That is now defunct, though
a new feature film adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, out this month with Kenneth Branagh starring, is a testament to the train's enduring appeal.
Classic UK sitcom Dad's Army is headed to the big screen with
a new feature film adaptation directed by Oliver Parker.
Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Victorian Era detective is as familiar and renowned as any literary protagonist, there was no guarantee that
a new feature film adaptation would be either well - done or a solid commercial draw.
The upcoming
new feature film adaptation stars the epic cast of Branagh himself, along with Tom Bateman, Lucy Boynton, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Michele Pfeiffer, and Daisy Ridley.
Not exact matches
In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's
new animated,
feature - length, 3 - D
adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the
film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.
That's essentially the premise of Gerald's Game, the
new adaptation of Stephen King's novel into a
feature film for Netflix.
Special
Features New high - definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill, author of «Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics» Postwar Poetry, a new short documentary about the film New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score «Home, James,» a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O'Herlihy Plus: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Sm
New high - definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill, author of «Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics» Postwar Poetry, a new short documentary about the film New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score «Home, James,» a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O'Herlihy Plus: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Sm
New interview with British cinema scholar John Hill, author of «Cinema and Northern Ireland:
Film, Culture and Politics» Postwar Poetry, a
new short documentary about the film New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score «Home, James,» a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O'Herlihy Plus: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Sm
new short documentary about the
film New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score «Home, James,» a 1972 documentary featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown Radio adaptation of the film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O'Herlihy Plus: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Sm
New interview with music scholar Jeff Smith about composer William Alwyn and his score «Home, James,» a 1972 documentary
featuring actor James Mason revisiting his hometown Radio
adaptation of the
film from 1952, starring Mason and Dan O'Herlihy Plus: An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith
Chris Cooper, Oscar winner for
Adaptation and star of the
new film Married Life, is the most recent interview subject in my MSN interview
feature.
Ahead of its release next month, Warner Bros. has debuted a
new interactive poster for Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming
film Inherent Vice, which offers up some information on the characters
featured in the Thomas Pynchon
adaptation... SEE ALSO: First poster and trailer for Inherent Vice Inherent Vice is the seventh
feature from Paul Thomas Anderson -LSB-...]
The trailer for this year's
New York Film Festival has gone online, and it
features two or three clips from the Thomas Pynchon
adaptation, nestled in amongst footage from the rest of the festival's high - profile
films.
Check out two
new clips full of good advice from the following
films: World War Z — This
new clip from director Marc Forster's
adaptation of the Max Brooks novel
features an officer giving some good advice to Brad Pitt and his family about why one...
Also
new on DVD: M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender (Paramount), an
adaptation of the animated TV series and one of the most critically reviled
films of the year, the
feature film version of Beverly Cleary's Ramona And Beezus (Fox), Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Warner), Marina de Van's Don't Look Back (IFC) with Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci, The Lightkeepers (Image) with Richard Dreyfuss and Blythe Danner, Lau Kar - Leung's classic martial arts movie Shaolin Mantis (Vivendi) and the newly remastered The Endless Summer: Director's Special Edition (Monterey).
Dee Rees»
new feature - length
film, an
adaptation of the novel by Hillary Jordan.
Features commentary by
film scholar Dana Polan, a
new interview with Gloria Grahame biographer Vincent Curcio, a 20 - minute piece with filmmaker Curtis Hanson produced for the 2002 DVD release, a condensed version of the 1975 documentary I'm a Stranger Here Myself (this runs about 40 minutes), and the radio
adaptation of the original novel produced for «Suspense» in 1948, plus a fold - out booklet with an essay by Imogen Sara Smith.
The driving force behind the
new adaptation from Kenneth Branagh seems to be nothing more than replicating the success of Lumet's
film, and to that end the 2017 Murder on the Orient Express
features a stacked cast, lavish artistic design, and a comfortingly familiar plot that goes down like comfort food.
