Sentences with phrase «budget film called»
According to the SEC complaint, the $ 100 million investment from the New York pension fund came only after the Quadrangle executive arranged for a Quadrangle affiliate to distribute the DVD of a low - budget film called «Chooch,» which was produced by the brother of former New York state deputy comptroller David Loglisci.
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He also helped a brother of a senior New York pension official distribute a low - budget film called «Chooch» through a DVD company controlled by Quadrangle.
Not exact matches
He called «The Walking Dead» a «soap opera» and said big - budget films like «World War Z» made modest zombie films impossible.
Michael Novakowsky, a budget division unit chief, said Percoco pushed for the release of funds for a central New York film hub being developed by COR Development in both a phone call and a series of emails calling for the division to get money that «can be processed done asap.»
According to The Hollywood Reporter, one of the reasons that the budget on «John Carter» went so high is that director Andrew Stanton, used to reworking films while at Pixar, «embarked on extensive and costly reshoots» (something fervently denied by the helmer, who called it «a complete and utter lie,» saying that Disney had let him go for longer reshoots because his principal photography had come in on time and on budget).
A highly stylized slasher film embellished with numerous creative touches and shot on a miniscule budget, Stage Fright served as an effective calling card and won much acclaim despite only moderate success in his home country.
The cynical yuks begin with the opening credits — the producers are called «some asshats» — and continue throughout a film that makes merry about its tiny budget, which includes messing about with «C» - grade X-Men castoffs Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand).
Connery has since provided the voice for a low - budget Scottish animated film called Sir Billi and the video game adaptation of From Russia With Love, but has been adamant that he'll never return to perform in a live - action role.
As the major studios have increasingly focused on predictable mass entertainment formulas, quality and imagination have migrated to what could be called Sundance films: Lower budget, innovative projects fueled by the love of their makers, and sometimes by the determination of actors trying to break out of assembly - line fodder.
They co-created a production company called Ramona Films, named after the street they grew up on, and have begun developing films that range in genre and budget but all represent «something we've never seen before on screen.»
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.
It seems that Hollywood has woken up to the vast store of talent that exists in the low - budget milieu, and more and more, the calling - card small film or successful TV stint is being used as a conduit to gain a higher profile and a bigger budget the next time out.
Reading the Wyndham source novel would also be a better option because this low budget film version comes across as very silly mostly because of said killer plants (called Triffids in the movie, although it is never properly explained quite why).
They're brothers, visual effects wizards, and filmmakers - Colin & Greg Strause - and their second feature film after AVP: R, a low budget sci - fi movie called Skyline, hits theaters today.
His life changes in a series of phone calls while he drives... Steven Knight's film is a fantastic product, given the constraints of filming time and budget.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 4, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS One Missed Call (PG - 13 for mature themes, frightening images, terror, intense violence and some sexual material) Shannyn Sossamon stars in this remake of Chakushin Ari, a high attrition - rate horror flick from Japan about a traumatized young woman who's afraid to answer her cell phone after several of her ill - fated friends receive messages accurately predicting exactly when and how they are about to die.
The film is competently crafted on its budget but holds little of interest in its action (less of it than you think) and narrative (you'll call it before the characters will).
Wild Eye Releasing has debuted an official trailer for a low budget action horror film called Demon Hunter, formerly known as Taryn Barker: Demon Hunter.
No matter the unique circumstances surrounding Doctor Strange, «Iron Fist» or this film, the end result is the same: Hollywood shies away from putting an Asian actor front and centre of big - budget productions, even those that necessarily call for such casting.
The Shallows ended up being one of the surprises of the summer as Scott Menzel called the film «one of the most entertaining big - budget films of the year.»
A Monster Calls has a reported production budget of $ 43 million, the rare film to exist between the deep - pocketed tentpoles and shoestring indies that together encompass most of today's cinematic offerings.
Word has spread that he is looking to cut his directorial teeth on an indie - budgeted science - fiction film called Ex Machina.
Creatively, if you ask us, a success: Jonze's big budget picture wasn't universally acclaimed, but we'd call his devastating look at childhood one of the best films of 2009.
The film was shot on an iPhone 5S using an $ 8 app called Filmic Pro and some prototype lenses from Moondog Labs, all with a very small budget.
A low - budget 1994 indie film called The Fantastic Four was never officially released, while 20th Century Fox's glossier 2005 offering Fantastic Four performed solidly enough to spawn a 2007 sequel, but has since been pretty much forgotten.
Marvel Comics» Fantastic Four superhero crew previously appeared on the big screen in a low - budget 1994 film titled The Fantastic Four and in a glossier 2005 offering starring Chris Evans and Jessica Alba called Fantastic Four, which spawned a sequel that arrived two years later, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
Without access to a large budget, he called his friends to help him brainstorm and film his admittedly outlandish videos.
«Vivid Entertainment honcho Steve Hirsch just fired off a letter to the royal palace in London — offering Prince Harry $ 10 million to star in a big budget adult film called «The Trouble with Harry»... thanks to his recent naked romp in Vegas.