Sentences with phrase «on fictitious stories»

THE GUEST BOOK (single camera) Ordered straight to series; 10 episodes STUDIO: CBS Television Studios / Studio T TEAM: Greg Garcia (w, ep) LOGLINE: Centering on a small - town vacation home and its visitors, it is based on fictitious stories Greg Garcia had been writing in the guest books of various rental cabins in an effort to freak out the next renters.

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The film featuring an all - Black cast, and a story - line set in the fictitious African nation of Wakanda, has broken so many records in just two months on the market, Disney, the parent company of Marvel Comics, released an infographic to list them all.

The discredited story was intended to call attention to the issue of sexual violence on college campuses, but it might have had the opposite effect by reinforcing the notion that rape allegations are often fictitious, a team from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism concluded in its critique.

Ms Dorries was one of a number of Conservative MPs named in emails from Gordon Brown's special adviser Damian McBride to other Labour activists about fictitious smear stories to be spread on the internet.

Using his experience with an American bomb squad to develop a fictitious story for «The Hurt Locker» is one thing, but writer Mark Boal's decision to tackle the death of Osama bin Laden takes journalistic moviemaking to another level, one that comes with an immense amount of societal and ethical pressure, on top of the challenge of just making a good movie.

Whenever I see «inspired by a true story» in the credits, I translate that to mean that the idea for the film may be based on a real person, but the majority of the story and its characters are fictitious and made - up for dramatic purposes.

However, their distraction pales in comparison to the beefed up role for another fictitious character, Bard's (Evans, Dracula: The Untold Story) servant Alfrid (Gage, Hamlet), who is meant to be the film's comic relief, but ends up being so broad and overbearing, you'll long to find him beheaded and skewered on the end of an Orc's spear after just the first of a dozen intolerable scenes in which he appears.

If The Iron Lady and My Week with Marilyn featured real life icons in based - on true stories, The Artist (released 30th December) features two fictitious icons from what almost pertains to a fantasy world.

Although the actual events of the story are fictitious, as adapted by Jeffrey Caine (GoldenEye, Inside I'm Dancing), the world of Kenya and its politics is every bit as vivid in detail as if this were based on a true story through first - hand accounts.

Hanks is no Peter Sellers or Alec Guinness - style human chameleon, but he pulls off not only Viktor's thick Slavic accent (it probably helps that his native Krakozhia is entirely fictitious), but also pulls the audience through an improbable situation and keeps us focused on the openly sentimental story.

While the story is fictitious, it is based on history, and many of the things are rooted in history.

Relive the Great War from 1914 to 1918 This fictitious story takes you back to famous WW1 locations, like Reims or Montfaucon between 1914 and 1918, revisiting historical battles on the Western Front, such as the Battle of the Marne or the Battle of the Somme!

Inspired by a Joyce Carol Oates story about a woman who writes unanswered letters to movie stars and opera singers, Roberta was a lonely fictitious character who interacted with real people on the streets of San Francisco.

Many of Cosentino's works look at historical events from a humorous perspective to create fictitious arrangements that fold different stories back on one another.

Inspired by midcentury photobooks and magazines, as well as the materials in the artist's own archive, 50 Photographs features a tipped - in sleeve with fictitious contact sheets, a checklist and an essay by art historian and curator James Oles on photographic prints and archives, in which he recounts the story behind this publication.

She uses archival documents and fictitious elements to reflect on the relation between individual stories and collective history.

Those who've been following the recent legal news will have seen the remarkable disagreement between Dominic Grieve the Attorney General and the Home Secretary Theresa May on the role of the Strasbourg Court, with reference to a tabloid created fictitious story about a refugee claimant who established a claim by having a cat in the family.