what movie is the biggest box office hit
Bobby (1973 film)


-selling film on the Soviet box office charts in 1975, the most popular Indian film of the 1970s, the second-biggest foreign hit of the decade, the sixth-biggest box office hit of the decade, the second-most-viewed Indian film of all time (after Raj Kapoor's "Awaara"), the sixth-biggest foreign hit of all time, and one of the top 20 biggest box office hits of all time. The film's success launched Rishi Kapoor into an overnight movie star in
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Swiss Family Robinson (1960 film)


", "Spartacus", and "Exodus" at the box office. Adjusted for ticket-price inflation, the box office revenue is $ million, making it one of the biggest hits of all time. The movie was re-released in 1969 and earned $6.4 million in rentals in North America. It was the 15th most popular movie at the U.S. box office that year. The film currently holds an 84% approval rating at the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. Upon the film's initial release, "
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List of Indian horror films


first-ever combination of horror and fantasy in Rajkumar Kohli's "Nagin". The star-studded film proved a major box-office hit. Two years later, Kohli gave Bollywood one of its biggest hits in "Jaani Dushman". It is considered to be the biggest horror movies to have come out from Indian film industry to date by many experts. The film proved to be a cult one and gave inspiration to the upcoming horror movies. Other horror movies released at this time were "Darwaza" (1978
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Chapali Height


." There were some positive reviews as well, Manoj Pandit wrote twice about the movie and called it a good watch, which has all its elements at right place. "Chapali Height" had a decent opening at the box office. It collected around lakhs on the first day. Unofficial figures confirm the collection of lakhs on second day. But the movie ended up being the second-biggest hit of the year behind Nischal Basnet's LOOT. Its net collection at the box office is approx. crores(million rupees).
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Shiva Regmi


himself. After the success of "Aafanta", he reassembled the cast for "Aafno Manchhe", but this time he included Dilip Rayamajhi and Bipana Thapa in the lead. "Aafno Manchhe" was the huge success, and is counted among the biggest hit movies of Nepali film cinema. He got Film Awards for Best Dialogue for the movie. His next film was "Ye Mero Hajur". He again turned to star Shree Krishna Shrestha; the movie was a box office hit. In 2002 he directed "Sukha
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Taheyya Kariokka


gaining popularity as a solo dancer and as she became more experienced she learned a popular Samba dance from Brazil at the time called the Carioca. After that she became known as Tahiya Carioca. Tahiya began starring in movies during what is dubbed as the Egyptian film industry's "Golden Age". She was a talented dancer, singer, and actress. In 1972, the film “Watch out for Zouzou”, starring Soad Hosni with Tahiya performing the supporting role, was released to become the biggest box-office hit in
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Johnnie To


1989, starring Chow Yun-fat, the film became one of the biggest box office hits in that year. In 1988, he co-directed "The Big Heat", his first action movie. The film was produced by Tsui Hark. The end of the 1980s also saw some of To's biggest commercial successes, the vast majority of which were comedies. His 1988 film "The Eighth Happiness" was that year's highest-grossing movie. In 1996, To and frequent collaborator Wai Ka-Fai formed
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Abhaya (film)


Abhaya () is an Odia thriller movie produced by Tarang Cine Productions. Anubhav Mohanty, Elina Samantray and Manoj Mishra are in the lead roles. Though this movie is a remake of 2013 Tamil movie "Ivan Veramathiri", the key sequences of the screenplay (not found in the original version) were based on the Tamil movie's Kannada version "Chakravyuha" (2016). The movie was recorded as a all time blockbuster at the box office and was the biggest hit of 2017. The music for "Abhaya"
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Ileana D'Cruz


reviews and became the third biggest hit in 2012 and biggest hit in Telugu. She then starred in Puri Jagannadh's comedy "Devudu Chesina Manushulu". In this film she played the role of a taxi driver. The film received mixed reviews and eventually under-performed at the box office. D'Cruz made her Hindi debut with Anurag Basu's "Barfi!" In addition to playing the role of the narrator, she portrayed the character of Shruti Ghosh, a girl who leaves her true love for material comforts. The movie
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Haathi Mere Saathi (1971 film)


Haathi Mere Saathi () is a 1971 Indian Hindi-language film, directed by M. A. Thirumugam, with screenplay written by Salim-Javed and dialogues by Inder Raj Anand. The movie has a Disneyesque appeal with an Indian twist. "Haathi Mere Saathi" was the biggest hit of 1971 going by box office collections, and was also critically acclaimed. The film stars Rajesh Khanna and Tanuja. The film at that point in time was the biggest hit ever made by a South Indian producer in Hindi. The story was
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Norman Wisdom


Just My Luck" (1957). The box office receipts of these last few films had declined from previous Wisdom films but "The Square Peg" (1959), an army comedy, reversed the trend and was one of the year's biggest hits. The film was the 7th most popular movie at the British box office in 1959. Less successful was "Follow a Star" (1959). "There Was a Crooked Man" (1960) was an attempt to change Wisdom's image away from Rank Organisation
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Nancy Meyers


