Sentences with phrase «budget movie about»

Still, the studio (Fox) still haven't moved it, and Liman is in final talks to join the big - budget movie about the famous card - throwing mutant.

While it's not unusual for a scripter to have a long, successful life (after all wrote this forty - four years ago and he's still going strong), but considering that «Strawberry» was a big - budget movie about the late sixties riots at Columbia University, one that showed radical students breaking windows and, I believe, smoking the dean's cigars, that seems too much in the mainstream for the prolific playwright.

For a big budget movie about a lone astronaut who gets stranded on Mars, the spacesuits in The Martian are surprisingly sober in terms of design.

Based on fact, this indie low - budget movie about a Texas serial killer influenced a host of less factual slasher movies later on.

The pulled together a few million dollars to create a low - budget movie about dodgy state troopers (similar to Police Academy) and after making fans at the Sundance Film Festival, the movie was released more widely across the globe.

Nice little low budget movie about a plumber (Martin Donovan) who pretends to be a movie director to impress a girl (Rebecca Gayheart).

A micro budget movie about a Pakistani immigrant working at a coffee stand on the streets of New York.

Crafting a modestly budgeted movie about ordinary, nothing special people thrust into extraordinary circumstances and showing heroism means a big box office hit.

Not exact matches

If you still don't know, Sharknado is a low - budget movie produced by U.S. network SyFy about an out - of - control tornado that sucks up sharks from the ocean, then rains them down on Los Angeles.

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 movie was relatively successful at the box office — especially considering it was made on a budget of about $ 6.5 million — but it was still the lowest - grossing winner since 1987's The Last Emperor at the time.

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles...

Moviegoers are finally about to get a break from all of the big - budget summer blockbusters and superhero action movies, as studios move away from large - scale spectacles in favor of award - season prestige films.

Cool article I read a while back about the waredrobe of this movie... supposedly Woody Allen gave a costume designer a total budget of $ 35k to outfit all the characters in the movie.

As it turns out, «'' Amy»» entrepreneur Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) has sold the film rights for his «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» comic book — which is loosely based on Jay and Silent Bob — to Miramax, and the studio greenlit a big - budget production.Before it even begins, though, the pending «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» film provides more than enough fodder for a new wave of hate - mongers who prowl the Internet, namely pimple - faced geeks who slam anything they can type about on a series of movie gossip websites.

Very low budget independent film, I suppose there is supposed to be some deep significance to the movie, but I was too bored to care about what that might be.

Although Deadpool 2 repeats the first movie's jokes about the character being a scrappy castoff not good enough for Marvel's higher - profile franchises — at one point, Wade opens the wrong door in Charles Xavier's manor and finds the better - known characters staring back at him in confused irritation — this one has the budget and the clout to allow him to associate with a higher class of co-star.

All are more than competently demonstrated in Rampage, a big - budget action movie about the Rock's race to stop three giant, mutant animals running riot on the streets of Chicago.

I had my doubts that a low budget film about a lot lizard would be good, but I found this is an interesting movie.

Another gutsy, big - budget movie that dares to say something new and optimistic about our messed - up times.

«At Berkeley» — Frederick Wiseman's four - hour documentary about the great public university, shot in 2010 at a time of campus - wide unrest over budget shortfalls, says more about the state of American education — and by extension, America itself — than any other movie this year.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 12, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Morning Glory (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality and drug references) Romantic comedy about an aspiring TV producer (Rachel McAdams) whose hopes to save a struggling news program depend on her controlling the show's feuding co-anchors (Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford).

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening September 7, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS 3:10 to Yuma (R for violence and profanity) Christian Bale and Russell Crowe co-star in this remake of the 1957 classic Western about the dangerous gauntlet across the desert negotiated by a broke rancher out to collect a bounty for escorting an outlaw man to a train waiting to transport the wanted man to justice.

I had actually called him and asked him a couple questions about a script I was writing, and how to go about making a low budget movie, and he politely answered my questions.

There are appearances by X-Men both second -(Colossus) and third - tier (Negasonic Teenage Warhead), and more than one joke about how they couldn't afford to feature bigger stars given the movie's budget.

Like many great European movies that don't have the budgets to destroy cities with CGI, it's all about inner turmoil, the world inside the heart crumbling, and it takes very talented actors working with a very good script to pull it off and keep you interested for this long.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 24, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Illegal Tender (R for violence, profanity and sexuality) Rick Gonzalez and Wanda De Jesus co-star in this graphic revenge saga about a college student who chooses to defend his family's honor after a ruthless gang kills his father and forces his mother to flee for her life.

