Sentences with phrase «budget films such»

Over the past decade, he's forged a reputation for making great low - budget films such as Boy, What We Do in the Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

Since then he has played a mix of leading roles in small independent films and supporting roles in big budget films such as Peter Jackson's version of King Kong.

He uses techniques gleaned from exploitation and low - budget films such as whip - zooms, garish titles and bleached footage to grunge - up this $ 100 million production.

Not exact matches

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.

Unfortunately, during Christy Clark's tenure the government began to include tax credits to favoured groups, such as the B.C. film industry, when reporting the offsetting tax cuts in the carbon tax box of the annual Budget.

He subsequently specialized in performing in low - budget features, though he has occasionally won bit parts in larger films such as The Executioner's Song (1982).

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.

While most critics dismissed the film, it charmed a handful of others (such as Kevin Thomas and Rita Kempley) and did outstanding box office for a programmer, grossing several times its original budget.

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.

American director Alan Rudolph was the son of Oscar Rudolph, a one - time actor who later directed such low budget films as Twist Around the Clock and such economical TV fare as «The Lone Ranger.»

Outside of major roles in early sound efforts like The Big Trail and Tom Sawyer (both 1930), he could be found playing menacing tribal chiefs and bandits in serials and B - pictures, and seedy, drunken «redskin» stereotypes (invariably named Injun Joe or Injun Charlie or some such) in big - budget films like John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946).

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

With such films as the Mad Max films, The Book of Eli and even The Hunger Games, there are better options with even larger budgets out there if you are looking for spectacle that isn't just purely visual candy.

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.

The earlier film was shot in England on a very low budget, and such hints as Eleanor's obviously foreign car (mischievously, in the new movie Nell drives a Gremlin) and a briefly glimpsed «To Let» billboard suggest much of the location filming was done on the fly.

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).

A former Miami Beach lifeguard, strapping Ohio - born Bob Wilke performed stunt work in Hollywood films from 1936, often working for low - budget studios such as Republic Pictures and Monogram.

A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.

A slippery stylist, Soderbergh's films hop from genre to genre with creative restlessness appearing to be his defining characteristic whether filming glossy, expensive star laden confections such as the Oceans series or experimenting with digital video and unknown actors on low budget conceits such as Bubble or The Girlfriend Experience.

He established himself as a Hollywood leading man, having starred in several big budget films, such as Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), Changing Lanes (2002), The Sum of All Fears (2002), and Daredevil (2003).

Gerwig first made her name in no - budget indies such as 2008's Nights And Weekends, a film that portrays a relationship about as honestly as it gets; sex and love all raw and clumsy.

A handful of earlier films had examined (for some, exploited) juvenile delinquency but these productions, such as Youth Runs Wild (Mark Robson, 1944) and I Accuse My Parents (Sam Newfield, 1945), had been low budget efforts of smaller studios.

I am not exactly sure why schlock horror director William Castle has been such a source for remaking films for today's audiences, except the idea that his films might be better if they weren't so low - budget.

When challenged over casting a white Australian and a white Brit as the leads in his Biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings, director Ridley Scott responded brusquely, «I can't mount a film of this budget... and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so - and - so from such - and - such... I'm just not going to get it financed.

In fact, PA3 opened bigger and though it had the series» weakest legs to date, it still ended up with a domestic gross close to the first film and a franchise - high worldwide take of $ 203 M. And while the production budget again rose, it was still kept to just $ 5 million, well under the competition and far less than the marketing costs of such a high - profile wide release.

Of course, Verhoeven's US big - budget genre work, such as RoboCop (1987) and Total Recall (1990), both spawning recent lackluster remakes, and pulpy neo-noir Basic Instinct (1992) were overshadowed by the debacle that would come to be Showgirls (1995), now celebrated as one of the best worst films ever made.

