Sentences with phrase «budget blockbuster with»

«X-Men» is a high - budget blockbuster with an indie edge.

Not exact matches

In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.

Despite it being the fantasy series» shortest season yet, Game of Thrones showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff have promised the final episodes will be on a much more cinematic level with movie - length run times — and Hollywood blockbuster budgets to match at an average of $ 15 million per episode.

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.

Once again, Garland offers a provocative and reflective take on the apocalypse, with better - than - blockbuster special effects realized on a relatively low budget.

Back in March, we unveiled a list of one - time indie directors, including Bryan Singer, the Wachowskis and Paul Greengrass, who suddenly made the hyperspace jump to helming blockbuster projects, along with their associated blockbuster budgets.

Forster and screenwriters Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, and Damon Lindelof have taken what used to be a character - driven zombie story, ripped out its brain and heart, and left it as nothing but a stumbling corpse kept alive on life support with a blockbuster budget.

As former «Black Panther» comics author Christopher J. Priest put it on his blog, «We have simply never seen anything at all like this: a huge blockbuster featuring a mostly black cast with effects rivaling «Avatar» and where every dime of that budget is up there on the screen.»

Marty Wolf (Paul Giamatti) is an evil Hollywood producer who steals the vaguely autobiographical writing assignment of pathological liar Jason (Frankie Muniz) and turns it into a big - budget blockbuster that shares its name with this film's title.

However, the latter situation is looking to be challenged by Zhang Yimou's The Great Wall: a historical China fantasy blockbuster filmed in the English language with a Hollywood blockbuster budget and an international superstar cast led by Matt Damon.

John G. Avildsen directed with admirable thriftiness (the budget was a mere $ 900,000) and created a blockbuster and legendary franchise (six sequels, the last one being Creed in 2015).

I should get something out of the way regarding Black Panther — this is going to be a very positive review, and it has everything to do with Marvel making the blackest big - budget blockbuster of...

The Wrap's Reviews Editor Alonso Duralde joined forces with reviewer Inkoo Kang to reveal their favorite films of the year — from big budget blockbusters to film festival gems that you may have missed.

This was a very competitive win with a tough match again Golden Globe winners Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Lady Bird as well as the small - budgeted blockbuster hit Get Out.

by Andrew Craig — on May 20, 2018 in Lists With Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel Studios took another ambitious step forward and brought the term blockbuster back to big budget films...

Written and directed by the godfather of «mumblecore» cinema - a genre known for nonprofessional actors and naturalistic dialogue - Andrew Bujalski's latest film is practically a Hollywood blockbuster compared with his no - budget early films.

His feature directorial debut Moon put him on the map back in 2009, then he stepped up to the mid-range budgeted Source Code for Summit Entertainment, and after that it was going full - blown studio blockbuster with Warcraft.

In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent - era blockbuster.

For a film with a $ 200 million budget and with talent in all departments it's a real shame that it turned out to be the movie that it is, although with 5 separate Spider - Man films now done and dusted, one must wonder if there is anything that could make this blockbuster staple truly jaw dropping again.

It's an unlikely summer blockbuster, shot with a South African cast on a restrained budget.

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.

Low - budget thrills are Blum's specialty and his ability to generate mid-range to blockbuster grosses with very little spending has made him one of the most financially successful filmmakers of the past few years,

Audiences will still likely see every punch coming from a mile away, but what's remarkable is how the movie lands them all: It's an invigorating piece of nostalgia that fuels a bigger adrenaline rush with its climax than any big - budget blockbuster could provide.

This high - budget (supposedly $ 135 million) summer - blockbuster escapist film is dull formulaic fare that has a questionable history premise, a star who does not light up the screen with charisma (Matthew McConaughey), a foreign - born female lead (Penélope Cruz) as eye candy who struggles with the English language to a point where it's an unwelcome distraction, and a tiresome and silly plot line to fill in the gaps while the adventurers are involved in their all too familiar set action pieces.

He's at the cusp of stardom, essentially, with leading - man good looks and an ineffable quality of fearless integrity that allows him to back away from the big - budget blockbusters in which he has found himself of late to take a small role in a small film, just because it's important to him.

But even outside of working with those filmmakers, Martinez has mostly scored indie or smaller - budgeted studio fare, with more blockbuster - sized projects off his résumé.

Oscar Isaac has been busy these last few years with indie projects and upcoming big - budget blockbusters.

It's not just that they can't sell movies with mid-range budgets anymore, they're starting to not be able to sell blockbusters, not even to the easy target kiddie demographic (see also: Pan), and the art house is beginning to suffer, too.

