Sentences with phrase «budgeted film shoots»

Planned, organized, and budgeted film shoots utilizing Movie Magic Budgeting and Scheduling.

Not exact matches

The brothers» next B film, Siege, was written in a week, shot in two weeks, and made on an even skimpier budget.

It's a path that includes the relatively low overhead of shooting a film entirely via a mobile device and an app (the studio said Sickhouse «s budget was similar to that of a typical indie film) while potentially tapping into various social networking platforms» massive built - in audiences of users.

What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.

«Band Aid» also manages to be a great - looking film for what was no doubt a fairly small budget; cinematographer Hillary Spera («After Tiller») shoots Los Angeles in an intuitive way that's neither overly glossy nor distractingly stylized.

In addition to rumors of a bloated budget and unrest on the set between director Mark Forster and star Brad Pitt, the film's original release date was pushed back six months to accommodate major rewrites and additional shooting.

Outside of his Nightmare appearances, Englund's most significant credits were his one - shot directorial stint on the theatrical feature 976 - EVIL (1988); his characterization of the title role in a medium - budget film adaptation of Phantom of the Opera (1989); and his hosting chores on the Craven - produced TV anthology Nightmare Café (1992).

For example, try shooting a big budget, black and white film.

Bob Odenkirk will play Forte's older brother, and Stacy Keach will also star in a film that Payne initially planned to shoot in black and white on a $ 13 million budget.

The earlier film was shot in England on a very low budget, and such hints as Eleanor's obviously foreign car (mischievously, in the new movie Nell drives a Gremlin) and a briefly glimpsed «To Let» billboard suggest much of the location filming was done on the fly.

The experimental nature of the film also proves a charm, the ten minute shots make interesting viewing and a high budget cyclorama backdrop that includes the empire state building makes the film look much more modern than anything else from the 1940's.

A mean, leering, deeply misogynistic film, Killer Joe earns every bit of its US NC - 17 rating, even as it belies its low budget origins — I was shocked to see that Caleb Deschanel shot this, given that stylistically it resembles a telemovie.

During the shoot of John Cassavetes» momentous 1970 film Husbands, BBC documentarians visited the low - budget production to chronicle not only the pioneering director's filmmaking process but also his collaboration as an actor with co-stars Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara.

Named for its orange color palette, the film was shot on an iPhone 5S with a tiny budget, becoming a surprise box office hit this summer.

Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box - office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.

It's a tribute to stars Benson and Moorhead, who combined to direct, write, edit and shoot the film, that their micro-budget project comes off more haunting than many big - studio productions with 100 times (at least) the budget.

The Blu - ray is less presentable than those holding most new films, but the technical shortcomings seem inherent to this super low budget shoot.

But even yesterday it looked like a long shot, and despite Carrey's apparent love of Matthew Vaughn's film, The Hollywood Reporter is saying that their sources think the chances of Carrey taking the role of Colonel Stars (a mobster - turned - fundamentalist - Christian - turned - superhero - recruiter) are slim — presumably the smaller budget of the sequel to the underperfoming original can't quite afford him.

Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master GEORGE A. ROMERO, is one of the great stories of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box - office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.

«Boyhood,» director Richard Linklater's experimental coming - of - age film that was shot over 12 years on a shoestring budget, followed with three nominations for its ensemble cast and for Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.

director Mike Mendez — that, while it has a charming sense of humor about itself, leans too heavily on CGI blood; The Girl With All The Gifts (B), a well - shot British zombie film that attempts to inject new life into a tired genre, and almost succeeds thanks to young star Sennia Nanua; and the disappointing Phantasm: Ravager (C --RRB-, a low - budget labor of love which, while it plays like a Phantasm fan film, ultimately undercuts the emotional closure it attempts to bring to the franchise by failing to resolve the central conflict between good and evil.

A new version of the project comes together, this time with a comeback - minded Nicolas Cage as Lake and Schrader himself directing on a $ 5 million budget (of which $ 1 million is Cage's salary) and a location shoot in Romania (where much of the film is set) and Australia (doubling for Kenya).

The film just wrapped after a tumultuous production that included a temporary delay to bring the budget down, only for it to soar again once shooting got underway.

Ticking off the film's budget ($ 53 million, which climbed to $ 60 million) and shooting schedule (100 days) with a morose disbelief that has persisted a decade, Anderson believes that «there were too many things about that movie that weren't fun for me that I thought ought to be.»

A highly stylized slasher film embellished with numerous creative touches and shot on a miniscule budget, Stage Fright served as an effective calling card and won much acclaim despite only moderate success in his home country.

