The film was made on a modest $ 12 million budget, but yielded a gross of $ 125 million worldwide.
It's easy to spot that
the film was made on a paltry budget and a shame to see that it didn't even make $ 50,000 dollars in US theaters but what can you expect from notoriously choosy American audiences (who would rather spend their money on Lone Ranger or another junky Hobbit flick).
Compared to major studio projects like the forthcoming Aaron Sorkin adaption of Walter Isaacson's popular biography of Jobs,
this film was made on a shoestring, with an estimated budget of just $ 8.5 million.
Not perfect -
the film is made on a tight budget and sometimes it shows - but this is so much better written than every other American comedy this year (apart from Burn After Reading) that it is embarrassing.
And his agent had given Michael some of my early short
films I was making on my own.
The result is not only one of the best films he's made on a technical level — the acting, cinematography and soundtrack are all incredible — but it's also his most accomplished in terms of scale and depth.
The British actress - who plays an aspiring singer - songwriter in the romantic comedy, co-starring Mark Ruffalo and Adam Levine - admitted she was a little taken aback by how impatient New Yorkers are about
films being made on the streets of their city.
Not exact matches
Ultimately, journalists and audiences must come to some kind of agreement
on what
is acceptable in the new world of immersive and VR journalism, and determine what kinds of
film -
making behavior
are too manipulative.
Nonny de la Peña, an L.A. - based journalist and pioneer in VR
film -
making, created a 3D virtual representation of the night that Trayvon Martin
was killed, and has also
made an immersive
film focused
on the refugee crisis in Syria.
It
is now
making good
on that promise — albeit delayed — with an app that gives users the ability to buy music, TV shows, and
films, and to listen to the Apple Music streaming service.
Yet, there
was still enough interest to
make this sequel, which came in
on little fanfare and without the star of the first
film, Kristen Stewart.
The brothers» next B
film, Siege,
was written in a week, shot in two weeks, and
made on an even skimpier budget.
You have to give Trevorrow a lot of credit for taking
on «Jurassic World»: This
was a
film meant to attract a huge audience that could have easily
made a lot of people angry if done incorrectly.
He
made and uploaded his first, the 68 - minute Enfin l'Automne (Fall, Finally) to YouTube last year, largely just to see if he could do it, and he
's now
on the verge of signing a deal with a Hollywood studio to do a proper
film.
Disney and Marvel obviously know what they
're doing with superhero movies — they've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time,
making every single
film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one director can have
on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.
In the same way that a
film studio can help a person with an incredible screenplay navigate the logistics of
making a movie, a startup studio assists domain experts who might have a solid concept but aren't as strong
on the coding side.
That it
was a no - win situation because, had it released the
film and the cyber criminals
made good
on their threat, Sony would have
been sued for negligence and skewered by the media for putting profits ahead of customer safety.
When I first started looking at the quality of car mats, the ones produced overseas
were made of heavy rubber, who knows what metals
were in them, what chemicals and toxins
were in them... that white
film you see
on the inside of your windshield?
It has
made certain
films available
on services like Netflix and built HBO Go, which
is reasonably well regarded in the industry.
Sure, there
's still crime - fighting and high - tech gear, as in any superhero
film these days, but focusing
on Parker
's vulnerability, and creating a relatable coming - of - age story, seems to
be what
makes this Spider - Man special.
It
is in reaction to a
film like Independence Day, which features a mad - dog Randy Quaid blowing up an alien ship kamikaze - style, that a
film like Arrival gets
made, which features a somber Amy Adams writing messages
on a whiteboard.
From the Inside Out - «
Making Avengers: Age of Ultron»: A 20 - minute video going back 18 months showing what it
was like
on set of the
film in Italy and Seoul, Sourth Korea; a look at the Avengers Tower; some of the behind - the - scenes early visual effects of Ultron; early concept work for Quicksilver, the Hulk, and Vision; and more.
Some raw moments of history shown in the
film are so shocking or absurd they
're almost comical, but in the big - picture context afforded by the 56 - minute movie, they
make the hair of your skin stand
on - end.
A representative for Bigelow told Business Insider that the
film was made independently and relied
on a variety of source materials.
And there
is a big
film -
making community
on Twitter — a lot of people follow Arin.
And then the job
is to go out
on location and
make the
film to fit the structure.»
And that
's making the
film, rather than writing a piece of literature
on paper.»
The Force remains strong with the new Star Wars movie, which
is on track to top $ 1 billion in global ticket sales this weekend,
making it the fastest - ever
film to reach that level.
Anna Marie Duke
was born Dec. 14, 1946 in Elmhurst, N.Y. Duke got her first part as a
film extra in 1955, and
made her first television appearance as a dancer
on the «The Voice of Firestone.»
The company that he dreamed up
on an extended 2002 trip to Australia and Indonesia because he wanted to
film himself surfing, that created an entirely new product category and the world's best - selling camera, that
made him and his best friends who joined the company early
on fabulously wealthy — that company
was now a punch line, and maybe a threat to safety.
