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After showing footage of «Alita: Battle Angel» at CinemaCon on Thursday, Rodriguez and producer Jon Landau («Avatar» movies) sat down with Business Insider to talk about the evolution of the project and why this manga won't end up like the big - screen version of «Ghost in the Shell.»

Adapted from Stephen King's massive series of novels, the big screen version of the story promises to wrestle with ideas like good vs. evil, spirituality and, of course, old - west inspired adventure.

The black - and - white morality of Dorothy versus the Wicked Witch in Victor Fleming's classic 1939 The Wizard of Oz (actually the eighth screen version) is an epic tale of classic heroism and villainy, though within that the most interesting parts of the story include a cowardly character finding courage, the brainless using brains, and the apparently heartless discovering love.

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Young Moroccan scribe Abdellah Taia moves into the director's seat with the screen version of his autobiographical novel» Salvation Army,» losing much of the texture in translation from pen to camera.

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At the same time, he also wrote the scenario for Raoul Walsh's screen version of Battle Cry — a sprawling, epic - length film with a huge cast.

But as an ideological jukebox movie about 20th century art, this film should interest festivals and spaces in the art world that haven't yet featured the 13 - screen version.

Amy Sedaris suits up as everyone's favorite former - prostitute / drug addict - turned - high school student in the long - awaited — and quite funny — big - screen version of the cult TV series.

He starred in the screen version of Roy Cohn / Jack Smith, but it was not released until after his death.

The screen version is still a play, but it's aturning point in the movie career of Humphrey Bogart, who had played the gangster's role on stage and then in a TV version with his wife (in Bette davis role)

If you can imagine Anatole France writing a detective story you will have some notion of the artistry that Hitchcock brings to this screen version of John Buchan's novel.

If so, it's one of several that can be reserved early for this fourth, spectacularly lousy screen version of Jack Finney's 1954 novella «The Body Snatchers,» which some bright light envisioned as the ideal starring vehicle for the Cold Mountain herself, Nicole Kidman, and for Daniel Craig, last seen as the most poker - faced James Bond on record.

Synopsis: This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best - selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to win 11 Academy Awards.

Daldry's screen version is well acted but too literal, failing to convey the complexity or the lyricism of Cunningham's seminal novel.

This British drama represents the second screen version of Terence Ratigan's play about a school teacher with a weak heart facing forced retirement.

VISION: Good Well defined widescreen and full screen versions (on one side thanks to the dual - layer disc) shows strong colors and blacks, with tremendous depth of field and attention to detail.

A fair stab at adapting the classic novel by science fiction novelist Ray Bradbury, this is still the definitive screen version.

Although the theme song, self - destruct message, and spy capers are certainly derived from the television show, those who've watched the long - running series regularly in the 1960s or in reruns should note that this big screen version bears little other resemblance to the small screen predecessor.

But on February 28, for one week, about 1,000 movie theaters around the country will screen a version of the movie that is both the same — same plot, same characters, derived from the same filming sessions — and completely different, featuring exactly 763 new jokes.

Let's pay no attention to the full - screen version of Roger Rabbit that disgraces Disc 1 — the so - called «Family Friendly» disc.

Originally written and produced as a play for television, the screen version of Judgment at Nuremberg was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, with Maximilian Schell and Abby Mann taking home Oscars for (respectively) Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Peyton Reed (who is also signed on to direct the screen version of comic book The Fifth Beatle) is now set to direct and the film just might have a chance of keeping up its momentum.

But it's unfair to judge on a book on its cover (or title) and after seeing Matthew Vaughn's film adaptation which releases this weekend, I can honestly say that Kick - Ass is much better than I first expected and Vaughn's big - screen version of the graphic novel features sharp writing, brilliant performances, and of course, indulgent action sequences and story - telling.

Deadline reports that Ross and Lawrence are teaming on an epic, new big - screen version of John Steinbeck «s «East Of Eden.»

