Sentences with phrase «high budget movies»

After all, the Netflix 100 has a lot of room for high budget movies.

Having a high budget movie that does decent but doesn't improve on its budget will impact their perceived success more than having a moderate budget that makes a profit.

Not exact matches

With major studios pumping more and more money into superhero movies and tentpole franchises with sky - high budgets, any relatively low - cost opportunity to attract a millennial audience is worth exploring.

While Hope is known for making independent movies rather than big - budget Hollywood blockbusters, Amazon Studios has succeeded in the world of television in part by aligning itself with high - profile directors like Allen and Steven Soderbergh of «Ocean's Eleven» fame.

Baker (Starlet, Greg The Bunny) traffics in the big and broad, but his aesthetic here is totally ratty; at times, the movie's imagery, frenetic movement, and distorted wide - angle close - ups bring to mind Crank: High Voltage and Inland Empire crossed with a low - budget music video.

The game's story is like an impossible high budget b - movie.

Tracing the history of adult films, from «Deep Throat» and «Devil in Miss Jones» to the high - definition, big budget movies of today, this documentary chronicles the most important, critically acclaimed and sexiest movies in history.

Much of the attention for the movie has centered on its preposterously low shooting budget and camera, an iPhone 5s with a $ 7.99 high - def app, a Steadicam rig, and the odd anamorphic lens.

Although Deadpool 2 repeats the first movie's jokes about the character being a scrappy castoff not good enough for Marvel's higher - profile franchises — at one point, Wade opens the wrong door in Charles Xavier's manor and finds the better - known characters staring back at him in confused irritation — this one has the budget and the clout to allow him to associate with a higher class of co-star.

In my opinion, this was the movie of the summer, and a bright spot in a summer of high - budget, low quality action movies.

Leaping and bounding through the high points of Alexander's life as his army cuts a wide swath through the known word, it has an epic's budget and a B - movie's spirit.

Will movie producers shy away from projects that aim for epic grandeur and high budgets, because Watchmen suggests that that kind of thing scares people away?

«Paranormal Activity 3» (Oct. 21) will try to replicate the success of the second movie, a low - budget ghostly thriller that was even better than the first; Rowan Atkinson returns for more spy - themed high jinks in «Johnny English Reborn» (Oct. 28.

Stephen Frears» directorial debut Gumshoe, a cockeyed detective film starring Albert Finney as a small - time bingo caller who plays at being a private detective for fun and ends up in the middle of a real mystery, and Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five, a low budget, high concept film he produced independently, also arrive under the «Martini Movies» imprint.

It's a mix of action and comedy, plus b - movie exploitation with a much higher budget.

That Sony's disc was serviceable entails that even the minor improvement made here results in The Muppet Movie looking rather strong for a movie approaching 30 that was not shot on the highest of budgets or film stMovie looking rather strong for a movie approaching 30 that was not shot on the highest of budgets or film stmovie approaching 30 that was not shot on the highest of budgets or film stocks.

Producer Jason Blum is the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, which is a multi-media production company that has pioneered the model of making high - quality, low - budget films, and now does everything from movies and TV shows to books and live events.

In fact, the only real story in story mode is in the prerendered movies between chapters, and while they're bordering on well made (the modeling and art style are high quality, but apparently the motion - capture budget was used only for the game itself, as the animation is done by hand and sometimes isn't that good), they are mostly just a series of scenes that show the next boss character preparing to try to destroy the heroes.

Deadpool has broken the record for the highest grossing R - rated movie ever, with a domestic take of $ 361.9 million and a worldwide tally of $ 761.7 million, from a $ 58 million budget.

In particular, it looks like the Metal Gear Solid movie is still being produced by Sony Pictures, meaning that it remains a high budget effort with all the things you would expect from a top film releasing to the cinemas nowadays.

It earned a robust $ 65 million in North America, more than five times the movie's modest production budget and enough to make it the Walt Disney Company's highest - performing non-Disney-branded release of 2006.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 4, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS One Missed Call (PG - 13 for mature themes, frightening images, terror, intense violence and some sexual material) Shannyn Sossamon stars in this remake of Chakushin Ari, a high attrition - rate horror flick from Japan about a traumatized young woman who's afraid to answer her cell phone after several of her ill - fated friends receive messages accurately predicting exactly when and how they are about to die.

Clearly, with that budget, cast, and back story to build off, the expectations for this movie are sky high.

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.

