Sentences with phrase «budget movie which»

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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.

Eng also tallied the budgets of the movies in which he's rescued, all of which come to $ 729 million.

Compare these 10x returns with a mainstream movie like The Dark Knight, which made less than six times its budget of $ 185 million — and that's among the more successful hits.

A prime example is the movie Waterworld, made with a budget of $ 175 million, which grossed only $ 88 million worldwide.

Oil and gas investments benefit from drilling budgets being standard in the industry as opposed to start - ups and movies which can see budgets fluctuate based on unforeseen events.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

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.

We sat down with our kids and looked closely at their day - to - day lives and then decided on what we would pay for such as clothing, cell phone plans and after - school activities and sports fees and then gave them a budget for the rest such as entertainment (the price of a movie ticket once a month), gifts (birthdays, holidays, church), their craving for school cafeteria food — which we capped at twice a week — plus a small stipend.

The movie portrayed her personality and as a legend of a woman posed as a man to enter the monastery and become Pope.German actress Johanna Wokalek was pretty good for that role and the other performances were decent as well.The portrayal of the time, crowds and the cities was below average, but very effective, since it was a low - budget movie, the image and lighting quality was not always good.The weak point of the movie was in the rhythm, which at times was uneven, and went from fast to very slow, but still it was never boring because of the strong plot.

A titan in the field of low - budget movie - making, Australian - born stage actor J.P. McGowan enjoyed his first major success directing his wife Helen Holmes in the immensely popular and lucrative Hazards of Helen series, in which he also often played the villain.

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.

There is certainly nothing wrong with Stanford as a movie, which has a vividness and scope that feels authentic even on a limited budget, and those performances are well worth seeing.

This exotic pedigree gives Torrente the game an air of intrigue that eclipses the final product, which turns out to be a typically rotten movie - licensed budget shooter.

The movie - which was made on a tiny budget with a non-professional cast and no crew to speak of - finds the critical discourse in poetry and vice versa.

The movie is full to brimming with one - eyed men, which demonstrates two things: The Greek battle helmets had eye slots, and there was extra money in the makeup budget for putty.

But back to this movie... from the trailers, I knew this was a big - budget PG - 13 movie, which meant little scare factor.

M. Night Shyamalan returned in a big way earlier this year with his movie SPLIT, which earned some of the best reviews of his career, and made $ 278 million worldwide (off a $ 9 million budget).

The last movie to get the reboot with a female - led cast was 2016's Ghostbusters, which was a box office disappointment factored against its enormous budget.

Its aesthetic is cut - rate anonymity of the kind sometimes associated with direct - to - video movies (it was partly shot in Sofia, which is the capital of both Bulgaria and the low - budget action industry) and crappy TV.

With Haywire — his 23rd full length feature — he takes another stylistic left turn this being an independently financed, relatively low budget B - movie style action film of which a large portion was filmed in Dublin back in 2010.

Director Marc Webb's only other feature film was the wonderful «(500) Days of Summer,» which had approximately 1 / 30th the budget of this movie.

Scoring noticeably fewer films than before, he has concentrated on big - budget studio material at the expense of everything else, seeming to leave behind the smaller movies with which he attracted much of the praise afforded him over the years.

Roger Corman's movies would demonstrate the sheer trashy power of horror, and Hitchcock tapped into this B - picture aesthetic with his own low - budget masterpiece, Psycho, which popularised the psychological horror film, taking the genre away from its supernatural roots — although William Friedkin's masterpiece, The Exorcist, took it right back there again.

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.»

Strike two comes from the on the field action which looks too much like a low - budgeted baseball movie.

The first big - budget Mummy movie was so flimsy that it failed to hold up on home video, which is where I saw it for the first time.

The movie's cast and crew are in agreement that the film couldn't have been made if it weren't for Netflix, which was willing to take on the costly production budget.

We sometimes describe films like 10 Cloverfield Lane as being low - budget — but a real low - budget classic is more like the time - travel movie Primer, which was made for a shockingly tiny $ 7,000.

Jordan Vogt - Roberts is directing the big - budget movie, which recently lost Michael Keaton and J.K. Simmons

Anderson is currently writing the script for the movie, which is budgeted at $ 35 million, and Universal will not officially decide on a greenlight until they read the final draft.

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.

I would be saddened to learn if WB decided to pull the plug on future Paddington movies, but at least its minuscule budget of $ 40m is something which could keep the series in play.

«Our movies are very low budget and go quickly which can be a recipe for disaster, but we planned this to a» T,» with intense on - location rehearsals,» said Benson.

Johnston, of course, returned to superhero movies 20 years later to make Captain America: The First Avenger, which meant that he got a much larger budget to play around with the same sorts of period details and pulp - hero iconography.

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.

There is an art to the B - movie, which this low - budget production understands and achieves.

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.

I miss Donovan's collaborations with Hal Hartley; every indie credible project in which he finds himself (though, honestly, I don't know if I'm more horrified that he's in Agent Cody Banks or The United States of Leland) only widens the gap between what a gifted artist with no budget can accomplish and the sincere «message» movie that passes for Sundance - certified nowadays.

(Remember that the movie's stated budget excludes marketing costs, which is also enormous in itself.)

It's a big - budget movie, it's a remake of the original which you were familiar with and then you come into this --

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.

After the Duplass brothers» no - budget 2005 debut feature The Puffy Chair put them on the map, they followed up by poking fun at their own DIY aesthetic in Baghead, which follows four friends who want to make a movie, but are creatively bankrupt.

Wonder Woman was the film that defied all the predictions: a big - budget superhero movie directed by a woman which managed to please not only the feminists and their daughters but also the boys who love DC and Marvel.

There is ultimately something a bit soft and nebulous about Arrival: for all the forehead - furrowing concepts it entertains, it can't actually, as a big - budget Hollywood movie, sell us big ideas without packing them in the cotton floss of meaningful intimate experience, which was also the case with Interstellar and even Gravity (one movie where the protagonist could easily have done without a heart - wrenching back story).

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.

Not to mention, Blumhouse Productions knows how to make movies with a small budget which is exactly what's needed as less money forces more creativity to make a better, quality film.

Voltage is preparing to start production on Tom McCarthy's Adam Sandler movie «The Cobbler» and the low - budget thriller «Home Invasion,» which Voltage is financing and producing with Joel Silver's company.

Publicly exhibited nudity on film was harder to come by after the Hays Code, but glimpses of flesh were available in ultra-low budget exploitation movies and documentaries, which used the pretense of education to show nudity.

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).