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Yasmin Abdulaziz

Abdulaziz focused in the last period on showing in cinema movies more than television movies while the other actresses of her generations were not, and she made her second big success by appearing with the comedian Ahmed Helmi in a romantic comedy named Zaki-Chan, which made very big gains in the box-office in its first week.


Apurva Asrani

The film received a lukewarm box office response and was panned by critics but is remembered for its leading lady - the former Baywatch actress - Brande Roderick.

Barnsdall Art Park

The theatre is equipped with dual sound, lights, a HD ready digital projector, plus a built in 16mm film, slide and video projectors; as well as dressing rooms, spacious upper and lower lobbies with box office and refreshment counters.

Gugun Blues Shelter

Single Satu untuk Berbagi appeared in Indonesia Box Office movie, Laskar Pelangi - movie soundtrack (2008) as Gugun and the Bluesbug.

Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat

Shot on location at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington D.C., the film was released in August 2002 and went on to gross nearly $20 million at the box office, almost seven times its production cost of $3 million.

Thaamirabharani

It was released on 14 January 2007 during Thai Pongal along with Vijay's Pokkiri and Ajith's Aalwar, eventually becoming a commercial success at the box office, running for more than 100 days in theatres.

The Army of Crime

Opening in 250 screens, The Army of Crime debuted at a disappointing number 7 at the French box office, making it the second highest grossing new release of that week following District 9, which debuted at the number one spot with almost twice as many screens.

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A Guest of Honor

During the tour, either in Springfield, Illinois, or Pittsburg, Kansas, someone associated with the company stole the box office receipts.

Best Guy

Seen by movie critics as a copy of Top Gun, Best Guy was a box-office failure in Japan.

Beyond Paradise

It did well at the box office in Hawaii; according to Variety Magazine, it beat The Matrix in ticket sales in Hawaii.

Cold Creek Manor

The film opened in 2,035 theaters in the United States on September 19, 2003 and grossed $8,190,574 in its opening weekend, ranking #5 at the box office behind Underworld, Secondhand Lions, The Fighting Temptations, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

Deathsport

The movie was not as successful at the box office as Death Race 2000 and a proposed follow up, Deathworld, was not made.

Debbie Isitt

The sequel, and her fourth film, Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger starred David Tennant and was released in November 2012 and was an instant box office hit making twice the amount at the UK box office as the original film.

Despicable Me

Released on July 9, 2010, in the United States, Despicable Me opened at the number one spot at the box office and pulled in $56.3 million, making it the third biggest opening grossing for an animated film in 2010 behind Toy Story 3 and Shrek Forever After.

Detective School Dropouts

The film was not successful at the box office, but it has gained cult film status in recent years, with out-of-print, used VHS tape copies selling on Ebay and Amazon.com for as much as $50.00 USD.

Enteng Ng Ina Mo

The film captured the number one spot on the first day of 2011 Metro Manila Film Festival box office race with a whooping ₱38.5 million gross well ahead of the runner ups, Ang Panday 2, and Segunda Mano with ₱20 million and ₱18.25 million gross respectively.

Friend 2

It attracted 1.06 million admissions over its opening weekend, topping the local box office chart against competitors such as Hollywood blockbuster Thor: The Dark World and Korean film The Fives.

GMMSF Box-Office Entertainment Awards

Vic Sotto has the most box office king titles in the history with five, followed by John Lloyd Cruz with four.

Harichandra

It did fairly well at the box office and led to remake in telugu as Harischandraa starred by J.D. Chakravarthy and Rasi in lead roles.

Hisami Kuroiwa

In 1997 she produced Sunday, which starred Jared Harris in his first major role, and went on to take $6 million at the box office despite having a very low budget.

How to Train Your Dragon

The film proved to be a resounding critical and box office success, and became a major media franchise for DreamWorks Animation including upcoming a 2014 feature film sequel How to Train Your Dragon 2, with Dean DeBlois directing it.

Intimate Exchanges

There, it broke box office records and was nominated for two 2008 Drama Desk Awards: Outstanding Play and Outstanding Actor in a Play for Bill Champion.

Just Married

On a modest budget of $18 million, the film went on to gross $56,127,162 domestically and earned an additional $45,437,773 in foreign box office receipts, giving it a total worldwide gross of $101,564,935, and launching the film career of Ashton Kutcher.

Katie Dippold

She also wrote The Heat starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy which grossed $158,015,132 in the domestic box office.

Kings of Devon

The box office revenues from Kings of Devon went to raise money for Shishu Bikash Kendra, a school for underprivileged children in the Dhanmondi district of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Kohram

After his film Mrityudata (1997) flopped at the box office, director Mehul Kumar wanted to make another film with Amitabh Bachchan.

Maaman Magal

There was a high anticipation for this movie since the previous combination where Sathyaraj, Meena and Guru Dhanapal were associated with in the movie Thai Maaman went very well and was a super hit at the box office.

Marius Holst

In 1994 his first feature film Cross My Heart and Hope to Die was a box-office success in Norway, and became an international festival hit, winning the Prix de Montreal at the Montreal World Film Festival and the Blue Angel Award at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.

