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]]>The women of Hollywood made history this year as the most popular films of 2017 in North America featured female leads.
Topping at number one was the latest installment of the Star Wars franchise Star Wars: The Last Jedi with whopping $533.1 million at the box office. The second largest grossing film was Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast and closing the top three was DC Comics’ Wonder Woman with $504 and 412.6 million respectively.
According to box-office, female led films were top three was back in 1958 with South Pacific, Auntie Mame, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
The Last Jedi was dubbed the most feminist of the Star Wars franchise yet, with strong female roles including trainee Jedi Rey (Daisy Ridley) and the late Carrie Fisher in her final performance as Princess made General, Leia.
The live-action remake of the 1991 Disney hit starred Emma Watson as Bell. While a Disney princess, she takes charge of her destiny and refuses to conform to social dictates and in essence turning a beast into a love stricken puppy.
Finally, Wonder Woman doubly succeeded as a female-led film. Starring newcomer Gal Gadot who portrayed a role model heroine, Wonder Woman is also the highest-grossing live-action movie ever directed by a woman, Patty Jenkins.
Hopefully powerful portrayals of female characters isn’t a fleeting moment but rather a new Hollywood zeitgeist.
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]]>The post Billie Lourd Pays Tribute to Mom Carrie Fisher On Her Death Anniversary appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.
]]>The actress posted a photo of her father, Bryan Lourd, and the green Northern Lights on Instagram Wednesday.
“My momby had an otherworldly obsession with the northern lights, but I never got to see them with her,” Billie wrote. “We journeyed to northern Norway to see if we might ‘see the heavens lift up her dark skirts and flash her dazzling privates across [our] unworthy irises.’ And she did.” She concluded “I love you times infinity.”
The post reached to nearly 50 thousand likes in just an hour, with people expressing their love and support.
Fisher died of cardiac arrest last December at age 60. Her last big screen appearance was in the latest movie, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which also starred Billie in a small role.
Fisher’s on-screen brother in Star Wars, Mark Hamill, also paid tribute by sharing a collage of photos of his favorite memories with his former co-star including a painting of Fisher available online.
“No one’s ever really gone…,” he tweeted. “#AlwaysWithUs #CarrieOnForever.”
Director Rian Johnson honored the late actress by making a dedication after the credits in The Last Jedi movie, which reads: “In Loving Memory of Our Princess, Carrie Fisher.”
“I want to dedicate tonight to Carrie, who is up there right now flipping me the bird, saying, ‘Damn it, Rian, don’t you dare make this night a solemn tribute,'” Johnson said at the movie’s premiere earlier this month. “So let’s all have a blast tonight for Carrie.”
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]]>The post Disney To Be Only Studio to Hit $6 Billion at Global Box Office – Twice appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.
]]>According to estimates, the Disney-Lucasfilm’s most recent installment of the Star Wars franchise is also going to reach the amazing milestone of $110 million in North America over Christmas weekend.
Disney topped the $5 billion mark worldwide on November 30 with Thor: Ragnarok. That made the studio the first ever to have reached this threshold for three consecutive years.
Its final release of 2017 — Star Wars: The Last Jedi, opened globally on December 15. The ninth Star Wars movie debuted with a $220 million opening weekend domestically. At the worldwide box office the film as already grossed $610.5 million in its first week.
There’s no doubt 2017 has been a good year for Disney when it comes to hitting outstanding box office records. Now that it acquired 21st Century Fox for a whopping $52.4 billion is seems that Disney will be an undisputed contender grossing big numbers in future box office.
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]]>Director and writer of the film, Rian Johnson introduced the film’s world premiere from LA with an homage to its lost princess saying, “Let’s all have a blast tonight for Carrie.”
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is predicted to smash the box office. Many celebrity guests arrived at the Shrine Auditorium, to celebrate the latest outing for this hugely successful movie franchise. The film is the second in a new trilogy of Star Wars films, following The Force Awakens in 2015.
Among the celebrity guests in attendance at the European premiere were Prince William and Price Harry. The two arrived at Royal Albert Hall in London on Tuesday. In November, star of the film, John Bodega who plays stormtrooper-turned-resistance-fighter Finn, confirmed that the two royals both have cameos in the film as stormtroppers.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi opens in cinemas Friday.
The Force is strong on this red carpet! #thelastjedi pic.twitter.com/j6NYKzY3lw
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) December 12, 2017
As if nothing ever happened…. Star Wars LA premiere done and now for London! pic.twitter.com/0h3mbaqpi1
— John Boyega (@JohnBoyega) December 10, 2017
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]]>The post Women-fronted Films are Top Three Highest-grossing Movies of 2017 appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.
