2012's "Ted," and 2014's "Selma.
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It's summer movie season, which means the potential blockbusters are starting to come out in full force.
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The Count also told us about his Hollywood plans after UFC 217 -- which include TWO big blockbusters.
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Like many modern blockbusters, Wonder Woman could probably stand to lose a few minutes here and there.
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But alas, even those stalwart Blockbusters have begun to disappear, closing one by one over the years.
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But he's legitimately brilliant—immediately friendly towards newcomer Marcus, bonding over the protagonist's affection for cheesy blockbusters.
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In the meantime, companies such as Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck & Co have developed their immunotherapy blockbusters.
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In an industry obsessed with blockbusters, Disney's choice for its next C.E.O., Bob Chapek, lacks star power.
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Disney (DIS)'s remake of its 1994 animated classic was one of its biggest blockbusters last year.
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Two major movie studios, Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures, are struggling because of a dearth of blockbusters.
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Hollywood blockbusters tend to enjoy greater financial success overseas, but American studios earn more from homegrown audiences.
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A year earlier, moviegoers went crazy for imported blockbusters like "Furious 7" and "Avengers: Age of Ultron".
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The Avengers succeeded and ushered in a decade of superhero blockbusters, permanently shifting the logic of Hollywood.
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"The Lion King" could end up being one of the biggest blockbusters of the year, Bock said.
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See our report on the blockbusters of the year and the indie gems that hide among them.
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Hollywood is still churning out blockbusters of course, but it is losing its influence year upon year.
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So, from the biggest blockbusters to the smallest fire-spitters, here are your official best of the bunch.
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While superhero movies mostly have struck out at the Oscars, blockbusters have received a fair share of representation.
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Turns out one of the summer's biggest blockbusters could have featured a big moment for the LGBTQ community.
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He ignores most of the flashy action and set design that characterizes so many science fiction summer blockbusters.
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But as plenty of blockbusters deflate into disappointment, a different sort of summer movie has been making headway.
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For this reason, Bagby's cinemas don't play a lot of 503D childrens' films unless they are big blockbusters.
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But instead of more blockbusters being nominated, it was idiosyncratic, lower-budgeted films that filled those extra slots.
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There are some genuine blockbusters on that list, including Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, and Final Fantasy VII.
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They're leading our biggest blockbusters, starring in our grittiest television shows, and inspiring the throngs of Comic-Con.
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A handful of recent blockbusters have been wholly or partially shot in Britain, including "Beauty and the Beast".
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Since then, he has starred in many more superhero/dinosaur wrangler blockbusters, including Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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Meanwhile, Foxx was building an impressive acting career with roles in blockbusters like Ray, Dreamgirls, and Django Unchained.
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I wouldn't bet on any of those stopping these shared universe superhero blockbusters for a long, long time.
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Asylum Pictures churns out faux blockbusters, or "mockbusters," for about the price of a major movie's catering budget.
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As the weather warms up slightly, it might be time to revisit old superhero classics and recent blockbusters.
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Bristol's Opdivo and Merck's Keytruda are shaping up to be the biggest blockbusters ever for the pharma industry.
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In the same year, Netflix started the distribution of Nigerian movies buying blockbusters like 'October 1' and 'Fifty.
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"Black Panther" is one of the only superhero blockbusters to feature a mostly African-American and African cast.
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Far From Home could struggle to break that record, what with more summer blockbusters still to be released.
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In doing so, it raises itself into the upper ranks of Marvel movies, maybe even of blockbusters generally.
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The wrestler-turned-actor has appeared in quite a few blockbusters recently and has more on the way.
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The statistics are skewed anywhere you look, from festival indies to prestigious awards contenders to nine-figure blockbusters.
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It is a feast or famine phenomenon, if no blockbusters emerge to take their place the following year.
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Marvel's Cinematic Universe covers the big summer blockbusters as well as their offerings on Netflix and regular television.
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Outside of a few notable examples, like Final Fantasy XV, big-budget blockbusters rarely come from Japan anymore.
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"But in fact for a variety of reasons the trade war has not hurt Hollywood blockbusters at all."
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Not all are blockbusters, but they have made a decent amount of money compared to their production budgets.
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Sales of both CAR-Ts - billed as potential blockbusters at their launch - have been slow to ramp up.
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Based on viewing, industry impact and global attention, "Thrones" is one of the biggest blockbusters in TV history.
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Along with all the '80s blockbusters, the Reagans showed vintage films, including a few of the president's own.
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Disney doesn't own theaters, but it does dominate the calendar year with blockbusters that people want to see.
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He gave us the defining view of French leisure and remains a perpetually bankable subject of museum blockbusters.
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A more realistic answer is that there just weren&apost any new blockbusters released over the holiday weekend.
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They are part of the wave of Chinese media companies financing major Hollywood blockbusters and buying theater chains.
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She recently told the New York Times that her plan all along had been Shakespeare, not action blockbusters.
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"Over the past 15 years, the comic has become the fundamental source material for Hollywood blockbusters," he said.
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Some of Disney's biggest blockbusters, including "Avengers: Endgame" and 2018's "Black Panther," were shot in the state.
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This might become more and more of a reality as Hollywood moves toward focusing more heavily on blockbusters.
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The star of blockbusters such as "Rush Hour" and "Kung Fu Panda" has a memoir coming out in November.
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It added two more $1 billion-plus "blockbusters", Promacta and skin-cancer combination Tafinlar-Mekinist, each hitting $1.2 billion.
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It's almost summer which means it is time for Disney to start rolling out its predicted box office Blockbusters.
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The basic premise isn't an easy marketing proposition compared to other aspiring blockbusters, which could blunt its commercial appeal.
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And it told customers it would begin delaying the availability of the hottest blockbusters for their first two weeks.
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From the same engineers who brought you such fashion battle blockbusters as Men of the Loincloth II: Tarzan vs.
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If Switch struggles to maintain steady performance on its biggest launch title, that bodes poorly for Nintendo's forthcoming blockbusters.
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Movies often have huge drops from their first to second weekend, especially mega-hyped blockbusters that have huge openings.
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Female-led blockbusters are still rare enough as to be held to a higher standard than their male counterparts.
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Wonder Woman, on the other hand, opened in June 2017 with an assortment of mega-blockbusters crowded around it.
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We'd drive around together, playing mixes of any songs that sounded like summer blockbusters when coming through car speakers.
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Now, in an industry that's increasingly all blockbusters all the time, there's less room for that strategy to work.
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But Green Lantern took the wind out of the sails for critics who were growing weary of superhero blockbusters.
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You can, of course, point to exceptions — to prestige pictures released in summer or blockbusters released in the fall.
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But blockbusters have slowly crept out of the summer and started to take over every corner of the calendar.
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As far as horror blockbusters go, this one has the recipe for a swell mid-April jaunt through spookytown.
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That's not unheard of, especially during the spring and summer season when lots of other blockbusters vie for attention.
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There are usually sneak peeks of future blockbusters and surprise announcements about comic-book heroes getting their own movies.
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Don't kid yourself: A lot of movies considered "sci fi" these days are just blockbusters with aliens or computers.
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Comrade Detective works as a satire of the American exceptionalism and jingoism promoted in those Hollywood blockbusters you mentioned.
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Starting in July, you might have to pay a little extra to see the newest blockbusters when using MoviePass .
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He made anti-blockbusters, and did so on budget, without caving in to agents, agent packages, or agency fees.
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The run of blockbusters that marked the Roberts court's first 11 terms is unlikely to be matched anytime soon.
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But only a handful of the blockbusters have stood the test of time as Hollywood's biggest summer earners ever.
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Bristol's Opdivo and Merck's Keytruda are shaping up to be two of the biggest blockbusters for the pharmaceutical industry.
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By attempting to attract the largest possible audience, national politicians and Hollywood blockbusters are players in the same game.
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The drugs seemed miraculous when they were introduced in 1633, and they soon became blockbusters, with billion-dollar sales.
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Industry anecdotes about huge blockbusters where the script was being written right while production was happening are unfortunately common.
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These blockbusters shell out major money, and, where multiple films are involved, allow cast-members to renegotiate their salaries.
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Movie theaters have shut down, and studios have pushed would-be billion-dollar blockbusters into an indefinite holding pattern.
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His serious period movies do well at the box office, but his recent would-be blockbusters have been disappointments.
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"Our collective job in the industry is to continue to push audiences to not only the blockbusters and sellouts."
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But some of the country's biggest recent blockbusters have been criticized as overly nationalistic, effectively acting as government propaganda.
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The company wants to continue working with talent to bring their films into theaters — especially blockbusters, like Avengers: Endgame.
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That tactic is still used for summer blockbusters, but it is expensive and increasingly ineffective in the DVR age.
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There's more going on in this movie's 90-plus minutes than in many summer blockbusters nearly twice its length.
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It probably didn't help that some of the year's biggest blockbusters like "Avengers: Endgame" didn't win any major awards.
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It continues to experiment with surcharges for blockbusters, which it began testing in four major US cities in August.
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Young movie-goers, who complain that some blockbusters are slow to get a release in Indonesia, welcomed more competition.
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Censoring content Huahua Media has invested in Hollywood blockbusters such as Transformers, The Last Knight and Star Trek Beyond.
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Also considering Abrams' significant role in creating blockbusters, Apple's lack of demonstrable commitment to theatrical releases was reportedly unappealing.
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In a field filled with blockbusters, "Roma" offers a highbrow option that many voters will be eager to take.
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"This is the age of blockbusters," said David Maris, an analyst for Wells Fargo who follows the drug industry.
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Amid the big blockbusters of 2018 like Red Dead Redemption 2, Spider-Man, and Assassin's Creed Odyssey, there sits Below.
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It was the second-highest grossing movie of the year, and left such blockbusters as "Dances with Wolves" eating dust.
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They moved Rick Nash and Ryan McDonagh in separate blockbusters and made other smaller deals to add picks and prospects.
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The Meg didn't have the staying power of some blockbusters; after one week in the top, it's been thrown back.
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After all, modern blockbusters have shown that it's possible to make a perfectly serviceable film that doesn't really make sense.
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Fate of the Furious' global success is proof of the need for Hollywood to take its blockbusters beyond domestic audiences.
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The show honors the year's biggest action-packed blockbusters that usually tend to be shunned during Hollywood's annual awards season.
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His entertainment company, in partnership first with Fox and later with Warner Bros, has produced blockbusters including "Avatar" and "Gravity".
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There's some evidence that better quality movies (and especially blockbusters) do better commercially than tired sequels and half-hearted spectacles.
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But the truth is that Cho not only can't be in all of Hollywood's big-budget blockbusters -- he shouldn't be.
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For many people, "summer movies" is synonymous with big-scale blockbusters, where things blow up and the world needs rescuing.
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The experiential design firm's credits include everything from Broadway blockbusters to restaurants like Manhattan's Bond 45 and commercials for Target.
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GSK has lagged rivals in producing multibillion-dollar blockbusters in recent years and the new approach may well involve acquisitions.
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He's always been one of the exceptions to the "timid GMs" rule, having pulled off several blockbusters over the years.
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It covers a wide range of movies too: classics, recent blockbusters, old black and white, animation, foreign films, and more.
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There are the blockbusters, of course, like the free-wheeling Spider-Man and the meticulously detailed Red Dead Redemption 2.
