Sentences with phrase «budget studio tentpole»

Directed by Ryan Coogler, Black Panther is the first big - budget studio tentpole to feature virtually an all - black cast.

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.

Still, it's a fine send - off for a series that redefined the look and feel and ambition of the super-hero genre, the summer blockbuster and the big - budget studio tentpole all in one go.

Not exact matches

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.

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.»

He had been cast late last year as King Arthur in the big - budget «Arthur & Lancelot» at the studio, opposite Joel Kinnaman, but the studio got nervous about a $ 130 million tentpole led by cable TV actors, and pulled the plug.

It's the latest in a trend that's become increasingly prevalent over the last decade or so, as studios have become more and more willing to give over their tentpoles to relatively untested directors from the indie world with only one or two low - budget features behind them.

Budgetary Leap: «The Escapist» cost a mere $ 2 million, while in contrast, «Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes» was said by the studio to cost $ 93 million — low by tentpole standards, but thought at the time to be the biggest - ever jump in budget for a second - time director (though Marc Webb took the crown soon after, and Gareth Edwards will likely break the record again with «Godzilla»).

Nonetheless, as budgets soar and studios rely more heavily on tentpoles that can at best meet tall expectations, a surely profitable series such as this is a valuable commodity.