Next year, we'll see the release of the final film in the long - running video
game adaptation franchise.
Not exact matches
Netflix's
adaptation of the classic video
game franchise is getting a lot of buzz.
Following shortly thereafter with the John Travolta thriller The General's Daughter, West confirmed his standing as a Hollywood player and was soon priming up for his biggest challenge to date, the big - screen
adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider video
game franchise.
While a portion of Disney Interactive's video
game adaptation will follow the events of the animated movie, its Toy Box mode will allow players to create their own adventures using the
franchises iconic characters.
«Tomb Raider» opens this week, and while that has had some
franchise success, these video
game adaptations never saw the light of day.
The «Mama» director is venturing into
franchise territory for the first time with a video
game adaptation
Street Fighter might not be the most obvious
franchise fit for a board
game adaptation, but this new project looks pretty cool all the same.
Bond girl Naomie Harris will join
franchise king Dwayne Johnson in the film
adaptation of the classic video
game «Rampage».
THR reports that Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the filmmakers behind Catfish, are in final negotiations to direct a film
adaptation of the popular Capcom video
game franchise.
«Need for Speed»: A popular video
game franchise, cool car chase and Jesse Pinkman from «Breaking Bad» sure seemed like a recipe for success, but the video
game adaptation failed to create much excitement amongst any of the various fan groups that DreamWorks and Disney were banking on.
The first episode of Telltale Games» The Walking Dead: Michonne is another fantastic adventure and faithful video
game adaptation of The Walking Dead comic book
franchise.
A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky are back with another edition of Film Club to discuss Tomb Raider, the latest
adaptation of the popular video -
game franchise.
In the meantime, you can see Neeson on the big screen in either the currently - playing Wrath of the Titans, this summer's Battleship board
game move
adaptation, the aforementioned second installment in the Taken
franchise this fall - or (POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT) a certain upcoming, hotly - anticipated blockbuster that the actor was recently officially confirmed to appear in.
While the Resident Evil
franchise remains finished, actress Milla Jovovich and her husband Paul W.S. Anderson have begun working on a new video
game adaptation of...
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Titled Tomb Raider, the latest
adaptation of the long - running video
game franchise - which began in 1996 - sees the Swedish Oscar - winner take over from Angelina Jolie who played the character in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and sequel The Cradle of Life (2003).
Honestly, I'd just recommend picking up the
game from 2009 that featured the original cast and is considered by many to be the canonical third entry in the original
franchise; you can find it for under a tenner and it is a much more faithful and respectful video
game adaptation of a revered
franchise.
NEW THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE Rovio Entertainment and Sony Pictures» feature
adaptation of the hugely popular mobile
game franchise took flight in 74 markets this weekend — which is 63 % of the offshore footprint.
As the release for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (the conclusion to Paul W.S Anderson's
adaptation of the video
game franchise) draws near, Screen Gems has kicked up the marketing push a notch by debuting five new character posters showcasing Milla Jovovich as Alice, William Levy as Christian, Ali Larter as Claire Redfield, Iain Glen as Dr. -LSB-...]
They've also announced dates for some forthcoming films like the sequels to Fifty Shades of Grey, and also shifted some films arriving over the next few years, such as the video
game adaptation Warcraft from Duncan Jones, the sci - fi sequel Pacific Rim 2 from Guillermo del Toro and the first official movie that kicks off Universal's classic movie monsters
franchise reboot, The Mummy.
Video
game adaptations are rarely, if ever, a sensible idea and the PlayStation
franchise only has mid-tier name recognition.
Films adapted from video
games have now been around long enough for the first major
franchise reboot (Hitman and Street Fighter don't count), and while this new Tomb Raider movie has more honourable intentions than the shallow Angelina Jolie - starring films from 2001 and 2003, it too suffers from the inherent superficiality that tends to plague video -
game adaptations.
Although the
franchise was largely a financial success and the first movie is often considered one of the better examples of a video
game - to - movie
adaptation, the Resident Evil
franchise attracted mostly negative reviews throughout its six - film run.
Not only did the
franchise defy the rules of video
game adaptations failing miserably at the box office, but it also gave us possibly cinema's best female action heroine since Sigourney Weaver's Ripley.
The upcoming CG animated feature film
adaptation of the hit PlayStation video
game franchise Ratchet & Clank has secured a star - studded voice cast to feature alongside James Arnold Taylor's Ratchet, David Kaye's Clank, Armin Shimerman's Nefarious and Jim Ward's Captain Qwark.
