From Amy Schumer and Daisy Ridley to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, here are the actors, filmmakers, and studios with reason to celebrate their 2015 — and others who likely are happy to see it go.
Adam B. Vary / BuzzFeed News; Universal Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures; Lucasfilm; Disney-Pixar
It has been a year of feast and famine for Hollywood. The domestic and global box office for a few movies that opened in 2015 could only be described as gargantuan, driving the North American box office to a record $11 billion in total grosses. The top six films of the year accounted for a full 25% of that $11 billion; meanwhile, a litany of wannabe blockbusters in 2015 faced total audience rejection, and more became costly mega-budgeted bombs. While the first half of the year saw a dramatic boost in overall ticket sales, box office for the second half of 2015 featured precious few financial bright spots. Even highly anticipated movies like the newest James Bond film Spectre and the final Hunger Games movie Mockingjay – Part 2 considerably underperformed when compared to their predecessors. So while overall grosses were at an all-time high, ticket sales for the year only jumped modestly from 2014's disastrous 25-year low — and only due to the box office might of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Adam B. Vary / BuzzFeed News / Via boxofficemojo.com
Along with BuzzFeed News' mid-year assessment of the biggest winners and losers in movies, there were plenty of studios, filmmakers, and actors with a lot to celebrate in 2015, and many who are eager to put the year behind them.
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