Sentences with phrase «than the production budget»

The United States has spent less on asteroid detection over the past 15 years than the production budget of the 1998 asteroid movie Armageddon.

Not exact matches

However, DC's trio of bad movies made more domestically than the films» production budgets.

Walt Disney, one of the original naysayers, bought George Lucas» production company, Lucasfilm, in 2012 for over $ 4 billion, considerably more than they would have had to pay if they had just said yes to the first movie, whose budget was $ 11 million.

On the supply front, gold output from mine production, which accounts for more than half the exploration budget of all non-ferrous metals, led to record growth in 2017.

But in conjunction with announcing Saudi Arabia's 2017 budget, Mr. Al - Falih said that the kingdom sees no need for addition production cuts than the ones already pledged by the OPEC and some non-OPEC producers.

We've been able to upgrade manual tasks to a modern, fully automated line, more than doubled production and lowered our overall labor costs - and it was also well in line with our budget.»

Production has reportedly been a «nightmare» and, some sources reported that Universal considered pulling the film from overwhelmed first - time director Rinsch after the budget may have swelled by over $ 50 million more than the originally planned $ 170 million.

In choosing the look of their big - budget production, Lord and Miller stick to that aesthetic, using computer animation to simulate the surface texture and slightly jerky movement we might expect if someone had orchestrated the entire experience with plastic toys painstakingly repositioned and photographed one frame at a time (according to the press notes, that would have taken no fewer than 15,080,330 bricks).

I've never played the Konami games on which this series is based, but they certainly must be more lovingly produced than this cheap thing (its crispy, bright, digital presentation makes the first film look like a voluptuous cradle of generous budgeting and production design).

It's a tribute to stars Benson and Moorhead, who combined to direct, write, edit and shoot the film, that their micro-budget project comes off more haunting than many big - studio productions with 100 times (at least) the budget.

And Altman's film barely broke even — although at a cost of a little more than $ 1 million it was a low - budget production by 1977 standards.

Through the Looking Glass has a reported production budget of $ 170 million, which is significantly less than its predecessor's $ 200 million, particularly when adjusting for inflation.

There is less detail and clarity than many Blu - rays offer, but it's important to remember that the film is 25 years old and had a production budget of just $ 6 million (to put the latter number into context, fellow 1986 Charlie Sheen movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off cost the same amount).

Garland's screenplay, based on Jeff VanderMeer's novel, is challenging, but not any more than Eric Heisserer's work on Arrival, which more than quadrupled its production budget at the box office.

It's taken in $ 51.3 million, or more than four times its production budget.

Star Trek: Beyond arrives with less hype than studio bosses who signed off an estimated $ 185m production budget might have hoped.

Entertainment, a surprise pickup from the production company known more for its big - budget explosions than its heartfelt family tales.

Grossing just under $ 19 M domestically and barely matching that total overseas, the movie was one of several to lose money last year for young distributor Relativity Media, whose $ 25 M budget (identical to Piranha's) seems excessive but at least yields animatronics and CGI clearly better than the visual effects of Corman's shoestring Syfy productions.

In his first production outside his native South Korea, Bong has delivered his most ambitious project yet, and proves more than capable of handling an international, multilingual cast and a large budget.

While games getting Superbowl commercials are not unheard of, they are less common than movie trailers, as large Hollywood productions usually have greater budgets dedicated to marketing.

In fact, PA3 opened bigger and though it had the series» weakest legs to date, it still ended up with a domestic gross close to the first film and a franchise - high worldwide take of $ 203 M. And while the production budget again rose, it was still kept to just $ 5 million, well under the competition and far less than the marketing costs of such a high - profile wide release.

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.

With that kind of return on investment (ROI) equal to more than four times the production budget, a sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, was — to borrow an overused scientific term — a no - brainer (i.e., inevitable).

Grossing only $ 61 million domestically (less than half as much as Lone Survivor) and even less overseas on a much steeper production budget of $ 110 million, Deepwater Horizon must be chalked up as a commercial disappointment, despite being warmly received by both the critics and moviegoers who did see it.

