Sentences with phrase «budget films produced»

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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.»

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.

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).

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.

To give this film a decent score would be an insult to the many low - budget features out there that scrape every penny they can find together to produce something good.

This low - budget horror film produced by Roger Corman and directed by Coppola before he went on the become a famous filmmaker has evident shades of Psycho but is not even frightening, with a lame, uneven plot in which nothing much really happens.

I've never played the Konami games on which this series is based, but they certainly must be more lovingly produced than this cheap thing (its crispy, bright, digital presentation makes the first film look like a voluptuous cradle of generous budgeting and production design).

Economically produced on a remarkably low budget of $ 20 + million, it's an earnestly written and directed film that competes with Ridley Scott's historical action epics for pennies on the dollar.

Produced on a budget of $ 15 million, the film did not do anywhere near where it should at the box office as it only brought in $ 4.3 million.

Stephen Frears» directorial debut Gumshoe, a cockeyed detective film starring Albert Finney as a small - time bingo caller who plays at being a private detective for fun and ends up in the middle of a real mystery, and Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five, a low budget, high concept film he produced independently, also arrive under the «Martini Movies» imprint.

He produced and directed (but did not write) the low - budget superhero film The Specials.

In The Very Witching Time of Night, Mank wrote that Junior wanted to produce «A» films that could compete with major studios, figuring that Universal's staple fare of low - budget Bs would pay for the As.

Costing $ 12 million to produce, Top Five was a reasonably low - budgeted film.

Co - writer / director Jenn Wexler knows her shit when it comes to the horror genre, having produced films like Darling and Psychopaths, with The Ranger feeling like an opportunity to make her directing debut for a minimal budget with a relatively thin story.

Following the success of Get Out, which grossed over $ 200 million on a $ 5 million budget and received unanimous acclaim, Peele signed a first - look deal with Universal Pictures, who will produce the director's next film, an untitled social thriller he also penned.

squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

Although Morgan squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

That brings its worldwide total to $ 266 million against a $ 150 million budget, a record for a Chinese - produced film.

Big - budget, studio - produced franchise films don't get any better than this.

In particular, it looks like the Metal Gear Solid movie is still being produced by Sony Pictures, meaning that it remains a high budget effort with all the things you would expect from a top film releasing to the cinemas nowadays.

Some authors have pointed to a distinct house style in the 1930s (see Thomas Schatz and Paul Grainge), when MGM's Leo the Lion symbolized the opulence and grandeur of musicals (The Brodway Melody of 1938) and epics (Mutiny on the Bounty); Warner Bros. distributed «gritty,» social dramas and gangster films; Universal produced low - budget horror films (Dracula); and Paramount's distinctly «European» flavor, employing emigree directors such as Josef von Sternberg and Ernst Lubitsch.

Yet they share a certain quality of desperation: Both were produced on miniscule budgets outside of major studios, both Ulmer and Dickerson used a variety of techniques to disguise their humble production values, and both films ended up looking indelibly cheap anyway.

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.

And yet «The Lone Ranger,» which was to star Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, to be directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, has been shut down by Disney after concern over the film's budget, said to have risen to a whopping $ 232 million (that itself cut down from an original $ 250 million price tag).

They rely increasingly on films that the company finances and produces itself, at a wider range of budgets, charging Greenbaum and Greenfield with developing, budgeting, casting, and producing them.

A computer - animated film with a lavish budget is sure to produce pleasing results, and that's precisely the case here.

Huston's obsession with keeping the film under budget resulted in a near - fetishistic fastidiousness that produced an eye for detail rarely rivalled since.

Often cited as the first «true» slasher film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was produced on a low budget by director Tobe Hooper, who was inspired by real - life serial killer Ed Gein to create a chainsaw - wielding mass murderer named Leatherface.

During the interview, Boyega talked about producing his first big budget Hollywood movie, what surprised him about the process, how involved he was in the editing room and if he ever wanted to use a different take than what the director had, what they learned from early test screenings that impacted the finished film, and more.

Film Independent, the nonprofit also behind the L.A. Film Festival, has since 1984 thrown a festive awards show every year on Santa Monica Beach in Hollywood the night before the Academy Awards, a counterpoint to that ceremony meant to focus on smaller budgeted, more independently produced films.

In its ambition it resembles Rose Troche's third film, The Safety of Objects — that picture also saddled with a large, veteran cast and a problem with focus, but most importantly with the responsibility of a young filmmaker given the opportunity, with a bigger budget and well - regarded performers, to produce a piece commensurate in scale to that perceived expectation.

Keeping in mind that it was produced on a tele - film's budget without the highest production values, it's hard to muster a complaint.

Ridley Scott and Scott Free London have put the pen to paper in a deal with Focus Features International and Orchard Media with the aim to produce low - budget horror films.

As of 2009, Nigeria is the third largest producer of movies in the world, producing over 2,400 films a year (all shot on video on shoe - string budgets and released straight to video) and generating $ 286 million a year for the Nigerian economy.

Produced by Legendary Pictures on a budget of $ 5 - 10 million (a «micro budget» film for Legendary, according to Variety), the film's approximate worldwide gross to date since its August 29, 2014 release date is $ 40 million (according to IMDbPro).

Projects supported by the Creative Producing Fellowship are asked to contribute 0.25 % of their production budget calculated after the first $ 1 million (e.g. if your film is produced for $ 1.2 million, the fee due to the Institute would be $ 500).

It's all so very over the top, while insulting to audiences hoping for something more than Saturday morning cartoons from filmmakers pumping $ 200 million into the budget of one of the most lucrative film series ever produced.

Blade isn't just some marginal, pre-boom scrap from the 20th - century superhero film heap, though it does seem that popular culture has discarded black - produced superhero flicks in favor of the big - budget, contemporary releases.

David Bowers» film, which was produced with a budget of $ 65 million, pulled in $ 1.7 million during its fourth weekend, bringing it down to # 13 on the box... Read more»

Since the original low - budget horror movie debuted in 2002, Anderson has written and produced every Resident Evil film and directed four of them.

Nollywood produces over 1000 low - budget, straight - to - video films a year.