Sentences with phrase «director of the film adaptation»

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As Disney was wrapping up production on A Wrinkle in Time, the latest film from lauded director Ava DuVernay and an adaptation of the beloved children's book, out Friday, the production team reached out to Rodeo FX to add finishing touches on a selected scene.

The Golden Globe - nominated director of Selma, Ava DuVernay is going to direct a film adaptation of the acclaimed fantasy novel, A Wrinkle in Time.

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.

An adaptation of Hiroaki Samura's manga series, the film is another violent offering from the director behind 13 Assassins.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of a late 19th - century novel by Theodor Fontane is an austere period piece that may be the least characteristic of the German director's films.

Following the success of Witness, Ford re-teamed with the film's director, Peter Weir, to make a film adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel The Mosquito Coast.

The fourth film, Goblet of Fire, was ably but unmemorably directed by Mike Newell (who, in a truly odd coincidence, is scheduled in 2012 to become, with Cuarón, the second Potter director to release an adaptation of Great Expectations).

Though when he originally concieved an adaptation of the timeless tale of Pinocchio Benigni envisioned the film as starring himself with famed director Federico Fellini at the helm, the director's death left Benigni the director of what would be one of the most expensive films in Italian film history.

Neil LaBute's debut film was an adaptation of his own darkly comedic 1992 play, and its provocative, Mamet-esque dialogue marked the writer - director as a rising star in indie film world in the late 1990s, while also launching the career of star Aaron Eckhart, here playing one of a pair of coworkers seeking cruel revenge against women.

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.

This feels like the best way to explain the prevailing attitude and atmosphere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first in director Peter Jackson's three - film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

So far so gripping, but despite the promise of the original tale, this filmed adaptation from director Rupert Goold feels oddly underwhelming.

Contributing to screenplays for the great Polish directors Andrzej Wajda (Danton) and Krzysztof Kieslowski (Three Colors), Holland has spent most of the past quarter - century making films in the West, including adaptations of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and Henry James» Washington Square.

The best - selling novel by J.K. Rowling (titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in England, as was this film adaptation) becomes this hotly anticipated fantasy adventure from Chris Columbus, the winner of a high - stakes search for a director to bring the first in a hoped - for franchise of Potter films to the screen by Warner Bros..

After a change of pace with the action film Hanna 65, director Joe Wright returns to the world of literary adaptations starring Keira Knightley (they previously collaborated on Pride & Prejudice 82 and Atonement 85) with this highly stylized take on Leo Tolstoy's classic novel.

This shimmery, darkly comic adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides» novel marks the assured, often inspired feature film debut of writer - director Sofia Coppola.

The exceptions hover film greatness: Rebel Without a Cause, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Dazed and Confused, The Breakfast Club, and Say Anything... Along comes young director James Ponsoldt and his adaptation of Tim Tharp's novel.

Making a film adaptation of Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize - winning 1997 novel American Pastoral, often named one of the best books of the 20th century, would be daunting to any director.

«We don't want this to be a superhero film; we want it to be a film that embraces what it is to be human,» director Justin Kurzel said from the set of his adaptation of Assassin's Creed.

While David Fincher's film underlined the sharp wit and moral ambiguity of Gone Girl, this latest Flynn adaptation starts off with the handicap of a less gripping yarn, combined with the uneven track record of director Gilles Paquet - Brenner (Sarah's Key, Walled In).

BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL: The pressures of the social obligations from the recent Portuguese economic crisis in how to approach this loose adaptation of «One Thousand And One Nights» cut deep into director Miguel Gomes.

Tony - winning «Fences» star and director Denzel Washington vies for the Oscar with the anticipated film adaptation of August Wilson's classic drama.

But film director Ang Lee is reported to be in talks to direct a film adaptation of «Life of Pi» by Yann Martel.

Sutherland recently completed filming The Leisure Seeker with Helen Mirren for director Paolo Virzi, and was «President Snow» in all four enormously popular film adaptations of The Hunger Games series.

This site was founded in July 2011 after its founder Crystal got wind of Gavin Hood being selected as director for the film adaptation Ender's Game.

The Italian actor - turned - director fails to draw anything substantial out of his stars Penelope Cruz (who he worked with on his previous film, Don't Move, another adaptation of a Mazzantini novel) and Emile Hirsch, though the unbelievably phony dialog would stumble up even the best of thesps.

