Sentences with phrase «modestly budgeted studio»

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.

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.

Although it's refreshing to see a major studio take a gamble on a modestly budgeted film targeted towards adults, «Focus» is so passively mediocre that you can understand why other studios have been afraid to pull the trigger.

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.

Since leaving the studio fold a decade ago, Miller and his screenwriter / producer wife, Jody Savin, have turned out a string of modestly budgeted indies with name casts and solid production values but no real personality, the best of which, 2008's «Bottle Shock,» was another (heavily fictionalized) slice of «70s nostalgia about Napa Valley's emergence as a world - class wine producer.