Sentences with phrase «budget film even»

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The brothers» next B film, Siege, was written in a week, shot in two weeks, and made on an even skimpier budget.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

So when Hollywood tried to replicate that success with big - budget films like Russell Crowe's Noah, Christian Bale's Exodus or even Martin Scorcese's Silence, they've all flopped.

Albany, NY - New York state would give even more taxpayer money to movie and television studios that film in Upstate New York under the budget up for a vote in the Senate and Assembly.

A higher budget and a longer running time would have made this even better, but even as it stands, it's a satisfying film in the Saturday - matinee mold.

As it turns out, «'' Amy»» entrepreneur Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) has sold the film rights for his «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» comic book — which is loosely based on Jay and Silent Bob — to Miramax, and the studio greenlit a big - budget production.Before it even begins, though, the pending «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» film provides more than enough fodder for a new wave of hate - mongers who prowl the Internet, namely pimple - faced geeks who slam anything they can type about on a series of movie gossip websites.

The only complimentary thing about the film is the description of being a low - budget sexploitation feature in which the characters are amateurs and don't even remove their bathing suits.

The effects in this film are laughably bad, and even for a low budget film they remain lacking compared to even basic green screen.

1080p, AVC - encoded transfer for The Disaster Artist shows off all the polish you'd expect from a modern studio picture, even one with roots in low - budget indie filmmaking (represented by the windowboxed «footage» from the fictionalized filming of The Room.)

Even though the film feels low budget, this still a fairly well done Sci Fi horror flick, though lacking in plot, it makes up for it in thrills.

With such films as the Mad Max films, The Book of Eli and even The Hunger Games, there are better options with even larger budgets out there if you are looking for spectacle that isn't just purely visual candy.

By the conclusion of Garland's adaptation, it's clear he understands and respects VanderMeer's point to the extreme, even if the expectations of a mid - to major - budget sci - fi film these days demand traditional closure.

Everything that happens in this film is for a purpose, even if it brushes through everything quickly due to it's very low budget.

Guy Hamilton's direction lacks enthusiasm and pace, while even the art direction — long the Bond films» real secret weapon — seems to have fallen to a shrunken budget.

James Cameron takes every great element from his original film, showcases them with an enormous budget and tells an even more compelling story.

What makes the film even more impressive is that it was made on a $ 30 million budget.

This low - budget horror film produced by Roger Corman and directed by Coppola before he went on the become a famous filmmaker has evident shades of Psycho but is not even frightening, with a lame, uneven plot in which nothing much really happens.

Another underperformer was Martin Scorsese's Hugo, which hasn't come close to recouping its nearly $ 150 million budget, but even that failure is partially mitigated by the film's 11 Oscar nominations, which made it the most - nominated film of the year.

Even if it may feel a bit overlong, this fantastic sequel is perhaps even more thrilling than the first film, this time investing more in the action and first - rate special effects with a bigger budget to create something epic - and it is always awesome to see Schwarzenegger as the big hEven if it may feel a bit overlong, this fantastic sequel is perhaps even more thrilling than the first film, this time investing more in the action and first - rate special effects with a bigger budget to create something epic - and it is always awesome to see Schwarzenegger as the big heven more thrilling than the first film, this time investing more in the action and first - rate special effects with a bigger budget to create something epic - and it is always awesome to see Schwarzenegger as the big hero.

A mean, leering, deeply misogynistic film, Killer Joe earns every bit of its US NC - 17 rating, even as it belies its low budget origins — I was shocked to see that Caleb Deschanel shot this, given that stylistically it resembles a telemovie.

Although it's refreshing to see a major studio take a gamble on a modestly budgeted film targeted towards adults (even if it stars one of the most bankable actors in the world), when that movie is as passively mediocre as «Focus,» you can understand why other studios have been afraid to pull the trigger.

The action takes place during the making of a small - budget potboiler film, HOME FOR PURIM, that no one is taking seriously, not even the folks making it, until an internet rumor surfaces that one of the cast is giving an Oscar - worthy performance.

«Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End» (2007) Box Office Take: $ 963m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 20 At the time the most expensive film ever made, budgeted at $ 300m (before its even more dire sequel, «On Stranger Tides,» smashed that dubious record), the third «Pirates» movie was the one where the franchise's over-reliance on Johnny Depp «s Jack Sparrow really started to tell.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Disney) is proof that even in this era of franchise films, CGI effects and $ 200 million budgets, star power counts.

