Sentences with phrase «budgeted blockbuster films»

All in all, Snowpiercer is definitive proof that there is a growing market for moderately - budgeted blockbuster films - that is, if you approach things from a global market perspective.

Not exact matches

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.

Because MGM spent $ 1.9 million on the film, a blockbuster budget then, Robby became the iconic face of a burgeoning field.

Big - budget action flicks, family - friendly films and much - anticipated sequels are among the blockbusters that have had fans flocking to the theaters every summer.

He's so much more engaging when directing these smaller films (Oscar - winning Tsotsi) than the big budget Hollywood blockbusters (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ender's Game).

By contrast, every single «chills over kills» horror film on the list is generally regarded as either an outright blockbuster (Paranormal Activity 1 and 2), a hit relative to its budget and marketing visibility (Insidious, The Last Exorcism) or a minor success (Devil, which grossed over three times its $ 10 million budget domestically).

Maybe, maybe this large budget film can shake him up a little, but so many directors are just not cut out for blockbuster film making.

Their are stigmas attached, especially the idea of a low budget Independent sci - fi action film, that they are right to be concerned about public perception when they are trying to push it as a summer blockbuster.

As technology improves, films on minimal budgets and tight schedules like this one begin to more closely approximate their also - failed blockbuster brethren.

The Screen Rant editorial team shares their top 5 favorite movies of 2017 - from innovative indie films to big - budget blockbusters.

Marty Wolf (Paul Giamatti) is an evil Hollywood producer who steals the vaguely autobiographical writing assignment of pathological liar Jason (Frankie Muniz) and turns it into a big - budget blockbuster that shares its name with this film's title.

However, the latter situation is looking to be challenged by Zhang Yimou's The Great Wall: a historical China fantasy blockbuster filmed in the English language with a Hollywood blockbuster budget and an international superstar cast led by Matt Damon.

Though much of the action remains confined to the inner sanctum of Franco's home, the biblical implications of the film dictate that they must eventually be taken out of their comfort zone, and thanks to their reasonably sized budget, they have enough to clout to develop some eye - popping special effects, and although it intends to satirise the current trend for apoca - blockbusters, it does its level best to match them in terms of scale.

I understand what filmmakers are saying in regards to the «middle» disappearing, where you have huge blockbuster superhero films and then movies that are extremely low - budget.

Despite its blockbuster ticket sales in excess of $ 100 million dollars, the film received flak for a bloated budget that constituted financial failure.

The reputation of the former next great hope of Hollywood fizzled out after a string of poorly received films and ill - conceived forays into effect - driven blockbuster fantasy, but now the low - budget thriller Split has proven to be his critical and commercial comeback.

This week we conclude our pick of the 50 best films of the 2010s thus far, and looking down the list I notice we haven't included too many blockbusters or big budget hits.

Happy to be there: For being as narrow as three nominees, the foreign film «A Man Called Ove» pulled off what «The Hundred Year - Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared» did last year as a random film to crash the big budget field of fantasy blockbusters.

Enter Gareth Edwards, whose 2010 film Monster was a low budget entry into the genre that appears to have gotten him enough good will for the folks at Legendary Pictures to put him behind the helm of a $ 160 million blockbuster relaunch of the big green guy himself.

The Wrap's Reviews Editor Alonso Duralde joined forces with reviewer Inkoo Kang to reveal their favorite films of the year — from big budget blockbusters to film festival gems that you may have missed.

Thanks to a background in visual effects, Ball uses a reasonably modest budget (as far as dystopian sci - fi blockbusters go) to create a film that feels quite large in scope and exciting as far as the chases, gunplay, and fights.

by Andrew Craig — on May 20, 2018 in Lists With Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel Studios took another ambitious step forward and brought the term blockbuster back to big budget films...

While big - budget blockbusters continue to disappoint, these smaller, more intimate films are more than making up for it.

