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It is both churlish and mean to berate or kick down a very humble, low - budget indie with big ideas, just because the filmmaker ultimately fails to pull off those big ideas in a satisfactory way.

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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.

Amazon expects to focus on «indie» movies with budgets of between $ 5 million and $ 25 million, spokeswoman Sally Fouts said.

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

«X-Men» is a high - budget blockbuster with an indie edge.

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.

1080p, AVC - encoded transfer for The Disaster Artist shows off all the polish you'd expect from a modern studio picture, even one with roots in low - budget indie filmmaking (represented by the windowboxed «footage» from the fictionalized filming of The Room.)

And don't listen to the crap about how budget games are short, I tend to have the most fun with indie games and I have sunk 11 hrs into the game, and I am on floor 22 and I don't know how many floors there are but there is an achievement for getting to floor 50.

Former indie wunderkind turned big budget comedy king, David Gordon Green returns to his roots with his sweetly eccentric, surprisingly poignant new film, Prince Avalanche.

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.

Back in March, we unveiled a list of one - time indie directors, including Bryan Singer, the Wachowskis and Paul Greengrass, who suddenly made the hyperspace jump to helming blockbuster projects, along with their associated blockbuster budgets.

He hit the scene with his no - budget indie Slacker in 1991.

One of the biggest Sundance hits of 2015 was a small - budget indie comedy about an aspiring high school filmmaker and his friendship with a sick classmate entitled Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

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.

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There's a certain class of low - budget indie filmmaking that's become almost its own recognizable style — full of ordinary people just trying to find happiness in unorthodox ways, hand - held close - up shots, montages of locations (easily recognized if you live in the area where they're shot, but not particularly tied to the story, which could take place anywhere) with light music underneath, a tendency to shift focus amateurishly (though I think often on purpose as part of the style), a lot of contemplative pauses and awkward conversations.

This makes for a stellar lineup of headliners of Best Picture contenders in Chalamet and Kaluuya, indie darlings with Pugh and O'Connor, and the big budget superhero badassery of Thompson.

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.

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.

From Gareth Edwards delivering «Godzilla,» to The Russo Brothers making very respectable work of «Captain America: the Winter Soldier,» to James Gunn knocking «Guardians of the Galaxy» out of the park, to Ava DuVernay moving to a much larger canvas with «Selma,» and Darren Aronofsky tackling the massive «Noah,» it's been such a phenomenon this year that we dedicated two whole features to it in the first half of the year (When Indie Directors Get Big Budgets and Next - Generation Blockbuster Directors).

A prankish comedy - thriller overtly about desperation and insecurity, Baghead begins with a dead - on Q&A at a Los Angeles indie film festival, where an underground auteur (Jett Garner) condescendingly responds on matters of budget and improvisation.

As is true for any low - budget indie, well - made or not, the experimental approach carries with it a significant risk of failure.

Trevorrow, similarly, emerged with a small - budget indie (also about time travel) called Safety Not Guaranteed in 2012, which he parlayed into the moneymaking sensation Jurassic World.

Recreating the no - holds - barred, cheaply constructed, no - budget thrills of a 1960s and»70s exploitation double feature, Grindhouse sandwiches together two movies from indie mavericks Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino with some crazy, fake trailers in the center, old school titling to start each feature, and editing tricks to give the whole affair a well - worn feel.

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).

Though far from the big - budget extravaganza of the first two «Iron Man» films, what the indie comedy lacks in spectacle it makes up for with a great cast, a warm and funny script, and some mouth - watering food porn.

The low - budget indie drama Starlet, beautifully shot by Radium Cheung, sensitively directed and edited by Sean Baker (the documentaries Prince of Broadway and Take Out), and performed with sparkling confusion by Dree Hemingway and genuine warmth by Besedka Johnson, follows...

