Sentences with phrase «budget space movie»

Ti West's low - budget space movie The Side Effect finds its star.

Not exact matches

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

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).

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.»

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 17, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Invasion (PG - 13 for violence, terror and disturbing images) Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig co-star in another remake of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) as the DC MDs depended upon to save the day when a space shuttle crash leads to an epidemic among humans triggered by an extraterrestrial force.

The Robinsons haven't had the enduring legacy of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, but the name Lost in Space has held onto just enough currency to inspire an unsuccessful movie adaptation in 1998 (starring past and future Oscar winners William Hurt and Gary Oldman, no less), and now to a big - budget Netflix series debuting Friday.

The first film directed by Douglas Trumbull (Brainstorm), the special effects maestro that created memorable visions in such movies as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Blade Runner, features quite a bit of interesting effects of its own, perhaps a bit dated by today's standards (the spaceships look like obvious miniatures) but given the limited budget and schedule Trumbull had to work with, still impressive.

(Like so many of the movie's Earth - set sequences, this expository scene is set in a car and looks so cheap that it comes as a surprise when, minutes later, one discovers that the production had the budget for a space station set and a cast of more than two people.)

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening September 2, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Apollo 18 (Unrated) Found - footage horror flick, set in 1974, shedding light on a government cover - up of a NASA space mission on which the crew of astronauts were attacked by parasitic life forms they discovered on the moon.

Then the great film critic J. Hoberman weighed in with the following: «A survival drama set almost entirely in the unfathomable abyss of outer space, Gravity is something now quite rare — a truly popular big - budget Hollywood movie with a rich aesthetic pay - off.