Sentences with phrase «about adaptation by»

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Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

Freakonomics: The Movie (available on Netflix and Hulu) is Chad Troutwine's documentary film adaptation of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives - based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.

There's a curious and discouraging article in the November 20th Entertainment Weekly magazine about producers» efforts to «sell» the upcoming film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road to Christians (by way of their pastors).

Though he recognizes that what justice requires changes with changing circumstances, his thought about justice is so dominated by a «sense of things fixed» that little if any place is left for personal adaptation in its exercise.

[1][2] It is a contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument for the existence of God, presented by its advocates as «an evidence - based scientific theory about life's origins» rather than «a religious - based idea».

Guided by staff, children engage in conversations at their level of understanding about the appearance, behavior, habitat, and adaptations of our resident reptiles, birds, and small mammals.

«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

NCAR's research is paid for by the National Science Foundation, and Busalacchi predicted that future research will shift toward more precise computer modeling and include more interdisciplinary research about the risks and the adaptation that is, or is not, happening along coastlines.

Despite rainfall decreasing by about 7 inches annually in the grain belt located in Western Australia since the 1970s, wheat production has increased, and Eckard said that's because farmers have employed adaptations such as planting species with shorter growing seasons, dry sowing seeds and tilling fields less often.

By the time you sit down at the table in December 2009, you are missing the last four years of what we now understand about climate, adaptation, mitigation, security and about all sorts of interactions with our society.

According to the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, global average storm surge damages could increase from about $ 10 - $ 40 billion per year today to up to $ 100,000 billion per year by the end of century, if no adaptation action is taken.

In some cases the conflict between the role of science and traditional knowledge has been difficult to resolve, and there is a worry that discourse about adaptation may be used selectively by powerful stakeholders to advance particular pathways and political agendas.»

All the suggested anatomical and physiological adaptations can be explained by other hypotheses, which fit much better with what we actually know about the ecology of ancient hominins.

This means that by studying the effect of genetic changes during the domestication of dogs we can also learn about our own species» adaptations to the environment and related diseases.

About BIOACID: Since 2009, more than 250 BIOACID scientists from 20 German research institutes have investigated how different marine organisms respond to ocean acidification and increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater, how their performance is affected during their various life stages, how these reactions impact marine food webs and elemental cycles and whether they can be mitigated by evolutionary adaptation.

Although it is difficult to draw conclusions about the presence or lack of functional adaptations from a comparative study between different subjects, the finding of Herzog and colleagues (Herzog et al., 1991) supports the hypothesis that length - dependent adaptations may be provoked not only by immobilisation but also by habitual activity and the functional demands it imposes.

About these lovelies; inspired by my 2 - Ingredient Nutella Brownies, and by all my bloggy friends» Samoa adaptations, I created these delicious Samoa Peanut Butter Bars and ate half the pan!

Oregon, USA About Blog AltShift works by not only asking what we should eat to be healthy and lean, but also when we should eat those things to halt adaptation to fat loss.

Many have to refuse many things from those which were reached by them in their former life and start from nothing... A few words about an adaptation problem.

Marivaux's plays are probably best experienced on a stage, preferably in a production directed by Stephen Wadsworth, whose dazzling adaptations on the West Coast have brought about a Marivaux resurgence.

John Cameron Mitchell's rock opera about a transgender East German rocker made a surprisingly strong transition to the big screen — thanks, in no small part, to retaining Stephen Trask's great songs and retaining Mitchell in the lead role — in an adaptation that took advantage of the switch in medium by enlivening some of the musical numbers with quirky animations by Emily Hubley.

Drive screenwriter Hossein Amini makes his directorial debut with this adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1964 novel about a vacationing American con artist and his wife (played by Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst, respectively), and a Greek - speaking American tour guide (Oscar Isaac) who forms a dangerous bond with the couple.

Veteran director Walter Hill helms this graphic novel adaptation about New Orleans (or, going by the film, Crescent City - NOLA's nickname) hitman James «Jimmy Bobo» Bonomo (Sylvester Stallone) who teams up with greenhorn D.C. cop Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang) to bring down the killers of their respective partners.

McEwan's theme, exquisitely celebrated in the adaptation by Stephen Butchard, the direction by Julian Farino and enviable performances by Cumberbatch, Macdonald and Moore, especially, is about the nature of childhood itself, about how it becomes subsumed in the quotidian routines of adulthood.

There's something to be admired about a film that can gracefully defy simple genre categorization but Submergence feels like a clumsy melange, a confused adaptation made by people who don't seem quite sure what they have on their hands.

Clooney will direct and star in this adaptation of Robert M. Edsel's book about a disparate group of art experts brought together to recover valuable artwork stolen by the Nazis during World War II.

This latest adaptation, by director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Frank, gets it just about right.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

Joanne Whalley was born in Manchester, England and became interested in acting at an early age, appearing in small television roles including the television adaptation of JOBY, a novel by Stan Barstow, and A QUIET LIFE, about writer Beryl Bainbridge.

