Sentences with phrase «budget comedy of»

A couple of the golfing scenes aren't as sharp as others, but most are immaculate and unexpectedly vibrant for a low - budget comedy of this age.

Not exact matches

Paramount released a number of notable big - budget flops in 2016, including Ben Stiller's comedy sequel Zoolander 2 ($ 28.8 million in domestic gross) and a Ben - Hur remake that Paramount co-financed with MGM, which only grossed $ 26.4 million domestically, according to Box Office Mojo.

«The Night Before,» a comedy from the same filmmakers as «The Interview» grossed just $ 10 million on a budget of $ 25 million.

As a low - budget horror comedy outing, Severance is an impressive film that is original and lots of fun from start to finish.

However, I can't help but think that the pressures of creating a big - budget «event» movie after two small comedies - Pee - Wee's Big Adventure and Beetlejuice - may have affected his work, because Batman consistently seemed vaguely unsure of itself.

A British low budget horror / gore / comedy which is probably suppose to be along the same kind of lines as «American Werewolf» and «Zombie Strippers» but alas it falls way short.

This is all very lightweight and low - budget stuff, but this pleasant comedy sort of grows on the viewer.

Some employees of an international arms dealer go out into the Hungarian wildeness for a weekend company retreat, only to find themselves menaced by a group of militants who don't like having them around their territory in this modestly budgeted dark comedy / horror film from Christopher Smith, who also directed Black Death (with Sean Bean).

And you're choosing to ignore all the female - centered dramas and comedies that have been SUCCESSFUL compared to budget: Lady Bird, Winter's Bone, Wild, Girls Trip, Trainwreck, Bridesmaids, Mean Girls, Clueless, Pitch Perfect, and on and on (not including the huge box office of the female - led action / sci - fi / Disney films like Frozen, Hunger Games, Gravity, Wonder Woman, etc).

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.

More than anything, Killing Gunther demonstrates that Christopher Guest has a lot to atone for with his pioneering of the mockumentary, which has become the lazy, go - to style for low - budget comedies.

Despite the cameos of over 30 movie stars and big budget, George Sidney's gimmicky comedy, starring Mexican actor Cantinflas who goes to Hollywood to take care of his horse, is one of Hollywood's biggest flops of the 1960s.

In the wake of a number of star - studded big - budget comedy features waning at the box office (read Ghostbusters), and once - upon - a-time comedy king Adam Sandler now reaching his core audience on Netflix, A Bad Moms Christmas serves as an example of how feature film economics have also changed in a climate where streaming has impacted theatergoing for mid-and-low budgeted films.

Sony low - budget division Screen Gems released his first feature in 2000, «The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy,» which followed the lives of a group of gay friends living in West Hollywood.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 31, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Balls of Fury (PG - 13 for profanity, crude behavior and sex - related humor) Dan Fogler stars in this revenge comedy as a washed - up ping - pong champion coaxed out of retirement by an FBI Agent (George Lopez) to enter a tournament hosted by the Asian crime lord (Christopher Walken) who murdered his father.

One of the biggest Sundance hits of 2015 was a small - budget indie comedy about an aspiring high school filmmaker and his friendship with a sick classmate entitled Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

A few gentle comedy dramas followed with Penny Marshall's Renaissance Man and Herbert Ross» Boys on the Side.Many film roles opened up in the late»90s, from Victor Salva's independent comedy Rites of Passage to the big - budget Robert Zemeckis mystery What Lies Beneath.

But then a funny thing happened: Ever so gradually, word got out about just how awful the movie was — how this near - tragic waste of an estimated $ 6 million budget might be appreciated as an accidental comedy — and audiences started coming to see for themselves.

It's a mix of action and comedy, plus b - movie exploitation with a much higher budget.

Late Night Shopping is a low budget comedy made in Scotland that has no plot other than to show the state of mind that generates from the doldrums of life for young men and women on the lowest rung of the social and economic ladder.

Despite being a low budget comedy, the film doesn't shy away from its horrific roots, occasionally doubling down on gore with fountains of deep red blood.

Working for the first time with a serious budget — and «Lethal Weapon» producer Joel Silver — the Coens managed to produce their first outright flop, a $ 25 - million screwball comedy about the invention of the hula hoop.

The central joke in this low - budget comedy should have been a springboard to something either blackly hilarious or more amusingly complex, but the filmmakers seem to have run out of ideas after coming up with...

That's a lot of mileage from a few low - budget noirs and one comedy, so it's not surprising that this subgenre is beginning to show signs of exhaustion.

While a microscopic budget and somewhat misguided premise create constant irritations, this British comedy has such a bone - dry sense of humour that it can't help but keep the audience laughing.

