Sentences with phrase «big budget movies like»

The failure of big budget movies like Baywatch was one of the summer's big talking points last year, but it seemed as if Johnson was refusing to acknowledge that his movie simply wasn't very good.

Dwayne Johnson has successfully made the transition from wrestler to Hollywood superstar starring in big budget movies like «Hercules» and «San Andres» and is worth $ 52m ($ 39m).

And that day may come, as it has for fellow Skins actor Nicholas Hoult, who went on to roles in big budget movies like X-Men: First Class, Jack the Giant Killer, and the upcoming Mad Max reboot.

Not exact matches

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.

While Hope is known for making independent movies rather than big - budget Hollywood blockbusters, Amazon Studios has succeeded in the world of television in part by aligning itself with high - profile directors like Allen and Steven Soderbergh of «Ocean's Eleven» fame.

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.

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.

After the summer movie season was kicked off in style a few weeks back with The Avengers, cheap it's difficult to accept a big - budget movie like Battleship that often settles for being ordinary.

It just goes to show, like Primer, that you don't need a big budget to make a fascinating sci - fi movie.

Not once did I have to force myself to be gentler in my critique — this looks like a big - budget movie, and virtually stabs, mauls and garrottes the overwhelming majority of teen horror flicks out there.

Francis Ford Coppola never meant to make «The Cotton Club» — yet he was dragged back, like Al Pacino in «The Godfather 3,» into making another big - budget movie.

i love indies... they don't pander to the masses like many of the big budget mainstream movies... i'll be seeing this for sure!

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:

It's probably a loser's game to ask for better craftsmanship from a movie like Tower Heist, but even crowd - pleasing big - budget comedies would seem to owe both of their top - billed actors a final scene.

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.

James McAvoy, on the other hand, proves he has the mainstream appeal required to carry a big - budget action movie, and should he continue to mix roles like these with Oscar bait like «Atonement,» the actor will be well on his way to becoming the next Christian Bale.

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.

On the other hand, after several months of big budget movies, it's not so bad to sit back and relax with a harmless movie like this.

With its obsessed but unqualified hero, Blue Ruin makes a kind of comic sense if you match it up against glum, big - budget, male revenge fantasies — hard - driving movies with the likes of Charles Bronson and Mel Gibson.»

Ringer editor - in - chief Sean Fennessey speaks with filmmaker Alex Ross Perry about his quick - and - cheap working style and his shift from art house movies like his latest, «Golden Exits,» to his upcoming big - budget «Winnie the Pooh» adaptation for Disney.

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.

The movie is not meant to be entirely historically accurate, and certainly doesn't seem like a highly detailed, big budget production.

It's one of those movies that came and went and despite having plenty of big names in the cast, it feels like a low budget movie shot on the run.

While the story quality is always lacking in these movies, the first «Tomb Raider» was confident, had a lavish budget, a catchy U2 song (the still - awesome «Elevation») and felt like a big deal.

Part of this may be due to director Taika Waititi, who is a newbie in the world of big - budget blockbusters, but like many other directors tapped to helm Marvel movies (including Gunn and Watts) has an intriguing background in indie cinema that would seem to have little to do with IMAX - worthy digital bombast.

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.

Sean Fennessey speaks with filmmaker Alex Ross Perry about his quick - and - cheap working style and his shift from art house movies like his latest, Golden Exits, to his upcoming big - budget Winnie the Pooh adaptation for Disney.

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.

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.

If you'd like to know the essence of the comedic approach employed in Epic Movie, it's that they've hired a bunch of comedic actors who look or act similar to those found in the big - budget movies, give them funny names similar to the characters found in those movies, then proceed to find a way for them to get hit in the face, stomach, or in most cases, their testicles.

Like all of these big - budget, big name movies it plays by established laws carved out of a need for action, explosions, A-listers looking buff and references to other assets within the studio's ever - expanding Universe.

Thrown into the mix are two adorable British brothers who cross paths with Blake in San Francisco, and this is where the movie suddenly feels like a big - budget adaptation of one of those juvenile Choose Your Own Adventure books: Do you go down into the garage and rescue the pretty girl you just met... or do you run and get help?

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.

Playing like a big budget TV movie, The Odyssey chronicles a large segment of Cousteau's life starting with the birth and ending with the death of his son, Philippe, played by Pierre Niney.

First Big - Budget Movie: After Scott Frank left the project (then called «Caesar»), Fox offered the reins of their reboot of the «Planet Of The Apes» franchise to the likes of Kathryn Bigelow and Tomas Alfredson before settling on the surprise choice of Wyatt.

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.

On its own merits, Return just seems like a mediocre TV movie that could have quite a bit better with more effort and a bigger budget.

A Cure for Wellness is the sort of movie we never get anymore (and probably never will get again), an ambitious as hell big budget niche project, a choice to throw money at an auteur like Gore Verbinski and let him make what he wants.

If an adult likes big budget sci - fi eye - candy filled epics developed from children's stories or simply liked the cartoons when they were younger and think its cool to see them brought to life on the big screen with live actors and modern special effects, then they will probably enjoy this movie — if they can sit through it all.

Now, studios don't make big - budget movies, they make big - budget universes; now, fans engage with franchises year - round and absorb every pixel of trailer footage like a sponge; now, joining these franchises has become a rite of passage for young stars, a career plan; and now, movies don't end when the credits start rolling.

For critics, Marvel's big - budget Ant - Man seemed like there was no end in sight for superhero movies.

For fans, Marvel's big - budget Ant - Man seemed — well, like there was no end in sight for superhero movies.

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.

It's like when reviewers talk about a $ 200 million dollar movie and debate about whether it's worth that big budget.

Like Hollywood producing only certain formulaic big budget movies, traditional publishers pass on quality for «what sells.»

Some people would die to get a cool job like yours — being part of big budget movies such as Chicago and X-Men.