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However, AAA games are far more similar to big budget movies in their financial statistics, and guess what?

Greg and his best friend Earl (Ronald Cyler II), who make low - budget movies in their spare time, then decided to make a film for her.

This news comes after Dwayne Johnson filmed nearly all of his big - budget movies in Atlanta including Rampage, Jungle Book, Fast 8, and Baywatch.

Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire)- portraying the revenge - seeking Ben - Hur - and Toby Kebbell (Fantastic Four)- playing his back - stabbing best friend Messala - are solid actors but neither has yet to successfully carry a big - budget movie in a leading role position.

Not exact matches

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.

Each of the two previous films have generally positive Rotten Tomatoes ratings, and they fared reasonably well at the box office ($ 170 million in global gross for Cloverfield and $ 110 million for 10 Cloverfield Lane) for lower - budget movies.

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.

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.

Analysts were forecasting weekend sales of $ 41 million to $ 47 million for the Spielberg film, a respectable opening for a movie with a production budget set at $ 150 million to $ 175 million by people with knowledge of the matter, and additional millions in marketing costs.

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.

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Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

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

Movie Budgets «Courage under Fire»: $ 46m «Saving Private Ryan»: $ 70m «Titan AE»: $ 75m «Syriana»: $ 50m «Green Zone»: $ 100m «Elysium»: $ 115m «Interstellar»: $ 165m «The Martian»: $ 108m TOTAL: $ 729m Fictional Costs of Saving Matt Damon (costs are in 2015 currency) «Courage Under Fire» (Gulf War 1 helicopter rescue): $ 300k «Saving Private Ryan» (WW2 Europe search party): $ 100k «Titan AE» (Earth evacuation spaceship): $ 200B «Syriana» (Middle East private security return flight): $ 50k «Green Zone» (US Army transport from Middle East): $ 50k «Elysium» (Space station security deployment and damages): $ 100m «Interstellar» (Interstellar spaceship): $ 500B «The Martian» (Mars mission): $ 200B TOTAL: $ 900B plus change

The three subsequent films in the series grossed more than $ 310 million on a total budget of $ 55 million, according to the movie finance site The Numbers.

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.

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.

A few weeks ago, the superhero movie Deadpool grossed $ 132 million at the domestic box office on its opening weekend, setting a record for R - rated premieres — and dousing its $ 58 million budget in black ink.

While Hope is known for making independent movies rather than big - budget Hollywood blockbusters, Amazon Studios has succeeded in the world of television in part by aligning itself with high - profile directors like Allen and Steven Soderbergh of «Ocean's Eleven» fame.

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.

Someone took footage from a low budget movie called «Desert Warrior», did a fast overdub to add the offensive comments, and put it out on the net to obscure the fact that these people in the lands attacked by the US are actually angry over invasion, conquest, looting, drone strikes against civilians, torture, and being shot at by the United States on behalf of Israel.

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.

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.

Now, Dionne says she feels betrayed by the California filmmaker who turned the low budget - movie with a threadbare plot into an anti-Islam film that provoked outrage - with sometimes violent results - in parts of the Muslim world.

Egypt's public prosecutor announced the charges Tuesday, the latest development in the deadly backlash against the low - budget, amateurish 14 - minute movie trailer produced privately in the United States and posted on YouTube.

Now, Dionne says she feels betrayed by the California filmmaker who turned the low budget - movie with a threadbare plot into an anti-Islam film that provoked outrage — with sometimes violent results — in parts of the Muslim world.

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.

Brad Pitt plays a total bad ass tank commander and Logan Lerman seems to be making more of a name for himself with another solid role in a big budget movie.

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In fact, The Film House shot one low - budget movie on location in Central New York, «American Dresser.&raquIn fact, The Film House shot one low - budget movie on location in Central New York, «American Dresser.&raquin Central New York, «American Dresser.»

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.

The Assembly budget plan would restore $ 65 million Cuomo was seeking to cut from the MTA, rejects his bid to allow the sale of alcohol in movie theaters, and seeks to spend $ 2.6 million to maintain seven - day - a-week visitations at state prisons.

Albany, NY - New York state would give even more taxpayer money to movie and television studios that film in Upstate New York under the budget up for a vote in the Senate and Assembly.

In this case, participants whose purchases depleted their financial resources reported lower satisfaction with a movie download compared to those who purchased the same movie with plenty of money remaining in their budgeIn this case, participants whose purchases depleted their financial resources reported lower satisfaction with a movie download compared to those who purchased the same movie with plenty of money remaining in their budgein their budget.

Cool article I read a while back about the waredrobe of this movie... supposedly Woody Allen gave a costume designer a total budget of $ 35k to outfit all the characters in the movie.

It wasn't until he read the original R - rated, slasher / horror version of the script from B - Horror icon Michael McDowell that he became interested in making another big - budget movie.

Look at Jeepers Creepers, the song was made in 1938 and decades later it gets used in a low - budget horror movie.

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.

In «Living in Oblivion,» he played the lead, a beleaguered low - budget director trying against all odds to make a moviIn «Living in Oblivion,» he played the lead, a beleaguered low - budget director trying against all odds to make a moviin Oblivion,» he played the lead, a beleaguered low - budget director trying against all odds to make a movie.

«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 productionIn 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 productionin low - budget independent productions.

Baker (Starlet, Greg The Bunny) traffics in the big and broad, but his aesthetic here is totally ratty; at times, the movie's imagery, frenetic movement, and distorted wide - angle close - ups bring to mind Crank: High Voltage and Inland Empire crossed with a low - budget music video.

It's incredible such a large budget was given essentially to a future movie — it takes place in 2015 or something, it's never clear, but there's a lot of future stuff — and I had no idea it was a future movie.

Why in the wide, wide, world of sports would anybody make a big - budget feature film from a decades - old, animated cartoon parody of Nelson Eddy / Jeanette MacDonald movies?

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).

However there could have been some improvements, especially in the acting and visual effects, but what can you expect from a low budget B movie monster flick?

Tracing the history of adult films, from «Deep Throat» and «Devil in Miss Jones» to the high - definition, big budget movies of today, this documentary chronicles the most important, critically acclaimed and sexiest movies in history.