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March shows little promise but with big budget films like Oz and G.I. Joe: Retaliation we're reminded that Summer Blockbuster season is just a couple months away.

Miles Teller has started to make a name for himself after a mix of big budget films like That Awkward Moment and Divergent to smaller gems like The Spectacular Now.

So Paramount, in the wake of a disappointing 2017 that saw big budget films like Transformers: The Last Knight and Ghost in the Shell underperform while the studio's would - be Oscar hopefuls Suburbicon and Downsizing were DOA at awards season, is looking to make some changes in 2018 and selling God Particle off to Netflix may be a cushy deal.

Not exact matches

He called «The Walking Dead» a «soap opera» and said big - budget films like «World War Z» made modest zombie films impossible.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Unlike other independent films in which big names are ridden into the ground like a sweaty mule, shoehorned into every possible scene in the movie, «Moms» Night Out» has an ensemble cast - an amazing feat for a film with a budget just under $ 5 million, according to Andrew and John Erwin, the brothers who directed the film.

So when Hollywood tried to replicate that success with big - budget films like Russell Crowe's Noah, Christian Bale's Exodus or even Martin Scorcese's Silence, they've all flopped.

Outside of major roles in early sound efforts like The Big Trail and Tom Sawyer (both 1930), he could be found playing menacing tribal chiefs and bandits in serials and B - pictures, and seedy, drunken «redskin» stereotypes (invariably named Injun Joe or Injun Charlie or some such) in big - budget films like John Ford's My Darling Clementine (194Big Trail and Tom Sawyer (both 1930), he could be found playing menacing tribal chiefs and bandits in serials and B - pictures, and seedy, drunken «redskin» stereotypes (invariably named Injun Joe or Injun Charlie or some such) in big - budget films like John Ford's My Darling Clementine (194big - budget films like John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946).

Perhaps its unexpected box office success can be attributed in part to the popular reaction against an entertainment industry whose laser - like concentration is on big - budget franchise and sequel films.

Now I like the first Hoodwinked movie very much, and for a low budget CG film its very funny and keeps you entertained, so when I heard they were going to make a bigger budgeted 3 - D sequel I was interested, but the better CG doesn't add to how poorly this film was made, the CG may be better, but the lip synching is terrible and the voice acting isn't that good.

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.

This felt like an old - school, big budget sci - fi film with massive special effects, great visuals and a concept that made you think in Director Joseph Kosinski's love letter to 80s and 90s science fiction trendsetters.

It was a time of big budget, Oscar nominated studio films like Misery and early genre work from filmmakers who would go on to become the best in the business, like Fincher's Seven, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, Tarantino and Rodriguez's From Dusk Til Dawn, and Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder.

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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.

Also like those films, something gets lost in the translation, as what might work within the confines of a modestly budgeted Asian film seems all too ridiculous when big stars and budgets get injected into the mix.

He directed the funniest film in the Marvel franchise, Iron Man 3, and the criminally underrated crime comedy The Nice Guys, so a big - budget R - rated sci - fi horror like The Predator doesn't scream «next career step», but here we are.

The film feels very much like a low - budget version of another big screen Star Wars - tinged film based on existing franchises, Flash Gordon, with its cheesy sets and costumes, and juvenile presentation.

Back when it sounded like Suspiria was dead in the water, Green noted that the reason was mostly because the budget was just too big for a film that a studio was essentially going to be taking a risk on.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

The movie was filmed in such places as Belgium, England, and Florida, and Burton told EW that the break away from sound stages (on big - budget tentpoles like Alice in Wonderland) was a nice change of pace of him too:

Neither Charlize Theron nor Nicholas Hoult are stranger to big budget action fare after films like «Prometheus», «Hancock» and the «X-Men» series.

While Blumhouse Productions had a wonderful 2017 - thanks to hits like Get Out, Split, and Happy Death Day - director James Wan's original 2011 Insidious film was one of the company's first big successes, earning nearly $ 100 million on a $ 1.5 million budget.

There was a monstrous amount of undeniable glee to be had while watching 2013's Pacific Rim, a film that played out like a big - budget re-enactment of a seven - year - old smashing his toys together.

Warner Bros. is understandably worried about sending out a big budget film with unproven talent, helmed by gross - out comedy director like Dobkin making his first action movie.

This year, we have been treated to several big - budget superhero films like The Avengers and The Amazing Spider - Man.

The Gist: Burton has gotten a lot of flack as of late thanks to big budget, critically panned films like «Alice in Wonderland» and «Dark Shadows.»

