Sentences with phrase «budget films in this genre»

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Cinematically, Van Winkle made his mark in glossy, big - budget Hollywood genre films, often laden with heavy special effects.

The result was a new megastar period for him he is still in and the film holds up very well considering what has followed in the genre and big budget filmmaking in general.

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 Ladder.

Both films were made with very small budgets, both proved extremely profitable relative to those budgets, and both spawned new trends in the horror genre — gory «torture porn» / new - wave splatter films (Saw) and smaller - budgeted supernatural horror films (Paranormal Activity).

On the other hand, a # 1.60 m UK debut for a relatively low - budget genre film, essentially populated by three actors, none of them marquee names, and largely set in a basement — most studios would like the economics of that proposition.

«Polaroid,» a low - budget horror film from Bob Weinstein's Dimension Films genre division, is listed in court filings among The Weinstein Company's assets, but it isn't listed as an «unreleased picture.»

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.»

What is certain is that independent films have been staking a claim in this genre with their low budget, more grittily authentic incantations of love.

The script came from Alex Garland, who wrote the novel on which The Beach was based, and while those two films are miles apart in terms of budgets and genres, they have surprisingly similar themes.

In a film culture where B - movie plots are routinely executed with budgets in excess of $ 100 million in place of intelligence and thrown into thousands of theaters, the well - tuned genre piece is an increasingly rare breeIn a film culture where B - movie plots are routinely executed with budgets in excess of $ 100 million in place of intelligence and thrown into thousands of theaters, the well - tuned genre piece is an increasingly rare breein excess of $ 100 million in place of intelligence and thrown into thousands of theaters, the well - tuned genre piece is an increasingly rare breein place of intelligence and thrown into thousands of theaters, the well - tuned genre piece is an increasingly rare breed.

Though Altman's films compare with Coppola's as chamber music does with grand opera, their work in the 1970s exemplifies what ultimately became the prevailing style of American film direction in that era: maverick resistance to studio - imposed time and budget constraints, insistence on directorial authorship, reliance on location shooting, use of improvisational acting, an emphasis on ensemble playing rather than star performances, Fordian gatherings — weddings, church services, parties, dinners — as exponents of group character (both Altman and Coppola had Catholic upbringings), and a revisionist approach to the mythic archetypes of the Hollywood genre film.

What used to be the most popular genre in mainstream movies is now mainly the preserve of smaller budget films with more adult themes, and they don't come more «adult» than this latest bloody saga.

Though this overstates the offering substantially, it does give a sense of the pressure that was on any widely - distributed genre film in the early 1980s to deliver mind - blowing scares way out of proportion to what could be accomplished on a low budget.

He is a rebel who never played the Hollywood game to begin with, making his films his way, most often without studio support, doing more with a $ 300,000 budget in 1978 than most directors could pull off with ten times that amount, only to create new standards that have come to define each of the genres he has entered.

In the plus column, it stars Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead) and Angus Scrimm (Phantasm), two genre icons who give it their all no matter how low - budget or poorly conceived the film around them happens to be.

Since then, Flanagan has been hard at work, and he now has not one, not two, but three films slated to come out this year: his passion project Before I Wake, the sequel to the 2014 genre hit Ouija, and Hush, a slick, low - budget horror film he made in secret.

In games, similarly, the current market is saturated with big budget releases which generate enormous profits (comparable even with Hollywood films) but which make few advances for the genre.