Sentences with phrase «budget movie star»

The WWE smooth - talker, turned big - budget movie star has been hit and miss for me - I was not a fan of his new Jumanji.

Between Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes, Robert Downey Jr. has moved quickly from acclaimed indie bad boy to big budget movie star.

Joseph Gordon - Levitt has always sort of hovered between being indie film phenom and a big budget movie star.

That was more than a decade ago — and Hardy's first inkling that the low - budget movie he starred in decades ago had found an audience beyond the stoned teens who stumbled upon it on TV late at night.

Coming up in Phase Three is Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, and Inhumans, all big - budget movies starring no - name, who - cares nobodies.

Not exact matches

Since the «Star Wars» prequels, in which George Lucas was heavily criticized for using too much CGI to create the worlds and characters, many big - budget movies have tried to find that happy medium of practical and visual effects to give the action on screen a more grounded feel.

With their followup, 2006's Nacho Libre, the Hesses scored a big - time movie star for the lead in Jack Black, and landed a solid $ 32 million budget to tell the tale of a single Mexican man who works in an orphanage yet feels the call of stardom via wrestling.

What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.

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).

It's only a matter of time before hollywood does a big budget, computerized - effects version of this movie starring Shia LeBouf or Zach Effron as Abu.

Bruce moved to Los Angeles after this and starred in several lower - budget movies, such as «Moontrap» and «Maniac Cop».

Despite the cameos of over 30 movie stars and big budget, George Sidney's gimmicky comedy, starring Mexican actor Cantinflas who goes to Hollywood to take care of his horse, is one of Hollywood's biggest flops of the 1960s.

Under The Skin is one hundred percent one of these movies, but it's got a budget - shown most starkly in the lead, famous movie star Scarlett Johansson - and it's getting a release far outside the fest bubble.

Although it's refreshing to see a major studio take a gamble on a modestly budgeted film targeted towards adults (even if it stars one of the most bankable actors in the world), when that movie is as passively mediocre as «Focus,» you can understand why other studios have been afraid to pull the trigger.

Rather than try to take on Matt Damon in space, Focus surveyed the release calendar and wisely moved «London» to Jan. 22, 2016, where it will go up against a faith - based movie starring Tom Felton, STX's low - budget thriller «The Boy» and the Kevin Costner - Ryan Reynolds crime drama «Criminal.»

Samuel L. Jackson also returns for the third movie in the series as NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons, and Jet Li, Tony Jaa, UFC Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor, Indian star Deepika Padukone, Nina Dobrev, Ruby Rose, and Toni Collette also star in the big - budget action - adventure.

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.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 31, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Balls of Fury (PG - 13 for profanity, crude behavior and sex - related humor) Dan Fogler stars in this revenge comedy as a washed - up ping - pong champion coaxed out of retirement by an FBI Agent (George Lopez) to enter a tournament hosted by the Asian crime lord (Christopher Walken) who murdered his father.

The first attempt to tell their story came in 1994's low - budget, no - star, Roger Corman - produced B - movie that was never released.

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.

(I guess when you have this many movie stars there's no budget left for extras.

To get away from the idea of gritty low - budget Noir or any B - movie sense (and because the spy films from James bond on down were making so much money), Warner and Newman went the big time Hollywood route with an all - star cast for the first Harper film including Lauren Bacall, Shelley Winters, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, Strother Martin and made it a point it was Hollywood getting gritty on its own big time terms.

A movie that has no stars, no script, and was made on a budget that would barely cover the catering costs on «True Lies.»

These are the stories of people who learn what lies beyond the dream — yacht parties with theremin makers that end on the rocks, low - budget filmmaking that blurs the line between truth and fiction, movie stars and Hollywood hopefuls whose stories seem too crazy to be true.

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.

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.

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.

The paltry domestic and worldwide box - office take illustrated that it was, surprisingly, possible for a modestly budgeted, eagerly anticipated movie with a seemingly built - in audience that stars Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Will Ferrell, and Penélope Cruz to lose money, if it's awful enough.

Stephen Frears» directorial debut Gumshoe, a cockeyed detective film starring Albert Finney as a small - time bingo caller who plays at being a private detective for fun and ends up in the middle of a real mystery, and Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five, a low budget, high concept film he produced independently, also arrive under the «Martini Movies» imprint.

Rampage is one of those rare delights that B Movie audiences get when their favourite brand of film - making (Sharktopus, Dragon Wasps — you know the type), gets a massive budget, worthy CGI and some charismatic stars.

Having hit new heights recently with his excellent score for Terminator 3 and then the even better, career - best Hellboy, Marco Beltrami was brought in as a last - minute replacement for Trevor Jones on Alex Proyas's big - budget adaptation of Isaac Asimov's I, Robot starring Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan and James Cromwell (who presumably must have somehow cloned himself, given how many movies and tv shows he seems to appear in these days).

This huge budget movie has involved each and every worthy star.

This year Vachon is at Sundance with four low - budget movies with the reunion of Mike White and Miguel Arteta («Beatriz at Dinner»), «Dina,» starring Dina Buno, Andrew Dosunmu's «Where is Kyra?»

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).

Even with Leonardo DiCaprio starring, «The Revenant» was a risky movie to produce given its budget, and «Spotlight» was also a risk since the movie takes on one of the world's largest, most powerful institutions in the world — the Catholic Church.

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.

Bottom line is that Star Wars Battlefront II ends up being a paint - by - numbers movie tie - in game with way more budget than it needs.

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.

Film noir movies with bigger budgets and brighter star power might have earned nominations but ultimately lost the Oscar.

A big budget movie with a heart, Tom Hooper's period drama starred Colin Firth as Bertie Windsor, Edward VII's painfully shy younger brother who's thrust into the limelight when his brother abdicates to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson in 1936.

Although Morgan 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.

The independent Franchise Films offered Duffy a budget of about $ 6 million, and the movie was shot on a brisk 32 - day schedule with a cast that includes Willem Dafoe, Billy Connolly, and potbellied porn star Ron Jeremy.

Originally posted April 16, 2012 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS Director: Drew Goddard Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Jesse Williams, Kristin Connolly, Richard Jenkins, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Bradley Whitford, Amy Acker, Sigourney Weaver Like any low budget horror movie, The Cabin in the Woods follows five college aged students as they head to a deserted cabin in the woods for a little rest and relaxation.

The movie that stars John Cena and Leslie Mann has earned over $ 48M in the US and $ 67M worldwide, with a budget of $ 21M.

Jupiter Ascending, despite having star power and a large budget, could easily fall in that bad pile of movies.

Until the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, no one in Hollywood had heard of Anya Taylor - Joy, a wide - eyed teenager from Miami, Florida starring in the low - budget horror movie The Witch.

By Pete Hammond hollywoodnews.com: What does it say about the current state of Hollywood that movies with gargantuan budgets, big stars and endless hype are, as of the turn of the new year, being rated anywhere from disappointing to disasters, while smaller films from directors not exactly known -LSB-...]

Almost 10 years on from their first collaboration and Urata finds himself on a big budget family movie — a Christmas release with stars such as Nicole Kidman and (at one point) Colin Firth attached.

Released across from the flashy usual big budget summer fare, the little 2009 comedy with no established movie stars won over both critics