Sentences with phrase «as video game adaptations»

As far as video game adaptations go, no one was expecting too much from Dead or Alive.

They've also announced dates for some forthcoming films like the sequels to Fifty Shades of Grey, and also shifted some films arriving over the next few years, such as the video game adaptation Warcraft from Duncan Jones, the sci - fi sequel Pacific Rim 2 from Guillermo del Toro and the first official movie that kicks off Universal's classic movie monsters franchise reboot, The Mummy.

Now playing is DreamWorks» take on the Fast & Furious franchise as the video game adaptation Need for Speed, made by stuntman - turned - director Scott Waugh (of Act of Valor), starring Aaron Paul from «Breaking Bad» and Dominic Cooper from The Devil's Double and Captain America.

Back in 2012, Cyberpunk 2077 was announced as a video game adaptation by CD Projekt Red of the Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop roleplaying game and came with a short teaser trailer which gave us insight into the style and composition of the game's universe.

Not exact matches

After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

In October 2006 the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) endorsed video games as a potential means for teaching «higher - order thinking skills, such as strategic thinking, interpretive analysis, problem solving, plan formulation and execution, and adaptation to rapid change.»

Basak explained that strategy - based video games include, not only real - time strategy games, such as «Rise of Nations,» which was used in her research, but also computer adaptations of strategy board games such as «Settlers of Catan,» a favorite among physicists and mathematicians; «Ticket to Ride,» for geography lovers; and especially the classic strategy game of chess — all played with a time constraint.

Unlike video game adaptations like the Tomb Raider series or Assassins Creed, which have to contend with years of accreted mythos and complicated character - building, Rampage was always going to be on pretty safe ground, as long as it featured a giant ape, lizard, and wolf pounding some buildings to powder.

Following shortly thereafter with the John Travolta thriller The General's Daughter, West confirmed his standing as a Hollywood player and was soon priming up for his biggest challenge to date, the big - screen adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider video game franchise.

It fails as a horror movie, a video game adaptation and a film worth the three dimensions.

Alien: Isolation is one of the most faithful video game adaptations you're ever likely to play, coming across as an homage to Alien and a like - for - like recreation of the used future Ridley Scott introduced us to in 1979.

Still, there's something to be said for a video game adaptation being an interesting and well - intentioned failure and not a raging garbage fire, as is often the default with this kind of movie.

You'll soon find out as Tecmo Koei ports this second video game adaptation of the Fist of the North Star manga series stateside.

I'm also approaching this as someone who thinks Michael Fassbender and Justin Kurzel making a video game adaptation is just plain fascinating.

Michael Fassbender, one of Hollywood's A-list, heads the cast which includes such luminaries as Marion Cotillard (who co-starred with him in last year's Macbeth, directed equally by Kurzel), Brendan Gleeson and Jeremy Irons, giving the piece a built - in pedigree unlike almost any other video game adaptation in history.

Not much as changed with the idea that video game to film adaptations are never a good idea, «Silent Hill: Revelation 3D» ensures that trend, and while it's dazzling at times, it will leave an audience hungry for a better movie and experience.

Deadline reports Ready Player One, Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline's bestselling sci - fi novel, is scheduled for a December 15, 2017 release date, meaning instead of reading about a kid playing video games, you'll get to watch a kid play video games, an activity universally agreed upon as being the most fun.

Yesterday we saw an extended TV spot for Duncan Jones» upcoming video game adaptation Warcraft [watch it here], and now we have a brand new poster for you... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Warcraft UPDATE: And here's a quad poster... The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a -LSB-...]

In case you're sick of movie adaptations and audio books, World War Z will be a video game as well.

Johnson also has another Fast and Furious movie on the cards, as well as an adaptation of the Rampage video game, action - comedy Central Intelligence, a Baywatch movie and the comic - book film Shazam!

He's listed as the screenwriter for the Halo (Xbox Video Game) film adaptation.

As for when we'll next see Gleeson, he's part of the cast for In The Heart Of The Sea, arriving December 26, and the actor has just finished work on video game adaptation Assassin's Creed, which is currently set to arrive exactly a year later.

While I like the action and do think that the movie captures the video game on which it is based very well, there is one fundamental problem with Doom, and this problem is also the same for most video game adaptations as a whole.

As with any video game adaptation, there are going to be challenges when it comes to turning Shadow of the Colossus into a film.

However, I'm not here to review the video game, as there are many other sites for that, I'm here to review this movie adaptation.

With just two days to go until Assassin's Creed arrives in US cinemas, 20th Century Fox has debuted a new clip from Justin Kurzel's hotly - anticipated video game adaptation entitled «Father's Blade», which features Michael Fassbender and Jeremy Irons; take a look below after the official synopsis... SEE ALSO: Michael Fassbender says Assassin's Creed planned as first instalment of -LSB-...]

Ahead of its release this coming week, Flickering Myth's Jack Gracie got a chance to speak with Roar Uthaug and Graham King, director and producer of the latest big screen adaptation of the classic video game series Tomb Raider, starring Alicia Vikander as the iconic adventurer Lara Croft.

Two new images have arrived online from the highly - anticipated video game adaptation Assassin's Creed featuring Michael Fassbender as both Callum Lynch and his 15th Century ancestor Aguilar; take a look below... SEE ALSO: Watch the latest trailer for Assassin's Creed Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) experiences the adventures of his -LSB-...]

