Sentences with phrase «film treatment»

What might have worked as a 10 - minute segment on Funny or Die, is instead unnecessarily given the feature film treatment.

In Martin Scorsese's film treatment of the novel, due in select theaters today, the legendary director and devout Catholic will no doubt be exploring these themes.

Since being announced for film treatment back in 2010, this was a project on the radars of both the public and the press.

It also encouraged the company to explore other recognizable brands for live - action film treatment, something they would do voraciously over the next few years.

An updated re-imagining of Jack London's classic novel based on the adventures of White Fang, whose viewpoint matches the book in that it can be captured in the animated film treatment.

Despite emerging from America's war on drugs as a billionaire gangster antihero, the closest that Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has ever come to getting a major film treatment was the Vinnie Chase vehicle Medellin on Entourage.

Thomas Hardy's romantic Victorian novel of class, labor and the fickle finger of love, «Far From the Madding Crowd,» earns a stately yet earthy and full - blooded film treatment from the Danish director Thomas Vinterberg.

The first Ant - Man received the genre film treatment with a superhero twist on the heist movie, and its sequel Ant - Man and the Wasp promises to dip into a genre that Marvel has never touched before: the romantic - comedy.

Blizzard Entertainment's long - running Warcraft video game series and super-successful MMO get the big budget film treatment exploring the early days of the Orc horde escaping the land of Draenor and invading the human world of Azeroth.

After all, Batman and Superman have reigned supreme at the box office in decades past and there are countless other characters at DC with as much history and familiarity to warrant film treatment.

Another book, Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America, is a 2004 narrative nonfiction treatment from Vintage of the same material, optioned by Leonardo DiCaprio for a possible film treatment.

«Six Bridges to Cross» (1955), 7:15 p.m.: In the first feature - film treatment of the Brink's robbery, the «Crime of the Century» becomes a character study, with Tony Curtis as the mastermind (here named Jerry Florea).

(Especially now, as Marvel is currently developing more than two dozen properties for film treatment.)

It's been revealed Naoshi Komi's romantic comedy manga Nisekoi: False Love is getting the live - action film treatment.

What might have worked as a 10 - minute segment on Funny or Die, is instead unnecessarily given the feature film treatment, hurdling towards a limited release for audiences at theaters where beer is served so they can have an excuse to laugh.

In an email to Valleywag, Forman explained that he's completed a film treatment about the unintended consequences of civilian drones.

Draw Something creator Charles Forman has written a film treatment about the unintended consequences of civilian drones — and now he wants your feedback.

This story was definitely ripe for the film treatment, as its core story is gripping and revealing.

I felt that the original film adaptation, The Haunting, by Robert Wise had been so enjoyable and affecting that to create another film treatment would ruin people's views of the story and not make the effort to see the original.

Much is made about how the war changed him, and that probably could have been given a film treatment of its own.

Kubrick hired Aldiss to write the film treatment and began putting together a much - needed dream team to get this film underway.

How about seeing The BFG get the book - to - film treatment?

When: July 22nd Why: This is the 50th anniversary of «Star Trek,» so here's hoping that the franchise gets the film treatment it richly deserves.

«Robocop» reboot scribe Josh Zetumer will pen the screenplay, which is based on a film treatment by legendary Marvel Comics writer and «Gambit» co-creator Chris Claremont.

The ramifications of killing for art's sake have long been fair game for film treatment, especially in movies that tap the horror - comedy vein, whether the target of the humor is the reception of the resultant artworks (Roger Corman's A Bucket of Blood gives it in the neck to Beatnik poseurs) or else their inspiration (Herschell Gordon Lewis's sanguinary variation on the theme, Color Me Blood Red).

After creating Spider - Man and countless other Marvel characters, Stan Lee is finally getting the film treatment

That the new book then took 15 years to reach the screen is indicative of the challenges it poses to anyone attempting a film treatment.

Working alongside Wilson creator Clowes, Johnson has a tough time balancing the films tonal shifts between oddball comedy, life affirming drama and romantically tinged musings and it often feels like the film is uncomfortable in its own skin as we're taken along from scene to scene and scenarios that worked in the graphic novel don't quite come across as well in the film treatment.

This regularly happens when a critically acclaimed Broadway theatre show gets the film treatment.

Before the goofy inventor - dog pair got the feature film treatment, they were the stars of popular short films that turned them into British cultural icons.

There are books out there that don't necessarily lend themselves to the film treatment.

Apparently the book - to - film treatment has been a long time coming, though the last drive ended with a punt to a 1994 TV miniseries starring Gary Sinise and Molly Ringwald that got mixed reviews.

In three short years, her Hunger Games trilogy has sold a copious amount of copies and has received the feature film treatment.