Sentences with phrase «of fairytale adaptations»

Seems like every year I learn about a new crop of fairytale adaptations, and 2012 is no exception.

The only one of the recent batch of fairytale adaptations that really holds its own is Kenneth Branagh's version of the classic Charles Perrault tale.

Not exact matches

Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella comes out this week, the latest in a trend of Disney's live - action fairytale adaptations (Maleficent, Into the Woods, and the upcoming Beauty and the Beast).

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Of course, Sleeping Beauty was derived from the original French fairytale, but this film is clearly using the animated Disney adaptation as its jumping - off point.

Universal's latest attempt to get in on comic book adaptations has lead to its acquisition of one the most delightful graphic novels of the year so far: Jen Wang's romantic fairytale, The Prince and the Dressmaker.

The big news with this blockbuster adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved fairytale isn't that Steven Spielberg is making his second motion - capture animated movie following 2011's «Tintin», or that he's hauled in a super-impressive cast including Mark Rylance as the Big Friendly Giant, plus Bill Hader, Rebecca Hall and Penelope Wilton as the Queen.

Theater owners are hoping for a better haul this weekend as Disney's live action movie Cinderella faces off against Adam Sandler's adaptation of another fairytale in The Cobbler and Liam Neeson's R - rated action adventure Run All Night.

Atwell, meanwhile, will also soon appear as Cinderella's mother in a new version of the classic fairytale directed by Kenneth Branagh, and is currently filming Testament of Youth, a BBC Films adaptation of Vera Brittain's devastating first world war memoir which also stars Alicia Vikander, Dominic West and Emily Watson.

Disney's casting director for their newest adaptation of the fairytale classic basically needs to cast everything.

The Velveteen Rabbit (G) Screen adaptation of Margery Williams» children's classic features a mix of live - action and animation in a modern fairytale about a lonely little boy being who comes to grips about being raised by his strict grandfather with the help of a stuffed animal magically transformed into a real rabbit.

Morgan's musical adaptation (with TM Davy, DonChristian Jones, Michi Osato, and Una Osato) of Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta's 1977 manifesto - fairytale, «The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions,» was featured at the New Museum as part of Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon.