Sentences with phrase «budget film on»

More than a decade after AIDS was first identified as a disease, «Philadelphia» marks the first time Hollywood has risked a big - budget film on the subject.

Not exact matches

STX Entertainment's inaugural film has already grossed $ 23.6 million on a budget of $ 5 million.

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

Pulling off a lavish period film on such a small budget, Leigh admitted at a small press luncheon on Friday, was satisfying but also troubling.

The Clint Eastwood - directed film has broken box - office records, earning over $ 154 million worldwide on a $ 58.8 million production budget.

The three subsequent films in the series grossed more than $ 310 million on a total budget of $ 55 million, according to the movie finance site The Numbers.

Compared to major studio projects like the forthcoming Aaron Sorkin adaption of Walter Isaacson's popular biography of Jobs, this film was made on a shoestring, with an estimated budget of just $ 8.5 million.

They went on to film it over 25 1/2 days on a budget of $ 4.5 million.

Firm distributors exhibit a strong tendency to allocate more resources to films produced by those with whom they have had prior interactions, «approving larger production budgets, marketing these films more heavily and scheduling them on more attractive release dates.»

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.

«People have great hearts and great knowledge but no experience of filmmaking and no budgets,» Burnett said of past telling of the stories on film and television.

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.

The film made a star out of Jon Heder and grossed more than $ 46 million worldwide on just a $ 400,000 budget.

Filmed entirely on location in Morocco on a relatively modest budget of $ 20m, major challenges included filming large - scale battle sequences using a stunt team, and recreating the fall of Jericho with powerful explosives.

Most fall either on the side of big - budget films that take plenty of artistic liberties with...

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The Prime Minister tweeted a video, apparently filmed at an SNP event on April 13, in which Salmond tells the crowd he had heard a Labour spokesman say that Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy would not be writing the party's budget.

Because MGM spent $ 1.9 million on the film, a blockbuster budget then, Robby became the iconic face of a burgeoning field.

Now, if you will, imagine yourself on the set of a low budget independently funded horror film and this is your first scene.

This unashamedly English film where Hugh Grant plays the sweet and bumbling Charles was made on a relatively low - budget by Hollywood standards, but has gone down in history as one of the best rom - coms of all time — and is certainly one of NZ's favourites.

This unashamedly English film where Hugh Grant plays the sweet and bumbling Charles, was made on a relatively low - budget by Hollywood standards, but has gone down in history as one of the best rom - coms of all time.

This unashamedly English film where Hugh Grant plays the sweet and bumbling Charles, was made on a relatively low - budget by Hollywood standards, but has gone down in history as one of the best rom coms of all time.

Another film that went on to have it's own franchise pushed the boundaries of horror, made on a shoestring budget and executed in the most simplest of terms was Saw.

Since then, she's gone on to score an independant film project as well as other big - budget films which should be coming to theaters in the near future.

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.

After a few more low - budgeters, Kaplan was allowed to spend a little more time and money on White Line Fever (1975), then enjoyed his most lavish budget to date on Mr. Billion (1976), a lighthearted and empty - headed caper film starring Terence Hill, Valerie Perrine and Jackie Gleason.

Her mom said «she did the film for her friends because it was run on a very low budget.»

In addition to rumors of a bloated budget and unrest on the set between director Mark Forster and star Brad Pitt, the film's original release date was pushed back six months to accommodate major rewrites and additional shooting.

Outside of his Nightmare appearances, Englund's most significant credits were his one - shot directorial stint on the theatrical feature 976 - EVIL (1988); his characterization of the title role in a medium - budget film adaptation of Phantom of the Opera (1989); and his hosting chores on the Craven - produced TV anthology Nightmare Café (1992).

After graduation, Zea shifted focus; honing in almost exclusively on filmed work, she appeared in innumerable student and low - budget productions, and partially supported herself with work on television commercials, promoting such brands as Lucky Strike, Dove, Hellman's, and Snickers.

For a film with a $ 150 million budget to look like television is unconscionable and it seems absurd that no one was able to convince Jackson not to adopt the format, or at least not to try it out on a franchise with so much riding on it.

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.

A low - budget film collaboration with fellow actors John Glover and Gloria Reuben, Macbeth in Manhattan (1999), followed, along with a two - year stint as Gwen Hotchkiss on the daytime drama Passions.

On top of that, there is something very realistic about low - budget films that do exactly that, because it feels more grounded in reality, instead of overblown on a large scalOn top of that, there is something very realistic about low - budget films that do exactly that, because it feels more grounded in reality, instead of overblown on a large scalon a large scale.

This crude low - budget exploiter is one of the most grotesque character assassinations ever put on film.

Time and again, American audiences have responded to films with black leads like Hidden Figures, Get Out, and Girls Trip, all of them turning huge profits on smaller budgets.

Perhaps its unexpected box office success can be attributed in part to the popular reaction against an entertainment industry whose laser - like concentration is on big - budget franchise and sequel films.

Though Pieck is to be admired for the rigorousness in telling this chilling story (on what looks like a near zero budget), the film itself remains resolutely unlikable.

The visuals in Annihilation are for the most part as understated as the acting, which may be as much a comment on the film's non-blockbuster budget as on Garland's desire to preserve the headspace created by VanderMeer.

«Fantastic Voyage» was a runaway boxoffice hit that was made of a budget of $ 5.1 million the film took in an estimated $ 12 million at the North American boxoffice in 1966 and went on to make $ 4,500,000 in North American Rentals (20th Century - Fox re-release this movie in 1967 and 1970).

And you're choosing to ignore all the female - centered dramas and comedies that have been SUCCESSFUL compared to budget: Lady Bird, Winter's Bone, Wild, Girls Trip, Trainwreck, Bridesmaids, Mean Girls, Clueless, Pitch Perfect, and on and on (not including the huge box office of the female - led action / sci - fi / Disney films like Frozen, Hunger Games, Gravity, Wonder Woman, etc).

Ryan Coogler has shown us he can direct a quality film on a low budget (Fruitvale Station) and a moderate budget (Creed).

Bob Odenkirk will play Forte's older brother, and Stacy Keach will also star in a film that Payne initially planned to shoot in black and white on a $ 13 million budget.

But if the modestly budgeted film (loosely based on journalist Michael Nicholson's factual narrative, «Natasha's Story») lopes along a formulaic, often heavy - handed track, its pictures and subtext make a powerful statement.

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

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.

Filmed on a budget of 11 million dollars, Suriyothai was the most expensive film ever produced in Thailand, and went on to become a massive box - office success in that country.

Those responsible for the marketing of this film fumbled the ball on such a colossal scale that it couldn't hope to recoup the reported budget of $ 250,000,000 despite the fact that it really isn't all that bad.

Though he made a pair of low - budget film noirs, Kubrick made his first professional studio movie with The Killing, a tautly - paced heist thriller centered on Johnny Clay, a veteran criminal (Sterling Hayden) planning one last heist before settling down to marriage.