Sentences with phrase «on big studio films»

I've worked on big studio films, I've done four of Brett Ratner's movies.

On big studio films, it's more laid - back, «but the food is much better.»

Not exact matches

Fox is one of just two of the «Big Six» film studios that can actually boast of improving on last summer's receipts.

As it turns out, «'' Amy»» entrepreneur Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) has sold the film rights for his «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» comic book — which is loosely based on Jay and Silent Bob — to Miramax, and the studio greenlit a big - budget production.Before it even begins, though, the pending «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» film provides more than enough fodder for a new wave of hate - mongers who prowl the Internet, namely pimple - faced geeks who slam anything they can type about on a series of movie gossip websites.

If Harrison Ford had listened to the advice of studio heads early in his career, he would have remained a carpenter and never gone on to star in some of Hollywood's biggest films and become one of the industry's most bankable stars.

Just on a technical level, the film represents such a big jump forward for Saulnier that you should expect the studios to immediately start arguing over which giant soulless franchise should occupy his time in the near - future.

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

On some of those fronts, the film wildly misfires, but for a wide studio release headlined by one of Hollywood's biggest stars, Red Sparrow is an admirably bold effort.

The studio chose to release the film slowly on a regional basis — but when the box - offices began to bulge, Warners gave the film a major big - city push.

Seldom making a liveable income in films, Miller remained an unknown entity so far as the «big» studios were concerned — but his teenaged fans were legion, and he was besieged on the streets and in public places for autographs.

Almost big enough now to qualify as a major studio, Lionsgate shouldn't be confused with some of the art house distributors on this list; its films clearly target a wide audience.

It was a time of big budget, Oscar nominated studio films like Misery and early genre work from filmmakers who would go on to become the best in the business, like Fincher's Seven, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, Tarantino and Rodriguez's From Dusk Til Dawn, and Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder.

Producers, writers and actors from the film «The Big Sick» in the L.A. Times photo studio at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Friday.

Scoring noticeably fewer films than before, he has concentrated on big - budget studio material at the expense of everything else, seeming to leave behind the smaller movies with which he attracted much of the praise afforded him over the years.

3D is already being heavily pushed on every director making a bigger budget film and studios are creating small production companies to make Paranormal Activity - like films.

Sundance remains perhaps the hippest film festival on the planet, and the best place to score a distribution deal with one of the big studios.

Lister - Jones, who is currently seen on CBS» «Life in Pieces,» said that this film marked a return to her indie roots after getting a peak into the big - budget Hollywood studio system.

At points the film feels like a workshop, to try out techniques Ford was unable to use on his bigger studio pictures, which gives The Long Voyage Home its patchwork quality.

It's unfortunate that the way films are being sold and marketed reinforces divisions based not so much on taste, class and culture, as on whatever notions of taste, class and culture the big studios happen to have.

The 2016 Deadpool film broke data and changed into an astounding essential and industrial luck, particularly for an R - rated film, which is why many studios are actually satisfied R - rated comedian e book films can paintings on a big scale.

Back when it sounded like Suspiria was dead in the water, Green noted that the reason was mostly because the budget was just too big for a film that a studio was essentially going to be taking a risk on.

Based on the 12th novel in James Patterson's long - running series, the studio is clearly hoping that «Alex Cross» can reboot the film franchise that stalled out after 2001's «Along Came a Spider,» but surely there was a better option to play Cross than a man whose biggest claim to fame is dressing up like a fat black woman.

The film, meant to be a big action - oriented take on the Arthurian legend, was taken off the studio's production schedule after budget concerns arose and attached actors Kit Harington and Joel Kinnaman were freed to do other projects.

Director Sarah Gavron is an untested entity for many, considering this is her big studio debut since her 2007 film, Brick Lane (which she worked with Morgan on).

With The Thing, it was the first major studio film he and Carpenter worked on which was «so full of interesting new things» for the duo in terms of the types of boundaries they were pushing with the film on top of having the backing and budget of a big studio.

The studio has been trying to court some of the biggest names in Hollywood for their films as proven with them courting Mel Gibson for Suicide Squad and having Ridley Scott (The Martian, Alien Covenant) along with Fede Alverez (Don't Breathe) in the wings to hopefully sign on for The Batman.

Most recently Akkad confirmed studio troubles had resulted in the new film's delays, so maybe this pending «divorce» from Dimension could be what is needed in order to get Michael Myers back on the big screen.

«Son Of Rambow» (2007) Arguably the best film on this section of the list, «Son Of Rambow,» the impossibly charming coming - of - age tale that marked the second film from music video veteran Garth Jennings, who made his debut with studio picture «The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy,» was the big buy at Sundance 2007, selling to Paramount Vantage for $ 7.5 million.

Apparently the studio is satisfied enough with Trank's first film, but they want to put things on another level, making the Fantastic Four just as big as their X-Men franchise.

