Sentences with phrase «make a feature film based»

It was Mr. Hayao Miyazaki's idea to make a feature film based on the original novels.

Global entertainment giant Lionsgate and acquired the rights to make a feature film based on recent Deep Silver hit Dead Island.

Meanwhile, 20th Century Fox has secured the rights to make a feature film based on his experience.

Not exact matches

Kirk discusses how he uses social media to capture a fan base for his brand and to get his books made into a feature film.

Writer and director John C. Walsh based Pipe Dream in part on his own experiences as he was making his first feature film, Ed's Next Move.

Based on the animated feature film from DreamWorks, Madagascar is the only game that lets players enter the world of four hilarious Central Park Zoo animals - a personality - packed crew made up of a lion, zebra, giraffe and hippo.

He made his first feature film, Four Day's Wonder, in 1937 for Universal, but most of his work for the next two years was for Republic Pictures, after which he moved to Columbia Pictures, where his most notable pictures were several entries in the Lone Wolf mystery series, and The Adventures of Martin Eden, based on Jack London's book.

Over the weekend, Variety reported that Legendary Digital Media plans to make a feature - length film based on Capcom's Dead Rising series.

Ben Affleck makes his feature film directing debut with Gone Baby Gone, based on a novel by Mystic River author Dennis Lehane that Affleck adapted with co-screenwriter Aaron Stockard.

Annabelle: Creation is directed by Swedish horror filmmaker David F. Sandberg, who made his feature debut with the horror film Lights Out (based on his own short) last year.

Polaroid is directed by Norwegian filmmaker Lars Klevberg, making his feature directorial debut after a few shorts previously, including the Polaroid short this film is based on.

Annabelle 2 is directed by Swedish horror filmmaker David F. Sandberg, who made his feature debut with the horror film Lights Out (based on his own short) earlier this year.

That cycle was started when Italian actress Monica Vitti, known for her brooding films with Michelangelo Antonioni («L'Aventurra,» «L'Eclisse»), exquisitely took up the mantle of popular British comic strip heroine «Modesty Blaise» (1966), a pop art masterpiece (or train wreck, take your pick), which makes up a double feature with Jane Fonda's turn as «Barbarella» (1968), based on a French comic strip, on Thursday, May 17, at the Castro Theatre.

Loving is Jeff Nichols «fifth feature film outing in less than a decade and while Michael Shannon makes it five for five, this item, which is based in part on the Nancy Buirski's documentary «The Loving Story» is toplined by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga.

Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb (The Jerk, Jaws 2) takes his first stab at directing a feature film, based on the screenplay he co-wrote, and ends up making almost an extended version of the caveman sequence of History of the World Part I, which came out the same year.

Special Features: • Brand new 2K transfer from the original camera negative • High Definition Blu - ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations • Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing • Audio commentary with co-writer and producer Mardi Rustam, make - up artist Craig Reardon and stars Roberta Collins, William Finley and Kyle Richards • New introduction to the film by director Tobe Hooper • Brand new interview with Hooper • My Name is Buck: Star Robert Englund discusses his acting career • The Butcher of Elmendorf: The Legend of Joe Ball — The story of the South Texas bar owner on whom Eaten Alive is loosely based • 5ive Minutes with Marilyn Burns — The star of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre talks about working on Eaten Alive • The Gator Creator: archival interview with Hooper • Original theatrical trailers for the film under its various titles Eaten Alive, Death Trap, Starlight Slaughter and Horror Hotel • US TV and Radio Spots • Alternate credits sequence • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin • Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film, illustrated with original archive stills and posters

Director Bennett Miller has now made three consecutive features based on real - life people and / or events, and to my mind his films suffer from a failure of imagination, skimming lightly (but often self - importantly) over the surface of the verifiable.

To be considered, submissions had to be feature - length films made by U.S. - based or American directors and producers.

Based on Duncan Jones's first two feature films, Moon and now Source Code, the latter of which had its world premiere Friday night here at SXSW, one could say that Jones has a knack not for putting across breathtakingly original ideas in a breathtakingly original way, but for putting across familiar ideas with enough skill, intelligence, and heart to make the end result seem fresh enough.

Along with Peter Weir, Gillian Armstrong, and Bruce Beresford, Schepisi was a key figure in the renaissance of the Australian film industry, making the acclaimed features The Devil's Playground (1976), a semi-autobiographical account of adolescent life in a religious boarding school, and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), based on Thomas Keneally's novel.

In addition to his celebrated acting both on stage and on screen, Hoffman made his directorial debut with the feature film Quartet, based on Ronald Harwood's stage play.

It's rare that a first - time feature director can make as competent a film as Brooklyn - based Daniel Patrick Carbone with Hide Your Smiling Faces.

