Not exact matches
After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success
when she took on the lead role in the feature - film
adaptation of the video
game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
When Hollywood realises you can't appease an entire fan base by including all
game aspects in a film
adaptation, this ailing sub-genre will enter a more resolute and artistic place.
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.
As for
when we'll next see Gleeson, he's part of the cast for In The Heart Of The Sea, arriving December 26, and the actor has just finished work on video
game adaptation Assassin's Creed, which is currently set to arrive exactly a year later.
As with any video
game adaptation, there are going to be challenges
when it comes to turning Shadow of the Colossus into a film.
I wonder how seriously
game enthusiasts take film critics
when they review
game adaptations.
With so many LEGO - based movie
adaptations under its belt, there was always going to be a
game for The LEGO Movie
when it touched down this year.
The real test of John Cena's rising comedy star comes this weekend, though,
when Cena's fellow charismatic ex-wrestler Dwayne Johnson plows into theaters with his latest, the absurd arcade -
game adaptation Rampage.
I think I may be in the minority
when I say that I liked Mark Wahlberg in The Big Hit... Don't know whether that's a good thing to come to mind while thinking about this video
game adaptation movie.
When the
games commence, the triumphs of this film
adaptation scurry to the forefront, including the sound design, and the score by T - Bone Burnett and James Newton Howard, which nicely steps in for the bloodcurdling screams of dying teens perhaps too terrible for the target YA audience.
The voodoo pins were out for Michael Fassbender
when it was announced the Oscar - nominated actor would both star in and co-produce a mega-budget
adaptation of Assassin's Creed, the cult video
game about an angry chap in a hoodie who runs along medieval roofs for a living.
It was more than two years ago
when we first reported on a film
adaptation of Gerald's
Game, Stephen King's book about the heartbreak of not knowing where you left your keys, be they to the front door or the handcuffs chaining you to a bed long after your husband has unexpectedly died.
I haven't seen any of it in action, but it's noteworthy
when every other licensed IP is either going experimental (The Twilight Zone) or the safer mobile route, like the
game adaptations of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Penny Dreadful.
Competence tends to be a step up
when it comes to Stephen King
adaptations these days, and for the majority of its run time, Gerald's
Game stands up with some of the stronger examples of the form.
When Oblivion was first announced, I was excited / worried that it was an
adaptation of the Elder Scrolls
game.
When the Resident Evil films are among the best of the lot, the lack of quality video
game adaptations becomes clear.
Disney Interactive's track record wasn't exactly stellar
when it came to video
game adaptations of films.
So push the backlash back until next year,
when Deakins steps up his
game and lenses the 3D IMAX
adaptation of Goat Simulator 1st Alpha Gameplay.
Nintendo has been extremely protective of its various IPs
when it comes to screen
adaptations since the disastrous release of 1993's Super Mario Bros. live - action movie, so it came as quite the surprise
when it was announced that the video
game giant is teaming up with Illumination Entertainment to bring Mario back to the big -LSB-...]
When Josh Trank (still only 29) made it big with «Chronicle,» one of the first projects he started developing was an
adaptation of cult
game «Shadow Of The Colossus.»
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 last film on our list this year might also be the most important
when it comes to the future of video
game movie
adaptations.
Ubisoft did not specify
when we should expect to see the film hit the silver screen — given the typically tumultuous life of video
game adaptations, it might be a while.
«Fruit Ninja Comics» came about
when Halfbrick Studios — the developer of «Fruit Ninja» — and Ape reached out to each other, both unaware the other was interested in working together on a comic
adaptation of the popular
game.
I was obsessed with it in high school to the point where I did a comic
adaptation of it (and
when I wasn't working on that, I was playing the
game.
And
when it does, it will be most likely be attributed to how «people just don't want any more video
game movie
adaptations».
Hollywood has been down this path before
when it comes to video
game adaptations.
When Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet was announced as the next
game in the video
game adaptations, I was immediately interested given my knowledge of the setting.
Though time will tell how the general public will respond to the upcoming release of The Rise of the Cobra in August, publisher Electronic Arts ensures fans and
gamers that its video
game adaptation of the film definitely won't disappoint
when it hits the market in July.
It's not a video
game, but I was a big fan of Joe Dever's Choose Your Own Adventure-esque RPG books growing up so
when I heard there was a Kickstarter for a tabletop
adaptation of his Lone Wolf world, I decided to include it anyway.
When it comes to outstanding experiences that do not fall into the former categories, then I can only think of «Disaster: Day of Crisis ``, by far the most consequent
game ever created, a mix of a disaster - movie
adaptation, the Rock, wii motion controls, every gameplay mechanic you can ever think of and giant hamburgers as medipacks.
Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition is exemplary of the kind of
game that can be crafted
when a company cares enough about a property to give it a proper mobile
adaptation.
The end result is a faithful
adaptation, yet one that feels somewhat out of place, especially
when you look at the lineup of horror
games we've had in the last couple of years.
There was a time, long ago,
when Batman movies got video
game adaptations - even great video
game adaptations.
Even
when they say, «oh no, you will have total control,» well, I don't know anybody who actually has total control over the film
adaptation of their video
game.
Video
game to movie
adaptations have not been very successful over the years,
when it comes to
games based on movies however, there have been some real gems.
So
when you say that we don't have a whole lot of information on Mario himself, I guess Mario - fans still don't like to talk about that most excellent of
game - movies, the masterwork of
adaptation, featuring prolific actor and lovechild of the independent film - scene Bob Hoskins, energetic superstar John Leguizamo and film - legend Dennis Hopper, featuring that most divine of soundtracks, which ended up being such a darling of the criticsphere that it just begged for a reboot?
Square has opened pre-registry for the mobile
adaptation of Final Fantasy XV as well as revealed price info: LOS ANGELES (Nov. 8, 2017)-- Pre-registration for FINAL FANTASY ® XV POCKET EDITION begins today on the Google Play Store, allowing fans with Android devices to receive up - to - date information on the
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The
game has been touted as a technological marvel, with real - time lighting, «eye
adaptation technology» for
when you enter dark buildings, and day / night cycles that influence gameplay.