Sentences with phrase «budget action picture»

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

It would be a huge gamble for Neeson to headline a $ 100 million budget action picture (particularly if not part of the Taken franchise), but the studios have sensibly kept budgets down, whilst still allowing enough bank for the buck that Neeson can crack plenty of skulls.

«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.

Not exact matches

Working unobtrusively but consistently in a decadent Hollywood that's doubled down on sci - fi / fantasy / superhero franchise tentpoles as the end - all - be-all of action movies, Jaume Collet - Serra has been diligently and often ingeniously pursuing another filmmaking model, that of the mid-range budget standalone genre picture.

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.

What really stands out about «Maggie» is its cast, as the ex-governor continues his return to acting with something different for him: a low - budget horror drama that's more of a character study than an action picture.

On top of all that, it's an excellently produced action thriller, easily on stylistic par with any Paul Greengrass picture (which is especially impressive considering its relatively small 6.5 million dollar budget).

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

The beginning of the end most likely came in 1997, when the release of An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn gave the alias (played by Eric Idle) his first leading role in a motion picture, as «a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name Alan Smithee [who] realizes he's an unwitting studio puppet, being forced to make a big budget action film he knows is horrible.»

The Coalition should not «lock in» its spending on its Direct Action policy until it can «provide the Australian community with a full picture of what this means for the budget», he said.