Sentences with phrase «big budget feature»

Ernest Cline's popular ode to the 80s is getting a big budget feature film — directed by none other than Steven Spielberg — and Warner Bros. took some time to give fans the first look at the upcoming movie.

First Big Budget Feature: «Rendition» was a critical and commercial disappointment, but by then Hood had already landed his next megabudget film: «X-Men Origins: Wolverine,» the first spin - off of 20th Century Fox's «X-Men» franchise.

In what would amount to its biggest budget feature project yet, Netflix is partnering with Skydance Media on Six Underground, an action thriller that Michael Bay will direct with Deadpool «s Ryan Reynolds starring.

I always find it interesting to see independent filmmakers direct big budget features because most of them manage to do so with such ease which is exactly the case here.

Not exact matches

In March the budget featured, for the first time, a chapter on natural - resource development and included language about reducing environmental protection, penalizing environmental groups that tried to meddle in resource extraction, and speeding the approval of big resource projects.

The biggest mistake to be made is carelessly spending money on features that are not needed or spending your marketing budget with no control on measuring what you are getting back.

In yesterdayâ $ ™ s Financial Post, Jack Mintz repeated the notions that the Budget featured «no broad tax relief» and big spending.

Though both feature specialty ingredients, when purchased in bulk for all night drinking, can be a budget - friendly way to make a big impact with cocktail aficionados.

A club run o a shoe string budget and featuring 17 consecutive seasons in ECL, staying consistent in the big 4 this period and sometimes winning it, reaching UCL final is a successful club.

It features real porn stars in their marketing materials to make it seem big budget and reputable.

, shines as a frazzled producer with two exes and a pair of celluloid nightmares — a pretentious Sean Penn flick whose» edgy» ending features a dog getting shot, and a big - budget headache starring Bruce Willis, who refuses to shave his bushy, Talmudic beard.

Why in the wide, wide, world of sports would anybody make a big - budget feature film from a decades - old, animated cartoon parody of Nelson Eddy / Jeanette MacDonald movies?

This latest big budget team - up from the Marvel Cinematic Universe follows eighteen films that have featured

During 1993, Tarantino wrote and directed his next feature, Pulp Fiction, which featured three interweaving crime story lines; Tony Scott's big - budget production of True Romance was also released that year.

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

For a big - budget tentpole featuring such iconic characters and multiple planets and dimensions, Fantastic Four is strangely insular and hermetic.

It's a big budget mainstream Marvel movie that not only features a nearly all - black cast, but it also has an African - American writer director -LRB-...

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, the second feature film of Fred Schepisi, an openly ambitious and confident Australian director (7), was at the time of its release the biggest budget film made in Australia at $ 1.2 m.

In the wake of a number of star - studded big - budget comedy features waning at the box office (read Ghostbusters), and once - upon - a-time comedy king Adam Sandler now reaching his core audience on Netflix, A Bad Moms Christmas serves as an example of how feature film economics have also changed in a climate where streaming has impacted theatergoing for mid-and-low budgeted films.

It's a big budget mainstream Marvel movie that not only features a nearly all - black cast, but it also has an African - American writer director (Ryan Coogler) and co-screenwriter (Joe Robert Cole).

As the first big - budget feature from director Julius Onah, he acquits himself well, and almost every single problem the film has comes down to a script that, by Uziel's own admission, was re-written on - the - fly during production.

The director discusses his latest film, Manglehorn, starring Al Pacino, his work on commercials influencing his feature films, themes that recur through his work, and the difference between his indie films and those with bigger budgets.

Following up that big - budget historical epic with a gritty dirt bike flick called Spetters (1980), Verhoeven was building a stock company of sorts, prominently featuring Jeroen Krabbe, Rutger Hauer (whom he took great pride in discovering) and Renee Soutendijk.

There are appearances by X-Men both second -(Colossus) and third - tier (Negasonic Teenage Warhead), and more than one joke about how they couldn't afford to feature bigger stars given the movie's budget.

With Lionsgate's big screen reboot of Saban's Power Rangers hitting cinemas this Friday, THR is reporting that the film is set to make history by being the first big - budget superhero movie to feature a LGBT protagonist in Becky G's Trini, a.k.a. the Yellow Ranger, with the character revealed to be having «girlfiend problems» in what director -LSB-...]

There have actually been plenty of improvements and generally interesting derivations on the idea of transformable robots to suggest development of the concept on the scale a big - budget feature film should be able to offer, and «Dark of the Moon» offers several new iterations.

Marvel's «Black Panther» is another important step in that process, the first big - budget superhero pic to feature a mostly black cast.

But unfortunately, Rinsch's feature film debut fails in both departments, resulting in a disappointingly dull samurai flick that ranks among one of the most forgettable big - budget movies of last year.