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CM8 gained notoriety just before Christmas 2015 when it released a batch of blockbusters that were still playing in theaters.
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" It was an investor in this year's blockbusters "Star Trek Beyond" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.
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"The Lego Movie: The Second Part," which opens Friday, is the first of many potential blockbusters coming down the pike.
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However, as the summers get more and more crowded, these four-quadrant blockbusters have started to push earlier and earlier.
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It was an investor in this year's blockbusters 'Star Trek Beyond' and 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows'.
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Yet the bulk of those people, and those dollars, went to the mega-blockbusters—the Panthers, the Venoms, the Avengerseseses.
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Generously, one could observe that Netflix is trying to zig where others zag, creating movies that don't resemble theatrical blockbusters.
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This is in reference to big Hollywood blockbusters — when it comes to independent films, the compass is more closely aligned.
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There are extravagant blockbusters and shoestring indies, oddball discoveries and cozy comforts, and we are here for all of it.
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At the same time, the prequels were all box office blockbusters and introduced an entire generation to Star Wars fandom.
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The company has set the template for modern blockbusters, with practically every studio in Hollywood adopting its shared-universe strategy.
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In a year of high-profile science fiction blockbusters, Denis Villeneuve's Arrival could be a welcome breath of fresh air.
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The medicines were expected to be commercial blockbusters, given the millions of Americans with high cholesterol, but sales have disappointed.
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Toby Jones is a Primetime Emmy-nominated actor for his portrayal of Alfred Hitchcock, and has been in several blockbusters.
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Insider went through the potential blockbusters and award hopefuls coming to theaters from September through the end of the year.
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From sequels to literary adaptations, click through the gallery above to sample 13 blockbusters coming to a theater near you.
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The film has shattered conventional wisdom among Hollywood gatekeepers that superhero blockbusters have to be anchored by white male leads.
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In other words, the smaller hits were generally better movies than the blockbusters, if critical consensus is to be believed.
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The equivalent of blockbusters, which will rely on special headsets like Magic Leap's Lightwear and Microsoft's HoloLens, are in development.
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The number of "flagship" theaters listed in the ad rivals the amount that the biggest blockbusters would have screened in.
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One problem is the current business model in which big studios pour tremendous resources into globally salable male-driven blockbusters.
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Classical music has always been a specialized corner of the music business, with a discerning clientele and few genuine blockbusters.
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Unlike prior years, when a series of major cases awaited the justices, there are no blockbusters yet on their calendar.
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But "Growing" is a refreshing return to form for Schumer, particularly after a few years of mostly bland Hollywood blockbusters.
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Who ever predicted that he would ever be the common denominator of two of the biggest blockbusters of a summer?
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Fortnite has become a popular home for film crossover events, including blockbusters like Avengers: Endgame and John Wick: Chapter 3.
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The company's 2020 film slate boasts fewer surefire blockbusters; there will be no "Star Wars" movie this year, for instance.
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That entertainment giant has set the bar for Broadway blockbusters with "The Lion King," which has grossed $7.9 billion globally.
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The replacement name for 20th Century Fox, familiar from the opening credits of countless blockbusters, will be 20th Century Studios.
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Blockbusters from Universal Pictures such as movies in the Fast & Furious and Jason Bourne franchises will be on the service.
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Spawning more blockbusters like Yolo could ensure that a Snapchat account is a must-have utility for the next generation.
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That groundbreaking exhibition, heralded as one of the first museum blockbusters, drew 254 million visitors to the Metropolitan Museum alone.
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LaBeouf has since appeared in blockbusters like the "Transformers" series and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."
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As competition for leisure time increases, studios have focused more intently on global blockbusters, and those are in short supply.
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Vivid lavender tones and flower-blanketed locations make this small short look more alien than most hundred-million-dollar blockbusters.
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Besson doesn't know how to take half measures, a welcome trait in a world increasingly full of cookie-cutter blockbusters.
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Hollywood studios made superheroes the cornerstone of their strategy of producing fewer films and relying on big profits from blockbusters.
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Open Road's goal was to finance smaller-budget movies at a time when big studios turned their focus to expensive blockbusters.
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Gemma Chan and Angela Bassett, the stars of two of this year's biggest blockbusters, also showed up in dresses to match.
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Michael Bay uses RED cameras to shoot Transformers and Disney has used them in blockbusters like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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Snapchat stories and big-screen blockbusters don't have a whole lot in common beyond the fact that both can feature celebrities.
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China's growing middle class has propped up sales of luxury goods and box-office receipts of Hollywood blockbusters in recent years.
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After all, many of the same actors who sent concerned tweets after Parkland also star in blockbusters that feature AK-47s.
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In its place atop the market — and across the venue — stood Western-made blockbusters like Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty.
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The MCU's longevity and continued success is a testament to its strength; there may be no stronger brand amongst studio blockbusters.
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Indeed, blockbusters typically receive only one nod for one actor, usually in a supporting category, and usually a prior Oscar favorite.
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Microsoft's exclusive Halo and Gears of War franchises are a good draw, but they lack the allure of Sony-only blockbusters.
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On our list, 52 percent of poorly rated blockbusters are sequels (or, in the case of Alvin and the Chipmunks, "Squeakquels").
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Unless there's a surprise hit in coming weeks, the North American box office might be free of blockbusters until Warner Bros.
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He's done parodies of local films, as well as Hollywood blockbusters like 50 Shades of Grey and Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Our 8-bit Cinema series "gamifies" your favorite Hollywood blockbusters (and now TV shows) into '80s arcade- and NES-inspired action.
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With summer blockbusters already arriving — and more yet to come — another $200-plus million for Guardians 2 might be a stretch.
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As Hollywood studios unleash their summer blockbusters into theaters, Netflix is trying to give film buffs a reason to stay home.
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Even the media's usual male-driven blockbusters were eclipsed by the prescience of the Handmaids and the power of Wonder Woman.
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I was curious if Grisham had evolved from having attractive lawyers practice acts of heroism that might later inspire tepid blockbusters.
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On the flip side, plenty of men have made the jump from indies to big-budget blockbusters, with little objections raised.
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This year ushered in a renaissance of romantic comedy, with Netflix originals and blockbusters alike reinvigorating the seemingly tapped-out genre.
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You can feast on masterpieces of world cinema with your Criterion Channel subscription, on blockbusters and family movies with Disney Plus.
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Inside the List It's fall, when the publishing world releases its blockbusters, and the best-seller lists brim with new books.
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Over the last three years, it slowly started dawning on America that Asian love stories are not only compelling, they're blockbusters.
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In a summer of ho-hum blockbusters, this one at least mostly delivers, especially for those weaned on "Star Trek" lore.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is making room for the year's biggest blockbusters to enter the Oscars race.
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This year, there are four films opening on Christmas Day and a handful of other potential blockbusters opening the weekend before.
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Best known for playing Bella Swan in the "Twilight" movies, she has gone on to earn critical acclaim in other blockbusters.
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Hollywood blockbusters have yet to return and Hamas Islamists, who now rule Gaza, are looking out for anything they consider immodest.
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Think of countless summer blockbusters where crates or tanks or missiles emblazoned with unreadable Cyrillic or Chinese characters portend certain doom.
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If you're tired of the same old Marvel and DC summer blockbusters, especially if you were let down by Batman vs.
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We interviewed both of them on separate occasions in Los Angeles about their first trip into the land of Marvel blockbusters.
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Many CGI-based Hollywood blockbusters lately seem to be full of sheer dullness—from Batman v Superman to X-Men: Apocalypse.
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Whenever comic book blockbusters like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice hit theaters, they leave comic fans in a strange position.
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The Supreme Court has 29 cases to decide by the end of this month, including all of the term's biggest blockbusters.
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I've previously used Metacritic data to rank Hollywood's worst-rated blockbusters and to determine which actors appear in the shittiest films.
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When blockbusters are good, like Black Panther, they should be nominated for Best Picture, not some category created in a panic.
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He's starring in the two biggest blockbusters of the season, cleaned up his life and has clout he never dreamed of.
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That's an odd stance for the studio to take, given how often it likes to crow about its record-breaking blockbusters.
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Hushed and character-driven, this mix of indie fare and blockbusters works ferociously on adult anxieties in an age of dislocation.
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Cardi B had a role in one of the most beloved blockbusters of the year, and it was really, really boring.
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The two blockbusters have contributed to a strong start to 43, with ticket sales running 7 percent ahead of last year.
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Certainly there are worse things in life and definitely worse movies, including the "Transformers" blockbusters, which sell both toys and war.
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The Eros library includes blockbusters from the Hindi film industry, known as Bollywood, such as 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan', 'Dabangg' and 'Bajirao Mastani'.
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Fighting the twin tides of online streaming and comic-book blockbusters, they're the real heart of the New York moviegoing experience.
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Disney and Pixar's success can make conjuring animated blockbusters look easier than it is, but in truth, it's no small feat.
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The film is the latest from "Inception" director Nolan, who has enjoyed box office success with a string of unconventional blockbusters.
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But even the biggest blockbusters sometimes contain scenes that look like a bunch of fight scenes were thrown into a blender.
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Ebert obviously believed that movies were a big part of that — from blockbusters to tiny independent films, and everything in between.
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The episodes tackle online dating, adolescent 3-D movie blockbusters, and the attention deficit disorder produced by too many childhood cartoons, respectively.
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As "Aquaman" surpasses the $1 billion box-office mark, one thing becomes clear: International ticket sales are increasingly important for Hollywood blockbusters.
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Here are some of the funniest reviews ever to grace Amazon, covering everything from top blockbusters to the products of mythical animals.
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So far, Hollywood hauled in more than $11.38 billion domestically, as more people went out to theaters to view this year's blockbusters.
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Most of the films receiving awards buzz and attention are relatively small-scale fare, as opposed to the blockbusters that studios release.
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There's an obvious inflection point around the September 11th attacks, which were re-created in blockbusters twice before five years had passed.
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For now, though, it's clear that Avengers has ambitions to be as big as the billion-dollar blockbusters whose name it shares.
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The first iterations of extras were behind-the-scene documentaries, which became popular in the late 1970s with the rise of blockbusters.
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Before he was an actor starring in blockbusters such as The Dark Knight Rises and Dunkirk, Tom Hardy was an aspiring rapper.
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Or was Jurassic Park an anomaly, a rare example of what was possible for women in blockbusters rather than the new norm?
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They hired a showrunner, someone who could pull the threads from three other blockbusters together, and tie them into one superhero blowout.
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The domestic box office is down roughly 5% compared to last year, but there are many potential blockbusters still on the schedule.
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Unlike so many other recent blockbusters intent on tapping into the current political climate for inspo, Fallout remains true to its roots.
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The movies range from establishment blockbusters like the Marvel cinematic universe's Thor: Ragnarok to the star-studded firefighting thriller, Only the Brave.
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While it was short on blockbusters, it raised eyebrows with the first invite for Netflix and some small-screen fare to boot.
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To blame: the blockbusters he agreed to star in, the critics who panned his films, the activists who doomed his indie breakthrough.
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Still, CAR T treatments are expected to be blockbusters for drugmakers, costing up to $500,000 and generating billions of dollars in sales.
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And now, she's going through a divorce and raising a two-year-old while starring in a seemingly endless slate of blockbusters.
