![]() ![]() In a weird calendar quirk, Speed 2: Cruise Control was an infamous flop for Bullock, earning just $164m worldwide (just $48m of that domestic) off a $160m budget in summer 1997. She did Speed 2: Cruise Control for Fox, sans Keanu Reeves, in exchange for the studio funding her romantic drama Hope Floats. The film was a late summer hit with $14m on opening weekend and an exceedingly leggy run to $108m domestic. Jackson in Joel Shumacher's all-star John Grisham adaptation A Time To Kill. The next year was top-billed above Matthew McConaughey and Samuel L. ![]() She was the big reason, along with pretty much everything else that was perfect in said bomb-on-the-bus thriller, why the film pushed past the 'no girls allowed' action film ceiling of around $80m at the time and powered Speed to $121m domestic off of a $14m debut.Ī year later she proved that she was a star completely on her own, as she opened While You Were Sleeping to $9.2 million all by herself and pushed the leggy and popular romantic comedy to $81m and then pushed The Net, an of-its-time (and surprisingly grim) techno thriller, to $50m off a $10m opening. She again took a "token girl" sidekick/love interest role and charmed the film away from Keenu Reeves and Dennis Hopper in what was a true "star is born" moment. Obviously Sandra Bullock didn't become "box office" until eight months later when she co-starred in one of the best action films of the last thirty years, Jan De Bont's Speed. Bullock, as last week capped an extraordinary run that arguably cements Sandra Bullock as the biggest female movie star on the planet. It is fitting that last week celebrated the 20th anniversary of the film that first introduced most of us to Mrs. Among the film's many accomplishments (biting social satire, Wesley Snipes's brilliantly insane villain turn, an intentionally funny Sylvester Stallone performance), it also contained one of the all-time great "token girl" sidekick characters, played with uncommon humor and gusto by some unknown named Sandra Bullock. ![]() Last week marked the 20th anniversary of a little film called Demolition Man. ![]()
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