Sentences with phrase «budget indie more»

This low - budget indie more effectively portrays this culture (just how quickly you can make money — and how destructive it can be when you lose it) than both Mark Wahlberg's recent remake of «The Gambler» and Will Smith's con / crime caper «Focus» from earlier this year.

Not exact matches

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.

Whether you're on a budget or ready to go all out, you'll discover more than 125 vendors selling everything from vintage pieces like estate jewelry to indie fashions and modern housewares (plus free gift wrapping!).

Over the nineties and into the 2000s, Smith evinced a predilection for slightly deeper and more intelligent fare, but kept a somewhat low onscreen profile for several years, usually (though not always) with bit parts in lower budget indie dramas.

Cold Weather is a low - budget indie film by Aaron Katz that firmly believes less is more, focusing often on subtle interactions between characters.

Normally the science fiction concept of time travel is reserved for big budget action films, but the idea itself can be much more interesting within the confines of an indie scale film.

Comparisons to Eminem's 8 Mile and Craig Brewer's Hustle and Flow wouldn't be too far - fetched, but Patti Cake $ is even more awe - inspiring when you take into account that it's a low - budget indie from a first - time filmmaker working with a relatively unknown cast whose biggest name is Cathy Moriarty.

I miss Donovan's collaborations with Hal Hartley; every indie credible project in which he finds himself (though, honestly, I don't know if I'm more horrified that he's in Agent Cody Banks or The United States of Leland) only widens the gap between what a gifted artist with no budget can accomplish and the sincere «message» movie that passes for Sundance - certified nowadays.

When the action does hit it is as clean and fun as any film with a $ 175 million budget and the Marvel brand slapped on it can expect to be, and is all the more impressive coming from a director who had only made small indie dramas (see Wattsâ $ ™ Cop Car if you havenâ $ ™ t).

After working on a few more independent films, including «Reckless» (1984), «Old Enough» (1984) and «Heartbreakers» (1984), he made another important personal and professional connection when Martin Scorsese hired him to shoot a low - budget indie - style film that he was working on as a way of collecting his bearings after a string of increasingly complex and complicated productions, the dark comedy «After Hours» (1985).

That its visuals are its outstanding feature is even more noteworthy when it is known to have been made as a low budget indie.

Another Earth achieved more than the indie budget typically allows.

One strange thing about downloadable arcade and indie games these days is, that the developer - team behind it is so much more willing to take risks than any developer of high budget games.

We know him as the director behind indie nuggets such as L.I.E., hotel room splendor of 12 and Holding and more recently, Roadie, so after a mostly low - budget indie filmography Michael Cuesta cross over into bigger budget big leagues is due to a successful stint on Homeland.

The film has a small $ 15 million budget and really, Warner Bros. doesn't play in that arena of small budget films, so it makes more sense at an indie and auteur minded arthouse shingle.

It also continues Amazon's conscious move away from niche, indie - style projects (as well as its public pilot system) to develop big - budget hits that can garner more mainstream success.

But even outside of working with those filmmakers, Martinez has mostly scored indie or smaller - budgeted studio fare, with more blockbuster - sized projects off his résumé.

Following the indie games came more big budget title showings, starting with first gameplay footage of Mortal Kombat X.

It's the latest in a trend that's become increasingly prevalent over the last decade or so, as studios have become more and more willing to give over their tentpoles to relatively untested directors from the indie world with only one or two low - budget features behind them.

Finally, with Sonys push for indie games, there will be more excellent, creative titles that utilize the hardware outside of the big - budget realm.

That being said, while the film is easily classified as sci - fi, it has a low - budget, almost indie feel to it that makes it come across in a more organic fashion than your average sci - fi pic.

Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015) More vibrant life was infused into the low - budget US indie with this wonderfully human, funny and street - raw snapshot of the LA underbelly.

While big publishers have larger budgets and more influence with bookstores, indie authors get to keep all their profits.

One of the more frustrating truths about self - publishing and libraries is that indie authors have had a hard time getting their books into their own local libraries, as budgets are small and the risk of insult when the book is of poor quality is high.

After winning a Golden Globe for their dark comedy television series Transparent, Amazon has announced their intentions to produce indie style movies with budgets between $ 5 million and $ 25 million (in addition to more work on television series, including a second season of Transparent and something brand new from filmmaker Woody Allen).

This is never more true than in the indie publishing world because we don't have big promo budgets or the reputations of solid and well - known publishing houses behind us.

While publishing continues to chew over the issue of diversity — or lack thereof amongst its hired professionals — authors are taking on more awareness of how to market themselves and indie publishers are using the digital space to make the most of a limited budget.

Most readers are more sympathetic to indie authors on a small budget, who are selling their books cheaply.

They are ultimately creating their own problems, though; with such absurd budgets, expectations and deadlines developers are being forced to release shoddy products, whereas in the indie industry developers work with a tighter focus, honing their craft and putting out more polished titles.

A lot has been said about how it's somewhere in the middle - ground of a triple - A and indie release, but there's no denying that it has outstanding visuals that are easily more impressive than those seen in games that are armed with budgets well into the millions.

«It's tricky to make those decisions when you're working with a much bigger budget and you must please a wide audience... When you're indie, you can make those decisions much more easily.

It's a common dilemma not solely contained within the realms of indie games, but it's arguably more important and costly given the limited marketing budgets of any given indie project.

This year I played and enjoyed more indie games than big budget games.

We've seen a good response to this new game - albeit presented in a different style to make it more appropriate for the budgets available at indie level.

Just one more tip: please do not make up a budget that you think will get Indie Fund interested but you know is unrealistic.

Indie games are reigning supreme over bigger budgeted titles, and the digital space is more accessible to consumers and developers than it's ever been.

We've promised more indie coverage, and that includes reviews of PlayStation Mobile and budget PSN games.

I've been trying to parse my thoughts on the game and I think I've come up with something that makes sense to me — Shin Megami Tensei IV feels like it was made by a small indie developer who got a hold of a LOT more money than they're used to (but not a lot of money where big - budget development is concerned).

Barlow says more indie games should use video, as independent developers have the freedom from lots of the constraints he thinks doomed the full - motion video (FMV) game genre on computers in the 1990s — games like Phantasmagoria and Night Trap starred real actors, but struggled for viability because of their relatively high budgets and a mixed reception to the kind of play experiences that game with them.

Yes, the game has all the hallmarks of a big budget release with the backing of a renowned studio and soundtrack composed by none other than David Wise, but in reality, the game feels more like an indie project.

As neither mass entertainment nor a low - budget risk, Chelsea may stand to art's quieter and more adventurous pursuits much as Bjork does to indie.

Indie games have been a counterpoint for more than a decade, but big - budget games have been slower to stray from the pack.

Kakao believes that the app store can act as a more effective and efficient ecosystem for developers — particularly indie and small studios — that may be short on staff or marketing budgets, and / or looking for an alternative to Google Play or Apple's App Store.