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Some of the summer's best-reviewed blockbusters did particularly well at the multiplex, nabbing spots 23 through 22017 on the overall chart.
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The new trend of gender-flipped blockbusters, like Ocean's 8 and The Hustle, to name a few, also leans on this crutch.
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In addition, Wold said AMC, which has a market value of $1.7 billion, will reap the benefit of this year's summer blockbusters.
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The same people might check out Eighth Grade in the coming weeks, having drank their fill of blockbusters for the time being.
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The new series is thoughtfully constructed — the films are deeper and more cerebral than most modern blockbusters, the effects continue to stun.
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The movie ticket service Fandango surveyed moviegoers about the upcoming summer blockbusters, and Wonder Woman landed at the top of the list.
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Teaming up with Film Forum and Rooftop Films for its annual series, the park eschews blockbusters and cult classics for foreign films.
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While many people left, preferring instead to take new jobs working on blockbusters, others, like Routon, saw the news as a challenge.
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Simply by virtue of tying together a decade's worth of blockbusters, its place in the pantheon of movies appears all but assured.
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Britain's AstraZeneca, struggling with loss of patents on blockbusters like cholesterol pill Crestor, reported another quarter of falling drug sales on Thursday.
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High-explosive deliveries to huts in the middle of nowhere may be tactically essential, but they aren't the stuff of summer blockbusters.
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Opening amid aspiring blockbusters, the best that can be derived from those ingredients amounts to a small, mildly tasty, pre-holiday snack.
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Beach went on to continue his acting career in blockbusters like "Suicide Squad," and is also an activist for Native American rights.
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As for the visuals, they're far from polished, looking more like a PlayStation 1 title than today's console or silver screen blockbusters.
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I'm not saying this to be facetious, or as a precursor to presenting redeemable qualities that justify his continued presence in blockbusters.
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Just as publishing does with books, or blockbusters with franchises, it's easy to find something that works then do it to death.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - This summer's biggest-budget films have everything moviegoers have come to expect from Hollywood blockbusters: superheroes, pirates, space aliens.
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New York (CNN Business)Disney's "Mulan," potentially one of the biggest blockbusters of the year, has been delayed because of the coronavirus.
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The more companies striving to produce blockbusters, the harder it may become for Netflix to maintain the pace of its subscriber growth.
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Because these blockbusters — especially a period piece like "Mulan" — don't have an expiration date, there's no reason to rush them to market.
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Just bear with me, because studio execs in particular need to hear this: Please don't think of rom-coms as potential blockbusters.
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And, if we're sticking to the big-money blockbusters for a second, you can't overlook just how amazingly presented Uncharted 4 was.
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He worried about the marketplace consequences of blockbusters blotting out substance, not unlike today's film reviewers warily watching the latest Avengers movie.
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" That led him to mainstream Hollywood blockbusters like "Furious 7" (the seventh entry in the "Fast & Furious" series) and finally to "Aquaman.
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Forget the Disney Channel Original Movies and Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbusters, the real gems hiding on Disney+ are all the comedy movies.
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She made more sense amid an uptick in women-fronted blockbusters, shooting at men, beating them up, killing them, avenging alongside them.
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Thanks to such nominations, past Oscar ceremonies have drawn attention to worthy films seen by few as well as the giant blockbusters.
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"Jaws" missed the traditional Christmas window, and a later release (and a marketing blitz) made it one of the first summer blockbusters.
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The impact is not too drastic for blockbusters, but for smaller films, the aggregate can be crucial to their success or failure.
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Companies have gotten orphan designation for products that were already blockbusters, including Humira, which has long been the world's top-selling drug.
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Magazine ____ He's starring in the two biggest blockbusters of the season, cleaned up his life and has clout he never dreamed of.
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If you're a fan of blockbusters featuring women kicking bad guys square in the jaw, we've got good news and bad news.
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Ahead, Scafaria tells Refinery29 what makes Hustlers stand out from other female-led blockbusters, and what she really thinks of the Kardashians.
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You can dig into Disney+'s vault of animated classics, superhero blockbusters, TV shows, and new originals, like The Mandalorian, starting today.
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The team behind blockbusters like "Fallout 4" and "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" have an entirely new game franchise in the works.
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That means spending on blockbusters like Rituxan, Opdivo, Keytruda, Eylea, Neulasta, Remicade and Lucentis is nestled within the hospital and physician data.
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That could be bad news for American companies that are set to release massive blockbusters in the region in the coming months.
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Although it was his first time in Washington, the cityscape was already familiar to him, thanks to his predilection for Hollywood blockbusters.
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Disney-stamped blockbusters dominate the conversation around film, but imagine if they were the only movies we considered to have real merit.
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And if not, why did we countenance BP-sponsored blockbusters or a tear gas magnate on the board of the woke Whitney?
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A common scenario when it comes to blockbusters is when a movie gets panned critically but is loved by fans; Warner Bros.
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" Peacock will have blockbusters from Universal Pictures such as the "Fast & Furious" series and classics like "Jaws" and "Back to the Future.
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The first of her blockbusters will be a "European Green Deal", a set of climate proposals that are planned for mid-December.
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Box office revenue from Hollywood blockbusters dropped in China in the first six months of this year after many years of growth.
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And in an age when our blockbusters feel more pointlessly busy and somber than ever, that just might come as a relief.
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He stars in some the biggest blockbusters of all time, but she inked a $95 million deal for her show last year.
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Whereas big blockbusters and major theatrical releases are often created, funded, and distributed by studios — think Paramount, Sony, Disney, and Warner Bros.
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Once the holiday season's tidal wave of blockbusters and prestige pictures has receded there's not much action beyond the awards season itself.
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Superhero films with women in lead roles aren't usually given that kind of chance, nor are women-directed blockbusters of any kind.
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Over the course of her career, she's starred in some of Hollywood's most acclaimed blockbusters, but offscreen, McGillis has faced almost unimaginable struggles.
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So, as we've done before with other blockbusters, we dug around the Internet to track the successes and failures of Apocalypse's marketing campaign.
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From children's programming to documentaries, sitcoms and blockbusters, the comfort of your couch may be more tempting than any kickoff to summer sunshine.
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It's also the sort of modestly budgeted genre film franchise that has gotten somewhat lost in an era of hugely expensive mega-blockbusters.
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If you were hoping to use your MoviePass to catch some of summer's biggest blockbusters this weekend, you may be out of luck.
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So far, Hollywood hauled in more than $11.38 billion domestically, as more people went out to theaters to view this year's blockbusters. (CNBC)
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Some still do, but Disney's more focused approach, investing almost exclusively in blockbusters, is paying off with a much higher rate of return.
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In India, that combination is the go-to recipe for filmmaking, as Hindi-language Bollywood films combine all three in major global blockbusters.
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Disney, by merit of hiring two women to direct blockbusters ever in its history, is somehow leading the pack for major Hollywood studios.
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The public outcry (and proof positive that having women characters doesn't dilute a film's box-office clout) can be noticed in some blockbusters.
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Since 1999, the GTAs have honored the top of the film trailer crop, from blockbusters to independent films, documentaries and everything in between.
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But apart from 2005's Serenity, Whedon wasn't known for directing massive summer blockbusters, let alone an unprecedented crossover epic starring six superheroes.
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The show borrows heavily from the classic American small town cinema of the '80s, when blockbusters were still being told through everyday lives.
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And yet, despite taking roles that flout convention, Driver has achieved certified A-list success, balancing work in Hollywood blockbusters with artier fare.
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But even more ominous was the revelation that Disney was building its own streaming service, on which its many blockbusters would be exclusives.
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Automata was released last March in the same month as blockbusters Horizon Zero Dawn and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
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Apple's array of new products, from headphones to watches, may indeed prove to just be niche categories instead of blockbusters like the iPhone.
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The Hollywood duo have starred in more blockbusters than we care to count, have hilarious senses of humor, and are ambitious to boot.
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And with those big blockbusters come plenty of alternative independent films; even people who don't like explosions and superheroes need air conditioning too.
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In a summer crammed of expensive CG-heavy blockbusters, director Matt Reeves and star Andy Serkis have managed to make theirs stand out.
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Though Facebook might start by focusing on more casual titles rather than the big console blockbusters, it could move in that direction eventually.
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The $90 million dollar flick will be a true test of whether the streaming service's model can truly keep up with traditional blockbusters.
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And what's more, the tech categories are often where the big blockbusters that the popular film category seems designed to promote win awards.
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Superhero movies tend to be frontloaded with fans, and a near 1223 percent fall is not uncommon for major blockbusters in weekend two.
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It finished ahead of blockbusters like Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill and enduring indie rock touchstones like Alien Lanes by Guided By Voices.
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This is excellent news for a film industry that has doubled down on blockbusters like Batman v Superman and Captain America: Civil War.
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Why clutter your shelves with special editions of last year's blockbusters when a whole mobile cinematheque is a few clicks and swipes away?
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Dergarabedian said that international audiences still embrace these films because they grew up on big American blockbusters, and enjoy the action-packed adventures.
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At the convention, organizers played a short film by James Cameron, the director of blockbusters like "Titanic," on the dangers of climate change.
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There is no case yet on the docket that rivals the blockbusters of recent terms addressing health care, abortion or same-sex marriage.
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The move highlights the challenges being faced by China as it looks to promote home-grown productions to rival imported blockbusters from Hollywood.
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It's also when books by some of the best-selling authors in every category come out, from YA blockbusters to Pulitzer-winning histories.
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But both of these "investments" in movie theaters fall in the category of thinly veiled tourism ads; they're not showing the latest blockbusters.
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Big budget studios currently make money selling the rights to the likes of Marvel's "Avengers" and other blockbusters to each European country individually.
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It occurs again and again in cinema and on TV, from Jack The Ripper blockbusters to Black Dahlia re-imaginings with Chris Pine.
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And there are worse fates, of course, than a world of adequate, risk-averse blockbusters, of solidly entertaining movies engineered for mass appeal.
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Sotheby's brought back its online sale of Original Film Posters, including a selection of old-school blockbusters, sci-fi, epics, and animation classics.
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The other two films nominated for best picture at Sunday's Academy Awards arrived outside of the awards corridor and were both domestic blockbusters.
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Because of the new push, which rivals the campaigns for summertime blockbusters, "Stranger Things" may be hard to avoid in the coming weeks.
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"Like other blockbusters, its diverse cast and globe-trotting action have helped create fans in countries where the theatrical market is still growing."
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The blockbusters are still there, wines like Torbreck and Mollydooker, as are the Australian classics from longtime producers like Penfolds, Tyrrell's and Henschke.
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The companies that make billion-dollar blockbusters possible are barely hanging on, and — for the most part — they aren't anywhere near Los Angeles.
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Cage went on to star in several blockbusters throughout the 90s and 2000s including Con Air, Face/Off and the National Treasure franchise.
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The summer's big blockbusters tend to taper off quickly after the start of August, as marketing machines power down around less-hyped newcomers.
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Compared with "Giant," the V.R. element felt unnecessary—like one of those 3-D blockbusters you'd be content to watch in 2-D.
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Those officials are probably not from the federal government, because rarely do these blockbusters of superhuman heroism take place in the nation's capital.
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Google says another 120 games are scheduled to hit Stadia this year, including some big upcoming blockbusters like "DOOM Eternal" and "Cyberpunk 2077."
