Sentences with phrase «budget films these days»

That's a good point, and one of the unfortunate things about big - budget films these days.

As with most big budget films these days, Captain America has got itself a mobile tie - in game and we have got the trailer for it.

Not exact matches

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

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.

By the conclusion of Garland's adaptation, it's clear he understands and respects VanderMeer's point to the extreme, even if the expectations of a mid - to major - budget sci - fi film these days demand traditional closure.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 17, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Invasion (PG - 13 for violence, terror and disturbing images) Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig co-star in another remake of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) as the DC MDs depended upon to save the day when a space shuttle crash leads to an epidemic among humans triggered by an extraterrestrial force.

Director Marc Webb's only other feature film was the wonderful «(500) Days of Summer,» which had approximately 1 / 30th the budget of this movie.

Get Out was released by Jason Blum's Blumhouse productions, a studio that can easily be described as the modern - day saviour of the low - budget, major - release film, even if they most recently subjected us to the latest M. Night Shyamalan misfire, Split.

There is less detail and clarity than many Blu - rays offer, but it's important to remember that the film is 25 years old and had a production budget of just $ 6 million (to put the latter number into context, fellow 1986 Charlie Sheen movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off cost the same amount).

Ticking off the film's budget ($ 53 million, which climbed to $ 60 million) and shooting schedule (100 days) with a morose disbelief that has persisted a decade, Anderson believes that «there were too many things about that movie that weren't fun for me that I thought ought to be.»

The film is expected to open to at least $ 65 million during the holiday weekend and up to $ 70 million during its first four - day holiday weekend, on a relatively low budget of $ 58 million.

, About a Boy) makes his debut as a director, shooting his modest film in 16 days on a shoestring $ 300,000 budget.

DisneyToon's animation can practically be mistaken for that of the first Cars eight years ago, even though the $ 50 M production budget is just a small fraction of what is spent to make Pixar and Disney Animation Studios» films these days (which each cost upwards of $ 150 M).

The farm scenes in particular (the poor city is reduced to only a few locations (that look like sets actually) and seems much smaller than the town in Sunrise are really stunning: much of the film feels like Days Of Heaven was the film Murnau actually wanted to make (same location: wheat field in the upper midwest, attacked by a natural disaster, though Murnau doesn't appear to have the budget for his hailstorm whereas Malick could afford locusts).

The film was shot from October 1941 to January 1942, it went fourteen days behind schedule and more than $ 200,000 over budget.

Estimates place the film's budget between $ 130 and $ 200 million, a range on par with the other marquee attractions of the season, like Godzilla, X-Men: Days of Future Past and The Amazing Spider - Man 2.

Meanwhile, the other Georgia filmed production, Pitch Perfect 3 ended the franchise with $ 22 million over the four - day weekend on a $ 45 million production budget.

All in all, I'd rather see this kind of film than some bland, big - budget Hollywood product about the maturation process any day.

Naturally, Gerwig would have preferred to film all of Lady Bird in Sacramento — just like she and Levy, also the cinematographer for this movie, talked about doing back in the day — but proved her budget savvy by shooting, for instance, the interior of the McPherson home in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley.

While Blumhouse Productions had a wonderful 2017 - thanks to hits like Get Out, Split, and Happy Death Day - director James Wan's original 2011 Insidious film was one of the company's first big successes, earning nearly $ 100 million on a $ 1.5 million budget.

She remembers Gortner as the high - energy den leader of the cast, on a shoot that ran far too long, and discloses that co-star Ida Lupino — herself a budget filmmaker of some renown — grew so fed up with the schedule that she wrote a death scene for her character, browbeat Gordon into filming it that very day, and went home.

In a year made of horror films that have delivered more unintentional laughter than genuine scares, As Above, So Below fits the bill as exactly the kind of low - budget, lower - quality flick you'd see released on the big screen for the Labor Day weekend.

The number came down to $ 215 million and the Lone Ranger team got the go - ahead again, but now THR reports that the film, which started shooting on February 28th in New Mexico, is days or maybe even weeks behind schedule and is running over budget, nearing that $ 250 million mark yet again.

The best way to go into Crimson Peak would be completely blind, but in this day and age that is nearly impossible with a big budget studio film, so I can only advise you to temper your expectations, sit back and enjoy the beautiful ride that is Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak.

Big budget studio films are a blast, but we're in a day and age where you can actually insure the influx of those little independent gems.

There's one production day left on Baird's big budget epic film «Hail Caesar: A Tale of Christ,» and he still needs to shoot his big speech.

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 by Kam Williams For movies opening August 10, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Daddy Day Camp (PG for bodily function humor and mild epithets) Eddie Murphy, Steve Zahn and the rest of the of the original cast has been replaced for this sequel to Daddy Day Care about the comedy - of - errors which ensue when a couple of fathers (Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Paul Rae) find themselves over their heads trying to maintain order at a summer camp run a muck.

