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In its third Friday in theatres, the modestly-budgeted football drama flattened its competitors, including some little teen flick called New Moon.
Friday Box Office – NEW MOON Blitzed by THE BLIND SIDE – Collider.com 2009
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Back in 2004, a modestly-budgeted stoner comedy, sporting a juvenile-sounding title and featuring two unknown leads, became an unexpected cult phenomenon.
Hullabaloo 2008
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Wizards 1977 -- directed by Ralph Bakshi, this modestly-budgeted feature made some coin.
Archive 2006-03-01 Steve Hulett 2006
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It simply means that instead of being a tentpole epic ... in 3D, it's a modestly-budgeted thriller ... in 3D.
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EW.com -- "Chronicle" sacked "The Woman in Black" at the box office on Super Bowl weekend, but both modestly-budgeted films exceeded industry expectations and brought in strong grosses for their respective studios.
CNN.com 2012
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He immediately began taking on any job that came his way, and by the end of the first year, he and his team had begun creating the make-up effects for such motion pictures as "Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny" and "Mission: Impossible: III," as well as a number of other, more modestly-budgeted, productions.
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Lionsgate with the new, as it is both an original, innovative work of American independent filmmaking that characterizes the best of what comes out of this festival as well as the type of modestly-budgeted thriller Lionsgate is now known for.
Film School Rejects 2010
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That modestly-budgeted thriller followed a home-bound teen convinced that his neighbor was a killer and provided a breakout role for its young star, Shia LaBeouf.
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The 1984 martial arts hit was a modestly-budgeted revenge flick about a 98-pound weakling who gets bullied by classmates after he and his mom relocate to California.
EURweb 2010
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Jackman was convinced that Hood was the right man for the job after he viewed Hood's modestly-budgeted "Tsotsi," a penetrating drama set in Johannesburg about a hardened teenage criminal whose life is changed when he becomes emotionally attached to an infant left in the back seat of his car.
The IESB 2009
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