Sentences with phrase «for cinematic adaptation»

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

The Age of Innocence (1993) is not the only costume drama or historical picture that Martin Scorsese made but it is his only classical literary adaptation from the filmmaker that, all these years later, we still remember for edgy violence and cinematic energy.

For higher or worse, Rampage the movie neither aspires to be prime cinematic pop artwork like fellow recreation adaptation Assassin's Creed nor makes an attempt to wreck the online game film mould, a l. a.Warcraft and this 12 months's Tomb Raider.

Zack Snyder's stylishly violent swords and sandals epic, 300, was a surprise box office smash (taking in $ 456 million worldwide in the spring of 2007), but no one kids themselves into believing that his cinematic vision was not responsible for that chest - beating comic book adaptation being so enjoyable to watch.

Today, Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. revealed the opening cinematic for the next installment in the popular video game adaptation of the MMO inspired anime, Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet.

Deakins, who'd started his cinematic career in documentaries, brought his naturalistic style to Frank Darabont's adaptation of a 1982 Stephen King novella about a man unjustly sentenced to life in prison for murder.

Branagh is a talented, Oscar - nominated actor and director perhaps best known for his five cinematic Shakespeare adaptations (Hamlet, etc.), as well as other theatrically influenced films.

Today, Bandai Namco Entertainment America Inc. revealed the opening cinematic for the next installment in the popular video game adaptation of the...

Overall this all seems like a major marketing push for a film which could grab a fair sized audience, but let's not forget the box - office disappointments of BEAUTIFUL CREATURES and THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES, showing that popular female - centric Young Adult adaptations don't always rake in big cinematic crowds.

Despite Thomas Pynchon's knack for vivid, cinematic language and his own avowed love of film, his novels haven't exactly proved easy to adapt for the big screen, primarily because they're so densely constructed that any adaptation would be, by its very nature, a dumbing down — and even then you'd still run the risk of ending up with something completely incomprehensible.

Keeping in mind that this film has obviously gutted many of the bells and whistles that make reading a Rowling work such a pleasure for millions, as a movie — viewing it solely as a standalone cinematic work, rather than a mere adaptation — it's probably the most successful of the series thus far.

Naughty Dog's video game series of the same name is considered one of the best action - adventure titles in modern gaming history, and the studio's cinematic approach to the story and gameplay make it the perfect choice for a movie adaptation.

With that said, this live - action adaptation does have a few things working in its favor, including director Kenneth Branagh, whose cinematic sensibilities are tailor - made for the fairy tale genre, and Cate Blanchett as the evil stepmother.

A movie musical based on a stage musical built on pre-existing music certainly has some of its work done for it right from the point of cinematic conception, but even with such a head start, Clint Eastwood still applies enough tender, heartfelt identity to his adaptation, Jersey Boys, to make the screen version a touching endeavor.

That knowledge makes the already graceful cinematic language of Lynne Ramsay's film adaptation (the Scottish director's third feature, and her first in a regrettable period of nine years) all the more remarkable: altering not a jot of narrative detail, Ramsay and co-writer Rory Kinnear have ingeniously hollowed out Shriver's wordy text into a largely tacit, imagistic memory collage that substitutes sound and vision for dialogue as extensively as possible.

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.

Haynes» adaptation is up there with Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin as an example of how to retain the soul of a book while transforming it for maximum cinematic effect.

We'll have to see if «Need for Speed» amounts to much more than another forgettable title in the long lineage of cinematic video game adaptations, but the racing game has proved quite profitable over its 18 titles, which recently saw the release of «Need For Speed: The Run» with actors Sean Faris and «Mad Men» and «Drive» beauty Christina Hendricks providing a little character to the serifor Speed» amounts to much more than another forgettable title in the long lineage of cinematic video game adaptations, but the racing game has proved quite profitable over its 18 titles, which recently saw the release of «Need For Speed: The Run» with actors Sean Faris and «Mad Men» and «Drive» beauty Christina Hendricks providing a little character to the seriFor Speed: The Run» with actors Sean Faris and «Mad Men» and «Drive» beauty Christina Hendricks providing a little character to the series.

With Spider - Man Homecoming swinging into theaters next month, I got a few minutes to chat with director Jon Watts about his take on Spidey, integrating with the larger Marvel cinematic universe, and what the success of films like Logan and Deadpool mean for comic adaptations.

Considering that the games were designed to be an interactive cinematic blockbuster, releasing a silver screen adaptation seems like a distinct step sideways for the franchise.