But the movie about a girl adopted by a German couple during World War II also crystallizes the perils of book adaptations.

This film is based on a 2002 novel by Sono, and though the adaptation came out the same year as his magnum opus Strange Circus (2005), it's clear that in that three year gap he learned a lot about restraint and framing.

Guadagnino is still threatening to produce a remake of Dario Argento's Suspiria to be directed by David Gordon Green, and has three other projects on the go, including an adaptation of James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere and The Reliable Wife (a period romantic - thriller variation on Mississippi Mermaid about a mail - order bride who turns out to be a scheming vixen)...

Black Film reports Paula Patton has been cast as a «villain» in the Stephanie Meyer - produced adaptation of Daniel O'Malley's novel about a young amnesiac woman being hunted by supernatural forces at Starz.

Sossamon and Ed Burns are already aboard the horror adaptation — about terminal, clairvoyant phone messages - which is being directed by Eric Valette in Atlanta as you read this.

Nicolas Roeg's trademark non-linear approach to narrative is put to unnerving use in this haunting adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's short story about a couple, John and Laura Baxter (played by Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie), who relocate to Venice in an attempt to come to terms with the accidental death of their young daughter.

We Need to Talk About Kevin, Ramsay's hypnotic cinematic adaptation of the novel by Lionel Shriver, manages to combine her medley of heightened aesthetics with a keenly dark sense of humor and place.

Tangents aside, Big Hero 6, directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, is an adaptation of a little known Marvel comic, about a 14 - year - old boy called Hiro (spectacularly mispronounced as «Hero» by seemingly everyone, bar one character in the film), a total robotics prodigy, with genius level intellect, who participates in underground robot fighting.

While most filmmakers and actors visit the convention generally to promote a comic book movie or an adaptation of some kind, director Oliver Stone and Open Road Films brought a biopic about Edward Snowden (played by Joseph Gordon - Levitt) to Hall H.

These developments — the rise of auteurism, its adaptation to commercial Hollywood pictures, and a new seriousness about the mass culture — combined by the middle 1970s to alter, perhaps permanently, the way we regarded all the films we attended.

Special Features New high - definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill, author of «Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics» Postwar Poetry, a new short documentary about the film New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score «Home, James,» a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O'Herlihy Plus: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith

In this chilling adaptation of the best - selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - December 25 ben Stiller directs and stars in this adaptation of James Thurber's classic short story about a dull man who spices up his life by imagining himself on fantastical journeys around the world.

«When Marnie Was There — The Studio Ghibli production recalls the beautifully hand - drawn production of famed animator Hayao Miyazaki, in this adaptation of a British ghost story by Joan G. Robinson about a young girl whose new friend may be more spirit than girl.»

David Lynch's 1984 feature film starring Kyle MacLachlan is an infamous blip on the prestigious director's career, and a highly ambitious adaptation by avant - garde director Alejandro Jodorowsky only spawned a fascinating documentary about how it failed.

Director Terry George's adaptation of the John Burnham Schwartz novel Reservation Road is a thoughtful and often compelling drama about grief, anger and revenge featuring strong lead performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo as two fathers whose lives are irrevocably linked and altered one fateful night.

Actor John Malkovich talks about his upcoming role in the comic book adaptation «Red» by director...

Actor John Malkovich talks about his upcoming role in the comic book adaptation «Red» by director Robert Schwentke (The Time Traveler's Wife) and starring Bruce Willis (Kane & Lynch, The Expendables), Morgan Freeman (Batman 3), Mary - Louise Parker (Weeds), Helen Mirren (National Treasure: Book of Secrets), Richard Dreyfuss (Lone Star Trixie) and John Malkovich (Transformers 3, Jonah Hex).

The World Made Straight (R for violence, drug use, sexual references and profanity) Adaptation of the Ron Rash novel of the same name, set in the Seventies, about a troubled young man (Jeremy Irvine) eager to escape a rural Appalachian community stained by the legacy of a Civil War massacre.

Special Features Andrei Tarkovsky's short film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's «The Killers,» made when he was a student in 1956 Interview from 2002 with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky about both films Piece from 2002 in which actor Stacy Keach reads Hemingway's short story «Screen Directors»» Playhouse radio adaptation from 1949 of the 1946 film, starring Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters Interview from 2002 with actor Clu Gulager Audio excerpt from director Don Siegel's autobiography, «A Siegel Film,» read by actor and director Hampton Fancher Trailers PLUS: Essays by novelist Jonathan Lethem and critic Geoffrey O'Brien

«The goalposts are moved as the story or contents of the film change, and having several layers of approval — often from people who neither understand nor care about the game adaptation — means that schedules can be thrown off by no fault of of the developers, and all the time they're facing down an unchanging release day.