The idea of an U.N.C.L.E. adaptation now feels as old as the source material itself: A big - screen version has been in the works since the»90s, attached at various times to Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh and reportedly starring every white guy to grace the pages of People in the past two decades (including Don Draper himself, Jon Hamm.)

Shailene's star status was firmly established by response to the big screen version of Divergent, the sci - fi thriller based on the popular Young Adult novel of the same name by Veronica Roth.

It took decades for a second screen version of James Thurber's short story to make it to cinema screens; a lengthy roster of attached and departing on - and off - screen talent, too.

From what we have seen in the trailers, it appears that the big screen version of the villain also has ties to the arms dealer.

It looks stunning in 3D (ensure you make the effort to find a cinema screening this version) and really is spectacular to behold.

This big - screen version of Jay and Seth vs the Apocalypse portrays actors in the way they appear most comical to great effect as we see their reaction to the end of the world.

A Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound English language track anchors both releases, along with French and Spanish subtitles, while the full - screen version also includes French and Spanish 2.0 audio tracks.

There have been over a dozen screen versions of the story, but not one of the subsequent actors to essay the role of the Phantom — among them Robert Englund and Gerard Butler — came close to matching Chaney's brilliant portrayal.

You can hear the people sing — really hear them — in the long - gestating screen version of that Broadway juggernaut Les Misérables.

A big screen and small screen version of the Getty kidnapping, an oddly self - serving new version of «Israel's Finest Hour,» «Seven Day in Entebbe,» coming out and this (which came out in late 2017), it's hard to tie them together as a trend or embrace of the zeitgeist — a «talk tough, act tougher» age when «collateral damage» was tolerated by the likes of Reagan, Thatcher, Brezhnev, et al..

The 1929 version of The Letter, the first screen version of the W. Somerset Maugham play, is also the sole surviving sound - era performance by Broadway legend Jeanne Eagels.

Still, it's best to look at «The Game Plan» as a big screen version of something made for the Disney Channel — only with The Rock instead of Zac Efron.

We're all just going to pretend Wired, that ill - fated screen version of a John Belishi biography, never happened.

As we all know already, Warner Bros is releasing their big screen version of this story called The 33 in theaters next month.

Johnson himself isn't any stranger to the arena of online game diversifications, having starred within the notorious 2005 big screen version of Doom; a movie that even The Rock has admitted fell sufferer to the notorious online game film «curse».

Although the events of the finale became public when the last book was released four years ago, the delay in timing between the printed and screen versions of the saga has seen the audience bounding with enthusiasm to see if the celluloid interpretation of the finale matches the one in their dreams.

Or that Meryl Streep's lead actress nomination for «August: Osage County,» the screen version of Tracy Letts» Pulitzer Prize - winning drama, is in comedy, no matter that the work owes as much to Eugene O'Neill as it does to Edward Albee, or that Julia Roberts» nomination for supporting actress in the film doesn't get classified as comedy or drama.

Christopher Nolan, Michael Bay and Alfonso Cuaron are at the top of the studio's list to helm the new big screen version of The Twilight Zone.

Excellent casting saves this certain dud from being just another terrible big screen version of a beloved old TV spy series, with Carell perfectly portraying a bumbling ignoramus who somehow has the knack (and a lot of luck) to get himself out of nasty scrapes time and again.

Many remember the popular TV show the film is based on, but while the original was most certainly a drama, the big screen version is far from it.

Baywatch movie: Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon is to direct the big screen version of Baywatch.

«Entourage» - June 5 Vince (Adrian Grenier) drives Ari (Jeremy Piven) up the wall when he decides to direct and star in his own movie in the big screen version of the HBO show.

Ant - Man is okay, nothing more than a safe and sanitized big - screen version of a comic book, and nothing less than a slick and tidy packaging of action - movie stereotypes.

-- the small screen version of Fargo proved to be a treat, featuring great performances from the likes of Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton and Allison Tolman and a solid storyline than has seen the show nominated for a Golden Globe.