I enjoyed Krantz's effort to inform his audience about locations (the film was shot in Spokane, Washington) and production challenges, chatting up the trials of his low budget and the complexity of the script.

I appreciate that the film had a tiny budget of $ 15 million, but that simply means they should have been more choosy when it came to visual effects shots.

Given the extreme low budget (the film was shot on a shoestring in Budapest), the special effects look pretty credible, with Petty wisely deciding to spend most of the time with the creatures in the background or swathed in shadow, understanding that Sentinel is a picture of ideas — an unusually faithful recreation of Hitchcock's film possessed of a similar, mordant sense of humour, if an understandable surfeit of corresponding depth.

, About a Boy) makes his debut as a director, shooting his modest film in 16 days on a shoestring $ 300,000 budget.

Clearly a modestly - budgeted production (on which Alberta, Canada stands in for Montana and Manhattan), 12 Men of Christmas was shot on digital video lacking the resolution of film.

Among other things, the filmmaker spoke about where he came up with the inspiration for «Citadel,» how having a limited budget and short shooting schedule place restrictions on what he could shoot for the film and how he reacted when he heard he won the Midnighter Audience Award at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival.

But things feel malformed from the off, which begins with a lot of people saying a lot of portentous things, and continues to the assassination itself, which is more than underwhelming, in part because of what seems to be a pretty tight budget — Landesman watches Giamatti as he films the shooting, but there doesn't seem to be anyone else in Dealey Plaza except him.

A combination of low budget, crappy CGI and uninspired shot composition means that this film is not in the least bit flashy to look at.

That Sony's disc was serviceable entails that even the minor improvement made here results in The Muppet Movie looking rather strong for a movie approaching 30 that was not shot on the highest of budgets or film stocks.

Using a ubiquitous and unforgettable musical theme to tie together a series of wordless scenes and montages, the film betrays its independence and low - budget, but the shoot - outs are nonetheless as spectacular as any metastasized Hollywood product.

A film crew moves to an abandoned psychiatric hospital with a shadowy past to shoot a low budget horror film.

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.

«As long as our PA Governor and Legislators pass the state budget and include the film tax credit, we will shoot the movie in the Greater Philadelphia area.

Shot on a minimal budget (in the six - million dollar range) with a cast of largely non-professional actors (Kenneth Branagh the main exception), the picture is a tremendous hit among the self - congratulatory film festival / arthouse crowd, who, after all, like to feel as though they're applauding the right things.

by Walter Chaw Billed as being filmed in a single shot (though the skeptical — and those taken in by the «unedited» long takes of Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men — should wonder why an editor is credited), Gustavo Hernández's zero - budget conceptual experiment The Silent House (La casa mudi) has found a way not only to suggest a gimmick successfully carried through, but also to weave that gimmick into a richer thematic tapestry.

Although this was essentially a low budget independent film, John Carpenter chose to shoot the movie in anamorphic widescreen Panavision.

The film was shot from October 1941 to January 1942, it went fourteen days behind schedule and more than $ 200,000 over budget.

This was a film much easier to shoot than Miller's Crossing, and the budget ran about a third less, just like the shooting schedule: eight weeks instead of twelve.

The aforementioned low budget allows him to be more experimental with his shots and filming style, making for an entertaining viewing experience.

The film also suffered from extensive reshoots, due to which the budget reportedly shot up to 350 million dollars, making it one of the most expensive films of all time.

Naturally, Gerwig would have preferred to film all of Lady Bird in Sacramento — just like she and Levy, also the cinematographer for this movie, talked about doing back in the day — but proved her budget savvy by shooting, for instance, the interior of the McPherson home in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley.

Night of the Living Dead (1968) Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, «Night of the Living Dead,» directed by horror master George A. Romero, is one of the great stories of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box - office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time.

She remembers Gortner as the high - energy den leader of the cast, on a shoot that ran far too long, and discloses that co-star Ida Lupino — herself a budget filmmaker of some renown — grew so fed up with the schedule that she wrote a death scene for her character, browbeat Gordon into filming it that very day, and went home.

CANNES, France — In a stunning surprise, Gus Van Sant's «Elephant,» a low - budget independent film inspired by the Columbine shootings, won both the Palme d'Or and the best director award here Sunday at the 56th Cannes Film Festival.

With a modest budget and a short shooting schedule, there wasn't time for the 30 - year - old Evans to hit any local bars or restaurants or do much of anything other than the film.