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.

A prankish comedy - thriller overtly about desperation and insecurity, Baghead begins with a dead - on Q&A at a Los Angeles indie film festival, where an underground auteur (Jett Garner) condescendingly responds on matters of budget and improvisation.

While the Warner Bros. comedy tripled its budget at the box office, it will only be remembered for being one of Sandler's worst comedies yet, providing audiences didn't immediately wipe it from their memory when they walked out of the theater.

It's probably a loser's game to ask for better craftsmanship from a movie like Tower Heist, but even crowd - pleasing big - budget comedies would seem to owe both of their top - billed actors a final scene.

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.

The comedy had a budget of $ 13.5 M and also has not opened internationally.

With its reasonable $ 36 million production budget, the raunchy comedy would eventually turn a profit and though that profit wouldn't be terribly significant to most of the major movie studios,

That distinction belongs to Asylum, an obscure low - budget series that aired in 1996 on a fledging satellite channel that would eventually become the British affiliate of Comedy Central.

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.)

Though far from the big - budget extravaganza of the first two «Iron Man» films, what the indie comedy lacks in spectacle it makes up for with a great cast, a warm and funny script, and some mouth - watering food porn.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 5, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Due Date (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) Robert Downey, Jr. and Zack Galifianakis co-star in this raunchy road comedy about an uptight dad - to - be who hitches a ride across the country with a wacky slacker in order to make it on time to witness the birth of his baby.

Sequels to comedies used to be pretty rare, but these days if you make even an okay amount of money studios are going to be much more willing to let you return for another go around rather than take the risk of making an original property on a large budget.

After working on a few more independent films, including «Reckless» (1984), «Old Enough» (1984) and «Heartbreakers» (1984), he made another important personal and professional connection when Martin Scorsese hired him to shoot a low - budget indie - style film that he was working on as a way of collecting his bearings after a string of increasingly complex and complicated productions, the dark comedy «After Hours» (1985).

The extremely low - budget film features a stellar cast of British talent - Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, David Hemings, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Ray Winstone - and is Schepisi's first real diversion from comedy in a while.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 3, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Adventureland (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) Retro romantic comedy, set in Pittsburgh in 1987, revolving around the plight of a grad school - bound virgin (Jesse Eisenberg) forced by his family's financial woes to take a minimum - wage job at an amusement park the summer before he's supposed to start at Columbia.

Kristen Wiig (writer and star of Bridesmaids) and Amy Schumer (writer and star of Trainwreck) have shown that bigger budget comedies are not a reach for women.

WHY SEE IT: An interesting and creative premise for a film that is clearly a labor of love — kind of an indie comedy take on CUBE and LABYRINTH, with a touch of ALICE IN WONDERLAND and Terry Gilliam insanity thrown in for good measure — DAVE MADE A MAZE is an amusing diversion for fans of budget filmmaking who can appreciate a smirk - inducing comedy with a light touch of horror and fantasy.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening May 8, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Next Day Air (R for violence, drug use, pervasive profanity and brief sexuality) Action - oriented crime caper about the comedy of errors which ensue after a couple of hapless hoodlums (Mike Epps and Wood Harris) are mistakenly delivered a large package filled with bricks of pure cocaine.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 10, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Daddy Day Camp (PG for bodily function humor and mild epithets) Eddie Murphy, Steve Zahn and the rest of the of the original cast has been replaced for this sequel to Daddy Day Care about the comedy - of - errors which ensue when a couple of fathers (Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Paul Rae) find themselves over their heads trying to maintain order at a summer camp run a muck.

Since then, his career has taken a number of exciting and unpredictable turns, moving from small - budget character studies (All the Real Girls) to a star - studded stoner comedy (Pineapple Express) and TV shows as varied as Eastbound & Down and Red Oaks.

But it's the low - budget, no - star «Dope» that really seems to have resonated, with Famuyiwa abandoning the romantic comedy vibe of his previous titles and turning in an energetic, youthful genre - mash - up instead.

Making its world premiere at Fantastic Fest on September 22, The Void marked a departure in style for two members of Astron - 6, Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski, a group known for lower budget horror comedies.

I'm into all types of movies — I'm trying to make a horror film (next), and there's some indie movies that'd cost about $ 5 to make that I'd like to do — but this was a chance for someone to write a check for a big - budget comedy, and to be able to do something as balls - out as this one... y ’ know, I'm gonna take advantage of that!»

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.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 9, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Couples Retreat (PG - 13 for profanity and sexuality) Battle - of - the - sexes comedy revolving around four couples vacationing on a tropical island who come to regret booking themselves at the therapy getaway when they learn that participation in the retreat's relationship counseling sessions is not optional.