Sentences with phrase «book as a feature film»

In spite of several lines about how romantic comedies have given people seriously messed - up expectations about the way the world works, it's unsurprising that Tropper is already working on adapting the book as a feature film.

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Features and news on arts, music, film, books and entertainment in Japan and overseas, as well as listings for concerts, film, art, stage, events and Dating in Japan is not the same for foreign men and women.

These are some reviews of the features released in 2005 that have generated the most discussion and interest among film critics and / or the Batman begins making a name for himself just as the flamboyant Joker takes over the Mafia in director Tim Burton's adaptation of the comic book.

Based on Gregory Miller's book Public Enemy No. 1, G - Men was reissued in 1949, with an added prologue featuring David Brian as an FBI trainer who advises his students not to laugh at the old - fashioned costumes and slang in the 1935 film; seen today, it is Brian's superfluous opening comments that seem hopelessly dated, while the film itself is as exciting and entertaining as ever.

Now, as Garcia pointed out, she's biased about that Star Wars project because it features Alden Ehrenreich, who starred in the film adaptation of her book, Beautiful Creatures.

At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.

The plot borrows many narrative elements from The Matrix, which itself, truth be told, borrowed many elements of its own from comic books and martial arts films, so it's hard to qualify this feature as a direct rip - off.

If fans had wondered when — as all high - profile SNL cast members eventually do — Fey would set her sights on feature films, their curiosity would soon be answered when it was announced that Fey would be writing and appearing in Mean Girls (2004), an adaptation of author Rosalind Wiseman's popular book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence.

The Clockwork Girl is in production as a stereoscopic 3D computer generated feature film based on the comic book series published by Arcana.

In addition to running original fiction by major authors (Stephen King was a regular), the magazine contained features about older writers such as Lovecraft and Machen along with book reviews by Thomas Disch, film reviews by Gahan Wilson, interviews and more.»

Directed by Edgar «Spaced» Wright, co-written with Wright by Simon «Spaced» Pegg (who also stars as Shaun), and featuring other comic stars from «Spaced» (Nick Frost, Jessica Stevenson), as well as from «Black Books» (Dylan Moran, Tamsin Grieg) and even «the Office» (Lucy Davis), «Shaun of the Dead» is like a who's who of talent from the most cutting - edge British TV sit - coms of recent times, which is why it is much funnier than British comic films like «Bridget Jones» Diary», Johnny English and Love, Actually — and unlike those other films, «Shaun of the Dead» is nightmarish for all the right reasons.

Following graduation, Rodriguez booked her first lead role in the feature film «Tiny Dancer,» before breaking out with her performance as the title character in «Filly Brown.»

The KidFilm program will include a sneak preview of the new live - action feature film The Great Gilly Hopkins, starring Julia Stiles, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, Billy Magnussen, Octavia Spencer, Bill Cobbs and Sophie Nélisse (The Book Thief) as Gilly Hopkins.

Writer Jason Fuchs and director Joe Wright (Atonement, Hanna) have created a Peter Pan «origin» story that lacks any touch of whimsy or enchantment from the original books or the numerous film adaptations: the 1953 Disney animated classic, the 1991 Steven Spielberg / Robin Williams / Dustin Hoffman vehicle, the underrated 2003 live action version from director P.J. Hogan, or even last year's Live TV broadcast featuring Allison Williams as Peter.

Comedy Central's popular comedy series has explored avenues outside of television, such as video games, books, and a feature film.

The sequence, fittingly titled «Belle,» features Watson as the titular character, fleshed out by the townspeople, made up of the film's chorus, who — like the townspeople in the animated version — don't understand why Belle is all about the books, and not about acting like everyone else.

But as with her queerness, her pop inclinations are a feature, not a bug, and it is difficult to separate Dirty Computer from the larger narrative of resistance across the arts today; from A Wrinkle in Time, a film dedicated above all else to instilling wonder and empowering young viewers; from Gabby Rivera's (now sadly discontinued) America comic book series, one centering a young, queer Latina, America Chavez, who repeatedly declares she is America; from An American Marriage, Tayari Jones's latest novel that emphasizes to be black is to be American.

The rest of the supplements are bite - sized pieces: «Welcome to New Penzance» features footage of the locations, «Set Tour with Bill Murray» is a quick 3 minutes, Bob Balaban introduces short segments of actress Kara Hayward (Suzy) reading excerpts from the (fictional) books featured in the film, and «Cousin Ben» features additional footage of Jason Schwartzman as Cousin Ben.

If you've read all seven issues of the graphic novels, it would seem conceivable to adapt the book into a feature film, as the work is astonishing.

Programmes like BLACK BOOKS, ASYLUM and DOCTOR WHO feature heavily from this cavalcade of stars, as do films such as THE HITCHHIKER»S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY and even the HARRY POTTER series.

I've not read Naomi Alderman's hit book on which the film is based, so perhaps that emotional remove is a feature of the novel as well.

In an interview with Comic Book Movie, Johnathon Schaech spoke about his upcoming role as Jonah Hex and whether or not he'd watched the previous «Jonah Hex» feature film.

There is white lightning shimmering on the Internet prairie today, as Turok, the Native American comic book hero / dinosaur hunter / video game is apparently headed to theaters in a live - action feature film.

Harrison Ford and Abigail Breslin Join Ender's Game: As I plow through Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game the book gets better and better and the same is true of the feature film version's cast.

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.

Often, the films seem to have been made as companion works to the books, rather than as complete, stand - alone features with their own interpretation of the source material.