Everybody. More than once," according to Meyers. Meyers described how hard it was to get the film made, noting, "Every single studio in Hollywood read it and passed on it... One studio called Goldie and said 'if you make this movie it’s a career ender.'” Contrary to the conventional wisdom at the time, that a female lead with no male star was box office poison, "Private Benjamin" became one of the biggest box office hits of the year 1980, grossing nearly $
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The Mistress (2012 film)


film of all time and the biggest local box-office hit this year after it remained the top-grossing movie in the Philippines for a second week in a row. In contrary to the reports by its own distributor, according to Box Office Mojo, the film grossed only PHP 254 Million only in October 7, 2012, still being the third highest-grossing film in the Philippines. As of its 5th and final week of run, the film's total gross is PHP 262,790,300 Million Pesos, almost surpassed "No
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Shiva Regmi


as a producer, "Maanis" and "Duniya", were box office failures although both were critically acclaimed. Regmi received the NEFTA award for best director for "Maanis" and his first national award for best director for "Duniya" in 2005. His next movies, "Ram Balram" and "Yuddha" were below average at box office. But in 2008 his MaHa project "Kaha Bhetiyela" was one of the biggest hits of his career; he received his second national award for best director and NEFTA award
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Geetha Arts


and evolve into an integrated film conglomerate. As a production house, Geetha Arts has been gaining popularity in the last few years. Jalsa, a Telugu film starring Pawan Kalyan grossed $10 million at the box office. It was the biggest hit of 2008 and the second highest grosser amongst Telugu films. Their next – Ghajini, a Bollywood movie starring Aamir Khan grossed over $45 million at box office, making it the highest grossing Indian film. The smashing blockbuster Magadheera, a big-budget swords and sandal epic that
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Major film studio


its first blockbuster, "Mary Poppins", Hollywood's biggest hit in half a decade. The company achieved a 9% market share that year, more than Fox and Warner Bros. Though over the next two decades, Disney/Buena Vista's share of the box-office would again hit similar marks, its relatively small output and exclusive focus on family movies meant that it was not generally considered a major. The early 1970s were difficult years for "all" the majors. Movie attendance, which had been declining steadily
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Yogaraj Bhat


together of two biggest stalwarts of Kannada Film Industry – Super Star Puneeth Rajkumar and Yogaraj Bhat. It is considered as a classic. "Drama" – The movie, came as a big relief to the Kannada Audience. It was a huge hit in the box office and was critically acclaimed as well. The movie won Two Filmfare awards for Best Lyricist (Yogaraj Bhat), Best Music Director (V Harikrishna). "Vaastu Prakara" – His next release was yet another family drama, a movie produced under his home
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Indian ghost movie


Alejandro Amenábar's ghost story "The Others"./onlyinclude The 1949 "Mahal" (Hindi: महल; Urdu: محل; English: "The Mansion") was a groundbreaking Hindi language movie directed by Kamal Amrohi and starring Ashok Kumar and Madhubala, one of the earliest known Bollywood films dealing with reincarnation. "Mahal" became one of the biggest box office hits of 1949 in India. The movie paved the way for Indian gothic fiction. "Chandramukhi" (Tamil: சந்திரமுகி; Telugu: చంద్రముఖి; Hindi: चंद्रमुखी) (
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The Snake King's Wife


success in Cambodia and had been released at worldwide box offices, with also much success in neighboring Thailand, which brought back an extremely better result of grossing revenue. The film then noticed one of the biggest box-office hits in Southeast Asia at the time, holding today as Khmer Classic films for decades. As reported by Thailand’s Krung Thep Turakij newspaper, The Snake Man is a Khmer film awarded at the 19th Asian Movie Awards in Singapore in 1972 where it received 6 golden awards including Best Director and Best Actress.
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Disco Dancer


India, the film grossed 6.4 crore in 1982. It was the 7th highest-grossing film at the domestic Indian box office in 1982, with its strongest commercial performance in the West Bengal state, home to actor Mithun Chakraborty and composer Bappi Lahiri. In the Soviet Union, the film released in 1984, with 1,013 prints. It drew an audience of 60.9million viewers in 1984, becoming the most successful film at the Soviet box office that year, the biggest foreign hit in the 1980s, the fourth biggest box office hit
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Sushmita Sen


She appeared in a dance song in the movie "Fiza", in the year 2000. She received critical acclaim and box office success for the film "Aankhen", starring opposite Arjun Rampal. The film co-starred Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Aditya Pancholi and Paresh Rawal. So far, her biggest hit has been the 2004 movie "Main Hoon Na", in which she starred as Shahrukh Khan's love interest. The film grossed a total of Rs 330,000,000 and was the second best selling movie of that
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Italy


only occasional international attention, with movies like "Life Is Beautiful" directed by Roberto Benigni, "" with Massimo Troisi and "The Great Beauty" directed by Paolo Sorrentino. The aforementioned Cinecittà studio is today the largest film and television production facility in continental Europe and the centre of the Italian cinema, where a large number of biggest box office hits are filmed, and one of the biggest production communities in the world. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made there led to Rome's being dubbed "
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Taylor Lautner


to "pick up that slack, and if his character hadn't been emotionally, not just physically, appealing, the movie wouldn't have been as big a hit." The commercial performance of the film outpaced the first film, setting several box office records including the biggest midnight opening in the United States and Canada and the biggest single-day opening. The opening weekend of "New Moon" is the third highest opening weekend in domestic history with $142,839,137. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" also has
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Dharmesh Darshan


was a hit in the heartland of India and one of the most watched film on satellite as of today. However, his second release "Dhadkan" with Akshay Kumar and Shilpa Shetty did hugely well at the box office and was the fourth biggest hit of that year. The movie won him acclaim & cult status as one of the finest romantic directors. It was also critically acclaimed and he was nominated for "Dhadkan" in different award ceremonies in the "Best Director", "Best Film" and the "Best
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Ricardo Darín


secreto de sus ojos"), a movie by Juan José Campanella. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was the second biggest box-office hit in the history of Argentine cinema. His performance as Benjamín Espósito earned Darín a second Silver Condor Award for Best Actor and his first nomination for the Goya Award in that same category. Also in 2009 he appeared in the Spanish movie "El baile de la Victoria", which earned him a nomination for the Goya Award, this time as Best
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Tootsie


second-highest-grossing movie of 1982 after "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". It was Columbia's biggest hit of all time. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold over 56.9 million tickets in the US. Roger Ebert praised the film, giving it 4 out of 4 stars and observing: "Tootsie" is the kind of Movie with a capital M that they used to make in the 1940s, when they weren't afraid to mix up absurdity with seriousness, social comment with farce, and a little
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B movies (exploitation boom)


