Sentences with phrase «doing big budget films»

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In the end, Imperial Dreams doesn't break any new ground when it comes to filmmaking, but the story it's telling is just as powerful as any big budget film being released nowadays, if not more.

Now I like the first Hoodwinked movie very much, and for a low budget CG film its very funny and keeps you entertained, so when I heard they were going to make a bigger budgeted 3 - D sequel I was interested, but the better CG doesn't add to how poorly this film was made, the CG may be better, but the lip synching is terrible and the voice acting isn't that good.

This film does not have a big budget and this film could almost still work without any other characters but the two lead so the film feels very independent.

This film does not have a big budget and this film could almost still work without any other characters but the

It is unfortunate that the film's marketing budget and small distribution are its biggest flaws, because the film will make you laugh, cry, and smile more than most films that actually did get nominated.

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.

It's a shame that the movie won't do well, but gosh it's wonderful to see a big budget film with the courage of its convictions.

It wouldn't surprise me if that was true, because «The Legend of Tarzan» — a would - be event film that happens to be pretty uneventful — has the air of a big budget movie whose studio didn't realize its mistake until it was too late.

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

That has to do with the fact there's not a big budget to promote this film.

While none of the films beyond Craven's ever really stand out of the usual grind of horror sequels, it did give a number of up and coming directors a chance to flex their creative muscles: Chuck Russell (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors), Renny Harlin (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master) and Stephen Hopkins (A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child) all leapt from this series directly into big budget action cinema.

This year, people are likely to do the same for Black Panther, the first superhero of color to carry a big budgeted film.

Enter the The Green Hornet, a big - budget superhero film that doesn't obsess about reverence to its roots, nor in making a movie that feels it has to respect the requirements of hero drama, or the moodiness that overwhelms some franchises (Spider - Man 3 overdosed on it).

He directed the funniest film in the Marvel franchise, Iron Man 3, and the criminally underrated crime comedy The Nice Guys, so a big - budget R - rated sci - fi horror like The Predator doesn't scream «next career step», but here we are.

As an astounding Shakespearean director and actor, he is also proven to make bigger budget films work for him and tell interesting narratives for characters we didn't think we'd care about i.e. Thor and his live - action remake of Cinderella for Disney.

The film, meant to be a big action - oriented take on the Arthurian legend, was taken off the studio's production schedule after budget concerns arose and attached actors Kit Harington and Joel Kinnaman were freed to do other projects.

It's also a testament to Sheridan's writing that there's no romantic subplot squeezed in, bringing a dynamic you don't normally see in bigger budget films.

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.

Paul Thomas Anderson for teaching me that it's ALL about the script and if you have the right actors directors don't have to do anything on set but be a fan, Lumet for his films and his book, a young directors» must read, Coppola for his courage in filmmaking, Steven Soderberg for refusing to ever be put in a box and pushing the form as far as he can, Kathryn Bigelow for giving masterclasses in action, James Cameron for Terminator 2 and prove big budget cinema can still be perfect cinema, Sean Penn for bringing his acting chops to directing, David Mamet for his scripts and his dialogue, Nolan for having more heart than most people seem to give him credit for (Memento, Rises, Inception and Interstellar all made me cry.)

Whatever the outcome of this ideological clash, it does at least point out a startling dearth of sexual diversity in big budget studio films.

Production budget doesn't seem to be readily available for Blair Witch (though I haven't looked that hard), but Death Note is DEFINITELY a bigger budget film.

A big - budget, high - quality animated film this early in the year is rare, and while this third chapter of Po the Panda, Master Shifu and the Furious Five doesn't quite live - up to the original, it's fast, furry - ous, and a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy.

By Pete Hammond hollywoodnews.com: What does it say about the current state of Hollywood that movies with gargantuan budgets, big stars and endless hype are, as of the turn of the new year, being rated anywhere from disappointing to disasters, while smaller films from directors not exactly known -LSB-...]

Big - budget, studio - produced franchise films don't get any better than this.

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).

Big budget sci - fi comedies fail more often than they succeed, and this film didn't exactly scream «quality» in its trailers, so I went in not expecting much.

He doesn't always make big - budget studio films, but his work should be seen and recognized.

I'm into all types of movies — I'm trying to make a horror film (next), and there's some indie movies that'd cost about $ 5 to make that I'd like to do — but this was a chance for someone to write a check for a big - budget comedy, and to be able to do something as balls - out as this one... y ’ know, I'm gonna take advantage of that!»

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 17, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS How Do You Know?

Director DJ Caruso reveals he only had a year to do pre-production, filming, and editing on the young adult alien movie, which is the shortest turnaround he has ever seen for a relatively big budget movie.

Some big - budget projects that seemed guaranteed to find audiences didn't, while independent films that «weren't particularly strong on the page» turned out «beautifully» (but didn't always find audiences).

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...

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.

Overall, it's just the type of well - done sound mix that you'd expect from a new big - budget studio film, but not as active as you might expect or hope for.

On the one hand, he is trying to make his version of the kind of low - budget exploitation film that he might have found himself doing in the early days of his career had «sex, lies and videotape» not hit as big as it did.

And though the film does not exactly scream big budget, the special effects are at times remarkably convincing, at least in comparison to the last installment.

(No Fab Four here though; British films don't have that big a budget.)

It's his biggest film in scope and budget, and seemed from a distance as if it could turn out to be his most conventional — at least if it fell into the structural traps that so many biopics do.

The cinematography and editing is stunning, and Insidious is a perfect example of why horror films don't need big budgets (this was reported to be $ 1.5 million).

I felt like I was expecting a bigger figure (Captain America: Civil War is still in theaters and recently passed $ 400 million), but I didn't take the film's budget into account.

Never is the irritable insurance pitchman more chafed than when his prehistoric brethren are stereotyped as mere musclebound cretins with brainpans the size of M&M s. And although the characters in the big - budget, special - effects - laden prehistoric epic «10,000 B.C.» don't exactly fall into that whole «Captain Caveman» mold — they stand upright, they speak English, they wear stylish dreadlocks — movie - goers, Neanderthal or not, likely will find the film's primitive plotting every bit as insulting.

I would even claim they are harder to do than a big budget franchise film.

When you set out to work on something with a big price tag on it in terms of production cost, I'm aware that it needs to do certain things that lower - budgeted films don't do.

Only when the script and visuals stray too far from the source does the film lose its way, getting bogged down in the mechanics of big - budget action filmmaking and ponderous dialogue as it works toward a way - too - tidy, sentimental finale.

For only his second full - length feature, he's chosen to do a big budget Hollywood film.

Blade isn't just some marginal, pre-boom scrap from the 20th - century superhero film heap, though it does seem that popular culture has discarded black - produced superhero flicks in favor of the big - budget, contemporary releases.

True, the same could go for most of Hollywood's bigger - budget»70s and early»80s efforts («Star Wars», «Raiders», «Aliens»...), but none of those films feels remotely British whereas, in a strange way, «2001» does.

I would never sign with another publisher unless they offered either a huge advance or something I wouldn't have access to as an indie, such as a promotional budget or shelf space in big bookstores, translation deal or a film deal, etc (I know film isn't handled via the publisher, but that's the kind of thing I mean — something I can't do on my own).

This one is combining big action with big horror, which is really the first time we've done that because the first movie was relatively a low budget film.

To watch a sleek, big - budget film railing on the sleek, big - budget P.R. tricks of others can strike you as off - putting, until you remember that climate science doesn't really have that kind of power on its side.