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Titles will include a mix of classic content from Disney's storied vault, recent blockbusters, and brand-new exclusives developed specifically for Disney Plus.
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While director Todd Phillips' Joker film is one of the year's most anticipated blockbusters, the forthcoming feature has also been plagued with controversy.
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Despite the number of blockbusters and critically praised films over the past year, ticket sales slipped 4% from last year's busy 2018 calendar.
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The November movie schedule is crowded with pleasures: There's a tiny indie, several huge franchise blockbusters, documentaries, comedies, biopics, and a lot more.
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The Great ReadFeature He's an auteur whose bizarre creations — the Metal Gear Solid series and, most recently, Death Stranding — have become huge blockbusters.
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The academy was trying to make room for blockbusters, which voters have increasingly tended to ignore in favor of little-seen art films.
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Sure, "summer movie" may scream loud, 'splodey blockbusters to some people, but there's more variety to the season's offerings than meets the eyes.
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When Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, had to come up with a blockbuster in celebration of the Met's 27th anniversary in 24 — a blockbuster to follow the blockbusters that were about Catholicism and camp; a blockbuster to do what blockbusters do, which is lure people into the museum — he was stumped.
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And here's the thing, in our total pipeline, right now we have over 25 blockbusters, when you look at the full late-stage portfolio.
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Oh, and if you've been mixing up the dozens of superhero blockbusters slated for release this year...this video will be anything but helpful.
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Starting with Rey and BB-8's Jakku jaunt in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the supercut blazes through a total of 14 blockbusters.
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Starting with Rey and BB-8's Jakku jaunt in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the supercut blazes through a total of 14 blockbusters.
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His Oscar-winning Get Out explored the Black experience in a way that high-grossing blockbusters hadn't seen outside of the historical drama canon.
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Unlike so many blockbusters, it's actually diverse, and the way the female con artists are deployed even suggests a critique of Hollywood's ethnic typecasting.
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Today, simulated realities are in vogue like never before thanks to the Hollywood blockbusters like the Matrix, Blade Runner, and television series like Westworld.
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Most modern blockbusters fuse together elements of different genres and play styles in an attempt to appeal to as wide an audience as possible.
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Then there's the commerce, where most blockbusters are now built to travel the entire world, to make money in all corners of the globe.
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These kinds of relationships are missing from a lot of games; in most blockbusters, your main way of interacting with the world is violence.
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In bars or in blockbusters, there's tell of coke lines in bathrooms, frat parties that graduated into boardrooms, the finance industry's theology of avarice.
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The film buffs over at Fandango released some exclusive information to Refinery29 about the 10 most popular costumes inspired by 2016's biggest blockbusters.
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It is not easy to succeed with a crowdfunding campaign, but when they strike a chord with the audience, they can be financial blockbusters.
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It worked, and Mackie has gone on to appear in Ant-Man, the last two Captain America films and the three latest Avengers blockbusters.
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The stories its denied us for so long don't just *deserve* to be told — they will save blockbusters from total irrelevance and creative bankruptcy.
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Still down a justice, the court isn't slated to hear its usual blockbusters on the likes of abortion, affirmative-action or same-sex marriage.
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And for 17 years, the Golden Trailer Awards have been celebrating the best in film trailers, from blockbusters to documentaries and everything in between.
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The main attraction, a heavily built 52-year-old man dressed in spangly clothes, gyrates and lip-syncs just as in his Hindi blockbusters.
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Even when you're not loving this movie, you're rooting for it—and how often do you say that about assembly-line blockbusters these days?
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Seven books and eight blockbusters later, the story that began on a napkin has become one of the best-known franchises of all time.
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From his first movie "Bad Boys" in 1995, Bay has made a name for himself with action blockbusters such as "Armageddon" and "The Rock".
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Franchises like Gears of War were born on the 360, and established blockbusters like Halo really came into their own during this console generation.
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It's been interesting to see how much China has influenced Hollywood blockbusters — how much Hollywood has changed even its own movies for the market.
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These are usually independent or lesser-known films; major blockbusters don't appear on the app until several weeks after they release, if at all.
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From superhero blockbusters to action flicks, it often seems that bog box-office movies aren't the ones telling the stories relevant to our lives.
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Instead, The Mummy is a movie meant to launch a new fleet of blockbusters, with much of the burden being shouldered by Mr. Cruise.
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Last night, he became the first... Marvel's Cinematic Universe covers the big summer blockbusters as well as their offerings on Netflix and regular television.
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In the years since, LaBeouf has starred in some Hollywood blockbusters — like "Holes," the but has also had some run-ins with the law.
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For the Oscars, viewership is often dictated by whether a series of blockbusters, or movies with big-name stars, were nominated for best picture.
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His dream: a service that allowed you to see everything from summer blockbusters to art-house fare at any time for a monthly fee.
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Three years ago, blockbusters accounted for only 25 percent of the box office, but today they take up more than 30 percent, Gelfond said.
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The actor went from a supporting comedic role on the NBC sitcom "Parks and Recreation" to landing leading roles in blockbusters like Warner Bros.
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Luckily, both remarried, and both even had super hero blockbusters — Reynolds in Deadpool and Johansson in Captain America: Civil War — both out this year.
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Maybe pull some kind of stunt that'll make you stand out from the pack of other hot young things with summer blockbusters coming out.
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But they also made back their budgets because they targeted audiences outside of the "teen and 20-something white guy" demographic that favors blockbusters.
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What's happened historically in my career is that I work on indie projects, I freelance, and every once a while, I will do blockbusters.
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That is no doubt top of mind for Disney since comic book movies were consistent blockbusters this year when hits were hard to predict.
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"With blockbusters, you tend to get a few programs, but there's more reliance on the exhibit itself to draw people in," Ms. Wilkening said.
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From independent documentaries to would-be blockbusters, from Oscar contenders to foreign animated releases, there's a little something for everybody coming out this fall.
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Mr. Rivers, a first-time feature filmmaker, also worked on those blockbusters; he is one of Mr. Jackson's longtime storyboard and visual effects artists.
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The term yielded an extraordinary run of conservative rulings, including blockbusters upholding Mr. Trump's travel ban and dealing a sharp blow to public unions.
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Hollywood blockbusters like The Crow and The Craft also hit screens during this time, bringing spooky, star-powered stories to screens around the country.
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Comedies and blockbusters with Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista and Issa Rae and Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart and Eugenio Derbez and Jason Momoa.
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The broader point, though, is that blockbusters don't need the respect of puny critics, as Hulk might say, to attract audiences and thrive commercially.
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Absolutely. A groundbreaking film on several fronts, this is exactly the sort of film to bridge the gap between auteur cinema and mainstream blockbusters.
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In a bit of an upset, for example, the small movie "Missing Link" topped an assortment of box-office blockbusters in the animation category.
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As for 2020, this year has some potential blockbusters on the docket, but on paper it looks to be a weaker year than 2019.
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Netflix did a good job of killing off most Blockbusters, which once numbered roughly 9,000 across the United States, generating $5.9 billion in revenues.
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The game's win also reflects Apple's Game Trend of the Year — Blockbusters Reborn — which saw hits from decades past reimagined for iOS in 2019.
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It's more of a character-driven story than Marvel's no-holds-barred ensemble blockbusters, which means there are fewer names to keep track of.
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It is a topic that will be particularly interesting to constituents who have raised concerns about the extensive damage wrought in recent superhero blockbusters.
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Guo, who uses the name Frant Gwo in English, noted that Chinese audiences have responded coolly to many of Hollywood's previous sci-fi blockbusters.
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They are stunningly complex $200 million studio blockbusters that seem to have sprung directly from the sugar-addled fantasies of a particularly inspired child.
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword hits the sweet spot where fans of superhero blockbusters, Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones overlap.
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Halfway through The Meg, I squinted at my notes and realized I'd just been writing down names of other blockbusters I'd seen this summer.
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But more importantly, this summer's films have been a testament to how hard Hollywood is trying to make its blockbusters appeal to everyone, everywhere.
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Jon Watts' journey from indie films to blockbusters has become a familiar story over the past decade, though the story doesn't always end so happily.
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"Movies like &aposSorry to Bother You&apos and &aposBlindspotting&apos are showing that in the summer people don&apost live by blockbusters alone," Dergarabedian said.
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So here's the moral of the story: To say movies suck is really to say that big Hollywood blockbusters aren't what they used to be.
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As proved in his critically acclaimed blockbusters The Host and most recently Snowpiercer, Bong knows what he's doing when it comes to staging complex setpieces.
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Bill Paxton, who had memorable roles in blockbusters "Apollo 13" and "Titanic" as well as HBO's "Big Love," has died from complications following heart surgery.
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From directing horror comedies like What We Do In The Shadows to superhero blockbusters like Thor: Ragnarok, Taika Waititi is a man of many talents.
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But the extent to which nearly all blockbusters and pop sensations owe their success to this may be less clear-cut than is generally believed.
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The wild trailer for the collection feels like a psychedelic trip through all the sex and robot scenes of last summer's blockbusters, presented in animation.
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Endgame, on the other hand, is a late April launch and it's going to face lots of competition from other spring and early summer blockbusters.
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These sequences are efficiently assembled, if never exactly exciting, and it may seem churlish to complain when there are so few female heroines in blockbusters.
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Both Google and Amazon have a number of recent blockbusters on offer, including Suicide Squad and Jason Bourne, as well as holiday classics like Elf.
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Discounting Mr Katzenberg's dim view of blockbusters can evidently be risky, but big bets seem safer if film-makers eschew his yen for novelty, too.
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Disney's massive library includes everything from Marvel blockbusters like Black Panther, to classics like the Star Wars franchise, to beloved TV series like The Simpsons.
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The scale and scope of existing and planned facilities lend themselves to large-scale film blockbusters, but vacant space can be filled with smaller productions.
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With summer blockbusters soon upon us, moviegoers will be able to hear Cooper return as the voice of Rocket in the highly-anticipated Avengers: Endgame.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As Hollywood studios unleash their summer blockbusters into theaters, Netflix Inc is trying to give film buffs a reason to stay home.
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Disney isn&apost alone in being able to roll out such blockbusters but three of the year&aposs five $100 million-plus releases are theirs.
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In an age where blockbusters are driven more by brand names than the people who actually star in them, Asian representation is still sorely lacking.
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Disney, which has a market capitalisation of $155bn, has lots of clout because of its premium film franchises: "Star Wars", Marvel and its animated blockbusters.
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Superman – otherwise known as mild-mannered Clark Kent – is one of the most iconic characters in comic book history and a mainstay of Hollywood blockbusters.
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The actor, who has two blockbusters in theaters this summer with Avengers: Infinity Wars and Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom, is poised for another profitable year.
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VICE News spoke with loyal customers at one of the last Blockbusters left in the country about why they love their old school movie night.
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Two petitions are circulating calling for Warner Brothers and DC Entertainment to remove Batman v Superman director Zack Snyder from their upcoming slate of blockbusters.
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But its audacity gave us a film that was weird and operatic in a way that nine-figure superhero blockbusters rarely allow themselves to be.
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When VR cinema failed to sweep away standard Hollywood blockbusters, the iceberg effect kicked in again: Guess VR won't spark a film revolution after all!
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Despite headlines about blockbusters "Batman v Superman" and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" driving record box office grosses, fewer people are going to the movies.
