Sentences with phrase «many video game adaptations»

«South Park» got an excellent video game adaptation a few years ago in «South Park: The Stick of Truth.»

For Disney to duplicate its 2013 success, it will need films like Sleeping Beauty spin - off Maleficent, video game adaptation Need for Speed, and musical Into the Woods to be major hits, and that doesn't seem likely.

Unlike video game adaptations like the Tomb Raider series or Assassins Creed, which have to contend with years of accreted mythos and complicated character - building, Rampage was always going to be on pretty safe ground, as long as it featured a giant ape, lizard, and wolf pounding some buildings to powder.

Those who saw the movie and wanted to play the video game adaptation of it will be disappointed for sure.

It fails as a horror movie, a video game adaptation and a film worth the three dimensions.

The only thing left unsliced is the ham in BloodRayne, yet another video game adaptation by German genre specialist Uwe Boll and a movie with more fading - or faded - talent than an Italian basketball team.

Alien: Isolation is one of the most faithful video game adaptations you're ever likely to play, coming across as an homage to Alien and a like - for - like recreation of the used future Ridley Scott introduced us to in 1979.

And next Christmas season, we'll get to see him doing the exact same thing, only in a video game adaptation rather than a Shakespeare retelling.

While a portion of Disney Interactive's video game adaptation will follow the events of the animated movie, its Toy Box mode will allow players to create their own adventures using the franchises iconic characters.

Still, there's something to be said for a video game adaptation being an interesting and well - intentioned failure and not a raging garbage fire, as is often the default with this kind of movie.

After all, few video game adaptations have featured a pedigree quite like this.

You'll soon find out as Tecmo Koei ports this second video game adaptation of the Fist of the North Star manga series stateside.

I'm also approaching this as someone who thinks Michael Fassbender and Justin Kurzel making a video game adaptation is just plain fascinating.

Is this a fun animated flick for the whole family, or just another crappy video game adaptation that's for the birds?

Considering the track record of video game adaptations not directed by Paul W.S. Anderson or Takashi Miike, the chances that Hitman: Agent 47 will be good are slim.

Now, for most video game adaptations or huge tentpole films in general, such a comment would sound too good to be true — but this is coming from the director Snowtown Murders and last year's Macbeth.

Assassin's Creed is filming right now and we have our fingers crossed that it'll be the movie that finally breaks the dreaded video game adaptation curse.

The underrated madman behind The Grey, Smokin» Aces, and the wildly underrated The A-Team is still attached to direct Bad Boys For Life (the third Bad Boys movie), but he's also written the most recent version of the Uncharted video game adaptation and is planning to tiptoe on some sacred ground with a remake of The Raid.

Video game adaptations often don't attract filmmakers of Kurzel's caliber (although there's another rare exception this year).

Kebbell just got done shooting the video game adaptation Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which was also produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and featured Molina.

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Following the release of a new trailer and poster for video game adaptation Hitman: Agent 47 yesterday, we've been sent across another new poster for the movie, which set for release in August.

20th Century Fox has released a new global trailer for the upcoming video game adaptation Hitman: Agent 47 ahead of its release later this month; check it out here... HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the -LSB-...]

Directed by first time helmer Aleksander Bach, this video game adaptation features a cast that also includes Zachary Quinto, Hannah Ware, Ciaran Hinds and Thomas Kretschmann.

The sequel to the video game adaptation «Silent Hill» in 2006, «Silent Hill: Revelation 3D» embarks on a strange journey into the mind and soul of its characters and viewers.

Michael Fassbender, one of Hollywood's A-list, heads the cast which includes such luminaries as Marion Cotillard (who co-starred with him in last year's Macbeth, directed equally by Kurzel), Brendan Gleeson and Jeremy Irons, giving the piece a built - in pedigree unlike almost any other video game adaptation in history.

Next year, we'll see the release of the final film in the long - running video game adaptation franchise.

Western audiences will likely be most familiar with the property via the PC and X-Box 360 video game adaptation from 2010.

Based on Blizzard's World of Warcraft, the multiplayer role - playing game, Warcraft represents a chance to turn the tide for video game adaptations.

But what, you may be wondering, does writer / director David O. Russell have to say about the video game adaptation?

Following on from last week's global trailer [watch it here], we've now got a new clip from 20th Century Fox's video game adaptation Hitman: Agent 47 featuring Rupert Friend, Hannah Ware and Zachary Quinto.

«Tomb Raider» opens this week, and while that has had some franchise success, these video game adaptations never saw the light of day.

It turns out, we now know that he has abandoned it in favour of an even more surprising film: the video game adaptation Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

We saw a new trailer and a couple of posters last week [see here and here], and now we have the first action - packed TV spot for the upcoming video game adaptation Hitman: Agent 47, which you can watch right here... HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to -LSB-...]

Known mostly for helming a string of god - awful video game adaptations including Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead and...

Reviews were negative, and the idea of video game adaptations quickly dropped.

We've got a pretty good selection for you this week: a bombastic smash»em up video game adaptation, a throwaway horror with creepy faces and a delightful stop motion animation that's one of my favourites of the year so far:

While there did exist an Alamut in the Persian Empire, that's essentially where the historical similarities end and begins yet another in a seemingly endless series of video game adaptations — this one requiring three screenwriters.

As far as video game adaptations go, no one was expecting too much from Dead or Alive.

It's an approach not really open to other video game adaptations — the various and largely abominable Street Fighter films couldn't really engage their audience in some supernatural fisticuffs, and Tomb Raider couldn't really replicate the game's thrill of exploration, opting instead for the cheaper thrill of ogling Angelina Jolie in a catsuit.

So pairing Johnson with a giant albino gorilla in the video game adaptation «Rampage» feels right.

All I wanted from Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom, the video game adaptation of the action horror anime sensation, was to feel like a badass swinging around town in my 3D maneuvering gear.

Connery has since provided the voice for a low - budget Scottish animated film called Sir Billi and the video game adaptation of From Russia With Love, but has been adamant that he'll never return to perform in a live - action role.

Even for a video game adaptation, this is just plain bad.

SR: Because obviously video game adaptations have been cursed in the past.

The Last Witch Hunter might be the worst video game adaptation not actually based on a video game.

Yesterday we saw an extended TV spot for Duncan Jones» upcoming video game adaptation Warcraft [watch it here], and now we have a brand new poster for you... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Warcraft UPDATE: And here's a quad poster... The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a -LSB-...]

She first exploded onto the Hollywood scene after surprising loyal Bruce Willis fans in «The Fifth Element» before taking on the role of Alice in the video - game - to - film adaptation of «Resident Evil,» the best video game adaptation to date.

«Hitman: Agent 47» - August 28 Rupert Friend stars in this video game adaptation about a genetically engineered assassin who teams up with a mysterious young woman to bring down an evil corporation.

The «Mama» director is venturing into franchise territory for the first time with a video game adaptation