Sentences with phrase «movie adaptation with»

Whether or not a copy of the original novel Annihilation sits on your bookshelf, you'll come out of the movie adaptation with questions.

For the most part, Detective Pikachu lovingly plays with the idea of a gumshoe detective story by way of Pokémon and treads the line between lighthearted fun and campy storytelling in an entertaining way — which makes all the more sense given that the game will be getting a movie adaptation with Ryan Reynolds.

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Now, DuVernay is busy making history again as the first black woman to direct a movie with a $ 100 million budget: Disney's A Wrinkle in Time adaptation.

As the movie business grows more saturated with stories about costumed vigilantes, studios are trying to find ways to differentiate their own comic book adaptations.

Director Ava DuVernay «s adaptation of the popular young - adult novel of the same name has been highly - anticipated since Disney made her the first - ever black woman to direct a movie with a budget over $ 100 million.

According to Variety, Paul Rudd will play Henry Pym, a brilliant scientist who invents the ability to shrink himself and communicate with insects, in the upcoming Ant Man movie adaptation.

Though many of Hollywood's Bible adaptations have faced the same sorts of criticisms (particularly when it comes to the racial makeup of their casts and creative liberties with their scripts), religious movies have become a hallmark of American cinema.

It's not the first modern reboot of the retro comedy: Along with two really bad live action movie adaptations, even animators like Seth McFarlane have (unsuccessfully) tried their hand at bringing the series back.

With only two or so hours of story time, the movies have been forced to sacrifice swaths of her material, and while the scripts have been largely models of adaptation — most, this one included, are by Steve Kloves — the emphasis on action (and interminable games of quidditch) was also a concession to the action - imperative of the modern blockbuster.

Rodgers and Hammerstein returned to Hollywood in 1955 with their own production company, overseeing the movie adaptations of Oklahoma (1955) and South Pacific (1958); three years earlier, R and H played cameo roles in the New York - filmed Main Street to Broadway, for which they contributed one forgettable number.

You can try not liking this adaptation of the Off - Broadway musical hit — it has no polish and a pushy way with a gag — but the movie sneaks up on you, about as subtly as Audrey II.

What's the Deal: More character study than action movie, this adaptation of Martin Booth's 1990 novel «A Very Private Gentleman» is instead concerned with the inner workings of its amoral antihero, whom we witness do very bad things at film's start that haunt him until the very end.

The works of Max Brooks, who wrote 2003's satirical and subversively political, «The Zombie Survival Guide», and 2006's, «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War», provided the kernels of inspiration for this mega-budgeted horror - action - thriller that mostly makes up its own narrative, independent of much of the book content (jettisoning the first - person account style and most of the events), to make it fit more with the ranks of current, eye - candy loaded popcorn movies than a thoughtful adaptation of the best - seller.

It made enough of a dent in pop culture to warrant a movie adaptation, but it wasn't going to be an easy translation with no main character and a documentary - like format.

It examines the movie in a fairly standard way, as it goes through the project's genesis and tells us about casting, adaptation issues, Forman's involvement, dealing with the subject matter, costume and production design factors, and reactions to the film.

Fans of Suzanne Collins» hugely successfully series of books have been on the defensive since this adaptation is being referred to as «Twilight meets The Running Man `, whereas those previously unaware of the tween - lit hits are seeing this movie as little more than «Battle Royale with all the violence taken out, and replaced with a love story.»

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.

Built on John Collee's adaptation of a biography by Randal Keynes (a descendant of Darwin's), the whole movie feels like a long walk down a very dark road with extra weight trailing behind.

There are moments in Les Misérables, the movie musical adaptation from The King's Speech director Tom Hooper, that are so rumbling and rousing and righteous that certain people might be immediately transported back into the theater seat where they, smaller of body but probably bigger of heart, first fell in love with the sweep and swoon of musical theater.

Even as characters are tweaked and actors bring a slightly different energy than his other movies, The Best of Me is still the same mushy Nicholas Sparks adaptation with drama so overwrought audience members can't help but laugh — at least until they're sniffling during the closing credits.

And Robert Wise's 1963 adaptation of the book, The Haunting, in Bergmanesque black and white, teases out the Freudian implications of every gargoyle with the kind of intense regard only an entire movie industry engrossed in psychoanalysis could produce.

Bolstering her TV series fame with TV movies, beginning with the adaptation of the Danielle Steele romance Star (1993), Garth also played the eponymous abused wife in Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994), a serial killer target in Falling for You (1995), and executive - produced and starred in the teen psychiatric drama Without Consent (1994).

