Sentences with phrase «getting films financed»

That Davies, who has had a famously difficult time getting films financed, has had two films in such quick succession — Sunset Song was only released this past May — is itself cause for celebration; that the films are at such a high level of craft and candor is a gift of the highest order.

He wasn't able to get his films financed as easily in South Korea anymore.

«We'd never get this film financed without Bobby,» he says.

Can you believe Soderbergh actually struggled to get his film financed because Hollywood execs didn't think audiences would want to watch an entire film about the drug trade?

But absolutely, in some cases where a film is driven by a woman, it is a bigger challenge to get men attached, especially when you're seeking a «name» that might get the film financed.

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He got it financed almost exclusively by people in Seattle, went without the perks of his usual TV work and even held political debates around America when the film premiered.

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.

After years of trying to get financing, Marc Forster's film adaptation of World War Z has finally begun shooting on the Mediterranean island of Malta.

In film school they usually advise students making first features to avoid period pieces at all costs because they're difficult to make and hard to get financing for.

In the sense that I couldn't afford to do a low budget independent film whose financing was constantly falling apart and therefore we would all have to defer our salaries and not get paid.

I love how these directors bitch and whine about not getting financing and how the big studios will not finance a film unless it's a «genre picture».

When challenged over casting a white Australian and a white Brit as the leads in his Biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings, director Ridley Scott responded brusquely, «I can't mount a film of this budget... and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so - and - so from such - and - such... I'm just not going to get it financed.

Elwes told Deadline that «it's really difficult right now to get financing for anything other than superhero films» and that Movie Collective offers an alternative way to finance «quality films».

August: Osage County and Philomena weren't expected to show up [here], but Fruitvale Station and Lee Daniels» The Butler seem like natural fits for the producers to acknowledge, what with one being a breakout film with real world political heft, and the other a surprise box office smash that took A LOT of producer wrangling to get financed and made.

Meanwhile Ang Lee's Life of Pi, which got financed to the tune of $ 120 million and grossed over $ 600 million worldwide, was the feature film acting debut of «Suraj so - and - so.»

Self - financed by Wiseau in 2003 for an estimated $ 6 million, «The Room» grossed $ 1,800 in its initial two - week Los Angeles run, with one early review stating, «Watching this film is like getting stabbed in the head.»

It was the solo directorial debut of Jack Hill (whose Coffy and Foxy Brown both recently hit Blu - ray from Olive), a low - budget film that was financed by real estate developers who wanted to get into the movie business and got stuck in limbo for years when the producers went bankrupt.

The basic mechanics of film financing say that if you make a film that loses a ton of money, you're not going to get a sequel.

Børglum said that the long - gestating project took several years to get off the ground because it took some time to secure the film rights, find the right director and partners, and get the financing in place.

They also talk about the hoops they have to go through in raising financing for their films, with Noé revealing how he got funding for his upcoming, explicit «Love» with just a few posters.

He also talked about what he gets out of test screenings, why he doesn't want to make sequels for any of his previous movies, the 12 - part streaming TV series that he hopes to do, and why he finds it so hard to get financing for the types of films he wants to make.

Anderson couldn't get The Master financed through the studio system that produced Barry Lyndon; he had to re-envision it as a more interior film, a historical epic predicated on close - ups.

They were very helpful in getting the picture financed and getting agencies behind it and they are very busy doing their own films but their input has been invaluable throughout the process.

«Cleopatra»: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton starred on this now vintage film, which famously went over finances and used to be a royal ache when it got here to manufacturing problems.

The film came close to production with Philip Kaufman directing and David Strathairn starring, only for financing to fall apart, but it got her a job on another factually - based space movie, «Capture The Flag,» as well as a third, Neil Armstrong biopic «First Man» at Universal.

It certainly doesn't get much stranger than the story of Tommy Wiseau, the eccentric filmmaker behind the equally bizarre cult classic The Room, a film Wiseau financed, wrote, directed, and stars in.

Meryl Streep got to her feet, and when the others did, too, all throughout the auditorium — from the stars out front to the short film nominees way in the back — McDormand said, «We all have stories to tell and projects we need financed.»

What is the problem if these companies are able to finance and distribute films that might otherwise have a hard time getting distribution?