]]>The women of Hollywood made history this year as the most popular films of 2017 in North America featured female leads.
Topping at number one was the latest installment of the Star Wars franchise Star Wars: The Last Jedi with whopping $533.1 million at the box office. The second largest grossing film was Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast and closing the top three was DC Comics’ Wonder Woman with $504 and 412.6 million respectively.
According to box-office, female led films were top three was back in 1958 with South Pacific, Auntie Mame, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
The Last Jedi was dubbed the most feminist of the Star Wars franchise yet, with strong female roles including trainee Jedi Rey (Daisy Ridley) and the late Carrie Fisher in her final performance as Princess made General, Leia.
The live-action remake of the 1991 Disney hit starred Emma Watson as Bell. While a Disney princess, she takes charge of her destiny and refuses to conform to social dictates and in essence turning a beast into a love stricken puppy.
Finally, Wonder Woman doubly succeeded as a female-led film. Starring newcomer Gal Gadot who portrayed a role model heroine, Wonder Woman is also the highest-grossing live-action movie ever directed by a woman, Patty Jenkins.
Hopefully powerful portrayals of female characters isn’t a fleeting moment but rather a new Hollywood zeitgeist.
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]]>The post Billie Lourd Pays Tribute to Mom Carrie Fisher On Her Death Anniversary appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.
]]>The actress posted a photo of her father, Bryan Lourd, and the green Northern Lights on Instagram Wednesday.
“My momby had an otherworldly obsession with the northern lights, but I never got to see them with her,” Billie wrote. “We journeyed to northern Norway to see if we might ‘see the heavens lift up her dark skirts and flash her dazzling privates across [our] unworthy irises.’ And she did.” She concluded “I love you times infinity.”
The post reached to nearly 50 thousand likes in just an hour, with people expressing their love and support.
Fisher died of cardiac arrest last December at age 60. Her last big screen appearance was in the latest movie, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which also starred Billie in a small role.
Fisher’s on-screen brother in Star Wars, Mark Hamill, also paid tribute by sharing a collage of photos of his favorite memories with his former co-star including a painting of Fisher available online.
“No one’s ever really gone…,” he tweeted. “#AlwaysWithUs #CarrieOnForever.”
Director Rian Johnson honored the late actress by making a dedication after the credits in The Last Jedi movie, which reads: “In Loving Memory of Our Princess, Carrie Fisher.”
“I want to dedicate tonight to Carrie, who is up there right now flipping me the bird, saying, ‘Damn it, Rian, don’t you dare make this night a solemn tribute,'” Johnson said at the movie’s premiere earlier this month. “So let’s all have a blast tonight for Carrie.”
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]]>The post Disney To Be Only Studio to Hit $6 Billion at Global Box Office – Twice appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.
]]>According to estimates, the Disney-Lucasfilm’s most recent installment of the Star Wars franchise is also going to reach the amazing milestone of $110 million in North America over Christmas weekend.
Disney topped the $5 billion mark worldwide on November 30 with Thor: Ragnarok. That made the studio the first ever to have reached this threshold for three consecutive years.
Its final release of 2017 — Star Wars: The Last Jedi, opened globally on December 15. The ninth Star Wars movie debuted with a $220 million opening weekend domestically. At the worldwide box office the film as already grossed $610.5 million in its first week.
There’s no doubt 2017 has been a good year for Disney when it comes to hitting outstanding box office records. Now that it acquired 21st Century Fox for a whopping $52.4 billion is seems that Disney will be an undisputed contender grossing big numbers in future box office.
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]]>The post World Premiere of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Opens with Tribute to Carrie Fisher appeared first on OMG Check It Out !.
]]>Director and writer of the film, Rian Johnson introduced the film’s world premiere from LA with an homage to its lost princess saying, “Let’s all have a blast tonight for Carrie.”
Star Wars: The Last Jedi is predicted to smash the box office. Many celebrity guests arrived at the Shrine Auditorium, to celebrate the latest outing for this hugely successful movie franchise. The film is the second in a new trilogy of Star Wars films, following The Force Awakens in 2015.
Among the celebrity guests in attendance at the European premiere were Prince William and Price Harry. The two arrived at Royal Albert Hall in London on Tuesday. In November, star of the film, John Bodega who plays stormtrooper-turned-resistance-fighter Finn, confirmed that the two royals both have cameos in the film as stormtroppers.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi opens in cinemas Friday.
The Force is strong on this red carpet! #thelastjedi pic.twitter.com/j6NYKzY3lw
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) December 12, 2017
As if nothing ever happened…. Star Wars LA premiere done and now for London! pic.twitter.com/0h3mbaqpi1
— John Boyega (@JohnBoyega) December 10, 2017
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