Sentences with phrase «cinematic adaptations»

Directed by Gisaburo Sugii and distributed by 20th Century Fox in collaboration with other studios, the movie took on a fairly straightforward Street Fighter saga in a way that incorporated as many key characters as possible — something other cinematic adaptations have struggled mightily.

Cinematic adaptations of young adult novels focusing on a dystopian future are nothing new but there are thoughtful films that truly stand out in the crowd (like The Hunger Games series and The Giver) and then there are movies like Insurgent.

The plot of the book, of course, has little to do with the subsequent tale (Tolkien made cosmetic changes to the novel to align it better with the sequel — nothing too drastic), but The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug goes out of its way to connect these long - winded cinematic adaptations to the ones that preceded it.

1931 saw the first cinematic adaptations of one of Coward's most well - known plays, Private Lives.

While Cormac McCarthy is undeniably an American literary icon, cinematic adaptations of his work haven't always fared so well.

Fourteen years later, a literary and film franchise has grown from that first effort, spanning six text sequels and eight cinematic adaptations.

French novelist Gabrielle - Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's classic fairy tale La Belle et la Bête is no stranger to cinematic adaptations.

Sometimes cinematic adaptations are conversations with source material rather than direct representations.

I admit I can be too pedantic about this, as I should accept cinematic adaptations as their own beasts.

Hollywood has shoved it further onto our radars with their cinematic adaptations.

It's true that the disorientation produced in the collision of Igorrr's frenetic style - mashing and Dumont's unadorned long - take aesthetic ensures that the film feels remarkably distinct from prior cinematic adaptations of Joan of Arc's life, but it's also hard not to wonder how this particular story might have played without the farfetched musical conceit grafted atop it.

Unlike other cinematic adaptations, «Death and the Maiden's» director doesn't hide the fact that the film is based on a play.

This cinematic adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel stars Myrna Loy in her first starring role.

King Kong is a lightweight compared to the trio of mutant creatures who climb atop Chicago's famed Willis Tower in Rampage, a cinematic adaptation of the classic arcade game that emphasizes big - budget spectacle over narrative substance.

Their take on the Bard is as imaginative as any other cinematic adaptation, plus a good deal funnier

Most of the time people will rather the original book to the cinematic adaptation.

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.

What You Need To Know: Talked about almost as soon as the original cinematic adaptation of «Sin City» hit back in 2005, it seemed for a long time that Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller would never get a second go - round for their black - and - white crime tales.

This week, the first cinematic adaptation of Suzanne Collins» «Hunger Games» trilogy is hogging the home video spotlight.

The Oscar - winning director Peter Jackson returns to the Middle Earth of his deservedly acclaimed The Lord of the Rings movies for this cinematic adaptation of Tolkein's first visit to that mythical land.

When it was announced that the Captain Marvel movie would see Carol Danvers going up against the Skrulls, we all instantly wondered... is a cinematic adaptation of «Secret Invasion» on its way?

Acclaimed filmmaker Steven Spielberg is all set to helm his first superhero movie and it is going to be none other than DC's cinematic adaptation of the comic - book character Blackhawk.

After months of speculation, rumors, and false reports, Fox's new cinematic adaptation of «Fantastic Four» has a cast.

Release: Friday, April 17, 2015 [Theater] Written by: Rupert Goold; David Kajganich Directed by: Rupert Goold True story: Rupert Goold's cinematic adaptation of the memoir penned by disgraced New York Times writer Michael Finkel elicits more yawns than being forced to sit through days» worth of testimony in an actual courtroom would.

So we come to Coriolanus, the first cinematic adaptation of one of Shakespeare's lesser - known plays.

When she and director / writer Stephen Chbosky came to Boston, I was able to talk to them about that and plenty of other things having to do with both the book and its upcoming cinematic adaptation starring the likes of Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay.

In retrospect, I should not have read Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation — the first volume of his «Southern Reach» trilogy — just before watching director Alex Garland's cinematic adaptation of it.