A director and screenwriter as well as an Oscar - nominated actor (and former «30 Rock» co-star of TODAY guest host Jane Krakowski), James Franco has a new project: a film adaptation of William Faulkner's classic «The Sound and the Fury.»

In true Wright fashion, this isn't exactly a straightforward adaptation; the director has set much of the film in a lush theater that uses over 100 interconnected sets to allow the action to move fluidly through various settings.

Josh Boone is still stated as both the film's writer and director, but will be directing Samuel L. Jackson in the Stephen King adaptation of The Revival next.

In true Wright fashion, this isn't exactly a straightforward adaptation; the director has set much of the film in a lush theater that uses over 100 interconnected sets to allow the action to move fluidly through a door and into a separate setting entirely.

Since they first collaborated on 2002's Far From Heaven, Ed Lachman has been an integral part of Todd Haynes» core team, serving as cinematographer on films as complex as the director's experimental 2007 Bob Dylan biography I'm Not There or as straightforward as 2015's Patricia Highsmith adaptation Carol.

After penning the adaptation of «L.A. Confidental,» one of the finest films of the 1990s, and directing the exceedingly cool, nasty little throwback «Payback,» writer / director Brian Helgeland marks his return to the crime genre with «Legend.»

With his adaptation of M. L. Stedman «s bestselling novel, writer - director Derek Cianfrance wanted to make The Light Between Oceans a cross between a John Cassavettes movie and a Dean Lean film, a personal tale told against an epic backdrop.

Director Steven Spielberg will reportedly be creating a virtual world with a film adaptation of the novel «Ready Player One.»

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has tweeted the first image from director Gore Verbinski's 2013 film adaptation of The Lone Ranger.

In the case of Pacific Rim, apparently not much as director Guillermo del Toro seems determined to make sure the film does not to come across seriously, which is disappointing considering del Toro's background making both dark fantasy films with political allegories and creative comic book adaptations.

Indeed, the director had set his sights on remaking Murnau's shuddery unauthorized Dracula adaptation, shooting both German and English language versions and applying his own unique cinematic aesthetic to the oft filmed tale of the bloodsucking undead.

Though he once described his screenplays as more craft than art, Stoppard's literate film adaptations of various works by major authors have matched him with some of the most esteemed directors in international cinema, beginning with Joseph Losey's The Romantic Englishwoman in 1975.

The Cannes Film Festival is in full - swing and acclaimed director Todd Haynes» (Carol, Far From Heaven) highly - anticipated adaptation of Brian Selznick's YA novel Wonderstruck was one of the first films screened at the fest — and it was met with reviews that ranged from raves to lukewarm.

Stoppard notched another «first» when he agreed to step behind the camera as director in order to secure financing for the 1990 film adaptation of his own Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Hot on the heels of last night's first look photo from the set of Fantastic Four, the new adaptation of the Marvel comic book, the teaser trailer for the film from director Josh Trank has arrived.

Based on the novel of the same name by Humberto Constantini, this film adaptation from directors Francisco Marquez and Andrea Testa was a Un Certain Regard contender at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and plays this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

It's an adaptation of a 1971 novel by cult Seventies neo-polar writer Jean - Patrick Manchette, whose Nada became an underrated 1974 film by Claude Chabrol, and whose 1981 novel The Prone Gunman has just been adapted by Taken director Pierre Morel with Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, and Mark Rylance under the rather uninspiring truncated title The Gunman.

Marking Irish director Jordan's second venture into the vampire genre, the film is an adaptation of a play by Moira Buffini called A Vampire Story, which was commissioned as part of Londonâ $ ™ s National Theatre Connections season in 2008.

Director Richard Ayoade «s new film is an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky «s «The Double `, starring Jesse Eisenberg (who worked with Allen on «To Rome with Love «-RRB-.

It was the first time the director of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Where the Wild Thing Are showed any footage from his fourth film in public and it was as quirky and interesting as you've come to expect from Jonze.

Check out two new clips full of good advice from the following films: World War Z — This new clip from director Marc Forster's adaptation of the Max Brooks novel features an officer giving some good advice to Brad Pitt and his family about why one...

Based on the award winning book «The Invention of Hugo Cabret» by Brian Selznick, the film is a faithful adaptation that unfolds beautifully thanks to its heart, director Scorsese.

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

Just yesterday we reported that filming is set to begin this coming September on Don't Breathe director Fede Alvarez's adaptation of The...