At the film's recent press day, Mirren revealed her approach to the role, what it was like having the opportunity to improvise on set, acting opposite the renowned Puri and what the two share in common, what she looks for in a project, why the director is an important consideration, why she likes to alternate between big movies and smaller low budget films, her lifelong attraction to French culture, her latest film that she's currently shooting with director Simon Curtis entitled «Woman in Gold,» and her upcoming biopic, «Trumbo,» with Bryan Cranston about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.

After nearly 150 shooting days, marked by delays due to dust and wind storms, and reported budget overruns, «The Lone Ranger» starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer has now wrapped filming.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening June 5, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hangover (R for sexuality, nudity, drug and alcohol abuse and pervasive profanity) «What Happens in Vegas» comedy about three friends (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis) of the groom - to - be (Justin Bartha) who throw a wild bachelor party in a suite at Caesar's Palace only to have their pal disappear without a trace the day before the wedding.

$ 58m times three would be $ 174m, making it the third largest budget for an X-Men film after X-Men: Days of Future Past's $ 200m and X-Men: Apocalypse's $ 170m.

Christopher Nolan further proved he's the master of steering high - budgeted original films to immense box office glory with Dunkirk, a pulsating thriller following the 10 - day WWII battle which ultimately led to the evacuation of more than 330,000 allied troops in 1940.

This is one of the most impressive $ 10 million budget films you'll ever see these days.

On the one hand, he is trying to make his version of the kind of low - budget exploitation film that he might have found himself doing in the early days of his career had «sex, lies and videotape» not hit as big as it did.

What do some low to no budget films that garner critical praise get you these days?

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening July 8, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Horrible Bosses (R for sexuality, crude humor, pervasive profanity and some drug use) Revenge comedy about three friends (Jason Sudeikis, Jason Bateman and Charlie Day) who conspire to murder the bosses (Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey and Colin Farrell) making their lives miserable.

That's a great idea on any film, but for this particular film, because it was not a long shooting schedule — it was only a 48 - day shooting schedule — and essentially a medium - level budget.

This low - budget arthouse crime thriller draws on the classic American cinema of the 1970s — films such as Dog Day Afternoon and Taxi Driver — when a new mood of pessimism was taking over politics and culture, but comes to articulate its own strange sweetness and hope.

We got a chance to chat with the director recently and discussed why he chose the role in «Cold Turkey,» how low budget filmmaking has changed since the days when he made «The Last Picture Show,» how his new film (next year's «Squirrel To The Nuts «-RRB- is turning out, what is going on with his long gestating, attempted restoration of the Orson Welles film «The Other Side of the Wind,» and much more (he also has his own Indiewire blog, fyi).

He described the experience as «a bit of film school for me in terms of problem solving, technique and using a budget», before sharing an anecdote in which Emmerich, despite having a $ 75,000,000 for Independence Day, was ordering sets to be built at the last minute from leftover pieces of other film's sets.

While relatively low - budget, this is the director's biggest film to date — there's no shaky camerawork or poor sound quality here, and working, notable actors are seemingly getting working day rates.

They discuss the films production and how they worked around the low budget and the fact that the kids could only work a few hours a day.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 19, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS 30 Days of Night (R for profanity and graphic horror violence) Josh Hartnett and Melissa George head an ensemble cast in this high attrition - rate horror flick about a sheriff who, with the help of his estranged wife, confronts a horde of bloodthirsty vampires that descend on a tiny Alaskan town during the pitch black month when the sun slips beneath the horizon.

Filmed in eighteen days with a modest $ 1 million budget, most of those who do catch the dreamy David Strathairn - starring drama are impressed, least of all because it is the debut feature film project of writer and director Aaron Wiederspahn, who crafted the strange, but beautiful tale from a recurring dream of his own.»

When all was said and done, Deadpool earned $ 783 million worldwide, making it the highest grossing X-Men film - and on a budget of $ 58 million, compared to Days of Future Past's $ 200 million and Apocalypse's $ 178 million.

Dubbed as the most expensive war movie ever made, filming is halted only five days into production due to a skyrocketing budget and a cast of prima donnas that include A-list action star Tugg Speedman (Stiller), Australian method actor Kirk Lazarus (Downey Jr.), drug - addicted comedy star Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), rapper - turned - actor Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson), and rookie actor Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel).

The film started with a bigger budget than most horror films made in the studio system these days.

His films have been marked as failures before ever seeing the light of day, but they are forced to face this ridicule publicly, as orphans in a sea of big - budget films that depend on the star power of the names associated with them.

Such a film could be made in a matter of days, with a fraction of the carbon budget...