's Baby" "took the genre up-market for the first time since the 1930s." It was a critical success and the seventh-biggest box office hit of the year. The other was George A. Romero's now classic "Night of the Living Dead", produced on weekends in and around Pittsburgh for $114,000. Essentially a war movie pitting a small group of humans against a zombie corps, it built on the achievement of B-genre predecessors like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" in its subtextual
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The Parade (film)


Since at the time of his column, the movie was already a verified box office hit, approaching 200,000 admissions in Serbia alone, Vidojković praised Dragojević for "effectively organizing the biggest pride parade in the Balkans in his trademark Malcolm McLarenesque manner". The movie's and its director's politics also sparked reaction in the Serbian non-mainstream and fringe media. Ajla Terzić of the far-left portal "Peščanik" refers to "Parada" as the cinematic equivalent of kavurma, a cheap cholesterol-filled dish that's "
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Shaad Ali


biggest hits of the year. Shaad Ali's third film released on 15 June 2007. The film, titled "Jhoom Barabar Jhoom" stars Abhishek Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Bobby Deol and Lara Dutta in lead roles. His fourth directorial venture was "Kill Dil" which got released on 14 November 2014. The movie received average reviews from critics and got lukewarm response at the Box office as well. He has directed movie Ok Jaanu which released on 13 January 2017. Ok Jaanu is a remake of a Tamil movie O
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Dharmesh Darshan


Indian Cinema, in the league of Sooraj Barjatya, Aditya Chopra, Karan Johar, and Sanjay Leela Bhansali. He made his directional debut with "Lootere" (1993), at the age of 24, which he also wrote. The film was produced by his brother Suneel Darshan and was a big hit at the box office nationwide. In 1996, he made his second film in a big way with "Raja Hindustani", starring Aamir Khan and Karisma Kapoor. The movie was the biggest hit of that year as
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Robert Redford


the critical and box office hit "Jeremiah Johnson" (1972); the political satire "The Candidate" (1972); the hugely popular period drama "The Way We Were" (1973); and the biggest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper "The Sting" (1973), which became one of the top 20 highest-grossing movies of all time when adjusted for inflation and for which he was also nominated for an Oscar. Between 1974 and 1976, exhibitors voted Redford Hollywood's top
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Dharmesh Darshan


well as one of the biggest blockbusters of the 90s and is also the 4th biggest box office hit of 100 years of Indian cinema(Bollywood) as of 2019. It was also much appreciated as Darshan won the Filmfare Best Movie Award and several awards at the Star Screen Awards ceremony. He took a break of four years after the success of "Raja Hindustani". He returned in 2000 with two releases, which were directed and written by himself. His first film "Mela" starring again Aamir Khan with brother Faisal Khan which
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B movie


were made expressly for that purpose. By 1990, the cost of the average U.S. film had passed . Of the nine films released that year to gross more than at the U.S. box office, two would have been strictly B movie material before the late 1970s: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Dick Tracy". Three more—the science-fiction thriller "Total Recall", the action-filled detective thriller "Die Hard 2", and the year's biggest hit, the slapstick kiddie comedy "Home
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B movies since the 1980s


become the highest-grossing film in motion picture history. "Superman", released in December 1978, had proved that a studio could spend $55 million on a movie about a children's comic book character and make a very handsome profit. Not an all-time record-breaker like "Jaws" and "Star Wars", it was merely the biggest box-office hit of 1979. Blockbuster fantasy spectacles like the original, 1933 "King Kong" had once been exceptional; in the new Hollywood, increasingly
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The Black Cat (1934 film)


The Black Cat is a 1934 American Pre-Code horror film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi. The picture was the first of eight movies (six of which were produced by Universal) to pair the two iconic actors. It became Universal Pictures' biggest box office hit of the year, and was one of the first movies with an almost continuous music score. Lugosi also appeared in the 1941 film with the same title. The Black Cat is considered by many to be the one that
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Annamayya (film)


work is saved by Lord's grace from the fire. Saluva Narasimha and Annamayya's son's convert his work from palm to copper inscriptions thus preserving his works for eternity. On completion and dedication of the work in the temple sanctum sanctorum, the Lord and his consorts appear one last time, in their divine form. The Lord grants salvation and Annamayya's soul returns as Nandaka (Sword). This movie was considered as a Box office super hit. It is one of the biggest hits in Akkineni Nagarjuna's film career
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B movies (Hollywood Golden Age)


