Sentences with phrase «into major motion pictures»

Nine of his books have been turned into major motion pictures.

Angela's Ashes (1996) by Frank McCourt and This Boy's Life (1989) by Tobias Wolff were both made into major motion pictures; the British actress Emily Watson starred as McCourt's mother, Angela, and Academy Award winner Robert De Niro played Wolff's stepfather, Dwight Hansen.

The award was inaugurated in 1983 after the untimely death of the iconic science fiction author, Philip K. Dick, whose work has been adapted into major motion pictures such as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report.

Best known from the TV show V, the actress has been making inroads into major motion pictures lately.

A few years later, Hollywood came calling and turned The Book Thief into a major motion picture.

Alten's giant shark thriller MEG is even being made into a major motion picture by Warner Bros..

The third installment of the»50 Shades» franchise hits theaters on Valentine's Fifty Shades of Grey is a bestselling novel by E L James which has now been turned into a major motion picture to be directed by Sam Taylor - Wood.

For that long, Marvel has been trying to get one of their properties - Spiderman, The Fantastic Four, X-Men, or any number of others - out of the pages of a comic book and into a major motion picture.

Obviously, this show must have some appeal to people as they keep showing the damn reruns of it, and here they are making it into a major motion picture.

The original book is also being adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeremy Irons, Margo Martindale and Alice Englert.

The only time the film ever came close to surprising me is in this climax, mostly because the story takes roads I would have gathered to be too stupid to traverse and still get made into a major motion picture release.

David Ebershoff's debut novel, The Danish Girl, won the 2000 Lambda Literary Award for transgender fiction and has been adapted into a major motion picture starring Academy Award - winner Eddie Redmayne.

Some of the same hype that goes into a major motion picture is part of Fuglestad's premieres.

ANDY WEIR is a New York Times bestselling author whose debut novel, The Martian, was later adapted into a major motion picture of the same name directed by Ridley Scott.

After we won that award, Hollywood came along and bought the movie rights to my novel, and is currently developing Beneath a Marble Sky into a major motion picture.

Marti Leimbach is the author of several novels, including the international bestseller Dying Young, which was made into a major motion picture starring Julia Roberts.

Water for Elephants was adapted into a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon, Rob Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz in 2011.

I'm excited to say the book is now being made into a major motion picture!

Any of the perennial bestsellers and books slatted to be made into a major motion picture are often the first ones slatted for production.

Weiner published her debut, Good in Bed, in 2001, and went on to write In Her Shoes (2002), which was made into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine; Little Earthquakes (2004); Goodnight Nobody (2005); the short story collection The Guy Not Taken (2006); Certain Girls (2008); Best Friends Forever (2009); Fly Away Home (2010); Then Came You (2011); The Next Best Thing (2012); All Fall Down (2014), and Who Do You Love (2015).

Mainak was a bestselling author in his native India with titles published by major houses like Penguin and Random House and with one of his novels being made into a major motion picture.

Mainak was a bestselling author in his native India with titles published by major houses like Penguin and Random House and with one of his novels (Herogiri) being made into a major motion picture.

Now her book has been made into a major motion picture.

The Great Passage by Shion Miura, translated from Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter: This award - winning novel, adapted into a major motion picture, about the making of a Japanese dictionary is a reminder that a life dedicated to passion is a life well lived.

Video gamers collectively cheer and moan when word comes Hollywood is adapting one of their beloved titles or series into a major motion picture.

Not exact matches

Almost as a lark, she writes «Bonjour Tristesse» which turns her into an overnight success and is soon to be a major motion picture starring David Niven, Deborah Kerr and Jean Seberg.

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While the performances and solid production values merit attention as far as major motion pictures go, The Queen does seem very much like a television docudrama that somehow got the push to be released into theaters.

Okay, look the Underworld franchise is one of the two major motion picture franchises starring a woman that have gone to spin off into more films over the past 13 years.

But then again, Safe Haven was also released as major motion picture in February, and became the # 1 best - selling Kindle ebook of the year — while not even making it into the top 100 on Amazon's list of the best - selling printed books!

«Community feedback, gathered from Amazon Studios» crowdsourcing model, triggered the idea for [this] popular project to be adapted into a digital comic that would be shared with audiences for feedback and tested for viability as a major motion picture.»

Four — The Pact, Plain Truth, The Tenth Circle, and Salem Falls — have been made into television movies, and My Sister's Keeper was a major motion picture released by New Line Cinema and starring Cameron Diaz.