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So many of the big blockbusters coming out then were very much told through the eyes of kids, which is certainly something you've dabbled in.
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But that's the trick: summer blockbusters may largely be dreck, but there are plenty of other films out there that are satisfying. Inventive. Subversive. Clever.
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That might not sound like a lot compared to summer blockbusters, but it had a modest $6 million production budget, according to Box Office Mojo.
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"Kumail and Emily's true story provided audiences of all ages a much-needed alternative to the summer blockbusters," said Bob Berney, Amazon Studios' distribution chief.
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Starting Tuesday, Disney+ will have hundreds of library titles available, ranging from animated classics and Disney Channel TV shows to superhero blockbusters and intergalactic sagas.
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The team also spent a lot of time trying make Disney's blockbusters look as good on home TVs and smartphones as they do in theaters.
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That's why they're peppering the game's commercial space with trailers previewing their upcoming blockbusters: Superheroes, transformers, mutants, Fox's Logan, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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This week, the last two Blockbusters in Alaska announced that they too have succumbed to the slow march of time and will close, Deadline reports.
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Morey tries to show a mix of independent films and blockbusters (Paramount Pictures' "A Quiet Place 2" had been set to start showing on Friday).
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The trend of blockbusters with villains who make a little too much sense will likely only intensify along with various global crises in coming years.
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The decade was also a good one for the company's live-action division, yielding Jerry Bruckheimer blockbusters such as The Rock (1996) and Armageddon (1998).
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A Word With After three seasons as Robb Stark in "Game of Thrones," Richard Madden thought he knew a thing or two about television blockbusters.
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And ticket prices are expected to remain high through the spring, when brand-name blockbusters like "Frozen" and "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" arrive.
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Zachary Crockett / Vox Earlier this week, we crawled through a bunch of data from Metacritic to determine which big-budget blockbusters got the worst reviews.
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The younger Mr. Polge, who was raised in Grasse, France, with enfleurage in his veins, swanned into the Chanel fold having already formulated several blockbusters.
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Streaming is Disney's major area of interest, especially heading into 2020 where its theatrical slate doesn't have as many obvious blockbusters as this year's does.
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Blockbusters' second weeks inevitably make less money, but in the case of Wonder Woman, it only dropped 45 percent from its opening weekend in 2016.
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The news came as AstraZeneca reported drug sales fell again in the second quarter, hit by loss of patents on blockbusters like cholesterol pill Crestor.
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In November, Disney+ launched with hundreds of library titles available, ranging from animated classics and Disney Channel TV shows to superhero blockbusters and intergalactic sagas.
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Now that the Broadway season has officially concluded, you may want to venture away from the packed precincts of Times Square, where the blockbusters rule.
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China has already approved five PD-1/PD-L1 treatments, including two top-selling global blockbusters made by foreign firms Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck.
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"The Lion King" is one of the most anticipated films of 2019 and could end up being one of the biggest blockbusters of the year.
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Buy a Fandango gift cardWhat's a better gift than a trip to the movies — especially with the release of so many blockbusters around the holidays?
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They look like what I imagine the characters in all Hollywood blockbusters looked like if a furry was put in charge of the film industry.
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The third episode (embedded above) is one of the best pieces of criticism I've seen on why so many modern blockbusters can seem so forgettable.
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This sort of storytelling should be at the center of most blockbusters, but increasingly, big-budget flicks are overwhelmed by the need to chase spectacle.
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Amidst the current wave of bland CGI blockbusters, Guillermo del Toro's films stand out for their strong narratives, diverse source material, and fantastical visual wonder.
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Some feared the Whitney would lean too heavily on blockbusters after moving downtown; it's good to see the museum erring on the more experimental side.
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Since those days, Johnson has really made a name for himself, acting in blockbusters and accumulating a massive following of dedicated fans across his social media.
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Now we present you our top ten—from indie games that provided new experimental twists on game design to incredibly polished, long-in-the works blockbusters.
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The original Men in Black movie is one of those rare summer blockbusters that is about 65 percent smarter than it had any reason to be.
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MGM set up a crew to film it all using the same epic Todd-AO 70mm treatment it gave to blockbusters like The Sound of Music.
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The streaming service took just about a month to confirm both the second and third season pickups for one of its biggest blockbusters, 13 Reasons Why.
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Between this and last week's Doc Savage news, it seems as though studios are looking even further into the past for the next generation of blockbusters.
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The clips — from popular blockbusters, live sporting events and concerts, original 27D and animated shows from ROKiT Studios, and more — floated inches off of the screen.
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And even if Landgraf was worried about blockbusters devouring TV whole (they haven't so far!), he wasn't averse to trying his hand at blockbuster TV, too.
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As major blockbusters rely heavily on China and other countries intolerant of LGBT rights, a gay character is viewed in the industry as a financial risk.
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Pitt's production company, Plan B, contributes to his "higher value," David said, as well as his involvement in more big blockbusters in recent years than Jolie.
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But if you were hoping this represented a first step toward the streaming of modern "AAA" games, the blockbusters like Assassin's Creed or Destiny, keep waiting.
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Bauckhage said the core fan base has stuck around, in part because studios have innovated within the typically risk-averse world of intellectual property-based blockbusters.
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Arriving on the heels of the trio of comic book blockbusters, "X-Men: Apocalypse" faces a highest hurdle when it debuts in just under three weeks.
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Contemporary blockbusters being what they are, "King Arthur" is about an Arthur (Charlie Hunnam of "Sons of Anarchy") who isn't crowned king until the closing scene.
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Unlike today's space adventures, "The Finest Hours" doesn't flaunt the kind of computer-generated effects that turn so many would-be blockbusters into cheesy-looking cartoons.
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Dark Fate follows a trend of sequels to action-blockbusters that pick up the story in real-time, while ignoring some of the ill-advised sequels.
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Nintendo has continued to put out solid content for the Switch, and this quarter had some strong performing titles even if none were really major blockbusters.
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Knight has said he wants Laika to produce one feature a year, but that goal could change if Knight decides he has bigger blockbusters to fry.
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The idea is that, alongside the time-honoured "Best Picture" category, there will be another for films which have a broader appeal: blockbusters, in other words.
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You know how the summer movie season is rife with blockbusters that cost nine figures to make and often feature dazzling heroics and explosive set pieces?
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After spending years on the road performing stand up comedy and starring in Hollywood blockbusters, Dane Cook has settled into a quiet life in Los Angeles.
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For tentpole blockbusters — movies like Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Black Panther, or The Avengers: Infinity War — repeat viewings are a cornerstone of the fan experience.
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Video rental stores, be they Blockbusters or independent outfits, were a lighthouse in a storm, a place that could show you a passage to safe harbor.
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Since then, the EA-owned Criterion has instead focused primarily on other series, like Need For Speed, and helping out on blockbusters like Battlefield and Battlefront.
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The film is also the highest-grossing live action film from a female director, shattering the stereotypes that have kept women from directing blockbusters for years.
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But they have been blockbusters nonetheless: the MCU is the highest-grossing film franchise of all time, grossing more than $17bn at the global box office.
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In the first half of 2018, Sandoz's business with biosimilar copies of branded blockbusters in Europe helped offset a U.S. business that remains under price pressure.
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The menacing machine that turns on its human creators is a staple of both B-movies like Virtuosity and pop blockbusters like Avengers: Age of Ultron.
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A Travel Channel show could be looked at as a sad chapter in the career of someone who was fronting blockbusters only a few years ago.
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Since then, Davis has graced the big screen in blockbusters like The Help and appears on TV each week on How to Get Away With Murder.
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While studios are focused on making blockbusters that will pull in millions, there isn't a space for more independent-style movies for the young adult demographic.
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These clearly have a sizable enough built-in audience to be worth further investment for Netflix, but they're not what you'd call blockbusters, by any means.
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The movie still isn't out in a number of key foreign markets — including China, which is historically friendly to American blockbusters — so all is not lost.
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Kojima's early work truly feels like a love letter to all things sci-fi and summer blockbusters, so it felt right to take something from it.
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Sure, the filmmaking on Game of Thrones has not yet reached the level of the best blockbusters, but it puts something like Suicide Squad to shame.
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The 35-year-old actress is set to star in two summer blockbusters, each showing off her ability to kick ass, and commit to unconventional characters.
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Yes, that Stravinsky and that Mahler, blockbusters both, on the same program: Probably something no one had been "stupid enough" to attempt before, Mr. Zander allowed.
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" More recently, Greer has taken on more serious roles in blockbusters like 2015's "Jurassic World," 2017's "Planet of the Apes," and 2018's "Halloween.
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He had been in awe of the actors in the Indonesian action film "The Raid," who parlayed its success into playing bit parts in Hollywood blockbusters.
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The scale and scope of existing and planned facilities lend themselves to large-scale film blockbusters, but vacant space can be filled in with smaller productions.
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This came to an abrupt end with Mr. Wells's death and Michael Eisner's efforts to scale up the success with a slate of big-budget blockbusters.
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The term that ended on Monday included a half-dozen potential blockbusters, but all of them had been put on the docket before Justice Scalia died.
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But for those films that aren't massive sequels or superhero blockbusters, the ones that can't rely on a pre-existing fanbase, the trailer must stand alone.
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At first glance, those classic storylines might seem primitive when compared to modern comics, to say nothing of the big-budget cinematic blockbusters that they inspired.
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The split gave way to two of Franklin's more personal records in Spirit in the Dark and Young, Gifted and Black, both of which were blockbusters.
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These elements run rampant in low-budget, low-quality masterpieces like The Room and Fateful Findings, but can be harder to find in big-budget blockbusters.
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It's an old-fashioned musical, at least if you think of "Evita" and "Les Miserables," the blockbusters that ruled Broadway three decades ago, as old-fashioned.
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And I say this as someone who loved a lot of blockbusters, from Logan to War for the Planet of the Apes to The Last Jedi!
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Forget MTV and YouTube, Beyoncé dropped her videos on friggin' HBO — the cable network that, for decades, has given its Saturday night over to Hollywood blockbusters.
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The adult-targeting Touchstone division delivered a handful of blockbusters, including Signs (2002), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), and the National Treasure franchise (which debuted in 2004).
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There are a scant few episodes that don't contain at least one action scene that's superior to 99 percent of what Hollywood's blockbusters have to offer.
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The apocalyptic modern versions of the story that the blockbusters tell can be interesting — who hasn't crashed their toys together and imagined epic, world-ending battles?
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Industry insiders like Steven Spielberg worry that the only movies that will be shown in theaters will be blockbusters, and that everything else will be streamed.
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Today, we think of Marvel as the monolithic studio that each year reliably releases two or three blockbusters based on its costume-clad comic-book superheroes.
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The Pour You can still find the inky blockbusters of 22013 years ago, but much as America's wine industry has reoriented toward balance, so has Australia's.
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And, if other countries follow suit, that could be bad news for American companies that are set to release massive blockbusters internationally in the coming months.
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Historical biopics, animated films, and family-focused blockbusters are all on the docket, all of which are competing for eyeballs at the end of the year.
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But last week's two First Amendment blockbusters were decided by 5-to-4 votes, with the conservatives in the majority ruling in favor of conservative plaintiffs.
