Sentences with phrase «big budget productions»

After appearing alongside Mark Wahlberg in Transformers: The Age of Extinction, IFTA winner Jack has lined up roles in two big budget productions.

It doesn't need to be as big budget a production as something like those insurance commercials.

Damon traveled all the way to China to shoot this big budget production from director Zhang Yimou («Hero»).

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

Alas, for such a big budget production, the game suffers from a number of key deficiencies that prevent it from being an enjoyable game.

Not exact matches

At this year's AEE, porn titan Vivid is going to be touting its latest big - budget production, a triple - X «parody» of Star Wars that is being released this month.

China's box office revenue is still swelling at double - digit rates after years of breakneck growth and, with Hollywood know - how and bigger budgets, Chinese movies are gaining momentum as they find ways to play on domestic themes and improve production quality.

Some were excited about the possibility of bigger budgets for video productions and more corporate perks, others expressed concern about layoffs and many had no idea what to expect.

Though there have been several film versions of the Christian allegory, the latest version, which is currently in production, will likely be the biggest budget effort to date.

The world is «thirsty for information,» and the tools will let anyone with gumption and talent be a publisher — video is no longer the preserve of television networks and big - budget production companies.

What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.

Live by Night, the Appian Way, Pearl Street Films, RatPac - Dune Entertainment, Warner Brothers, and iMint Media production, is a big - budget passion project.

During 1993, Tarantino wrote and directed his next feature, Pulp Fiction, which featured three interweaving crime story lines; Tony Scott's big - budget production of True Romance was also released that year.

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

Raimi's first film since 2009's Drag Me to Hell (and first big - budget production since his Spider - Man trilogy) is a $ 200 million, visually dazzling, 3D prequel to the story told in 1939's The Wizard of Oz, chronicling the rise of said wizard from his humble beginnings as a small - time Kansas magician.

In choosing the look of their big - budget production, Lord and Miller stick to that aesthetic, using computer animation to simulate the surface texture and slightly jerky movement we might expect if someone had orchestrated the entire experience with plastic toys painstakingly repositioned and photographed one frame at a time (according to the press notes, that would have taken no fewer than 15,080,330 bricks).

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.

They're handsome, big - budget productions with big, pretty, empty faces, and they're Pollyannaish and generally awful, uniformly, with Splash still the lone bright spot in his career.

It's a tribute to stars Benson and Moorhead, who combined to direct, write, edit and shoot the film, that their micro-budget project comes off more haunting than many big - studio productions with 100 times (at least) the budget.

As the first big - budget feature from director Julius Onah, he acquits himself well, and almost every single problem the film has comes down to a script that, by Uziel's own admission, was re-written on - the - fly during production.

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.

Pan stands as one of the year's biggest flops, grossing just $ 35 million domestically and $ 126 M worldwide on a production budget of $ 150 M.

Reynolds has not only succeeded, he (along with a big - budgeted production, a great director and the returning screenwriters (Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and himself) have made a terrific, exhilarating movie.

Naturally, Hook is the better Pan sequel, but comparing a DisneyToon production to a big budget blockbuster isn't really fair.

Variety reports that the project is moving forward with production set to kick off in September in Cape Town, South Africa with an approximate $ 60 million budget which aims to render this story which will see giant galleons sailing on waves of sand as they fight giant creatures that can get as big as a city block.

Because it was budgeted at just $ 9 million, The Best Man qualified as a financial hit; even so, a sequel would not have seemed feasible if the by - now big - name actors hadn't returned for the production.

Entertainment, a surprise pickup from the production company known more for its big - budget explosions than its heartfelt family tales.

Two weeks ago, as part of his summer - long institute, Redford held a weekend conference of most of the major exhibitors and distributors of «specialized» films - a category that includes independent U.S. features, foreign films, «art films,» cult films, revivals and almost anything else that isn't a big - budget, first - run standard Hollywood production.

With a solid belief from film critics that she's bound for stardom and a growing filmography of award - winning indies and big - budget productions, Emmy's success will rest on her own talents when she sets out to prove everyone right.

However, while citing those ubiquitous unnamed «sources,» the website notes that it's still early in the process, and it's unclear whether the three - time Oscar nominee would want to appear in such a big - budget production.

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.

Even the seemingly small details of the armament worn by the Dora Milaje, the king's guards led by Danai Gurira's character Okoye, and the accessories worn by Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett) and other members of the royal court required the big - budget production to turn to someone innovative.

The film, meant to be a big action - oriented take on the Arthurian legend, was taken off the studio's production schedule after budget concerns arose and attached actors Kit Harington and Joel Kinnaman were freed to do other projects.

47 Ronin is one of the strangest big - budget productions in recent memory: a 3 - D fantasy set in 18th - century Japan, shot in Hungary and the U.K. with a predominantly Japanese cast, and distinguished by ornate production design, arcane intrigue, and a downbeat tone which bring to mind David Lynch's flawed - but - fascinating take on Dune.

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.

Following a string of fantastical films with hefty budgets (and less - than - desirable critical responses), Tim Burton takes a deep breath and a long step back with Big Eyes, his smallest, most reigned - in production since Ed Wood.

A big - budget production with a strong cast, «Leave Her to Heaven» is immensely entertaining.

This isn't a big budget, glossy production, so niggling little things like pixellation on the opening titles are a little distracting.

Production budget doesn't seem to be readily available for Blair Witch (though I haven't looked that hard), but Death Note is DEFINITELY a bigger budget film.

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

Bright marks something of a return to the filmmaker's roots, following his dive into big - budget productions with the DCEU installment, Suicide Squad.

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.

Opening figures for «Ben - Hur,» whose production budget was at least $ 100 million, put it in line to become one of the biggest box office bombs of the summer.

For the very first time, a big budget Hollywood production starring an all star cast tells a love story amidst the Armenian genocide.

There's one production day left on Baird's big budget epic film «Hail Caesar: A Tale of Christ,» and he still needs to shoot his big speech.

But it seems like the biggest fans of the network's schlocky low - budget productions are those entertained by their egregiousness.

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.

Production spanned from 1982 until 1987 on a budget of roughly $ 5,000, 12 - year - old Chris Strompolos taking over for Harrison Ford and filling some big shoes with some small feet.

Reynolds reportedly wanted to repeat the low budget / big earnings success of the first Deadpool, which had a $ 780m return on a $ 58m budget.Conversely, Miller wanted to create a spectacle to rival the largest Marvel Studios productions — and which would reportedly require three times the budget of the first film.

After a string of indie movies, the star is set to hit the big time with «Maleficent» and was enthralled by the novelty of working on a big - budget production.