Sentences with phrase «became indie hits»

The co-authors became indie hits in 2013 and have since created over 15 independent franchises across 50 + published works, so the book is full of real - life examples from their own lives.

Last year, Amazon had a huge breakthrough success in their film division, with Manchester by the Sea becoming an indie hit, followed by a bunch of Oscar nominations (including Best Picture) and wins for star Casey Affleck and writer / director Kenneth Lonergan's screenplay.

The film was released by Freestyle and 20th Fox and went onto become an indie hit both domestically and internationally.

Not exact matches

Pirates of the Caribbean is the first film ever released under the Walt Disney Pictures brand to receive higher than a PG rating (the film is rated PG - 13), and the team assembled to make the film is a virtual Who's who of hot properties: Director Gore Verbinski had a huge hit last year with the spook fest The Ring, Writers Terry Rossio & Ted Elliott were the writing team behind Shrek, Actor Johnny Depp is so extremely selective in his roles no one would ever imagine he'd do a Disney film, Orlando Bloom is fresh off the Lord of The Rings Trilogy, Geoffrey Rush has at least one Academy Award under his belt, and Keira Knightley has become a hot property after her performance in the run away indie hit Bend It Like Beckham.

If that had happened, sure, the film would have been a guaranteed box office hit (rather than the indie darling this has the potential to become) but he probably wouldn't have filled the character with quite the pathos that Duplass does.

In fact, if an indie movie does become a breakout hit at the box office, chances are it most certainly debuted at Robert Redford's three decade old film festival.

Arriving nearly 40 years after the original «Rocky» became an indie sensation that surprised with a Best Picture Oscar win, the $ 35 million production is already a hit with critics (93 percent positive on Rotten Tomatoes).

My Dinner With Andre, directed by Louis Malle from a script by Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, who play fictionalized versions of themselves, became the surprise indie hit of 1981 and a cult film on the art house circuit.

«Lay the Favorite» Synopsis: A ditzy thirtysomething stripper - turned - cocktail - waitress (Rebecca Hall) becomes involved with a group of geeky fiftyish men who have found a way to work the sportsbook system in Las Vegas to their advantage What You Need To Know: Directed by Stephen Frears («The Grifters,» «The Queen» «Tamara Drewe «-RRB-, a filmmaker who has admittedly had a hit - and - miss career, but featuring a pretty much all - star cast of Bruce Willis (always good in the hands of a real filmmaker), Rebecca Hall, Catherine Zeta - Jones, Vince Vaughn, Laura Prepon and Joshua Jackson, it's hard not to be intrigued by a mid-sized dramedy that's not being made by either a major studio or a mid-sized indie.

When it comes to indie hits, Edmund McMillen has consistently knocked it out of the park, with his creations Super Meat Boy and Binding of Isaac becoming beloved for their simplicity.

Nine years ago, autodidact filmmaker Shane Carruth burst onto the indie scene with the abstruse and complex sci - fi thriller «Primer,» which made him a Sundance darling in 2004 when it won the Grand Jury Prize and went on to become a cult hit.

Here's the timeline: the Sundance Film Festival broke out brainy genre - bender «Get Out,» the sleeper of 2017, as well as Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon's husband - and - wife true romance «The Big Sick» (Amazon Studios / Lionsgate), which became an summer indie hit and scored a WGA nomination.

«Publishing pros and producers realize indie books are at a disadvantage to mainstream books in terms of publicity and media coverage, and remember: the whole point of the Vault is to help publishers find promising books before those books become breakout hits.

Macklemore is the first indie group (an artist or group without the backing of a major record label) in nearly two decades to top the Billboard charts with «Thrift Shop» and «Can't Hold Us»; another hit, «Same Love» celebrates same - sex marriage, becoming a standard protest / civil rights anthem.

Against the odds, the indie bookshop became a hit, even drawing queues outside the door before it opens in the morning.

The «indie bestsellers» «among us become Million Kindle Club members when they hit 1 million sales.

They had the indie market down pat with Xbox Live Arcade, an XNA development kit that allowed people to publish games for 100 bucks on their platform, and had such hits like Fez, Super Meat Boy, Braid, Limbo, and so many others providing even more reasons to not only buy an xbox, but to become a developer themselves.

Polygon's Ben Kuchera will moderate a fireside talk between Matt and Henry, who'll reveal how Crossy Road became a hit indie mobile game around the world, first on iOS and Amazon, and then with a Google Play version co-developed by Hipster Whale and Yodo1.

That's the problem with you indie devs lately, you make one game that becomes a hit and makes you a lot of money and it inflates your ego to insane proportions.

We have seen various games change their mechanics for sequels, Fallout 1 and 2 were isometric top - down RPGs which become 1st person Action - RPGs, Resident evil went through many stages before becoming first - person in Resident Evil 7, Zelda went from top - down to side - scrolling then back to top - down before hitting 3d... Fear Effect was originally a 3d third - person stealth - action puzzle game yet Fear Effect Sedna has been presented as a fixed - angle top - down isometric twin - stick shooter style which focuses on stealth, action, puzzles and tactics — that is a lot of characteristics and quite ambitious for a small indie game studio.

As for gamejams, Ukrainian devs have already got the taste of these, and just - for - fun projects become award - winning hits — think of Party Hard, for instance, who won the Critics» Choice award at Casual Connect Europe 2015 Indie Showcase.

Information about next - gen plans for indie will become clearer once E3 hits.

We at Haogamers pride ourselves of finding some of the very best indie games before the general public, but we're even happier when those games become major hits, even household names in the gaming community.

When I hit the scene on July 1, 2011, I never expected that I would not only still be doing this six years later, but that I would have become such a central part of the Xbox Live Indie Game community.