Then it morphed into an art medium, complete with interactive features propelled by
big production budgets.
Boasting
big production budgets and believable special effects, the film also includes positive portrayals of parents, teamwork and a few literary terms that might come in handy on your teen's next English test.
«When we first started talking about using video internally, we were thinking about
a big production budget,» recalls Young.
Not exact matches
At this year's AEE, porn titan Vivid is going to be touting its latest
big -
budget production, a triple - X «parody» of Star Wars that is being released this month.
China's box office revenue is still swelling at double - digit rates after years of breakneck growth and, with Hollywood know - how and
bigger budgets, Chinese movies are gaining momentum as they find ways to play on domestic themes and improve
production quality.
Some were excited about the possibility of
bigger budgets for video
productions and more corporate perks, others expressed concern about layoffs and many had no idea what to expect.
It doesn't need to be as
big budget a
production as something like those insurance commercials.
Though there have been several film versions of the Christian allegory, the latest version, which is currently in
production, will likely be the
biggest budget effort to date.
The world is «thirsty for information,» and the tools will let anyone with gumption and talent be a publisher — video is no longer the preserve of television networks and
big -
budget production companies.
What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including
big -
budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.
Live by Night, the Appian Way, Pearl Street Films, RatPac - Dune Entertainment, Warner Brothers, and iMint Media
production, is a
big -
budget passion project.
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.
Raimi's first film since 2009's Drag Me to Hell (and first
big -
budget production since his Spider - Man trilogy) is a $ 200 million, visually dazzling, 3D prequel to the story told in 1939's The Wizard of Oz, chronicling the rise of said wizard from his humble beginnings as a small - time Kansas magician.
In choosing the look of their
big -
budget production, Lord and Miller stick to that aesthetic, using computer animation to simulate the surface texture and slightly jerky movement we might expect if someone had orchestrated the entire experience with plastic toys painstakingly repositioned and photographed one frame at a time (according to the press notes, that would have taken no fewer than 15,080,330 bricks).
The success of the film led to a job directing the 1989
big -
budget version of Batman; a darkly lavish, gothic
production, the film proved to be a huge hit, securing Burton a place on the roster of A-list directors.His next film, 1990's Edward Scissorhands was the tongue - in - cheek gothic tale of an artificial boy put together by a benign scientist, who dies before he can complete the boy; as a result, the fabricated youth has hedge clipper - like scissors for hands.
They're handsome,
big -
budget productions with
big, pretty, empty faces, and they're Pollyannaish and generally awful, uniformly, with Splash still the lone bright spot in his career.
It's a tribute to stars Benson and Moorhead, who combined to direct, write, edit and shoot the film, that their micro-
budget project comes off more haunting than many
big - studio
productions with 100 times (at least) the
budget.
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.
3D is already being heavily pushed on every director making a
bigger budget film and studios are creating small
production companies to make Paranormal Activity - like films.
Pan stands as one of the year's
biggest flops, grossing just $ 35 million domestically and $ 126 M worldwide on a
production budget of $ 150 M.
Reynolds has not only succeeded, he (along with a
big -
budgeted production, a great director and the returning screenwriters (Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and himself) have made a terrific, exhilarating movie.
Naturally, Hook is the better Pan sequel, but comparing a DisneyToon
production to a
big budget blockbuster isn't really fair.
Variety reports that the project is moving forward with
production set to kick off in September in Cape Town, South Africa with an approximate $ 60 million
budget which aims to render this story which will see giant galleons sailing on waves of sand as they fight giant creatures that can get as
big as a city block.
Because it was
budgeted at just $ 9 million, The Best Man qualified as a financial hit; even so, a sequel would not have seemed feasible if the by - now
big - name actors hadn't returned for the
production.
Entertainment, a surprise pickup from the
production company known more for its
big -
budget explosions than its heartfelt family tales.
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.
With a solid belief from film critics that she's bound for stardom and a growing filmography of award - winning indies and
big -
budget productions, Emmy's success will rest on her own talents when she sets out to prove everyone right.
However, while citing those ubiquitous unnamed «sources,» the website notes that it's still early in the process, and it's unclear whether the three - time Oscar nominee would want to appear in such a
big -
budget production.
In fact, PA3 opened
bigger and though it had the series» weakest legs to date, it still ended up with a domestic gross close to the first film and a franchise - high worldwide take of $ 203 M. And while the
production budget again rose, it was still kept to just $ 5 million, well under the competition and far less than the marketing costs of such a high - profile wide release.
Even the seemingly small details of the armament worn by the Dora Milaje, the king's guards led by Danai Gurira's character Okoye, and the accessories worn by Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett) and other members of the royal court required the
big -
budget production to turn to someone innovative.
The film, meant to be a
big action - oriented take on the Arthurian legend, was taken off the studio's
production schedule after
budget concerns arose and attached actors Kit Harington and Joel Kinnaman were freed to do other projects.
47 Ronin is one of the strangest
big -
budget productions in recent memory: a 3 - D fantasy set in 18th - century Japan, shot in Hungary and the U.K. with a predominantly Japanese cast, and distinguished by ornate
production design, arcane intrigue, and a downbeat tone which bring to mind David Lynch's flawed - but - fascinating take on Dune.
Having worked with filmmakers such as Wes Anderson, Lars von Trier, Abel Ferrara and Paul Schrader multiple times, Dafoe is as likely to pop up in a foreign art film as in a
big -
budget Hollywood
production.
Following a string of fantastical films with hefty
budgets (and less - than - desirable critical responses), Tim Burton takes a deep breath and a long step back with
Big Eyes, his smallest, most reigned - in
production since Ed Wood.
A
big -
budget production with a strong cast, «Leave Her to Heaven» is immensely entertaining.
This isn't a
big budget, glossy
production, so niggling little things like pixellation on the opening titles are a little distracting.
Production budget doesn't seem to be readily available for Blair Witch (though I haven't looked that hard), but Death Note is DEFINITELY a
bigger budget film.
Currently, a
big budget adaptation of Ghost in the Shell is in
production for Paramount Pictures with Scarlett Johansson in the lead role.
Bright marks something of a return to the filmmaker's roots, following his dive into
big -
budget productions with the DCEU installment, Suicide Squad.
Unlike a typical
big -
budget production like X-Men, he says «we don't get to make it with the
budget of most superhero movies, but we get to make it the way we want to make it, so that's even more exciting than having a catered lunch.
Opening figures for «Ben - Hur,» whose
production budget was at least $ 100 million, put it in line to become one of the
biggest box office bombs of the summer.
For the very first time, a
big budget Hollywood
production starring an all star cast tells a love story amidst the Armenian genocide.
Damon traveled all the way to China to shoot this
big budget production from director Zhang Yimou («Hero»).
There's one
production day left on Baird's
big budget epic film «Hail Caesar: A Tale of Christ,» and he still needs to shoot his
big speech.
But it seems like the
biggest fans of the network's schlocky low -
budget productions are those entertained by their egregiousness.
In the largest of innumerable ironies, the duo is incensed that their underground credibility is being ruined by the
production of a
big -
budget picture and seek to, if not stop the
production of the film - within - a-film (to star James Van Der Beek and Jason Biggs), get a piece of the financial pie.
The movie is not meant to be entirely historically accurate, and certainly doesn't seem like a highly detailed,
big budget production.
Production spanned from 1982 until 1987 on a
budget of roughly $ 5,000, 12 - year - old Chris Strompolos taking over for Harrison Ford and filling some
big shoes with some small feet.