Sentences with phrase «budget movies made»

It's a slow week for home video, as a revenge flick starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx is the only big - budget movie making its way into rental stores.

Jason Blum, producer of The Purge, Insidious and Get Out, offers valuable insight into low - budget movie making.

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.

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.

However, DC's trio of bad movies made more domestically than the films» production budgets.

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.

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.

The movie was relatively successful at the box office — especially considering it was made on a budget of about $ 6.5 million — but it was still the lowest - grossing winner since 1987's The Last Emperor at the time.

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.

Director Ava DuVernay «s adaptation of the popular young - adult novel of the same name has been highly - anticipated since Disney made her the first - ever black woman to direct a movie with a budget over $ 100 million.

A prime example is the movie Waterworld, made with a budget of $ 175 million, which grossed only $ 88 million worldwide.

It seems that, after three Transformers movies, director Michael Bay is being told that the fourth one will have to be made on the very tight budget of $ 30 million less than the last one.

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.

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.

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.

Aside from budget issues, nothing's stopping them from making a zombie movie with a surprise dance number among the corpses, or a superhero film where the villain's master plan is to turn everyone into squirrels or something.

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 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?

And despite the movie being made on a lower budget (they even make jokes to that effect) but it was hilarious and the animation was still very good.

«The Towering Inferno» laid the foundation for good disaster movies to come, both in being huge budget and cast wise, and with great special effects that accompany a story that makes you glad you're not one of the people you're watching on the screen.

The movie - which was made on a tiny budget with a non-professional cast and no crew to speak of - finds the critical discourse in poetry and vice versa.

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).

Though he made a pair of low - budget film noirs, Kubrick made his first professional studio movie with The Killing, a tautly - paced heist thriller centered on Johnny Clay, a veteran criminal (Sterling Hayden) planning one last heist before settling down to marriage.

But what continues to surprise and impress me (beyond the exciting action, the fantastic costumes, and the impressive special effects) is that unlike other big budget blockbusters and fantasy series, The Hunger Games movies, so far, always manage to make me cry.

The DVD reveals that, although made on a $ 3.5 million budget, Defendor has been given a nice superhero movie look and score.

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.

M. Night Shyamalan returned in a big way earlier this year with his movie SPLIT, which earned some of the best reviews of his career, and made $ 278 million worldwide (off a $ 9 million budget).

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.

«Hollow Man» is one of the nastiest big - budget movies ever made in the Hollywood studio system, and considering that the director is Paul Verhoeven, the filmmaker behind the original «RoboCop» and «Total Recall,» «Basic Instinct» and «Showgirls,» that's saying a lot.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening June 11, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The A-Team (PG - 13 for profanity, smoking, and pervasive action violence) Screen adaptation of the pyrotechnics - driven TV series from the Eighties chronicling the exploits of a squad of former Special Service soldiers determined to clear their names after unfairly being branded war criminals.

«Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End» (2007) Box Office Take: $ 963m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 20 At the time the most expensive film ever made, budgeted at $ 300m (before its even more dire sequel, «On Stranger Tides,» smashed that dubious record), the third «Pirates» movie was the one where the franchise's over-reliance on Johnny Depp «s Jack Sparrow really started to tell.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 12, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Morning Glory (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality and drug references) Romantic comedy about an aspiring TV producer (Rachel McAdams) whose hopes to save a struggling news program depend on her controlling the show's feuding co-anchors (Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford).

By contrast, the fourth Pirates movie is being made for a slightly more modest budget.

I didn't want to make some stylised movie that was three times the budget,» he told a CG Garage panel.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 19, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (PG - 13 for intense violence, frightening images and brief sensuality) First half of the final installment of J.K. Rowling's series has Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) joining forces to wrest control of Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic back from evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) and his minions.

From the Universal classics of the 30s (Dracula, Frankenstein) to the Val Lewton B movies of the 40s (Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie) to the low - budget shockers of the 60s and 70s (Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), many of the most original and frightening horror movies have been made on the cheap.

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.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 10, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG for frightening images and action fantasy sequences) Third installment in the film franchise based on the C.S. Lewis series of fantasy novels finds Edmund (Skandar Keynes) and Lucy Pensie (Georgie Henley), along with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), returning to the magical land of Narnia to embark on a dangerous, seafaring mission taking them to the edge of the world.

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.

Others are here just because the thought of them directing a big - budget superhero movie makes me giggle uncontrollably.

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

«Blonde Ice» is a great B movie that makes the most of its limited budget.

But it does give the sense that a lot of movies were being made for $ 200 million - plus even a couple years ago, and a budget in the $ 100 million - $ 150 million range was considered normal.

With Lionsgate's big screen reboot of Saban's Power Rangers hitting cinemas this Friday, THR is reporting that the film is set to make history by being the first big - budget superhero movie to feature a LGBT protagonist in Becky G's Trini, a.k.a. the Yellow Ranger, with the character revealed to be having «girlfiend problems» in what director -LSB-...]

The pulled together a few million dollars to create a low - budget movie about dodgy state troopers (similar to Police Academy) and after making fans at the Sundance Film Festival, the movie was released more widely across the globe.

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.