4. Winter’s war
• Sans Snow White — played by Kristen Stewart in the first
film — Universal's sequel/spinoff The Huntsman: Winter's
War failed to cast a magic spell at the box office following
its late April release. The movie, which saw Chris
Hemsworth reprise his role as the Huntsman opposite
Charlize Theron, Jessica Chastain and Emily Blunt, topped
out at $164.6 million despite costing at least $115 million
to make, plus a major marketing spend. Box-office
analysts put the loss in the $75 million-plus range. The
first film, Snow White and the Hunstman, grossed $396.6
million in 2012.
• Portion of budget covered by box-office rentals: 71
percent.
5. Winter’s War was greenlit following the box office success of 2012’s
Snow White and the Huntsman, which took $397m worldwide. But the
move to dispense with Kristen Stewart’s princess in favour of
Hemsworth’s Huntsman appears to have failed to impress audiences.
Critics have also been largely scathing: the film has a 16% rating on the
review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, while the Guardian’s Peter
Bradshaw labelled it a “dreary sub-franchise fairytale product”.
7. • On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of
0% based on 20 reviews, with an average rating of 2.5/10.] On Metacrtic,
which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score 22 out of 100,
based on reviews from 7 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable
reviews".[] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of
"B" on an A+ to F scale.]
• IGN critic Alex Welch gave the film a score of 4 out of 10, summarizing his
review with: "Max Steel is one of the more forgettable and pointless
attempts at a superhero franchise in the current post-MCU Hollywood
market, lacking any of the originality or vibrance that could give it even a
remote shot at a successful future." Variety's Joe Leydon gave a negative
review, describing it as: "A half-baked, time-wasting curtain-raiser for a
superhero franchise that is never, ever going to happen."] Christy
Lemire for RogerEbert.com gave half a star out of 4, writing: "For a movie
about developing the greatest energy source in the universe, Max Steel is
surprisingly bland" and that "a movie based on a toy should be a whole lot
more fun than this."[] The Hollywood Reporter critic Frank Scheck gave an
unfavorable review, writing: "Even tweens may find themselves
underwhelmed by the new live-action film based on what — for many of
them — may be their favorite Mattel action figure. Delivering a bland
cinematic origin story which seems calculated to boost Christmas toy
sales, Max Steel is a stillborn, would-be franchise starter, sneaked into
multiplexes without advance critic screenings."
8. • Max Steel grossed $3.8 million in the United States and
Canada and $2.5 million in other countries for a
worldwide total of $6.3 million, against a production
budget of $5–10 million.[3]
• Max Steel opened on October 14, 2016, alongside The
Accountant and Kevin Hart: What Now?, and was
expected to gross $5–7 million from 2,034 theaters in
its opening weekend.[17] After grossing just $1,637,795
on its first day the film went on to open to $3.2 million,
finishing 8th at the box office.[18] In its second weekend
the film grossed $680,104 finishing 17th at the box
office, making it a box office bomb.[19]
10. • Theatrical Performance
• Domestic Box Office$408,084,349
• International Box Office$735,539,913
Worldwide Box Office$1,143,624,262 Home
Market PerformanceEst.
• Domestic DVD Sales$21,653,732
• Est. Domestic Blu-ray Sales$55,599,153
• Total Est. Domestic Video Sales$77,252,885
11. • Captain America: Civil War is a 2016 American superhero
film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain
America, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed
by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
• Captain America: Civil War held its world premiere in Los
Angeles on April 12, 2016, and was released in the United
States on May 6, 2016, in 3D and IMAX 3D. The film was a
critical and commercial success, grossing over $1.1 billion
worldwide, and garnering praise for the performances
(particularly Evans and Downey), action, screenplay, and
themes. It became the highest-grossing film of 2016 and
the twelfth-highest-grossing film of all time.
14. • The Jungle Book is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film directed and produced
by Jon Favreau, produced by Walt Disney Pictures.
• The film became a huge financial success and a sleeper hit.] It briefly held the
record for the biggest remake of all time until the studio's own Beauty and the
Beastsurpassed it the following yeari t grossed $364 million in the United States
and Canada and $602.5 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $966.6
million, against a budget of $175 million. Worldwide, the film was released across
28,000 RealD 3D screens and had an IMAX worldwide opening of $20.4 million
from 901 IMAX screens, a new record for a PG film It grossed a total of $39 million
in IMAX screens worldwide ] On May 13, it became the second film of 2016 (after
the studio's own Zootopia) to pass the $800 million mark On June 10, it became
the third film of 2016 after Zootopia and Captain America: Civil War to pass the
$900 million mark Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be
$258 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues for the film,
making it the sixth-most profitable release of 2016.
