Sentences with phrase «film adaptions»

Just look at how many mediocre or downright bad licensed superhero games there were prior to Rocksteady's seminal Batman: Arkham Asylum, or how many bad book to film adaptions there are for every Blade Runner or Lord of the Rings?

Rob Marshall, who specialises in film adaptions of Broadway musicals, is directing.

What I am about to say applies not just to Harry Potter, but to other book to film adaptions, such as Lord of the Rings.

With the battle raging between the Little Sisters of the Poor and the Federal government on the HHS Mandate, some writers have likened their case to the trial of St. Thomas More as seen in Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons or Fred Zinnemann's famous film adaption.

With the imminent release of its film adaption, its audience is bound to increase exponentially.

It's like reading a book and visualising what the individual character would look and act like, and having that illusion shattered when you see the the film adaption where the actor is not what you visualised... for example Christian Grey

However, when watching the film adaption, that illusion maybe shattered when seeing the chosen actor.

Check it out below after the official synopsis... Inherent Vice is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first ever film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel.

Surviving Mars is almost entirely based on theoretical science and, like Andy Weir's The Martian and its film adaption (which it owes a few inevitable debts to), occupies a «five minutes into the future» time period.

After the record - breaking success of this summer's DCEU film adaption of «Wonder Woman,» which explores the origins story of the title character, the creation of the superhero is now being explored in the new biopic, «Professor Marston and the Wonder Women.»

We still have Suicide Squad in August (the classic untested film adaption to anchor the summer) and November's Doctor Strange, but the big blockbusters came shockingly early this year.

Veteran French filmmaker François Ozon found inspiration for his latest film Frantz from a post-WWI play by Maurice Rostand that inspired the 1932 film adaption by Ernst Lubitsch, Broken Lullaby.

Perhaps Rupert will make the feature film adaption of Black Hole.

Iconic actor Michael Caine is set to join the cast of The Secret Service, which is a film adaption of a comic book.

The actress won the award for her portrayal of Fantine in Tom Hooper's film adaption of the musical «Les Miserables.»

The film's director is Rob Marshall, who was also behind the camera for Into The Woods and the 2002 Oscar - winning film adaption of Chicago.

Alex Garland's film adaption of the novel Annihilation has been accused of whitewashing two of the main characters.

This film adaption managed to still do the job and in much less time.

James Corden brings Peter Rabbit to life in the first trailer for the live - action / CGI film adaption of Beatrix Potter's classic novel.

As such, the selection of Rob Marshall to helm the film adaption of Sondheim's Into the Woods was not a that inspired much confidence: his disappointing Nine drew glaring attention to his repetitive tricks and ticks as a director...

This is especially impressive for a YA film adaption; a genre that rarely reaches this degree of intellect.

The manga is available through Crunchyroll, and an anime film adaption has been announced.

Will the film adaption of The Street Of Fruiting Bodies do the same?

The books on it are cultural mainstays; even if we haven't exactly read each one, chances are that we've caught the trailer for the inevitable film adaption.

Like so many, I watched the film adaption of The Martian and was intrigued by the story of survival on an alien world.

Gore Verbinski's film adaption of BioShock has been put on hold by Universal Pictures, according to Variety.

The Alone in the Dark franchise has had its ups and downs, the lowest point being Uwe Boll's film adaption staring Christian Slater as hero Edward Carnby.

What is probably not a coincidence is the fact that Disney is set to release the film adaption of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time the same month and year.

Phwoar, Jake Gyllenhaal reckons he'd consider playing Christian Grey in the film adaption of Fifty Shades Of Grey.

Not exact matches

Compared to major studio projects like the forthcoming Aaron Sorkin adaption of Walter Isaacson's popular biography of Jobs, this film was made on a shoestring, with an estimated budget of just $ 8.5 million.

Officials at the Abbey, by the way, refused to allow any filming of the movie adaption on their premises because they could not «commend or endorse the contentious and wayward religious and historic suggestions made in the book.»

What makes X-Men better than other comic book adaptions (say, The Phantom or Punisher) is that the film style is very loyal to comic book styles.

This was exactly as i hoped another adaption of an Irvine Welsh novel would be after thoroughly enjoying both Trainspotting (film) and Ecstasy (book).

Adapted by esteemed crime writer Dennis Lehane from his short story «Animal Rescue,» the movie doesn't have the same cynicism as past adaptions of the author's work («Mystic River,» «Gone Baby Gone»), but it's a grimy little crime drama that harkens back to the great Sidney Lumet films of the 1970s.

«Room,» an adaption of the best - selling novel about a woman raising her young son inside a solitary room, won runner - up in the best film race.

Variety reports that Jenkins will direct an adaption of James Baldwin's «If Beale Street Could Talk,» the first film as part of his deal with Annapurna Pictures and his own shingle, PASTEL.

I am anxiously awaiting that film since I have heard it is a close adaption to the Timothy S. Susanin's book of the same title.

Over the years watching lots of films based on books, I have learned to look at any adaption in and of itself, and how well it is done as A MOVIE.

WHY: Adapted by esteemed crime writer Dennis Lehane from his own short story, «The Drop» doesn't have the same cynicism as past adaptions of the author's work, but it's a grimy little crime drama that harkens back to the great Sidney Lumet films of the 1970s.

Baby Doll — This Elia Kazan adaption of two Tennessee Williams plays (Williams also wrote the screenplay) lacks the appeal of Kazan's greatest films, largely, I think, because it doesn't have the star power of On The Waterfront, East Of Eden or A Streetcar Named Desire.

I've been told by those who have read the novels, that director Mike Newell botched this adaption, but I can only comment as an individual who has only seen the films and not read the novels; and from that standpoint I have to say I enjoyed Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire very much.

The new film, The Man Who Invented Christmas, is an adaption of the non-fiction biography by Les Standiford on Dickens and how «A Christmas Carol» created the modern day traditions of Christmas.

While amazing to look at, but the film overall isn't really my favorite adaption of Macbeth.

Many films debuted over the Christmas Day weekend including the long in development video game movie adaption Assassin's Creed by 20th Century Fox and Ubisoft.

Clearly, female filmmakers don't make only rom - coms; they also make historical dramas, adaptions of novels, musicals, animated films and workplace films.

Directed by Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes) and written by Bahrani and Amir Naderi (Vegas: Based on a True Story), the film is a modern adaption of Ray Bradbury's classic novel.

We reported that Jennifer will be teaming up with Hunger Games director, Gary Ross, to film two adaptions.

There's still over a full calendar year until Warcraft — the big screen adaption of the MMORPG World of Warcraft — hits screens, but details about the Duncan Jones - directed film were revealed Friday at BlizzCon — the convention held by Blizzard Entertainment, producers of WoW.

American adaptions of foreign films have an important task to accomplish: they must seamlessly adapt themes of another culture for an American audience.

The film is an adaption of the Stephen King novel, which was famously made into a television miniseries in 1990.