Sentences with phrase «budget movie producer»

John Goodman brings great life to low - budget movie producer Frank King, while Michael Stuhlbarg inhabits Edward G. Robinson with tremendous pathos.

Not exact matches

If a movie producer tries too hard to re-create an award - winning film, putting together a big budget, an epic storyline, some top names, it can still be a flop.

The service has evolved from being solely a buyer of shows and movies to become one of the active producers of TV, documentaries and films, with a long - term budget that approaches $ 10 billion, according to filings.

By 1965, she was working in Black Spurs, one of producer A.C. Lyles» B - Westerns, renowned for their use of aging genre stars, and Owens retired from movies after portraying Richard Egan's love interest in the low - budget espionage thriller The Destructors (1968).

This low budget but highly - effective horror film is exactly the kind of movie that legendary Hollywood D - movie producer Roger Corman would have knocked out in the»70s: plenty of writhing female limbs, no surprises.

Will movie producers shy away from projects that aim for epic grandeur and high budgets, because Watchmen suggests that that kind of thing scares people away?

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).

Sometimes the movie strays into Wag the Dog territory (especially in scenes with Alan Arkin as a scrappy L.A. producer thrilled by the game); elsewhere, it has some of the big - budget period vibe of Spielberg's Munich.

The only nominee that now looks out of place in such company is The Towering Inferno, a big budget, star - studded disaster movie from producer Irwin Allen, whose previous effort The Poseidon Adventure was more deserving of such acknowledgement.

Producer Jason Blum is the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, which is a multi-media production company that has pioneered the model of making high - quality, low - budget films, and now does everything from movies and TV shows to books and live events.

Original producer of the films, Joel Silver, will also not be involved due to his reputation for «budget control issues», which we've seen can destroy good movies because there is one too many cooks in the film kitchen.

It was the solo directorial debut of Jack Hill (whose Coffy and Foxy Brown both recently hit Blu - ray from Olive), a low - budget film that was financed by real estate developers who wanted to get into the movie business and got stuck in limbo for years when the producers went bankrupt.

Based on The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by The Room star Greg Sestero (played by Franco's younger brother Dave in the film) and Tom Bissell, The Disaster Artist combines elements of Ed Wood, American Movie, and The Producers to tell the story of how Wiseau and Sestero became friends in San Francisco during the late»90s, moved to Los Angeles, and eventually teamed up to make The Room (which had a possible, unverified production budget of $ 6 million).

Making a movie is a tough job as well as a competition these days.The directors and producers are budgeting their movie big size for...

Most movies with black casts, producers and directors — including the highly profitable «Girls Trip» and Tyler Perry productions — are made with low budgets and marketed to American audiences, not international crowds.

With the success of this weekend's low - budget found - footage superpower movie «Chronicle,» we thought it would be fun to look back in the Scene - Stealers vault to four years ago when director Matt Reeves and producer J. J. Abrams hoisted «Cloverfield,» a monster movie firmly rooted in the lo - fi - meets - CGI aesthetic, on the world.

13 GHOSTS (Grade: D): Producers Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver's second recent attempt to remake one of»50s director William Castle's low - budget haunted house movies — after 1999's disastrous «The House on Haunted Hill» — is another overblown, suspenseless misfire.

Strange Magic was supposed to be George Lucas» swansong, his final big budget motion picture — as a producer, mind you, not director — before his inevitable retirement from the movie business.

Jason Blum, producer of The Purge, Insidious and Get Out, offers valuable insight into low - budget movie making.

As of 2009, Nigeria is the third largest producer of movies in the world, producing over 2,400 films a year (all shot on video on shoe - string budgets and released straight to video) and generating $ 286 million a year for the Nigerian economy.

First Big - Budget Movie: Indeed he was even offered the opportunity to direct «Return of the Jedi» by George Lucas, but turned that down in favor of taking up the mantle, much to Alejandro Jodorowsky's dismay (you really should check out «Jodorowsky's Dune» if you haven't already), of adapting Frank Herbert's epic «Dune» for producer Dino De Laurentiis.

There are going to be a few comparisons to La La Land, being last year's musical movie, and, yes, a lot of the reason The Greatest Showman finally got the budget it needed was producers hoping the comparison will be made by viewers, but this is a different beast entirely.

An award - winning screenwriter I had recommended was hired and he did an AWESOME job on the movie adaptation, the line producer determined the budget based on the screenplay, 100 % of the financing for film production has been secured, the list the producer wanted me to compile of possible actors for principle roles had been submitted; and just last week, the conceptual artist gave me a sneak peek of the preliminary visuals we might incorporate into the movie.

The producer from God of War II has been linked, via a couple of tweets he made in the last couple weeks, to a possible big - budget game adaptation of said movie.

The movie producers have cut the budget into 666 shares, which are sold at 10 ETH each ($ 115 at the time of writing), thus making the total value over $ 76,500.

Movie producer also shoulders the responsibility of maintaining the budget and schedule of the film.

Film Producers oversee movie making from concept to completion and are responsible for raising funds, networking, commissioning writers, hiring key staff, managing the film crew, and making sure the production is completed in time and within budget.

Never one to shy away from controversy, Shia LaBeouf reckons he's giving up on big - budget movies because the producers «stick a finger up your ass».