Sentences with phrase «from budget studios»

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Instead, he asked her to move to Toronto, and build a 350 - person studio from scratch to produce what the industry calls «AAA» games, ones with the highest development and promotion budgets.
Still, a management shakeup in June left Lansing the sole head of the studio with promises of a bigger budget and more creative freedom, a strong vote of confidence from Viacom chief Sumner Redstone.
The Los Angeles - based studio has a $ 5 - million annual budget from Discovery.
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...
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.
By taking advantage of our attractive prices, it will finally be possible for you to offer yourself this model of Wool Coats from STUDIO NICHOLSON without spending your whole budget.
He made his first appearance in an American film in Victor Halperin's grisly thriller Torture Ship, playing one of the criminals on whom well - intentioned (but quite mad) scientist Irving Pichel plans to perform glandular experiments, but he soon moved up to higher budgeted films from the major studios, although still almost inevitably in sinister roles.
1080p, AVC - encoded transfer for The Disaster Artist shows off all the polish you'd expect from a modern studio picture, even one with roots in low - budget indie filmmaking (represented by the windowboxed «footage» from the fictionalized filming of The Room.)
It is this ability to crossover from potential niche status - a huge risk for a film with a mammoth budget - to billion dollar behemoth should light a fire under the asses of studios to show them that stories about anyone can be successful as long as they are well made and engaging.
Some of the idiocy that is being poked at for laughs doesn't seem so strange when you look at YouTube comments and E! Many of the things that are wrong with this film stem from the fact that it is very low budgeted and didn't get much financing from its studio.
A former Miami Beach lifeguard, strapping Ohio - born Bob Wilke performed stunt work in Hollywood films from 1936, often working for low - budget studios such as Republic Pictures and Monogram.
It was a time of big budget, Oscar nominated studio films like Misery and early genre work from filmmakers who would go on to become the best in the business, like Fincher's Seven, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, Tarantino and Rodriguez's From Dusk Til Dawn, and Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladfrom filmmakers who would go on to become the best in the business, like Fincher's Seven, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, Tarantino and Rodriguez's From Dusk Til Dawn, and Adrian Lyne's Jacob's LadFrom Dusk Til Dawn, and Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder.
From major studios to independents, from big budget to small, the quality of films this year was excellent and the entertainment, artistic and substantive value hFrom major studios to independents, from big budget to small, the quality of films this year was excellent and the entertainment, artistic and substantive value hfrom big budget to small, the quality of films this year was excellent and the entertainment, artistic and substantive value high.
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Naturally, fans would be able to easily tell the difference between a film from a studio production and that of a low - budget film, but as you find out watching The Disaster Artist, Wiseau's The Room was hardly a micro-budgeted project.
Not only are «Get Out,» «The Shape of Water» and «Blade Runner 2049» some of the very best films of 2017, but from the no - budget indie realm («Prevenge,» «A Ghost Story,» «Transfiguration,» «Raw») to expensive studio epic scale («War for the Planet of the Apes,» «Kong: Skull Island») and newly blazed ground out of the predominantly formulaic superhero («Logan,» «Wonder Woman,» «LEGO Batman») and Star Wars («The Last Jedi») factory farms, fantasy filmmakers tried their hardest to be smart, visually adroit, sometimes startlingly innovative and — strangest of all for this escapist format — humanely, emotionally credible.
«LOWRIDERS» (PG - 13) This low - budget family relationship drama starring Damien Bichir and Eva Longoria comes from producer James Blum's BH Tilt studio, which is emerging a standalone distribution studio with this and «Sleight» (Apr. 28).
There's a great moment where Pellington kicks his office door after the studio shaves $ 2M from his budget, but he's such an ostentatious personality here it's difficult to muster sympathy for him as the bean counters close in.
You never know how low - budget movies from small studios will look on Blu - ray, but Punching Henry looks good.
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.
That is, until Michael Cimino's 1980 uberflop Heaven's Gate, which earned just over $ 3m from a budget of $ 44m, forced studio execs to reconsider the filmmaker's divine right.
Producer Jeremy Thomas managed to raise the $ 25 million budget for this independent production, with no help from major studios.
Devil — The studio talked up this small - budget project as «from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan,» but don't hold that against the film.
And more importantly, if someone — or rather some movie studio — purchased the media rights for said arcade game, then chances are, somewhere, sometime, it was bound to make the jump from arcade game to big - budget spectacle.
While it happens more than is ever reported in any given year, it would seem that 2011 is not letting itself slip past without truly becoming one for big movie projects being put on hold while studios try to shave some dollars from the budget.
