Sentences with phrase «budget blockbusters of»

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...

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Of course, even over-hyped, big - budget blockbusters can turn into major flops at the box office.

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.

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.

Penot had been busy creating big - budget blockbusters during a six - year stint as a perfume developer at Armani Fragrances, and Le Labo was his chance to make the indie label of his dreams.

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.

Whereas an entire generation of kids who grew up wishing for fame imagined being on an ABC sitcom or starring in a big - budget blockbuster, tomorrow's daydreaming kids will likely be imagining a very different image of super-stardom.

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.

Throughout Mr Osborne's blockbuster of a Budget, David Cameron sat alongside him, almost unnoticed as the Chancellor strutted in front of him at the dispatch box, all swagger and confidence and seemingly relishing the barracking and heckling from Labour MPs opposite.

ALBANY — In his ceremonial unveiling of the new state budget on Friday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo presented the $ 168 billion blockbuster as a rebuttal to Washington, a defiant thrust of the chin at President Trump.

Because MGM spent $ 1.9 million on the film, a blockbuster budget then, Robby became the iconic face of a burgeoning field.

As a budget bundle, Saints Row 4: Re-elected and «Gat out of Hell» is worth considering if you're looking to waste a few weekends before this year's influx of blockbuster releases.

Their are stigmas attached, especially the idea of a low budget Independent sci - fi action film, that they are right to be concerned about public perception when they are trying to push it as a summer blockbuster.

Rob Legato, an effects supervisor, told the Hollywood Reporter that in the future, actors involved in big - budget blockbusters might need to have a variety of facial expressions digitally scanned, in case something were to happen.

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.

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

The Screen Rant editorial team shares their top 5 favorite movies of 2017 - from innovative indie films to big - budget blockbusters.

Still, After Earth is, for much of its refreshingly brief running time, a better - than - average big - budget blockbuster that marks Shyamalan's most entertaining effort since 2006's Lady in the Water.

Now Coogler moves from the comfortable mid-range budget of that Rocky reboot to the nine - figure realm of comic book action, a genre that has given Hollywood many of its biggest blockbusters over the past two decades.

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.

The country's audiences have developed a taste for big - budget Hollywood blockbusters to rival any in the United States, but China's cultural traditions and the deeply - ingrained involvement of the Chinese government have proven difficult both to Hollywood studios looking the penetrate the market and U.S. filmmakers seeking collaborations.

Star Trek took costumes we all know & laugh at and made them worthy of a big - budget Hollywood blockbuster.

Though much of the action remains confined to the inner sanctum of Franco's home, the biblical implications of the film dictate that they must eventually be taken out of their comfort zone, and thanks to their reasonably sized budget, they have enough to clout to develop some eye - popping special effects, and although it intends to satirise the current trend for apoca - blockbusters, it does its level best to match them in terms of scale.

Despite its blockbuster ticket sales in excess of $ 100 million dollars, the film received flak for a bloated budget that constituted financial failure.

The reputation of the former next great hope of Hollywood fizzled out after a string of poorly received films and ill - conceived forays into effect - driven blockbuster fantasy, but now the low - budget thriller Split has proven to be his critical and commercial comeback.

This week we conclude our pick of the 50 best films of the 2010s thus far, and looking down the list I notice we haven't included too many blockbusters or big budget hits.

Happy to be there: For being as narrow as three nominees, the foreign film «A Man Called Ove» pulled off what «The Hundred Year - Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared» did last year as a random film to crash the big budget field of fantasy blockbusters.

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

was a low budget entry into the genre that appears to have gotten him enough good will for the folks at Legendary Pictures to put him behind the helm of a $ 160 million blockbuster relaunch of the big green guy himself.

Enter Gareth Edwards, whose 2010 film Monster was a low budget entry into the genre that appears to have gotten him enough good will for the folks at Legendary Pictures to put him behind the helm of a $ 160 million blockbuster relaunch of the big green guy himself.

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.

CBR's Adam Rosenberg calls Matthew Vaughn's «X-Men: First Class» an example of «what happens to a superhero movie when you strip away the blockbuster budget and allow the filmmaker to simply tell a story.»

Weisz recently starred in the big - budget blockbusters «The Bourne Legacy» and «Oz the Great and Powerful,» so «Oceans» would represent a refreshing change of pace that would highlight the «Constant Gardener» star's considerable talents.

And the presence of one massive - budget sci - fi blockbuster in my end - of - year list, plus another couple in the honourable mentions and plenty of other good ones besides, suggests that even blockbusters still have something to offer cinemagoers.

There are any number of possible explanations for this trend, most probable simply being the increasing split between blockbuster «entertainment» films that dominate the technical categories while low - budget (in) dependent films, driven by strong acting, directing and writing, dominate the more prestigious awards, making a 7 Oscar win relatively rare (in order to reach that number, a film has to do well in either the effects or design categories, areas which favor big - budget spectacle).

The fact that such a message is being conveyed by a no - budget Hungarian independent film rather than by more widely accessible fare is an indictment on the state of the popular cinema — but hopefully there are enough moviegoers willing to pass up the occasional blockbuster in favor of something less frivolous, that the moral of 1945 won't fall on deaf ears and empty seats.

But the superhero remains the preserve of the big budget blockbuster.

And it also sort of bites the Hollywood hand that feeds it by respectfully making fun of big budget blockbusters and the actors who act in them.

Ernest Cline's divisive, geek - friendly bestseller gets a big - budget adaptation courtesy of the biggest name in blockbustering, Steven Spielberg.

Although best known for his big budget blockbusters, Spielberg said his favourite project was his Holocaust documentary for the Shoah Foundation, which collected the testimonies of survivors of the World War Two atrocity.

Grossing $ 38.6 million domestic and $ 80.4 M worldwide on a modest budget of $ 20 M, Nerve was no blockbuster, but nor was it a disappointment.

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.

Those awaiting Legendary Pictures re-imagining of Japan's iconic creature GODZILLA still have a year to wait for the release of the big - budget blockbuster directed...

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.

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

The premise of his first truly big blockbuster — as fun as they were I always felt the Hellboy movies were held back by budget constraints — is pretty straightforward and will grab the attention and imaginations of the 10 - year - old in all of us.