Sentences with phrase «low budget studio»

This is a film released through Blumhouse Productions, the low budget studio known for Insidious and Paranormal Activity, which might put off some people.

Not exact matches

After producing mostly budget horror flicks, the studio released a low - rent version of War of the Worlds to coincide with Steven Spielberg's 2005 big studio adaptation.

It's a path that includes the relatively low overhead of shooting a film entirely via a mobile device and an app (the studio said Sickhouse «s budget was similar to that of a typical indie film) while potentially tapping into various social networking platforms» massive built - in audiences of users.

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.

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.)

Truth: Blumhouse Productions is the boutique horror studio whose high - volume, low - budget business model has fostered a culture of creative risk that actually pays off, and has given rise to films as vital as Whiplash and Get Out.

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.

Though he made a pair of low - budget film noirs, Kubrick made his first professional studio movie with The Killing, a tautly - paced heist thriller centered on Johnny Clay, a veteran criminal (Sterling Hayden) planning one last heist before settling down to marriage.

The final of the films is the real low point of the series but its hard to blame the film makers, the budget was at a all time low here and the studio wanted a more lite family film here.

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.

Suffering greatly due to penny - pinching studio 20th Century Fox's low budget, Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) is most notable for a cameo by director John Huston as an ape named «The Lawgiver,» who appears in a wraparound segment.

If the recent crop of low - budget, intimate war films featuring a handful of actors in limited locations tells us anything, it's that studios are desperate to ensure that they get a better return on investment than a full - blown, star - studded action spectacle.

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.

With Get Out, Split and The Purge behind it, low - budget horror studio Blumhouse can do no wrong at the moment.

The million - dollar film does not exist anymore; one - and - a-half to two million dollars is now the standard low - budget film in the studio system.

Get Out was released by Jason Blum's Blumhouse productions, a studio that can easily be described as the modern - day saviour of the low - budget, major - release film, even if they most recently subjected us to the latest M. Night Shyamalan misfire, Split.

A handful of earlier films had examined (for some, exploited) juvenile delinquency but these productions, such as Youth Runs Wild (Mark Robson, 1944) and I Accuse My Parents (Sam Newfield, 1945), had been low budget efforts of smaller studios.

«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).

On the other hand, a # 1.60 m UK debut for a relatively low - budget genre film, essentially populated by three actors, none of them marquee names, and largely set in a basement — most studios would like the economics of that proposition.

In The Very Witching Time of Night, Mank wrote that Junior wanted to produce «A» films that could compete with major studios, figuring that Universal's staple fare of low - budget Bs would pay for the As.

You never know how low - budget movies from small studios will look on Blu - ray, but Punching Henry looks good.

Many movie buffs know how John Ford made a deal with low - budget «B» picture studio Republic Pictures to finance his dream project The Quiet Man in exchange for making another of his popular «Calvary» films, Rio Grande.

Additionally, distributor Warner Bros. shuffled the release date until later in the year to better coincide with an Oscar campaign, a sign that the studio feels the film (which co-stars Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde and Chris Pratt) is a serious awards contender and not just some low - budget doodle.

As the major studios have increasingly focused on predictable mass entertainment formulas, quality and imagination have migrated to what could be called Sundance films: Lower budget, innovative projects fueled by the love of their makers, and sometimes by the determination of actors trying to break out of assembly - line fodder.

Matthew McConaughey may have become a star as a leading man in major - studio films like «A Time to Kill» and «The Wedding Planner,» but in the last few years the laid - back Texan has reinvented and revived his career with a string of sparkling performances in low - budget indies: Richard Linklater «s «Bernie,» Steven Soderbergh's «Magic Mike,» William Friedkin «s «Killer Joe,» Jeff Nichols» «Mud» and now Jean - Marc Vallee's «Dallas Buyers Club,» which has made McConaughey a strong favorite to land a Best Actor nomination.

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.

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.

Blumhouse has become one of the most profitable film studios out there, regularly releasing low - budget horror films that dominate the box office.

The film's low - budget, small - studio roots are evident in a transfer that's marked by regular grain and slight softness.

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 Quiet Place's No. 1, $ 50 million opening weekend is impressive for a low - budget original horror concept of the type generally shunted off to a studio subsidiary or subsumed into a known franchise.

Last summer, when Disney crunched the numbers and figured out that on a $ 250 million budget, The Lone Ranger would have to earn $ 800 million to turn a profit, the studio demanded the producers lower the cost.

Overall, Valiant is for the most part charming enough, while never approaching cinematic excellence that the ambitious design (the country's first CGI film, a World War II setting, and a low budget) might have suggested and other studios (like Pixar) might have achieved with the same elements in place.

Richard Fleischer directs this Oscar - nominated story; the low - budget gem was a big money maker for the studio (RKO).

Warner Archive has released DVD versions of smoldering melodramas and Charlie Chan movies issued by the low - budget studio Monogram in the»40s.

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).

Though it had the backing of a major studio (Paramount Pictures), the film had a low budget of just $ 2 million and was not destined to be a sure thing commercially.

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.

Baker protégé Rob Bottin's work on that film was arguably equal to that of his mentor (who left Bottin in charge of The Howling «s effects after he exited the project for the bigger - budget American Werewolf), and yet the Academy couldn't even be bothered to nominate him (or, perhaps more likely, its members simply couldn't bring themselves to watch a low - budget horror movie not put out by a major studio).

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.

Mangold (like X-Men Origins: Wolverine's director, Gavin Hood) was at the mercy of the studio's script decisions, though a lower (or rearranged) budget could have resulted in a better ninja fight and a more comic accurate Silver Samurai.

Bana performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of low - budget and major studio films, ranging from romantic comedies and drama to science fiction and action thrillers.

The film's financial loss was profound; in career terms it scaled the writer - director right back down to where he was before, directing lower - budget studio actioners and comedies for the rest of the»80s.

It's the latest in a trend that's become increasingly prevalent over the last decade or so, as studios have become more and more willing to give over their tentpoles to relatively untested directors from the indie world with only one or two low - budget features behind them.

Budgetary Leap: «The Escapist» cost a mere $ 2 million, while in contrast, «Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes» was said by the studio to cost $ 93 million — low by tentpole standards, but thought at the time to be the biggest - ever jump in budget for a second - time director (though Marc Webb took the crown soon after, and Gareth Edwards will likely break the record again with «Godzilla»).

For the original films, the studio balked at the idea of having three then - unestablished stars in the lead roles, so Phillips took a pay cut and negotiated a percentage of the film's gross in lieu of a salary, in addition to a lower budget of $ 35 million.

Similarly, Sam Mendes mostly made studio pictures, even if the low - budget «Away We Go» was the film he did before «Skyfall,» and Chris Weitz shot mostly within the studio system before «The Golden Compass.»

Trank made a stir with «Chronicle,» his low - budget superhero deconstruction, and matching indie talent with big studio fare, as «The Dark Knight» trilogy did with Christopher Nolan, historically reaps dividends.

Since hitting it big at the box office and among critics with the low budget found footage film Chronicle, the young, up and coming Josh Trank immediately hit the top of the most - desired list among studios.