The movie was filmed in such places as Belgium, England, and Florida, and Burton told EW that the break away from sound stages (on big - budget tentpoles like Alice in Wonderland) was a nice change of pace of him too:

Having worked with filmmakers such as Wes Anderson, Lars von Trier, Abel Ferrara and Paul Schrader multiple times, Dafoe is as likely to pop up in a foreign art film as in a big - budget Hollywood production.

The Spirit Awards are obviously not immune to such factors, but by limiting themselves to films with smaller budgets, the Spirit Awards generally celebrate some of the best films of the year.

Since playing Bane in The Dark Knight Rises Hardy has been pursuing smaller independent films such as The Drop and low - budget road thriller Locke.

The fact that in 2017 it's still considered acceptable for a big budget film to license a song by such a deeply problematic individual — a big budget film that sells itself on the notion of female empowerment, no less — speaks to how badly wrong Hollywood continues to get it.

«I can't mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so - and - so from such - and - such.

The first film directed by Douglas Trumbull (Brainstorm), the special effects maestro that created memorable visions in such movies as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Blade Runner, features quite a bit of interesting effects of its own, perhaps a bit dated by today's standards (the spaceships look like obvious miniatures) but given the limited budget and schedule Trumbull had to work with, still impressive.

A more thought - provoking and brilliantly paced horror film with so palpable a physicality as Green Room is rare, and on such a modest budget, this tale of terra incognita cruelty is remarkable.

Luckily, Mitt can breathe a sigh of relief, since the low budget film is marked by such dubious dialogue, shoddy special f / x and sloppy editing that it doesn't even measure up, cinematically, to an episode of your typical, cowboy TV show from the Fifties, like The Lone Ranger.

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.

The fact that such a message is being conveyed by a no - budget Hungarian independent film rather than by more widely accessible fare is an indictment on the state of the popular cinema — but hopefully there are enough moviegoers willing to pass up the occasional blockbuster in favor of something less frivolous, that the moral of 1945 won't fall on deaf ears and empty seats.

As well as working on big budget Hollywood Movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Naomie Harris (Jane) continues to choose challenging and exciting roles in smaller and more diverse films such as THE FIRST GRADER.

For such a minuscule budget, the film has some pretty impressive effects for the time, utilizing camera tricks as well as great make - up to terrorize the audiences with horrific scenes that come close to crossing several lines.

The film has a little more grain than you might expect of such a 2016 big budget behemoth, but everything looks as it should and the images are sharp, crisp, and suitably detailed.

Truly, this is such a wonderfully made film, it puts so many of its big - budget contemporaries to shame, whilst pointing us to lots of new talent.

This can have an especially damaging effect on the earning potential of independently made films, such as those mentioned above, which do not have access to the large advertising budgets at the disposal of the major studios — studios, which, as CARA's record indicates, have received much more lenient ratings for similar content.

Smartly shot for a very modest budget of $ 30 million (lots of strings were certainly pulled to get such a cast of famous personalities onboard), Rogen and Goldberg know where and when it's most effective to go for special effects (this does not feel like a low budget Hollywood film), and they do so without letting visuals or star egos get in the way of making a very funny movie.

I confess to a high level of appreciation for low - budget films that defy easy categorization, such as Devil's Gate.

No matter the unique circumstances surrounding Doctor Strange, «Iron Fist» or this film, the end result is the same: Hollywood shies away from putting an Asian actor front and centre of big - budget productions, even those that necessarily call for such casting.

Showcasing much more gore than the movies of old, and surprisingly good effects for such a modest budget (only $ 11 million), the look and feel of the film is appealing, while the comic overtones keep the proceedings appropriately entertaining.

Suzuki, whose low - budget Japanese gangster films later became regarded as cult classics and inspired American directors such as Quentin Tarantino...

I could only imagine how hard it was to put together a film of this magnitude with such a small budget.

In everything from the score to the costumes and hairstyling, McGuigan seems to think that there's no such thing as too much, a lavishness that just isn't supported by the film's obviously modest budget.