This is a feature film and not a documentary (on - screen notes at the end explain that while the film is based on meticulous research, some dramatic license was by necessity taken), but Bigelow has a way of making scripted drama feel like an utterly gripping newsreel.

The group made a short film based on their idea, got support from Texas - based screenwriter L. K. (Kit) Carson, took the short to the Sundance Film Festival, and found backing from big - time filmmakers including James L. Brooks, who helped them get money for a feature from Columbia Pictures.

Such is the display of fair - weathered faith in Joshua Marston's fourth feature film, Come Sunday, which relates the true trials and travails of evangelical Bishop Carlton Pearson, who in the late 1990s caused waves amongst his religious community in Tulsa, Oklahoma when he announced God spoke to him and confirmed all souls are eligible to be received in heaven, whether they accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior or not (which also negates the threat of hell, a punishment which has kept communities frozen in antiquated fear - based decision making for centuries).

As has become Criterion's habit, included are a number of features geared toward the cinephiles who make up its fan base, things like film historian Bruce Eder's audio commentary, experts from Francois Truffaut's 1962 audio interview with Hitchcock, and a gallery of production stills.

Freda Cooper talked to the director about using short stories as the basis for a feature film — and why she'd never make a movie in New York.

XYZ Films and Distant Corners Entertainment are teaming up to make Holidays, a horror anthology film that'll feature segments based on holidays such as Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day, Halloween and Mother's Day.

Documentarian Amy Berg makes her feature debut with a slow burn of a mystery, one that takes cues from her amazing fact - based films, Deliver Us from Evil and West of Memphis: the banality of evil, the inequities of the criminal justice system, the abuse that can occur when those who are supposed to love and protect the innocent and vulnerable don't have the best intentions at heart.

A beautiful film in every way, immaculately made, and featuring two pristine actresses glowing across rooms and tousled bedclothes at each other like beacons of tentative, unspoken hope, the film is based on a novel by «The Talented Mr Ripley» and «Strangers on a Train ««s Patricia Highsmith.

The producer encouraged musician Ilya Naishuller to make his feature film writing and directorial debuts with the adventure movie, after he helmed the music video for one of the songs from his Moscow - based indie rock band, Biting Elbows, titled «Bad Motherf * cker,» which proved to be a hit.

The Beguiled Focus Features — limited 6/23, wider 6/30 Dir: Sofia Coppola Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Colin Farrell What It's About: Based on the novel by Thomas Cullinan and previously made into a film by Clint Eastwood, Oscar - winner Sofia Coppola adapts this post-Civil War western / thriller about a house of sheltered women (led by Oscar winner Nicole Kidman)...

Fan film based on Disney's Gargoyles released; Carlos Ferrer's aim is to make a feature - length version with the approval of Disney.

There is a great narrative associated to Thunder Road: it serves as a brilliant proof of concept project as it was based on the Sundance Grand Jury prize winning short, and serves as a reminder that in this era, regardless of a small budget or limited means — that if you've got a great idea and a team of creative collaborators, you can make a feature film in the month of November and win a major film festival five months later.

This scheme also makes use of the feature film All Good Things which is based on the real - life events documented in The Jinx.

«While there are poem - based feature films such as Beowulf, it was hard to imagine my book of prose poetry, Camouflage for the Neighborhood, being made into a book trailer.

Created by Texas - based production company ultralite films (land of Wes Anderson and Richard Linklater I might add), this video features sweeping shots of the American West, a gargled - with - dirt voiceover reminiscent of Sam Shepard's work on The Big Leboski and enough beatiful slow - motion nature shots to make even the most hardened city dweller want to escape the city pronto.

«Yogscast accepted our offer of making a game for their community based on our experience as feature film animation veterans and the fact that were were able to quickly put together a good demo showing where the game would head.»

The game is being developed by French studio Asobo, who have some history with games featuring rats as they made Ratatouille, based on the Disney Pixar film.

Art from a different era can appear new if shown at the right moment, and that has been the case with Hershman Leeson's 50 years of drawings, sculptures, performances, installation, videos, internet - based works, and feature films, some made with studio backing and released to theaters nationwide.

Best known for making hand - written and printed text «wordscapes» or «still films», that retell in her own words entire feature films or sequences of events, Banner's 1998 Break Point is based on the chase scene in Kathryn Bigelow's cult film Point Break (1991).

Je Veux Voir (I want to see), 2010, an installation made especially for the exhibition, is based on Mroué's experience of co-starring with French actress Catherine Deneuve in a feature film (2008).

Over the last twenty years, he has been the author of some of the most seminal works of film and video designed for gallery - based presentation, as well as three feature films made for cinematic release.