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Brad Peyton («Journey 2: The Mysterious Island») will direct the low - budget film from a script by Ronnie Christensen

45 Years may be a low - budget film from a legitimately small distributor, but it is the mid-2010s and thus it still looks terrific on Blu - ray from Paramount.

Being a low - budget film from Canada without an easily marketable premise, «Still Mine» is only gradually opening up in these parts in a few cities and its chances of expanding any wider are almost totally dependent on generating a positive word of mouth reaction amongst audiences that will hopefully lead to more people deciding to give it a chance instead of blowing their money on the likes of «Grown Ups 2.»

He made his first appearance in an American film in Victor Halperin's grisly thriller Torture Ship, playing one of the criminals on whom well - intentioned (but quite mad) scientist Irving Pichel plans to perform glandular experiments, but he soon moved up to higher budgeted films from the major studios, although still almost inevitably in sinister roles.

Not everyone digs the aesthetics of this version of Beauty and the Beast, but as a relatively high - budgeted film from the most commercially successful movie studio of the past several years, it is little surprise that it looks as great as intended on Blu - ray.

Not exact matches

The service has evolved from being solely a buyer of shows and movies to become one of the active producers of TV, documentaries and films, with a long - term budget that approaches $ 10 billion, according to filings.

«After two years of developing global interest in B.C.'s LNG potential, this year's budget has selected four or five other key industries for strategic investment and growth — from the film industry to mining, aerospace, and a Maritime Centre of Excellence.»

Fewer films, more controlled budgets, but more selective releases allowed the fimled entertainment division to post a positive operating profit of $ 7 million in the quarter - a huge improvement from a staggering loss of - $ 114 million in the prior Q2.

Based on the popular Ernest Cline novel, the big - budget, effects - laden film from director Steven Spielberg may give a boost to the nascent virtual - reality headset industry.

Now the director, who was raised culturally Jewish, has made a full - fledged biblical epic with Noah, a $ 125 million - budget film that puts an unorthodox spin on one of the most familiar stories from Scripture.

But in a year that's seen a slew of big budget releases and star - powered projects from some of Hollywood's most notable filmmakers (Martin Scorsese, Kenneth Lonergan, Mel Gibson) it was a $ 5 million film with no major superstar names that brought home the night's biggest award.

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

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.

Aside from budget issues, nothing's stopping them from making a zombie movie with a surprise dance number among the corpses, or a superhero film where the villain's master plan is to turn everyone into squirrels or something.

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

His final film appearance — in John T. Kretchmer's low - budget comedy Bad Girls from Valley High — arrived posthumously, in 2005.

J. Michael Straczynski's original script was jettisoned in favor of an unfinished one by political thriller specialist Matthew Michael Carnahan (State of Play, Lions for Lambs), with «LOST» - alum script doctors Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, Cloverfield) and Damon Lindelof (Star Trek Into Darkness, Prometheus) brought in later to write a host of reshoots, including a new climax and ending to the film (the repeated use and imbibing of Pepsi products during these scenes would indicate the source for much of the additional reshoot budget), that pushed the release date from a winter of 2012 release to the summer of 2013.

Why in the wide, wide, world of sports would anybody make a big - budget feature film from a decades - old, animated cartoon parody of Nelson Eddy / Jeanette MacDonald movies?

Good production values for a low budget film and good acting from the main characters and most of the cast and good pace but the story feels empty, cliché, flaw and lack of depth.

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).

In the ten years since Rings, cynicism seems to have grown exponentially, especially online, where fans and haters from all over the world congregate to determine the worth of a film, and certainly a big budget 4,000 - theater holiday season fantasy film.

Tracing the history of adult films, from «Deep Throat» and «Devil in Miss Jones» to the high - definition, big budget movies of today, this documentary chronicles the most important, critically acclaimed and sexiest movies in history.

After being cast as Lorene Rogers in a TV remake of From Here to Eternity (a role she reprised in a subsequent series based upon the film), Basinger finally made her way to the big screen in the low - budget drama Hard Country.

Production has reportedly been a «nightmare» and, some sources reported that Universal considered pulling the film from overwhelmed first - time director Rinsch after the budget may have swelled by over $ 50 million more than the originally planned $ 170 million.

