Sentences with phrase «budgeted films which»

Interestingly, this came out before the bigger budgeted films which this is similar to, Final Destination and Lost Souls.

Since then, she's gone on to score an independant film project as well as other big - budget films which should be coming to theaters in the near future.

Not exact matches

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

Though there have been several film versions of the Christian allegory, the latest version, which is currently in production, will likely be the biggest budget effort to date.

Unlike other independent films in which big names are ridden into the ground like a sweaty mule, shoehorned into every possible scene in the movie, «Moms» Night Out» has an ensemble cast - an amazing feat for a film with a budget just under $ 5 million, according to Andrew and John Erwin, the brothers who directed the film.

According to the SEC complaint, the $ 100 million investment from the New York pension fund came only after the Quadrangle executive arranged for a Quadrangle affiliate to distribute the DVD of a low - budget film called «Chooch,» which was produced by the brother of former New York state deputy comptroller David Loglisci.

The Prime Minister tweeted a video, apparently filmed at an SNP event on April 13, in which Salmond tells the crowd he had heard a Labour spokesman say that Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy would not be writing the party's budget.

It does not refer to the size of the production or the budget, but to the poster for the film, in which the letters BEN - HUR are formed into a mountain - sized block of stone: see bit.ly / ben - hur.

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As it turns out, «'' Amy»» entrepreneur Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) has sold the film rights for his «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» comic book — which is loosely based on Jay and Silent Bob — to Miramax, and the studio greenlit a big - budget production.Before it even begins, though, the pending «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» film provides more than enough fodder for a new wave of hate - mongers who prowl the Internet, namely pimple - faced geeks who slam anything they can type about on a series of movie gossip websites.

The only complimentary thing about the film is the description of being a low - budget sexploitation feature in which the characters are amateurs and don't even remove their bathing suits.

low - budget and claustrophobic film, most of which takes place underground with a plot that develops only slowly

Other than a budget boost which means better CGI and more muscular action set - pieces, you'd be hard pressed to spot any major differences in the craft behind the two films, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Rian Johnson's first feature was the well received, low - budget indie titled «Brick» (2005), which told a high - school story in a film noir style, narrated by Gordon - Levitt.

Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

The visuals in Annihilation are for the most part as understated as the acting, which may be as much a comment on the film's non-blockbuster budget as on Garland's desire to preserve the headspace created by VanderMeer.

Low low budget exploitation thriller which was Carpenters first proper film after the seriously low budget sci - fi «Dark Star».

The film is not without it's flaws, but with a well played role by Harry Treadaway an up and coming young Actor, low budget Independant film which has it's predictable moments but that makes the film seem natural as if a true story.

This low - budget horror film produced by Roger Corman and directed by Coppola before he went on the become a famous filmmaker has evident shades of Psycho but is not even frightening, with a lame, uneven plot in which nothing much really happens.

Her persona becomes more «thinky» and less «feely» as the film progresses, which does make her increasingly less relatable (which is probably intentional), which does echo somewhat her character in the lower budget sci - fi release Under the Skin earlier in the year, along with the ever - more - knowledgeable Samantha in Her.

Another underperformer was Martin Scorsese's Hugo, which hasn't come close to recouping its nearly $ 150 million budget, but even that failure is partially mitigated by the film's 11 Oscar nominations, which made it the most - nominated film of the year.

I've never played the Konami games on which this series is based, but they certainly must be more lovingly produced than this cheap thing (its crispy, bright, digital presentation makes the first film look like a voluptuous cradle of generous budgeting and production design).

In 1937, Rawlinson returned to serials in the title role of Blake of Scotland Yard, which, though hampered by a tiny budget and utter lack of background music, was well cast with several reliable silent film veterans.

According to IMDB the budget for Jeff Who Lives At Home is estimated at 10 million (3 million more than Cyrus), which would still make the film eligible for next years» Film Independent Spirit Awards.

The third act wraps up the story in an unexpected way, confronting the monster invading Cody's dreams in a matter - of - fact, talky way, which, in another film, would show a lack of budget, but here points to a more fulfilling aim than simply trying to scare you.

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).

With Haywire — his 23rd full length feature — he takes another stylistic left turn this being an independently financed, relatively low budget B - movie style action film of which a large portion was filmed in Dublin back in 2010.

Still, the cast — which also includes Tom Wilkinson, Ruth Wilson, William Fichtner, Barry Pepper, Helena Bonham - Carter and James Badge Dale — is strong, it looks gorgeous, it'll carry a score by Jack White, and we remain fond enough of the original «Pirates» film that we'll always be hopeful that Verbinski & co. can do the same thing for the big budget Western.

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.

Scoring noticeably fewer films than before, he has concentrated on big - budget studio material at the expense of everything else, seeming to leave behind the smaller movies with which he attracted much of the praise afforded him over the years.

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.

Roger Corman's movies would demonstrate the sheer trashy power of horror, and Hitchcock tapped into this B - picture aesthetic with his own low - budget masterpiece, Psycho, which popularised the psychological horror film, taking the genre away from its supernatural roots — although William Friedkin's masterpiece, The Exorcist, took it right back there again.

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).

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.»

The cynical yuks begin with the opening credits — the producers are called «some asshats» — and continue throughout a film that makes merry about its tiny budget, which includes messing about with «C» - grade X-Men castoffs Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand).

The first is a commercial action film with a S$ 1.2 million budget, based upon a script which he has worked on for about three years.

The result is a deeply challenging, big budget, female - driven sci - fi film, which begs a question — how did this get made?

A slender budget, though, largely reduces Zachary Adlers film to a series of yawn - worthy gab - athons in which Ronnie (Simon Cotton) and Reggie (Kevin Leslie) merely talk about the mayhem they re about to unleash.

The movie's cast and crew are in agreement that the film couldn't have been made if it weren't for Netflix, which was willing to take on the costly production budget.

We sometimes describe films like 10 Cloverfield Lane as being low - budget — but a real low - budget classic is more like the time - travel movie Primer, which was made for a shockingly tiny $ 7,000.

The filming budget for Splice, which was released into theaters on June 6, 2010, was roughly estimated at 26,000,000.

A Wrinkle In Time director Ava DuVernay is the first woman of color to direct a film with a $ 100 million - plus budget, and alongside her «little brother,» Black Panther's Ryan Coogler, she crossed another milestone this past weekend, which marked the «first time films by black directors with $ 100 million plus budgets have ever placed in the first two box office spots,» as CNN puts it.

The only aspect that lets the film down is its obvious low budget, which leaves some of the violent action moments feeling undercooked.

Edwards helmed the 2014 «Godzilla» film, which grossed $ 200 million at the domestic box office, based on a $ 160 million budget.

Upon its release in 1974 this low - budget work, the only film in Peckinpah's long career over which he was allowed final cut, tanked at the box office — and merely invoking its title has since become a kind of joke, whether in Michael Ritchie's 1985 film Fletch or BBC Radio's «I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue».

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.

DisneyToon's animation can practically be mistaken for that of the first Cars eight years ago, even though the $ 50 M production budget is just a small fraction of what is spent to make Pixar and Disney Animation Studios» films these days (which each cost upwards of $ 150 M).

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.

This is a lower budget film, but there are moments at which they seemingly threw money.