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" The debate over Marvel blockbusters started when Scorsese, 76, gave his honest opinion of the studio's output earlier this month, saying the films are "not cinema.
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Using theatrical releases for blockbusters might be bad for cinema as an art form, which Scorsese highlights, but it makes a whole lot of business sense.
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In Hollywood, two recent blockbusters by black directors — Peele's horror hit "Get Out" and Ryan Coogler's "Black Panther" — staged nuanced readings of race within fantastical scenarios.
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Lum, aka Awkwafina saw her star rise in Hollywood in 2018, with back-to-back supporting roles in summer blockbusters Ocean's 8 and Crazy Rich Asians.
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"The service will also feature blockbusters and critically-acclaimed films from Universal Pictures, Focus Features, DreamWorks Animation, Illumination and Hollywood's biggest studios," the press release reads.
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The "Star Wars" franchise has struggled to build an audience in the country, where Hollywood is increasingly relying on its box office to boost its blockbusters.
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There's always been a secret cynicism underpinning Abrams' Star blockbusters, which adrenalize the pop-est culture of his youth and avoid anything requiring originality or imagination.
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"This is just generally true with how blockbusters across the media are going," said James G. Webster, a professor of the School of Communication at Northwestern.
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And as "Mad Max: Fury Road" showed last year by amassing six awards -- more than any other 2015 release -- R-rated blockbusters can get nominated, and win.
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Johnson is already a major box-office draw in China, and with no other US summer blockbusters getting a release there, his star power will only grow.
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International audiences, particularly in China, India and South America, still embrace these films because they grew up on big American blockbusters and enjoy the action-packed adventures.
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Prime Video appears to be part of this push where Amazon said it will release Bollywood and regional Indian blockbusters, Hollywood films, and its own original series.
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"The only thing that could slow its ascent is the onslaught of notable summer blockbusters hitting theaters in coming weeks starting with 'Pokémon: Detective Pikachu' next weekend."
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Soon the two of them went to work on the "bestseller" problem: How could you know which books would be blockbusters and which would flop, and why?
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As for how Goose felt working on a movie set for one of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters, trainer Ursula Brauner says he was frequently rewarded with special treats.
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Then there's a fleet of blockbusters that seem likely to struggle, especially with Mad Max and The Martian (which made the DGA list) standing in the way.
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And while Tom Brady's Patriots took on Jared Goff's L.A. Rams, movie fans spent the game anxiously watching for new footage from 2019's most anticipated blockbusters.
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Rather, it is the kind of film which Hollywood releases in March: neither serious enough for awards season nor splashy enough to compete with the summer blockbusters.
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The U.S. biotech is betting on two recently approved, potential blockbusters - its eczema treatment Dupixent and rheumatoid arthritis drug Kevzara - to reduce its heavy reliance on Eylea.
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For publishers, book sales have largely taken a backseat to the increasingly lucrative world of movie blockbusters, especially as the fan boy (and girl) audience has aged.
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And if there's anyone alive who understands how to speak the language of geek-friendly blockbusters from the final two decades of the 22018th century, it's him.
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Read These Stories Next:Don't Compare Atlanta's "Teddy Perkins" To Get Out Your Guide To Watching Atlanta Season 2 The Summer Blockbusters We're Most Excited For This Year
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Tencent is also a world-beater in games with blockbusters such as League of Legends and Clash of Clans, which have more than 100m players each globally.
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Her reviews are not restricted to religious or family-themed films, casting a wide net from "Sex and the City 2" to superhero blockbusters and independent fare.
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The finances were sound—Disney had outdone its competitors at the box office the year before—but Mr Katzenberg felt the company was unduly focused on blockbusters.
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The assessment means the pharmaceuticals industry is on track for another productive year, although not as good as 2015, which saw the arrival of 11 new blockbusters.
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Maybe someday Marvel's universe will collapse under its own weight, as the producers attempt to juggle too many characters and too many nine-figure blockbusters at once.
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As for how Goose felt working on a movie set for one of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters, trainer Ursula Brauner said he was frequently rewarded with special treats.
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Typically, blockbusters like Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, and Incredibles 2 would rake in the cash at the movie theaters but not receive as much critical praise.
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At Disney's recent presentation for the streaming service, Marvel confirmed a number of planned live-action series, each featuring characters -- and actors -- popularized in its theatrical blockbusters.
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From female-helmed blockbusters like A Wrinkle In Time, to action heroines front and center in Proud Mary and Tomb Raider, women are going to kick ass.
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The dark, long winters and sparse layout of Alaska allows Blockbusters to do pretty well, especially when Wi-Fi is substantially more expensive than in other states.
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The graphics, of course, are a little outdated for modern palates, but the actual gameplay showcases ambition that could easily stand toe-to-toe with today's blockbusters.
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In a viral video, Fan compares the criteria for getting saved in The Wandering Earth to the criteria in the American sci-fi blockbusters 2012 and Intersteller.
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Tencent has received approvals for eight games since China resumed the licensing process, although its blockbusters PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds and Fortnite have yet to get the green light.
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Instead, it asks audiences to sit with failure and doubt, in a way very few blockbusters do (and much more successfully than the recent Star Wars movie).
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The advent of precision weed killing also comes at a time blanket spraying of global blockbusters such as glyphosate is under fire from environmentalists and regulators alike.
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This battle to control drug prices coincides with a decade of limited approvals of potential blockbusters, putting more pressure on the industry to dig into its position.
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Film clearances are exclusive deals signed between large movie theater chains and film studios to limit the number of theaters allowed to screen certain movies, especially blockbusters.
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If Netflix does close the deal, it could be a huge win for the streaming service and open the gateway for all types of mainstream Hollywood blockbusters.
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The numbers might not be on the same scale as action blockbusters like Suicide Squad or Bourne, but that's a low 40.4 percent attendance drop for Moms.
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Hailee spoke to Broadly about the reaction to "Most Girls," her strategy for balancing music and acting, and why she treats blockbusters as seriously as Oscar bait.
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The movie studios and tech companies are thinking bigger, with price tags around $50 for studio blockbusters that would be available two weeks after their release dates.
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The company screened "Ocean's Eleven", "The Matrix" and other blockbusters for crowds of Nigerians, excited by the foreign concepts of high quality sound and a wide screen.
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The Supreme Court's 21625-2900 term got off to a sleepy start, but there are a number of potential blockbusters on the docket for the new year.
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From a business aspect, the new "Ghostbusters," set for release on July 15, carries oversize weight for Sony, which has been hurt by a shortage of blockbusters.
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Ryan Coogler's film made tremendous strides in terms of representation, cultural awareness, and the kind of timely, powerful storytelling that is so often absent from superhero blockbusters.
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Two of his last three films (both with actor Salman Khan) were blockbusters, and expectations are high for "Tubelight", his latest offering which releases this Eid weekend.
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In these movies that are expected to be blockbusters, women are usually held in some sort of feminine ideal, so that they're appealing and likable and pretty.
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China is currently the second-largest theatrical market in the world and Hollywood has increasingly relied on the country's box office to give potential blockbusters a boost.
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But given only 34 foreign films are allowed into the country every year, blockbusters tend to dominate the list in an attempt to turn the greatest profit.
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It's assumed that the movie was too violent to warrant a rollout in China, where Hollywood has relied on an international box-office boost for potential blockbusters.
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Even with Disney's strong second-quarter earnings report, boosted by theme park success and multiple blockbusters, CNBC's Jim Cramer has noticed that investors still overlook its stock.
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Hauer starred in Dutch classics and Hollywood blockbusters as well as in a whole range of B-movies, in which he was mostly cast as the villain.
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Still, you are left with the fascinating spectacle of a revenge drama in which Schwarzenegger is slow to wrath, and with the lingering ghosts of blockbusters past.
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Daredevil doesn't shy away from the fact that violence changes people — a much darker message than you'll find in Marvel's blockbusters, but one that's just as necessary.
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And that's before his appearance in the 2009 reboot provided the key link between Star Trek's past and its current incarnation as a series of Hollywood blockbusters.
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The computer animation and special effects have been improved from the first trailer, and while they don't quite stand alongside the most expensive blockbusters, Guardians looks great.
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Hastings may not be as well known as Blockbusters, but the retail chain offered video rentals, and also sold movies, video games, and other forms of entertainment.
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On the flip side, the box office looked to be in serious trouble over the summer, a time historically reserved for, wait for it, big-budget blockbusters.
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Hideo Kojima, above, has been compared to a filmmaker, and his video games — including the Metal Gear Solid series and, more recently, Death Stranding — have become blockbusters.
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Hollywood isn't going to make any summer blockbusters about political negotiations that succeed because respected pillars of the community convince stakeholders to adopt a consensus-based approach.
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Blockbusters traditionally experience a precipitous drop at the box office in their second weekends, but Black Panther and its massive second weekend are a history-making exception.
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These days, every other studio is trying to avoid slotting their potential moneymakers anywhere nearby, for fear of being lost in the shadow of Disney's certain blockbusters.
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Yet he knew that his type of filmmaking was a long way from the mass-market blockbusters that most people think of when they think of movies.
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A deadringer for his father when he was younger, Scott has chosen to star in action blockbusters like "Suicide Squad" rather than westerns like his old man.
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If you want to see blockbusters with other people, and you want to go to a cultural event, you&aposre going to go to an Imax theater.
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Members of these services are also more likely to take chances on non-blockbusters such as comedies and dramas because they don't have to pay for entry.
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He added that once such blockbusters as "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" and "Frozen 2" are released, the movie industry would quickly emerge from its doldrums.
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Feature films steeped in things like unfettered joy, laughter, glee — you know, fun — are usually abandoned to the studio blockbusters of the summer (and spring, and winter).
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"I don't think they're cinema," the director wrote in an op-ed for the New York Times on November 4, voicing his disdain for Disney's superhero blockbusters.
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Extravagant computer-generated imagery is the hallmark of blockbusters that are carefully formulated to avoid being "execution dependent" or "review sensitive"—to avoid needing to be good.
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Coogler, too, likes to surround himself with accomplished women, and the crew of "Black Panther" is unusual among blockbusters for its large number of female department heads.
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To that end, in September 2017 he hired one of Hollywood's top producers, Wyck Godfrey, whose resume includes the "Twilight" blockbusters, as president of the film division.
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In The Unstreamables, Noisey takes a look back at the blockbusters, intriguing footnotes, and cult classics that you might have to try a little harder to find.
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For one thing, there was no guarantee that the right theater would become available, even then; with so many blockbusters on Broadway, new shows face daunting odds.
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The goal here isn't to compete with other blockbusters any more than Christian rock competes with Guns & Roses or the Nintendo game Bible Adventures competes with Mario.
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Last week at EGX, the UK's biggest games event, attendees got a chance to play upcoming blockbusters like Battlefield 1, FIFA 17, and Gears of War 4.
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If we judge the value of startups only according to the paths of the high-profile blockbusters, a lot of what's going on in Silicon Valley looks insane.
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They include two made-for-television movies, one based on a TV show, and all the big-screen blockbusters you begged your parents to drive you to see.
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That's not pocket change, but in an age of $200 million blockbusters and star-driven prestige films that run well into nine figures, it's a remarkably inexpensive production.
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Anderson will be keeping his fingers and toes crossed that the 52nd meeting of their career turns into another exhausting epic to match some of their previous blockbusters.
