Sentences with phrase «early film adaptations»

Basil Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes in early film adaptations of stories about the detective, but today's fans have eagerly embraced Holmes in incarnations both classic and more contemporary.

The earlier film adaptations didn't get Lewis right either — some were worse than others — Prince Caspian worst of all.

Some of the earlier film adaptations of games — such as Super Mario Bros. or Street Fighter — at least had something of an excuse for their less - than stellar quality, seeing as the idea of bringing the worlds of video games to life on the big screen was new territory back then.

Not exact matches

And despite less - than - enthused early reviews, Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby has garnered heightened anticipation and excitement over the past few months of lavish themed parties, soundtrack leaks and previews and even special edition fashion lines in the film's honor.

Rodgers and Hammerstein returned to Hollywood in 1955 with their own production company, overseeing the movie adaptations of Oklahoma (1955) and South Pacific (1958); three years earlier, R and H played cameo roles in the New York - filmed Main Street to Broadway, for which they contributed one forgettable number.

After a three - year hiatus from acting, Robbins returned to the screen in 1997 with the comedy Nothing to Lose; he soon announced plans to mount a film adaptation of Cradle Will Rock, the Marc Blitzstein play first staged by Orson Welles six decades earlier.

Though clocking in at a relatively short 119 minutes, the new film has received favorable early reviews, even in comparison to director John Schlesinger's 168 - minute adaptation from 1967 starring Julie Christie, Terrence Stamp, Alan Bates, and Peter Finch.

He did not complete the three volumes until his early twenties: first in print, and then on camera as one of a handful of actors carefully selected for New Line Cinema's highly anticipated, $ 270 million, three - film screen adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

However, Stathams's Killer Elite is completely unrelated to the earlier film and is actually an adaptation based loosely on the events detailed in Sir Ranulph Fiennes» novel, The Feather Men.

When we last checked in on Sony's long - gestating adaptation of the popular video game Uncharted, they had set a release date for June 10, 2016 with Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) with an eye to start filming in early 2015.

After making his mark in the early thirties with two very different films, the anarchic send - up of the bourgeoisie Boudu Saved from Drowning and the popular - front Gorky adaptation The Lower Depths, Renoir closed out the decade with two critical humanistic studies of French society that routinely turn up on lists of the greatest films ever made: Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game (the former was celebrated in its time, but the latter was trashed by critics and audiences — until history provided vindication).

At Searchlight Television, the early emphasis appears to be on mining the studio's feature film library for adaptations, in addition to developing original material.

Liman is finishing a drug film called Mena with Tom Cruise and has several other projects, including the Marvel adaptation Gambit, also on his plate; there's also a planned Edge of Tomorrow sequel, though that's still very early in development.

With a few exceptions — the Roald Dahl adaptation The Witches (1990), or the non-Vietnam War Joseph Conrad adaptation Heart of Darkness (1993)-- the subsequent films failed to pierce public consciousness as keenly as his earlier works.

They have remastered the film for Blu - ray (and an accompanying new DVD edition), which carries over the commentary by Hitchcock scholar Marian Keane and the 1937 radio adaptation with Ida Lupino and Robert Montgomery from the earlier release, along with new supplements.

Filmmaker Sally Potter combines the experimental tools and feminist approach of her earlier films with art - house style and more conventional narrative storytelling to find the cinematic counterpart to Virginia Woolf's writing in this 1992 adaptation of Woolf's novel «Orlando: A Biography.»

Obviously, this film arrives in the mold of earlier Hasbro adaptation Transformers.

While standing in line for Una, the film adaptation of David Harrower's play Blackbird, earlier this week, one of the PR reps for the film told me she had already noticed an audience divide forming around it — men almost uniformly hated it, but women were moved by it.

One of his earliest films was Scott Hicks» 2001 drama «Hearts in Atlantis,» in which he played Bobby, an 11 - year - old boy who spends a fateful 1960 summer with a mysterious older neighbor who introduces him to a world of grown - up wisdom and (this being a Stephen King adaptation) eerie psychic phenomena.

We got our first look at Justin Kurzel's (Snowtown) upcoming Shakespeare adaptation Macbeth earlier this month [see here], and now a new international trailer has arrived online for the film, which stars Michael Fassbender (Slow West) and Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night) as Macbeth and his Lady... Macbeth is the story of a fearless -LSB-...]

Though associated with heritage films set in Britain's imperial past, producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala have collaborated on a variety of masterfully constructed literary adaptations since the early 1960s.

When: March 16th Why: The movie is a Holy Trinity of things that I hate — TV - to - film adaptations, Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum — and yet early buzz for the action comedy has it tipped to be the first breakout hit of the year.

Though as early as 1996 she was reportedly at work on a film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel The Price of Salt, later adapted by Todd Haynes into 2015's Carol, Macdonald has worked exclusively in television ever since, and has been back in view lately for directing the acclaimed new miniseries adaptation of Howards End, scripted by Kenneth Lonergan.

8:00 pm — TCM — The Wizard of Oz Breakout role for Judy Garland, one of the earlier Technicolor films (and one of the first to mix black and white with Technicolor to dramatic effect), and one of the few adaptations where the film is better than the book.

Production designer Alice Normington has worked on various projects set in the Victorian era — a TV movie adaptation of Great Expectations, among others — and stepped into the Edwardian era with great enthusiasm on Sarah Gavron's Suffragette, a film about the early feminist movement in London.