At the film's recent press day, Mirren revealed her approach to the role, what it was like having the opportunity to improvise on set, acting opposite the renowned Puri and what the two share in common, what she looks for in a project, why the director is an important consideration, why she likes to alternate between big movies and smaller low budget films, her lifelong attraction to French culture, her latest film that she's currently shooting with director Simon Curtis entitled «Woman in Gold,» and her upcoming biopic, «Trumbo,» with Bryan Cranston about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

I'm into all types of movies — I'm trying to make a horror film (next), and there's some indie movies that'd cost about $ 5 to make that I'd like to do — but this was a chance for someone to write a check for a big - budget comedy, and to be able to do something as balls - out as this one... y ’ know, I'm gonna take advantage of that!»

We tend to think of the French New Wave and its contemporary derivatives as low - budget black - and - white cinema, but in fact the French New Wave also included many bigger - budget films intended to make incursions into the commercial mainstream — movies like Godard's Contempt, Rivette's The Nun, Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451, Chabrol's A double tour (also known as Leda and Web of Passion), and Skolimowski's The Adventures of Gerard.

It was clear that Blakeson was set for a Christopher Nolan - style career path, moving from low - budget indie thriller to bigger - scale films, but, like fellow Brit Rupert Wyatt, who went straight from the excellent «The Escapist» to the mega-budgeted «Rise of the Apes» without passing Go, Blakeson seems to be skipping a few steps, and going straight for the tentpole.

Although we now know that it went on to be a massive box office hit and took home a sack of Oscars, the release of Gladiator, which was their most expensive film to date, represented the unimaginable: a $ 103 - million attempt to resurrect the long - dead ancient Roman epic, a once steadfast Hollywood genre that has been defunct since the mid-1960s when big hits like Ben - Hur (1959) and Spartacus (1960) were eventually overshadowed by colossal financial failures like Cleopatra (1963)(not to mention 1980's notorious big - budget hard - core epic Caligula).

He's made big - budget and prestige films like «Exodus: Gods and Kings» and «The Place Beyond the Pines.»

The year's weirdest big - budget movie owes more to spaghetti westerns, silent comedies and midnight films like «El Topo» than to anything being made today.

After making big - budget Hollywood films like Iron Man (2008) and Cowboys & Aliens (2011), Jon Favreau returns to his smaller, more comedic roots with Chef.

It's strange to see a big - budget sci - fi movie aimed explicitly at a family audience, and the film plays like how - to survival tactics TV, only on a massively overblown scale.

While the scale of this film is huge, it looks like the budget to bring it to the big screen wasn't.

I felt like I was expecting a bigger figure (Captain America: Civil War is still in theaters and recently passed $ 400 million), but I didn't take the film's budget into account.

Grossing over $ 1.3 billion at the box office, it was a balance — like most big - budgeted Disney films — that proved to be a success.

Time constraints is our enemy this week but we're powering through undaunted; just like Brian DePalma filming a big - budget picture.

I understand this isn't a big budget blockbuster but scenes like the airplane scene and the river scene really took me out of the film.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 14, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (PG - 13 for epic battle scenes and scary images) Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) directed this adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel about a human - like creature with furry feet (Martin Freeman) who is prompted by a wizard (Ian McKellen) to embark on an epic with 13 dwarfs to wrest control of a lost kingdom from the clutches of a fearsome dragon.

It looks like Spidey's found his next film, and it's not a big - budget action flick.

With so many big - budget action movies flopping at the box office this past summer, it's crazy to think that a quaint genre film like «A History of Violence» would handle its action sequences with the most panache.

It's a pretty fun exercise, but like most other big budget films, is pretty brainless.

It's hard to believe the budget for ALMOST FAMOUS was $ 60 million when you consider the fact that the film has no big name stars or special effects like SPACE COWBOYS, which had about the same budget.

Even after winning an Academy Award for the epic Traffic (2000) and continuing to work on bigger - budget Hollywood films like Ocean's Eleven (2001), this high - profile filmmaker has never lost his drive to make compelling independent cinema, whether large - scale (2008's Che) or small (2010's And Everything Is Going Fine).

The actress, who, prior to Bone, was already known in industry circles for her gritty portrayals of troubled youths in such independent films as Poker House and The Burning Plain seamlessly made the transition to big - budget studio fare playing a young «Mystique» in X-Men: First Class while still sticking to her indie roots with key roles in films like The Beaver, Like Crazy, and the forthcoming House at the End of the Strlike The Beaver, Like Crazy, and the forthcoming House at the End of the StrLike Crazy, and the forthcoming House at the End of the Street.

Overall, 2015 was a great year at the movies with a lot of great films arriving (including big budget fare like Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Jurassic World).

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening February 27, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Crossing Over (R for sexuality, nudity, graphic violence and pervasive profanity) «Crash» - like ensemble drama chronicles the clash of cultures in L.A. resulting from the flood of immigrants attempting to attain legal status in the U.S. Cast includes Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd and Alice Braga.