Sentences with phrase «big budget pictures»

J.J. Abrams was able to prove himself as a man ready to helm big budget pictures, and Tom Cruise was able to be Tom Cruise by providing his regular strong performance as Ethan Hunt.

Phoenix is notoriously choosey with his roles, and had tended to shy away from big budget pictures ever since Walk the Line back in 2005.

While the Hollywood game often requires one to do the bigger budgeted pictures when you first start, Winstead's hopefully in a place she can accept roles that will show what few of us have known for quite some time.

Creatively, if you ask us, a success: Jonze's big budget picture wasn't universally acclaimed, but we'd call his devastating look at childhood one of the best films of 2009.

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Take a «big picture» approach to your joint budget before you're married — discuss the basics, like whether you can afford your home, how much money you'll be able to put towards your wedding, and how you'll achieve your financial and life goals.

The full Technology Content Marketing 2018: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends - North America report offers a big - picture glimpse into how marketers at tech companies approach content marketing.

Along with planning for the big picture, make sure you discuss financial details that may affect you and your day - to - day budget.

He also frequently discusses the big - picture trends that are putting the squeeze on the bottom 90 %, offering work - arounds and expense - cutting tips to help readers carve out more money to save in their budgets — AKA breaking the «savings barrier» and transitioning from debtor to saver.

Before you dole out your budget on popular keywords, consider the big picture.

From sporadic listening, my impression is he doesn't usually waste time with simple red - meat outrage moments, but rather goes to the big picture on the Constitution, the budget trends, etc..

You must know that 3 or 4 years ago I was extremely anti-Wenger on this forum, but then I had a look at the bigger picture and realized there were a lot of other constraints and things going on in the background — the stadium, all our best players leaving etc etc and Wenger managed to pull us through on a shoe string budget cutting top 4 in the process.

Those looking at the NHS big - picture realise that, facing a period of rapid change and the challenge of providing safe, high - quality care within restricted budgets, what's needed is a workforce that focuses on medicines - their safety, their effectiveness, their value - for - money.

Mr. Gaines, a best - selling author and magazine journalist, went into greater detail on his vision of a more cooperative town government, and expressed concern about the lack of «big - picture» budget thinking by some members of the community.

Cuomo, during a budget briefing, downplayed any reversals in the economic development programs, saying you need to look at the bigger picture.

The big picture: Most of the $ 675 million spending plan — $ 391 million — is accounted for by the school district budget, which was approved last month by the Board of Education.

An important bottom line in all this is that the big - picture changes proposed to the discretionary budget will face a major uphill battle in Congress this year, for the fact that changing the spending caps requires changing the underlying law governing them (the Budget Controlbudget will face a major uphill battle in Congress this year, for the fact that changing the spending caps requires changing the underlying law governing them (the Budget ControlBudget Control Act).

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).

From [Michael] Shannon to [Nicholas] Hoult, it's refreshing to see actors most recently associated with big - budget properties like Superman and X-Men get their hands dirty with this gritty little picture.

«Men in Black» continues this summer's tradition, already established by «Con Air» and «Batman and Robin» of big - budget action pictures that at least have the wit to know how silly they are.

The nominees here are only the big budget studio pictures.

Hancock is presented in 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen, with picture as crystal clear and stunning as on any big budget studio picture.

This makes for a stellar lineup of headliners of Best Picture contenders in Chalamet and Kaluuya, indie darlings with Pugh and O'Connor, and the big budget superhero badassery of Thompson.

«Moonlight,» «Spotlight,» and «12 Years a Slave» weren't big - budget Best Picture shoo - ins.

But if A24 could pull off the biggest surprise Best Picture win in ages with Moonlight, whose budget was just $ 4 million, we probably can't eliminate Florida for being too small, especially as critics heap greater praise on it than any other film this year.

It seems at first like a great idea: a big - budget, high - tech Hollywood action picture that takes all the cliches of kung fu, Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan, and does them right.