While Hawke's other filmmaking endeavors (Chelsea Walls, The Hottest Scene) has been similarly produced outside of the big studios and with muted commercial prospects, he has retained star power on the opposite side of the camera with performances in big wide release films, from Training Day to Daybreakers to The Purge.

What is making the headlines today is ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, you are all aware of the sexual accusation around Kevin Spacey, Ridley Scott decided to reshoot all the scenes of Spacey with another actor, Christopher Plummer who was the first choice of the director but the studio executives wanted a bigger name, Plummer should shoot his scenes in the comming weeks, it looks like they want to keep the december release date, and Michelle and Mark Whalberg are expected to do some reshoots, i don't think michelle began working on Venom yet, it's crazy but i think Ridley is right to cut out Spacey of his film.

Though March wasn't always known as a month where you could score big at the box office, Zack Snyder's «300» changed all that, and since then, the studios have been more open to releasing some of their higher profile films in an attempt to cash in on the pre-summer excitement.

In 2013, he traveled to the former plantation where «12 Years a Slave» was filmed with director Steve McQueen, and more recently charted how the story of Columbine came to a stage in New York and watched Angelina Jolie take on her first big studio directing job, the «Unbroken» story of Olympian and USC alumnus Louis Zamperini.

It may not have enjoyed quite the box office success that a wide Christmas Day release could have brought, but Sony's controversial comedy The Interview has become the studio's biggest VOD release of all time following its arrival on YouTube, Google Play and Microsoft Xbox on Tuesday evening, with the film pulling in over $ 15 -LSB-...]

The biggest fight in Warner Bros.» «Suicide Squad» didn't take place on a film set — it was waged in the editing room at the studio between director David Ayer and the executives behind his $ 175 million super villain gamble, insiders told TheWrap.

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).

The success of this film over the other more recent depressing efforts of the big animation studios could be that it's based on a syndicated comic strip, though I doubt the original had quite the family - oriented focus about it.

Shot almost entirely on location in Minnesota and North Dakota, on a budget of $ 6.5 million, 2 Fargo presents quite a contrast to the Coens» previous film, The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), a lavish, relatively big - budget spectacle shot entirely in studio.

With all parties involved moving on, and with Warner Bros. eager to continue the Batman saga with a likely sunnier reboot within the next few years, «The Dark Knight Rises» is a pivotal film for those intrigued by the successes and fallacies of big studio sequential filmmaking.

Of the big studio tentpoles, «Rise of the Planet of the Apes» was easily the best, showing Rupert Wyatt to be a rare talent, and Andy Serkis an even rarer one, even if the film flatlines whenever an ape isn't on screen.

On This Week's Show: Kevin and Neil brace themselves for an onslaught of films, from the big studio releases to some independent ones.

The first news about the supernatural science fiction thriller film Spectral started to come out over three years ago, and big studios including Legendary Pictures and Universal Pictures were involved, yet it is only now that the film is seeing a release — and on Netflix, at that.

Steadily paced and bursting at the seams with humor (shout - out to Groot's «finding Yondu's fin» montage), the film works on nearly every conceivable level, from special effects sizzle reel to big studio comedy to the aforementioned family drama that Marvel hasn't yet pulled off with its Avengers films.

Sean Baker, the award - winning director and co-writer of the great new movie, «The Florida Project,» joins Justin in studio to discuss the film, what drew him to tell this story, the juxtaposition of the hidden homeless living right outside of the most magical place on Earth, the importance of getting the details exactly right, how the movie was inspired by «The Little Rascals,» wanting to show how children make the most out of any situation no matter how dire, how desperation plays a big role in the film, the wonderful performance from Willem Dafoe, the relationship between Willem and the child actors, the challenge of working with child actors, the way Florida is portrayed in the film and what he plans to do next.

Ever since Samuel L. Jackson first popped up at the end of Iron Man (2008) ten years ago and revealed to Tony Stark that he was a part of a bigger universe, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has sat on top of the film landscape that every movie studio envies.

The trailer for Amazon's new Woody Allen film had me scratching my head: This is meant to be the studio's big Best Actress hope, yet the teaser curiously deemphasized Winslet, spending more of its capital on her co-stars Justin Timberlake and Juno Temple.

In addition to being the last, The Switch also gets to be the first, the first Miramax film distributed on home video by Lionsgate, the bigger of the two studios assigned to handle the indie - heavy 800 - title Miramax library in the US.

Ex Machina became that rare indie to take the Visual Effects Oscar over much bigger studio blockbusters, and it is nice to report that the ingenuity that went into that film hasn't been sacrificed now that he is working on a bigger scale with an Oscar - winning star on board in Natalie Portman.

It's a film that, in Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige's own words, will «bring almost every single hero» that the studio has introduced on the big screen for the time.

The man keeping a close eye on the studio's latest productions is Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin), an executive who also acts as a «fixer» for big name stars working on the newest slate of films.