Sentences with phrase «original vision for the film»

The financial realities facing movies often have no place in my reviews — I find it boring if not depressing to bring up numbers and statistics, and I'm sure I've already lost people here — but I feel an obligation to come to the defense of producer Scott Rudin, who said damn the torpedoes and pushed through Garland's original vision for the film, despite fears from Paramount over Annihilation posing too much of an intellectual challenge for the general moviegoing public.

Not exact matches

It's dirty and grimy the way Star Wars should look — part of the original trilogy's appeal was that it wasn't a polished, shiny science fiction vision, it was scummy and kind of gross and kicked off an era of lived - in production design for these types of films.

«Beasts of the Southern Wild» was the runner - up for Best Film and also won the Original Vision Award, which recognizes a film that is especially innovative or groundbreaking.

reading about the lack of chemistry makes me think that even Tranks original vision would have made for a terrible film.

«I'm a personal fan of Bong Joon Ho's epic film, and jumped at the chance to honor his original vision, yet expand upon the world and characters with a diverse, award - winning cast,» said Sarah Aubrey, executive vice president of original programming for TNT.

While Kore - eda's vision for this story about a woman's trauma was assuredly original, Roger was particularly excited about the obvious influence from Yasujiro Ozu, a filmmaker that Roger called «one of the four or five greatest film directors of all time.»

Costume designer for Tron Legacy is Michael Wilkinson, with likely input from original Tron director (and creator) Steven Lisberge (now co-writer) and Jean Giraud's vision as engineer of the first film's game environment.

What made the original Jaws so effective was the vision and talent of its prodigious director, Steven Spielberg, who utilized his fantastic skills and eye for cinema to create one of the best horror - adventure films of all - time.

Run by the Los Angeles - based membership arts organization Film Independent, the Spirit Awards recognize films made for less than $ 20 million that exhibit a «uniqueness of vision» and «original, provocative subject matter.»

Ghostbusters star and screenwriter Dan Aykroyd originally conceived the film as a futuristic epic, where teams of «ghostmashers» battled dozens of giant monsters: estimates at the time placed the budget for his original vision somewhere in the region of $ 300 million (and this was 1984).

It's easy to see remnants of Schrader's original vision, especially whenever the film focuses on the deteriorating psyche of Cage's tortured, obsessive CIA agent out for revenge.

The films nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards are selected based on the following criteria: original, provocative subject matter; uniqueness of vision; economy of means with particular attention paid to total budget and individual; and percent of independent financing.

It attracted the notice of De Palma himself, who not only praised his efforts for helping to bring back his original vision, he deemed it to be the film's true director's cut and lobbied to have a cleaned - up version of it appear on the Blu - ray alongside the theatrical version — after all, it does make sense for a film about a split personality to be presented in two different ways, doesn't it?

Each reminisces about their experiences and frustrations with the film, Scott admitting to being starstruck by his actors while Sarandon laments that the more uncompromising original vision for the project was softened by the studio to set up potential sequels.

The original film for Night Trap is gone but a copy of the original masters still existed, which was intended for a VHS console called Control Vision that was eventually cancelled.

So, while the producer may not be the author, or even responsible for the vision behind of the original idea for the screenplay, without their imagination, planning, and money - a film or stage project is unlikely to ever be... well... produced.