Sentences with phrase «lead in the film adaptation»

But here's Twilight Time to revive that memory: Ms. Kelly plays the female lead in the film adaptation of the Off Broadway show The Fantasticks, a movie about a carnival and a scheme two get two «bickering» neighbors» kids married off to one another.

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Jeffrey Ma was a key player toward the end of the team's run, and is the basis for the lead characters in both Ben Mezrich's book Bringing Down the House and the 2008 film adaptation, 21.

When Gwyneth Paltrow was 22 years old, she got a role that would take her from actress to star: The film producer Harvey Weinstein hired her for the lead in the Jane Austen adaptation «Emma.»

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.

Her work in the action - packed comic book adaptation lead to a part in John McTiernan's Rollerball (2002), a remake of the»70s film about the futuristic world of sports.

In 1978, he starred in Kleiser's film adaptation of Grease, this time essaying the lead role of 1950s greaser Danny ZukIn 1978, he starred in Kleiser's film adaptation of Grease, this time essaying the lead role of 1950s greaser Danny Zukin Kleiser's film adaptation of Grease, this time essaying the lead role of 1950s greaser Danny Zuko.

In 2011, she starred in the leading role of Estella in Mike Newell's film adaptation of GREAT EXPECTATIONS followed by one of the female leads in THE RIOT CLUIn 2011, she starred in the leading role of Estella in Mike Newell's film adaptation of GREAT EXPECTATIONS followed by one of the female leads in THE RIOT CLUin the leading role of Estella in Mike Newell's film adaptation of GREAT EXPECTATIONS followed by one of the female leads in THE RIOT CLUin Mike Newell's film adaptation of GREAT EXPECTATIONS followed by one of the female leads in THE RIOT CLUin THE RIOT CLUB.

Other nominees include Australian actor Margot Robbie, who began her career playing Donna Freedman in the long - running soap Neighbours and made her name in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street opposite Leonard DiCaprio, and Shailene Woodley, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in the 2011 film The Descendants, starring George Clooney, and took the lead role in the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our Starin the long - running soap Neighbours and made her name in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street opposite Leonard DiCaprio, and Shailene Woodley, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in the 2011 film The Descendants, starring George Clooney, and took the lead role in the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our Starin Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street opposite Leonard DiCaprio, and Shailene Woodley, who was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in the 2011 film The Descendants, starring George Clooney, and took the lead role in the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our Starin the 2011 film The Descendants, starring George Clooney, and took the lead role in the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our Starin the 2014 film adaptation of The Fault In Our StarIn Our Stars.

The 23 - year - old leads the teen action franchise and also had fans in tears last year with the big - screen adaptation of John Green's popular film The Fault in Our Stars.

Remember that scene in The Blues Brothers where Jake Blues catches the Holy Ghost while watching James Brown lead a leaping, flying congregation of black folks in a gospel blowout?That's the spirit — the soul — of Dreamgirls, Bill Condon's film adaptation of the long - running Broadway musical.

While the book became a bestseller and a counterculture classic of the time, Douglas produced a Broadway adaptation with himself in the lead role of Randle P. McMurphy and spent years trying to get a film version off the ground.

He was Saoirse Ronan's love interest Eddie in How I Live Now, the 2013 film version of Meg Rosoff's novel, and played the lead role in Sadie Jones» television adaptation of her own novel The Outcast.

Only last night to be bring you a stylish new international poster for Scott Waugh's film adaptation of video game NEED FOR SPEED, and now a UK quad come racing in for the fast - paced thriller led by Aaron Paul.

After bringing you a look at lead Aaron Paul preparing for his role in a «driving school» featurette yesterday, we've an official look at the feature film adaptation of video game, NEED FOR SPEED in another mini video.

The casting realm has two shining stars this week, Liv Tyler who snagged the lead in Ti West's The Side Effect and Diane Kruger who's set to join the latest Stephenie Meyer book - to - film adaptation, The Host.

Dame Maggie Smith leads the cast in The Lady In The Van, a film adaptation of Alan Bennett «s play of the same namin The Lady In The Van, a film adaptation of Alan Bennett «s play of the same namIn The Van, a film adaptation of Alan Bennett «s play of the same name.

While The Last Stand is perceived as a lesser film, it still has the biggest balls of any comic book adaptation to date, killing so many lead characters in one movie.

Christopher Wheeldon's adaptation of the classic 1951 Oscar - winning Hollywood film musical earned mentions for Best Musical, Direction, Choreography, and Best Lead Actor in a Musical.

The Zero Dark Thirty lead will star in and produce a film adaptation of the Jimmy Palmiotti / Joe Quesada comic of the same name.

An obscure actor named Sean Connery, former body builder and soccer player, gets the lead in the first film adaptation of Ian Fleming's spy novel series, made for less than $ 1 million.

