Sentences with phrase «budget indie productions»

Corman, of course, is a legend in the business, known for helping to shepherd the careers of the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, and others, all of whom got their starts working on Corman's low - budget indie productions.

Not exact matches

Following his no - budget debut Tangerine, Baker proved a uniquely human filmmaker in the latest triumph from indie production house A24 (Moonlight, A Ghost Story, Lady Bird).

Last year's best picture winner, «Moonlight,» was a low - budget indie, for instance, and this year's crop of best picture nominees were primarily art house productions.

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).

When Hughes started production on The Breakfast Club in March 1984 with an indie - movie budget of $ 1 million (about $ 2.5 million adjusted for inflation), his debut feature Sixteen Candles wouldn't even hit theaters for another two months.

After a string of indie movies, the star is set to hit the big time with «Maleficent» and was enthralled by the novelty of working on a big - budget production.

Few actors get to star in a monster commercial smash that is also a zeitgeist hit, but that was Joshua Leonard's experience with The Blair Witch Project, which turned a meager $ 60,000 production budget into almost $ 250 million in worldwide theatrical receipts, and owned the summer of 1999 (and beyond, in the form of countless spoofs, homages and far less inspired rip - offs) like no other indie movie of its time.

Of course, that was a low - budget British indie, and this is a big - budget Hollywood production.

The first two were indie productions, highly praised, that did not have wide releases or big promotional budgets.

According to veteran producer Guneet Monga, «An independent production has to raise double the budget of the film, because they also need a marketing budget to compete for the same screens and channels that commercial films do, making it very difficult for indie films to break through the unending clutter.»

It's now possible to create better looking web videos on an Indie budget, and because of this Internet users have come to expect a certain level of production value when watching a video.

How to Hire an Editor: The Indie Author's Guide to Finding and Working with the Right Editor for Your Book shows authors new to the publishing process how to make sure their manuscripts receive the editorial attention they deserve, even with a self - publisher's unique production schedule, budget constraints, and publishing goals.

It may not have the production values of today's blockbuster games, but the amount of high quality Indie games available to play across the Internet is testament to the fact that great games can be made with small budgets or even a single person with a great idea.

Nightwar may be a relatively low - budget indie game, but its production is on par with much better - funded RPG projects from studios like Blizzard and Obsidian Entertainment.

Ninja Theory has called Hellblade a «Triple A indie», a game with high production values but without the budget or scope to go all - out on it.