Sentences with phrase «many screen adaptations»

Before James Cameron made «Avatar» and broke all box - office records, he was planning on making the big - screen adaptation of «Battle Angel Alita,» the famous manga series created by Yukito Kishiro.

Legend has it that author Ken Kesey hated the big - screen adaptation of his beloved novel so much that he refused to watch it.

Marvel has a pretty well - established history of remixing and streamlining the best and most iconic of the many looks each of its characters have sported over the years for their big - screen adaptations (in a funny bit of symmetry, the movie designs usually end up influencing how a character will look in the comics afterward).

is seeing another big - screen adaptation this year.

Share Facebook 769 Twitter 0 Culture Mindy Kaling, Reese Witherspoon and Oprah are among the stars currently in New Zealand filming a big - screen adaptation of the classic sci - fi novel A...

Just when the theological debate surrounding the release of the big - screen adaptation of the novel The Shack had died down, Twitter user Erik Reed has just conceived of a film that is putting the heresy police back on their toes.

If you saw the big - screen adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's classic sci - fi novel A Wrinkle in Time, you may have noticed that some of the book's references to the Bible and Jesus were left out of the script.

Just when the theological debate surrounding the release of the big - screen adaptation of the novel The Shack had died down, Twitter user Erik Reed has just conceived of a film...

Almost two decades ago, authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins chose a similar premise for their Left Behind series of novels, which sold more than 65 million copies and has now spawned a big screen adaptation starring (almost unthinkably) Nicolas Cage.

On screen, his credits include a screen adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel A Long Way Down and The Scouting Book for Boys.

It's fair to say that Sir Kenneth Branagh's latest offering, a big - screen adaptation of «Murder On The Orient Express», is one of the year's most

Having run continuously on Broadway for the past 28 years (longer than any in history), Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schonberg's much - loved stage musical Les Misérables brings a well - seasoned audience frothing for an equally worthy screen adaptation.

He joined up again with the director of Amoros Perros for the well - received drama Babel opposite Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.Bernal made his directorial debut with 2007's Deficit, and had a major part in the big screen adaptation of Blindness in 2008.

Tom Hanks produces and stars in this screen adaptation of the beloved children's book of the same name written by Jumanji author Chris Van Allsburg.

This moody screen adaptation of the Oprah - endorsed eponymous bestseller by Andre Dubus III's isn't a slam - dunk success, but it has plenty of sleeper potential and is a feather in the cap of director Perelman, a Russian émigré who debuts here as a feature filmmaker after a career in commercials.

Find out below as we look at the highlights and lowlights of the past two decades of big - screen adaptations of plays and musicals, starting with the best of the bunch.

With a running time pushing three hours, it's not just an unexpected journey that the titular halfling embarks upon in this, the first big - screen adaptation of JRR Tolkien's enduringly popular children's book and the opening installment in Jackson's new Middle - Earth trilogy, it's a long one.

Hollywood today with there plethora of remakes and book to big screen adaptations, lacks creativity.

As you might have guessed and / or feared, Will Gluck's screen adaptation of Peter Rabbit departs fairly significantly from Beatrix Potter's beloved children's tales.

Just a few short months after Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest sailed into the multiplexes, Harris would trade her Jamaican accent for a Bronx inflection when she took the role of a tough New York cop in director Michael Mann's Miami Vice - a slick, big screen adaptation of the show that made pink t - shirts and white blazers all the rage in the 1980s.

How bad would Rock of Ages need to be to qualify among the worst stage - to - screen adaptations, and how good would this December's Les Miserables need to be to rank with the best?

The 1965 screen adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, which included two new songs written by Richard Rodgers alone, ended up as the most profitable movie musical of all time.

Taking a step back from leading roles, the actor then poked fun at the movie industry with a cameo in director Kevin Smith's satire Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back before playing a supporting part opposite Christina Ricci in the big - screen adaptation of Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir, Prozac Nation.

That's certainly the case with the protagonists in the hit «Fifty Shades» trilogy, whose screen adaptation is coming to a close with the new installment, «Fifty Shades Freed.»

The Neil Simon comedy that lit up Broadway for more than two years shines again in this flawed but still funny screen adaptation.