. Referencing the work of historian Lea Jacobs, Naremore describes how the line between A and B movies was "ambiguous and never dependent on money alone." Films shot on B-level budgets were occasionally marketed as A pictures or emerged as sleeper hits: One of 1943's biggest films was "Hitler's Children", an 82-minute-long RKO thriller made for a fraction over $200,000. It earned more than $3 million in rentals, industry language for a distributor's share of gross box office receipts. The
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B movies since the 1980s


nine films released that year to gross more than $100 million at the U.S. box office, two would have been strictly B-movie material before the late 1970s: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Dick Tracy". Three more—the science-fiction thriller "Total Recall", the action-filled detective thriller "Die Hard 2", and the year's biggest hit, the slapstick kiddie comedy "Home Alone"—were also far closer to the traditional arena of the B's than to classic A-list
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Secretly, Greatly


the 2010 spy webtoon series "Covertness" by Hun, which has received over 40 million page hits. Upon its release on June 5, 2013, the film broke several box office records in South Korea: the highest single day opening for a domestic film, most tickets sold in one day for a domestic film, the biggest opening weekend, the highest-grossing webtoon-based film, and the fastest movie to reach the million, two million, three million, and four million marks in audience number. Movie pundits
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Current Theega


be a hatrick hit for heroine Rakul Preet Singh after venkatadri express and loukyam. New golden leg of Telugu cinema. "AP TODAY" rated 2.75/5 stated "Low Voltage!"."Telugu Mirchi" rated 2.5/5 stated The movie is an official remake of Tamil super hit ‘Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam’. The film makers have made few changes to the script to suit the Telugu nativity. However, ‘Current Theega’ is the biggest release in Manoj's career at the Box-office. Surely, Manoj's electrifying performance, Rakul Preet
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List of accolades received by the 2002–2007 Spider-Man film series


the sequel the third best superhero movie on their top-ten list published in 2011. Out of the film's three Academy Award nominations, "Spider-Man 2" was awarded Best Visual Effects. At the 58th British Academy Film Awards, the sequel's sound and visual effects were nominated. A third nomination was for Orange Film of the Year, a category for the 10 biggest United Kingdom box office hits, voted by the public. The film itself also won the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards's Best Popular Movie
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Road to Utopia


committee's acceptance of Crosby as Best Actor for playing a priest in "Going My Way". The film was 9th in the list of top-grossing movies of 1946. It was the biggest hit at the British box office in 1946 after "The Wicked Lady", "The Bells of St Marys", "Piccadilly Incident" and "The Captive Heart". The critics loved it. Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" wrote: "Not since Charlie Chaplin was prospecting for gold in a Hollywood
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Gopichand (actor)


, he acted in "Sankham", which released on 11 September 2009. His next movie, "Golimar", was released on 27 May 2010. In 2011, he acted in "Mogudu" and "Sahasam" in 2013. His biggest commercial hit was in 2014 with "Loukyam". He acted in two films, "Jil" and "Soukhyam" in 2015, which was a dud at the box office. The year 2017 was a huge success to Gopichand, where he bagged "Goutham Nanda"
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It (2017 film)


"Deadline.com" Michael Fleming suggested that the film could exceed a $70 million opening weekend, and even hit $80 million at the box office. C.S. Strowbridge of "The Numbers" estimated that the film would be a box office success, suggesting Muschietti's film to be the biggest hit of the month and dominating the box office in its respective weekend of release. Strowbridge stated that if the buzz of reception increases then a $60 million opening weekend and $160 million total becomes more likely, with Strowbridge remarking that
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The Bible in film


biblical-epic film craze of the 1950s. It was followed by two of 1951’s biggest box-office hits, "Quo Vadis" and "David and Bathsheba". Charlton Heston starred in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" and "Ben-Hur". According to author Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, in the 1950s and 1960s, during the era of the production code, "the most acceptable cinematic path for movies to incorporate sex and violence was the biblical epic". Basing a film on the
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Jayam Manadera


Jayam Manadera (English: Victory is Ours) is a 2000 Tollywood action drama film produced by D. Suresh Babu under the Suresh Productions banner, directed by N. Shankar. It stars Venkatesh, Soundarya, Bhanupriya in the lead roles and music composed by Vandemataram Srinivas. The film was recorded as a "Super Hit" at the box office. The film was the biggest opening grosser in Tollywood at its release. Later, the film was dubbed into Hindi as "Dum: Man Of Power" in 2011. The movie was
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Lara Dutta


coming days and failed to do well. Her 2010 release "Housefull" was a major commercial success across India. She starred opposite Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Rampal, Jiah Khan and Riteish Deshmukh. It was the fifth biggest hit in the country at that time as it collected at the box office. In 2011, her first movie as a producer, "Chalo Dilli" was released. The film was a decent success, as it was made on a modest budget of . Moreover, Dutta's performance in
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Michael Rennie


value of visual tricks. Femmes will go for him in a big way." He followed this in another movie with Lockwood at Gainsborough, the sensual costume adventure "The Wicked Lady" (both 1945). Rennie was the fifth lead, beneath Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc and Griffith Jones. but it was a good part (the one true love of Lockwood's character) and an excellent project to be associated with – the year's biggest box-office hit, subsequently being listed ninth on a list
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The Specialist


it's not worth the effort. You know a movie's in trouble when the people in line at the parking garage afterward are trying to figure out what the heroine's motivations were." The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book "The Official Razzie Movie Guide" as one of "The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made". "The Specialist" opened in the U.S. on October 7, 1994 and was one of Stallone's few box office hits in the 1990s. It opened
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Rishi Kapoor


did not have money to cast Rajesh Khanna in the film". "Bobby" was one of the decade's biggest hits in India Subsequently, only 11 of his 51 solo hero films were successful at the box office, and 25 of the 41 multi-hero films were successful at the box office. Rishi Kapoor had 51 films as the solo lead hero from 1973 to 2000, but 40 of them were box office flops and only 11 managed to be hits. These were "Bobby ", "Laila Majnu (
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Kithakithalu