Generally favoring low - budget and independently - produced pictures, but not averse to working within the studio system (he had a good relationship with Daryl Zanuck), he knocked out a string of genre classics — from «Pickup On South Street» and «Forty Guns» to «Shock Corridor» and his epic autobiographical masterpiece «The Big Red One» — that quietly influenced many of your favourite directors.
First of all, since Frenzy was a relatively low budget project, especially compared to the earlier critical misfire Topaz, Hitchcock was spared from any studio interference and was allowed to make a film that would be truly his own.
The studio is putting up a «significant portion» of the development funds themselves, while getting another piece of the budget from an external partner.
This work is about globally dispersed high budget film and television production, but it is not told from the perspective of the motives and strategies of the major studios.
There's a great deal more veteran Metal Gear Solid talent hanging on at Konami than Kojima legging it with the studio name suggests, but it's under new leadership now, and with Kojima out the door it's probably going to have to get used to a new kind of production schedule without an auteur to wrangle deadline and budget blow outs from management.
It worked, and Allen received a nice juicy budget from the two studios.
The 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen video isn't the sharpest or most detailed, but that's a low - budget comedy in standard definition from a small studio for you.
A well - budgeted release from a major studio like Warner Bros. has no such excuses.
The sophomore film from Damien Chazelle, whose forthcoming ode to the Hollywood studio musical La La Land is already the early - buzz frontrunner for 2017's Oscar race, Whiplash comes after 2009's jazz - infused micro budget musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, and doubles as a courageous confessional, of sorts.
Paramount Pictures is looking to replicate the success of A Quiet Place with another low - budget horror - thriller, with the studio fast - tracking Crawl from director Alexandre Aja (Piranha 3D, Horns) and producers Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Spider - Man) and Craig Flores (Fathers and Daughters, 300: Rise of an Empire).
Not everyone digs the aesthetics of this version of Beauty and the Beast, but as a relatively high - budgeted film from the most commercially successful movie studio of the past several years, it is little surprise that it looks as great as intended on Blu - ray.
Naturally, we have your back when it comes to breaking down the big - budget blockbusters and big - name studio releases that will be taking over your multiplexes from Memorial Day until Labor Day — but what if you're looking for something besides the latest pop - franchise installment or A-list star vehicle to see?
Or just look at Mark Duplass» unnerving Creep, a low - budget, low - risk endeavor where the established indie guru and young buck Patrick Brice (The Overnight) could experiment with form in the shadows, far away from studio lots.
Blumhouse Productions has reached the «Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight» phase of its evolution, slapping its name onto the kind of low - budget horror fare that made the horror studio its initial millions.
A few short years later, and his book is a studio picture from 20th Century Fox with a budget north of $ 100m and the director of Alien, Ridley Scott, at the helm.
In what's merely another recapitulation of the widely accepted notion of white superiority comes David Yates» rehash of Edgar Rice Burrough's most popular creation, The Legend of Tarzan, a big - budget studio extravaganza from the director during his break between the last four Harry Potter films and an upcoming prequel.
Either a terrible A-list movie or a great B - movie, depending on your point of view, Anaconda is by all accounts one of the schlockiest large budget releases to ever come from a major studio.
From this first round of voting, the film critics group has compiled a pair of «10 Best» lists for 2017, one for independent film defined as a budget under $ 20 million and one for studio films defined as movies with budgets over $ 20 million:
Worse yet, as movie budgets increase, marketing departments try to safeguard their investments by developing newer and more expedient ways of sorting friend from foe, the «studio shills» (as Armond White of the now - defunct City Sun in Brooklyn tarred them) from the independent - minded journalists.
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.
As a healthily budgeted new studio film from a pedigreed director, Black Mass looks terrific on Blu - ray, as it should.
Okay, so Ramsay is still a pretty reckless choice for a studio in need of a billion - dollar hit — and not only because the cumulative gross of her previous films is less than Daniel Craig's personal speedo budget from «Casino Royale» — but her elliptical style could play to the series» recent strengths.
Everything about it screams «niche,» from the budget ($ 4.5 million, which is what its studio, Universal, spent to make approximately two - and - a-half minutes of The Fate of the Furious), to the first - time director - writer, Jordan Peele, a cable - TV star whose show ended and who was looking to branch out, to the complete lack of movie stars (although now, Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams are nicely on their way), to the genre: horror cut with more than a dash of comedy and of pointed sociopolitical commentary.
While two high budget Jungle Book adaptations coming out within a year of each other from rival studios seems like a confusing prospect, it certainly makes for some interesting toing - and - froing, especially in the casting stage...
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