Sentences with phrase «only video game adaptation»

Not exact matches

After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Basak explained that strategy - based video games include, not only real - time strategy games, such as «Rise of Nations,» which was used in her research, but also computer adaptations of strategy board games such as «Settlers of Catan,» a favorite among physicists and mathematicians; «Ticket to Ride,» for geography lovers; and especially the classic strategy game of chess — all played with a time constraint.

Just to nix any rumors, Rampage doesn't break the seemingly perfect losing streak of video game to movie adaptation, but only because this year's wafer - thin but highly entertaining Tomb Raider did that already.

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.

And next Christmas season, we'll get to see him doing the exact same thing, only in a video game adaptation rather than a Shakespeare retelling.

20th Century Fox has released a new global trailer for the upcoming video game adaptation Hitman: Agent 47 ahead of its release later this month; check it out here... HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the -LSB-...]

2016 is not only a big year for the comic book adaptation, it's also a proving ground for the video game movie.

Only last night to be bring you a stylish new international poster for Scott Waugh's film adaptation of video game NEED FOR SPEED, and now a UK quad come racing in for the fast - paced thriller led by Aaron Paul.

Only last night to be bring you a stylish new international poster for Scott Waugh's film adaptation of video game NEED FOR SPEED, and...

Video game adaptations haven't traditionally been huge box office hits, with only one movie, 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, earning over $ 100 million domestically.

Any hope that «Warcraft» would be the first great video game adaptation is promptly squashed within the opening 30 minutes, and it only gets worse from there as the audience is forced to suffer through the convoluted plot (including an unearned romance between Lothar and Garona), a clunky finale that's more interested in setting up future sequels than providing a satisfying conclusion, and a handful of unmemorable action sequences.

Assassin's Creed only added to another failed video - game adaptation and his work with Ridley Scott on Prometheus, Alien: Covenant and The Counselor also failed to impress (although, I was admittedly one of the few admirers of the latter film).

Video game adaptations are rarely, if ever, a sensible idea and the PlayStation franchise only has mid-tier name recognition.

«Rampage» is Johnson's second video game movie and only a slight improvement over the obnoxious «Doom» adaptation he made in 2005.

To be clear, less than a million separates Tomb Raider and I Can Only Imagine while about $ 50,000 separates the video game adaptation from Sherlock Gnomes.

Not only did the franchise defy the rules of video game adaptations failing miserably at the box office, but it also gave us possibly cinema's best female action heroine since Sigourney Weaver's Ripley.

The Tomb Raider reboot is seeking to be the first great video game adaptation, but recent trailers have only reinforced one main concern we have about the reboot.

Any hope that «Warcraft» would be the first great video game adaptation is promptly squashed within the opening 30 minutes, and it only gets worse from there as the audience is forced to suffer through the incredibly convoluted and disjointed plot.

grossed just $ 16.7 million over the four - day frame, but the biggest bomb of the holiday was the Michael Fassbender - fronted video game adaptation Assassin's Creed, which grossed only $ 16.7 million.

Hopefully, the upcoming and movie will be one of the first good video game adaptations and only reaffirm their popularity whilst introducing them to a new generation of fans.

Quite ironic that the only thing that made me truly excited was a TV adaptation and not the video games.

I've really enjoyed Archie's video game adaptations as of recent, if only because they don't try to adapt the Archieverse into the story.

Not only is Sonic Boom the cartoon series landing later this year on Cartoon Network, but SEGA has also revealed today that LA developer Big Red Button Entertainment, a team made up of Ex-Naughty Dog staffers, will be leading the development of a video game adaptation of the series which will be exclusive to the Wii U and 3DS.