Transformers: Dark of the Moon – US Box Office: USD$352.39millions

Famous quotes:

Que: “Ah, good, you’re here. My name’s Que. I do hope you have answers for him. I’ve never seen him so upset!”

Lennox: “Optimus, you remember Charlotte Mearing, our director of National Intelligence?”

[Optimus stays in truck mode]

Dino: “He’s in a bad mood. He’s not talking to anybody today.”

Charlotte Mearing: “What is this, the silent treatment?”

Ironhide: “We’ve seen that and this is not that.”

Que: “Definitely not!”

Ironhide: “This is worse. Prime, make something of yourself!”

[bangs fist on top of Optimus’s cab, Optimus transforms]

Ironhide: “He’s pissed.”

Optimus Prime: [pounds the ground] “You lied to us! Everything humans know of our planet we were told had all been shared!”

[points to component]

Optimus Prime: “So why was this found in human possession?”

Sequel: Transformers (2007); Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009); Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014); Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

Fun Facts about Transformers: Dark of the Moon:

• Contrary to claims that Megan Fox and Michael Bay had a falling out, Steven Spielberg had Fox sacked from this movie (after she compared Bay to Nazis). Fox was already being prepared for this movie by Bay when she was forced to leave.
• There were 70,000 components in the Driller. It cost ILM 122 hours for each frame (288 hours for the Driller’s assault on the building), and it used up all of its render farms.
• Michael Bay claims that 532 automobiles were obliterated in the movie. All of them were flood-damaged, so an insurance firm gave them away for free.

Bridesmaids – US Box Office Hit: USD$169.11millions

Famous quotes:

Megan: “I’m glad he’s single because I’m going to climb that like a tree.”

Helen: [Crying] “Why are you smiling?”

Annie: “It’s just… it’s the first time I’ve ever seen you look ugly… and that makes me kind of happy.”

Annie: [after Helen insists the flight attendant allow Annie to use her first class seat] “Help me I’m poor.”

Helen’s Stepson: “I’ve seen better tennis playing in a tampon commercial.”

Fun Facts about Bridesmaids:

• Originally, it was planned for Chris O’Dowd’s cop to having an American accent, but because everyone liked O’Dowd’s natural Irish accent, they decided to preserve it.
• Ben Falcone (Air Marshall Jon) and Melissa McCarthy (Megan) are wed in real life.
• The cast improvised with one another for around two weeks, much of which was

Minority Report – US Box Office Hit: USD$132.07millions

Famous quotes:

John Anderton: “Why’d you catch that?”

Danny Witwer: “Because it was going to fall.”

John Anderton: “You’re certain?”

Danny Witwer: “Yeah.”

John Anderton: “But it didn’t fall. You caught it. The fact that you prevented it from happening doesn’t change the fact that it was *going* to happen.”

Fun Facts about Minority Report:

• Dashiell Hammett, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Agatha Christie are all well-known mystery authors who inspired the names of the “Precogs.”
• Steven Spielberg intended to use CGI to produce the air bubble rising for the scenario wherein Anderton holds his breath in the bathtub, but Tom Cruise spent the time to learn how to do it.
• Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise consented to forego their regular salaries to keep the movie’s price under $100 million. Instead, they agreed to accept 15% of the movie’s revenue.

Public Enemies – US Box Office Hit: USD$97.10millions

Famous quotes:

John Dillinger: “I was raised on a farm in Moooresville, Indiana. My mama died when I was three, my daddy beat the hell out of me cause he didn’t know no better way to raise me. I like baseball, movies, good clothes, fast cars, whiskey, and you… what else you need to know?”

Billie Frechette: “They’re looking at me because they’re not used to having a girl in their restaurant in a $3 dress.”

John Dillinger: “Listen, doll. That’s ’cause they’re all about where people come from. The only thing that’s important is where someone’s going.”

Billie Frechette: [smiles] “Where are you going?”

John Dillinger: “Anywhere I want.”

