Sentences with phrase «smaller film budgets»

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Lions Gate began in Vancouver as a small distributor of low - budget films, and though technically incorporated in Canada, most of the company's operations are now in California.

Pulling off a lavish period film on such a small budget, Leigh admitted at a small press luncheon on Friday, was satisfying but also troubling.

What began a few years ago as a trickle of small independent films shot in and around Kingston has of late turned into a veritable flood, including big - budget productions with real movie stars, thanks to a new tax break and efforts by local officials to woo and accommodate the industry.

«Band Aid» also manages to be a great - looking film for what was no doubt a fairly small budget; cinematographer Hillary Spera («After Tiller») shoots Los Angeles in an intuitive way that's neither overly glossy nor distractingly stylized.

Time and again, American audiences have responded to films with black leads like Hidden Figures, Get Out, and Girls Trip, all of them turning huge profits on smaller budgets.

Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Below are 50 additional noteworthy films — including both big - budget tentpoles and smaller indie and foreign films — that either have confirmed 2013 release dates or seem extremely likely to reach theaters this year.

Raimi's first film since 2009's Drag Me to Hell (and first big - budget production since his Spider - Man trilogy) is a $ 200 million, visually dazzling, 3D prequel to the story told in 1939's The Wizard of Oz, chronicling the rise of said wizard from his humble beginnings as a small - time Kansas magician.

He's so much more engaging when directing these smaller films (Oscar - winning Tsotsi) than the big budget Hollywood blockbusters (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ender's Game).

It is unfortunate that the film's marketing budget and small distribution are its biggest flaws, because the film will make you laugh, cry, and smile more than most films that actually did get nominated.

A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.

Both films were made with very small budgets, both proved extremely profitable relative to those budgets, and both spawned new trends in the horror genre — gory «torture porn» / new - wave splatter films (Saw) and smaller - budgeted supernatural horror films (Paranormal Activity).

Born in Los Angeles on September 9, 1923, Robertson began his acting career with small, uncredited appearances in low budget films.

The One I Love is cleverly written by Justin Lader and directed with budget - minded skill by Charlie McDowell (son of actor Malcolm, and step - son to Ted Danson, who makes a small acting appearance), both of whom are making their feature film debuts.

From major studios to independents, from big budget to small, the quality of films this year was excellent and the entertainment, artistic and substantive value high.

The action takes place during the making of a small - budget potboiler film, HOME FOR PURIM, that no one is taking seriously, not even the folks making it, until an internet rumor surfaces that one of the cast is giving an Oscar - worthy performance.

Towne prepped what would have been a big - budget endeavor by helming the smaller - scale drama «Personal Best,» about female track - and - field athletes, but in order to be allowed to complete the film, Towne had to give Warner Bros. the rights to his beloved «Greystoke» script.

But even yesterday it looked like a long shot, and despite Carrey's apparent love of Matthew Vaughn's film, The Hollywood Reporter is saying that their sources think the chances of Carrey taking the role of Colonel Stars (a mobster - turned - fundamentalist - Christian - turned - superhero - recruiter) are slim — presumably the smaller budget of the sequel to the underperfoming original can't quite afford him.

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.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople star Julian Dennison goes from being in a small indie film to being front and center in a huge big budget spectacle.

The actress didn't let the film's small budget and short production schedule stop her from doing work of the highest order.

A handful of earlier films had examined (for some, exploited) juvenile delinquency but these productions, such as Youth Runs Wild (Mark Robson, 1944) and I Accuse My Parents (Sam Newfield, 1945), had been low budget efforts of smaller studios.

Stephen Frears» directorial debut Gumshoe, a cockeyed detective film starring Albert Finney as a small - time bingo caller who plays at being a private detective for fun and ends up in the middle of a real mystery, and Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five, a low budget, high concept film he produced independently, also arrive under the «Martini Movies» imprint.

It isn't difficult to imagine it generating a wildly entertaining film as a small production where there isn't a huge budget to worry about recouping, and where the creators could therefore go crazy with ideas.

Given its presumably very small budget, the film's key strength lies in its eye - catching production design, particularly on the white - and - blue VR suits and the office building's blank - looking interior.