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When he isn't making some of the biggest box-office blockbusters of all time, the writer-director-producer (The Terminator, Titanic, Avatar) turns his focus to the environment.
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The actor quickly became one of Hollywood's go-to hunks after that, with blockbusters like the Legend of Tarzan and his award-winning role in Big Little Lies.
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While Apple holds out for those phones and the hope that they will end up being blockbusters for the company, it's trying to build out consistent revenue streams.
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It's a common method of working for massive action blockbusters, but as a result, Marcus and McFeely never quite got a true sense of closure on the film.
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Like the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse, they're overly long blockbusters, thrill rides that'd benefit from at least a 10-minute breather for the audience to regroup and rally.
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While Hulu offers a lot of blockbusters, like the final Hunger Games installment or Clueless, there's also quite a few sexy movies if you know where to look.
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In trying to pitch the least controversial political messages possible — in general, we shouldn't let supervillains kill lots of people — blockbusters don't just lose sight of their stakes.
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Since then, they've teamed up on several blockbusters, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows.
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That matters so much more now that Wonder Woman has finally proven that not only can women lead blockbusters, but that they can break records while doing it.
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One of the big box office lessons of 1203 was that a whole mess of blockbusters opening right on top of each other depressed all of their grosses.
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If sequels, remakes, and other nine-figure franchise blockbusters are its core business, then the academy shouldn't be surprised when smaller movies gobble up all the awards attention.
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"The gloom and doom talk for 2020 is based on the notion that there aren't any obvious blockbusters on paper," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore.
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In the newest episode of our podcast The News, we talked to our film reporter Adam Vary and TV reporter Alanna Bennett about the blockbusters of summer 2018.
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Her top priority is expected to be overhauling pharmaceutical research, where the British company has lagged behind rivals in terms of generating multibillion-dollar blockbusters in recent years.
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With major blockbusters like Jurassic World under her belt and Pete's Dragon out this week, Howard looks back on some memorable moments with her dad, director Ron Howard.
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Alto's Odyssey (iOS) Alto's Odyssey (Android) Supercell, the company behind mobile blockbusters Clash of Clans and Clash Royale, has tried its hand at competitive shooters with Brawl Stars.
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The format has allowed that story to unfold gradually from multiple perspectives, without the pressures that have prompted the major studios to focus their resources on theatrical blockbusters.
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After Parks and Rec, Pratt's film career kicked off in full swing, with Moneyball in 20123 and Zero Dark Thirty in 22012 marking his foray into Hollywood blockbusters.
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For some people it's a no-brainer to dress up as the most popular characters from summer's top blockbusters or their favorite icons ripped from the tabloid headlines.
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It typically favors action-heavy blockbusters such as "Avengers: Infinity War" and "Black Panther," two of four Disney films that have played in China so far this year.
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Now, the app offers a select number of movie options based on "existing inventory," which means users won't have access to the latest blockbusters until demand is low.
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It's also revitalized the company's nostalgia-fueled brand in an era when video games feel ever more reliant on realistic depictions of gunplay and aping Hollywood-style blockbusters.
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Traditional theatrical blockbusters swing for the fences, and if a movie doesn't perform like Star Wars: The Last Jedi or Thor: Ragnarok, it could be considered a failure.
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A slowing economy and fewer foreign blockbusters were among the factors blamed for softer ticket sales last year, compared to a jump of nearly 50 percent in 2015.
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The emphasis is on older titles rather than new AAA blockbusters, but some PS4 games can be downloaded and played locally if you don't trust your broadband connection.
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The hits kept on coming in 2017, from the big blockbusters to the indie gems, we're all leaving 2017 with a slush pile of good playable game things.
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Worst Movie: The epitome of all that's wrong with modern blockbusters—ugly CGI, unconscionable derivativeness, open-ended resolutions that make room for possible sequels—Warcraft killed my soul.
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What I Learned: 2016 will be the year that we officially recognized there are now two strata of blockbusters: The medium-sized hit and the super-duper moneymaker.
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Blockbusters like "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom", "Deadpool 2" and "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" have all used the technology to promote their films, according to Exhibitor Relations data.
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Big studios, including Warners, have lately been showing their blockbusters to smaller groups of curated movies writers and critics, giving them a separate, earlier window to tweet reactions.
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Despicable Me is effective counter-programming against any number of summer blockbusters, but the inherent family-friendliness of Spider-Man left the two movies at odds this weekend.
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When contemplating his life before his death at 83 in 2008, Newman said his commitment to charity was more fulfilling than any number of blockbusters he featured in.
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One thing I'll be sorry to see go after all the Blockbusters and malls have disappeared are roadside message boards, if only because they're so easy to misinterpret.
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Filmmaker Rohit Jugraj has a number of Punjabi-language blockbusters to his credit, two of them with singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh, arguably one of the state's biggest stars.
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It's not like Zimmer's burnt out by the workload: he's found the time to score dozens of animated movies, video games, and dramas in between his superhero blockbusters.
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Writer-director Sofia Coppola has produced a small-scale movie that exalts old-fashioned movie-making qualities, yielding a refreshingly understated alternative to a sea of summer blockbusters.
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"Most causal Spider-Man fans have no idea who he [Morbius] is," said Jeremy Conrad, a media influencer who has made a career out of critiquing big blockbusters.
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Securities class actions may not be blockbusters in the eyes of most Supreme Court watchers, but for us securities geeks, January is going to be a big month.
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"Prequels to blockbusters have had varying degrees of success over the years as compared to their sequentially released brethren," said Paul Dergarabedian, a box office Analyst for Comscore.
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This of course has evoked comparisons to other FPS games that have not abided by the strict rules that most modern blockbusters abide by like Half Life 2.
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At a time when studio blockbusters feel overblown and impersonal, this nervy, giddy audacity was downright liberating—a low-budget gem you wanted to share with your friends.
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In this era of massive budget blockbusters and even bigger "shared universe" movie franchises, it's safe to say that we're not always looking for realism at the cinema.
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Director Paul Feig, the go-to guy for female comic blockbusters (which says something in itself) assembles a crack squad of female scientists to take on the paranormal.
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A political slate After a summer in which Vox bemoaned a lack of clear-headed politics in recent blockbusters, we have ourselves a season of big screen discontent.
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It typically favours action-heavy blockbusters such as "Avengers: Infinity War" and "Black Panther", two of four Disney films that have played in China so far this year.
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But those fears are misplaced, experts say, and China's ever-tightening censorship of its domestic movies means a gap is actually opening up for American blockbusters to fill.
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As part of those preparations it has further ramped up its scrutiny of domestically made movies, with at least two long-awaited Chinese blockbusters being canceled this summer.
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Another reason behind Hollywood's summer boom is that there have just been a bunch of high-profile blockbusters this year, and China simply doesn't want to miss out.
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Aside from superhero blockbusters, it seems to be the most likely genre to attract audiences to movie theaters, as movies like "Us" and "Crawl" have proven this year.
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The series privileges not only male auteurs, but also crime dramas, thrillers, and male-centered blockbusters over comedies and romances, and festival and cult hits over commercial ones.
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Modern pharmacy benefit management emerged in the 1990s as a wave of new blockbusters came to market and the FDA opened the door to direct-to-consumer advertising.
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For the four blockbusters that arrived on Thursday and Monday — on affirmative action, immigration, public corruption and abortion — we had a total of 12 versions ready to go.
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Movie ticket admissions in the U.S. hit their lowest number since 1995 last year, due to the underperformance of several summer releases that were supposed to be blockbusters.
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Finally, as if all that weren't enough, Back to the Future is also a really great movie for sharp, comedic dialogue, something that few blockbusters can brag about.
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It's rare that I've seen as stark a divide between the smaller movies I really loved and the big blockbusters that drive much of movies as a business.
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Men can win Oscars after being sued for sexual harassment with very little pushback; they can headline multiple major blockbusters mere months after being accused of domestic violence.
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He read turn-of-the-century Russian novels but also ventured eagerly with friends to see films that ranged from blockbusters ("Lethal Weapon") to pulp fiction ("American Psycho").
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Disney is expected to have two more blockbusters by the season's end, with Pixar's "Incredibles 2" and Marvel's "Ant-Man and the Wasp" both generating strong advance interest.
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Rom-coms, as well as comedies in general, have stumbled at the box office in recent years, following the distant era of Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts blockbusters.
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It can be hard to find the dividing line, particularly as tech companies move into the media business, and as big Hollywood blockbusters are increasingly created on computers.
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There are no blockbusters among the 38 cases already on the docket for the justices, but they could add disputes on controversial issues being appealed from lower courts.
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Neither of these recent blockbusters compare to the original "Halloween," which was made for just $300,000 in 1978 and brought back $60 million, or 200 times its costs.
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An Oscar can bring prestige to small studios like A1.33 and major studios like Disney (DIS) can show they don't just produce blockbusters -- they can also win awards.
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"Coogler likes to surround himself with accomplished women, and the crew of 'Black Panther' is unusual among blockbusters for its large number of female department heads," he notes.
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GSK has lagged rivals in recent years in producing multibillion-dollar blockbusters and it largely sat out a spate of dealmaking by rivals under previous CEO Andrew Witty.
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For some of us, that means seeking refuge in the dark with air conditioning, whether it be with the latest Netflix binge or one of this summer's mega blockbusters.
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But with the releases of Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel, Us, and Aladdin already behind us, it might seem like all the big time blockbusters have already come and gone.
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The thought of moving stills being met with the skeptics decrying witchcraft seems far removed from multi-million dollar epic blockbusters, complete with nearly flawless computer-generated imagery (CGI).
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It's not such a stretch to leap backward from Marvel superhero movies to the classic blockbusters of the late '70s and early '80s, and then to even earlier films.
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Silicon Valley was the preserve of geeky engineers who could captivate the public with gadgetry, but had no clue how to hit the human notes that made for blockbusters.
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Then there are the usual holiday blockbusters as well as lots of small and interesting horror movies, different takes on the superhero genre, unexpected sequels, spin-offs, and more.
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Brett Ratner, the man behind Hollywood blockbusters X-Men: The Last Stand, Rush Hour, and others, is suing one of the women accusing him of sexual misconduct for defamation.
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But that means that when it comes to the big screen, it has to differentiate itself from the slew of other big-budget science fiction summer blockbusters out there.
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Chinese star Jing Tian, for instance, has started turning up in American blockbusters with something approaching the frequency with which Scarlett Johansson gets cast in films set in Asia.
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And in a year that looks to be packed with huge names and plenty of blockbusters, Nier: Automata could well end up being a must-have for action fans.
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Since then, she's continued to star in blockbusters along with more low-key dramedies ... and she just racked up a third Oscar nom for playing a FOX News blonde.
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Roche has been touting prospective drugs from its long-underperforming Swiss-led research unit after years of leaning on its California-based Genentech arm for all of its blockbusters.
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Blockbusters are complicated beasts, and it's obvious why a company would want to make sure a director can manage that kind of undertaking before putting them behind the camera.
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It also led Activision to trumpet its sales figures just days after release as proof the franchise could still outsell (on the short term) even the largest Hollywood blockbusters.
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And yet, cast your eye across the vast gaming landscape of E3 and you'll see mobile as only a space filler in between the traditional AAA blockbusters and barnburners.
