It runs something like this: groundbreaking low-budget comedy, impeccably free of interference from the suits and trading on the poor schlub candour of its online begetter – Louis CK, a comedian of cult standing.
Searching for plays suitable for the Halloween and Christmas seasons, he found that the pickings were slim, so he created his own versions of "Night of the Living Dead," Frank Romero's groundbreaking 1968 low-budget horror film, and the 1964 kiddie flick "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians," another that has gained cult status since first playing in movie houses.
It opened years behind schedule and about $100 million over its budget at groundbreaking in 2001.
I knew about the rave reviews, the record $100 million budget, the groundbreaking special effects work, the cutting-edge CGI/morphing effects and the ridiculous stunt work.
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla)., who led the hearing, lamented that NASA has to scale back its groundbreaking work because of budget woes.
Pitt takes on the innovative general manager, who has and still operates the baseball team on a shoestring budget, using groundbreaking statistical analysis to guide player drafting, signings and trades.
The first phase of the project, with groundbreaking expected late this year or early next year, is budgeted at $51 million.
Sadly, that "wow" ended along with the belle epoch of independent films--the 1990s when the Sundance Film Festival launched the careers of countless filmmakers who made groundbreaking films on shoestring budgets.
The jury that selected Zaha Hadid's groundbreaking but now hugely over-budget plan for the London Olympics aquatics centre raised worries about its cost and design before it was chosen as "the jewel in the crown" of the 2012 site.
In the cinema, Wonder Woman would be held up as some kind of groundbreaking feminist standard, a big-budget superhero adventure starring a female heroine.
