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Only the most self-confident directors would believe without fail that their next movie is destined for box office success before audiences have even seen it, and if anyone is allowed to think that they\u2019ve helmed a guaranteed winner, it\u2019s Steven Spielberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n After all, he\u2019s the highest-grossing director in cinema history, the only one to have overseen a $10 billion filmography, and he\u2019s the solitary filmmaker to have made the top-earning title of all time on three separate occasions, so he knows how to put his finger on the pulse of the cinemagoing population.<\/p>\n He\u2019s arguably blockbuster cinema\u2019s definitive auteur, and if he\u2019s not, there aren\u2019t many people not named George Lucas or George Cameron who deserve to be part of the conversation. Even when he abandons spectacle in favour of more intimate and introspective stories, because he\u2019s Steven Spielberg, people are still going to show up.<\/p>\n Take Saving Private Ryan, for instance. Spielberg movies do big business, war movies can potentially do big business, and movies instantly heralded as among the best of the year, and the best in the history of their chosen genre, use buzz and word-of-mouth to earn a pretty penny at the box office and then some.<\/p>\n With the benefit of hindsight, it was anything but a flop<\/a>. The immersive epic became the highest-grossing World War II picture ever made, and rode a wave of awards season hype to record ticket sales, and it wasn\u2019t knocked off its perch until Christopher Nolan\u2019s Dunkirk arrived almost 20 years later.<\/p>\n