Sentences with phrase «budget film into»

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It's a path that includes the relatively low overhead of shooting a film entirely via a mobile device and an app (the studio said Sickhouse «s budget was similar to that of a typical indie film) while potentially tapping into various social networking platforms» massive built - in audiences of users.

Like Netflix, Amazon (AMZN) is looking to get into the movie production game, promising earlier this year to eventually churn out around a dozen independent films — with budgets between $ 5 million and $ 25 million — every year.

Unlike other independent films in which big names are ridden into the ground like a sweaty mule, shoehorned into every possible scene in the movie, «Moms» Night Out» has an ensemble cast - an amazing feat for a film with a budget just under $ 5 million, according to Andrew and John Erwin, the brothers who directed the film.

Now, Dionne says she feels betrayed by the California filmmaker who turned the low budget - movie with a threadbare plot into an anti-Islam film that provoked outrage - with sometimes violent results - in parts of the Muslim world.

Now, Dionne says she feels betrayed by the California filmmaker who turned the low budget - movie with a threadbare plot into an anti-Islam film that provoked outrage — with sometimes violent results — in parts of the Muslim world.

What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.

It does not refer to the size of the production or the budget, but to the poster for the film, in which the letters BEN - HUR are formed into a mountain - sized block of stone: see bit.ly / ben - hur.

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.

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.

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).

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.

While watching this film, it's very hard to ignore the low - budget feel, especially if you are into filmmaking as much as I am.

Commercially, of course, it's prudent to venture into avant garde science fiction territory on a smallish budget, the way Jonathan Glazer did with his truly disorienting and memorable 2013 alien visitation film «Under the Skin.»

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.

Fernandez felt grateful for the opportunity, but reportedly hated the job itself so much that he hearkened off for the greener pastures of acting.Fernandez landed his first formal acting assignments as a guest star on episodes of the network series Cold Case and Jericho in 2006 and 2007, but truly came into his own as a star of low - medium budgeted independent films such as director Marc - Andre Samson's taut thriller Interstate (2006)(as a young man trying desperately to reach his girlfriend in Los Angeles, but waylaid by drugs and the trappings of an odd motel), and directors Lucky McKee and Trygve Diesen's violent psychological thriller Red (as a disturbed young man who plays the role of accomplice in killing a senior citizen's dog).

I don't know if Kong: Skull Island will do well enough at the box office to justify its $ 185 - million - plus production budget on top of a dedicated park attraction, but what I do know is that I went into the film pretty skeptical... and came out feeling like the Summer 2017 film season had just kicked off three months early.

director Mike Mendez — that, while it has a charming sense of humor about itself, leans too heavily on CGI blood; The Girl With All The Gifts (B), a well - shot British zombie film that attempts to inject new life into a tired genre, and almost succeeds thanks to young star Sennia Nanua; and the disappointing Phantasm: Ravager (C --RRB-, a low - budget labor of love which, while it plays like a Phantasm fan film, ultimately undercuts the emotional closure it attempts to bring to the franchise by failing to resolve the central conflict between good and evil.

Roger Corman's movies would demonstrate the sheer trashy power of horror, and Hitchcock tapped into this B - picture aesthetic with his own low - budget masterpiece, Psycho, which popularised the psychological horror film, taking the genre away from its supernatural roots — although William Friedkin's masterpiece, The Exorcist, took it right back there again.

There is less detail and clarity than many Blu - rays offer, but it's important to remember that the film is 25 years old and had a production budget of just $ 6 million (to put the latter number into context, fellow 1986 Charlie Sheen movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off cost the same amount).

Mr. Golin says that while he wants to step back a little as his company grows, he wants it to diversify, going into genres where modest - budget projects can still pop, including comedies, young - adult movies and action films like «Triple 9,» a police - heist movie with Casey Affleck and Chiwetel Ejiofor opening Feb. 26.

For the first time in the Harry Potter film, the set design looks like a low - budget afterthought and takes its toll by further delving the film into murk.

This is a relatively low - budget, independent film whose cast and crew clearly had a lot of fun — but that never quite translates into fun for the viewer.

Lister - Jones, who is currently seen on CBS» «Life in Pieces,» said that this film marked a return to her indie roots after getting a peak into the big - budget Hollywood studio system.

While none of the films beyond Craven's ever really stand out of the usual grind of horror sequels, it did give a number of up and coming directors a chance to flex their creative muscles: Chuck Russell (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors), Renny Harlin (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master) and Stephen Hopkins (A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child) all leapt from this series directly into big budget action cinema.

Marty Wolf (Paul Giamatti) is an evil Hollywood producer who steals the vaguely autobiographical writing assignment of pathological liar Jason (Frankie Muniz) and turns it into a big - budget blockbuster that shares its name with this film's title.

His exorbitant fee did come at a heavy price for the film, as his salary cut into the budget for sets, costumes and special effects, and it does occasionally show.