Richard LaGravenese directs Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan in this screen adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's musical about the relationship between a struggling actress and a rising young novelist.

British novelist Mary Stewart's beloved «The Little Broomstick» predates J.K. Rowling's hit Harry Potter series by more than a quarter - century, which means the source material is original, even if its gorgeous big - screen adaptation feels a bit derivative in places — and derivative of not just Rowling's more richly imagined fantasy world, but also Ghibli's own «Kiki's Delivery Service,» which presents a similar plot, in reverse: There, a young witch with a flying broom loses her powers, whereas in this case, young Mary discovers a magical broom that whisks her away to Endor College, where she's celebrated for her newfound abilities.

This screen adaptation of Michael Connelly's clever legal thriller is stylish, suspenseful and thoroughly entertaining.

In the meantime, Cooper would nab starring roles in more and more films, like the thriller Limitless and the big screen adaptation of The A-Team.

In film, he scored a critical success with the screen adaptation A Raisin in the Sun (1961).

Last week Mark Wahlberg confirmed to MTV that he would star in David O. Russell's big - screen adaptation of the videogame Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

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.

Merchant Ivory screen adaptation of Henry James» novel is handsome, but suffers from the miscasting of Christopher Reeve and Madeleine Potter, though Vanessa Redgrave is decent.

An intense screen adaptation of August Strindberg's drama about two people caught up in power plays.

I wonder, Jessie and others: Did you watch the first couple seasons of 21 Jump Street before forming an opinion on the big - screen adaptation?

Heading into action territory with the high - profile video game - to - screen adaptation Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in 2001, Taylor straddled the line between big - budget excess and independent credibility with an appearance in the little seen but curiously titled He Died With a Felafel in His Hand that same year.

I also had the misfortune of experiencing the new film version of «Les Misérables», which fails to hide the weaker aspects of the source material and, with the exception of a single sequence, never brings any imagination to the screen adaptation.

In the past 150 years, Victor Hugo's 1862 novel has spun into stage adaptations, radio dramas and more than 60 large and small - screen adaptations.

He did not complete the three volumes until his early twenties: first in print, and then on camera as one of a handful of actors carefully selected for New Line Cinema's highly anticipated, $ 270 million, three - film screen adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Upon his return from military service, Damone resumed his film career, enjoying featured or co-starring roles in major musical productions like Hit the Deck (1955) and the screen adaptation of Kismet (1955).

Yahoo! Movies has revealed a new image from the upcoming big screen adaptation of Stephen King's fantasy epic The Dark Tower featuring Idris Elba's Roland Deschain and Tom Taylor's Jake Chambers; take a look below...

Charlie, previously known for his portrayal of Sienna Miller's younger brother in Casanova, was cast by director Matthew Vaughn as the impetuous Tristran in the big - screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman's 1999 fantasy novel.

IO Interactive's long - running stealth - shooter series — previously adapted into a nonsensical 2007 movie beloved by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek and almost no one else — gets another big - screen adaptation, this time with Rupert Friend in the role of bald - headed, genetically - engineered assassin Agent 47.

Legendary and Universal Pictures have announced the cast of the big screen adaptation of Warcraft.

This follows previous rumours that WB was inviting pitches for a live - action big screen adaptation of the story, which takes place in an alternate world where Kal - El's rocket ship landed in the Soviet Union as opposed the United States, with Superman raised as «the Champion of the common worker who fights a never - ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact»...

Keep an eye on the screenplay category: Wilson died in 2005, but he'll be the only credited screenwriter, even though fellow playwright Tony Kushner has since worked on the screen adaptation.

The Garden of Eden (R for profanity, nudity and graphic sexuality) Screen adaptation of the posthumously - published Hemingway novel of the same name about an American couple (Jack Huston and Mena Suvari) honeymooning on the French Riviera whose relationship becomes strained when they both fall in love with a naughty, Italian nymphet (Caterina Murino).

Film is a big - screen adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates» memoir.

The British genre maestro looks to follow up Free Fire with his first screen adaptation of a graphic novel.

Daniel Radcliffe, better known as Harry Potter, is apparently going to star in the big screen adaptation of The Amateur Photographer; a comedy about a man who sets out to capture life in a town.