Kithakithalu is a Telugu comedy film, released in the summer of 2006 and fared well at the box-office. Allari Naresh starred in this movie made by his home banner under the direction of his father EVV Satyanarayana. This movie started divisively but sneaked through with success as the other major summer releases bombed at the box-office. Along with industry hit Pokiri, Kithakitalu was the only movie which fared well at the box-office for this summer in Tollywood. Relangi Rajababu is such a 'nice guy' that he
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Yash Chopra


tourist destination for Indians. The film won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film of that year. He followed it with "Lamhe" (1991), starring frequent collaborators Anil Kapoor and Sridevi. The film was critically acclaimed, had exceptional music, and was one of the biggest Bollywood hits in the overseas market. But it was not a box office success in India. The film won five Filmfare awards, including the Filmfare Award for Best Movie. Over the years the film has been hailed as a cult classic
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Bobby (1973 film)


blockbuster in the Soviet Union, where it drew an audience of 62.6 million viewers, making it one of the top 20 biggest box office hits of all time in the Soviet Union. The film became a trend-setter. It was wildly popular and widely imitated. It introduced to Bollywood the genre of teenage romance with a rich-versus-poor clash as a backdrop. Numerous films in the following years and decades were inspired by this plot. "Indiatimes Movies" ranks "Bobby" amongst the 'Top 25 Must
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Vijayasree


1972) and "Ponnapuram Kotta" (1973). In all these films, she starred opposite Prem Nazir and the Prem Nazir-Vijayasree pair created biggest hits in box office. "Theirs was the most successful pair in Malayalam cinema ever, I cannot think of a single film of theirs flopping." says R. Gopalakrishnan, one of the senior-most still photographers in Malayalam cinema. Many of her movies are directed by Kunchacko. At the end of her career, she parted ways with Kunchacko and joined with
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Potugadu


a single extensive schedule and the post-production work was simultaneously in progress. Reportedly "Potugadu" was going to be the biggest movie in terms of budget in Manoj's career. The film released on 14 September 2013 and was declared a 'hit' at the box office. Govinda Naama Sastry (Manoj Manchu) is a young man who decides to commit suicide. He goes to a lonely spot and decides to have one last drink. At about the same time, Venkata Rathnam (Posani Krishna Murali) also comes
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Cherd Songsri


in 1977, starring Sorapong Chatree and Nantana Ngaograjang. The story of a tragic romance between two peasants in rural Thailand, "Plae Kao" was the biggest box-office hit up until that time in Thailand. It shared the Golden Montgolfiere at the Nantes Three Continents Festival with "They Don't Wear Black-tie" by Brazilian director Leon Hirszman. It was also voted as one of the world's 360 classic movies by the Museum of the Moving Image in London, "Sight & Sound" magazine and film directors
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Disney Renaissance


cartoons. Other than the film itself, Spielberg also helped Disney produce three "Roger Rabbit" shorts. Disney moved to first place in box office receipts by 1988, with "Roger Rabbit" being the summer's biggest hit. Disney had been developing "The Little Mermaid" since the 1930s, and by 1988, after the success of "Roger Rabbit", the studio had decided to make it into an animated musical, much like many of its previous animated movies, but with a more Broadway feel to it.
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Lara Dutta


an interview that she was offered a role in the The Matrix franchise but turned down the offer due to her mum's illness at the time. Before making her debut in movies, Dutta made an appearance in singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya's video of the song titled 'Tu Chalu Hai Re'. In 2005, Dutta appeared in "Kaal", which was a moderate success at the box office. Dutta then appeared in 2005's biggest hit, "No Entry" opposite actors Anil Kapoor, Salman Khan, Fardeen Khan,
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Two Countries


"Packaged with umpteen laugh-out-loud moments, "Two Countries" is definitely what one would expect from a Dileep movie. The screenplay by Rafi is clean, situational humour with clever quips and the actors hit the ball out of the park with their comic timing". The film received a good opening at the box office, grossing from theaters within five days. It grossed in twenty days from the Kerala box office. After 40 days, the film had collected more than from Kerala alone and the worldwide gross
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Mehdi Brando Mahdloo


Mehdi Brando Mahdloo Torkaman is an Italian actor, writer, screenwriter, model and startupper. He played Sufien in "What a Beautiful Day" (original title "Che Bella Giornata"), a 2011 Italian film, directed by Gennaro Nunziante starring Checco Zalone, which has been the biggest box-office hit in Italian cinema history, grossing over 43 million euros and overtaking "Avatar" and "Harry Potter". For his performance in "What a Beautiful Day", Brando Mahdloo received the Age awards, assigned by
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Ah Boys to Men


broke the record for the biggest opening weekend for local productions, a record previously held by Neo's earlier film "Ah Long Pte Ltd" (S$1.484 million) in 2008, as well as that for the biggest opening-day box-office result for a local film outside of the Chinese New Year season. The first Asian movie to top the Singapore box office since November 2011, it passed the S$5 million mark on November 29, 2012, the second Singaporean film to do so, and at that point of time
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Reese Witherspoon


