Lightyear
2022 is shaping up to be the best one yet for Keke Palmer ’s career , with a spectacular outspoken part in Pixar’sLightyearand an upcoming atomic number 27 - lead role in Jordan Peele’sNope , opening July 22nd .
But this wo n’t be Palmer ’s first fantastic year , as the likable performer has been working hard since her former Clarence Shepard Day Jr. as a tiddler actor , even going so far as to lead two flick by the age of 18 . While not all were hits , they are indicative of variety in Palmer ’s filmography , which take care to be diversify even further with Peele ’s upcoming genre - bending picture .
Alice (2022) — $373,000
InAlice , Palmer portray a Georgian striver who turn tail only to learn that it ’s not the 19th century as she ’d been tell , but rather 1973 . With the help of hand truck number one wood Frank ( Common ) , the unnamed immature woman trust to exact bloody revenge on her captor , Paul Bennet ( Jonny Lee Miller ) . It ’s a meaty role for Palmer , and she throws herself into it entirely , doing justice for the veridical - life victims who enliven her character .
Palmer ’s criminal offence thriller fomite did n’t make jaw - dropping amounts of money in U.S. theatre , but it also played in at most 169 of them , per the film’sBox Office Mojopage . Alice’sPalmer , Common , and Lee Millerare talented , appealing performers , but they were pavilion names on a comparatively modest motion picture . moreover , the movie ’s violence and antebellum mise en scene were also sure to turn off a few likely ticket - vendee .
The Longshots (2008) — $11.5 Million
The Longshotsstars Palmer and Ice Cube as Jasmine and her former football game musician uncle , Curtis . When Curtis bugger off the chance to take his niece ’s school football team , he hit the unconventional conclusion to engage her as the quarterback . The film , conduct by Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst , is really a biopic of real - life quarterback Jasmine Plummer , and Palmer exhibit an incredible amount of maturity date in showing respect to the individual she ’s portraying .
The Durst - directed biopic may have had kinfolk - well-disposed appeal and the inclusion of both Palmer and Ice Cube , but it barely made a dent at the domesticated box office , opening to a slim $ 4 million on its way to a final stateside gross of $ 11.5 million , allot toBox Office Mojo .
Akeelah And The Bee (2006) — $19 Million
One ofKeke Palmer ’s good filmsjust as it ’s one of her best performances , Akeelah and the Beefollows the nominal fiber as she seeks to rise to the top at the National Spelling Bee . The film received a fair minute of critical acclaim , and even those detractors who found it to be akin to a TV picture found a lot to praise in Palmer ’s work .
Regardless of whether or notAkeelah and the Beewas a blockbuster is irrelevant liken to the telling fact that Palmer not only direct the photographic film at 11 but holds her own against a majuscule performing artist such as Fishburne . But it was also a movie to generate a seemly amount of interest , earning back 75 percentage of its $ 8 million budget over the course of instruction of its opening weekend alone , perBox Office Mojo .
Joyful Noise (2012) — $31 Million
Joyful Noisefollows the congregation of a small church in Georgia . Once a well - known source of gorgeous consort euphony , the church service is now the site of a battle between strong - willed and very dissimilar singers Vi Rose Hill ( Queen Latifah ) and G. G. Sparrow ( Dolly Parton ) . Arnold Palmer portrays Olivia , Vi ’s daughter and a beginning of Wisdom of Solomon in her female parent ’s pitiful moments . The most telling facial expression of the film as a whole is how well Palmer view as her own against the even more experienced Latifah , though neither of their carrying out was enough to save the movie from poor critical reception .
Unlike interchangeable high - visibility , well - swan musical , Joyful Noisewas not a winner at the box office . With a $ 25 million budget and a oecumenical total of just over $ 31 million ( perBox Office Mojo ) it seems the flux lead power of Parton , Palmer , and Latifah was n’t enough for profitability .
Madea’s Family Reunion (2006) — $63 Million
In Tyler Perry’sMadea ’s Family Reunion , the title case is forced to take in an badly - tempered foster child ( Palmer ’s Nikki ) due to her actions in Perry ’s first picture : Diary of a Mad Black Woman . Family Reunionwasn’t the first timePerry ’s Madea movies undertake abstruse issues , and it was far from the last , but an attitude - prone child learning to reform from an attitude - prostrate grownup is an interesting tailspin on a well - break concept .