The inevitable development of a Strangers sequel (it made $ 82m from a $ 9m budget) has been plagued with setbacks and now, 10 years later, it creeps into cinemas, marketed largely as The Strangers and acting as a standalone film.

as a kid i grew up with transformers for toys, but didn't watch the actual show (aside from beast wars) until last year, so i wouldn't consider myself a fan boy, but when a tv show based around toys from the 80's has better dialog, humor, character development, and plot than a high budget Hollywood film, you know something is wrong with the film industry.

This latest big budget team - up from the Marvel Cinematic Universe follows eighteen films that have featured

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.)

After the film's success, Tarantino was everywhere, from talk shows to a cameo in the low - budget Sleep With Me.

It is this ability to crossover from potential niche status - a huge risk for a film with a mammoth budget - to billion dollar behemoth should light a fire under the asses of studios to show them that stories about anyone can be successful as long as they are well made and engaging.

Fresh from film school, an enthusiastic young runner starts work on a low budget zombie movie only to run into the first day from hell as a mystery illness starts to turn the extras on set into the bona fide undead.

Some of the idiocy that is being poked at for laughs doesn't seem so strange when you look at YouTube comments and E! Many of the things that are wrong with this film stem from the fact that it is very low budgeted and didn't get much financing from its studio.

The book's non-linear, interview - based structure meant that World War Z was going to be a challenging project from the start, but the need last year to both re-write and re-shoot the film's third act (with the budget swelling to as much as $ 200 million in the process) suggests that it is a puzzle that hasn't quite been solved by the filmmakers.

Raimi's first film since 2009's Drag Me to Hell (and first big - budget production since his Spider - Man trilogy) is a $ 200 million, visually dazzling, 3D prequel to the story told in 1939's The Wizard of Oz, chronicling the rise of said wizard from his humble beginnings as a small - time Kansas magician.

You get a sense of what differentiates Romans from the citizens of Pompeii, the geography and culture of the place, and the production values seem solid enough for what was probably a mid-to-lower end of high - budget film.

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

Not perfect - the film is made on a tight budget and sometimes it shows - but this is so much better written than every other American comedy this year (apart from Burn After Reading) that it is embarrassing.

Independent cinema can range from a student film with not a single dollar to its budget, to an Oscar - nominated film worth 40 - 50 million dollars.

He uses techniques gleaned from exploitation and low - budget films such as whip - zooms, garish titles and bleached footage to grunge - up this $ 100 million production.

A former Miami Beach lifeguard, strapping Ohio - born Bob Wilke performed stunt work in Hollywood films from 1936, often working for low - budget studios such as Republic Pictures and Monogram.

Still, from a production standpoint, the film is as close to top - notch as a low - budget cinematic affair can get, with Mac Fisken's razor - sharp cinematography at the top of the list and Giona Ostinelli's disconcerting score not far behind.

The experimental nature of the film also proves a charm, the ten minute shots make interesting viewing and a high budget cyclorama backdrop that includes the empire state building makes the film look much more modern than anything else from the 1940's.

With a $ 40 million budget, the film will make a profit, but this seems a case where a potentially profitable film suffered from the misfortune of getting caught in the wave of a massive event film.

Looking past the enormous financial deficit, the film's failings are far from legendary and hopefully James L. Brooks can rebound from this with a much more reasonable budget.

It was a time of big budget, Oscar nominated studio films like Misery and early genre work from filmmakers who would go on to become the best in the business, like Fincher's Seven, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, Tarantino and Rodriguez's From Dusk Til Dawn, and Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladfrom filmmakers who would go on to become the best in the business, like Fincher's Seven, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, Tarantino and Rodriguez's From Dusk Til Dawn, and Adrian Lyne's Jacob's LadFrom Dusk Til Dawn, and Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening June 11, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The A-Team (PG - 13 for profanity, smoking, and pervasive action violence) Screen adaptation of the pyrotechnics - driven TV series from the Eighties chronicling the exploits of a squad of former Special Service soldiers determined to clear their names after unfairly being branded war criminals.

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Naturally, fans would be able to easily tell the difference between a film from a studio production and that of a low - budget film, but as you find out watching The Disaster Artist, Wiseau's The Room was hardly a micro-budgeted project.

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: Debra Granik's blend of low - budget regional realism and crime thriller (adapted from the novel by Daniel Woodrell) is an absolute knockout, for me the narrative film of the festival so far.