Day trying to visit all four of their divorced parents. The film was released in November 2008. Despite being panned by critics, the movie became a box office success, earning more than $120 million domestically and $157 million worldwide. In 2009, Witherspoon voiced Susan Murphy, lead character in DreamWorks' computer-animated film "Monsters vs. Aliens", released in March 2009, becoming her biggest hit at the time. She also co-produced the "Legally Blonde" spin-off "Legally Blondes",
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It Happened One Night


after it was released to the secondary movie houses, word-of-mouth began to spread and ticket sales became brisk, especially in smaller towns where the film's characters and simple romance struck a chord with moviegoers who were not surrounded by luxury. It turned out to be a major box office smash, easily Columbia's biggest hit to date. Rotten Tomatoes compiled 56 reviews of the film, both from the time and from subsequent years, to form a 98% "Certified Fresh" score and an average rating of
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Jolina Magdangal


first critical and commercial success in film was the multi-million box office hit and Filipino classic "Labs Kita... Okey Ka Lang?" (1998), alongside Agustin, where she played Bujoy who fell in love with her best friend, Ned (Agustin's character). The movie produced the immortal line from Magdangal "Oh yes! Kaibigan mo lang ako... and I'm so stupid to make the biggest mistake of falling in love with my best friend." In 1998, Magdangal was cast in Star Cinema
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Horror film


double, who was somewhat shorter than Rains, was sometimes used. In 1934, Universal Pictures released the successful psychological horror film "The Black Cat". It stars both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. It was the first of six movies Universal Pictures paired the two iconic actors together. "The Black Cat" became Universal Pictures' biggest box office hit of the year and is considered by many to be the one that created and popularized the psychological horror subgenre, emphasizing on atmosphere, eerie sounds, the darker side of
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B movie


occasionally marketed as A pictures or emerged as sleeper hits: one of 1943's biggest films was "Hitler's Children", an RKO thriller made for a fraction over $200,000. It earned more than in rentals, industry language for a distributor's share of gross box office receipts. Particularly in the realm of film noir, A pictures sometimes echoed visual styles generally associated with cheaper films. Programmers, with their flexible exhibition role, were ambiguous by definition. As late as 1948, the double feature remained a popular exhibition
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Claudette Colbert


The Sign of the Cross " (1932), opposite Fredric March and Charles Laughton. In one of the best remembered scenes of her movie career, she bathes nude in a marble pool filled with asses' milk. The film was one of her biggest box-office hits. In 1933, Colbert renegotiated her contract with Paramount to allow her to appear in films for other studios. Her musical voice was also featured in the film "Torch Singer" (1933), which co-starred Ricardo Cortez and David Manners
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Navdeep


which he played an Indian boxer fighting Laskar-E-Taiba terrorists. The movie was a hit. In the 2005 Tamil blockbuster "Arinthum Ariyamalum", he portrayed a hero who is the son of the don, Prakash Raj, who was estranged from his father. His following films were primarily forgettable and failed at the box office, despite him gaining a reputation as a talented actor. His biggest break was the 2007 film "Chandamama", where he starred along with Kajal Aggarwal, in which his performance as a
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Betty Grable


for Grable's talents. The resulting movie was "Springtime in the Rockies" (1942), directed by Irving Cummings and pairing Grable opposite Payne, Cesar Romero, Carmen Miranda, and her future husband, bandleader Harry James. The film was an immediate hit, Grable's biggest success to date, grossing more than $2 million. The film's success led to Fox upping her salary and to her having a wider choice over the films she would make. Grable was voted the number-one box-office draw
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The Song of My Life


The Song of My Life is the second studio album by Filipino singer-actress Nora Aunor, released in 1971 by Alpha Records Corporation in the Philippines in LP format and later released in 1999 in a compilation/ cd format. The album contains 12 tracks among them is "Lollipops and Roses" that team up with the teen idol Victor "Cocoy" Laurel and they even made a movie which became one of the biggest box office hits of the seventies. This album collection will delight and refresh the hardest soul and ensure the enjoyment
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Lee Sung-jae


(his debut was the MBC drama "The Love of Two Women"), he launched his film career with the romantic comedy "Art Museum by the Zoo" opposite superstar Shim Eun-ha. The success of this movie gave him considerable attention and led to him being offered many more roles. After starring in "Ghost in Love" opposite Kim Hee-sun, Lee rose to prominence as the leader of a small group of thugs in one of the biggest box-office hits of the late 1990s, Kim
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The Seventh Veil


most modern box-office successes. The movie also earned over $1 million in rentals in North America. By July 1953, it had earned a reported £253,000 in the UK. In 1951, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom and Leo Genn appeared in a stage adaptation in London. In 2004, the British Film Institute compiled a list of the 100 biggest UK cinematic hits of all time based on audience figures, as opposed to gross takings. "The Seventh Veil" placed 10th in this list with an estimated attendance
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Lily Bouwmeester


"Pygmalion" (1937). It would be her first film since 1921. "Pygmalion" grew out to be the most successful Dutch Pre-War film. She became an instant star and was offered a five-year contract with Paramount Pictures. She declined, however, because her husband was unwilling to travel to the United States with her. Instead, she remained acting in the biggest movie productions of the 1930s. Her following films all became box office hits, with only one exception. Despite nearing the age
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Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma


Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma (; English: "Come, goddess of luck") is a 1986 Kannada comedy film written, directed and composed by Singeetham Srinivasa Rao. The film features Rajkumar, Madhavi and K. S. Ashwath playing the pivotal roles. The film, produced by Parvathamma Rajkumar under Dakshayini Combines, was received exceptionally well at the box office and was one of the biggest hits of 1986. The movie saw a theatrical run of 26 weeks. The dialogues and lyrics were written by Chi. Udaya Shankar. The plot of the
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Laura Weissbecker


film was a huge commercial success in Asia, in particular in mainland China where it is listed as amongst the top 5 biggest box-office hits for a Chinese movie in the country's history. Weissbecker grew up in the east of France, in the city of Strasbourg, surrounded by a very heteroclite and European environment. She has a brother and a sister, who is a solo aerial artist with Cirque du Soleil. Weissbecker began her film career in 2002, when director Tonie Marshall (winner of the 2000 Cesar French
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The Black Cat (1934 film)