- Digital transfer of the director's cut, supervised by director Wes Anderson (with
new DTS - HD Master Audio soundtrack)- Audio commentary
featuring Anderson, cowriter Owen Wilson, and actor Jason Schwartzman - The Making of Rushmore, an exclusive behind - the - scenes documentary by Eric Chase Anderson - «Max Fischer Players Present» theatrical «
adaptations» of Armageddon, Out of Sight, and The Truman Show, staged for the 1999 MTV Movie Awards - Episode of The Charlie Rose Show
featuring Wes Anderson and actor Bill Murray - Audition footage - Anderson's hand - drawn storyboards, plus a
film - to - storyboard comparison - Collectible poster, essay by
film critic Dave Kehr
Empire has debuted two
new posters from director Justin Kurzel's
adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, both of which you can view right here... SEE ALSO: Michael Fassbender and Paddy Considine
featured in
new images from Macbeth Michael Fassbender (Shame) and Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night) star in the
film, with Paddy Considine (Dead Man's -LSB-...]
Special
Features New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu - ray
New interview with critic Gary Giddins about director Leo McCarey
New video essay by
film critic David Cairns on Cary Grant's performance Illustrated 1978 audio interview with actor Irene Dunne Lux Radio Theatre
adaptation of the
film from 1939, starring Grant and Claudette Colbert PLUS: An essay by
film critic Molly Haskell
The Blu - ray and DVD editions both
feature a
new interview with
film critic David Thomson, who offers a crash course introduction to the art and themes of Hawks (it runs about 17 minutes), the
new 20 - minute program «Howard Hawks and His Aviation Movies» with
film scholars Craig Barron and Ben Burtt, and excerpts from Peter Bogdanovich's 1972 interviews with Howard Hawks (audio only, about 19 minutes), plus the 1939 «Lux radio Theatre»
adaptation of the
film with stars Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Richard Barthelmess, and Thomas Mitchell all reprising their roles, and the trailer.
IDW Publishing releases My Little Pony: The Movie
Adaptation this coming Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview here... Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy — plus the whole cast of My Little Pony — are ready for all -
new adventures, pulled right from the
feature - length
film coming to theaters in 2017!
Supergirl has already
featured several alumni from past DC
film and television
adaptations, including Smallville «s Laura Vandervoort, former Supergirl actress Helen Slater, former Wonder Woman star Lynda Carter, and Lois & Clark: The
New Adventures of Superman star Dean Cain.
The move to summer is a vote of confidence from Focus
Features, and on the
new release date the pic will face off against the YA
adaptation The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones and the critically hailed horror
film You're Next.
With two weeks to go until director Roger Michell's Daphne du Maurier
adaptation My Cousin Rachel arrives in cinemas, a
new batch of images from the
film have arrived online
featuring Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, and Iain Glen; take a look below... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for My Cousin Rachel here A dark romance, MY COUSIN -LSB-...]
Following on from the news that Ariana Grande and John Legend are recording a duet for the
film, Total
Film has released four
new images from Disney's highly anticipated live - action
adaptation of the animated classic Beauty and the Beast
featuring Belle (Emma Watson), Beast (Dan Stevens), Gaston (Luke Evans) and Le Fou (Josh Gad); take a -LSB-...]
It had been thought that the
new film would be a
feature adaptation of Boro the Caterpillar, a CG - animated short he -LSB-...]
Capture all of the action of the
newest POKÉMON
feature film in this single - volume official manga
adaptation.
In most cases a major Hollywood
adaptation all but automatically puts a book in the NYT bestseller list for at least a couple weeks and it's relatively cheap for publishers to put out a
new edition
featuring the
film actors / poster as a cover to draw in even more people who would otherwise have not read the book, especially since a popular
film adaptation means the books will be shown face up on tables or in special displays all over the place.
And if you're wondering why the famous Ford Falcon
featured in the Mad Max
films hasn't been reprised, the video game
adaptation takes place after The Road Warrior following a question to build a
new car after the Falcon gets destroyed by Humongous and his crew Mad Max was originally supposed to be rolling out sometime this year, but the trailer subtly announces that its now aiming for a 2015 release.
Congratulations to Leo Gabin on their nomination for the
NEW: VISION Award at the CPH: DOX
Film Festival for their
film A Crackup at the Race Riots, a
feature length
adaptation of Harmony Korine's 1998 novel.
Last week it was announced that
New York Close Up artist Rashid Johnson will be directing his first
feature length
film — an
adaptation of Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son.