EASTWOOD: I had seen... No I hadn't, I saw it at a theater down
on Western Ave. that did foreign
films and they
were doing Yojimbo, a Kurosawa
film with Toshiro Mifune as the lead and I thought well this picture's great but nobody had the nerve enough to
make it as a Western.
The Hurt Locker's box - office juice
was also drained by its summer release — a fact that
made it harder for the
film to capitalize
on the eventual «Oscar bump.»
«There
are very few movies
made that
are based
on management consulting, so I tend to look at
films through the lens of what we do: leading our clients and solving tough problems
on their behalf.
He shot
on film — Fuji, for the record, because he liked the way it
made colours pop more — and says it
was never Photoshopped.
The latest example debuts
on Saturday, June 11, at 9 pm EST, with the premiere episode of director Ezra Edelman's O.J.:
Made in America, a five - part, 7.5 hour documentary series produced by ESPN
Films, the sports network's production company that
is behind the acclaimed series of 30 for 30 sports documentary
films.
Gibney, a prolific documentary director who most recently
made waves with his scathing
film on The Church of Scientology, «Going Clear,»
is not known for pulling punches.
As U.S. box - office receipts decline, some Chinese investors and U.S. media execs
are pairing up to
make big bets
on China's
film industry.»
Among them: assertions that Hogan filed the lawsuit to hide racist comments
made on video, that the woman who Hogan had sex with knew it
was being filmed, and that Hogan participated in an FBI investigation and sting because he
was being extorted.
Somehow, over the next few months, teams at SolarCity, Tesla, and 3M (which
makes solar
films that can
be used for solar glass tiles) managed to put together a glass - tile solar roof demo, which Musk unveiled
on October 28 at an event at Universal Studios» back lot in Los Angeles,
on an old residential set used in Desperate Housewives.
According to a notice
on the Red Leopard's Facebook page, the event «Stormy Daniels:
Make America Horny Again»
was canceled Monday, three days before the adult
film star
was to take center stage there.
In Florida, a notice
on the Red Leopard's Facebook page, said the Satellite Beach event «Stormy Daniels:
Make America Horny Again»
was canceled Monday, three days before the adult
film star
was to take center stage.
In a series of broadcasts by Britain's Channel 4, Nix
was filmed making controversial statements about his firm's work
on elections, including how Cambridge Analytica played a major role in Trump's presidential victory, including «all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting.»
In a partnership with Vevue, a P2P video distribution app running
on the QTUM platform, the
film will
be uploaded onto the blockchain,
made available for...
Lawyers from inside and outside the White House
are confronting the Mueller inquiry, while others
are focused
on payments
made to silence a pornographic
film actress who said she had sex with Mr. Trump.
On the issue of how to support Canadian content when fewer Canadians are purchasing cable TV subscriptions, the government tested four options to raise new money for Canadian content: making telecom companies divert some smartphone and Internet revenue; requiring «foreign companies like Netflix and iTunes» to devote a portion of revenues; giving consumers the option of making a voluntary $ 2 contribution on their telecom or Netflix bill; or making telecom companies add an app to every smartphone sold in Canada that would provide access to Canadian music, TV and film for between $ 5 and $ 15 a month or a flat charge of $ 3 on the sale of all smartphone
On the issue of how to support Canadian content when fewer Canadians
are purchasing cable TV subscriptions, the government tested four options to raise new money for Canadian content:
making telecom companies divert some smartphone and Internet revenue; requiring «foreign companies like Netflix and iTunes» to devote a portion of revenues; giving consumers the option of
making a voluntary $ 2 contribution
on their telecom or Netflix bill; or making telecom companies add an app to every smartphone sold in Canada that would provide access to Canadian music, TV and film for between $ 5 and $ 15 a month or a flat charge of $ 3 on the sale of all smartphone
on their telecom or Netflix bill; or
making telecom companies add an app to every smartphone sold in Canada that would provide access to Canadian music, TV and
film for between $ 5 and $ 15 a month or a flat charge of $ 3
on the sale of all smartphone
on the sale of all smartphones.
-LSB-...] Though the pornography biz has
been reshaped by the recession and the digital age, Grey has managed to
make the jump from bondage flicks
on the «Net to a Steven Soderbergh
film at the Tribeca
Film Festival.
If you read the book
on which the
film is based, you can see that the facts damn Irish clericalism well enough without the added polemics displayed in a
made - up speech by a basically fictional bitterly anti-erotic nun.
Peter Jackson isn't saying whether he
's just turning The Hobbit itself into three movies, or if he
's planning
on adapting some of the appendixes to The Lord of the Rings into a
film, but one thing
's for sure: three movies will
make a lot more money than two...
«I know I
'm biased because I
'm their friend, but I think it'll
be something that will live
on for generations because it
's done with excellence, not knocking anything else, it
's just this
is production 50 years past where some of the other
films were made,» he said.
AFFIRM said this
film has all the
makings to
be a hit, based
on a business model they have honed over the past decade with movies targeted to Christians and early screenings of this
film.