Sentences with phrase «high concept»

Currently Looking For: He publishes crime fiction ranging from mysteries to psychological suspense and high concept thrillers.

There is clearly a space for high concept family comedies featuring talking animals and some humans looking like they'd rather be anywhere else doing anything else.

«Game Night» comes off as an appealing enough high concept premise.

They are more about high concepts than actually interesting stories.

High concept story lines are based on an intriguing premise or hook.

When wearing prints an outfit can go quickly cross from high concept to entire too much very quickly which I why I like to incorporate prints and colors in small doses.

I guess this is why studios always try to make high concept, star - driven vehicles.

A tremendously entertaining high concept horror film, it does lend itself well further installments.

Patients in a drug trial, trapped inside their minds when something goes wrong — that is a VERY high concept.

Successfully lead 4 separate projects from green light to completion, and created high concept ideas that obtained contracts with publishers and generated revenue for the company.

Most horror films these days seem addicted to their own high concepts.

It's my experience with traditional publishing of late that they aren't looking to nurture authors, but to instead nurture high concept properties.

There would be high concept stripping sequences, sure, but also emotion as well.

However, the film's intriguing high concept made these proceedings feel fresh and evolved in impact.

There's been a lot of talk lately about fast - track systems, separating classes based on ability, and promoting earlier and earlier start times for higher concept learning.

For fiction, he seeks high concept suspense, literary fiction (young adult, adult), and graphic novels (any age).

Unless you are known in the industry for coming up with million - dollar high concepts, it's not likely you'll experience idea theft.

High concept formulas don't get any better than that, do they?

He publishes crime fiction, ranging from traditional mysteries to psychological suspense and high concept thrillers.

A movie in which soldiers fight ghosts is kind of a cool, high concept premise.

Ditching the twisting high concepts of works like «Unknown» (amnesia!)

Though he swings between genres with the greatest of ease his films maintain consistently high quality along with high concepts.

Harrison Abbott chats with Gremlin star Katie Burgess... Star of the upcoming high concept sci - fi, The Jurassic Games, Katie Burgess is a promising new talent in the world of genre film - making, one who is definitely worth keeping an eye on.

I always liked high concept movies.

«My Boyfriend's Back» (citywide), an awful teen horror comedy, hits a new low in high concepts: a 17 - year - old (Andrew Lowery) wants to take the girl (Traci Lind) of his dreams to the big prom so badly that not even death will stop him.

Mandate Pictures have signed a two - year first - look deal with David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Danny McBride to produce high concept comedies with their brand of humor under a new label — Rough House Pictures.

In various stages of development for nearly a decade that saw folks like directors John Morris and Sean Anders and actors Will Arnett and Steve Buscemi go through the revolving door, the film is about as high concept as they come.

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.

As is so often the case with notable screenwriters, Garland has further taken his destiny into his own hands, taking over the director's chair for the first time with Ex Machina, another in a line of high concept science fiction.

But unlike many books, whose high concepts seem only tangentially related to their content, this structure plays beautifully into Gyasi's themes.

Today it was announced that Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight, Olympus Has Fallen) is set to star in a new high concept action film titled Live!.

The Good Place is so high concept that it almost shouldn't work as a comedy — there's a reason most successful sitcoms set themselves in bars, homes, offices, etc. — but it milks every bit of mileage out of the «perfect afterlife community» location.

It's the kind of wacky high concept at root of countless «Key & Peele» sketches, but Peele had a larger vision.

«Up until around the age of 12, kids usually have a pretty high concept of their ability.

Do you find it helps you creatively to be able to move between high concept artistic projects like Moonbounce and commercial game soundtracks like your upcoming Gravity Crash?

Plastic Logic and Pocketbook have been working together on a new high concept product that will see production begin in October.

Opena's illustration is every bit the cinema lovers dream, marrying high concept space battles and decloaking armadas with some grim character moments, such a confrontation in the Inhuman court.

My memoir (and many memoirs) are not exactly high concept, yet we have to conceive of them that way for others» benefit.

seems to have been given a fairly funny high concept — in order to pay for their daughter's college tuition, a couple teams up with a neighbor to run an illegal casino out of his suburban home — and told to run with it, sans any sort of script at all.

Thanks to a message in my logbook, I found out how to play the markets (simple buy low and sell high concept), but everything else I met with uncertainty and still don't feel comfortable on the subjects; most of which involve exploration.

It's based off of a videogame franchise that is known primarily for it's depictions of over the top violence and silly, digitized people, and as such the theatrical adaptation doesn't try to go too high concept.

Some of this weak reception can be blamed on the fact that the game doesn't have an easily marketable high concept; it's abstract and simple and only interesting when you play it or see it played.

Across the neighborhood, Norte Maar, Bushwick's original arts nonprofit and the apartment gallery of Jason Andrew, offered up an exhibition that showed how high concept can interact with the low - tech limitations of the neighborhood.

, action star Liam Neeson and director Jaume Collet - Serra have crafted their most satisfying work to date by sticking to a tried - and - true crime movie template, and allowing a talented cast and tight production values to be the only high concept they need.

As high concepts go, it's a pretty good one: What if a band of vampires was enterprising enough to head north to Alaska — where some towns experience the titular month - long blackout — to live it up in luxurious dark?

26 tracks, all of which have mirror versions; 46 crazy quick anti-grav ships; eight player online races; nine modes that span vanilla fare like time trials and tournaments, to more high concept contests, such as rounds of Detonator where you clear courses of neon mines with your craft's laser weapons.

As Louise Burke of the Australian Institute of Sport wrote in a paper on the train - low - compete - high concept back in 2007:

Andrew Niccol brings another of his Philip K Dick - style futurist high concepts to the movie screen, and it doesn't entirely come off.

Audiard has provided French cinema with a shot to the main vein that should be a call - to - arms to a new generation of French filmmakers to do it their way, concentrating on character and avoiding the pitfalls of Hollywood high concept.