The new production circumstances of Code Unknown gave him the space and budget to retry and perfect some of the thematic strategies risked in the glaciation trilogy, but it is the combination of the fates of semi-established African residents in Paris with those of Romanians in the country illegally and begging in the streets that makes the film feel more global in scope than his earlier work.

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.

Perhaps less showy than «Pariah,» it's nevertheless a gorgeous - looking film, with widescreen compositions and a shallow depth of field that give it a production value that belies its meager budget.

Drinking Buddies is somewhat of a crossover from micro-indie films into a larger budget film for Joe Swanberg; it contains a well - known cast (Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick) and much higher production values (having a dedicated director of photography, etc.) than his previous 14 films.

Unlike a typical big - budget production like X-Men, he says «we don't get to make it with the budget of most superhero movies, but we get to make it the way we want to make it, so that's even more exciting than having a catered lunch.

There's a great deal more veteran Metal Gear Solid talent hanging on at Konami than Kojima legging it with the studio name suggests, but it's under new leadership now, and with Kojima out the door it's probably going to have to get used to a new kind of production schedule without an auteur to wrangle deadline and budget blow outs from management.

Made on a production budget just above $ 40 million, «The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist» is expected to make approximately $ 40 million from 3,300 screens, with distributor Warner Bros. estimates set just higher than $ 35 million.

Previously, it had been rumored that the estimated budget for Gambit was going to be much larger than first expected, meaning that whatever director takes it on would have to be able to handle a large production.

It earned a robust $ 65 million in North America, more than five times the movie's modest production budget and enough to make it the Walt Disney Company's highest - performing non-Disney-branded release of 2006.

That seems improbable on movie with a reported $ 135 million production budget, but it's one way to make sense of how Rango came to be what it is, a strange ride more fun for adults than children.

The movie does have some pretty impressive production design considering its presumably small budget, so it's a shame to see all that hard work wasted on a director more interested in unnecessary visual flourishes (like a POV shot from a water bucket) than focusing on important things like character and story.

The film came in 37th place in its opening weekend, grossing just $ 122,834 — less than 1 percent of its production budget.

The $ 7 million production budget at Universal was less than half of what was supposed to be in place over at Paramount four years earlier.

The 2.35:1 picture has quite a bit of grain and not much sizzle, making the film look more like an early 2000s production than a $ 41 M - budgeted 2011 release.

The ensuing controversy gave the low budget, highly uncommercial 16 mm production a far wider audience than it otherwise would have drawn.

(Like so many of the movie's Earth - set sequences, this expository scene is set in a car and looks so cheap that it comes as a surprise when, minutes later, one discovers that the production had the budget for a space station set and a cast of more than two people.)

Following a domestic theatrical run more successful than any other non-IMAX limited release movie this year, which still earned less than half of the movie's substantial reported production budget, Tree of Life recently made its home video debut exclusively in a Blu - ray + DVD + Digital Copy combo pack from Fox.

Enter Creed, a film that's exploded with audiences (grossing more than its modest production budget in less than a single weekend) and brought grown men to tears.

It is holding up better than expected, but the $ 120 million production budget and a lackluster overseas total may see this one breaking even at best during its theatrical run.

The movie, which had a production budget of $ 29 million, has grossed more than $ 35 million worldwide.

Some big - name actors do more than just star in million - dollar budgets — they have a stake in production companies of their own.

The low - budget horror film It Comes at Night finished in sixth - place bringing in $ 6 million which, while still a profit above the film's less - than $ 5 million production budget was still shy of the expected $ 10 million opening.

«Kong: Skull Island» is different, better, lighter on its feet (digital feet and human feet) and more fun than its reported $ 190 million production budget would suggest.

Directors Peter and Michael Spierig are coming off of the success of Jigsaw — which earned more than $ 100 million worldwide against a $ 10 million production budget — so fans of their distinct style will want to check out Winchester this month.

THE DVD Artisan presents a more than adequate 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer on DVD (as well as a 1.33:1 pan-and-scan on the same side of the platter) that belies the relatively low budget and production values of the film.

The film is nicely photographed even on a less than first - rate digital camera and an estimated production budget of just $ 12 M. It's also well - acted, with the oft - likable Kinnear providing authenticity and humility at the film's core and Reilly acquitting herself in a role that seems destined to elicit message board scorn.