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Although Hollywood FILMMAKERS have been MAKING MOVIES ON KAUA`I for many years, recent big - budget films with A-list stars continue to catapult Hawai`i into the spotlight.

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.

Coppola began his film career in the early 1960s making low - budget films with 2009 Honorary Award recipient Roger Corman.

A low - budget film with more than a whiff of amateurism in its writing and direction.

It's a shame that the movie won't do well, but gosh it's wonderful to see a big budget film with the courage of its convictions.

It's a low - budget film with even lower consequences but it plays with all of its heart.

Writer - director Matthew Ross» first feature, Frank & Lola, is a low - budget film with big name stars.

Warner Bros. is understandably worried about sending out a big budget film with unproven talent, helmed by gross - out comedy director like Dobkin making his first action movie.

Writer - director Matthew Ross discusses his first feature, Frank & Lola, a low - budget film with big name stars.

Not exact matches

He added that the extra revenue would wind up as a boon to filmmakers, with studios investing more money in film budgets and making more movies overall.

Analysts were forecasting weekend sales of $ 41 million to $ 47 million for the Spielberg film, a respectable opening for a movie with a production budget set at $ 150 million to $ 175 million by people with knowledge of the matter, and additional millions in marketing costs.

The film, with a budget of $ 150 million, has raked in a jaw - dropping $ 1.5 billion worldwide.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

The film, with an estimated budget of $ 13 million earned $ 6.4 million.

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.

Compared to major studio projects like the forthcoming Aaron Sorkin adaption of Walter Isaacson's popular biography of Jobs, this film was made on a shoestring, with an estimated budget of just $ 8.5 million.

Like Netflix, Amazon (AMZN) is looking to get into the movie production game, promising earlier this year to eventually churn out around a dozen independent films — with budgets between $ 5 million and $ 25 million — every year.

At least three of these movies are independent films, each with a budget of $ 6 - 8 million.

The service has evolved from being solely a buyer of shows and movies to become one of the active producers of TV, documentaries and films, with a long - term budget that approaches $ 10 billion, according to filings.

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.»

Unlike other independent films in which big names are ridden into the ground like a sweaty mule, shoehorned into every possible scene in the movie, «Moms» Night Out» has an ensemble cast - an amazing feat for a film with a budget just under $ 5 million, according to Andrew and John Erwin, the brothers who directed the film.

So when Hollywood tried to replicate that success with big - budget films like Russell Crowe's Noah, Christian Bale's Exodus or even Martin Scorcese's Silence, they've all flopped.

Now the director, who was raised culturally Jewish, has made a full - fledged biblical epic with Noah, a $ 125 million - budget film that puts an unorthodox spin on one of the most familiar stories from Scripture.

Now, Dionne says she feels betrayed by the California filmmaker who turned the low budget - movie with a threadbare plot into an anti-Islam film that provoked outrage - with sometimes violent results - in parts of the Muslim world.

Filmed entirely on location in Morocco on a relatively modest budget of $ 20m, major challenges included filming large - scale battle sequences using a stunt team, and recreating the fall of Jericho with powerful explosives.

But in a year that's seen a slew of big budget releases and star - powered projects from some of Hollywood's most notable filmmakers (Martin Scorsese, Kenneth Lonergan, Mel Gibson) it was a $ 5 million film with no major superstar names that brought home the night's biggest award.

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Now, Dionne says she feels betrayed by the California filmmaker who turned the low budget - movie with a threadbare plot into an anti-Islam film that provoked outrage — with sometimes violent results — in parts of the Muslim world.

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

The budget included other goodies popular with Democratic fund - raisers, including the continuation of $ 445 million in tax credits for film and television — a move praised by Hollywood donors.

«It really is realistic to think we're going to get 320 news jobs with five films with $ 25 million budget here,» she said.

What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.

Antonacci thinks this is a case where Onondaga County legislators should get involved, clearly establishing the film commission as a division within the Office of Economic Development, with a budget and mission and accountability.

A decade ago it was unimaginable to make a film without major financing, but now given the nature of new media and available technology, independent filmmakers can tell their stories with a limited budget.

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Aside from budget issues, nothing's stopping them from making a zombie movie with a surprise dance number among the corpses, or a superhero film where the villain's master plan is to turn everyone into squirrels or something.

Boccia (who also co-wrote with three others) displays a keen visual sensibility that, despite the film's low budget, gives it a palpable energy.

J. Michael Straczynski's original script was jettisoned in favor of an unfinished one by political thriller specialist Matthew Michael Carnahan (State of Play, Lions for Lambs), with «LOST» - alum script doctors Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, Cloverfield) and Damon Lindelof (Star Trek Into Darkness, Prometheus) brought in later to write a host of reshoots, including a new climax and ending to the film (the repeated use and imbibing of Pepsi products during these scenes would indicate the source for much of the additional reshoot budget), that pushed the release date from a winter of 2012 release to the summer of 2013.

With a tiny $ 35 million budget and no stars, no one expected a whole lot out of the film.

The unanimously - praised film with a modest budget of $ 23 million deservedly won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (the first for Spielberg), Best Cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score (John Williams), Best Editing (Michael Kahn), and Best Art Direction.

low - budget and claustrophobic film, most of which takes place underground with a plot that develops only slowly

More detailed gore and suffering were likely shorn to ensure an already budget - bloated production had the best possible chances of recouping its cost with the broadest possible audience, but a zombie film does need gore, and the restored material could've been a little bit nastier.

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.

Some employees of an international arms dealer go out into the Hungarian wildeness for a weekend company retreat, only to find themselves menaced by a group of militants who don't like having them around their territory in this modestly budgeted dark comedy / horror film from Christopher Smith, who also directed Black Death (with Sean Bean).

For a film with a $ 150 million budget to look like television is unconscionable and it seems absurd that no one was able to convince Jackson not to adopt the format, or at least not to try it out on a franchise with so much riding on it.

A low - budget film collaboration with fellow actors John Glover and Gloria Reuben, Macbeth in Manhattan (1999), followed, along with a two - year stint as Gwen Hotchkiss on the daytime drama Passions.

Time and again, American audiences have responded to films with black leads like Hidden Figures, Get Out, and Girls Trip, all of them turning huge profits on smaller budgets.

All of these films were made independently (only one, the poorly received The Guru (1969), has been made for a studio during the course of Merchant and Ivory's years together), and ably demonstrated the kind of technical expertise the filmmakers were capable of achieving with a very limited budget.

Writer / director Blomkamp follows his politically charged 2009 sci - fi film District 9 81 with another socially aware sci - fi action movie, albeit one with a much larger budget.