Sentences with phrase «adapted as a movie starring»

In 2008, Shanley's tale was adapted as a movie starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Flynn's book «Gone Girl» is being released as a feature film this October and her other book «Dark Places» has been adapted as a movie starring Charlize Theron.

Not exact matches

One of the problems «World War Z» has faced all along is that it looks like a high - concept zombie - apocalypse movie (adapted from Max Brooks» novel, told as a series of first - person accounts) but it's really something we don't see that often these days, an old - fashioned Hollywood star picture.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

For sheer entertainment value, though, little in Cannes could best Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist, a black - and - white silent movie about the end of silent movies, starring the rubber - faced Jean Dujardin (a veteran of Hazanavicius's hilarious OSS 117 spy - movie send - ups) as a vain Hollywood matinee idol who digs in his heels and refuses to adapt to talking pictures.

Strengths: Another movie that festival audiences adored is Paul McGuigan's «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool,» adapted from Peter Turner's memoir about Gloria Grahame, starring Annette Bening as the aging star who has an affair with a younger actor (Jamie Bell).

It has now been adapted into a movie called Carol, starring Rooney Mara as Therese and Cate Blanchett as Carol, with direction from Todd Haynes.

It was adapted into a 1986 movie starring Sean Connery as Brother William Baskerville and a teenage Christian Slater as his assistant, the novice Adso, in one of the actor's first big - screen roles.

If the reports are true, he's also busy adapting What We Do In The Shadows for American television, as well as working on a spin - off film starring the original movie's gang of reluctant werewolves.

While Polley has starred in such films as DAWN OF THE DEAD, GO and THE SWEET HEREAFTER, she has been causing a buzz with her film projects, even earning an Academy Award nomination in Best Adapted Screenplay for her movie AWAY FROM HER.

Adapted from a Jonathan Ames novella, the movie stars a heavily bearded Joaquin Phoenix as a severely troubled, hammer - wielding assassin whose latest job will either kill him or give him a reason to keep living.

It's later adapted into a famous play and the Stanley Kramer film Inherit the Wind (1960) nominated for four Oscars 1936 The Devil - Doll, a horror flick directed by Dracula's Tod Browning opens in US movie theaters starring Lionel Barrymore, who masquerades as an old womenfor nefarious purposes -LRB-!)

Official Premise: Adapted from the picaresque novel by Barry Gifford, writer - director David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990) is a scarifying road movie starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as Sailor and Lula, a pair of star - crossed lovers pursued across the American landscape by all manner of horrors.

Summit has debuted the second trailer for Gavin Hood's Ender's Game movie, adapted from the popular sci - fi novel, starring Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin, a young commander in training at Battle School.

It is currently being adapted as a movie, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon, Jeff Daniels, Kate Mara, Jessica Chasten and Kristen Wiig, scheduled for release this November.

The book was adapted into an Oscar - winning movie starring Gregory Peck as Atticus and has become standard reading in schools and other reading programs, with worldwide sales topping 40 million copies.