The low - budget indie drama Starlet, beautifully shot by Radium Cheung, sensitively directed and edited by Sean Baker (the documentaries Prince of Broadway and Take Out), and performed with sparkling confusion by Dree Hemingway and genuine warmth by Besedka Johnson, follows a friendship that develops between two women, one younger, one older.

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.

As Naomi, the penniless New York City tour guide with whom Arthur falls in love, indie - film darling Greta Gerwig is sweet but tame, the fierce edges she showed in last year's «Greenberg» smoothed and smothered by big - budget blandness.

WHY SEE IT: An interesting and creative premise for a film that is clearly a labor of love — kind of an indie comedy take on CUBE and LABYRINTH, with a touch of ALICE IN WONDERLAND and Terry Gilliam insanity thrown in for good measure — DAVE MADE A MAZE is an amusing diversion for fans of budget filmmaking who can appreciate a smirk - inducing comedy with a light touch of horror and fantasy.

While two of his films have played in Park City previously (though one was a short segment in «V / H / S»), Swanberg and his zeitgeist - defining mumblecore movement (read: indie filmmaking with a cute name and perhaps even lower budgets than audiences were used to at the time), were actually embraced by the SXSW Film Festival and not the indie - defining organizers in Utah.

With so many of Saulnier's indie contemporaries being wooed into the world of big franchises and bigger budgets, let's hope he doesn't lose his desire to be unnerving, unsettling and unforgiving.

8:00 pm — IFC — Clerks Kevin Smith burst onto the indie scene with Clerks, a low - budget dialogue - heavy film about clerks at a convenience store.

After debuting with The Roostand Trigger Man, both low - budget DIY art - horror films that gained rave reviews on the indie festival circuit but were never afforded a wide release, he was entrusted with the large (ish) budget of Cabin Fever 2.

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.

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.

Unlike many directors we've listed previously who use the profile that an indie hit bestows to break into the bigger - budget bracket or even into Hollywood, Baker seems like a bona fide independent filmmaker, with a plucky, old - school lemons / lemonade attitude to moviemaking.

Or just look at Mark Duplass» unnerving Creep, a low - budget, low - risk endeavor where the established indie guru and young buck Patrick Brice (The Overnight) could experiment with form in the shadows, far away from studio lots.

The details: The trend of putting indie newcomers at the helm of big - budget reboots and sequels continues with this late - coming Rocky spin - off written and directed by Ryan Coogler.

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.

Part of this may be due to director Taika Waititi, who is a newbie in the world of big - budget blockbusters, but like many other directors tapped to helm Marvel movies (including Gunn and Watts) has an intriguing background in indie cinema that would seem to have little to do with IMAX - worthy digital bombast.

Long after the form fell out of vogue — and in an era when many big - budget studio films pack the screen with saturated candy colors and in - your - face 3 - D effects — indie filmmakers and even the occasional studio - movie veteran are turning to the monochromatic.

I hate to write negative film reviews for small films that are clearly made with passion and scraped together on a shoestring budget, but I also hate to watch indie films that are clearly lacking vision and give my beloved horror genre a bad name.

Anderson does add some style to the film, doing wonders with an indie - sized budget for a film that requires a specific period setting.

Baker has risen to indie prominence over the years with his richly immersive low - budget portraits of marginalized communities, including «Prince of Broadway,» «Starlet» and his 2015 Sundance hit, «Tangerine.»

Winstead, repped by Anonymous Content, WME and lawyer Karl Austen, has been straddling the indie and mainstream feature worlds with roles in indies like 2012's Smashed, which landed her an Indie Spirit nomination, and in such big - budget movies as A Good Day To Die Hard and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Huindie and mainstream feature worlds with roles in indies like 2012's Smashed, which landed her an Indie Spirit nomination, and in such big - budget movies as A Good Day To Die Hard and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire HuIndie Spirit nomination, and in such big - budget movies as A Good Day To Die Hard and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

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.

Oscar Isaac has been busy these last few years with indie projects and upcoming big - budget blockbusters.