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.

The Departed comes by its puzzle pieces honestly — the movie, with an outstanding script by Kingdom of Heaven screenwriter William Monahan, is a relatively direct adaptation of Infernal Affairs, a great 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller steeped in Chinese conundrum and Hong Kong aesthetics.

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.

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.

The list of nominees for best animated feature showcase a diverse range of sensibilities: three studio movies with varying commercial traditions in play, a 2 - D French - produced adaptation of children's book, and a mature Japanese biopic from one of the masters of the medium.

I saw four movies I ended up loving, including the second secret screening, Mark Romanek «s adaptation of «Never Let Me Go,» with him in attendance.

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... SEE ALSO: What the hell is going on with The Dark Tower?

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.

What You Need To Know: In a year where there's plenty of other movies involving battles with aliens for the fate of the earth («Oblivion,» «After Earth «-RRB-, there's one that's going back to a lauded classic novel of the genre, with the first adaptation of Orson Scott Card «s beloved book «Ender's Game.»

They make up for the movie's shortcomings by responding with such gracious power to Letts» adaptation.

With the movie musical adaptation «Annie» gearing up for its December 19th release, actress Cameron Diaz returned to Studio 8H for the first time since 2005 to host «Saturday Night Live.»

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It has been the standard compared with the other memorable twin performances since the movie came out, and I instantly thought of his work when I saw Nicholas Cage in «Adaptation» (2002) or Edward Norton in «Leaves of Grass» (2009).

Macbeth director Justin Kurzel is reteaming with star Michael Fassbender for the big screen adaptation of Assassin's Creed, and the caliber of talent involved has many hoping this really will be the video game movie that actually works for gamers and movie lovers.

With his adaptation of M. L. Stedman «s bestselling novel, writer - director Derek Cianfrance wanted to make The Light Between Oceans a cross between a John Cassavettes movie and a Dean Lean film, a personal tale told against an epic backdrop.

They all make do with the material, earning a chuckle or tightened fist on occasion, without ever displaying the potential for movie stardom or a big screen adaptation.

Not much as changed with the idea that video game to film adaptations are never a good idea, «Silent Hill: Revelation 3D» ensures that trend, and while it's dazzling at times, it will leave an audience hungry for a better movie and experience.

The tale of a futuristic Chicago with a society divided into factions is based on Veronica Roth's trilogy, and the adaptation of the third, Allegiant had been planned as two movies, 2016's Allegiant and then Ascendant, taking aim at a release this year with Lee Toland Krieger attached to direct.

Not only this, but with the super-success of book - to - movie adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars — it was named the most profitable movie of 2014 — it's not surprising that his other works are finally garnering some potential movie buzz along with it.

Credit Yates, who directed last year's Half - Blood Prince — still the most satisfying adaptation of Rowling's novels — and will stay on for Part 2, due July 15, with honoring the book's ominous tone, making Deathly Hallows the bleakest Potter movie to date.

Working from an adaptation of James Sallis» eponymous novel by Academy Award nominee Hossein Amini, director Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson) delivers a movie that pulses with an unwavering, premium - unleaded sense of purpose, giving its no - frills story a sense of supremely heightened stakes.

A seriously funny movie that avoids making fun of its characters by painting their various plights with sympathy and understanding, Toc Toc is an adaptation of the stage play by Laurent Baffie.

In portraying the difficulty with which Sam stands astride two worlds, increasingly at odds, the movie doesn't implicitly choose a side, and the audience is the ultimate winner in the adaptation of this unlikely true story, which richly captures all the befuddlement of youth, albeit in some circumstances of extreme duress.

It's kind of the same situation we had with Manhunter and The Silence of the Lambs: they're both adaptations of connected books, yet the two movies have really nothing to do with each other.

It comes 17 years after the success of the Oscar winner's movie adaptation of Anne Rice book Interview With The Vampire, which starred Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Kirsten Dunst.

Adaptations of other material, such as movie tie - in games, have often been terrible and met with the appropriate reception.

I mean the darker, more unnerving question of how a movie adaptation of Paula Hawkin's bestselling novel, cast with a pair of Hollywood's most mesmerizing actresses (Emily Blunt and Rebecca Ferguson), penned by celebrated «Secretary» screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson, and directed by acclaimed «The Help» helmer Tate Taylor can go so disastrously off the rails.

Fresh off of trying to appeal to every nerd ever with Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg has signed on to produce and «very possibly» direct an actual comic book movie with Blackhawk, an adaptation of an old DC Comics series about World War II fighter pilots.