For R-rated movies, achieving critical and commercial success — particularly the latter — is even more difficult, precisely because the mature material inherently alienates a huge movie-watching demographic.Historically, in fact, R-rated films have had a harder time becoming high-grossing blockbuste...
When the first Matrix film made its debut in 1999 it was haileda “revolution in filmmaking”and quickly becamethe highest-grossing rated-R movieup to that point. Unfortunately, the cyberpunk series, about the imprisonment of humanity in a virtual reality system by artificial intelligence, didn’...
The Passion of the Christcontinues to hold a slew of box office records; its $370.7 million in ticket sales remains the most for an R-rated movie in history, and for many years it was also the highest-grossing non-English-language movie of all time. Mel Gibson has vowed to make a seq...
The Passion of the Christcontinues to hold a slew of box office records; its $370.7 million in ticket sales remains the most for an R-rated movie in history, and for many years it was also the highest-grossing non-English-language movie of all time. Mel Gibson has vowed to make a seq...
The Passion of the Christcontinues to hold a slew of box office records; its $370.7 million in ticket sales remains the most for an R-rated movie in history, and for many years it was also the highest-grossing non-English-language movie of all time. Mel Gibson has vowed to make a seq...
The Passion of the Christcontinues to hold a slew of box office records; its $370.7 million in ticket sales remains the most for an R-rated movie in history, and for many years it was also the highest-grossing non-English-language movie of all time. Mel Gibson has vowed to make a seq...
Deadpool, in a development few could have seen coming, is now the top-earning R-rated movie in cinema history. The unlikely hit, starring Ryan Reynolds as the "Merc with a Mouth," has so far earned $746 million dollars globally, putting it ahead of 2003's The Matrix Reloaded, which ...
since it’s hard to find fault with the eighth-highest second weekend in history. Overall, the film is doing incredibly well; with $395+ million on the domestic side and $824+ million globally, the film is a bona fide success and now the highest-grossing R...
Across the Spider-Verseis receiving great word of mouth from paying audiences as well. In fact, after just a few days of release,Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verseis already the highest-rated movie ever on the cinematic social media siteLetterboxd. That’s not the highest-ratedSpider-Manmov...
“I think no question this is going to open as the largest R-rated movie of all time,” said Mike Bowers, president and CEO of Harkins Theatres, a theater chain based in Arizona. “And it’s already one of the top presale movies historically for us.” ...