Sentences with phrase «budget comedy director»

Not exact matches

With this true crime drama set in late 1940s Los Angeles, director Ruben Fleischer looks to make the jump from modestly budgeted action - comedy (Zombieland 73, 30 Minutes or Less 49) to serious dramatic filmmaking.

A graduate of the Tuskegee Institute, Wayans entered the comic arena in the mid -»80s by stepping up to the mike and honing his stand - up act, but he later branched out into movies, by scripting the low - budget black satire Hollywood Shuffle (1987) and the aptly - titled comedy vehicle Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987), both for director pal Robert Townsend.

With a low budget but a lot of imagination and talent, director Trevorrow and writer Connolly create a deceptively simple comedy that's one of the most entertaining films of the year.

It's been a fantastic year for Joe Cornish, formerly one half of the comedy duo Adam and Joe and now Hollywood screenwriter of The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, not to mention writer - director of Attack the Block, a low - budget sci - fi action comedy about a group of youths fending off an alien attack on a South London council estate.

Star McCarthy and director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) are fresh off their second critical / financial success with this year's summer action - comedy offering, The Heat ($ 230 million worldwide on a $ 43 million budget).

Peter Jackson's Oscar nominated departure from splatter comedies (Braindead, Bad Taste, Meet The Feebles) is likely the main reason (along with The Frighteners) why New Line Cinema gave him the massive, in budget and scope, Lord of the Rings project (after the Kiwi director campaigned for actively.)

Warner Bros. is understandably worried about sending out a big budget film with unproven talent, helmed by gross - out comedy director like Dobkin making his first action movie.

Writer / director Hayden J Weal uses chronesthesia (aka mental time travel — the ability to think into the past and future) as a catalyst for romantic comedy in this low - budget feature.

Along with the next «Bourne» film, which reunites the actor with director Paul Greengrass, Damon is set to co-star in «The Great Wall» — a big - budget monster epic set in China in AD 1100 directed by Zhang Yimou — and Alexander Payne's satirical comedy «Downsizing,» in which he plays a man who undergoes a procedure that shrinks him to 4 inches tall.

Written by prolific TV scribes David Feeney (2 Broke Girls and NewGirl) and John Quaintance (Ben and Kate, Undateable), the film is helmed by dancer - turned - choreographer - turned director Anne Fletcher, who has previously brought us comedies Step Up, 27 Dresses and The Proposal, and is soon to take the big - budget reigns of Enchanted 2.

Danny Collins is the sort of thing that, 25 or 30 years ago, would've come out every week: a low - budget, low - stakes excuse for good actors to have some fun with a smart director and script (by Dan Fogelman, who wrote the busy, AARP - centric comedy Last Vegas).

For a go - for - broke ribald low budget independent comedy revolving around two transgender prostitutes traipsing around the streets of Los Angeles on Christmas Eve, it's a little surprising just how tender, sensitive and dare I say sweet the heart beating at the center of writer / director Sean Baker's (Starlet) latest Tangerine ends up being.

Director Taika Waititi may be on his way to big - budget success with the well - reviewed Thor: Ragnarok smashing into theaters this weekend, but he's not leaving behind his quirky comedy roots.

Writer - directors Jon Lucas & Scott Moore (who return for the sequel) did a solid job tapping into the frustrations of their lead characters, and while it wasn't a revolutionary comedy, it clearly clicked with a lot of people, earning $ 183 million worldwide off a $ 20 million budget.

Everything about it screams «niche,» from the budget ($ 4.5 million, which is what its studio, Universal, spent to make approximately two - and - a-half minutes of The Fate of the Furious), to the first - time director - writer, Jordan Peele, a cable - TV star whose show ended and who was looking to branch out, to the complete lack of movie stars (although now, Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams are nicely on their way), to the genre: horror cut with more than a dash of comedy and of pointed sociopolitical commentary.

Director: Gregory Jacobs Writers: Reid Carolin, Channing Tatum Nationality: US Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music Release year: 2015 Running time: 1h 55 min Budget: $ 14 800 000 (estimated) Character: Amber Heard is Zoe Release Date: July 1st, 2015 Co-stars: Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Elizabeth Banks Rated: R

Director: David Gordon Green Writers: Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg Nationality: US Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime Release year: 2008 Running time: 111 min Budget: $ 27,000,000 (estimated) Character: Amber Heard is Angie Anderson Release Date: August 6th 2008 Rated: R

The film's financial loss was profound; in career terms it scaled the writer - director right back down to where he was before, directing lower - budget studio actioners and comedies for the rest of the»80s.

New York City Serenade (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) Buddy comedy about a down - and - out drummer (Chris Klein) who accompanies his just - jilted best friend (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) to a film festival where the aspiring director has been invited to show his low - budget flick.