Fun Fact about Public Enemies: 

• While the FBI never subjected Billie Frechette to a “third degree” questioning as depicted in the film, Alvin Karpis, Helen Nelson, and a John Dillinger accomplice called James Probasco in Chicago were all subjected to comparable techniques. In the case of Probasco, he ultimately died after falling from a window on an upper floor. Officially, it is thought that he killed himself to avoid being questioned any further. Some historians, however, contend that the investigators examining Probasco tried to hang him from a window to get him to talk before they lost control of him.

Back to School – US Box Office: USD$91.26millions

Famous quotes:

Professor Terguson: “You remember that thing we had about 30 years ago called the Korean conflict? And how we failed to achieve victory? How come we didn’t cross the 38th parallel and push those rice-eaters back to the Great Wall of China?”

Professor Terguson: [rips a desk apart] “Then take the fucking wall apart”

[shouts]

Professor Terguson: “brick by brick and nuke them back into the fucking stone age forever? Tell me why! How come? Say it! Say it!”

Thornton Melon: [incensed] “All right. I’ll say it. ‘Cause Truman was too much of a *pussy wimp* to let MacArthur go in there”

[shouts]

Thornton Melon: “and blow out those Commie bastards!”

Professor Terguson: “Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think. I’m gonna be watching you.”
Thornton Melon: [chuckling to his classmates] “Good teacher. He really seems to care. About what I have no idea.”

Fun Facts about Back to School:

• It was Harold Ramis’s idea to change the character of Rodney Dangerfield from one who was impoverished in the original story to one who was wealthy but did not make the change.
• Thornton says, “Next second; I’ll contact Robert Ludlum,” as he hangs up the phone after finishing his talk with Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Robert Ludlum, a writer of spy thrillers, might have been one of Rodney Dangerfield’s actual neighbors at the time.

Contagion – US Box Office: USD$75.66millions

Famous quotes:

Dr. Erin Mears: “Somewhere in the world, the wrong pig met up with the wrong bat.”

Dave: “My wife makes me take off my clothes in the garage. Then she leaves out a bucket of warm water and some soap. And then she douses everything in hand sanitizer after I leave. I mean, she’s overreacting, right?”

Dr. Erin Mears: “Not really. And stop touching your face, Dave.”

Dr. Ian Sussman: [Disparagingly to Alan] “Blogging is not writing. It’s graffiti with punctuation.”

Dr. Ellis Cheever: “But right now, our best defense has been social distancing. No hand-shaking, staying home when you’re sick washing your hands frequently.”

Fun Facts about Contagion:

• Warner Bros. Pictures Canada created two enormous Petri dishes placed in Toronto boutique windows along with bacteria and fungi to advertise the movie. The bacteria and fungal samples developed over several days to generate biohazard symbols and the movie’s name.
• Dr Ian Lipkin, a consultant and director of statistics at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, claimed that he created the virus depicted in the movie. He modelled it partly on characteristics of the late-1990s pig-to-farmer virus from Malaysia known as Nipah.

Uncle Buck – US Box Office: USD$66.7millions

Famous quotes:

Buck Russell: “I don’t think I want to know a six-year-old who isn’t a dreamer, or a sillyheart. And I sure don’t want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don’t have a college degree. I don’t even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they’re ALL good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they’re no good. You so much as scowl at my niece, or any other kid in this school, and I hear about it, and I’m coming looking for you!”

[of Anita’s mole]

Buck Russell: “Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.”

[Buck’s beat up old car pulls up]

Bug: [sarcastic] “Ever hear of a tune up? Hee hee hee hee hee.”

Buck: [also sarcastic] “Ah, heh heh heh. Ever hear of a ritual killing? Ah, heh heh heh heh heh!”

Bug: “I don’t get it.”

Buck: [serious tone] “You gnaw on her face in public like that again and you’ll be one. Ah, heh heh heh heh!”

Sequel: Television- Uncle Buck (1990–1991); Uncle Buck (2016)

Fun Facts about Uncle Buck:

• John Candy scribbled the dialogue from the screenplay while wearing it atop his head during Miles’ questioning of Uncle Buck (22:36–23:01), so Macaulay Culkin might read the words more quickly and maintain the scene’s rapid-fire tempo. (Take note that this is the sequence shot where Miles would be in close-ups.)
• Tarquin Gotch, the music supervisor, and John Candy visited a bar one evening while filming and spent most of the evening mingling. The following day, John Hughes overheard a caller on a radio show enthusiastically describing his encounter with Candy. Angry with Candy, Hughes canceled Buck’s sequences for the day and urged him to get ready and get some rest despite Candy’s insistence that he was supposed to look messy.