Yimou's last feature film was the big - budget Chinese epic The Flowers of War, starring Christian Bale.

This version boasts a slightly bigger budget (and features some out - of - place CGI effects) but suffers from the same problems as the 1986 film.

Given the speed and unpredictability of change in this arena, it's reasonable to wonder if a big - budget feature film, much less one based on a four year - old novel (by Dave Eggers, who co-wrote this adaptation's screenplay), can hope to speak to the needs of the moment.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 23, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hunger Games (PG - 13 for intense violence and disturbing images) Screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins» futuristic sci - fi novel about a 16 year - old girl (Jennifer Lawrence) who volunteers to take her unlucky younger sister's (Willow Shields) place in a nationally - televised fight to the death featuring 24 participants picked by a government lottery.

Two weeks ago, as part of his summer - long institute, Redford held a weekend conference of most of the major exhibitors and distributors of «specialized» films - a category that includes independent U.S. features, foreign films, «art films,» cult films, revivals and almost anything else that isn't a big - budget, first - run standard Hollywood production.

Ari wants Vince to cash in on a big - budget action - adventure film entitled «Matterhorn,» while Eric fights for a low - budget independent feature that may not pay as much, but has the makings of an instant classic.

Writer - director Matthew Ross» first feature, Frank & Lola, is a low - budget film with big name stars.

From Gareth Edwards delivering «Godzilla,» to The Russo Brothers making very respectable work of «Captain America: the Winter Soldier,» to James Gunn knocking «Guardians of the Galaxy» out of the park, to Ava DuVernay moving to a much larger canvas with «Selma,» and Darren Aronofsky tackling the massive «Noah,» it's been such a phenomenon this year that we dedicated two whole features to it in the first half of the year (When Indie Directors Get Big Budgets and Next - Generation Blockbuster Directors).

The Conjuring was one of the biggest films of last year in terms of payback on budget so it's hardly surprising the creepy doll that featured in the plot, Annabelle, has nabbed her own flick.

No one will mistake Heist for a big budget, big studio feature, but this little action movie looks perfectly fine on Blu - ray.

The DIY duo on exploring big ideas with small budgets, their Aleister Crowley TV show, and their third feature The Endless.

For Paramount and MGM's «Ben - Hur» reboot, prophecies of its bad box office performance came true as the big - budget biblical feature opened to only an estimated $ 11.4 million this weekend.

KW: Did you feel that it was financially risky to release a big - budgeted, CGI creature feature at Christmastime?

He's appeared in everything from Big - budget Hollywood productions (he was solid as Jack Nicholson's second - in - command in Scorsese's The Departed) to lesser - known independent features (Face was a sturdy, if somewhat forgettable crime drama).

The only difference between this one and what has come before is the British production house, emulating the previous entries with precision, crafting a quality animated feature that holds up well compared to those with bigger budgets and more popular actors.

The Ryan Coogler - directed movie — unprecedented in being a big - budget studio tentpole featuring a virtually all - black cast — secured the fifth - biggest domestic opening of all time after blasting past all expectations.

Directed by Ryan Coogler, Black Panther is the first big - budget studio tentpole to feature virtually an all - black cast.

Writer - director Matthew Ross discusses his first feature, Frank & Lola, a low - budget film with big name stars.

Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Picture — Producers Guild of America Feature Film (Big Budget Comedy)-- Casting Society of America Best Ensemble — National Board of Review Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy)-- American Cinema Editors Best Editing — Los Angeles Film Critics Best Screenplay — Toronto Film Critics Association Best Adapted Screenplay — Chicago Film Critics Best Adapted Screenplay — Florida Film Critics Circle Best Adapted Screenplay — Kansas City Film Critics Best Adapted Screenplay — Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Best Adapted Screenplay — Central Ohio Film Critics Best Adapted Screenplay — Critics» Choice Award Best Adapted Screenplay — BAFTA Awards Best Comedy Film — Phoenix Critics Circle Best Comedy Film — Critics» Choice Award Best Actor in a Comedy for Christian Bale — Critics» Choice Award 28th USC Libraries Scripter Award

The Covered Wagon (Kino Lorber) is considered as the first big - budget feature Western.

Best Picture — African - American Film Critics Feature Film (Big Budget Drama)-- Casting Society of America Best Ensemble — African - American Film Critics Best Supporting Actor for Jason Mitchell — African - American Film Critics Best Musical Film — Phoenix Critics Circle Best Original Screenplay — Black Film Critics Circle Best Ensemble Cast — Black Film Critics Circle Best Ensemble Cast — Alliance of Women Film Journalists

Winstead, repped by Anonymous Content, WME and lawyer Karl Austen, has been straddling the indie and mainstream feature worlds with roles in indies like 2012's Smashed, which landed her an Indie Spirit nomination, and in such big - budget movies as A Good Day To Die Hard and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.