Sentences with phrase «with small indie»

If the AAA publishers took some time to talk with small indie devs, like those behind Fantastic Contraption, Chronos, Budget Cuts, Cosmic Trip and many others, that would go a long way for the industry».

The overall finalists list is incredibly varied, with small indie teams, larger in - house studios, growing independents and format holders all out in full force.

I first published with a small indie press in the late Lower Entrepreneurial epoch.

Gar Anthony Haywood and Gary Phillips, both very fine writers, are with small indie presses.

Before hitting it big with his smash hit Three Kings, writer - director David O. Russell made his mark with small indie comedies like Spanking the Monkey and this cult gem, Flirting with Disaster.

Reptile landed on the market with a small indie gem destined to enter into the hearts of robot customization lovers.

Jon Favreau, who made the first two Iron Man movies, adapted a less established comic book for Cowboys & Aliens, which bombed, before rebounding with the smaller indie film Chef, which he also starred in (playing a frustrated cook in a barely veiled allegory about Favreau struggling to deal with criticism and creative interference).

Santa Monica hasn't just developed its own franchise for a big corporate giant, but staff have worked with smaller indie like thatgamecompany on the likes of Fl0w to help bring more flavour to the PlayStation.

Not exact matches

In parts one and two of my series on indie games in Canada, I spoke with Blot Interactive and Drinkbox Studios, two small Toronto - based operations that are just starting to

Eisenberg had such passion for Rollers, a small indie film, that he not only maintained his commitment to the role throughout its two years of fundraising but also helped its producers with casting choices and other key decisions.

Today, I wanted to share my Indie Beauty Expo 2018 experience as well as a small haul with you all!

Today, I wanted to share my Indie Beauty Expo 2018 experience as well as a small haul with you all!

About Blog iDevBlogADay was created by a small group of indie developers eager to share their know - hows with others.

This tragic event happened just before Brinker was to be presented with the Robert Smalls Indie Vision Award at the 7th annual Beaufort, South Carolina International Film Festival in February 2013.

It's true that it's a relatively small indie studio, that it's a project with a very specific vision and that has really new features that are also great, but the final result has more the look of an unfinished beta than a totally finished game.

A small but bracing breath of fresh air; if a little under - told, its problems at least stem from a creative gait that's refreshingly out of lockstep with the Hollywood - ized regurgitation of indie film convention.

She appeared with Kevin Costner in Message in a Bottle before going on to make the independent film Happy, Texas, the supernatural thriller Stir of Echoes with Kevin Bacon, and Can't Stop Dancing, a comedy in which she acted alongside Margaret Cho and Janeane Garofalo.She had a fine turn in the well - reviewed indie Ghost World, and a small turn in the infamous turkey The Adventures of Pluto Nash.

One of the biggest Sundance hits of 2015 was a small - budget indie comedy about an aspiring high school filmmaker and his friendship with a sick classmate entitled Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

Featured characters include Jack Warner, Eartha Kitt, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, and Pier Angeli... Underrated English indie filmmaker Duane Hopkins, director of 2008's Better Things, is finally back with his second feature, Bypass, a lost - youth drama about a young small - time fence (played by rising star George MacKay) who comes to a crossroads in his life...

The many highlights of the festival included Tributes to Errol Morris and Aaron Sorkin; conversations with Sofia Coppola, Patty Jenkins (AFI Class of 2000), Angelina Jolie and Loung Ung, Martin McDonagh and Sam Rockwell, Christopher Nolan, Jordan Peele, Andy Serkis and Agnès Varda; the Indie Contenders Roundtable with panelists Sean Baker («The Florida Project»), Richard Gere («Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer»), Salma Hayek («Beatriz at Dinner»), Diane Kruger («In the Fade»), Kumail Nanjiani («The Big Sick»), Robert Pattinson («Good Time»), Margot Robbie («I, Tonya») and Lois Smith («Marjorie Prime»); and the Doc Roundtable with panelists Evgeny Afineevsky («Cries from Syria»), Greg Barker («The Final Year»), Kasper Collin («I Called Him Morgan»), Feras Fayyad («Last Men in Aleppo»), Yance Ford («Strong Island»), Bryan Fogel («Icarus»), Steve James («Abacus: Small Enough to Jail»), Amanda Lipitz («Step») and Brett Morgen («Jane»).

Since 2005, the duo has been steadily chipping away at Hollywood's exclusive, systematic traditionalism and slowly but very surely reviving indie's middle class with small but buzzworthy flicks like The One I Love, The Overnight, Tangerine, and now the South by Southwest favorite Manson Family Vacation.

: We like dramatic, small town tragedies (e.g. this year's Bluebird) and of course this comes with tremendous indie cache.

