She was pleased to take on a larger scale film, after having worked on low-budget independent films, and compared the experience with "finding an unicorn in your sock drawer".
These have been documented in epochal, large-scale films like "Shoah" and "The Sorrow and the Pity".
Meanwhile, its plan to help produce a pair of large-scale films based on "The Hobbit" was long delayed.
Since Eisenstein's large-scale films were presented as historical documents, he found himself having to rewrite history to suit the whims of Stalin.
There were few large-scale films featuring fencing in the 1950s and '60s, as Hollywood shifted its primary focus to realism and psychological drama.
In future, the director suggested, audiences will be expected to pay more to see large-scale films than their more understated counterparts.
The films are scheduled for release in December 2012 and December 2013, and provide a pair of much-needed, large-scale films for Warner and MGM.
But Mr. Affleck, Ms. Bigelow, Mr. Hooper and Mr. Tarantino — who all made relatively large-scale films that have attracted a wide audience — were snubbed in the Oscar voting.
As Stokes rounds up his crew, and takes them close to actual warfare, the movie feels like a cross between the jaunty "Ocean's Eleven" and one of those large-scale films from decades ago about misfits operating behind enemy lines, like "The Dirty Dozen".
Even large-scale films can be easily prepared via a template synthesis.
It is estimated that on average some 800 people are likely to be involved in film production on the site every day, although when large-scale films are being made there may be as many as 1,800 people employed, from extras to carpenters.
