Sentences with phrase «budget studio fantasy»
As a big - budget studio fantasy, its hypocrisy is blatant: If the point is that, in an age of endlessly proliferating screens, mass media has already replaced reality with fiction (as Baudrillard suggests), slow - motion gun fights and revelatory special effects are hardly the antidote.
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Universal's troubled, long delayed, and mega budget (at least $ 200 million) samurai fantasy epic was so ambitious it stirred reports that the studio had to briefly step in to help commercials and short helmer Carl Erik Rinsch out with...
Not only are «Get Out,» «The Shape of Water» and «Blade Runner 2049» some of the very best films of 2017, but from the no - budget indie realm («Prevenge,» «A Ghost Story,» «Transfiguration,» «Raw») to expensive studio epic scale («War for the Planet of the Apes,» «Kong: Skull Island») and newly blazed ground out of the predominantly formulaic superhero («Logan,» «Wonder Woman,» «LEGO Batman») and Star Wars («The Last Jedi») factory farms, fantasy filmmakers tried their hardest to be smart, visually adroit, sometimes startlingly innovative and — strangest of all for this escapist format — humanely, emotionally credible.
She was the first black woman to win Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival (Middle of Nowhere, 2012), the first black woman to direct a film receiving an Oscar nod for Best Picture (Selma, 2014), and in 2018, the first black woman to direct a studio film budgeted over a hundred million with A Wrinkle in Time, an adaptation of Madeline L'Engle's 1963 Newbery Medal winning sci - fi fantasy novel.
It has been a self - fulfilling attitude; studios, ever fixated on what kinds of movies have succeeded in the past, never challenged the assumption with a big - budget fantasy because they were always too afraid to take the risk.