Sentences with phrase «big budget films such»

Since then he has played a mix of leading roles in small independent films and supporting roles in big budget films such as Peter Jackson's version of King Kong.

Not exact matches

The «Batman» television show (1966 - 1968) cast a long, pop art - infused, camp shadow over the property and, after the big budget failures of a series of superhero films in the 1980s (some more campy than others) such as Howard the Duck (1986), WB apparently had cold feet.

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).

He established himself as a Hollywood leading man, having starred in several big budget films, such as Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), Changing Lanes (2002), The Sum of All Fears (2002), and Daredevil (2003).

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.

Of course, Verhoeven's US big - budget genre work, such as RoboCop (1987) and Total Recall (1990), both spawning recent lackluster remakes, and pulpy neo-noir Basic Instinct (1992) were overshadowed by the debacle that would come to be Showgirls (1995), now celebrated as one of the best worst films ever made.

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:

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.

The fact that in 2017 it's still considered acceptable for a big budget film to license a song by such a deeply problematic individual — a big budget film that sells itself on the notion of female empowerment, no less — speaks to how badly wrong Hollywood continues to get it.

As well as working on big budget Hollywood Movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Naomie Harris (Jane) continues to choose challenging and exciting roles in smaller and more diverse films such as THE FIRST GRADER.

The film has a little more grain than you might expect of such a 2016 big budget behemoth, but everything looks as it should and the images are sharp, crisp, and suitably detailed.

Truly, this is such a wonderfully made film, it puts so many of its big - budget contemporaries to shame, whilst pointing us to lots of new talent.

No matter the unique circumstances surrounding Doctor Strange, «Iron Fist» or this film, the end result is the same: Hollywood shies away from putting an Asian actor front and centre of big - budget productions, even those that necessarily call for such casting.

The visual effects are surprisingly shoddy for a film with such a big budget and the writing is laughably bad, defying logic at every turn.

The Oath Baltasar Kormákur has had a supremely interesting career with big budget Hollywood films such as Everest and 2 Guns, along with more modestly priced Icelandic affairs such as The Deep.

The world rolled its collective eyes at the prospect of a big budget Hollywood attempt to squash such an intricate web of plots into a two - hour film.

Plenty (including Wyatt, presumably) must have been nervous about such an untested filmmaker taking on a big budget property, and an important franchise for the studio, but the film proved a surprise smash, and much of the credit (along with Andy Serkis» remarkable performance) must go to Wyatt, who directed the film cleanly but brilliantly, and soon attracted the label of «the next Christopher Nolan.»

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 Street.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 5, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS Cadillac Records (R for sexuality and pervasive profanity) Historical drama chronicles the rise of the legendary record company founded in Chicago in the Fifties by Leonard (Adrien Brody) and Phil Chess (Shiloh Fernandez), siblings who roamed the South in search of promising talent, and discovered such future musical greats as Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Etta James (Beyonce»), Chuck Berry (Mos Def), Howlin» Wolf (Eamonn Walker) and (Willie Dixon (Cedric the Entertainer).

I would never sign with another publisher unless they offered either a huge advance or something I wouldn't have access to as an indie, such as a promotional budget or shelf space in big bookstores, translation deal or a film deal, etc (I know film isn't handled via the publisher, but that's the kind of thing I mean — something I can't do on my own).

Previous to that film gaining Uthaug the attention of the folks in Hollywood, he had made other short films such as DX13036 and The Martian Administration, with this being Roar Uthaug's first big budget blockbuster for mainstream audiences.