There are
more cinematic book trailers being produced monthly now than ever before, and they're very quickly outperforming their predecessors, that are still roaming in rarely frequented pockets of the web like technological dinosaurs.
Not exact matches
It has always been one of the hallmarks of this series that even when the plotting, especially for those unversed in the
books, resembled a brambly thicket, and the
cinematic magicmaking was
more overloaded than inspired, the acting served up by this ongoing parade of hall of fame hams carried the day.
Though this all - killer - all - filler action flick from Russian director Timur Bekmambetov (Day Watch) is based on a comic
book and replicates the next - level momentum of a video game, it's
more like the
cinematic equivalent of an energy drink.
More of a
cinematic joke
book than a real movie, Spy Hard hits you with gags faster than Henny Youngman on speed.
And as comic
book films become
more prevalent, perhaps this trend of world mashups will go beyond just shared
cinematic universes and into this weird wave of smashing together disparate properties.
Not that the imagination on display here is up to the level of the J.K. Rowling
books (which remain
more vividly
cinematic than all but Alfonso Cuaron's «Prisoner of Azkaban»).
There's a lot of character model and animation asset reuse from MVC3, which I'm fine with, but some of it doesn't seem to transition over well from the
more comic -
book art style to this game's
more cinematic universe look.
Jones does
more than just report on that interview, he also includes contemporary filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Richard Linklater, and David Fincher discussing the influence that the
book had on them as
cinematic artists in their own right.
Even now, however, there is evidence of a return to nostalgia — just as Marvel's ever - expanding
cinematic universe begins to court the
more colourful aspects of its comic -
book ancestry, Matthew Vaughn was all - too - happy to provide a similar tonic to a spy genre replete with Bournes and Bonds in the form of last month's Kingsmen: The Secret Service.
With the Marvel
Cinematic Universe already spanning 13 movies, and DC getting into the fray with the launch of their Extended Universe, it appears that there are only going to be
more and
more comic
book adaptations in the next few years.
There is a cast of human characters here and they're very good (
more on them shortly), but «Crimson Peak» is first and foremost a
cinematic picture
book, dispensing the kind of confectionary art design that few films attempt and even fewer get right.
Marvel went about as extreme as possible with the finale, using inspiration from the «Infinity Gauntlet» 1991 comic
book in a way that will shape the Marvel
Cinematic Universe
more than any single action before.
Ray Bradbury wrote the
book Something Wicked This Way Comes in 1962 and two decades later, this screenplay adaptation, which took a few liberties to make things
more cinematic.
Feeling longer than it needs to be, there's a sense that this whole
cinematic series was created
more for fans who have read the trio of
books than for casual moviegoers like myself.
Soon after, the successful
cinematic returns of Star Trek and Superman followed causing White's humble boutique to expand into original movie posters, lobby cards, still photographs,
books, magazines and
more.
The screenplay from Zak Penn (The Avengers) helps, leaving out some of the
more ridiculous stuff in the
book and replacing all of the key quests with far
more cinematic moments.
More dark stuff from Paul Schrader (Affliction, American Gigolo), who films this adaptation of Robert Graysmith's
book, «The Murder of Bob Crane», with good
cinematic flair.
This includes connections to other X-Men movies, comic
book clues and hints, possible links to the Marvel
Cinematic Universe and
more.
In this
cinematic era when no less than half a dozen tentpole superhero movies will hit theaters with the force of Thor's hammer in a single year, it takes
more than cool fight scenes and colorful costumes for a comic
book - based film to emerge as something special.
A
book trailer, even an amazing
cinematic book trailer like Rocco discusses below, isn't going to magically help you sell
more books.
As an indie author, you may not feel entirely comfortable moving from the
more cerebral world of words to the domain of
cinematic stimuli, but the same techniques that work effectively in a
book have an equivalent mode of shorthand expression in a video: empathy, surprise, mystery, atmosphere, danger, character, excitement.
We produce
cinematic book trailers, author's videos, short films, and
more.
When Spider - Man's origin has been retold 1,000 times... when magazines like ULTIMATE SPIDER - MAN are designed to nullify the continuity in the original series, by reshaping it... when readers have become accustomed to the «decompressed storytelling», as opposed to the «done - in - one» storytelling of the sixties and seventies... When there are
more wordless pages and panels today, making the
books «
cinematic,» as opposed to the
more heavily written comics of the 60s and 70s...
In his introduction John Ashbery calls the
book «the finest work of Surrealist fiction,» noting that de Chirico «invented for the occasion a new style and a new kind of novel... his long run - on sentences, stitched together with semi-colons, allow a
cinematic freedom of narration... his language, like his painting, is invisible: a transparent but dense medium containing objects that are
more real than reality.»