Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson's second explicitly child -
scaled film after The Fantastic Mr. Fox, but instead of puppets this time he has two child actors (Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman) who aren't quite as capable of capturing the repressed emotions and inner turmoil that mark most of Anderson's characters
Not exact matches
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.
Marc Webb, who is also back in small -
scale drama mode
after work on two Spider - Man
films, is behind the camera for the movie.
After fellow Koreans Kim Ji - Woon and Park Chan - Wook launched their English language debut
films (The Last Stand and Stoker, respectively) the most nuanced of the trio of directorial superstars, Bong Joon - Ho is delivering the largest in
scale, the nuclear - winter bound science fiction flick, Snowpiercer.
Catching Fire presents mostly the same story as the first
film, but speedier and with a slight twist as previous Hunger Games winners Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (the grim - jawed Josh Hutcherson) cause trouble for the capitol of Panem, the post-war-rebellion version of the United States,
after their previous victory, which inspires small
scale rebellions across the nation, mostly evident via graffiti.
The story of a garbageman named Simon Grim (James Urbaniak) who becomes a celebrated poet
after meeting the garrulous, frustrated title character (Thomas Jay Ryan), Henry Fool remains Hartley's most commercially successful
film (on a very small
scale), but it didn't exactly appear to be the launch of a franchise.
After establishing a first half with intelligence and a smartly subdued Noomi Rapace, the
film devolves into a series of shadowy men double - crossing each other and the threat of a large -
scale terrorist attack with a head villain who barely registers as anything but sullen.
Soderbergh's latest has reached for that sense of
scale associated with a summer
film, and does well to release
after all the bigger blockbusters have had their run.
After years of trying and directing two exceptional
films, Frank brought the project to Netflix, where he was finally able to tell his original story on a grand
scale.
After an expansion on the first weekend of 2013 earned the
film a pitiful average of $ 478 from 565 theaters, the barely operational Paramount Vantage quickly
scaled back the release, which ended up earning just $ 611 thousand on a $ 20 million budget.
But 14 years
after Roland Emmerich's forgettable «Godzilla» remake, Del Toro's «Pacific Rim» constitutes a large -
scale attempt to bring Japan's beloved Kaiju movies — their monster
films, of which Ishiro Honda's 1954 «Godzilla» is the most famous — to American shores.
After two
films worth of narrative building, this third entry in the heavily criticized franchise culminates in a large
scale battle with an army of vampires and a group of werewolves.
After this run of deeply ruminative, small -
scale works, one last major
film was still to come; Akerman's final narrative feature
film, La folie Almayer (Almayer's Folly, 2011), based on the 1895 novel by Joseph Conrad.
After making three
films on a very large
scale (Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and Cowboys & Aliens), director Jon Favreau opted to go much smaller on his most recent feature, Chef.
A
film based on the game has been reportedly «in development» for over a decade, going as far back as 2007, with director Len Wiseman attached in 2008, though he dropped out in 2010
after the $ 100 million budget was
scaled back, and the project languished for years.
Much like filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo (the Captain America movies, Avengers: Infinity War), James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy), Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), and Jon Watts (Spider - Man: Homecoming), Boden and Fleck were picked to helm a Marvel movie
after directing smaller -
scale films.
The last time Deakins managed that feat was in 2002, for his work on the Coen brothers» The Man Who Wasn't There, and while we predicted that Deakins would complete the hat trick on Oscar night (we even thought he was due
after five nominations), he lost to Andrew Lesnie's epic -
scale lensing of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which surely benefited that year from being the only
film in this category that was also up for best picture.
Even
after winning an Academy Award for the epic Traffic (2000) and continuing to work on bigger - budget Hollywood
films like Ocean's Eleven (2001), this high - profile filmmaker has never lost his drive to make compelling independent cinema, whether large -
scale (2008's Che) or small (2010's And Everything Is Going Fine).
After purchasing an Acura NSX, aside from receiving a digital
film featuring your new supercar and a customized 1:18
scale replica, owners now have the option of a one - on - one, exclusive tour of where their NSX is made.
A
film based on the game has been reportedly «in development» for over a decade, going as far back as 2007, with director Len Wiseman attached in 2008, though he dropped out in 2010
after the $ 100 million budget was
scaled back, and the project languished for years.
The mural, «La Notte (1961)», titled
after Michelangelo Antonioni's
film depicting a psychologically alienated bourgeois couple, is designed around a large -
scale patterned print.