Sentences with phrase «tiny budget films»

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With a tiny $ 35 million budget and no stars, no one expected a whole lot out of the film.

In 1937, Rawlinson returned to serials in the title role of Blake of Scotland Yard, which, though hampered by a tiny budget and utter lack of background music, was well cast with several reliable silent film veterans.

Named for its orange color palette, the film was shot on an iPhone 5S with a tiny budget, becoming a surprise box office hit this summer.

If anything, the tiny - budgeted film (though not that poor considering the filmmakers licensed a David Bowie song) is a sizzle reel for Josh Trank who shows he can do on a fraction of the budget what many directors in Hollywood can't do with hundreds of millions.

In the last few years, films made by first - timers with tiny budgets have tended to dominate, together with worthy documentaries examining social problems and global warming, the latter one of Redford's favourite hobby horses.

The cynical yuks begin with the opening credits — the producers are called «some asshats» — and continue throughout a film that makes merry about its tiny budget, which includes messing about with «C» - grade X-Men castoffs Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand).

I appreciate that the film had a tiny budget of $ 15 million, but that simply means they should have been more choosy when it came to visual effects shots.

We sometimes describe films like 10 Cloverfield Lane as being low - budget — but a real low - budget classic is more like the time - travel movie Primer, which was made for a shockingly tiny $ 7,000.

There is also a new feature length commentary with Adrienne Barbeau, who played Maggie, discussing her memories of the film with director of photography Dean Cundey, who credits Carpenter's vision for being so ahead of its time in even attempting to create a (seemingly large) whole different world on the tiny budget of an independent film.

I did learn a lot in particular about macro-photography and how to think of ways to make a film on a tiny budget.

Plus director Bryan Singer «s last film, «Jack The Giant Slayer,» was by some distance the worst of his career, and early marketing materials made it look like «DOFP» had a tiny scope that belied its budget (the second most expensive in Fox's history, after «Avatar «-RRB-, and made it seem like some kind of mid -»90s vision of the future.

This feels like the film - version of I Am Legend that filmmakers have struggled with at least three times and all failed in somewhat interesting ways (The best of which, The Last Man On Earth, starred Vincent Prince struggling with a very tiny European budget).

Warren Beatty is finally getting his chance to play Howard Hughes in long - held passion project Rules Don't Apply, which the actor wrote and will direct — and it only took Ron Burkle, Steve Bing, Terry Semel, Arnon Milchan, and Brett Ratner to scrape together the tiny $ 26.7 million budget to get it off the ground... Weekend director Andrew Haigh's follow - up film is 45 Years.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 19, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS 30 Days of Night (R for profanity and graphic horror violence) Josh Hartnett and Melissa George head an ensemble cast in this high attrition - rate horror flick about a sheriff who, with the help of his estranged wife, confronts a horde of bloodthirsty vampires that descend on a tiny Alaskan town during the pitch black month when the sun slips beneath the horizon.