It has already been confirmed that this adaptation will be set in the same universe as the video game series.

The movie currently boasts the highest Rotten Tomatoes critical score for a video game adaptation with 50 %, but US audiences haven't embraced it as widely as international markets.

While I wouldn't mind playing with some of these side characters and superfluous plotlines in a video game, as an adaptation of a beloved work that has enchanted many millions of readers, young and old, I'm left longing for a different kind of fan film — the inevitable one in which someone edits out all of the stuff not from the writings of Tolkien — and makes it the movie it always should have been from inception.

This sequel to the surprise hit adaptation of a popular video game, Mortal Kombat, sees John R. Leonetti (The Butterfly Effect 2), cinematographer for the first film, take over the reigns from Paul W.S. Anderson as director, mostly to disappointing results.

Last week, up - and - comers Adelaide Clemens (Mad Max: Fury Road) and Kit Harrington (Game of Thrones) were announced as the leads in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D - the long - gestating follow - up to Christophe Gans» 2006 adaptation of Konami's popular video game serGame of Thrones) were announced as the leads in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D - the long - gestating follow - up to Christophe Gans» 2006 adaptation of Konami's popular video game sergame series.

New Line Cinema's sequel to the surprise 2013 horror hit «The Conjuring» is set to dominate the weekend, even as it faces off against Universal's big - budgeted video game adaptation «Warcraft, which is expected to tank at the domestic box office.

As New Regency and Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed gears up to go into production later this year, Deadline has revealed that Oscar - winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose, The Dark Knight Rises) has signed on for a mystery role in the video game adaptation.

Any hope that «Warcraft» would be the first great video game adaptation is promptly squashed within the opening 30 minutes, and it only gets worse from there as the audience is forced to suffer through the convoluted plot (including an unearned romance between Lothar and Garona), a clunky finale that's more interested in setting up future sequels than providing a satisfying conclusion, and a handful of unmemorable action sequences.

Whether or not you're looking forward to the film, the original remains as of the few video game adaptations that stayed...

According to THR, the «Fright Night «actress is in talks to star as an exotic luxury car dealer to the wealthy alongside Aaron Paul in the video game adaptation that's set to release February 7, 2014.

Shawn Levy discusses his role as producer on Arrival, Stranger Things season 2, the Uncharted video game movie adaptation - and more!

While we've all been warned about strangers in cars pulling up alongside us as kids, it appears EA's video - game series, NEED FOR SPEED, has done just that with it's big - screen adaptation set to be helmed by ACT OF VALOR's Scott Waugh.

As it stands, the evidence on offer in his rendition of Macbeth shows little else than that the $ 170 million video game adaptation Assassin's Creed he has signed up to may well be the perfect project for Kurzel (and I mean this in both a positive and a negative sense).

Justin Kurzel «s (Macbeth) film is a gloomy and moody video game adaptation that doesn't make a man reliving an ancestor's memories, as he fights in 15th Century Spain, as entertaining as it sounds.

As we inch toward summer blockbuster season, one of the biggest question marks on the calendar is the video game adaptation Warcraft.

As the release for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (the conclusion to Paul W.S Anderson's adaptation of the video game franchise) draws near, Screen Gems has kicked up the marketing push a notch by debuting five new character posters showcasing Milla Jovovich as Alice, William Levy as Christian, Ali Larter as Claire Redfield, Iain Glen as Dr. -LSB-..As the release for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (the conclusion to Paul W.S Anderson's adaptation of the video game franchise) draws near, Screen Gems has kicked up the marketing push a notch by debuting five new character posters showcasing Milla Jovovich as Alice, William Levy as Christian, Ali Larter as Claire Redfield, Iain Glen as Dr. -LSB-..as Alice, William Levy as Christian, Ali Larter as Claire Redfield, Iain Glen as Dr. -LSB-..as Christian, Ali Larter as Claire Redfield, Iain Glen as Dr. -LSB-..as Claire Redfield, Iain Glen as Dr. -LSB-..as Dr. -LSB-...]

Matt Rodgers on the best ever video game movie scenes... The first part of 2018 will see two high profile videogame adaptations hit the big screen in an attempt to do what 2016's Assassin's Creed couldn't, by breaking a curse which has stretched back as far as 1993's infamous Super Mario Bros. movie.

The Angry Birds Movie is lousy with stars as it is, with Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Bill Hader, Peter Dinklage, Keegan - Michael Key, Tony Hale, Ike Barinholtz, Hannibal Buress, Jillian Bell, Danielle Brooks, Romeo Santos, and Smosh (a.k.a. Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla) all set to lend their voices to the video game adaptation.

you're implying that cheesy movie adaptations of video games are on the same level of entertainment as coprophagia and induced vomiting?

Nintendo has been extremely protective of its various IPs when it comes to screen adaptations since the disastrous release of 1993's Super Mario Bros. live - action movie, so it came as quite the surprise when it was announced that the video game giant is teaming up with Illumination Entertainment to bring Mario back to the big -LSB-...]

Tomb Raider probably won't go down as the film that finally broke the video game movie «curse», but it does show that video game adaptations can make for decent (if disposable) genre entertainment.

In spite of this, the good video game movie is one of the most elusive in the industry, as in reality the number of good video game adaptations, or even passable ones, can still be counted on one hand.