Sentences with phrase «big budget summer»

A new Tarzan movie is not the worst idea for a big budget summer tentpole, but The Legend of Tarzan proves to be mediocre and forgettable most of the time.

Fast and Furious 6 has everything one could possibly want in a big budget summer popcorn flick.

Released across from the flashy usual big budget summer fare, the little 2009 comedy with no established movie stars won over both critics

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Either way, it's looking like a disappointing start to the summer for Warner Bros., which has several big - budget releases planned for the rest of 2017, none of which are total locks to be blockbusters.

But not every big - budget entry will be of great quality (cough, «Battleship») but they'll definitely all be entertaining enough to hold your short summer attention spans.

One big reason that the economy stabilized last summer and fall is the stimulus; the Congressional Budget Office estimates that without the stimulus, growth would have been anywhere from 1.2 to 3.2 percentage points lower in the third quarter of 2009.

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles...

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

Tomorrowland, Disney's big - budget summer blockbuster that's based on the future - themed parts of its theme parks, comes out in a month.

I think it will be nearly impossible with AW's summer transfer budget to spend BIG on a Varane, Laporte, Godin, Ramos, when it seems the boss is ready to offer $ 15M plus for either Schederlien, Bender, Gonalons, Illarmenda (sp?)

lets all thank arsene for finally doing the right thing only time will tell but have we finally signed the DM we need STRONG MINDED NO HOLD BAR MIDFIELDER WE HAVE ALL CRAVED, but lets take it back we all know it will take 2 or 3 more like minded players to make us great again, he has tricked us all buy buying one superstar in the last 3 windows ALEXIS, OZIL and CHEC great players but can't do it all on their own, spending huge amount of money and saying we can buy the best players, on the surface this looks great we are buying top top players big prices but instead of spending his usual 50 mill on 2, 3, 4, 0r 5 players he has pulled the wool over are eyes with 1 superstar thinking the fans are that dumb enough to believe it, infact he has never spent his budget only balanced on sales too purchases, i love arsenal but this summer i hope for more he needs to do that consistently through out the team spend the same amount on the team stop balancing the american owners, grow a pair say yes we will buy a top defender and a world class striker, stan we love arsenal please be one of us do whats needed then you will fell proud as we are and we will adore you for it.

He is a great player but with our own Giroud in great form and still improving at centre forward and with great options up front in Alexis, Walcott and Welbeck, as well as promising young strikers like Akpom, Campbell and Sanogo trying to break through, I don't see a striker as a big transfer priority for the summer, especially if it is going to use up the lion's share of our budget.

The usual fan bs job would be talking about a big budget for this summer and the necessity of a rebuilding project.

We are a budget club now and although the board boast that they are a big European team our brand has slumped and we are mid table mediocrity potentials if we don't state some ntent and get sharper and more ambitious in the transfer window summer or otherwise.

Rodgers was powerless to prevent want - away England man Raheem Sterling from leaving over the summer but was handed a big transfer budget to help strengthen his Anfield squad though Roberto Firmino, the man best placed to fill the void left by his departure, is yet to really make an impact.

I know our club will have to make a statement in the transfer market next summer if and when Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil decide to quit the club at the end of their contracts, and their departures will leave a nice sized gap in our wage budget which we could fill with a big arrival, but Griezmann looks too likely to join one of the bigger sides.

Having spent big following their relegation, including three players that commanded fees of over # 10 million, Steve Bruce, who replaced Di Matteo in October, is expected to be forced to do his business this summer on a limited budget.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is preparing to spend big in the summer with a budget of around # 150m, according to The Sun.

The biggest project is $ 4.8 million in budgeted improvements at Rosewood Beach, expected to begin this summer, according to the proposal.

Big - budget action flicks, family - friendly films and much - anticipated sequels are among the blockbusters that have had fans flocking to the theaters every summer.

The big - budget, summer tentpole release of the Fantastic Four continues our look at the Marvel movie lineup.