METAL GEAR SOLID: Avi and Ari Arad are producing this long - awaited
adaptation of a popular video
game franchise about a soldier named Snake single - handedly taking down a terrorist organization threatening the U.S. government with nuclear - capable mecha, Metal Gear REX.
METAL GEAR SOLID, the hugely popular video
game franchise, is to get a big screen
adaptation, it has been confirmed.
Now playing is DreamWorks» take on the Fast & Furious
franchise as the video
game adaptation Need for Speed, made by stuntman - turned - director Scott Waugh (of Act of Valor), starring Aaron Paul from «Breaking Bad» and Dominic Cooper from The Devil's Double and Captain America.
Depending on how you look at it, the original Rampage gaming property's lack of plot gives the movie version an advantage / disadvantage over past
adaptations of video
game franchises with denser mythologies (a la Warcraft and Assassin's Creed).
WHY: Hollywood has a pretty awful track record with video
game adaptations, so when it was announced that director Duncan Jones would be bringing the mega-popular «Warcraft»
franchise to the big screen, many people believed that he would finally break the curse.
Of course, given the current form of cinematic video
game adaptations, some would certainly argue that both Gore Verbinski and the Bioshock
franchise dodged a bullet when the planned movie was cancelled.
The Fate
franchise consists of many visual novels, anime
adaptations, manga, and the odd video
game.
Also included is Takashi Shimizu who is the director of the Ju - on film
franchise and it's
adaptation, The Grudge where he will be working as a creative producer and filming a live - action teaser for the
game.
A customized Ford Mustang will serve as one of the stars in an upcoming movie
adaptation of the «Need For Speed» video
game franchise.
The 20 novels range in content and style, from
franchises like Star Trek, Doctor Who, True Blood, and
adaptations of video
games like EA's Dragon Age and Dead Space, to recognizable comic collections like Joe Hill's Locke & Key, The Rocketeer, and Bloom County.
As for what to expect: «The film
adaptation will be a fast - paced, high - octane film rooted in the tradition of the great car culture films of the 70s while being extremely faithful to the spirit of the video
game franchise.
The fighting
game franchise doesn't really demand a film
adaptation, but despite that we now have two.
In other news, the movie
adaptation for the first
game in the rebooted
franchise releases tomorrow.
As if that wasn't enough to make many a
gamer giddy with glee, the trailer also reveals that both Hideo Kojima (Metal Gear
franchise) and Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy 2, Pan's Labyrinth) will be the two creative minds behind this new
adaptation, affectionately known as Silent Hills, while Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead TV series) will be the
game's lead actor.
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franchise has sold over 45 million copies worldwide and inspired one of the most successful video
game film
adaptations in history, grossing over $ 300 million at the global box office with protagonist Lara Croft becoming a contemporary global icon.
Former professional wrestler John Cena, who is now pursuing an acting career, is allegedly in talks to star in a film
adaptation of cult
games franchise Duke Nukem.
Anderson's involvement in the reboot is currently in question, as he is currently busy with a big screen
adaptation of Monster Hunter, another successful video
game franchise of Capcom, set to be released in late 2017 or early 2018.
The latest LEGO adventure is far from the first for TT Games; the video
game developer has produced brick - based
adaptations of a number of big deal
franchises, including Star Wars, Batman, «Jurassic World,», Marvel and many more.
The movie
adaptation of the Monster Hunter video
game franchise has cast Milla Jovovich and will start production in September.
Between night shoots in South Africa, director Roar Uthaug agreed to an exclusive early interview about his
adaptation of the popular video
game franchise.
But alas, the series has proven to be one of the most financially successful videogame movie
franchises to date and has undoubtedly led to increased interest in
game adaptations, for better of for worse.
The job ad says King are looking for a level designer to join them in Stockholm on an
adaptation of one of most popular
game franchises, Call of Duty, which they'll be doing in collaboration with Activision Blizzard.
Print media of the Silent Hill
franchise include a series of comic book
adaptations; [122][123][124] the novels Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3 by Sadamu Yamashita, which are novelizations of their eponymous video
games; [125] the novel Silent Hill: Betrayal by Shaun M. Jooste, which is a unique tale set within the titular town; [126][127][128][129] the guide book Lost Memories; and the art book Drawing Block: Silent Hill 3 Program.
As movie
franchises go, Mad Max is one that's been crying out for a video
game adaptation for a while.
The wrestler - turned - actor is negotiations to star in Duke Nukem, a big - screen
adaptation of the popular video
game franchise featuring the politically incorrect action hero that is set up at Paramount.