Sentences with phrase «budget summer movies»

Big - budget summer movies these days tend to fall into two categories.

While the details are familiar from Sam Raimi's 2002 film, they play out in a more relaxed manner: The Amazing Spider - Man is every inch a blockbuster, but it doesn't have the urgency of most big - budget summer movies.

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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.

In my opinion, this was the movie of the summer, and a bright spot in a summer of high - budget, low quality action movies.

The big - budget, summer tentpole release of the Fantastic Four continues our look at the Marvel movie lineup.

Director Marc Webb's only other feature film was the wonderful «(500) Days of Summer,» which had approximately 1 / 30th the budget of this movie.

After the summer movie season was kicked off in style a few weeks back with The Avengers, cheap it's difficult to accept a big - budget movie like Battleship that often settles for being ordinary.

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.

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.

However, when you look at «Me and Earl» as a movie and not a demonstration of low budget, arthouse filmmaking, it comes off as an all - too cliche and cookie - cutter summer dramedy.

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.»

Here's how the grosses and budgets of summer's biggest movies compare

Among the most obscure DC Comics adaptations in movie history is Steel, a Shaquille O'Neal vehicle that came and went very quietly in the summer of 1997, grossing only about a tenth of its relatively modest budget.

When Universal's attempts to re-launch their monster movie franchise unravelled with serious Mummy issues this summer, grossing just $ 409 million off a $ 125 million budget, that wonderfully staged photograph of Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, and Sofia Boutella appeared to be a serious case of running before you could even shuffle.

Stephen Sommers» live - action big budget G.I. Joe movie gets a late Summer 2009 date: August 7th 2009.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 3, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Adventureland (R for profanity, sexuality and drug use) Retro romantic comedy, set in Pittsburgh in 1987, revolving around the plight of a grad school - bound virgin (Jesse Eisenberg) forced by his family's financial woes to take a minimum - wage job at an amusement park the summer before he's supposed to start at Columbia.

Released across from the flashy usual big budget summer fare, the little 2009 comedy with no established movie stars won over both critics

I'm looking for entertainment, pure and simple: For the reported $ 130 million budget, I want to mainline summer - movie bliss.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 10, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Daddy Day Camp (PG for bodily function humor and mild epithets) Eddie Murphy, Steve Zahn and the rest of the of the original cast has been replaced for this sequel to Daddy Day Care about the comedy - of - errors which ensue when a couple of fathers (Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Paul Rae) find themselves over their heads trying to maintain order at a summer camp run a muck.

Those with doubts about the viability of the movie Entourage had them confirmed when the film drew unfavorable reviews and made little impact at the box office, where it opened as counterprogramming in June against summer's typically big - budgeted fare.

It is safe to say that Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie comes to the rescue to remind us that big - budget, explosive superhero sludge is not the only option at the movie theaters during the suMovie comes to the rescue to remind us that big - budget, explosive superhero sludge is not the only option at the movie theaters during the sumovie theaters during the summer.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Special Effects Overshadow Cast in Bay's Bigger - Budgeted Sequel This summer blockbuster has hit written all over it, given that Michael Bay freely admits that he makes movies aimed at teenaged boys.

TheWrap's Summer Movie Preview 2017: Big bets, big budgets and potentially big payoffs in store as these movies hit the hottest months of the year

is based on a rather unsavory series of trading cards released by Topps in the 1950s, and it takes its cues from the same sources as this summer's Independence Day — old alien invasion flicks, disaster movies, and big - budget special effects extravaganzas.

Few actors get to star in a monster commercial smash that is also a zeitgeist hit, but that was Joshua Leonard's experience with The Blair Witch Project, which turned a meager $ 60,000 production budget into almost $ 250 million in worldwide theatrical receipts, and owned the summer of 1999 (and beyond, in the form of countless spoofs, homages and far less inspired rip - offs) like no other indie movie of its time.

And some, like The Adventures of Pluto Nash, are quietly slipped out the back door of the summer movie season — late August — a total write - off of 22 years of development and $ 100 million in budget.

Something of a small miracle, «The Way Way Back» is such a refreshing, smartly enjoyable reprieve from the summer movie season's barrage of superhero fare and big - budget blockbusters that you feel blue when it must come to an end.

SKIP THIS MOVIE IF: you believe summer movies should be filled with special effects and big budget actions and superheroes and mutants and aliens.

December 18, 2013 • Seventeen big - budget movies premiered this past summer, and almost all of them cost more than $ 100 million to make and about that much to promote.

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.

If I were to pick the single most impressive box - office story of the summer, it wouldn't be Iron Man 3 hitting a figure that is, however large, not that big a deal for a movie with its kind of budget, especially one serving as de facto sequel to a film that destroyed very nearly every record that exists.

A new Tarzan movie is not the worst idea for a big budget summer tentpole, but The Legend of Tarzan proves to be mediocre and forgettable most of the time.

The failure of big budget movies like Baywatch was one of the summer's big talking points last year, but it seemed as if Johnson was refusing to acknowledge that his movie simply wasn't very good.

This movie was refreshingly good relative to the high budget thrillers normally seen in the summer.

After the critical and financial triumph of Wonder Woman this summer ($ 821 million worldwide on a $ 150 million budget), it seemed like the DC Comics movies had finally turned their fortunes around.

With so many big - budget action movies flopping at the box office this past summer, it's crazy to think that a quaint genre film like «A History of Violence» would handle its action sequences with the most panache.

The other one, White House Down, starred Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, opened at the height of the summer movie season, was rated PG - 13, was the work of director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, 2012) and writer James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider - Man), had more than twice the budget, and the backing of media giant Sony's primary Columbia Pictures division.

When some of this year's other summer movies are too predictable to be fun or too serious to be satisfying, this one is a welcome reminder that there's a lot of fun to be had in a silly big - budget film that embraces its patriotic identity (it is the 4th of July, after all) and a comfortable flair for the outrageous.

There's no doubt an early - summer animated movie will see decent numbers but will it be good enough to overcome a $ 200 million plus budget or will the green pigs win?

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening February 20, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Fired Up (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality, partying, partial nudity and pervasive crude humor) Teen comedy about a couple of high school's football stars (Eric Christian Olsen and Nicholas D'Agosto) who hatch a plan to spend the summer at a camp filled with gorgeous girls by quitting the team to try out for the cheerleading squad instead.

But this is a new age for Kia, and the 2016 Kia Sorento isn't a straight - to - DVD movie, it is a big - budget summer action flick.