Sentences with phrase «budget movies like»

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.

Dwayne Johnson has successfully made the transition from wrestler to Hollywood superstar starring in big budget movies like «Hercules» and «San Andres» and is worth $ 52m ($ 39m).

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.

After the summer movie season was kicked off in style a few weeks back with The Avengers, cheap it's difficult to accept a big - budget movie like Battleship that often settles for being ordinary.

The independent artist finds that making a low - budget movie like Middle of Nowhere comes from «being out in the world.

Not exact matches

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.

Like Netflix, Amazon (AMZN) is looking to get into the movie production game, promising earlier this year to eventually churn out around a dozen independent films — with budgets between $ 5 million and $ 25 million — every year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I feel like a movie with the budget of the Fifty Shades franchise could spring for fresh wee bags for everyone, no?

IT SOUNDS like a low - budget B - movie, but the two most destructive termite species have interbred to form a super-race.

The game's story is like an impossible high budget b - movie.

Like wtf, is it a 10k budget movie?

And by the way, it looked like the movie was on a REALLY low budget.

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.

Just like Get Out, the movie was produced with a small budget yet the result was damn good.

Though it does look a lot like a low budget, serious attempt at Joel Schumacher Batman movie.

Written and directed by James Ward Byrkit, the movie starts out looking and feeling like half the no - budget indies you've seen: a bunch...

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.

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.

Like many great European movies that don't have the budgets to destroy cities with CGI, it's all about inner turmoil, the world inside the heart crumbling, and it takes very talented actors working with a very good script to pull it off and keep you interested for this long.

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.

Here's a partial list of movie budgets, based on publicly released information — obviously, these numbers aren't entirely ironclad, and they disagree with other sources, like Box Office Mojo.

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.

At only ninety minutes, it feels like director West, the helmer of genre classic CON AIR (and the pretty fun second EXPENDABLES movie) was shackled by the budget.

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

It seems like every low - budget science fiction movie is about time travel.

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.

The kind of movies I like, get drawn to and get offered are usally low budget affairs.

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

Meanwhile, Tarantino, despite his much larger budgets, has remained Tarantino, partly because his narrative and formal style and influences were recognizable after only two movies, and partly because he has obsessively returned to themes (most notably, revenge) and, like many auteurs, featured reoccurring actors (Jackson, Thurman, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel, Michael Parks, Christoph Waltz, Zoë Bell, Julie Dreyfus, et.al).

Not once did I have to force myself to be gentler in my critique — this looks like a big - budget movie, and virtually stabs, mauls and garrottes the overwhelming majority of teen horror flicks out there.

Francis Ford Coppola never meant to make «The Cotton Club» — yet he was dragged back, like Al Pacino in «The Godfather 3,» into making another big - budget movie.

It looks like a low - budget»90s production, but it certainly has the feel of a»50s B - movie and not in any snarky or condescending way.

As for a Cloverfield 2, success wouldn't be a sure thing, even with a small budget, as the original film's reception was far loss positive amongst audiences than a similarly Internet - buzzing and viral marketed movie like Saw.

i love indies... they don't pander to the masses like many of the big budget mainstream movies... i'll be seeing this for sure!

I liked it was pretty low budget but it wasn't far from a homemade syfy channel movie.

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.

The movie was filmed in such places as Belgium, England, and Florida, and Burton told EW that the break away from sound stages (on big - budget tentpoles like Alice in Wonderland) was a nice change of pace of him too:

A second track has writers Nathaniel Thompson from Mondo Digital and Ryan Turek, now a development exec at Blumhouse Productions, bringing a sophisticated fan's perspective to the BD, talking about what it was like for budding horror buffs to discover low - budget horror movies on the shelves of Blockbuster Video stores around the country or during broadcasts of USA Network's «Up All Night» program blocks back in the 1980s.

Alongside with this, this low budget movie will bring some new amazing character like the main antagonist Cable.

It's probably a loser's game to ask for better craftsmanship from a movie like Tower Heist, but even crowd - pleasing big - budget comedies would seem to owe both of their top - billed actors a final scene.

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.

Originally posted April 16, 2012 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS Director: Drew Goddard Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Jesse Williams, Kristin Connolly, Richard Jenkins, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Bradley Whitford, Amy Acker, Sigourney Weaver Like any low budget horror movie, The Cabin in the Woods follows five college aged students as they head to a deserted cabin in the woods for a little rest and relaxation.

Naturally, Gerwig would have preferred to film all of Lady Bird in Sacramento — just like she and Levy, also the cinematographer for this movie, talked about doing back in the day — but proved her budget savvy by shooting, for instance, the interior of the McPherson home in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley.

It looks like the effects budget has been spent mostly on the human torch because the rest of the movie was disappointingly uneven.

Warner Bros. is understandably worried about sending out a big budget film with unproven talent, helmed by gross - out comedy director like Dobkin making his first action movie.

James McAvoy, on the other hand, proves he has the mainstream appeal required to carry a big - budget action movie, and should he continue to mix roles like these with Oscar bait like «Atonement,» the actor will be well on his way to becoming the next Christian Bale.