Sentences with phrase «budget studio movie»

«Gravity» may not have much more on its mind than «Speed,» but it's a relief to see an unconventional big - budget studio movie that doesn't hew to the same old pounding action beats, or person - to - person physical violence.

Gravity is a rarity, a big - budget studio movie that feels utterly personal.

While his technical skills drive most of the movie along smoothly and smartly, in the end this modestly budgeted studio movie is all too clearly a calling card showing how willing he is to sign up to make lucrative summer comic book franchise movies.

Though an increasing number of women are directing movies today, film directing is still a male - dominated role in the industry particularly when it comes to big - budget studio movies.

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.

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.

With major studios pumping more and more money into superhero movies and tentpole franchises with sky - high budgets, any relatively low - cost opportunity to attract a millennial audience is worth exploring.

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...

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.

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.

As it turns out, «'' Amy»» entrepreneur Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) has sold the film rights for his «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» comic book — which is loosely based on Jay and Silent Bob — to Miramax, and the studio greenlit a big - budget production.Before it even begins, though, the pending «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» film provides more than enough fodder for a new wave of hate - mongers who prowl the Internet, namely pimple - faced geeks who slam anything they can type about on a series of movie gossip websites.

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.

Although it's refreshing to see a major studio take a gamble on a modestly budgeted film targeted towards adults (even if it stars one of the most bankable actors in the world), when that movie is as passively mediocre as «Focus,» you can understand why other studios have been afraid to pull the trigger.

«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.

Crazy, I never heard of the movie until now — guess the studio didn't have much of a marketing budget for it OR they thought they had another Pacino egg.

Scoring noticeably fewer films than before, he has concentrated on big - budget studio material at the expense of everything else, seeming to leave behind the smaller movies with which he attracted much of the praise afforded him over the years.

It wouldn't surprise me if that was true, because «The Legend of Tarzan» — a would - be event film that happens to be pretty uneventful — has the air of a big budget movie whose studio didn't realize its mistake until it was too late.

After a summer slew of big - budget studio films, it can be difficult to find, sit down and watch a movie with more modest origins.

The third movie's $ 179 million gross at home fell short of studio expectations and the substantial $ 225 M budget.

The studio is currently looking for a director for the big - budgeted movie, which is just one of many theme - park adaptations on the go.

After being rejected by every studio they approached, Matthew Vaughn raised the budget at a dinner party and made the movie independently.

You never know how low - budget movies from small studios will look on Blu - ray, but Punching Henry looks good.

To do something that is as personal as this movie is — on that budget, for a studio that needs a summer tentpole — is an extraordinary privilege.»

Many movie buffs know how John Ford made a deal with low - budget «B» picture studio Republic Pictures to finance his dream project The Quiet Man in exchange for making another of his popular «Calvary» films, Rio Grande.

Beginning with «Easy Rider» (photographed by Kovács), they helped redefine the way movies looked, from grabbing shots on the fly for young directors making personal films on low budgets to using natural light to give a heightened realism to their studio productions.

Considering that the movie was budgeted at $ 120 million, it is doubtful that Hulk would turn a profit for its studio, so don't go holding your breath for any sequel soon.

And more importantly, if someone — or rather some movie studio — purchased the media rights for said arcade game, then chances are, somewhere, sometime, it was bound to make the jump from arcade game to big - budget spectacle.

While it happens more than is ever reported in any given year, it would seem that 2011 is not letting itself slip past without truly becoming one for big movie projects being put on hold while studios try to shave some dollars from the budget.

With its reasonable $ 36 million production budget, the raunchy comedy would eventually turn a profit and though that profit wouldn't be terribly significant to most of the major movie studios,

Black - led movies do travel when studios put the same massive marketing and production budgets behind those movies that they do for white - led films.

No one will mistake Heist for a big budget, big studio feature, but this little action movie looks perfectly fine on Blu - ray.

Garant and Lennon, who have made plenty of money writing major studio films like Night at the Museum, put this movie together independently on a small budget.

Every single ounce of the film's budget is splashed colorfully (but modestly) on the screen, Krasinski and Co. adding even more fuel to the raging appeal of highbrow horror movies, for both studios and audiences alike.

Blumhouse Productions, the predominantly horror movie studio which sometimes whiffs and other times knocks grand slams with its horror movies (but always does so on a budget designed to maximize profit) is the home of Happy Death Day.

Warner Archive has released DVD versions of smoldering melodramas and Charlie Chan movies issued by the low - budget studio Monogram in the»40s.

Executives at the studio behind RUSSELL CROWE's new ROBIN HOOD movie have denied rumours the big budget blockbuster is in trouble - following a name...

Not everyone digs the aesthetics of this version of Beauty and the Beast, but as a relatively high - budgeted film from the most commercially successful movie studio of the past several years, it is little surprise that it looks as great as intended on Blu - ray.

Baker protégé Rob Bottin's work on that film was arguably equal to that of his mentor (who left Bottin in charge of The Howling «s effects after he exited the project for the bigger - budget American Werewolf), and yet the Academy couldn't even be bothered to nominate him (or, perhaps more likely, its members simply couldn't bring themselves to watch a low - budget horror movie not put out by a major studio).

Either a terrible A-list movie or a great B - movie, depending on your point of view, Anaconda is by all accounts one of the schlockiest large budget releases to ever come from a major studio.

The Ryan Coogler - directed movie — unprecedented in being a big - budget studio tentpole featuring a virtually all - black cast — secured the fifth - biggest domestic opening of all time after blasting past all expectations.

From this first round of voting, the film critics group has compiled a pair of «10 Best» lists for 2017, one for independent film defined as a budget under $ 20 million and one for studio films defined as movies with budgets over $ 20 million:

Worse yet, as movie budgets increase, marketing departments try to safeguard their investments by developing newer and more expedient ways of sorting friend from foe, the «studio shills» (as Armond White of the now - defunct City Sun in Brooklyn tarred them) from the independent - minded journalists.

You can visit any number of other sites to get the same regurgitated Top 50 Most Anticipated Movies of 2018, each of them running through the big budget films in a different order, all titles you no doubt will be actively aware of precisely when the studio giants backing them want you to.

Long after the form fell out of vogue — and in an era when many big - budget studio films pack the screen with saturated candy colors and in - your - face 3 - D effects — indie filmmakers and even the occasional studio - movie veteran are turning to the monochromatic.

Everything about it screams «niche,» from the budget ($ 4.5 million, which is what its studio, Universal, spent to make approximately two - and - a-half minutes of The Fate of the Furious), to the first - time director - writer, Jordan Peele, a cable - TV star whose show ended and who was looking to branch out, to the complete lack of movie stars (although now, Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams are nicely on their way), to the genre: horror cut with more than a dash of comedy and of pointed sociopolitical commentary.

Avengers — Infinity War is a movie of $ 1.5 billion and its an incredible budget for marvel cinematic studios.

Marvel's latest big budget adventure «Doctor Strange» goes back to the movie studio's roots.

Still, the studio (Fox) still haven't moved it, and Liman is in final talks to join the big - budget movie about the famous card - throwing mutant.

Like all of these big - budget, big name movies it plays by established laws carved out of a need for action, explosions, A-listers looking buff and references to other assets within the studio's ever - expanding Universe.

This summer, movie studios were up to their necks in big - budget blockbusters, including Disney's The Lone Ranger, which ended up a huge bomb.