Sentences with phrase «on big studio movies»

What are the advantages / disadvantages of working on a big studio movie compared to a small, intimate movie, like «Across the River»?

Not exact matches

Napster co-founder Sean Parker's proposal to sell first - run movies to home viewers at $ 50 a pop has stirred up various corners of Hollywood, with big movie studios and theater chains up in arms over the Screening Room idea while multiple major filmmakers have landed on opposing sides of the argument.

Look at Hollywood: Movie studios have made a fortune selling us miraculous stories that we watch on the big screen with... maybe not belief but hope in our eyes.

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.

The studio behind «The Expendables» and «Saw» wanted «Beyond Deceit», tyro director Shintaro Shimosawa's movie about a young lawyer (Josh Duhamel of «Safe Haven») who who takes on a big case against a ruthless executive of a pharmaceutical company (Hopkins), only to find himself drawn into a murder case in which he is the prime suspect.

Sure, you don't want the studios to cut corners to the point where movies start looking cheap and silly — a big reason why superheroes and aliens have been making such a huge impact on movie screens in recent years is that we can finally make them look cool instead of tacky.

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.

As a pretty big fan of the original Neighbors, even I can admit that Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising is one of the more unnecessary sequels to come out in recent years, which is saying a lot given how quick studios have been to hit the greenlight on continuations of any movie that makes them a couple bucks lately, no matter how unwarranted they actually are.

Winstead has had a bit of an odd trajectory in her career, going from thin supporting parts in big dumb studio movies to a huge indie breakout with her magnificent performance in Smashed a few years ago that she unfortunately didn't really capitalize on afterwards, but here she gets the best of both worlds by developing a kickass character we can root for in a thrilling genre piece that also has some depth to her.

«What Hugh said to you is the attitude we all have — myself, Lauren Shuler Donner, the studio, [director] James Mangold, Hutch Parker — all of us, feel like this is six or seven or eight (depending on how you count) movies in the making, and there are few characters in the history of cinema who have cast as big a shadow as Wolverine, so to tell the final chapter of that story, it has to be the best, and it has to have a mythic quality to it.

The big studios have abdicated power by focusing solely on superhero movies.

Since we're coming to the end of 2016, movie studios are starting to push a preview of what's in store for the big screen in 2017, especially on the blockbuster front.

The studio is currently looking for a director for the big - budgeted movie, which is just one of many theme - park adaptations on the go.

Apart from lending his voice (a singing - one at that) to the studio's forthcoming Moana movie, Johnson will also lead the cast of a big - screen adventure based on its popular Disneyland theme park ride, Jungle Cruise.

The image is splendid, on a par with the studio's glowing remaster of 1985's Pee - Wee's Big Adventure; the age of Innerspace is mostly in evidence in composite shots (that optical particulate that accompanied Spielberg - era movie magic), as even the soundtrack is rich and full, though wanting in the lower octaves.

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

At the top of the list, the billion - dollar big guns: franchises, superhero movies, animated kid - flicks and single - serving comedies — the whole high - calorie / low nutritional monoculture diet the studios would prefer us to subsist on, like docile teenage boys easily distracted by big bangs and shiny objects.

The most famous «stolen» movie of all time, The Magnificent Ambersons is still considered a classic example of the negative impact big studios can have on real artists and their work.

While it happens more than is ever reported in any given year, it would seem that 2011 is not letting itself slip past without truly becoming one for big movie projects being put on hold while studios try to shave some dollars from the budget.

This is what big Hollywood studio movies are supposed to be: impressive set pieces, fortune cookie philosophy bordering on the profound (i. e. anger destroys as embodied by an intense amazing Adam Driver), and the best western this side of Budd Boetticher.

No one will mistake Heist for a big budget, big studio feature, but this little action movie looks perfectly fine on Blu - ray.

Lobb somehow avoided all that and brings this movie to a wide audience on Tuesday with the backing of one of the biggest studios out there, its Amazon sales rank already at a most impressive low four figures.

It's a spot - on example of what the big studios might have been betting on circa 1983, but the shroud of ill will draped over the movie stifles any laughs.

By this time though, the studio knew it had a massive hit on their hands and really made the big, loud, awesome movie the X-Men and their fans deserved.

After all, he had just produced a one - two hit of moody, studio - funded chamber dramas featuring big - name leads (Nicole Kidman, Ben Stiller) who seemed intent on stripping away their movie - star vanity to revel in warts - and - all portrayals of unglamorous, perhaps even mean - spirited, broken characters.

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).

«Gravity» may not have much more on its mind than «Speed,» but it's a relief to see an unconventional big - budget studio movie that doesn't hew to the same old pounding action beats, or person - to - person physical violence.

Mike Flanagan is going to become a hot director at some point, it's just a matter of the bigger movie studios catching on.

He'd done more work than a lot of the other independent directors that made the leap, having made three features (Brick, The Brothers Bloom and Looper) and directed some very well received episodes of Breaking Bad, but it's hard to imagine any of that adequately prepared him for directing the middle chapter of the new trilogy in biggest franchise in movie history for the biggest studio on the planet.

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.

This week, the big studios release their fare on Wednesday, so you can pick from a dark, funny, probing look at race and grief; Denzel Washington proving, once again why he's one of the best in the game; a return to form for Pixar; and another variation on A Christmas Carol, this time starring Dickens himself, not to mention the other movies already in theaters.

Feeling familiar and derivative, such movies rarely escape obscurity, even if one of the big studios will distribute them on home video and successfully hide their foreign origins.

«Guardians of the Galaxy» is the closest thing to a standalone movie that the studio has made since the first «Iron Man,» and Gunn absolutely nails the offbeat tone of the source material, creating a sort of punk rock «Star Wars» that delivers big on adventure and comedy with a thoroughly entertaining cast of characters.

It has been a self - fulfilling attitude; studios, ever fixated on what kinds of movies have succeeded in the past, never challenged the assumption with a big - budget fantasy because they were always too afraid to take the risk.

However, the movie insider told Page Six, «Gareth's work on the first Godzilla [which came out in 2014] shows he can handle a big studio blockbuster.

Beyond the fact that the blockbuster release date window is widening all around the industry, with big studio movies starting to come out in every month of the year, there is another reason why Black Panther is coming out so early in 2018: to give it some distance from Joe and Anthony Russo's The Avengers: Infinity War, which comes out on May 4, 2018.

And if «Man of Steel» is any indication, that was a great move on the part of the studio, not only because they've finally managed to do Superman right, but because it shows that they're thinking about the bigger picture, both for their flagship character and the DC movie universe as a whole.

On the big screen, successful sequels are still a focus, but movie studios are also looking for the next franchise movie, like The Hunger Games or Twilight, plus they are looking for great stories they can produce for a reasonable amount and recoup their investment.

Its movie studio arm signed up to release its biggest films on the format.

... In the end... if you believe in the cinema experience, if you believe in going out of your house and experiencing movies on the big screen, do you want to trust Sean Parker about what's good for that business or do you want to trust the movie studios and the theater owners about what's good for that business.

Marvel Entertainment was purchased by Disney in 2009, but still must follow licensing agreements with other movie studios — as well as to Disney's biggest theme park rival, Universal Studios — that impose limits on the Burbank media and entertainment company's intellectual property rights.

Meanwhile, TMZ is reporting: «You knew it was coming... and now, so does Prince Harry — a multi-million dollar offer to get down and dirty in a XXX movie... courtesy of the biggest porn studio on the planet.