Sentences with phrase «budget studio pictures»

After spending a decade - plus making big - budget studio pictures, Jon Favreau returns to his indie roots, making his warmest, funniest, most personal picture since «Swingers.»

The nominees here are only the big budget studio pictures.

Hancock is presented in 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen, with picture as crystal clear and stunning as on any big budget studio picture.

Not exact matches

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

1080p, AVC - encoded transfer for The Disaster Artist shows off all the polish you'd expect from a modern studio picture, even one with roots in low - budget indie filmmaking (represented by the windowboxed «footage» from the fictionalized filming of The Room.)

The studio was not skimping on the budget and wanted to create a first - class picture.

A former Miami Beach lifeguard, strapping Ohio - born Bob Wilke performed stunt work in Hollywood films from 1936, often working for low - budget studios such as Republic Pictures and Monogram.

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.

Generally favoring low - budget and independently - produced pictures, but not averse to working within the studio system (he had a good relationship with Daryl Zanuck), he knocked out a string of genre classics — from «Pickup On South Street» and «Forty Guns» to «Shock Corridor» and his epic autobiographical masterpiece «The Big Red One» — that quietly influenced many of your favourite directors.

Paramount Pictures is looking to replicate the success of A Quiet Place with another low - budget horror - thriller, with the studio fast - tracking Crawl from director Alexandre Aja (Piranha 3D, Horns) and producers Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Spider - Man) and Craig Flores (Fathers and Daughters, 300: Rise of an Empire).

It would be a huge gamble for Neeson to headline a $ 100 million budget action picture (particularly if not part of the Taken franchise), but the studios have sensibly kept budgets down, whilst still allowing enough bank for the buck that Neeson can crack plenty of skulls.

Though it had the backing of a major studio (Paramount Pictures), the film had a low budget of just $ 2 million and was not destined to be a sure thing commercially.

Although there has been a slight decline in the number of small - budget pictures produced by major studios as they increasingly focus on large productions.»

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.

A few short years later, and his book is a studio picture from 20th Century Fox with a budget north of $ 100m and the director of Alien, Ridley Scott, at the helm.

The reality, however, is that this is still nothing more than a big - budget Hollywood studio disaster flick about gargantuan genetically mutated animals destroying Chicago, and trying to say the picture is more than that would just be a waste of breath.

Since this is a comfortably - budgeted, couple - courting studio picture, there is absolutely no question where the film is going.

Similarly, Sam Mendes mostly made studio pictures, even if the low - budget «Away We Go» was the film he did before «Skyfall,» and Chris Weitz shot mostly within the studio system before «The Golden Compass.»

Schrader enjoyed directing what remains (as of this writing) his last true studio picture, and Universal's budget allowed the director - classified by critics at the time as a «true American auteur» - to expand his visual language.

Deadline reports that the studio has put the movie on hold for now as Legendary Pictures dudes Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni will continue to develop the project, namely to try and whittle down the $ 120 million budget and get the script in better shape.

Focusing on how studios can start «applying normal AAA production values to small budget games» production director Ben Gunstone (pictured) runs through 11 key points, looking at areas as diverse as QA to content packs.

The beginning of the end most likely came in 1997, when the release of An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn gave the alias (played by Eric Idle) his first leading role in a motion picture, as «a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name Alan Smithee [who] realizes he's an unwitting studio puppet, being forced to make a big budget action film he knows is horrible.»

In the later corporate activities of the 1960s and 1970s resulted in Transamerica growing at an incredible rate of speed owning interests in not only life insurance and financial services, but also motion picture studio United Artists, Trans International Airlines and the Budget Rent A Car companies.