And Altman's film barely broke even — although at a cost of a little more than $ 1 million it was a low - budget production by 1977 standards.

But even yesterday it looked like a long shot, and despite Carrey's apparent love of Matthew Vaughn's film, The Hollywood Reporter is saying that their sources think the chances of Carrey taking the role of Colonel Stars (a mobster - turned - fundamentalist - Christian - turned - superhero - recruiter) are slim — presumably the smaller budget of the sequel to the underperfoming original can't quite afford him.

This is a bona fide independent film, the kind whose budget may very well not even extend to a seventh figure.

Get Out was released by Jason Blum's Blumhouse productions, a studio that can easily be described as the modern - day saviour of the low - budget, major - release film, even if they most recently subjected us to the latest M. Night Shyamalan misfire, Split.

On a more ambivalent note, I sometimes think that questions of Oscar relevance are really covert dismissals of the significance of Hollywood and the kind of movies the Oscars are all about, films that often (but not inevitably) have eight - or even nine - figure budgets and unashamedly aim for mainstream acceptance.

I can't even begin to imagine just how big the effects budget was for this film.

It's a low - budget film with even lower consequences but it plays with all of its heart.

Valley Girl was a fairly low budget film, even for its era, reportedly costing only $ 350,000 dollars.

While I no doubt have been spoiled by regular exposure to excellent Blu - ray transfers, the 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation of Swimming to Cambodia seems a tad disappointing even for a standard definition release of a low - budget 25 - year - old experimental film.

DisneyToon's animation can practically be mistaken for that of the first Cars eight years ago, even though the $ 50 M production budget is just a small fraction of what is spent to make Pixar and Disney Animation Studios» films these days (which each cost upwards of $ 150 M).

That Sony's disc was serviceable entails that even the minor improvement made here results in The Muppet Movie looking rather strong for a movie approaching 30 that was not shot on the highest of budgets or film stocks.

Turns out, even though Unstoppable earned a whopping $ 168 million at the box office, the film's $ 100 million budget and Washington's supposed $ 12 million + paycheck warrant much more than that.

MS: Even though the film was modestly budgeted it is well crafted, especially the special effects.

All those changes do not seem to have had the intended effect domestically, where Retaliation grossed $ 122.5 million, a soft sum even by March standards that was $ 7.5 M beneath the film's reported production budget.

Today, most low - budget and even medium - budget films do not get a theatrical release.

Netflix and that type of Internet distribution seems to be the way, at the moment, that low - budget and even medium - budget films will get their distribution.

As for a Cloverfield 2, success wouldn't be a sure thing, even with a small budget, as the original film's reception was far loss positive amongst audiences than a similarly Internet - buzzing and viral marketed movie like Saw.

Vaughn would bring everything you need regardless and he's so used to working with slightly lower budgets for his films that he could do more with less even if he didn't have to.

His last film, 2008's big - budget flop «Australia,» debuted with just $ 14.8 million, while even the buzzed - about «Moulin Rouge» took in only $ 57.4 million during its entire run in the U.S. and Canada.

And I'm excited even though original director Steven Soderbergh (who was able to guide his first film from a $ 7 million budget to a $ 167 million worldwide gross), won't...

Ryan gave a brief statement concerning his hope that even the most critical fanboys will embrace the lower budgeted comic book film.

I'm in the belief that the city is a perfect fit for the production and could easily help boost the quality of the production, even if they are claiming the budget is smaller than the rest of the superhero films being made.

It's easy to spot that the film was made on a paltry budget and a shame to see that it didn't even make $ 50,000 dollars in US theaters but what can you expect from notoriously choosy American audiences (who would rather spend their money on Lone Ranger or another junky Hobbit flick).

There is also a new feature length commentary with Adrienne Barbeau, who played Maggie, discussing her memories of the film with director of photography Dean Cundey, who credits Carpenter's vision for being so ahead of its time in even attempting to create a (seemingly large) whole different world on the tiny budget of an independent film.

This special effects dominated sequel spent most of its budget on the visuals, with not much left for basic things like a quality script or even the ability to retain the mostly no - name actors from the first film, with only Robin Shou (Beverly Hills Ninja) and Talisa Soto (License to Kill) reprising their roles.

Every single ounce of the film's budget is splashed colorfully (but modestly) on the screen, Krasinski and Co. adding even more fuel to the raging appeal of highbrow horror movies, for both studios and audiences alike.