Sentences with phrase «budget movies as»

Winstead, repped by Anonymous Content, WME and lawyer Karl Austen, has been straddling the indie and mainstream feature worlds with roles in indies like 2012's Smashed, which landed her an Indie Spirit nomination, and in such big - budget movies as A Good Day To Die Hard and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

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He added that the extra revenue would wind up as a boon to filmmakers, with studios investing more money in film budgets and making more movies overall.

Now, DuVernay is busy making history again as the first black woman to direct a movie with a $ 100 million budget: Disney's A Wrinkle in Time adaptation.

China's box office revenue is still swelling at double - digit rates after years of breakneck growth and, with Hollywood know - how and bigger budgets, Chinese movies are gaining momentum as they find ways to play on domestic themes and improve production quality.

Of course, making movies is not a cheap business, as Netflix reportedly has budgeted more than $ 50 million per film in the case of the Crouching Tiger sequel and the Sandler movies, according to Variety.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

There are so many dating options out there to choose from, depending upon your interests, budget, While couples often resort to the standard date night options, such as dinner and a movie, sometimes creative dating ideas are necessary to keep things

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.

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.

«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.

And so he has, for $ 30 million — still a relatively modest budget, as action movies go.

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.

Ultra low - budget yet effective road movie as Alice, an awkward «New Hampshah» teenager, travels to Florida with a seemingly normal Southern couple near their fifties.

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

As it often happens with this kind of low budget artsy movie these days, the look is so polished that after a while it starts feeling fabricated.

Fresh from film school, an enthusiastic young runner starts work on a low budget zombie movie only to run into the first day from hell as a mystery illness starts to turn the extras on set into the bona fide undead.

The earlier film was shot in England on a very low budget, and such hints as Eleanor's obviously foreign car (mischievously, in the new movie Nell drives a Gremlin) and a briefly glimpsed «To Let» billboard suggest much of the location filming was done on the fly.

Now, I enjoy movie mayhem as much as the next guy, but with a budget in the bazillions, couldn't Bay have sprung for some paint?

Before Coppola directed landmark cinematic masterpieces such as «The Godfather» and «Apocalypse Now», he directed this low budget chiller with B - movie king Roger Corman producing with funds left over from «The Young Racers».

Leaping and bounding through the high points of Alexander's life as his army cuts a wide swath through the known word, it has an epic's budget and a B - movie's spirit.

She made countless lecture appearances on the college and film convention circuit, and in 1978 returned to films as Lois Lane's mother in the big - budget Superman: The Movie: alas, most of her part ended up on the cutting - room floor, and neither she nor fellow Adventures of Superman alumnus Kirk Alyn received billing.

With few exceptions, the movie has a dingy palette that's familiar from lower - budget, digitally shot movies, and its trembling camerawork is best described as functional.

«Rampage» had a budget of $ 120 million and earned $ 148.6 million worldwide with China as the top global market for the movie with a $ 55 million launch.

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.

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.

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.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 17, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Invasion (PG - 13 for violence, terror and disturbing images) Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig co-star in another remake of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) as the DC MDs depended upon to save the day when a space shuttle crash leads to an epidemic among humans triggered by an extraterrestrial force.

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.

As a result, we get a Sci - Fi thriller tinged with Noir (instantly making it my kind of movie), but done on a budget.

So it looks like Javier Bardem is no longer officially on board as Roland, assuming he ever actually was, though Howard seems to still be committed to the ambitious joint movie / TV adaptation plan, Universal's budget skittishness be damned.

As comic book fans demand bigger action (and budgets) for superhero movies, some incredible mistakes have gone completely unnoticed.

Mr. Golin says that while he wants to step back a little as his company grows, he wants it to diversify, going into genres where modest - budget projects can still pop, including comedies, young - adult movies and action films like «Triple 9,» a police - heist movie with Casey Affleck and Chiwetel Ejiofor opening Feb. 26.

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.

While Florentine and his longtime cinematographer, Ross W. Clarkson, manage to get a few»90s Hollywood - flavored Steadicam shots in, much of the movie is composed in an anemic, impersonal style that more closely resembles Florentine's past career as a regular director on various Power Rangers TV shows than the low - budget craft of Ninja (2009) or Undisputed III: Redemption (2010).

«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.

Analysis: As someone who genuinely appreciated the first «Transformers» movie and probably gave its sequel more of a pass than others, it's sad to say that Michael Bay has learned nothing from the criticism of «Revenge of the Fallen,» proving once again that given the budget, he'll do whatever he wants without giving a damn that people might actually pay to sit through it.

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.

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.

Though it actually starts out as a pretty decent, low - budget action movie, wasting no time throwing its heroine into the fire, «Everly» gets progressively worse with each passing minute.

It seems odd to talk about a big - budget sci - fi Tom Cruise movie as underseen, but that's apparently the world we live in now.

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.

However, when you look at «Me and Earl» as a movie and not a demonstration of low budget, arthouse filmmaking, it comes off as an all - too cliche and cookie - cutter summer dramedy.

Spectacular African landscapes help this uber - grisly zombie movie overcome an obviously low budget as well as an inexperienced cast.

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Experimental and inventive, as far as low - budget exploitation movies go, this lost 1965 film is one of the best.