Oscar upshot: If the Academy wanted a ratings - grabber of a showdown, they got one what with the press bent on pitting Cameron's visually stunning Goliath of a blockbuster, «Avatar,» considered the highest - grossing movie of all time with nearly $ 3 billion worldwide, against former spouse Bigelow's modestly budgeted but more narrative - forward «The Hurt Locker.»

A refreshing spin on the superhero origin story, Chronicle was one of the surprise hits of the year, banking $ 126m from a budget of just $ 15m; a sequel has already been announced (although Fox are apparently unhappy with Max Landis» script), and its success has paved the way for Josh Trank to try his hand at a big budget superhero blockbuster with Fox's Fantastic Four reboot.

It seems to me that we spend so much of our mental bandwidth focusing on the obvious hits, the looming presence of upcoming blockbusters that permeate our cinematic consciousness, that we often find ourselves turning a blind eye to the underdog, the films with budgets and name recognition that can't quite compete with their titanic competitors.

If Ready Player One only breaks even at the box office, is anyone going to be talking about whether or not Steven Spielberg will get another chance with a big - budget blockbuster?

Box office expectations: With a hefty $ 180 million budget, Warner Bros. is hoping that Legend of Tarzan will be one of their big summer blockbusters of 2016.

But as the budgets for blockbuster tentpoles have gotten larger and the projects more risk - averse (with Marvel Studios and its parent company, Walt Disney Pictures, as Exhibit A overlords of the trend) it's become much too easy to acclaim fleeting inspiration and shallow gesturing toward diversity and goodwill as some kind of apogee.

The Wrap «s Reviews Editor Alonso Duralde joined forces with reviewers Inkoo Kang and James Rocchi to reveal their favorite films of the year — from big budget blockbusters to film festival gems that you may have missed.

«The Way, Way Back» doesn't have enough emotional punch to be an awards contender, but in a summer filled with big budget blockbusters, leave it to a quaint coming - of - age comedy to stand out as the best of the season.

Xiaomi stamps its class yet again in the budget segment with the spiritual successor to one of its blockbuster value champs.

The vendor has a lot of catching up to do, however, and it once it finally does launch its first BlackBerry 10 phone, it had better be a blockbuster with a massive marketing budget to back up its launch.

Naturally, Kitty's publisher wants to capitalize on her newfound popularity with a big budget blockbuster Kitty movie!

In terms of the gameplay, and with this being a big budget blockbuster, Star Wars Battlefront II is exactly what you would generally expect to find.

Each year we're treated to hundreds of movies being released, ranging from indie titles to Hollywood blockbusters created with ludicrous budgets.

Modern Warfare was a loud, bombastic spectacle with visual and auditory sensations typically reserved for big budget Michael Bay blockbusters.

It may not have the production values of today's blockbuster games, but the amount of high quality Indie games available to play across the Internet is testament to the fact that great games can be made with small budgets or even a single person with a great idea.

The current generation of gaming has frequently been compared to the movie industry, with bigger budgets, more emotive narratives, and action sequences that could be seen in your favourite action blockbuster.

With the «are single - player games dead» question, people are talking exclusively about AAA, blockbuster - budget gaming, the output from the EAs, Activisions, Sonys, and Nintendos of the world.

While Sony and Microsoft have put a huge amount of resources towards releasing these bigger riskier blockbusters for gamers, iOS and Android mobile devices have carved out a gigantic gaming market of their own with low priced games that more often than not don't require a big team or a huge budget.

Casual moviegoers may not be too familiar with Uncharted, but they will be — the video game is currently being adapted by Sony Pictures as a big - budget blockbuster starring Tom Holland as a teenage version of Nathan Drake, a globe - trotting adventurer with a knack for finding lost treasures and ancient cities.

The Terminator, released in 1984, was a considerable hit; when Carolco spent millions on buying the property, and around $ 100 million on making T2, it was betting that Cameron could turn a low - budget sci - fi thriller with horror overtones into a major summer blockbuster.

Previous to that film gaining Uthaug the attention of the folks in Hollywood, he had made other short films such as DX13036 and The Martian Administration, with this being Roar Uthaug's first big budget blockbuster for mainstream audiences.

The first because it very clearly explains why we must immediately stop investing in fossil infrastructure (and it was McKibben who in 2012, with his blockbuster Global Warming's Terrifying New Math, first drew the political implications of «the carbon budget approach» out into the public discussion).