The Amityville Horror – US Box Office: USD$65.23millions

Famous quotes:

Father Callaway: You know the doll with one eye that your daughter is holding?

Kathy Lutz: Yes, well…

Father Callaway: Well, that belonged to the little girl who lived here before you.

Kathy Lutz: Yes, it was left here.

Father Callaway: No, Mrs. Lutz, it was not left here.

Kathy Lutz: Father, what exactly are you trying to tell me?

Father Callaway: I knew the DeFeo’s very well. I presided over their funeral. Jodie DeFeo was buried with that doll.

Sequel: Amityville II: The Possession; Amityville 3-D; Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes; The Amityville Curse; Amityville: It’s About Time; Amityville: A New Generation; Amityville Dollhouse; The Amityville Horror; The Amityville Haunting; The Amityville Asylum; Amityville Death House; The Amityville Playhouse; The Amityville Terror; Amityville: No Escape; Amityville Exorcism; Amityville: The Awakening

Fun Facts about The Amityville Horror:

• Ryan Reynolds decided to distance himself from his fictional children. He wasn’t being cruel or impolite, just distant. Reynolds stated that he did not wish to “fall in love” with children and was so far from them that the youngsters frequently confided to people on the production that “Ryan doesn’t like us.” He did this so that he would have no problem relaxing into the physical and verbal abuse when George Lutz started to change.
• A dead fisherman’s body washed on the riverbank not far from the main home just before the shooting started.
• Even though she was just eight years old, Chloe Grace Moretz performed most of her stunts.

Dave – US Box Office: USD$63.27millions

Famous quotes:

Ellen Mitchell: [after Dave reveals his true identity to Ellen] “What do you do for a living?”

Dave: “You mean, when I’m not running the country?”

Ellen Mitchell: “Yeah.”

Dave: “I run a temp agency. You know, secretaries and stuff.”

Ellen Mitchell: “So you find people jobs.”

Dave: “Yes.”

[Ellen chuckles]

Dave: “What? What’s so funny?”

Ellen Mitchell: “It’s just, it’s more than most people do around here.”

Fun Fact about Dave:

• Although most of this film’s plot is made up of fiction, there was a real-life instance in American history where a president’s administration concealed the severity of his stroke and other disabilities while enabling a non-elected non-politician to take over as president after he became incapacitated. About two years into Woodrow Wilson’s second term, in the fall of 1919, he had a stroke that left him partially paralyzed, partially blind, and intellectually impaired to the degree that, a century later, is still not fully understood. The Twenty-Fifth Amendment, which lays out the steps to take in the event of a presidential disability, hadn’t yet been ratified. Instead of just retiring and handing over the reins to Thomas R. Marshall as his vice president, Wilson’s illness was kept a secret, and his second wife, Edith, began overseeing the executive arm of the American government in the president’s stead.

The Blues Brothers – US Box Office: USD$57.23millions

Famous quotes:

Elwood: “It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark… and we’re wearing sunglasses.”

Jake: “Hit it.”

[repeated line]

Elwood: “We’re on a mission from God.”

Police Dispatcher: “Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers HAS been approved.”

Elwood: “Illinois Nazis.”

Jake: “I hate Illinois Nazis.”

Fun Fact about The Blues Brothers:

• During shooting one of the evening shots, John Belushi vanished. One house had its lights on, which Dan Aykroyd noticed when he glanced around. When he arrived at the home, he was ready to introduce himself, the film, and the fact that they sought Belushi. You’re here just for John Belushi, are not you? The homeowner asked as he grinned and turned to face him. The resident informed them that Belushi had come into their home, asked for a sandwich and a drink of milk, and then passed out on their couch. Such circumstances led Aykroyd to refer to Belushi as “America’s Guest jokingly”.