Peter, regaining consciousness, mistakes Werdegast's attempt to help her as an attack and shoots him. Fatally wounded, Werdegast blows up the house, first letting the couple escape but with Poelzig's "rotten cult" still upstairs. "It has been a good game," he says before he dies. Cast notes "The Black Cat" was the biggest box office hit of the year for Universal and was the first of eight movies (six of which were produced by Universal) to pair actors Béla Lugosi and Boris
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Karylle


: My Love" where she played a Chinese. Her Mano Po films gave her a chance to work with the biggest and best actorlos in show business. "Bahay ni Lola 2", a horror film, was her first lead role in a movie. Karylle scored another significant career feat in GMA films' box office hit "Moments of Love", which was also a finalist in the New York Film Festival. She also did indie films such as "Ligaw Liham" and "Litsonero". Aside from playing
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Lara Dutta


a cameo in Yash Raj's Hum Tum. In December 2006, Dutta played Munni, a lady with suicidal tendencies alongside Akshay Kumar in "Bhagam Bhag", which was one of the biggest hits of the year, as it collected over in India alone. Her first release of 2007 was Shaad Ali's "Jhoom Barabar Jhoom". The film was a box office failure in India but did better overseas, especially in the United Kingdom. Dutta however received praise for her performance as Anaida in the movie Her later release
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The Last Adventure (1967 film)


office, being one of Delon's biggest hits of the 1960s. The movie was released in the US in 1969. "Los Angeles Times" called the film "a rather formless and old fashioned display of sentimental heroics." However the "New York Times" liked the film saying it: Has a surprise around every bend. Tightened and aimed a little more purposefully, this attractive French drama of two adventurer-pals and their lovely tag-along comrade, might have hit the jackpot. What it does have,
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The Warrior's Way


of 4.4 out of 10. In the film's opening weekend, it grossed a poor $3,048,665 in the US. The film ranked #9 at the weekend charts. The number of theaters dramatically reduced from 1,622 to 34 within three weeks from the opening day. The film grossed $11,087,569 worldwide and had a production budget of $42 million, making the movie a box office bomb. The movie was one of the biggest box office bombs of 2010 next to "MacGruber", "How Do You Know" and
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Liv Tyler


a box office success, earning $553 million worldwide. The movie included the songs "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" and "What Kind of Love Are You On" by Aerosmith. In a 2001 interview with "The Guardian", she said that she initially turned down the role in "Armageddon:" "I really didn't want to do it at first and I turned it down a couple of times, but the biggest reason I changed my mind was because I was scared of it.
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San Andreas (film)


In its second weekend, it added $97.7 million. It topped the box office outside of North America for two consecutive weekends before being overtaken by "Jurassic World" in its third weekend. It had the biggest opening for a disaster movie and second-biggest for Warner Bros. in Mexico with $10.1 million from 3,100 screens. In China, it had a three-day opening weekend of $35 million and six-day opening total of $51.8 million from 8,795 screens, although Chinese box office analysts site Entgroup reported
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The Quick and the Dead (1995 film)


Sam Raimi film, The Quick and the Dead showed the versatility of the director and his fearlessness to dive into any project at all." Jay Royston from What Culture praised the movie and considered it one of Raimi's finest movies: "This didn't really hit the right note at the box office despite its high power cast, but I have to put it in the top 3 Raimi movies, maybe because it is so unlike other Raimi films yet combines all three of the best qualities of a director already mentioned;
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Sucker Punch (2011 film)


is intentional, allowing the audience to immerse in the layers of dreams and later piece together what actually happened". British film critic Mark Kermode described the film as "the most boring, ploddingly put together, infantile, crass, adolescent, stupid, chauvinistic twaddle that I've sat through in a very, very long time." Legendary Pictures reportedly attributed the movie's failure to become a box office hit as being due to movie audiences not accepting a female action hero. Sonny Bunch hailed the movie as an "exciting
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Humraaz


aware of it and knew Karan was blackmailing Raj. In the end, Priya kills Karan & reunites with Raj. The movie performed well at Box Office and was declared an "HIT" grosser. This movie was Amisha Patel's back to back hit film after Kaho Na... Pyar Hai and Gadar. The soundtrack of the film is composed by Himesh Reshammiya with lyrics provided by Sudhakar Sharma. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 22,00,000 units sold, this film's soundtrack album was the year's
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Anees Bazmee


Entry. The film became the biggest hit of the year, earning over Rs 430 million in the domestic box office. The following years saw him breaking records with successful movies like the Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif led Welcome and Singh is Kinng. 2011 saw Salman Khan and Asin in the lead role for the Bazmee directed Ready. In 2015, he was back again with Welcome Back that boasted an ensemble cast. In 2017, he directed the film Mubarakan starring Anil Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor and Ileana D’Cruz. In 2019 he
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Private Benjamin (1980 film)