DisneyToon's animation can practically be mistaken for that of the first Cars eight years ago, even though the $ 50 M production budget is just a small fraction of what is spent to make Pixar and Disney Animation Studios» films these days (which each cost upwards of $ 150 M).

But if A24 could pull off the biggest surprise Best Picture win in ages with Moonlight, whose budget was just $ 4 million, we probably can't eliminate Florida for being too small, especially as critics heap greater praise on it than any other film this year.

While Hit & Run isn't going to be on any best of the year lists, it is a very good example of making a solid film in a tight time - frame (Shepard and Bell both had TV commitments they had to fit filming around), with a reasonably small budget.

Surely this is not something you want to allude to when attempting to sell a small budgeted, independent film.

With Chef, he seems to be returning to his roots by writing, directing, and starring in a film that is far smaller in scale and budget compared to those films.

The special effects are serviceable for a smaller budget Summer film.

It works to a degree as a small - budget film, but it tries to hard to be mainstream without following the rules of that genre.

As for a Cloverfield 2, success wouldn't be a sure thing, even with a small budget, as the original film's reception was far loss positive amongst audiences than a similarly Internet - buzzing and viral marketed movie like Saw.

It is a little rough around the edges and there is an argument to be made that the relative lack of directorial flair makes the film feel too conventional but those points are only really relevant when comparing it to Argento's later works, and after all, this was his first movie and there are plenty of filmmakers out there at the twilight of their careers who would love to make a thriller as tight and effective as this with everything available at their disposal, let alone the small budget and restrictions that Dario Argento had to work with.

Devil — The studio talked up this small - budget project as «from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan,» but don't hold that against the film.

Joe Swanberg, who served on some of Perry's previous projects including Queen of Earth, planted an idea in Perry's mind about making a film in his Brooklyn neighborhood that had a smaller budget than his 2014 film, Listen Up Philip, but «feels big.»

It seems that Hollywood has woken up to the vast store of talent that exists in the low - budget milieu, and more and more, the calling - card small film or successful TV stint is being used as a conduit to gain a higher profile and a bigger budget the next time out.

Following a string of fantastical films with hefty budgets (and less - than - desirable critical responses), Tim Burton takes a deep breath and a long step back with Big Eyes, his smallest, most reigned - in production since Ed Wood.

The farm scenes in particular (the poor city is reduced to only a few locations (that look like sets actually) and seems much smaller than the town in Sunrise are really stunning: much of the film feels like Days Of Heaven was the film Murnau actually wanted to make (same location: wheat field in the upper midwest, attacked by a natural disaster, though Murnau doesn't appear to have the budget for his hailstorm whereas Malick could afford locusts).

The Spirit Awards are obviously not immune to such factors, but by limiting themselves to films with smaller budgets, the Spirit Awards generally celebrate some of the best films of the year.

On a very small budget, but with tons of passion for filmmaking, an unknown director would make one of the most classic cult films of all time that not only was a head of its time, but would become the number one movie responsible for a genre.

Since playing Bane in The Dark Knight Rises Hardy has been pursuing smaller independent films such as The Drop and low - budget road thriller Locke.

Since then he has played a mix of leading roles in small independent films and supporting roles in big budget films such as Peter Jackson's version of King Kong.

The style of the film is captivating and perfectly executed, especially on the small budget they had to work with, but what is most memorable, for me, is the relationship between Dredd and Anderson.

I'm in the belief that the city is a perfect fit for the production and could easily help boost the quality of the production, even if they are claiming the budget is smaller than the rest of the superhero films being made.

Although conservative types may not be best pleased with the film's depiction of an inner - city prison, whose doily budget alone probably outstrips the GDP of a small developing nation.

In 2015, he began an upswing with the fun mockumentary horror film «The Visit,» made on a low budget with the reigning champ of small profitable thrillers, producer Jason Blum.

2014 has been a stellar year for independent / small budget films and you can add Cold in July to the list.

When the action does hit it is as clean and fun as any film with a $ 175 million budget and the Marvel brand slapped on it can expect to be, and is all the more impressive coming from a director who had only made small indie dramas (see Wattsâ $ ™ Cop Car if you havenâ $ ™ t).