Source Code – US Box Office: USD$54.71millions

Famous quotes:

Colter Stevens: “Christina, what would you do if you knew you had less than one minute to live?”

Christina Warren: “I’d make those seconds count.”

Colter Stevens: “I’d kiss you again.”

Christina Warren: “Again?”

[he kisses her]

[last lines]Colter Stevens: [to Goodwin] “If you’re reading this e-mail, then Source Code works even better than you and Dr. Rutledge imagined. You thought you were creating eight minutes of a past event, but you’re not. You’ve created a whole new world. Goodwin, if I’m right, somewhere at the Source Code facility, you have a Captain Colter Stevens waiting to send on a mission. Promise me you’ll help him. And when you do, do me a favor. Tell him everything is going to be okay.”

Fun Facts about Source Code:

• The filmmaker would randomly start playing music into Jake Gyllenhaal’s earbuds during the train scenes to make Gyllenhaal’s character appear bewildered. The filmmaker sometimes alternated between playing random music and “static hum.”
• The colours and stripes box is the sole actual item in the trunk of the white van. VFX created the remainder.
• Before Duncan Jones, Jake Gyllenhaal was a part of the production. Gyllenhaal mentioned Jones as a potential filmmaker after seeing Moon (2009).

Major League – US Box Office: USD$49.80millions

Famous quotes:

Pedro Cerrano: “Bats, they are sick. I cannot hit curveball. Straightball I hit it very much. Curveball, bats are afraid. I ask Jobu to come, take fear from bats. I offer him cigar, rum. He will come.”

Eddie Harris: “You know you might think about taking Jesus Christ as your savior instead of fooling around with all this stuff.”

Roger Dorn: “Shit, Harris.”

Pedro Cerrano: “Jesus, I like him very much, but he no help with curveball.”
Eddie Harris: “You trying to say Jesus Christ can’t hit a curveball?”

Sequel: Major League II; Major League: Back to the Minors

Fun Fact about Major League:

• In real life, reliever Mitch Williams, playing for the Chicago Cubs when the movie came out, took inspiration from Rick Vaughn’s persona. He started wearing the number 99 and requested that “Wild Thing” be played when he entered games, acquiring the moniker “Wild Thing” quickly. Additionally, this movie inspired the present custom of closers and other relief pitchers having their own intro music.

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco – US Box Office: USD$49.14millions

Famous quotes:

Delilah: “I’ve never really felt this way before.”

Chance: “Me neither. I wanted to say the same thing to you all day, but then I thought you’d laugh at me and then you’d think I’m a dork.”

[Delilah laughs]

Chance: “Geez, you are laughing at me!”

Delilah: “No, I’m laughing with you.”
Chance: “I knew that.”

Sequel:  Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

Fun Facts about Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco:

• Don Ameche, who provided the voice of Shadow in the first movie but passed away in 1993, was replaced.
• Chance, Shadow, and Sassy are all performed by four American Bulldogs, four Golden Retrievers, and six Himalayan cats.
• Before Sinbad took over, Laurence Fishburne was originally cast as Riley.

Wonder Woman 1984 – US Box Office: USD$46.37millions

Famous quotes:

Diana Prince: “My father hid Themyscira from the world, and I’ve been trying to learn how he did it.”

Steve Trevor: “Did what?”

Diana Prince: “Made something invisible. But in 50 years, I’ve only done it once.”

Steve Trevor: “Well, now is not a bad time to start trying. How long does it last?”
Diana Prince: “I don’t know. It was just a coffee cup… and I lost it.”

Fun Facts about Wonder Woman 1984:

• At the age of 12, Lilly Aspell (Young Diana) accomplished all the appropriate physical dangerous stunts because she decided she did a better job than her real actors.
• According to Variety, who broke the story first, actress Gal Gadot received $10 million for this movie, which she also produced. A 33-fold increase over her $300,000 salary from the previous release of Wonder Woman (2017).
• The Wonder Woman armor from Alex Ross’s “Kingdom Come” comic novel inspires Asteria’s gold armor. Ross expressed in an interview his displeasure at the studio’s failure to pay him for using his design in media other than comics.

Super Speedway – US Box Office: USD$40.00millions