Sentences with phrase «budget feature debut»

Gavin Hood Indie Work: South African helmer Hood got his start making educational films before writing, directing and starring in his low - budget feature debut «A Reasonable Man.»

Understated and deeply unsettling, this is a remarkable low - budget feature debut for director - cowriter Wheatley.Bill (Robert...

His low - budget feature debut co-written with his wife Jerusha,

Not exact matches

Writer - director Ryan Coogler's debut feature Fruitvale Station was a low - budget drama based on the true story of the shooting of a young African - American man at a railway station in Oakland, California, on New Year's Day 2009.

The One I Love is cleverly written by Justin Lader and directed with budget - minded skill by Charlie McDowell (son of actor Malcolm, and step - son to Ted Danson, who makes a small acting appearance), both of whom are making their feature film debuts.

Chris Lavery checks out Tom Ryan's low - budget debut feature Trampoline, which is set to screen in Cork on Thursday, 12th June 2014 at the Beggarman.

The actress» feature directorial debut, «Pitch Perfect 2,» grossed over $ 287 million on a budget of $ 29 million.

But unfortunately, Rinsch's feature film debut fails in both departments, resulting in a disappointingly dull samurai flick that ranks among one of the most forgettable big - budget movies of last year.

After the Duplass brothers» no - budget 2005 debut feature The Puffy Chair put them on the map, they followed up by poking fun at their own DIY aesthetic in Baghead, which follows four friends who want to make a movie, but are creatively bankrupt.

The Dallas - based filmmaker has been one of the best - kept secrets of the indie world thanks to his microbudgeted feature debut «St. Nick» in 2009, and short follow - up «Pioneer» in 2011 (starring Will Oldham), and he developed «Saints» through the Sundance Labs, before WME helped bring it to the attention of Mara and Affleck, whose presence helped him to raise the $ 6 million budget.

All initially emerged with low - budget independent features (many of them made their debut at the Sundance Film Festival).

When Hughes started production on The Breakfast Club in March 1984 with an indie - movie budget of $ 1 million (about $ 2.5 million adjusted for inflation), his debut feature Sixteen Candles wouldn't even hit theaters for another two months.

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.

As such, it's a genre that prizes imagination over budget, with some of the best modern examples being the cheap indies Primer (from 2004), the little - seen Spanish import Timecrimes (2007), and 2012's Safety Not Guaranteed (the fictional feature debut of Colin Trevorrow, who last year made Jurassic World).

Ottman's commentary is also rather educational, relating the lessons he learned on this, his feature directing debut; aspiring auteurs will find much of value here on working under the constraints of a tight budget and an equally limiting genre.

Edwards filmed his debut feature (Monsters, 2010)-- about two people travelling across America six years after aliens invaded Earth — on a shoestring budget of just $ 800,000 with a minuscule crew of just seven people.

This low - budget «retro - futuristic steampunk thriller» from filmmaker Vladan Nikolic — credited as «experiment supervisor & creator» rather than director — resembles Darren Aronofsky's debut feature, «Pi,» complicated by its intercutting of two separate narrative time streams.

Duncan Jones (yep, he's David Bowie's son), making his feature film debut, keeps things simple and low - tech, though the movie looks quite good for something that was surely made on a shoestring budget.

The English - language debut of the South Korean mastermind behind «Memories of Murder,» «The Host» and «Mother,» it features an all - star cast and a hefty budget, and was snapped up early on by The Weinstein Company.

He got noticed when his no - budget, highly personal and idiosyncratic feature debut «Eraserhead» became a staple of the midnight cult horror circuit, tried to mount «Ronnie Rocket» (for the first of many times — it remains one of our 25 Greatest Movies Never Made), and instead was brought in as director - for - hire on «The Elephant Man.»

Spike Jonze Indie Work: Jonze was one of the best - loved music video directors of the 1990s who, after a brief flirtation with a big - budget debut for Sony in the shape of an adaptation of «Harold And The Purple Crayon,» arrived in features with the staggeringly imaginative «Being John Malkovich» in 1999, which earned him a Best Director Oscar nomination.

Filmed in eighteen days with a modest $ 1 million budget, most of those who do catch the dreamy David Strathairn - starring drama are impressed, least of all because it is the debut feature film project of writer and director Aaron Wiederspahn, who crafted the strange, but beautiful tale from a recurring dream of his own.»

Trank recently made his film directorial debut with the Twentieth Century Fox feature film «Chronicle», which was made on a $ 12 million budget and raked in over $ 127 million at the box office.

Release: Friday, February 26, 2016 (limited)[Netflix] Written by: Perry Blackshear Directed by: Perry Blackshear They Look Like People is the debut feature from Perry Blackshear, a quietly unassuming hybrid of horror and psychological thriller elements built on a shoestring budget.

But director Josh Trank's debut feature doesn't run into any of those problems, and it's exactly because the script and acting are so good that he's able to utilize the low - budget gimmick to his benefit, delivering a fresh take on found - footage and superhero movies in the process.

The Redmi 3S marks the debut of the Snapdragon 430, which brings a lot of new features previously limited to the mid-tier segment down to the budget category.

The Honor 6X debuted at the Consumer Electronic Show 2017 and the attractively - priced smartphone is looking to entice the budget conscious buyer who wants a feature - rich and robust device.

Aiming to cash in on the low - budget consumer market Lenovo is debuting two new Chromebooks that cost less than $ 400 and feature a battery life of up to eight hours.

A day after Huawei debuted its dual - camera $ 249 Honor 6X phone, ZTE countered with a feature - packed budget model of its own.