The tale of a friendly stray mutt turned war hero is the kind of true story built for cinematic adaptation.

The cinematic adaptation gradually builds up to the gruesome murder of the forty - four year old entrepreneur Bryan Kocis (Stephen in the movie), because he was standing in the way of a couple of gay adult film producers who wanted to hire Brent.

From Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, who gave us the 1998 Dogme film The Celebration and the 2012 Best Foreign Language nominee The Hunt, Far from the Madding Crowd — the fourth cinematic adaptation of Hardy's novel (the most famous of which is the 1967 John Schlesinger version)-- is a gorgeously photographed period piece, and one of the fastest - paced films about the 19th century that I have ever seen.

Jennifer Merin: Dee Rees cinematic adaptation of Hillary Jordan's novel is epic in scope.

While not as psychologically acute as The Talented Mr. Ripley or Ripley's Game, the latest cinematic adaptation of Patricia Highsmith is a gripping thriller in the key of Hitchcock.

With its heart so clearly in the right place, it's hard to come down too hard on Martin Duffy's same - named cinematic adaptation of Brook's text, but the film is so intent on capturing the spiritual aspects of its title character and its namesake that it gives short shrift to the tragedy of its familial disintegration, discarding subtlety, too, in its proselytizing wake.

Cloud Atlas is not, in short, a novel that easily lends itself to cinematic adaptation.

Depending on how you feel about family dysfunction, your reaction to the latest cinematic adaptation of a Tracy Letts play may be fascination, repulsion, some combination of both, or just plain boredom.

As of this writing, Tom Hooper's cinematic adaptation of the hugely famous musical has a score of 55 on Metacritic.

Ava DuVernay — American Writer, Director, Producer Nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe and winner of the BAFTA and Emmy, Ava DuVernay is a writer, director, producer and film distributor known for the historical drama Selma (2014), the criminal justice documentary 13TH (2016) and the recent Disney's cinematic adaptation of the classic children's novel A Wrinkle in Time.

In particular, del Toro and his co-screenwriter Matthew Robbins (Mimic) seem to have taken A.S. Byatt's 1993 book Angels & Insects — or its 1995 cinematic adaptation — reversed the genders of the main characters, and added elements of the supernatural.

As entertaining as the film may be, it's somewhat disheartening that Rampage is being turned into a movie before certain other titles which would seem to be far more suited to a cinematic adaptation.

There's no word yet as to who is playing each of the Children of Thanos or why their fifth member Supergiant was omitted from the cinematic adaptation, but no doubt more information will continue to flow as we head towards the 2018 release date.

This cinematic adaptation of Allan Knee's play no doubt romanticizes reality to some degree.

With its doomed love story and Civil War backdrop, Margaret Mitchell's lush melodrama was ripe for cinematic adaptation, but could still have been made a hash of.

The 1945 cinematic adaptation of Mildred Pierce, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring, of course, Joan Crawford, is a very different beast to the 2011 HBO mini-series starring Kate Winslet.

Popova provides a list of «free versions of, tributes to, and derivatives of» Carroll's 1865 classic, from a Russian translation with awesome illustrations to a video of the earliest cinematic adaptation of the book (c. 1903).

Kingdom Hearts χ Back Cover is a cinematic adaptation of the 2013 browser based game Kingdom Hearts χ (pronounced «chi») that was eventually made into a mobile game.

Not exact matches

X-Men brings to the screen the elements that any live comic book adaptation should offer, resulting in a lightly enjoyable cinematic experience.

But that could have also meant that we'd get a slapdash and rushed adaptation of Sestero's book, one of the most fascinating tales of unbridled cinematic creativity ever put on paper.

Director Lenny Abrahamson seamlessly translates Donoghue's work into cinematic terms with his relentlessly compelling adaptation.

If the cinematic war between Batman and Superman were determined by their past film adaptations, here's who would win and lose.

De Bont's effects - riddled remake of the»63 spook - out adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel is not nearly as creepy as either its cinematic or its literary precedents.