Five Summer Blockbuster biggest bombs of the summer blockbusters tend to have a similar set of features: big budgets, big Stars many special effects and lots of media hype. Usually, this is a fairly consistent winning formula.
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The B List (Paperback) $15.79 Provides an informative guide to these low-budget and relatively unpredictable cult classics through movie critic reviews of some of the most revered science fiction, western, and midnight movies ever produced. Original. |
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101 Sci-Fi Movies You Must See Before You Die (Paperback) $11.35 From the classic, low-budget Flash Gordon Saturday matinee serials of the 1930s and B`40s to mammoth blockbusters like Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey, filmdomB`s most imaginative contributions to science fiction are vividly recap… |
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Master Shots (Paperback) $15.64 Description not available. |
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Planning the Low-Budget Film (Paperback) $19.57 Finalist, 2007 Benjamin Franklin Awards, for Best New Voice Nonfiction and Professional/Technical Novice and aspiring filmmakers seeking to learn how to develop a feature film will find a step-by-step blue… |
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Monsters in the Movies by John Landis (Hardcover) $23.73 From B-movie bogeymen and outer space oddities to big-budget terrors, Monsters in the Movies by legendary filmmaker John Landis showcases the greatest monsters ever to creep, fly, slither, stalk, or rampage across the Silver Screen! La… |
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Shoot on Location (Paperback) $26.73 You have a strong vision for how your movie should look, but how do you find the perfect spot to shoot and how do you organize the complex logistics of such a shoot once you find that perfect location? In this comprehensive guide, industry veteran Kath… |
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Something Wierd Video – Doris Wishman Double Feature (DVD) $7.79 Doris Wishman was easily the most prolific female director in history, making over 30 films during her career as a low-budget se |
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Midnight Horror:Flesh Eating Z $4.94 Four unrated low-budget zombie movies are collected here including LAST OF THE LIVING, GRAVE MISTAKE, AWAKEN THE DEAD, and I AM OMEGA. |
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Welcome to My Nightmare (Hardcover) $20.2 The book starts with Pulgasari–a North Korean Godzilla clone dreamed up by Kim Jong-Il and created by a kidnapped Korean director, with a budget of millions and a staff of seven hundred fed on truckloads of pheasants, wild geese, and dee… |
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Planet Earth: Seasonal Forests/Ocean Deep (DVD) $5.73 With both impressive scope and incredible detail, PLANET EARTH explores the entire world using high-definition cinematography. Boasting a budget of over $25 million, this BBC/Discovery Channel co-production exposes the beauty of the earth and its anima… |
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The Defilers/Scum of the Earth (DVD) $8.92 THE DEFILERS: This disturbingly violent, low-budget marvel features two teenage hooligans who make a love slave of a kidnapped y |
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The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (DVD) $8.97 A harried New York ad executive (Jones) is in trouble, at home as well as the office. His daughter is a gifted horse rider who wants nothing more than to own her own horse, but with dad’s meager budget he simply can’t afford it. Added to that is t… |
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Splatter Flicks $15.1 • Features dozens of detailed interviews with directors, producers, F/X pros, and more • Horror movies get better distribution deals—so they’re great for independent filmmakers• Entertaining and informative… |
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Deja Vu (DVD) $8.54 After the success of 2004?s MAN ON FIRE, director Tony Scott and Denzel Washington teamed up once again–this time alongside high-powered producer Jerry Bruckheimer–to deliver this big-budget spectacle of an action picture set in post-Katrina New Or… |
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Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (DVD) $12.86 Regular Edition Music, comedy and spoof horror are all combined in this uniquely low-budget attack on conventional |
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12 Angry Men – Criterion Collection (DVD) $19.49 Estimated budget: $343,000.The shoot lasted 19 days.The movie marked the feature-film directorial debut of Sidney Lumet.The film was remade for cable television in 1997, directed by William Friedkin, written again by Reginald Rose, and star… |
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Purple Rain (Paperback) $8.63 In the summer of 1984, a small, low-budget film came out of nowhere and unexpectedly debuted at the number one slot at the box office, unseating reigning champion Ghostbusters and making its star, Prince, a household name. By the end of the year, the f… |
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Master Shots (Paperback) $17.61 Description not available. |
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1941 (Dvd) $9.54 Collector’s Edition Widescreen Steven Spielberg’s 1941 is a big-budget zany comedy detailing the hilarious panic t |
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (DVD) $7.91 Writer-director Kevin Smith`s fifth and final installment of his New Jersey Chronicles (which began in 1994 with the breakout, low-budget comedy CLERKS) is a chance for scene-stealing, foulmouthed stoner Jay (Jason Mewes) and his taciturn sidekick/”h… |