A literature festival filled with authors, workshops, and round table discussions; comic book guests, publishers, and retailers; a film festival, featuring underground films as well as the drive - in classic, Night of the Living Dead; entertainment that includes ice sculpting with power tools, dance, songs, and laughs.

Beautifully animated (the technology just keeps on getting better), the film features wonderful vocal cameos from the likes of Sigourney Weaver (Avatar)-- my favorite, by far — as well as Ed O'Neill (Modern Family), Ty Burrell (also Modern Family), Idris Elba (The Jungle Book), Diane Keaton (And So It Goes) and Eugene Levy (Schitt's Creek), among others.

As Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Bad Boys II, and Legally Blonde 2 touch down in theatres, Die Another Day, The Jungle Book 2, and the Brady Bunch movies land on DVD, and then there are the cross-promotions: It seems like everyone wants a piece of the fallout from Universal's big - screen Hulk, with Fox, Buena Vista, Anchor Bay, and Universal itself issuing «Hulk» - branded discs prior to the feature film's June 20th opening.

The franchise has also been licensed into other media, such as television series, comics, children's books, and a critically lampooned feature film.

The game's story was written by the Eisner Award - winning comic book writer Matt Fritchman (known for his work as the writer of The Invincible Iron Man, The Immortal Iron Fist, Uncanny X-Men, and Hawkeye for Marvel) and featured the voices of Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Jaimie Alexander reprising their roles from the film.

Check out a few new photos featuring the character Tomar - Re from the upcoming DC Comics comic book film «The Green Lantern» by director Martin Campbell (Edge of Darkness, Casino Royale, 36) stars Blake Lively (Gossip Girl, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee), Peter Sarsgaard (Knight & Day, Orphan) and Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Proposal) as The Green Lantern.

There will be retail - exclusive editions as well, featuring: Target (with a 36 - page book of concept art from the film), Walmart (with an Alien Day fan t - shirt), and Best Buy (with Steelbook packaging featuring the baby Xenomorph).

Booknet would offer 24 - hour - a-day programming, including such features as author interviews, readings, news and reviews, teaching segments, and perhaps book - based films.

We were even offered a spot as actors on a feature film in Hollywood focused on bullying and a book deal.

That the first of Ian Fleming's Bond books actually featured a Bentley is inconsequential, as is the fact that the 24 - film franchise has had the spy in everything from an AMC Hornet to a Toyota 2000GT.

It provides appropriate content for children and families — e.g. feature films, series, audio books and audio plays — on tablets such as the Apple iPad to keep rear passengers entertained.

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Back in January, The Gotham Group (who manages the film rights to my books) asked if I was interested in their being attached to Lunch Lady as producers for a possible live - action feature.

Other publishing houses that Mark Malatesta has secured contracts with include Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's, Hyperion, Prentice - Hall, Workman, Andrews - McMeel, Entrepreneur, Barron's, Amacom, and many more... resulting in millions of books being sold, as well as works being picked up for TV, stage, and feature film (with companies like Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks).

As an agent, Mark secured contracts with publishers like Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's, Hyperion, Prentice - Hall, Workman, Andrews - McMeel, Entrepreneur, Barron's, Amacom, and many more... resulting in millions of books being sold, as well as works being picked up for TV, stage, and feature film (with companies like Paramount Pictures and DreamWorksAs an agent, Mark secured contracts with publishers like Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's, Hyperion, Prentice - Hall, Workman, Andrews - McMeel, Entrepreneur, Barron's, Amacom, and many more... resulting in millions of books being sold, as well as works being picked up for TV, stage, and feature film (with companies like Paramount Pictures and DreamWorksas well as works being picked up for TV, stage, and feature film (with companies like Paramount Pictures and DreamWorksas works being picked up for TV, stage, and feature film (with companies like Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks).

Some book agents take a primary role in exploring (and negotiating) the sale of subsidiary rights for books such as: foreign editions, translations, book clubs, licensing, merchandising, stage, TV, feature film, serial rights for magazines, etc..

Their books have been optioned for television, stage, and feature film with companies such as Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks.

And... the query letter sample structure below is what I used to get book deals with houses like: Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's, Hyperion, Prentice - Hall, Workman, Andrews - McMeel, Entrepreneur, Barron's, Amacom, and more... resulting in millions of books being sold, as well as works being picked up for TV, stage, and feature film (with companies like Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks).

Mark's authors have been published with houses such as Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Penguin Random House; gotten 6 - figure book deals; appeared on the NY Times bestseller list; had their work optioned for TV, stage, and feature film with companies such as Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks; won countless awards; and had their work licensed in more than 40 countries, resulting in millions of books sold.

One of the most striking new features of the phone which may cause alarm to bookshops is the Firefly function, which allows phone owners to use the in built camera to recognise texts, images and sounds in the vicinity such as a book, film or CD, and link to the Amazon store for customers to buy it directly.

In most cases a major Hollywood adaptation all but automatically puts a book in the NYT bestseller list for at least a couple weeks and it's relatively cheap for publishers to put out a new edition featuring the film actors / poster as a cover to draw in even more people who would otherwise have not read the book, especially since a popular film adaptation means the books will be shown face up on tables or in special displays all over the place.

The popular multimedia franchise began as a series of books and was later turned into feature length films that have grossed over 2.2 billion dollars.

«While there are poem - based feature films such as Beowulf, it was hard to imagine my book of prose poetry, Camouflage for the Neighborhood, being made into a book trailer.

Kickstarting (or, more broadly, crowd funding) as Phil explains, is «an Internet - based program where creative people can pitch potential supporters to raise funds to produce a short - or feature - length film, record music, publish a book, and many other products.»