Other films meriting mention include Robert Altman «s final picture, «A Prairie Home Companion ``; Mel Gibson «s Aztec - thriller, «Apocalypto ``; Tom Tykwer «s kinetic (perhaps too kinetic) «Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ``; John Cameron Mitchell «s low - budget erotica,» Shortbus ``; Richard Linklater's live - action rotoscoped Philip K. Dick adaptation «A Scanner Darkly ``; Spike Lee «s biggest commercial hit, the entertaining heist film, «Inside Man ``; Michael Mann «s flawed, but interesting «Miami Vice ``; Bryan Singer «s unfairly maligned «Superman Returns; «Nicole Holofcener «s wryly observational «Friends with Money,» the over-estimated, but enlivening horror «The Descent,» and «13 Tzameti.»

It's daring of McQuarrie, in a big - budget internationally financed action picture such as this, to turn over a fair amount of narrative acreage to a lengthy, methodical scene cutting between a performance of Puccini's «Turandot» and not one, not two, but three assassins lurking in the opera house wings.

was a low budget entry into the genre that appears to have gotten him enough good will for the folks at Legendary Pictures to put him behind the helm of a $ 160 million blockbuster relaunch of the big green guy himself.

Generally favoring low - budget and independently - produced pictures, but not averse to working within the studio system (he had a good relationship with Daryl Zanuck), he knocked out a string of genre classics — from «Pickup On South Street» and «Forty Guns» to «Shock Corridor» and his epic autobiographical masterpiece «The Big Red One» — that quietly influenced many of your favourite directors.

Enter Gareth Edwards, whose 2010 film Monster was a low budget entry into the genre that appears to have gotten him enough good will for the folks at Legendary Pictures to put him behind the helm of a $ 160 million blockbuster relaunch of the big green guy himself.

Currently, a big budget adaptation of Ghost in the Shell is in production for Paramount Pictures with Scarlett Johansson in the lead role.

Basically, it is good news that Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel have performed so strongly: excellent films in that «indie - literate» middle ground that many in the industry have been worrying had been neglected in the general rush to big - budget, big - box - office superhero pictures.

Sarandos also cited as a forthcoming big - budget picture Martin Scorsese's gangster movie «The Irishman,» starring Robert DeNiro, slated to be released on Netflix in early 2019.

Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights before publication in 1993, but behind - the - scenes squabbles about budget and scripts kept The Alienist from the big screen for more than two decades.

After spending a decade - plus making big - budget studio pictures, Jon Favreau returns to his indie roots, making his warmest, funniest, most personal picture since «Swingers.»

Paramount Pictures» breakout horror hit «A Quiet Place» may return to the top of the box office charts in its third weekend of release, unseating the big - budget Dwayne Johnson arcade game adaptation «Rampage.»

The brilliant Brit Gareth Edwards (MONSTERS) in currently shooting his big - budget blockbuster GODZILLA for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures and we're hoping for a first peek at the towering colossal creature born from a nuclear contamination.

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.

Woody Allen went to Amazon to make Café Society, abandoning his usual partners Sony Pictures Classics, because the company could provide the bigger budget required for a 1930s - set Hollywood drama.

There's no better indicator of how much the film industry is changing than the fact that a Scorsese gangster film starring De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci seems risky, and Netflix is the safe haven to make the big - budget picture of your dreams.

Paramount Pictures and Marc Forster's big - budget adaptation of Max Brooks» zombie - filled novel WORLD WAR Z looks viciously impressive despite word of script problems and...

Those awaiting Legendary Pictures re-imagining of Japan's iconic creature GODZILLA still have a year to wait for the release of the big - budget blockbuster directed...

The picture was an unexpected surprise hit, but instead of tackling big - budget franchises for an encore, Blomkamp decided to create a big - budget sci - fi film once again tackling many of the same social issues, this time hovering around healthcare and immigration.

The 6th Day is a big budget «paint - by - numbers» experiment confirming that painting by numbers might produce a decent picture, one could hardly confuse it with art.

First weekend box office is currently the most important measure of any big budget action picture's success.

Armageddon was a part of one of Hollywood's notorious big - budget showdowns, losing a «race for the screen» with Paramount's competing asteroid - disaster picture Deep Impact.

In general, however, his pictures seem lifeless and flat, with little to differentiate his work from any other big - budget action flicks.

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Strange Magic was supposed to be George Lucas» swansong, his final big budget motion picture — as a producer, mind you, not director — before his inevitable retirement from the movie business.

Anyone who wants to find problems with this picture will walk away sadly disappointed; as one might expect of a brand - new, big - budget flick, Returns looked absolutely terrific.