Sentences with phrase «budget movies if»

For many first - time directors [see: Sam Raimi, John Carpenter], horror is attractive because fans are willing to buy into low - budget movies if they're suitably original and / or smart, and / or fun.

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.

If a movie producer tries too hard to re-create an award - winning film, putting together a big budget, an epic storyline, some top names, it can still be a flop.

If you still don't know, Sharknado is a low - budget movie produced by U.S. network SyFy about an out - of - control tornado that sucks up sharks from the ocean, then rains them down on Los Angeles.

Walt Disney, one of the original naysayers, bought George Lucas» production company, Lucasfilm, in 2012 for over $ 4 billion, considerably more than they would have had to pay if they had just said yes to the first movie, whose budget was $ 11 million.

If 2014 was the year of the Bible movie, then 2015 is shaping up to be the year of the big - budget reinvention.

If the budget is too tight for movie tickets and popcorn, try a family night movie at home that turns your living room into a movie theater.

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

There should be a correction... this is a 1950s apocalyptic movie if the budget was $ 125 million, and directed by fancy pants Marc Forster («Monster's Ball»).

If you love cheesy low budget movies, though, it's gold!

From the shoddy editing to the campy screen writing (if it wasn't completely improvised, hard to tell when no real actors were actually hired), Dead man's shoes never aspires to be much more than a low budget B - movie at best.

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.

Like Beasts, the movie might be too limited, either in narrative scope or promotional budget, to gain a foothold, particularly if the field is fierce come year's end.

It's also unknown if Disney will try to hold onto its original December 21, 2012 release date, but I think that's a highly - optimistic time crunch for a movie that with a budget of $ 215 million.

It wouldn't surprise me if that was true, because «The Legend of Tarzan» — a would - be event film that happens to be pretty uneventful — has the air of a big budget movie whose studio didn't realize its mistake until it was too late.

It's a nice change of pace for the genre, even if it does turn it into a predictable narrative, especially when we are dealing with a B Movie Wednesday article, lacking the budget to provide the shocks and thrills that Adam Wingard had access to with You're Next.

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.

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 originaIf 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 originaif 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.

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.

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.

If critics would just drink a six - pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon before every movie they review, this low - budget action film would get better reviews than «My Dinner With Andre.»

That makes sense since we've previously heard that co-showrunner Carlton Cuse wants to run the show with a movie budget, though it has yet to be confirmed if that's truly the case.

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.

If you manage to direct a big epic movie and bring it in on time and on budget and get the right amount of scope and the characters, then absolutely you jump to the top.»

And more importantly, if someone — or rather some movie studio — purchased the media rights for said arcade game, then chances are, somewhere, sometime, it was bound to make the jump from arcade game to big - budget spectacle.

If a budget - priced movie tie - in can do all of that, why couldn't Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2?

Warner Bros continues to have faith in the Wachowskis, and I think that should bode well for the movie if WB is giving them large budgets for original sci - fi material in a world of sequels and adaptations.

With its obsessed but unqualified hero, Blue Ruin makes a kind of comic sense if you match it up against glum, big - budget, male revenge fantasies — hard - driving movies with the likes of Charles Bronson and Mel Gibson.»

If you want to make personal movies with personal ideas, you have to make them at a budget.»

What We Do in the Shadows Even if you're sick of vampire movies, you'll enjoy this one, a mock documentary from New Zealand that follows, in the style of low - budget cinema verite, four vampires sharing a house in Wellington.

If anything, the transfer may be too perfect for its own good, for it makes the movie's low - budget animation a bit more conspicuous.

For a film with a $ 200 million budget and with talent in all departments it's a real shame that it turned out to be the movie that it is, although with 5 separate Spider - Man films now done and dusted, one must wonder if there is anything that could make this blockbuster staple truly jaw dropping again.

These days a $ 30 million movie is considered low - budget, especially if it involves aliens.

During the interview, Boyega talked about producing his first big budget Hollywood movie, what surprised him about the process, how involved he was in the editing room and if he ever wanted to use a different take than what the director had, what they learned from early test screenings that impacted the finished film, and more.

If we're being fair, this facsimile of larger budget scifi movies may be its greatest accomplishment.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 had what would be an excellent weekend for any other film — an estimated weekend take of $ 51.6 million — but with an unreported budget and nearly $ 198.3 million in the can domestically, one wonders if Lionsgate had hoped the movie would do better, especially as it has made much less than the previous films in the series.

SKIP THIS MOVIE IF: you believe summer movies should be filled with special effects and big budget actions and superheroes and mutants and aliens.

If you'd like to know the essence of the comedic approach employed in Epic Movie, it's that they've hired a bunch of comedic actors who look or act similar to those found in the big - budget movies, give them funny names similar to the characters found in those movies, then proceed to find a way for them to get hit in the face, stomach, or in most cases, their testicles.

Oscar upshot: If the Academy wanted a ratings - grabber of a showdown, they got one what with the press bent on pitting Cameron's visually stunning Goliath of a blockbuster, «Avatar,» considered the highest - grossing movie of all time with nearly $ 3 billion worldwide, against former spouse Bigelow's modestly budgeted but more narrative - forward «The Hurt Locker.»

To review a Marvel movie as if the director had the creative freedom to end with a whimsical song - and - dance number would be like blaming a no - budget movie for not starring Scarlett Johansson.

If I were to pick the single most impressive box - office story of the summer, it wouldn't be Iron Man 3 hitting a figure that is, however large, not that big a deal for a movie with its kind of budget, especially one serving as de facto sequel to a film that destroyed very nearly every record that exists.

Oh, and as if those accolades and the critical acclaim they reflected were not enough, all three of those movies also turned a big profit at the box office, from $ 129 million to $ 250 million worldwide on budgets of just $ 21 M to $ 40 M apiece.

Everyone has their theories on why that is, but the fact remains that given the revenue, we never would've gotten a second or third movie; or if we did, they'd have had zero budget and horrible effects.

The failure of big budget movies like Baywatch was one of the summer's big talking points last year, but it seemed as if Johnson was refusing to acknowledge that his movie simply wasn't very good.

First Big - Budget Movie: Indeed he was even offered the opportunity to direct «Return of the Jedi» by George Lucas, but turned that down in favor of taking up the mantle, much to Alejandro Jodorowsky's dismay (you really should check out «Jodorowsky's Dune» if you haven't already), of adapting Frank Herbert's epic «Dune» for producer Dino De Laurentiis.

If you strip away the recognizable actors, budgets and visual effects of Nolan's recent works, you'd see something resembling Following, only the movie doesn't suffer from those absences.

Mudbound is beautifully shot, well - acted, and surprisingly sweeping for a movie with a relatively small budget of $ 10 million; if it's guilty of anything, it's perhaps trying to do too much at once, which is understandable given its novelistic scope.

If you're making a comedy movie, don't have the budget to pay Stiller, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, or Steve Carell, and are looking for a marketable everyman lead, Bateman is just about your best bet these days.

If an adult likes big budget sci - fi eye - candy filled epics developed from children's stories or simply liked the cartoons when they were younger and think its cool to see them brought to life on the big screen with live actors and modern special effects, then they will probably enjoy this movie — if they can sit through it alIf an adult likes big budget sci - fi eye - candy filled epics developed from children's stories or simply liked the cartoons when they were younger and think its cool to see them brought to life on the big screen with live actors and modern special effects, then they will probably enjoy this movie — if they can sit through it alif they can sit through it all.

We take a look at 14 big - budget movies releasing in 2016 to determine how much, if any, financial risk they pose for the studio producing them.