Jurassic Park hit theaters way back in 1993 at just the right time - Michael Crichton's novel, which had become an instant bestseller three years earlier, was perfect for film and big - budget blockbusters hadn't yet become over-saturated in CGI...

There are any number of possible explanations for this trend, most probable simply being the increasing split between blockbuster «entertainment» films that dominate the technical categories while low - budget (in) dependent films, driven by strong acting, directing and writing, dominate the more prestigious awards, making a 7 Oscar win relatively rare (in order to reach that number, a film has to do well in either the effects or design categories, areas which favor big - budget spectacle).

The fact that such a message is being conveyed by a no - budget Hungarian independent film rather than by more widely accessible fare is an indictment on the state of the popular cinema — but hopefully there are enough moviegoers willing to pass up the occasional blockbuster in favor of something less frivolous, that the moral of 1945 won't fall on deaf ears and empty seats.

Written and directed by the godfather of «mumblecore» cinema - a genre known for nonprofessional actors and naturalistic dialogue - Andrew Bujalski's latest film is practically a Hollywood blockbuster compared with his no - budget early films.

British actress EMILY BLUNT has defended her decision to swap independent movies for big budget blockbusters - insisting she doesn't need to «atone» for her career choices.After a supporting role in hit fashion film The...

For a film with a $ 200 million budget and with talent in all departments it's a real shame that it turned out to be the movie that it is, although with 5 separate Spider - Man films now done and dusted, one must wonder if there is anything that could make this blockbuster staple truly jaw dropping again.

Below we have collected the 20 films that most impressed us, from big budget blockbusters to surprising indies.

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.

As the smaller films vie for recognition at Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards, big - budget blockbusters dominated the weekend's box office charts.

This high - budget (supposedly $ 135 million) summer - blockbuster escapist film is dull formulaic fare that has a questionable history premise, a star who does not light up the screen with charisma (Matthew McConaughey), a foreign - born female lead (Penélope Cruz) as eye candy who struggles with the English language to a point where it's an unwelcome distraction, and a tiresome and silly plot line to fill in the gaps while the adventurers are involved in their all too familiar set action pieces.

He's at the cusp of stardom, essentially, with leading - man good looks and an ineffable quality of fearless integrity that allows him to back away from the big - budget blockbusters in which he has found himself of late to take a small role in a small film, just because it's important to him.

I understand this isn't a big budget blockbuster but scenes like the airplane scene and the river scene really took me out of the film.

It seems to me that we spend so much of our mental bandwidth focusing on the obvious hits, the looming presence of upcoming blockbusters that permeate our cinematic consciousness, that we often find ourselves turning a blind eye to the underdog, the films with budgets and name recognition that can't quite compete with their titanic competitors.

It's no wonder that straight after Match Point, Johansson starred in her first big - budget action film, The Island, from the blockbuster director Michael Bay.

The Wrap «s Reviews Editor Alonso Duralde joined forces with reviewers Inkoo Kang and James Rocchi to reveal their favorite films of the year — from big budget blockbusters to film festival gems that you may have missed.

«Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)» is one of the most thrilling films I've ever seen — which is pretty amazing, since it's not a big - budget, action - packed, superhero blockbuster.

Part of what made the first Deadpool's blockbuster success so amazing was that the film's budget was surprisingly lean, leading to creative choices being born from the restriction of, well, not having as much cash to throw around.

In the same way, big publishers need big blockbusters to pay the bills whereas indies can have more freedom to make smaller budget films that make smaller amounts of income — which may still be significant at the individual level.

Already famous as the backdrop to several famous big - budget international blockbusters including Lord of the Rings, Queenstown is currently the location for new film, Tracker.

There will always be big - budget games, just as in the movie world there are smaller, independent films and the blockbuster releases.

Previous to that film gaining Uthaug the attention of the folks in Hollywood, he had made other short films such as DX13036 and The Martian Administration, with this being Roar Uthaug's first big budget blockbuster for mainstream audiences.

That's a summer blockbuster right there, or at least a low - budget horror film.