Sentences with phrase «budget indie starring»

Bright was then better known as the writer of «Gun Crazy,» a low - budget indie starring Drew Barrymore and James LeGros.

Not exact matches

Joseph Gordon - Levitt has always sort of hovered between being indie film phenom and a big budget movie star.

The director discusses his latest film, Manglehorn, starring Al Pacino, his work on commercials influencing his feature films, themes that recur through his work, and the difference between his indie films and those with bigger budgets.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople star Julian Dennison goes from being in a small indie film to being front and center in a huge big budget spectacle.

Not only are «Get Out,» «The Shape of Water» and «Blade Runner 2049» some of the very best films of 2017, but from the no - budget indie realm («Prevenge,» «A Ghost Story,» «Transfiguration,» «Raw») to expensive studio epic scale («War for the Planet of the Apes,» «Kong: Skull Island») and newly blazed ground out of the predominantly formulaic superhero («Logan,» «Wonder Woman,» «LEGO Batman») and Star Wars («The Last Jedi») factory farms, fantasy filmmakers tried their hardest to be smart, visually adroit, sometimes startlingly innovative and — strangest of all for this escapist format — humanely, emotionally credible.

A - Song One Rated PG - 13 for a scene of sexuality, and brief language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Anne Hathaway stars in this low - budget indie about a young woman who comes home to help out with her brother, who is in a coma after an accident, only to fall in love with the musician he was obsessed with before the coma.

The Dallas - based filmmaker has been one of the best - kept secrets of the indie world thanks to his microbudgeted feature debut «St. Nick» in 2009, and short follow - up «Pioneer» in 2011 (starring Will Oldham), and he developed «Saints» through the Sundance Labs, before WME helped bring it to the attention of Mara and Affleck, whose presence helped him to raise the $ 6 million budget.

Between Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes, Robert Downey Jr. has moved quickly from acclaimed indie bad boy to big budget movie star.

And that makes the «Hunger Games» film vulnerable to a newcomer like «Creed,» which reteams writer - director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan — who first worked together on the critically acclaimed low - budget 2013 indie hit «Fruitvale Station» — and brings them together with Rocky Balboa himself, Sylvester Stallone.

By ROBERT W. WELKOS When you ask indie producer Luillo Ruiz how his recent low - budget action - comedy film Welcome to the Jungle featuring veteran martial arts star Jean - Claude Van Damme could come with 31 producer credits, his answer is simple and straightforward.

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.

SURPRISE: «Ex Machina» for Best Visual Effects Up against such high - budget powerhouses as «Star Wars: The Force Awakens,» «The Revenant,» «The Martian» and «Mad Max: Fury Road,» it was A24's indie sci - fi pic that took home the prize.

Joe by Hope Madden After seven years of exploring the big budget, big star world of Hollywood, filmmaker David Gordon Green revisits his ultra indie roots.

It's a strange backdrop for an even stranger movie, which was shot in a low - budget location, yet could afford top - shelf character actors and indie all - stars — including Toby Jones, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Michelle Yeoh as various creators and caretakers.

Starred in several low - budget indie films but broke into the mainstream in Little Miss Sunshine in 2006.

From indie flicks to big - budget affairs, the enigmatic star of the BBC's War and Peace leaves admirers heralding his remarkable and intuitive performances

Rupert Wyatt Indie Work: Wyatt had only short films behind him (most notably 2004's «Get The Picture») when he made his first film in 2008, the low - budget prison thriller «The Escapist,» which starred Brian Cox, who'd also appeared in the short, alongside Joseph Fiennes, Seu Jorge, Liam Cunningham, Dominic Cooper and Damian Lewis.

Gavin Hood Indie Work: South African helmer Hood got his start making educational films before writing, directing and starring in his low - budget feature debut «A Reasonable Man.»

Any gamer on a budget must thank their lucky stars that we're living in a time with a vibrant indie scene.

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.