Ticking off the film's budget ($ 53 million, which climbed to $ 60 million) and shooting schedule (100 days) with a morose disbelief that has persisted a decade, Anderson believes that «there were too many things about that movie that weren't fun for me that I thought ought to be.»

Under the Radar is a semi-weekly column focusing on one or two movies that you might have missed or wouldn't have heard much about since they have limited marketing budgets.

Well, it might be more accurate to say Beatty sort of stars in Rules Don't Apply, his long - anticipated movie about Howard Hughes, the eccentric, obsessive billionaire who, among other things, was a big - budget Hollywood tycoon in the 1920s, while also making history for his investments into aviation.

It seems like every low - budget science fiction movie is about time travel.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 10, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Dragonball Evolution (PG for intense action and brief adult language) Sci - fi martial arts adventure, based on the Akira Toriyama novel about a young warrior (Justin Chatwin) who, with a handful of friends, sets out on a quest to save the planet from an evil king (James Marsters) bent on world domination.

On a more ambivalent note, I sometimes think that questions of Oscar relevance are really covert dismissals of the significance of Hollywood and the kind of movies the Oscars are all about, films that often (but not inevitably) have eight - or even nine - figure budgets and unashamedly aim for mainstream acceptance.

It seems odd to talk about a big - budget sci - fi Tom Cruise movie as underseen, but that's apparently the world we live in now.

Enter the The Green Hornet, a big - budget superhero film that doesn't obsess about reverence to its roots, nor in making a movie that feels it has to respect the requirements of hero drama, or the moodiness that overwhelms some franchises (Spider - Man 3 overdosed on it).

Contrast that with the much - larger budget Pixels, a movie about Adam Sandler and Kevin James fighting arcade game characters in New York City.

But then a funny thing happened: Ever so gradually, word got out about just how awful the movie was — how this near - tragic waste of an estimated $ 6 million budget might be appreciated as an accidental comedy — and audiences started coming to see for themselves.

What nobody talks about is that he made a third movie at Republic, another low - budget, black - and - white item, but a film that Ford would eventually name as one of his personal favorites of all his films, The Sun Shines Bright.

For this [tiny movie]-- in terms of budget and scale --[to touch] people from around the world... I'm speechless thinking about it.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 23, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hunger Games (PG - 13 for intense violence and disturbing images) Screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins» futuristic sci - fi novel about a 16 year - old girl (Jennifer Lawrence) who volunteers to take her unlucky younger sister's (Willow Shields) place in a nationally - televised fight to the death featuring 24 participants picked by a government lottery.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening February 24, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS Act of Valor (R for torture, profanity and graphic violence) Action adventure about an elite team of Navy SEALS who embark on a top secret mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA Agent only to uncover an imminent terrorist plot against America.

What nobody talks about is that he made a third movie at Republic, another low - budget, black - and - white item, but a film that Ford would eventually name as one of his personal favorites of all his films,

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 2, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Lorax (PG for mild epithets) Danny DeVito stars as the title character in this animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic about an idealistic 12 year - old (Zac Efron), raised in an artificial reality, who searches for a real tree in order to impress the girl of his dreams (Taylor Swift).

When speaking about her film adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time last fall at the Vulture festival, director Ava DuVernay told a crowd, «I'm trying to make a Lynn Shelton movie, just on a larger budget.»

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 18, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Limitless (PG - 13 for profanity, mature themes, violence, sexuality and disturbing images) Bradley Cooper stars in this action thriller about a frustrated writer whose life is transformed after he is introduced to a top - secret, smart drug which enables him to use 100 % of his brain.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

A second track has writers Nathaniel Thompson from Mondo Digital and Ryan Turek, now a development exec at Blumhouse Productions, bringing a sophisticated fan's perspective to the BD, talking about what it was like for budding horror buffs to discover low - budget horror movies on the shelves of Blockbuster Video stores around the country or during broadcasts of USA Network's «Up All Night» program blocks back in the 1980s.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 7, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Atonement (R for profanity, sexuality and disturbing war images) Decades - spanning romance drama, opening in England in 1935, about the budding relationship between a rich girl (Keira Knightley) and the son (James McAvoy) of her family's maid aborted when he is falsely accused of a crime by her jealous younger sister (Saoirse Ronan).

squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 23, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Adventures of Tintin (PG for violence, drunkenness and smoking) Steven Spielberg directs this animated adaptation of the classic comic book series about an intrepid young journalist who is abducted from Europe to Morocco where he escapes his kidnappers to embark on a perilous quest for hidden treasure.