Irons is currently shooting the lead role of Miles in Lone Scherfig's film adaptation of Laura Wade's Posh.

Starring Martin Sheen in his mid-life renaissance (he was going gangbusters in TV movies and short - lived series, and kept trying to break back into films, scoring, at best, supporting roles in a couple Stephen King adaptations (Firestarter and The Dead Zone) before securing the lead in 1987's The Believers.

He's dutifully sincere and in awe of the efforts that crafted the film's striking look, but with zero info on the novel, script adaptation, lead actors, memorable character actors, and Mamoulian's obvious style and use of heavy subtext in so many scenes (including the heavy religious iconography that goes bonkers in the final reel), it's a huge lost opportunity for film fans.

Starring Jack Huston in the lead role, the film will be an adaptation of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel «Ben - Hur: A Tale of the Christ», and will actually be the third time the story has been brought to the screen.

In 1995, Thompson scripted and starred in Sense and Sensibility, a film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name, which earned her an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading RolIn 1995, Thompson scripted and starred in Sense and Sensibility, a film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name, which earned her an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Rolin Sense and Sensibility, a film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name, which earned her an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Rolin a Leading Role.

The film opened to number one at the box office with $ 47.7 million, the biggest opening for a video game adaptation since Mortal Kombat in 1995 and the biggest opening for a movie with a female lead.

The film has been casting its young leads in recent weeks, Ryan Reynolds marks the first big star - power for the live - action adaptation of the beloved animated / gaming property.

Outlier Society productions currently include the upcoming «Thomas Crown Affair» remake that will have Jordan starring the the lead role, the forthcoming Netflix series «Raising Dion,» in which he will have a role, and a film adaptation of the YA novel «The Stars Beneath Our Feet» that will see Jordan in the director's chair for the first time.

She was cast as the lead character in the first film adaptation of Veronica Roth's «Divergent» franchise, and was signed to reprise the role in the second movie, «Insurgent».

He stormed the screen as Aragorn in Peter Jackson» epic Lord of the Rings trilogy, lead David Cronenberg's outstanding crime thriller A History of Violence (which lead to a three - film collaboration between the two) and thinned down to a troubling frame in John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and for all the variety Mortensen injects into his roles, the one consistent thread is his supreme dedication.

It might have been intimidating for British actress Hayley Atwell to sign on for the lead in Starz's adaptation of E.M. Forster's literary classic «Howards End,» given the long shadow cast by Emma Thompson, who won a Best Actress Oscar for the 1992 Merchant - Ivory film version.

Denzel Washington is reportedly being pursued for the lead role in the film adaptation of 80's TV show, «The Equalizer.»

The film is an adaptation of a play Hoffman starred in Off - Broadway; Hoffman again plays the lead, reuniting with much of the play's cast.

Actor John Boyega has been cast in one of the main lead roles in James Ponsoldt's upcoming new film The Circle, an adaptation of Dave Eggers» book The Circle.

Our secret pod agency, led by Richard Drumm, recruits imprisoned supervillains, deranged director Paul Farren and Forbidden Planet's elite hit man Scott Adair, to execute a dangerous analysis of the latest American superhero film and save the world from DC Comics adaptations, in exchange for leaner sentences.

Besides the Indian location and the presence of Dev Patel in the leading role (this time playing Saroo Brierly), both films revolve around family and of a young boy ripped from his family at an early age and both were adaptations of a book.

5:45 am (25th)-- TCM — Of Human Bondage Bette Davis won a Best Actress Oscar in 1935 for the film Dangerous, but it's widely believed that it was a bit of a consolation prize for not winning for this film the year before — one of her first prestigious leading roles, in an adaptation of a W. Somerset Maugham novel.

He plays the character Wong in this comic book adaptation and shares the first name as the film's lead actor, Benedict Cumberbatch, which must make things very confusing on set.

Rickman also appeared in several recent Tim Burton - led projects, playing Judge Turpin in Burton's 2007 film adaptation of «Sweeney Todd» opposite Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.

Rising star Amandla Stenberg (who you can also catch in the upcoming The Hate U Give film and a ton of other awesome YA adaptations these days) will take on the lead role.

Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Susan Sarandon will lead an all - star cast in the film adaptation of David Mitchell's 2004 novel, Cloud Atlas.

Also, more and more YA titles are being made into film adaptations, which can lead to stronger sales for the remaining books in a series as moviegoers purchase books to find out what will happen to the characters from a popular movie.

Organized in cooperation with the Frankfurter Buchmesse, Books at Berlinale brought rights holders to 12 books from nine nations to compete for the attention of filmmakers, producers, agents, scouts, any of whose interest could lead to a screen adaptation and a chance at film development.

The original game led to one of the most successful video game film adaptations in history, with the 2013 reboot inspiring a new blockbuster film that embodies the game's signature survival action style.