Sentences with phrase «novels makes it to the big screen»
Dav Pilkey's series of children's novels makes it to the big screen in this animated feature about George and Harold, two fourth - grade pranksters who hypnotize their principal into thinking he's a ridiculous and overly enthusiastic superhero.
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Mark Helprin celebrated 1983 novel WINTER»S TALE finally makes it to the big - screen with Oscar - winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman's directorial debut.
In deciding to adapt Ian McEwan's 1997 novel «Enduring Love» for the big screen, scriptwriter Joe Penhall risked forever being stalked by the book's legions of adoring fans, not least for the many changes in detail and emphasis he had made to the source material.
The most important part of all of the pieces which must come together to successfully transform one of the most popular and beloved novels of all time to the big screen is the screenplay and the choices the writer makes.
But this adaptation of Travel Channel host Marcus Sakey's second novel barely made the big screen last month day and date with Video On Demand, was hammered by critics, and today makes a hasty trip to Blu - ray and DVD as practically direct - to - video fare.
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 23, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hunger Games (PG - 13 for intense violence and disturbing images) Screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins» futuristic sci - fi novel about a 16 year - old girl (Jennifer Lawrence) who volunteers to take her unlucky younger sister's (Willow Shields) place in a nationally - televised fight to the death featuring 24 participants picked by a government lottery.
This twist came out of nowhere, which isn't a bad thing in and of itself, except that so many more left - turns were to follow that it started to feel like Affleck was so overwhelmed by translating Lehane's novel for the big screen that he just decided to throw in all of «what happens» in the book without figuring out how to make us care about any of it.
Adapting a much - beloved novel to the big screen is tricky business, but it always helps if the book's fanbase is made up of teen girls.
An adaptation of David Ebershoff's novel The Danish Girl has finally made it to the big screen, and if this trailer doesn't scream «Inevitable Eddie Redmayne Oscar nomination,» we're not sure what does.
As directed by Steven Soderbergh («Sex, Lies & Videotape «-RRB-, «Out of Sight» is the third Leonard novel to make it to the big screen with all of the quirks and perks one expects from a Leonard book.
Director Gavin Hood has some making up to do after the disappointment of «X-Men Origins: Wolverine,» but despite some concerns from fans, this big screen adaptation of the beloved sci - fi novel (previously thought to be unfilmable) looks like it could be his ticket to redemption.
There's plenty of introductory freebies on offer as well as host of public domain novels to download and the big clear screen makes it a pleasure to use as a mini ebook reader and certainly significantly better than a smaller smartphone size even if you do still end up turning pages a little too often.
Even though it's no guarantee your novel will ever make it to the big screen, it does mean that someone wants the right to purchase the screenplay at some point down the road.