Sentences with phrase «budget movie just»

I'd done a particularly unsatisfying, large - budget movie just before that.

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Walt Disney, one of the original naysayers, bought George Lucas» production company, Lucasfilm, in 2012 for over $ 4 billion, considerably more than they would have had to pay if they had just said yes to the first movie, whose budget was $ 11 million.

Unlike other independent films in which big names are ridden into the ground like a sweaty mule, shoehorned into every possible scene in the movie, «Moms» Night Out» has an ensemble cast - an amazing feat for a film with a budget just under $ 5 million, according to Andrew and John Erwin, the brothers who directed the film.

«Your savings on the budget of a movie could be 40 to 60 percent just off the top.»

«In movies just for the money,» as she often stated, La Roy apparently never turned down a role, no matter how miniscule, and her subsequent career was mostly spent playing minor vamps in low - budget independent productions.

Just like Get Out, the movie was produced with a small budget yet the result was damn good.

But unfortuantely, it was just a bad low budget movie with dodgy acting.

A brash, effects - laden tribute to all those alien invasion movies of the 1950s (just try watching the original «War of the Worlds» without spotting the countless similarities), Roland Emmerich's ultimate mindless actioner is arguably as close you'll get to a perfect textbook merging of old fashioned sci - fi with modern day big - budget fanfaring.

It is daft and spectacular and often weirdly offbeat for a mainstream, big budget movie, but mostly it's just glorious fun.

She's just wrapped another lead role in a movie, this time playing an artificial human / robot in a fuck - off budget sci - fi thriller directed by Luke (son of Ridley) Scott.

This might have a title that grabs your attention and a tad more polish than your typical Syfy original movie, but it is just as much of a wreck as those are, running into creative ceilings and shoestring budget restrictions that add up to something artificial, jumbled, and incoherent.

Others are here just because the thought of them directing a big - budget superhero movie makes me giggle uncontrollably.

The original movie grossed a little over $ 60 million worldwide back in 2001 from a budget of just under half of that, though the film has a huge following and gained a progressive cult status in the years that have passed since then.

There is less detail and clarity than many Blu - rays offer, but it's important to remember that the film is 25 years old and had a production budget of just $ 6 million (to put the latter number into context, fellow 1986 Charlie Sheen movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off cost the same amount).

«In the year of the big - budget sequel, The Coen Brothers, Clooney and Christie proved a well - written, expertly directed and amazingly acted movie is just as important to filmgoers as special effects and loud explosions,» said Tim Gordon, president of WAFCA.

We are just seven weeks into 2018 — and already Nicolas Cage has starred in two lower - budget but well - directed and thoroughly entertaining B - movies.

The Robinsons haven't had the enduring legacy of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, but the name Lost in Space has held onto just enough currency to inspire an unsuccessful movie adaptation in 1998 (starring past and future Oscar winners William Hurt and Gary Oldman, no less), and now to a big - budget Netflix series debuting Friday.

It just goes to show, like Primer, that you don't need a big budget to make a fascinating sci - fi movie.

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.

Grossing just under $ 19 M domestically and barely matching that total overseas, the movie was one of several to lose money last year for young distributor Relativity Media, whose $ 25 M budget (identical to Piranha's) seems excessive but at least yields animatronics and CGI clearly better than the visual effects of Corman's shoestring Syfy productions.

The studio is currently looking for a director for the big - budgeted movie, which is just one of many theme - park adaptations on the go.

If critics would just drink a six - pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon before every movie they review, this low - budget action film would get better reviews than «My Dinner With Andre.»

I wasn't going to fault the acting in a movie with a $ 300,000 budget, but once Jon Polito (Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink) showed up, I felt the directors could have at least gone big or just stayed at home and refunded their Kickstarter faithful.

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.»

There are also unsubstantiated reports that Beatty shot the movie off and on during that period even thought it officially has a rumored and quite conservative production budget of just under $ 27 million.

As I expected, despite a relatively modest budget of just $ 25 million, the movie still ended up a commercial disappointment, grossing just $ 32 million domestic and a quarter of that overseas.

In fact, the only real story in story mode is in the prerendered movies between chapters, and while they're bordering on well made (the modeling and art style are high quality, but apparently the motion - capture budget was used only for the game itself, as the animation is done by hand and sometimes isn't that good), they are mostly just a series of scenes that show the next boss character preparing to try to destroy the heroes.