Martin Fabinyi

In 2003, Fabinyi produced Gettin' Square, directed by Jonathan Teplitzky and starring David Wenham and Sam Worthington, which garnered box office success and critical acclaim.

Mere Sanam

The film was a hit at the box office, especially because of the musical score by Majrooh Sultanpuri, O.P. Nayyar and Asha Bhonsle-Mohammed Rafi combination.

Murphy's Romance

Sally Field and director Martin Ritt had to fight Columbia Pictures in order to cast Garner, who was viewed at that point as primarily a television actor despite having enjoyed a flourishing film career in the 1960s (and more recently having co-starred in the box office hit Victor/Victoria opposite Julie Andrews two years earlier).

Namak Halaal

The film became a "Blockbuster" at the box office and went on to be a golden jubilee hit (which was common to all Bachchan films at that time).

Pappu Can't Dance Saala

At the box office it recorded poor collections as it faced tough competition from other strong releases, The Dirty Picture which was going strong in its third week & Don 2.

Peter A. Dowling

Dowling's first produced movie was Flightplan starring Jodie Foster which was the number one box office hit in the U.S. and grossed over $223,000,000 worldwide.

Polybona Films

Through eight years of growth, the company has distributed over 120 domestic and foreign films, including Confession of Pain, Protégé, The Myth, Initial D, and Dragon Tiger Gate, generating over RMB 1 billion (approximately US$ 130 million) in box office revenue, capturing over 20% of the overall market share for five years running.

Sakkarakatti

Sakkarakatti opened alongside Sun Pictures' Kadhalil Vizhunthen at the box office on September 26, 2008 with the media hyping that it was a battle of two films with debutants and successful soundtracks.

Ships with Wings

However, except for Dead of Night, Ealing's films for the remainder of the war failed to enjoy the same commercial success as the earlier "unrealistic" war films and were eclipsed at the box office by the Gainsborough Melodramas.

Siva Balaji

Chandamama directed by Krishna Vamsi, Navdeep was another lead and movie succeeded well at the box office and gained huge applause for him in the role of good-hearted Village boy.

Sivaji Productions

It didn't go well at the box office, but Prabhu confirmed that he will do another movie with Ajith and it is Billa II, directed by Chakri Toleti.

Sooraj R. Barjatya

He made his directorial debut with Maine Pyar Kiya (1989) starring Salman Khan which was a huge box office hit and launched both his and Salman's careers.

Spawn of the North

The film was a big box office success and was later remade as Alaska Seas (1954).

Sukob

Sukob is considered as the highest-grossing Filipino film of all-time earning PHP 186 million until in 2009 when it was surpassed by You Changed My Life in box office.

Suzanne Graff

A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Graff performed onstage for several seasons at the American Folklore Theatre (AFT) in shows such as Lumberjacks in Love which became one of the company's biggest box office hits.

The Creeping Terror

Although Robert Silliphant is the credited writer, the original story was written by his younger brother, Allan Silliphant, who went on to produce, write and direct the 3-D adult feature film The Stewardesses (1969) (under the name Al Silliman Jr.), the only micro-budget film of the 1960s or 1970s to become the #1 film on the weekly Variety box-office chart (it finally grossed over $140,000,000 in 2011 U.S. dollars).

The Crime of Father Amaro

They failed, and the film became the biggest box office draw ever in the country, beating previous record holder, Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (1999).

The Teenage Textbook

In 1998, The Teenage Textbook was made into a film (The Teenage Textbook Movie) starring Melody Chen and Caleb Goh, which topped the box office in Singapore for four weeks.

The V.I.P.s

Asquith chose Sophia Loren for Andros's role, remembering the box-office success of the romantic comedy film The Millionairess (1960) he did with Loren in the main role.

They Were Sisters

Despite having achieved star-status via previous Gainsborough films such as The Man in Grey and Fanny by Gaslight, and being arguably the top male box-office draw in the country at the time, Mason's dissatisfaction with what he saw as the limitations of the British film industry were evident during the making of the film, and he later admitted that he acted most of his bullying, sadistic role in varying degrees of drunkenness.

Tom Bernstein

These partnerships raised approximately $1 billion from 140,000 investors to finance films produced by The Walt Disney Company and Home Box Office, Inc. The 75 films financed by the Silver Screen partnerships include such box office successes as Beauty and the Beast (1991 film), Pretty Woman, The Little Mermaid (1989 film) and Three Men and a Baby.

Tony Clifton

However, the plan was sidelined after the box office failure of Kaufman's first major motion picture Heartbeeps, in which he co-starred with Bernadette Peters as a robot who falls in love.

Two Can Play That Game

The film opened at #2 at the U.S. Box office raking in $7,720,942 USD in its first opening weekend, behind The Musketeer.

Video game publisher

In the United States, revenue from the sales of video and computer games exceeded revenue from film box-office receipts for the first time in the dot-com days of the late 1990s, when technology companies in general were surrounded by hype.

Yari Film Group

YFG's first major financial success as a distributor was with The Illusionist, starring Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Jessica Biel, which pulled in roughly $40 million at the U.S box office, gaining the upstart notoriety for successfully launching the film through a platform release rollout.