With steady small - screen employment, Tierney took chances on a number of indie films, including a contemporary adaptation of Macbeth titled Scotland, Pa. that was written and directed by then - husband Billy Morrissette.

Fortunately for us, counter-programming is a beautiful thing, and while the multiplexes may be a war zone from now until Labor Day, the smaller movie theaters out there are going to be bustling with indie movies and some of the best foreign films as of late.

Although not without its familiar indie quirks, Jeremy Teicher and Alexi Pappas» charming dramedy nails its chosen milieu with uncanny accuracy, stemming in no small part from the casting of Pappas, a real - life Olympic runner, as an intensely focused track star forced to take a day off.

Trevorrow, similarly, emerged with a small - budget indie (also about time travel) called Safety Not Guaranteed in 2012, which he parlayed into the moneymaking sensation Jurassic World.

However, the fest's rich history with discovering small, indie gems has not been lost the last few years.

Indie Game: The Movie sheds light on exactly what it is like to be a small guy with big dreams.

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).

HBO has continued to be good to him, with recurring roles on «How To Make It In America» and «Treme,» and after smaller parts in «Prom Night» and «The Next Three Days,» he's had more impressive parts in indie favorite «Starlet,» and stole the show as the deputy in horror sleeper «Sinister.»

It was a diverse year of releases, with unusual spin - offs, small indie projects, and risky new IPs taking the forefront of Nintendo's marketing.

This leaves a small opening for third - party publishers and indie developers to jump into the limelight, as Sony's chambers are nearly empty with everything that the first - party studios have been working on.

You can see the power of Jenkin's performance already; despite a small release with little to no fanfare, he managed to get an Indie Spirit Award nomination, a surprising and — for those who've seen it — deserving pick.

It would seem that a film like Jackie would best fit with a smaller but high - profile indie distributor rather than a Warner Brothers so let's cut them out.

It's an entire subgenre unto itself: the indie comedy - drama about a guy in his 30s who goes back to his small town to deal with his wacky, dysfunctional family and learn some important life lessons.

Thematically, Hollow feels more like a grungy Lifetime movie, with a hoodie - wearing gal uncovering small - town secrets the dickish townsfolk would much prefer she wouldn't, than a scrappy, indie potboiler.

I hate to write negative film reviews for small films that are clearly made with passion and scraped together on a shoestring budget, but I also hate to watch indie films that are clearly lacking vision and give my beloved horror genre a bad name.

Actress Greta Gerwig has parlayed her deft touch playing blond oddballs in small indie films into work with an impressive roster of filmmakers including Woody Allen, Ivan Reitman and Whit Stillman.

But even outside of working with those filmmakers, Martinez has mostly scored indie or smaller - budgeted studio fare, with more blockbuster - sized projects off his résumé.

The only exceptions I've ever seen to this have been a few very small, indie Spanish films but those are very much the exception and their goal is to show everything with English subtitles as well.

This month has been filled with small game surprises on Nintendo Switch, with almost every week being jam - packed with indie titles and classic game ports making the system's library even more appealing.

He went big and weighty in 2015 with Spotlight, but McCarthy's small - scale debut could hardly be more different, the rare kind of quirky indie drama where such a label isn't a pejorative.

Ringer editor - in - chief Sean Fennessey chats with Taika Waititi about his transition from small indie comedies in New Zealand to Marvel's big - budget superhero epic Thor: Ragnarok.

Made on a small budget, with recognisable, though indie - ish actors, this film is about love and regret, posing the characters and audience with the questions - what personal mistake would you go back and change if you could?

It includes, among smaller indie fare — the step - tacular Crypt of the Necrodancer, the charming (and already cheap) Kamiko, detective action in L.A. Noire, car soccer with Rocket League, and the critically acclaimed Steamworld series.

Indie film goddess Greta Gerwig makes her solo directorial debut with this «hella tight» noughties throwback coming of age comedy - a sweet and wistful ode to mothers and daughters, growing pains, and the ups and downs of small - town adolescence.

In the hands of a less capable filmmaker than writer - director Raymond De Felitta, the epic comic - tragedy of it could merely have referred to the film itself, which is laden with the potential to be everything that such small, personal, indie filmmaking is: self - conscious, sentimental, precious.

His career started out with small, more personal indie films like «George Washington» and «Undertow» and has recently evolved into more Hollywood fare.

Traditional publishing even with a small publishing house affords many benefits different than Indie publishing.

I self - publish, so I do pretty much everything myself; but I've heard several traditionally published indie authors say they were surprised to find out that even with a traditional publisher, they were expected to do a lot of the marketing for their own books, particularly if the publisher is small, since they were * not * a celebrity name that could sell itself.