It would be indefensible to label HOWARD THE DUCK the worst big - budget movie ever made, so let's just designate it one of the worst big - budget movies ever made.

This is an extremely casual movie that is content to just hang out with these characters and have them refer to movies and play «You look like...» Part of it is the budget, which you can tell has been scaled back.

Not only will «Whale Rider» helmer Niki Caro direct the live - action remake of the Mouse House's 1998 animated adventure «Mulan,» but in the process, she also will become just the fourth woman to solo direct a movie with a budget north of $ 100 million.

Naturally, Gerwig would have preferred to film all of Lady Bird in Sacramento — just like she and Levy, also the cinematographer for this movie, talked about doing back in the day — but proved her budget savvy by shooting, for instance, the interior of the McPherson home in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley.

Anyway, despite being just another slasher movie with a very silly name, by Hollywood's definition it was a success (ie it turned a profit) and so a sequel, with a bigger budget and worse script, was inevitable.

When Universal's attempts to re-launch their monster movie franchise unravelled with serious Mummy issues this summer, grossing just $ 409 million off a $ 125 million budget, that wonderfully staged photograph of Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, and Sofia Boutella appeared to be a serious case of running before you could even shuffle.

After the movie raked in $ 113.2 million on a budget of just $ 20 million, STX Entertainment fast - tracked a sequel and added some holiday spice.

That one of the most consistently amusing and enlivening movies to emerge from 2011's crop of festival films should have been made by a filmmaker under house arrest, his hands pretty much tied, his budget nil and equipment minimal, just goes to prove that you can't keep a good man down.

Celeste & Jesse Forever proves that a good independent movie does more than just go against the Hollywood grain on a low budget.

I have the ability to call in favors in my hometown in a way I can't anywhere else, and when you're making a movie on this budget, that is something you just have to do.

Seriously bizarre and laughably awful, this low - budget horror movie throws in just about every shopworn idea under the sun, excepting anything that might be considered scary, alluring, or entertaining.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening August 6, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Flipped (PG for mild epithets and mature themes) Puppy love drama about a 2nd grader (Madeline Carroll) whose enduring crush on a cute classmate (Callan McAuliffe) goes unrequited for a half dozen years until the script is flipped when she starts to lose interest just as he finally begins to fall for her.

It's not just that they can't sell movies with mid-range budgets anymore, they're starting to not be able to sell blockbusters, not even to the easy target kiddie demographic (see also: Pan), and the art house is beginning to suffer, too.

Thrown into the mix are two adorable British brothers who cross paths with Blake in San Francisco, and this is where the movie suddenly feels like a big - budget adaptation of one of those juvenile Choose Your Own Adventure books: Do you go down into the garage and rescue the pretty girl you just met... or do you run and get help?

Oh, and as if those accolades and the critical acclaim they reflected were not enough, all three of those movies also turned a big profit at the box office, from $ 129 million to $ 250 million worldwide on budgets of just $ 21 M to $ 40 M apiece.

I hate to dock this movie because of what I attribute to the limitations of low - budget filmmaking, but I do so with the hope that this is just a stepping stone on a greater path.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the movie is how current it manages to be, including references to «The Dark Knight» (well, to Batman, anyway) and just about every film to make back its budget in the last year — and then it kicks «Speed Racer» and «Love Guru» while they're down, for good measure.

Yes, taking inspiration for a huge - budget movie from a somewhat musty board game might have been a risk, but Deadline seems to think that risk is looking more and more like it just might pay off.

On its own merits, Return just seems like a mediocre TV movie that could have quite a bit better with more effort and a bigger budget.

Just last year, Get Out ($ 255 million) and the aforementioned Girls Trip were two of the biggest box - office hits relative to their budgets; 2015's Straight Outta Compton made over $ 200 million thanks a strong showing overseas; and the diversely cast Fast & Furious franchise is eight movies deep and showing no signs of slowing down.

Just know it is readily apparent who the killer is not fifteen minutes into the movie, an entire subplot involving J.K. Simmons as an extremely wealthy womanizing and sex - obsessed philanthropist is unintentionally hysterical and poor Val Kilmer, not seen in a big budget major Hollywood studio release since 2006's Déjà vu, is dealt such a poor hand it's a question why he was asked to play this game in the first place.

Unlike most other superhero movies from major studios, Deadpool had a modest budget of just $ 58 million.

If you're making a comedy movie, don't have the budget to pay Stiller, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, or Steve Carell, and are looking for a marketable everyman lead, Bateman is just about your best bet these days.