It certainly isn't for the money; the amount that he makes on the "Up" series is a fraction of what a director earns on a big-budget project like a James Bond movie.

It seemed they all wanted the film's writer and director, then only 28, to take on big-budget projects that would make him rich.

Catering to big-budget projects, his design firm has garnered a reputation for the renovation and decoration of sprawling apartments, houses and offices.

Several other ambitious Hollywood scripts, including a big-budget project for Howard Hughes at RKO entitled "Pilate's Wife", came to nothing.

YOU don't often find her in such big-star, big-budget projects.

The scale of the infrastructure built here to handle the "Rings" movies increases the pressure to find big-budget projects to sustain it.

The critical success of Taxi Driver encouraged Scorsese to move ahead with his first big-budget project: the highly stylized musical New York, New York.

Still, the actress is not expecting to star in a big-budget project.

The producer of one big-budget project in Mexico said he had to make "a six-figure payment" to a provincial military commander to secure official cooperation.

In addition, some women, she conjectured, may not be "tenacious" enough to cope with the enormous pressure that comes with trying to get big-budget projects off the ground.