Sentences with phrase «modestly budgeted movie»

Crafting a modestly budgeted movie about ordinary, nothing special people thrust into extraordinary circumstances and showing heroism means a big box office hit.

Critics and industry insiders alike have lamented for years the decline of modestly budgeted movies aimed at grownups, the sort of film that was once the backbone of Hollywood.

Not exact matches

Although it's refreshing to see a major studio take a gamble on a modestly budgeted film targeted towards adults (even if it stars one of the most bankable actors in the world), when that movie is as passively mediocre as «Focus,» you can understand why other studios have been afraid to pull the trigger.

Two modestly budgeted genre movies will duke it out for the top spot with «How to Train Your Dragon» a threat to slip back into second -LSB-...]

While his technical skills drive most of the movie along smoothly and smartly, in the end this modestly budgeted studio movie is all too clearly a calling card showing how willing he is to sign up to make lucrative summer comic book franchise movies.

The paltry domestic and worldwide box - office take illustrated that it was, surprisingly, possible for a modestly budgeted, eagerly anticipated movie with a seemingly built - in audience that stars Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Will Ferrell, and Penélope Cruz to lose money, if it's awful enough.

Insidious was one of the early signs that Blumhouse's strategy of turning modestly budgeted horror movies into box office hits would be viable going forward.

Every single ounce of the film's budget is splashed colorfully (but modestly) on the screen, Krasinski and Co. adding even more fuel to the raging appeal of highbrow horror movies, for both studios and audiences alike.

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.»