Sounding Off Eilis Mernagh argues that low - budget, high - concept is the way to go to make successful movies in a recession

Fruitvale was a small, low - budget independent film, but it garnered enough attention for Coogler and enough confidence in his abilities that he landed a much higher - profile movie for his next project.

Although «Unsane» might require an unusual taste for both high and lowbrow cinema, and its approach may strike celluloid purists as anathema (fear not, Chris Nolan, there's still a place for actual film in the hearts of most movie lovers), Soderbergh's 27th film strikes as an immediate cult hit — the kind whose small budget will ensure success ad infinitum.

The only area in which the film succeeds is in its gore quotient, which is fairly high - though the obvious low budget of the movie couldn't possibly be more obvious (that disembodied head looks like it was slapped together with foam and some silly putty).

A superstar - making movie for Bruce Willis (Hudson Hawk, Pulp Fiction), and a hell of an action flick on its own terms, Die Hard set a standard for high - concept, high - octane action blockbusters that few could touch on the silver screen — even its higher budgeted sequels.

This is the type of movie Hollywood doesn't make anymore: a star - driven, high - concept and midish - sized budget ($ 55 million) vehicle that doesn't placate to the lowest common denominator among audiences.

Oscar upshot: If the Academy wanted a ratings - grabber of a showdown, they got one what with the press bent on pitting Cameron's visually stunning Goliath of a blockbuster, «Avatar,» considered the highest - grossing movie of all time with nearly $ 3 billion worldwide, against former spouse Bigelow's modestly budgeted but more narrative - forward «The Hurt Locker.»

You've got to go into a movie like this expecting low - budget, high cheesiness.

We all know how the story went: from a humble budget of $ 58 million, Deadpool The Movie made nearly fourteen times of that and was crowned the highest grossing R - rated movie ever made, as well as earned complete adoration from fans and surprisingly positive reviews from criMovie made nearly fourteen times of that and was crowned the highest grossing R - rated movie ever made, as well as earned complete adoration from fans and surprisingly positive reviews from crimovie ever made, as well as earned complete adoration from fans and surprisingly positive reviews from critics.

This movie was refreshingly good relative to the high budget thrillers normally seen in the summer.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 19, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS 30 Days of Night (R for profanity and graphic horror violence) Josh Hartnett and Melissa George head an ensemble cast in this high attrition - rate horror flick about a sheriff who, with the help of his estranged wife, confronts a horde of bloodthirsty vampires that descend on a tiny Alaskan town during the pitch black month when the sun slips beneath the horizon.

The cast for live - action movie with a budget higher than $ 100 million includes Oprah Winfrey as Mrs. Which, Reese Witherspoon as Mrs. Whatsit, Mindy Kaling as Mrs.. Who, Chris Pine as Mr. Murry, Gugu Mbatha - Raw as Mrs. Murry, Zach Galifianakis as The Happy Medium, Michael Peña as Red, André Holland as Principal Jenkins, Levi Miller as Calvin, Deric McCabe as Charles Wallace, and introducing Storm Reid as the preteen heroine Meg Murry.

So often with films, and more specifically high - budget movies coming from major studios with millions of dollars on the line, there is a single choice or a couple of decisions that push a film from being thoroughly successful to not quite.

Liman seemed like a very good choice, but he also seems to have expensive tastes, and the movie would have very likely had a high production budget.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening February 20, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Fired Up (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality, partying, partial nudity and pervasive crude humor) Teen comedy about a couple of high school's football stars (Eric Christian Olsen and Nicholas D'Agosto) who hatch a plan to spend the summer at a camp filled with gorgeous girls by quitting the team to try out for the cheerleading squad instead.

The team shot the scale model at the U.K.'s Sheperton Studios, where other high - budget Hollywood movies like Harry Potter and James Bond have been filmed.

«We may not be a total entertainment destination... yet, but we're hoping to expand our selection beyond the high - dollar, hot - selling games to include options for all budgets, like value - priced video games as well as DVD movies,» he said in an offical statement.

Large budget, high grossing movies / games that make a lot of profit and that can offset the potential losses from a more original risky movie / game.

Sadly, despite the game having a couple of terrific set - pieces that are exciting and play out like a high - budget action movie, the game is a mess.

There is a wonderful high - budget movie feel to this newest version of Twisted Metal, and it seems like this game truly is what David envisioned back in»95 (after all, the man did want to become a movie director originally, before he turned to video games).

The Expendables 3 is a good example of a high - budget movie with dialog that sounds like it was recorded in a small cardboard box.