The filming budget for Splice, which was released into theaters on June 6, 2010, was roughly estimated at 26,000,000.

Also like those films, something gets lost in the translation, as what might work within the confines of a modestly budgeted Asian film seems all too ridiculous when big stars and budgets get injected into the mix.

Netflix has already completely rewritten the movie and TV - viewing rulebook by pouring a hundred million dollar budget into a film without a theatrical release, and creating their now ubiquitous «binge - watch» format that the service rolled out for the first season of House of Cards.

Considering Drinking Buddies had roughly ten times the amount of budget that director Joe Swanberg had for previous films, many thought this to be his crossover into the Hollywood system.

The reputation of the former next great hope of Hollywood fizzled out after a string of poorly received films and ill - conceived forays into effect - driven blockbuster fantasy, but now the low - budget thriller Split has proven to be his critical and commercial comeback.

Producer Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions has made a career out of taking low - to - moderately budgeted horror films like Paranormal Activity, Sinister and Oculus and turning them into profitable box office offerings - often with promise of sequel and / or franchise opportunities.

Where many of its nastier, bloodier copycats have long since been carved and diced from our memory, John Carpenter's low - budget, genre - defining excursion into the slasher film's virgin territories is still very much alive and freshly frightening today.

«Stake Land» was a low - budget production; the film limped into only a few theaters.

by Walter Chaw Billed as being filmed in a single shot (though the skeptical — and those taken in by the «unedited» long takes of Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men — should wonder why an editor is credited), Gustavo Hernández's zero - budget conceptual experiment The Silent House (La casa mudi) has found a way not only to suggest a gimmick successfully carried through, but also to weave that gimmick into a richer thematic tapestry.

There are quite a few low budget science fiction films poured into the foundation that supports Coherence.

Enter Gareth Edwards, whose 2010 film Monster was a low budget entry into the genre that appears to have gotten him enough good will for the folks at Legendary Pictures to put him behind the helm of a $ 160 million blockbuster relaunch of the big green guy himself.

She remembers Gortner as the high - energy den leader of the cast, on a shoot that ran far too long, and discloses that co-star Ida Lupino — herself a budget filmmaker of some renown — grew so fed up with the schedule that she wrote a death scene for her character, browbeat Gordon into filming it that very day, and went home.

If Hollywood was smart, they'd hurry their asses up and get Tony Jaa and Iko Uwais and Evans locked into a big budget internationally oriented film made the way Evans wants it made.

Drinking Buddies is somewhat of a crossover from micro-indie films into a larger budget film for Joe Swanberg; it contains a well - known cast (Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick) and much higher production values (having a dedicated director of photography, etc.) than his previous 14 films.

A decent plot and strong characters can't quite overcome the limitations of this low - budget film, mainly because the director struggles to inject much energy or spark into the story.

It was the solo directorial debut of Jack Hill (whose Coffy and Foxy Brown both recently hit Blu - ray from Olive), a low - budget film that was financed by real estate developers who wanted to get into the movie business and got stuck in limbo for years when the producers went bankrupt.

The best way to go into Crimson Peak would be completely blind, but in this day and age that is nearly impossible with a big budget studio film, so I can only advise you to temper your expectations, sit back and enjoy the beautiful ride that is Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 2, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Defiance (R for violence and profanity) Oscar - winner Edward Zwick (for Shakespeare in Love) directs this harrowing tale of survival, set in occupied Poland during World War II, recounting the heroic efforts of three brothers (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell) who escape into the forest where they join forces with Russian resistance fighters to save over 1,000 fellow Jews from the Nazis.

The film, based on Veronica Roth's novel of the same, stars Shailene Woodley in her first foray into high - budget Hollywood film.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening August 7, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (PG - 13 for mayhem and graphic violence) Action - oriented thriller about an elite team of gadget - equipped, military spies who venture to the ends of the Earth in search of the international arms dealer (Christopher Eccleston) masterminding a diabolical plot to plunge the planet into complete chaos.

But even better and more notable was his turn in «Ant - Man» in which he created probably the film's most memorable, endearing (and funny) character, in motormouthed «master thief» Luis, whose uniquely intricate way of telling a story is maybe the best character attribute written into any big - budget movie (so far) this year.

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!»

This is supposed to be Netflix's attempt to jump into creating films with big budgets, producing content that could compete with theatrical releases without having to deal with ratings, rely on box office reports, or worry about having enough money to put the film in enough theaters.

We tend to think of the French New Wave and its contemporary derivatives as low - budget black - and - white cinema, but in fact the French New Wave also included many bigger - budget films intended to make incursions into the commercial mainstream — movies like Godard's Contempt, Rivette's The Nun, Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451, Chabrol's A double tour (also known as Leda and Web of Passion), and Skolimowski's The Adventures of Gerard.