It's been a decade since Cantet won the Palme D'Or for his drama The Class; his accomplished and very promising early films (Time Out, Human Resources) now seem a lifetime away, while neither his English - language Joyce Carol Oates adaptation Foxfire nor the subsequent Return To Ithaca ever actually opened in the United States.

In fact an early scene in which the mythology and back - story of the inhabitants of Barsoom is laid out in voice - over sent shivers up my spine recalling the opening scene of David Lynch's misbegotten 1984 film Dune, a failed big budget adaptation of classic science fiction literature hailed at the time as the «new Star Wars».

It's a big year for movies tackling famous experiments in social psychology; a film adaptation of The Stanford Prison Experiment, conducted by Milgram's friend, Philip Zimbardo, was released into theaters earlier this month.

Their latest collaboration is Dark Shadows, a film adaptation of a cult television show from the late - 60s / early - 70s.

There's a great meta moment early in Tom Hooper's film adaptation of the»80s Broadway musical Les Misérables, based on Victor Hugo's 1862 French novel.

In fact, the new Producers derives from Brooks» 2000 Tony - winning, Broadway stage musical adaptation of his earlier film (and Brooks, enjoying his septugenarian impresario rebirth, has written ten songs for an upcoming stage musical version of Young Frankenstein).

The other major film shown at SXSW this year is not even finished yet, but an early screening of the unfinished The Disaster Artist has generated Oscar buzz for James Franco's adaptation of the book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell's dissecting the creation of Tommy Wiseau's infamous The Room.

Much of his output since the turn of the millennium has been disappointing, save perhaps a few films like Big Fish and (to some extent) his adaptation of Sweeney Todd, heavily relying on frequent collaborator Johnny Depp and (now former, so it seems) wife Helena Bonham Carter and generally losing the depth that made his early output so intriguing, leaving nothing but what could best be described as quirky kitsch.

With a new rumor suggesting the Warner Bros. adaptation could spring back to life (again), this time with Justin Lin at the helm, concept art has resurfaced from an earlier version of the film, remind us that Joseph Gordon - Levitt and Chis Evans were once envisioned as its stars.

Kendrick's big solo number in the crowded ensemble musical adaptation comes early in the film.

Besides the Indian location and the presence of Dev Patel in the leading role (this time playing Saroo Brierly), both films revolve around family and of a young boy ripped from his family at an early age and both were adaptations of a book.

We can thank Francis Ford Coppola for his 1992 adaptation of Bram Stoker's «Dracula» for inspiring Brooks to add to his list of film parodies, but while there are laughs to be had, they're far more hit - and - miss than in his earlier works.

News EW Emily Blunt hears what Julie Andrews says about her casting as Mary Poppins Returns Guardian Anne Hathaway to star in Live Fast Die Hot the adaptation of a bestseller about new motherhood and responsibility Variety Richard Linklater is making a sequel (of a sort) to The Last Detail (1973) called Last Flag Flying / Film early photos from Woody Allen's Crisis in Six Scenes, his new streaming series Towleroad Matt Bomer has signed on to play a trans sex worker in a new film called Anything.

Earlier this year, we reported that Screen Gems and Sam Raimi were set to produce a feature film adaptation of the acclaimed and best - selling game, The Last of Us.

With filming taking place last year Montreal, New Orleans, Mexico and San Francisco, and with stills and a teaser poster for the already surfacing earlier this year, there has been a lot of guesswork about when we might see Walter Salles «highly anticipated adaptation of Jack Kerouac «s «On The Road.»

Franco announced earlier this year that he would be working with Seth Rogen on a film adaptation of the book The Disaster Artist, which tells the behind - the - scenes story of the making of Tommy Wiseau's notoriously terrible cult 2003 movie The Room.

And it's all thanks to his role in Alejandro González Iñárritu's film adaptation of Michael Punke's The Revenant, a brutal and riveting story of an early American fur trapper's wilderness survival and quest for revenge.

I had the pleasure in early September of talking via phone with author / illustrator Brian Selznick about his latest title, Wonderstruck (Scholastic, September 2011), as well as a bit about the 2008 Caldecott winner The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic, 2007); his hybrid style, if you will, of picture book, novel, and graphic novel; and the upcoming film adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, titled simply Hugo, by Martin Scorsese.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the third adventure game starring Lara Croft since the 2013 reboot, which renewed interest in the series and even spawned a new film adaptation earlier this year.

Similar to this year's American Assassin adaptation, it sounds as though the Uncharted film in particular will revolve around the father / son - style relationship between the franchise's protagonist in his early years and the crusty mentor figure, who takes them under his wing.

The 1994 film adaptation was one of the first «video game movies,» following in the footsteps of Super Mario Bros. a year earlier.

Of particular interest for cinema history is Thirty Years of Motion Pictures (1927), Terry Ramsaye's film adaptation of his classic A Million and One Nights (1926) about the early years of the motion picture industry.

In the final chapter the new film work 8, 2007, refers to Brandenburg's adaptation of the the tableaux vivants from earlier works but approaches them in a new way.

Expect to see a diverse selection of works including early examples of Victorian painting and film adaptations, surrealist artists and contemporary photographers.