The big-screen incarnation of J. With another Fantastic Beasts movie on the way in , this box office behemoth shows no signs of slowing down. While "Who will play the next James Bond? Bond's Daniel Craig era has seen some of its most critically acclaimed, and profitable, entries in the series, which kicked off in with Dr. Though the X-Men are a Marvel creation, they're treated as their very own mutant entity in the box office world. Which is particularly impressive when you consider that the franchise's 14 films will be have generated enough dough on their own to compete at the sort of same level as their cinematic parent.
This Walt Disney classic, with its widespread appeal to children and adults alike, had a total ROI of percent. Never growing up appears to be a profitable endeavor. In this case, a young woman named Irena fears that she is descended from a mythical family of felines and that any feelings of passion could turn her into a blood-thirsty panther.
None of this dissuades her boyfriend, Oliver, who asks her to marry him nonetheless. When Irena withholds her passion for her husband for his own sake, he falls in love with another woman—and all hell breaks loose. The quirky story was like catnip to audiences, who helped it drum up a percent ROI.
In , filmmaker Rob McKittrick turned his years of experience waiting tables into a cult classic comedy, appropriately titled Waiting… , that featured a stellar cast of soon-to-be superstars including Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, Justin Long, and David Koechner.
A huge hit with Christian moviegoers, this Kevin Sorbo starrer scored an ROI of percent and managed to stick around in theaters for a whopping 20 weeks. An American classic that is still finding new audiences, Grease sang and danced its way to the near top of the list with an ROI of percent.
It also earned a percent ROI. The Star Wars franchise has come a long way since its original entry was released more than 40 years ago. Another horror film that managed to scare up a huge audience, Insidious possesses an ROI of percent. This comedic reimagining of Frankenstein was a major hit for Mel Brooks and ended up with a total ROI of percent.
Frank Capra's uplifting holiday classic is the oldest movie on this list, the source of the idea that every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings, and a major hit, with an ROI of percent. Earning a well-deserved ROI of percent, Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut gunned its way to becoming the tenth most profitable movie.
This classic film, with its abundance of blood, screaming, and somewhat-obvious shark props, racked up an ROI of percent and kept beachgoers out of the water for years. Yes, another horror film! Updated on September 1st, by Derek Draven: This list has been updated to feature five more movies that cost very little yet made mountains of cash when they were released into the world. Each one managed to captivate audiences in a way that even the filmmakers themselves could never have predicted.
Some were one-shot wonders while others built entire franchises upon their own success. Relying on data from the-numbers. The unbelievable success of Pretty Woman proves how different the movie landscape was in A romantic comedy would have an extremely hard time captivating today's audiences in the same way.
Yet, Julia Roberts' star power and likability proved enormous, and the movie stayed in the top ten for four months. Home Alone is another movie that likely wouldn't hit big in today's superhero and extravaganza-dominated movie landscape. It became the third-highest-grossing movie ever made at the time behind Star Wars and E. Home Alone ended up making 32 times its budget and paved the way for an equally funny sequel that capitalized on the original's roaring success.
Thanks to The Exorcist 's nail-biting tension, horrifying visuals , and a very real, plausible premise, this movie is an absolute icon. It paid off in box office dividends when it was released in , and forever changed the genre as a result. When adjusted for inflation, The Exorcist remains the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time.
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.
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