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He's earned multiple nominations for Tom Cruise films (Top Gun, Days of Thunder, A Few Good Men) as well as Michael Bay blockbusters (The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Transformers).
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After blockbusters such as the Avengers franchise and Snow White and the Huntsman series, the actor, 35, reveals having children has affected his career and how he views money.
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Click here to view original GIFMovie CG gets better every year, and that's bad news for the blockbusters of yesteryear which have a tendency to age really, really poorly.
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It started off strong with "Avengers: Endgame," which has earned $2.7 billion worldwide, but 2019's other would-be blockbusters have been met with a collective shrug by moviegoers.
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Family-friendly animated blockbusters also borrow the rhythms of comedy, as movies like The Grinch and Ralph Breaks the Internet try to incite grown-up laughter, with mixed results.
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GSK has lagged rivals in recent years in producing multibillion-dollar blockbusters and it largely sat out a spate of dealmaking by rival drugmakers under previous CEO Andrew Witty.
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It was larger than one of the big blockbusters that opened on the same weekend, "The Lone Ranger," starring Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp, which had $7,482 per-screen.
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Needless to say, Lawrence is staying serious, but in a much more grounded, believable way — which may mean fewer global blockbusters, and happier creative experiences, for the Oscar winner.
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Like most geek-friendly blockbusters coming out of Hollywood these days, Lionsgate's Power Rangers reboot sets up the sequel with a "stinger" — a scene inserted into the end credits.
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There is perhaps nothing more indicative of the biggest problem facing blockbusters right now than the difference between 1996's Independence Day and its 2016 sequel Independence Day: Resurgence.
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Whether it's an update to the Xperia smartphone line or a new Hi-Res Walkman, Sony's new devices launched at CES have never gone on to become commercial blockbusters.
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There are two big blockbusters out this month: You might have heard about Black Panther — the critically acclaimed Marvel film about black superheroes in the fictional land of Wakanda.
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The summer of '07 was a nadir for the film industry, which churned out a record number of creatively bankrupt blockbusters that seemed conceived solely as a cash grab.
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On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Monday, passersby in New York City were pulled to star in some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters for a segment called Sidewalk Cinema.
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Then came the post-20163/11 "militainment" Hollywood blockbusters, making it even more difficult for the industry to speak to the Middle East from a place of "good influence".
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In a summer season heavy on sequels and aspiring blockbusters, it's possible to admire "Hotel Artemis" for daring to harbor such ambitions without feeling like it delivers on them.
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Roche, based in Switzerland, is the leading supplier of cancer drugs because of its acquisition of the American biotechnology company Genentech, which developed the blockbusters Rituxan, Herceptin and Avastin.
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There are occasional blockbusters, such as James Comey's appearance after Trump fired him as FBI director, or the back-to-back testimonies of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh.
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Disney is carrying the box office on its shoulders this year with blockbusters like "Avengers: Endgame" and "The Lion King," but the horror genre has broken through as well.
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China has become an essential international territory for hopeful blockbusters, and the region is expected to surpass the US as the world's box-office leader in the coming years.
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The Highlander of Blockbusters is in Bend, Oregon, and it has recently joined forces with the local beermakers at 10 Barrel Brewing Co. to release a one-off beer.
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Sure, there are music videos from this era that have sizeable budgets, with the biggest artists employing big name directors and actors for Hollywood blockbusters in under four minutes.
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Given the current state of Hollywood blockbusters, one might be forgiven for assuming that a certain amount of poll-tested blandness is necessary in order to achieve mass appeal.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads TORONTO — We live in an age of digital revolution in cinema, and blockbusters as a matter of course are projected in sophisticated 3D.
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Both major blockbusters and tiny independent films are well served by having a beautiful black box to watch them in and a big bright screen to watch them on.
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It's not a big-idea movie, but it's sweet and funny, and has more in common with the Netflix series Stranger Things than any of the previous Transformers blockbusters.
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That won't change when the bundle goes away — which is why streamers are splashing enormous sums of money on their own attempts to create Game of Thrones-like blockbusters.
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If there are any doubts that Netflix is producing movies meant to compete with big-screen blockbusters, the action-packed trailer for this starry heist thriller should erase them.
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This award was meant to provide succor for big blockbusters traditionally overlooked by the academy and, in so doing, shore up dwindling Oscar ratings over the past two years.
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One promo emphasizes blockbusters like "Wonder Woman" — the opposite of the current best picture contenders, which are mostly art films — and plays up stage extravaganzas mounted at Oscars past.
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But it still trailed American blockbusters like "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" and the latest installments of "The Fast and the Furious" and the "Spider-Man" franchises, among others.
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And don't miss "Kids Book Blockbusters," a program featuring the best-selling writers Mr. Kinney, Mary Pope Osborne, Kwame Alexander and Lemony Snicket (Sunday at 12:45 p.m.).thebookcon.
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These eight major blockbusters, created in London over 22 years of production, were a huge win for the British film industry, with thousands of people working on each film.
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While the average superhero movie draws a 62 percent male audience, the Gal Gadot-led blockbusters reached near female-male audience parity by its third week, according to Variety.
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Furthermore, eight of the 10 highest-grossing films both in North America and worldwide in 2019 were big franchise blockbusters owned (or in one case co-produced) by Disney.
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Star Wars will return to the big screen at some point — as The Rise of Skywalker shows, even poorly received Star Wars films are still (usually) billion-dollar blockbusters.
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Blockbusters like "Dunkirk" and "Spider-Man: Homecoming" may have received the thumbs up from moviegoers around the world this summer, but they aren't yet making any waves in China.
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"We're going to show typical Hollywood blockbusters that are very popular in the United States and Europe and elsewhere in the world," AMC CEO Adam Aron said to CNN.
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These rising budgets are definitely a factor in why there's a push for more extreme box office numbers this decade that the recent slate of blockbusters just isn't hitting.
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It's hulking, stadium-sized, colossal music for people who are still able to see their lives as blockbusters rather than as kitchen-sink cinema or post-modern micro-drama.
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Some of the best films in history fall under the broad umbrella of "romantic comedy," and the generic romantic subplots of today's blockbusters give romance a bad rap in Hollywood.
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War for the Planet of the Apes Is One of the Best—and Bleakest—Summer Blockbusters EverWhen War for the Planet of the Apes ended, I was unable to move.
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I usually don't buy into the whole "you have to see it on the big screen" hype about certain movies, be it action blockbusters or just gorgeously shot art films.
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The company said the service will have three tiers — an entry-level, movie-focused service; a premium tier with original programming and blockbusters; and a bundle that includes them both.
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Sales of the expensive new drugs, seen as potential blockbusters, have been very slow to take off as health insurers and other payers have been reluctant to pay for them.
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Scientists at UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability — including director Peter Kareiva and undergraduate researcher Valerie Carranza — surveyed disaster blockbusters released between 1956 and 2016 to get an idea.
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Despite the omnipresence of comic book characters in popular culture, I can only think of a few Black superheroes off the top of my head that have appeared in blockbusters.
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Cinematography: Rachel Morrison just became the first woman nominated in this category for her work on Mudbound, and beautiful blockbusters (like this one) have a solid record in this category.
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We're only halfway through the year and already we've seen dozens of things we've liked, even loved, across all categories – comedies and tragedies, gazillion-dollar blockbusters and low-key indies.
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While the vast majority of Blockbusters in the U.S. have closed down, there are a few still hanging on — 10 to be exact — and six of those are in Alaska.
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Amazon Studios has been keen to buy the hot indies at the festival in recent years, but the giant is reportedly growing more interested in launching blockbusters of its own.
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Dergarabedian said that international audiences, particularly in China, India and South America, still embrace these films because they grew up on big American blockbusters and enjoy the action-packed adventures.
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In the stretch of one week, the Senate Russia investigators hosted Trump's top intelligence officials, former FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a string of blockbusters.
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For all her appearances in big-budget blockbusters like The Hobbit series and upcoming Thor: Ragnarok, Cate Blanchett seems to always have her feet dipped in the experimental art world.
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Streaming services and cinema-level surround sound have made it easier than ever to enjoy blockbusters from the comfort of your own couch, but microwave popcorn doesn't always cut it.
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The acquisition of the American film studio behind "Jurassic World", "The Dark Knight" and other blockbusters fulfils the dream of Wang Jianlin, Wanda's boss, of becoming a global movie mogul.
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There's also the fact that critics have basically eviscerated Dead Men Tell No Tales, though reviews aren't always the best measure of public interest when it comes to summer blockbusters.
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And buying into Celgene because you believe that ten blockbuster – blockbuster, not just ten drugs, but ten blockbusters will come out in the eight years is a lot of risk.
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Even without China, Russia, and South Korea — some of the foreign consumers of Hollywood blockbusters — in the mix, Guardians 2 has earned almost a quarter of its predecessor's overseas total.
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A group of production assistants are going after behemoth Paramount, claiming they were forced to take dumps in their cars while working on some of the studio's highest-grossing blockbusters.
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As always, the hottest months of the year bring some of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters and friendliest family fare any moviegoer is ready to spend their hard-earned cash on.
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Some films have approached this balance, though blockbusters they may not be: "Syriana" (2000) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (2012) were both political thrillers partially told from Arab and Pakistani viewpoints.
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I spoke to Fritz about movie studios' growing reliance on blockbusters, what's driving Netflix and Amazon, and why a movie like Children of Men probably wouldn't get made in 2018.
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Until blockbusters arrived—starting in 1975, with Steven Spielberg's "Jaws," in its time the most commercially successful film in history—Hollywood released movies gradually, one set of theatres after another.
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Goop founder and Marvel star Gwyneth Paltrow has a reputation for forgetting her fellow stars in some of the biggest blockbusters of movie history — including, most recently, Nick Fury himself.
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Thus, they have moved away from prestige fare and embraced popular franchises: Mega-blockbusters that are expensive to produce, but can deliver hundreds of millions in ticket sales and merchandise.
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Spoiler alert: It's essentially the final showdown from "Ghostbusters" and at least a half-dozen other recent blockbusters, with a few differences of what I guess we should call nuance.
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The GOP nominee has boasted of his ability to generate high ratings on cable news shows, and this cycle's Republican debates were blockbusters for Fox News, CNN and other networks.
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Megaliths like AMC and Regal, with their outsized amenities and global market penetration, can probably hold out longest, but only by showing only the biggest blockbusters on a tight turnaround.
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Since opening a little over a month ago, it's earned 3.2 billion yuan ($500 million), far exceeding Chow's other blockbusters, Shaolin Soccer (2001) and Kung Fu Hustle (2004) among them.
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Since the start of 8.8, Hollywood has churned out successive blockbusters, closing out a record second quarter with more than $6 billion in ticket sales, according to Box Office Mojo.
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Walt Disney launches its new Disney+ video streaming service Tuesday, with a deep content library, ranging from animated classics and Disney Channel TV shows to superhero blockbusters and intergalactic sagas.
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"No Time To Die," which was set to be one of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters of the spring, is the first major film to shift its opening due to the coronavirus.
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It wasn't just smaller movies that caught me off guard, but the big superhero blockbusters that I had come to view as recycled duplicates of the movie before it, changed.
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But as giant corporations buy one another and plan bottomless new streaming platforms in an ever more feverish battle for your eyeballs and entertainment dollars, blockbusters are not enough anymore.
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