Like the absolute majority of Perry ’s other films , the international gross forMadea ’s Family Reunionis trifling . However , consider it made over $ 63 million ( according toBox Office Mojo ) on a budget of just $ 6 million , there was little doubt the managing director would be capable to extend making as many movies as he get a line set . alas , however , the 2006Reunionfilm is to date the only time Perry and Palmer have collaborated .
Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) — $64 Million
Palmer reprise her office as Peaches the mammoth fromIce Age : Continental Driftfor what is to date the last episode of the enfranchisement : Ice long time : Collision Course . As the girl of Ray Romano ’s Manny and Queen Latifah ’s Ellie , Peaches grant Palmer spate of fourth dimension in the voice act spotlight before her role inLightyear .
By the time theIce Ageseries ' 5th installment hit dramatic art , domesticated interest group had dwindled to a dangerous extent ( a simple $ 64 million , perBox Office Mojo ) . The same could be aver to a less stage for its international clout , but it still seduce over three times its $ 105 million budget from international territory alone .
Barbershop 2: Back In Business (2004) — $65 Million
InBarbershop 2 : Back in Business , Palmer ’s role is fairly blinking - and - you’ll - young woman - it , starring as the niece of Queen Latifah ’s Gina , who would go on to get her own spinoff : Beauty Shop .
2002’sBarbershopwas a surprisal smash hit in the United States , rack up a last U.S. gross of intimately $ 76 million on a $ 12 million budget , perBox Office Mojo . The Arnold Palmer - starring subsequence did n’t do quite as well , making $ 65 million on a vastly increase budget of $ 30 million ( also according toBox Office Mojo ) , but it was still profitable enough to eventually lead inBarbershop : The Next Cut(2016 ) .
Lightyear (2022) — $112.5 Million (As Of 7/10)
In Pixar’sLightyear , Arnold Daniel Palmer spokesperson challenging Space Ranger Izzy Hawthorne , the now - grown granddaughter of Alisha , Buzz ’s old buddy before he got trapped in hyperspace for a few class . Not only is Pixar ’s film the highest - budgeted debut in Palmer ’s filmography , but it also pass her a theatrical role nearly as chewy as that of the title character . Hawthorne is extremely drive , yet can show her fun side , though she will never give the grandness of the missionary post at helping hand .
Lightyearmay bePalmer ’s most high - profile film , just as it ’s one of her highest - grossing , but it still has n’t proven to be a financial winner . The film did n’t impress pundits over its opening weekend , make a lackluster $ 50 million stateside ( perBox Office Mojo ) on a $ 200 million budget . More troubling is the fact that it has n’t held on well week after hebdomad , which is strange for an animated motion-picture show , peculiarly one of theToy Storyfranchise .
Hustlers (2019) — $105 Million
Hustlersfollows a radical of alien dancers who begin drug and robbing their high - rolled , vainglorious banker clients . Led by Constance Wu ’s new - to - the - secret plan Destiny and Jennifer Lopez ’s seasoned pro , Ramona , Palmer ’s Mercedes and her peers go for an illegal , extravagant ride that in the end terminate in jail time and suffering for all ask .
Hustlerswas a major hit for STX Entertainment , their biggest outside of perhapsBad Moms . The film go into production with a budget of $ 20.7 million , shockingly modest considering the participation of Lopez ( who also served as manufacturer alongside Will Ferrell and Adam McKay ) , Cardi B , Lizzo , Palmer , andRiverdale ’s Lili Reinhart . It pull in nearly eight times that worldwide , including just about $ 105 million from the United States alone , perBox Office Mojo .
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) — $161 Million
After the second movie of theIce Agesaga , TheMeltdown , outgrossed the first film in both the domestic and external markets , the third installment , Ice Age : Dawn of the Dinosaurs(2009 ) , stayed about even in the domesticated market . But it jumped by another highly impressive $ 220 in international territories , undertake the existence of Palmer ’s first episode as the boisterous and fun - get laid peach tree : Ice Age : Continental Drift .
Like the long - runningFast & Furiousfranchise , Ice Agecontinued to excel abroad ( per the film’sBox Office Mojopage ) , with the 4th installment ’s international tally of $ 715 million making the film ’s still - impressive $ 161 million domesticated gross seem small .
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