Not exact matches
Despite it being the fantasy series» shortest
season yet, Game of Thrones showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff have promised the final episodes will be on a much more cinematic level with
movie - length run times — and Hollywood blockbuster
budgets to match at an average of $ 15 million per episode.
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.
After the summer
movie season was kicked off in style a few weeks back with The Avengers, cheap it's difficult to accept a big -
budget movie like Battleship that often settles for being ordinary.
Netflix has already completely rewritten the
movie and TV - viewing rulebook by pouring a hundred million dollar
budget into a film without a theatrical release, and creating their now ubiquitous «binge - watch» format that the service rolled out for the first
season of House of Cards.
Instead, the
movie toes an unconvincing line between earnest sentiment and sweary glibness as Deadpool tries to protect an orphaned misfit (Hunt for the Wilderpeople's Julian Dennison) from a warrior from the future, Cable (Josh Brolin, having a big -
budget season with this and Avengers: Infinity War).
And the
movie was able to transcend the usual limitations of off -
season to gross a plenty profitable $ 95 million domestically (a baseball
movie record) on a $ 40 M production
budget.
And some, like The Adventures of Pluto Nash, are quietly slipped out the back door of the summer
movie season — late August — a total write - off of 22 years of development and $ 100 million in
budget.
Something of a small miracle, «The Way Way Back» is such a refreshing, smartly enjoyable reprieve from the summer
movie season's barrage of superhero fare and big -
budget blockbusters that you feel blue when it must come to an end.
The other one, White House Down, starred Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, opened at the height of the summer
movie season, was rated PG - 13, was the work of director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, 2012) and writer James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider - Man), had more than twice the
budget, and the backing of media giant Sony's primary Columbia Pictures division.
After winning a Golden Globe for their dark comedy television series Transparent, Amazon has announced their intentions to produce indie style
movies with
budgets between $ 5 million and $ 25 million (in addition to more work on television series, including a second
season of Transparent and something brand new from filmmaker Woody Allen).
Last month, at the height of the holiday shopping
season, an extra wrinkle was thrown into my family's shopping
budget when our television went on the fritz during a holiday
movie marathon.