«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.

It's the middle of the summer, which means lots of big budget blockbusters are about to hit screens!

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.

After a summer slew of big - budget studio films, it can be difficult to find, sit down and watch a movie with more modest origins.

At this point, The Millers (reported budget $ 37 million) will pass $ 100 million by Labor Day — making it the last, and most unexpected, big hit of the summer.

Another weekend, another big - budget misfire at the summer box office.

It wasn't the biggest flop of late summer; fellow August remakes Fright Night and Conan the Barbarian recovered little of their higher budgets in the States.

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.

Plus, he's starring in Amazon's big - budget action series Jack Ryan, which premieres this summer.

The summer months often bring a slew of prospective blockbusters, as studios trot out their annual selection of big - budget spectacles.

Here's how the grosses and budgets of summer's biggest movies compare

By far the best sci - fi film I've seen yet this year, and proof that international films make for more interesting dynamics, Snowpiercer is easily the original action film a summer full of big budget explosions needs.

Though not quite the smash hit of the summer season nor as inexpensive as you might think (it had a substantial $ 75 M budget), Now still easily become Summit's biggest non-Twilight earner and by extension, Lionsgate's top grosser behind The Hunger Games and Fahrenheit 9/11.

Stephen Sommers» live - action big budget G.I. Joe movie gets a late Summer 2009 date: August 7th 2009.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 3, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Adventureland (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) Retro romantic comedy, set in Pittsburgh in 1987, revolving around the plight of a grad school - bound virgin (Jesse Eisenberg) forced by his family's financial woes to take a minimum - wage job at an amusement park the summer before he's supposed to start at Columbia.

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.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 10, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Daddy Day Camp (PG for bodily function humor and mild epithets) Eddie Murphy, Steve Zahn and the rest of the of the original cast has been replaced for this sequel to Daddy Day Care about the comedy - of - errors which ensue when a couple of fathers (Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Paul Rae) find themselves over their heads trying to maintain order at a summer camp run a muck.

Then, Knocked Up was one of the biggest hits of the summer with its own hot reviews and massive gross - to - budget ratio.

Those with doubts about the viability of the movie Entourage had them confirmed when the film drew unfavorable reviews and made little impact at the box office, where it opened as counterprogramming in June against summer's typically big - budgeted fare.

«Despicable Me 2» edged the Adam Sandler comedy «Grown Ups 2» at the domestic box office this weekend, while the surge some predicted for Guillermo del Toro's «Pacific Rim» never quite materialized — making it the latest big - budget beast to come crashing down this summer.

It is safe to say that Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie comes to the rescue to remind us that big - budget, explosive superhero sludge is not the only option at the movie theaters during the summer.

It opened on Memorial Day weekend as counterprogramming to X-Men: Days of Future Past and other big summer season action fare, but even on a budget significantly scaled back from Sandler's usual standards, it fell short of expectations, opening in third place and ultimately finishing with $ 46 million and change domestically.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Special Effects Overshadow Cast in Bay's Bigger - Budgeted Sequel This summer blockbuster has hit written all over it, given that Michael Bay freely admits that he makes movies aimed at teenaged boys.

Still, it's a fine send - off for a series that redefined the look and feel and ambition of the super-hero genre, the summer blockbuster and the big - budget studio tentpole all in one go.

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Here, it's as if the machinery of making a big - budget, comics - inspired summer blockbuster has swallowed him whole.

While not one of the big hits of summer, Schmucks just about met box office expectations, narrowly clearing its $ 69 million budget with a $ 73 M domestic gross.

is based on a rather unsavory series of trading cards released by Topps in the 1950s, and it takes its cues from the same sources as this summer's Independence Day — old alien invasion flicks, disaster movies, and big - budget special effects extravaganzas.

Bridesmaids is one of the few comedies coming up in this summer of big - budget blockbusters and it looks like it's going to be a decent estrogen - infused counterpart to the off - the - wall guy humor of The Hangover Part II.