However, they do not necessarily reflect the best or greatest films of the year or decade. They also provide a window into the era when the film was originally released. Although box-office records are often contradictory, spotty, unreliable and sometimes non-existent the further you go back in cinematic history , it has been possible to compile listings of the top domestic hits all the way back to - both by decade beginning with the silents and the s and by individual year, up to the present year.
Rankings of the top US feature-length films by decade based on unadjusted domestic gross revenue are presented below. An ostensibly live-action remake of the Disney animated classic, Beauty and the Beast hits all the notes of the original film slowly and without distinction.
Likewise, Emma Watson nails the role of Belle: Smirking at times, lovelorn at others. Belle, this is why the townsfolk dislike you that makes for a good coming-of-age heroine. The canny nostalgia play of Frozen catered not just to kids but also the parents who grew up quoting dialogue and humming tunes from Beauty and the Beast , The Little Mermaid , The Lion King and Aladdin. Elsa, the elder of the two, was born with the ability to conjure snow and ice with her bare hands. A terrified Elsa locks herself away in her bedroom, essentially abandoning Anna whose memory of the event has been erased by a kindly troll king Ciaran Hinds.
Not that Anna voiced by Kristen Bell is willing to give up on her sister so easily. Elsa stuns her assembled subjects with angry bursts of ice and snow, fleeing to the mountains and literally freezing over her entire seaside Scandinavian village in the middle of summer. Local dignitary the Duke of Weselton Alan Tudyk proclaims Elsa a monster, but Anna knows better and resolves to track down her sister and bring her back to the kingdom.
But three years later, scientists discover that an active volcano on the island is going to kill off the last of the dinosaurs, a fact that troubles Claire Bryce Dallas Howard , who has become a fierce advocate for preserving their various species. Now regretting her role in running a park that profited off these mammoth reptiles, she enlists former love Owen Chris Pratt to help rescue the beasts. The Last Jedi , unlike its predecessor, has the freedom to be daring, and perhaps the most thrilling thing about it—and there are many, many thrilling things—is how abundantly it takes advantage of that freedom.
If The Force Awakens was basically just Star Wars told again in a new, but familiar way, The Last Jedi challenges the audience, challenges the Star Wars mythos, even challenges the whole damned series itself. It blows the universe up to rebuild it; it is a continuation and a new beginning. And more than anything else, it goes places no Star Wars film has ever dreamed of going.
In a way, the success J. Abrams had with The Force Awakens , particularly how decidedly fan-servicey it was, laid the groundwork for what The Last Jedi is able to pull off.
That movie reminded you how much power and primal force this series still had. This movie is an even more impressive magic trick: It uses that power and force to connect you to something larger.
Not everything in The Last Jedi works perfectly, but even its few missteps are all founded in the desire for something new, to take risks, to push an American myth into uncomfortable new directions. It all ends. And to be sure, it was a fitting end for the storied franchise. Picking up right where Part 1 left off, Harry grieves by the seaside grave of the fallen Dobby.
And over the course of eight films, the Potter franchise has tried on four directors and two writers, finding success and failure through numerous evolutions.
All the while, the three central actors—Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint—grew up along with hordes of avid fans. Barts—just because they can. While there's a lot of money to be made in the film industry, the economics of making movies are far from simple. The public can be fickle, and the industry is in flux.
Just about any movie is an extremely risky investment, even a film starring big-name actors and actresses. It is not nearly as straightforward as the early days of cinema when a movie would come out in theaters, make the vast majority of its revenues via ticket sales, and then disappear.
Major studios and indie filmmakers alike now spend much of their days looking for new sources of revenue, because ticket sales are no longer the be-all and end-all for films. Unfortunately, the closing of most theaters during early makes other streams of income more important than ever. This mystery arises in part because it costs far more to make and market a movie than most people expect. Once you factor in marketing and advertising costs , the budget spikes.
Romantic comedies or some children's films need to promote themselves via TV commercials and media advertisements, and those costs add up quickly. For any type of film, whether a blockbuster or an indie production, things like tax breaks and revenues from product placements can help pay the bills. If they're given an incentive to shoot a film in Canada or Louisiana, producers will usually hustle to do so. Still, there are a few tried and true ways to make money from films. Theater attendance has been challenging over recent years, making it even harder for studios and distributors to profit from films.
Usually, a portion of theater ticket sales goes to theater owners, with the studio and distributor getting the remaining money. Traditionally, a larger chunk went to the studio during the opening weekend of a film. As the weeks went on, the theater operator's percentage rose. The percentage of revenues an exhibitor gets depends on the contract for each film.
Many contracts are intended to help a theater hedge against films that flop at the box office. That is achieved by giving theaters a larger cut of ticket sales for such films, so a deal may have the studio getting a smaller percentage of a poorly performing film and a higher percentage of a hit film's take.
You can see the securities filings for large theater chains to see how much of their ticket revenue goes back to the studios. Studios and distributors generally make more from domestic revenue than from overseas sales because they get a larger percentage. Despite this arrangement, foreign ticket sales became more important in the early 21st century. That is part of the reason why you see more sci-fi, adventure, fantasy, and superhero movies. Action and special effects require no translations.
As of March 16, three of the largest U. Although theaters in some places have since reopened, they remain closed in many others, which has led to a huge decline in box office revenue. As of Dec. Because movie theaters have been closed for much of , most of the highest-earning films of the year were released in late and early , prior to the shutdown.
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