Private Benjamin is a 1980 American comedy film starring Goldie Hawn. The film was one of the biggest box office hits of 1980, and also spawned a short-lived television series. The film is ranked 82 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Laughs list, and 59 on Bravo's list of "100 Funniest Movies". Judy Benjamin (Goldie Hawn), a 28-year-old Jewish woman from a sheltered wealthy upbringing whose lifelong dream is to "marry a professional man," joins the U.S. Army
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Mahal (1949 film)


its phone lines were flooded with callers inquiring the singer's name. All India Radio had to find this out from the record company before it could announce Lata Mangeshkar's name on the air. The film was included in the British Film Institute's list, "10 great romantic horror films". The movie was a groundbreaking supernatural suspense thriller and one of the earliest known films dealing with reincarnation. "Mahal" became one of the biggest box office hits of 1949 in India and paved way for Indian gothic fiction. Mahal
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Ricardo Darín


he reprised the role with Érica Rivas, in Mar del Plata. His performance earned him the Sea Star (Estrella de Mar) Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Comedy. In 2014 he starred in "Wild Tales" ("Relatos salvajes"), the biggest box-office hit in Argentine cinema history, along with Leonardo Sbaraglia, Oscar Martínez, Érica Rivas, Rita Cortese, Darío Grandinetti and Julieta Zylberberg. This was his third movie to get nominated for an Academy Award. His performance earned him his third
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Rathinirvedam (1978 film)


art of movie making in South India, and hence regarded as a landmark in Indian film history. The film was also one of the biggest box office hits in Kerala's history. It inspires similar productions all over South India, even decades after its release. The story takes place in a small village surrounded by hills and valleys. Young Pappu, a teenager, awaiting school results to go to college, has plenty of time on hand. His trouble is adolescence, but neither his mother nor his aunt can diagnose his
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Thor Kristjansson


he graduated in 2011 as a member of Group 40. His education was fully funded by scholarships and through the personal assistance of the Academy Award winner and former Juilliard alumni Robin Williams. Kristjansson had his first leading role, in the feature film Black's Game, a year after his graduation from The Juilliard School. When "Black's Game" opened in Iceland it became the biggest box office hit in 2012 and the 2nd highest grossing Icelandic movie in history. Kristjansson is based in Reykjavik and Los Angeles and is currently represented
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Ruslan Akun


addition, Akun created and produced several prime-time political TV shows on Kyrgyz National Public TV. In 2011, Akun and his friends wrote a script and filmed non-actors. The movie came out about 110 minutes long and was about Bishkek. Friends also negotiated the theatre release of his film "Bishkek, I love you!]". His second independent film "Salam, New York" became the biggest box office hit in a history of Kyrgyz Republic. The film won Best Film, Best Director, Best
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Swades


." "Swades" earned net box office in India. In the overseas market, the film made $2,790,000. It had a lifetime worldwide gross of . The film topped the Chennai box office on its opening weekend. The movie was declared a flop domestically and a semi-hit overseas by Box Office India, earning ₹34.26 crore worldwide on a budget of ₹21 crore. It is the first Indian movie to be shot inside NASA's headquarters. It has also become a classic of modern Indian cinema for representing the trope
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Yevadu


AP Box office and 440 million worldwide. The film collected 376 million in 16 days at AP Box office, and was expected to reach the 500 million mark worldwide. The film completed a 25-day run in early February 2014, collecting more than 380 million at the AP Box office. The film collected 393.4 million at the AP Box office and 471 million worldwide during its lifetime, and was declared as one of the Ram Charan's biggest hits. According to Taran Adarsh, the film collected 14.6 million in its opening weekend in
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Telugu cinema


remade in Bengali as "Yodha-The Warrior", and emerged as a box office hit. The 2011 action comedy "Dookudu" was released on 79 screens in the United States; the "Los Angeles Times" called it "the biggest hit you've never heard of". In the rest of north, east and west India, it opened in 21 cities. The film set a box office record by collecting a gross of more than 1 billion at the time. "Eega" (2012) grossed including
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Meenakshi (Malayalam actress)


" in 2002 with Jeeva. This movie was not very well received in the box office even though the story and Sharmeelee's acting got good reviews from critics. This was then followed by "Anbe Anbe" with Shaam was classified as a medium hit in the box office. Her third Tamil movie was Diwan with Sarathkumar. This movie won her rave reviews for her performance. It was followed by her Telugu entry through the movie "Tarak" in 2003. In 2004, she made her debut in Malayalam Industry with two
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Sergiu Nicolaescu


For this movie, Nicolaescu performed a very intensive boxing training with a former European boxing champion. The intensity of his training for this movie was similar to what the Romania's Olympic boxing team at that moment performed. At that time Nicolaescu was 50 years old and its boxing matches and the hits during this movie are real and against strong opponents. His huge work capacity was widely admired by his colleagues and crew. Another merit of his filmmaking is considered to come from his taking huge - yet, still well-calculated -
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Oka Raju Oka Rani


Oka Raju Oka Rani (English : "A King And A Queen") is a 2003 Telugu language romantic movie produced by Ramoji Rao under Ushakiran Movies banner. The film features Ravi Teja and Namitha in the lead roles. Music has been composed by Chakri. The movie released on 19 June 2003 and was a hit at the box office. Yogi a debutante has directed the movie. Lyrics are penned by Trivikram Srinivas. Despite nice reviews the movie did not do well at the box office. The comedy track between Melkote
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Viva Films


Ni Cristo Founder was released in October. On 13 March 2019, Viva Communications joined the local-language film consortium Globalgate Entertainment, which is led by American mini-major film studio Lionsgate. During the early 1980s, Viva tied up with IBC-13 to air their early releases every Saturday nights. The movie block, titled "Viva Box Office Hits", showed early movies of Sharon Cuneta and Gabby Concepcion and other early releases by the company, In 1988, "Viva Box Office Hits" was one of the Viva shows
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A Wednesday!


film, made at a small budget, was a sleeper hit at the box office grossing over Rs. 340 million worldwide. Despite its low promotion, it was a box office success due to critical acclaim and positive word-of-mouth. Box Office India declared it a hit. Critics praised the movie for its effective storyline and its twist ending. Subsequently, it won a number of awards including the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the 56th National Film Awards. Mumbai police commissioner Prakash Rathod
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