This year he changed a few flops for a killer box office hit, Megamind.
The actress also played a leading role in the 2000 box office hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
The belief has gained considerable popularity in China, where the film 2012 was a box office hit.
The actor, who plays the lead role in box office hit Megamind, has lost an arbitration case against J.
Box office hit The Avengers beat the competition at this year's MTV movie awards, winning three out of a possible four prizes.
With a simultaneous international release timed to coincide with the Diwali festival, the film is expected to be a lucrative box office hit.
Over the same period in 2009, record-breaking blockbuster Avatar was in its second week of release and box office hit Sherlock Holmes had just opened.
The jury awarded Alfonso Cuaron best screenplay for Y tu Mama Tambien, (And Your Mother Too), a box office hit in Mexico about friendship and sensuality.
The 2011 film The Muppets won an Oscar and was a box office hit, and British actor Ricky Gervais is playing the lead role in the sequel The Muppets...
But last year the film Dil Se was a box office hit, the first Bollywood production to make it into the UK top 10, despite being considered a flop in India.
Over the next half-decade Seacrest added a countdown show, a morning radio show, a daytime talk show, a celebrity news show and a plum spot on every red carpet in town--which earned him a scene-stealing cameo in 2007's summer box office hit, Knocked Up.
Such blinkered reverence is at odds with the world in which the Beatles and Bond came to stardom, when the spending power of neophyte teenagers dominated pop culture and a song or movie could be top of the pops or a box office hit one week and gone the next.
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That event propelled the movie into a box office hit, and the coincidence of a well-made fictional film with a real-life event with a very similar plot line led to a huge increase of public fears around the safety of nuclear power, and likely set the nuclear power industry back by decades.
Though CBS ' (nyse: CBS - news - people ) The Late Show host is widely believed to have bombed during his one attempt to host the Oscars, the show, in which box office hit Forrest Gump beat out Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption for Best Picture, was the second-most-watched in the last 25 years.
In 1990, there were about 3.5 smoking scenes per box-office hit.
"Hancock, " with Will Smith as a superhero, was a box-office hit.
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The box-office hit was honoured with four Bafta film awards on Sunday and will be up for eight Oscars at the Academy Awards on 24 February.
The 1987 production of "Fences, " the only August Wilson box-office hit, struggled to bring in African-American audiences, as did Russell Simmons's "Def Poetry Jam" in 2002.
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Yet the overseas success of "A Separation" has improved its performance in Iranian theaters, where the film had been a box-office hit and theaters extended its run after the movie won awards at international festivals.
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Closer to the American mainstream are the box office film hit (which no one had predicted) The Passion of the Christ and the bestseller book by Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life, which has sold more than 15 million copies.
As for Bushnell, she got a book deal, landed an HBO series that lasted six years (and still sees daily syndication worldwide), and that series ultimately spurred two critically panned but box office smash-hit feature films.
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The biggest hit at the box office this weekend was the trippy Inception.
The movie expected to top the box office is a remake of the 1984 hit Footloose.
Mr. Norris has paid scrupulous attention to the First Law of Theatrical Success: If you want to hit the jackpot at the box office, be sure not to tell your viewers anything they don't want to hear.
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"As I was looking at the box-office numbers rolling in that weekend, the power of local content really hit me, " says Mr. Panitch.
There's no telling how high "Chronicle" will end up flying at the box office just yet, but with its impressive debut frame, the film is already a big hit.
Because while a TV show that starts off with slow ratings is still going to hit every possible TV screen until its completely pulled, a movie with slow box office will usually shrink its footprint, meaning the chances of finding a slow-growing movie gem is harder.
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With the exception of Spain and Italy, the two countries hit the worst by the economic downturn, 2011 was a record high year for gross box office movie ticket sales despite the increasing number of legal streaming and rental VOD offers online.
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Seeing as how the clip has hit the internet mere days before the premiere, we doubt it will have a negative effect on box office sales come Friday -- unless, of course, those first 36 minutes are irrevocably horrible.
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