Sentences with phrase «budget movies going»

Fittingly, Magee adapts the skills he learned on past creature crews to make his first turn in the director's chair a tour de force, with creature design and practical effects that rival the best of the big budget movies going today.

Not exact matches

In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.

«We literally have to budget to go to a movie,» he says, «and my wife now shops at the Sally Ann.

The story goes that Whedon was burnt out after making his billion dollar Avengers movie, and decided to detox by shooting a no - budget Shakespeare adaptation in his home.

Substitution Effect: Assuming that consumers have a fixed leisure budget, when a sports team moves to a city like Detroit from Pontiac, the money that a family spends going to a Lion's game is typically money that would have been spent on other leisure activities like bowling or going to the movies.

«But if they're looking for much bigger - budget movies or TV shows, it has to go further.»

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.

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

Now I like the first Hoodwinked movie very much, and for a low budget CG film its very funny and keeps you entertained, so when I heard they were going to make a bigger budgeted 3 - D sequel I was interested, but the better CG doesn't add to how poorly this film was made, the CG may be better, but the lip synching is terrible and the voice acting isn't that good.

«Fantastic Voyage» was a runaway boxoffice hit that was made of a budget of $ 5.1 million the film took in an estimated $ 12 million at the North American boxoffice in 1966 and went on to make $ 4,500,000 in North American Rentals (20th Century - Fox re-release this movie in 1967 and 1970).

The quintessential B - movie lawman, granite - faced, mustachioed Jack Rockwell began turning up in low - budget oaters in the late 1920s and went on to amass an impressive array of film credits that included 225 Westerns and two dozen serials, working mostly for Republic Pictures and Columbia although he was never contracted by either.

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.

A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.

When I first saw the trailer for Get Out, I thought it was going to be another stupid low - budget horror movie.

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.»

In June, Grazer and Howard were optimistic that they had lowered the budget to a point where the movie and TV series could go into production.

(Actually, there are different estimates of the movie's budget out there — people have cited numbers anywhere from $ 75 million to $ 85 million, but Box Office Mojo says $ 82 million, so let's go with that.)

When a movie goes wildly over budget and looks like a fiasco in the making, we tend to resurrect the ghoulish specters of toxic buzz magnets past like Heaven's Gate, Ishtar, Waterworld, Bonfire Of The Vanities, and 1941.

I had actually called him and asked him a couple questions about a script I was writing, and how to go about making a low budget movie, and he politely answered my questions.

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.

The critic, after referring to «Nick Gomez's astounding, explosive debut,» went on: «Director Gomez, 29, who made the picture on a minuscule budget of $ 38,000, is the newest (and maybe the most gifted) member of a young generation of filmmakers — Spike Lee and Oliver Stone among them — who watched Martin Scorsese's «Mean Streets» and came away dying to make movies.

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.

It's the kind of old - fashioned yet multi-layered movie that Hollywood filmmakers seemed to have forgotten how to make in 1991, when well - written, carefully structured screenplays often appeared to have gone the way of manageable budgets.

If The House on Haunted Hill and now 13 Ghosts have anything to prove, it's that if you are going to update a B - movie with a bigger budget and better actors, at least have the decency to make it better than the original.

It just goes to show, like Primer, that you don't need a big budget to make a fascinating sci - fi movie.

As far as low - budget, badly - acted exploitation movies go, this is one of the best.

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

The movie compares favorably with Doug Liman's «Go,» another late - night waffle run of a movie that didn't let the modest budget and lack of big set pieces kill its momentum.

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.

«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.

I wasn't going to fault the acting in a movie with a $ 300,000 budget, but once Jon Polito (Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink) showed up, I felt the directors could have at least gone big or just stayed at home and refunded their Kickstarter faithful.

Because that's what people to go the movies for, to see big budget recreations of disasters that are all too real.

Low budget crime movies were never going to capture the Academy's attention, but the one and only film directed by Leonard Kastle now stands as a shining example of the brash, bold wave of filmmakers that changed the game at the turn of this decade.

And that day may come, as it has for fellow Skins actor Nicholas Hoult, who went on to roles in big budget movies like X-Men: First Class, Jack the Giant Killer, and the upcoming Mad Max reboot.

Considering that the movie was budgeted at $ 120 million, it is doubtful that Hulk would turn a profit for its studio, so don't go holding your breath for any sequel soon.

Opening in late August, where movies generally go to die, the film struck out with critics and bombed at the box office, grossing under $ 9 million on a $ 13 M budget.

Insidious was one of the early signs that Blumhouse's strategy of turning modestly budgeted horror movies into box office hits would be viable going forward.

Among the most obscure DC Comics adaptations in movie history is Steel, a Shaquille O'Neal vehicle that came and went very quietly in the summer of 1997, grossing only about a tenth of its relatively modest budget.

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.

Here's what you need to now going in to «The Greatest Showman,» the big - budget musical starring Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams: It's not a movie version of «Barnum,» the Broadway musical.

It feels like more budget has gone into this movie and while that does remove some of the grittiness from the proceedings, this is a fantastic popcorn flick.

While it's not unusual for a scripter to have a long, successful life (after all wrote this forty - four years ago and he's still going strong), but considering that «Strawberry» was a big - budget movie about the late sixties riots at Columbia University, one that showed radical students breaking windows and, I believe, smoking the dean's cigars, that seems too much in the mainstream for the prolific playwright.

THE FIRST BUT PERHAPS NOT THE LAST Steven Soderbergh movie to get a theatrical release in 2018 is Unsane, which was shot on the iPhone 7 Plus with 4K capture and, of course, a kit of add - on lenses and stabilizers, with probably half the $ 1.2 million budget going to image - enhancing postproduction.

That one of the most consistently amusing and enlivening movies to emerge from 2011's crop of festival films should have been made by a filmmaker under house arrest, his hands pretty much tied, his budget nil and equipment minimal, just goes to prove that you can't keep a good man down.

Q: With this movie, you went into a different mode of filmmaking, partnering with Jason Blum who's a master of the low budget, atmospheric horror thriller.

I'm into all types of movies — I'm trying to make a horror film (next), and there's some indie movies that'd cost about $ 5 to make that I'd like to do — but this was a chance for someone to write a check for a big - budget comedy, and to be able to do something as balls - out as this one... y ’ know, I'm gonna take advantage of that!»

Sounding Off Eilis Mernagh argues that low - budget, high - concept is the way to go to make successful movies in a recession

With a budget of $ 65 million (apparently Manolo Blahniks are even more outrageously expensive than even I had originally thought), 2008's Sex and the City movie went on to gross more than $ 415 million worldwide.

Yet where the term «B - movie» typically goes hand - in - hand with a low budget, Rampage — to paraphrase Dolly Parton — cost a lot of money to look this cheap and cheerful.