While he's now graduated to directing big
budget blockbusters like the DCEU entry Aquaman, James Wan has for many years been primarily known for his work in the horror genre, and for good reason.
Director Roland Emmerich, who previously helmed big -
budget blockbusters like Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, surprisingly does a good job creating a strong atmosphere for this story.
But for every big
budget blockbuster like your Battlefield, Call of Duty or Titanfall, there will also be that odd and just down right unnecessary low budget one too.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
As technology improves, films on minimal
budgets and tight schedules
like this one begin to more closely approximate their also - failed
blockbuster brethren.
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.»
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.
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.
I understand this isn't a big
budget blockbuster but scenes
like the airplane scene and the river scene really took me out of the film.
Meanwhile, Sea of Thieves is looking
like the most innovative and big
budget title of the lot, being the only real original
blockbuster Microsoft has on the cards.
If that sounds
like something out of a big -
budget science fiction
blockbuster about a devastating CDC outbreak, that should tell you how serious the situation is.
Even as Steven Spielberg's big -
budget blockbuster adaptation of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One prepares to hit the silver screen, it's starting to look
like VR will take many more years to manifest as a mainstream consumer product.