Sentences with phrase «budget films after»

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After debuting successfully in three theaters last weekend, «Spring Breakers» opens in more than 1,110 theaters bringing in $ 5 million The indie film with James Franco and Selena Gomez had a low budget estimated at $ 2 million.

Out of the top ten this week are Universal's comic adaptation of «R.I.P.D.» After three weekends, the $ 130 million budget film has earned $ 48.8 million at theaters.

«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.»

Since this is in an indie - produced film with razor (thin) budgets, they basically gave us the song after they saw the section.

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.

The «Batman» television show (1966 - 1968) cast a long, pop art - infused, camp shadow over the property and, after the big budget failures of a series of superhero films in the 1980s (some more campy than others) such as Howard the Duck (1986), WB apparently had cold feet.

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.

«Band Aid» also manages to be a great - looking film for what was no doubt a fairly small budget; cinematographer Hillary Spera («After Tiller») shoots Los Angeles in an intuitive way that's neither overly glossy nor distractingly stylized.

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.

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.

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.

Beginning with the heart attack of star Martin Sheen, the film suffered catastrophe after catastrophe, quickly going over budget and over schedule; as Coppola himself later noted, «little by little we went crazy.»

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.

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

Low low budget exploitation thriller which was Carpenters first proper film after the seriously low budget sci - fi «Dark Star».

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.

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.

Yet, there is a very real risk that you will be lableled as a racist for criticizing black panther, or the work of the 29 year old director who was given the keys to a $ 200,000,000 budget after making only 2 independent films.

The film just wrapped after a tumultuous production that included a temporary delay to bring the budget down, only for it to soar again once shooting got underway.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 24, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Illegal Tender (R for violence, profanity and sexuality) Rick Gonzalez and Wanda De Jesus co-star in this graphic revenge saga about a college student who chooses to defend his family's honor after a ruthless gang kills his father and forces his mother to flee for her life.

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.

After a summer slew of big - budget studio films, it can be difficult to find, sit down and watch a movie with more modest origins.

This news comes after Dwayne Johnson filmed nearly all of his big - budget movies in Atlanta including Rampage, Jungle Book, Fast 8, and Baywatch.

Affleck has had quite a decade, after his breakout hit Good Will Hunting alongside pal Matt Damon, he went on to star in a string of hits (and misses), headlining quite a few big budget action films.

Especially since the film was low - budget, the colors are sharp and the overall presentation still holds up very well after all those years.

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.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 18, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Limitless (PG - 13 for profanity, mature themes, violence, sexuality and disturbing images) Bradley Cooper stars in this action thriller about a frustrated writer whose life is transformed after he is introduced to a top - secret, smart drug which enables him to use 100 % of his brain.

The film, meant to be a big action - oriented take on the Arthurian legend, was taken off the studio's production schedule after budget concerns arose and attached actors Kit Harington and Joel Kinnaman were freed to do other projects.

It is a little rough around the edges and there is an argument to be made that the relative lack of directorial flair makes the film feel too conventional but those points are only really relevant when comparing it to Argento's later works, and after all, this was his first movie and there are plenty of filmmakers out there at the twilight of their careers who would love to make a thriller as tight and effective as this with everything available at their disposal, let alone the small budget and restrictions that Dario Argento had to work with.

Shot on a minimal budget (in the six - million dollar range) with a cast of largely non-professional actors (Kenneth Branagh the main exception), the picture is a tremendous hit among the self - congratulatory film festival / arthouse crowd, who, after all, like to feel as though they're applauding the right things.

Neither Charlize Theron nor Nicholas Hoult are stranger to big budget action fare after films like «Prometheus», «Hancock» and the «X-Men» series.

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.»

After more than 40 films, most of them for the budget - challenged AIP, he was hired by 20th Century Fox and given the resources of their studio, casting department, and backlot for his recreation of 1929 Chicago and the most famous gangland slaying in American history.

Not too long after that, the big - budget Hollywood film version of the musical..

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.

After serving as a camera operator for a couple of years, he got his first American credit for cinematography on John Sayles» lovely coming - of - age story «Baby, It's You» (1983), giving the film a look that belied the film's relatively small budget.

After working on a few more independent films, including «Reckless» (1984), «Old Enough» (1984) and «Heartbreakers» (1984), he made another important personal and professional connection when Martin Scorsese hired him to shoot a low - budget indie - style film that he was working on as a way of collecting his bearings after a string of increasingly complex and complicated productions, the dark comedy «After Hours» (1After working on a few more independent films, including «Reckless» (1984), «Old Enough» (1984) and «Heartbreakers» (1984), he made another important personal and professional connection when Martin Scorsese hired him to shoot a low - budget indie - style film that he was working on as a way of collecting his bearings after a string of increasingly complex and complicated productions, the dark comedy «After Hours» (1after a string of increasingly complex and complicated productions, the dark comedy «After Hours» (1After Hours» (1985).

The male lead from Gareth Edwards» low - budgets sleeper Monsters has got great people working on his side, because despite not having the most head - turning performance in that film he has become a hot commodity after years of playing sideline roles.

Publicly exhibited nudity on film was harder to come by after the Hays Code, but glimpses of flesh were available in ultra-low budget exploitation movies and documentaries, which used the pretense of education to show nudity.

31 - year - old Hammer, meanwhile, is launching to new levels of bona fide movie stardom, after years of appearing in and headlining big - budget films — including Mirror, Mirror and The Lone Ranger — that ultimately fizzled.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening September 23, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Abduction (PG - 13 for sexuality, teen partying, intense violence and brief profanity) John Singleton directs this action thriller about a teenager (Taylor Lautner) who ends up on the run from a team of hit men when he tries to determine his true identity after seeing his baby photo on a missing persons website.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening September 30, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS 50/50 (R for sexuality, drug use and pervasive profanity) Bittersweet dramedy about a 27 year - old writer (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) who learns what's most important in life after being given a 50/50 chance of beating a rare form of spinal cancer.

After debuting with The Roostand Trigger Man, both low - budget DIY art - horror films that gained rave reviews on the indie festival circuit but were never afforded a wide release, he was entrusted with the large (ish) budget of Cabin Fever 2.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening May 8, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Next Day Air (R for violence, drug use, pervasive profanity and brief sexuality) Action - oriented crime caper about the comedy of errors which ensue after a couple of hapless hoodlums (Mike Epps and Wood Harris) are mistakenly delivered a large package filled with bricks of pure cocaine.

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 sophomore film from Damien Chazelle, whose forthcoming ode to the Hollywood studio musical La La Land is already the early - buzz frontrunner for 2017's Oscar race, Whiplash comes after 2009's jazz - infused micro budget musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, and doubles as a courageous confessional, of sorts.

The trend continues after Marky Mark, as the list is mainly comprised of actors who've starred in uber - lucrative franchises or big - budget superhero movies, films for which there are conspicuously few female roles.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening May 29, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Drag Me to Hell (PG - 13 for terror, violence, disturbing images and profanity) Recession era horror flick about an ambitious loan officer (Alison Lohman) looking for a promotion who instead finds herself plagued by a supernatural curse after she forecloses on an old woman (Lorna Raver) begging for another extension on her mortgage payment.

Bender, Tarantino, actor Steve Buscemi, and director Monte Hellman (who served as associate producer on Reservoir Dogs) attended the June 1991 Sundance Institute, after which a US$ 1.5 million budget was secured and filming was soon underway.