Sentences with phrase «opera series»

Mass Effect maker BioWare has announced a version of strategy board game Risk themed around its space opera series of video games.

He went to expand his acting career with a part on the CBS television show «Limitless,» a series of Christmas promotions for Lifetime TV, and a role as a police inspector on the soap opera series, «As the Dog Barks.»

An epic Science Fiction book cover that can be the grand opening for your next bestselling space opera series.

I usually don't read that many short stories, but Campbell is a science fiction writer I like, and I've read his space opera series called The Lost Fleet.

Colonel Doug Beason contributes SF thriller ASSAULT ON ALPHA BASE, David Farland gives THE GOLDEN QUEEN, first book in his military SF space opera series, and Andrew Keith and William H. Keith, Jr. offer the first novel in their bestselling Fifth Foreign Legion series.

The first book will launch a new far - future space opera series.

Interestingly, Freeman — who was sitting next to his old pal Andy Serkis, a Star Wars alum himself — noted that his absence from the space opera series is not for lacking on his own part.

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One does not need to watch for long to note the similarity of formats used and the development of identifiable sub-rituals: news, current affairs, sports, soap operas, situation comedies, drama, and the mini series.

«To them, scary series are like soap operas.

The A4 Avant is a rival for the BMW 3 - series Touring and Mercedes C - class Estate and, like those cars, enjoys strong demand on the used market, keeping Maya Avant is a fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera on the CBS network, portrayed by Karla Mosley.

His many regular weekly series assignments include Bracken's World (1969 - 71), as producer Kevin Grant, and The Law and Harry McGraw (1987), as assistant district attorney Tyler Chase; he was also seen on a daily basis in the soap operas Ryan's Hope and Rituals.

Based on the series of novels by James S.A.Corey, this space opera is set 200 years in a future where humanity has colonized the solar system, which is divided and on the brink of war.

It will be completely incomprehensible to anyone who has not seen the series but in The Peacekeeper Wars, fans will find a satisfying conclusion to their beloved space opera.

McQuarrie layers the action over several planes and drapes his actors in shadows, using darkness and flashes of color (like the billowing yellow dress that Ferguson wears or the blue lighting of the opera's set) to bring clarity to a logistically complicated series of fights and chases, measures and counter-measures.

Directed by Gareth Edwards and written by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy based on an idea by John Knoll, this epic space opera marks the first «Star Wars» stand - alone story, depicting the events shortly before the series» original movie.

The series is much more a Sun Tzu procedural and Machiavellian soap opera than a Washington satire or political thriller.

Breaking Dawn is best regarded as the purest - grade example of what the series has always at its heart been: a cracked - out paranormal soap opera.

The series is created, written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia, who is known for his work on feature films like «Mother and Child» and last year's «Albert Nobbs,» as well as television series such as HBO's «The Sopranos» and «Six Feet Under,» the latter of which has a similarly soap opera feel to it.

It's almost as if the entirety of this series was nothing more than a repetitive soap opera that transparently pandered to wealth - based wish fulfillment, unhealthy ideas that an obviously bad guy can change under the influence of the right woman, and, naturally, a lot of sex fantasies.

Three «Star Wars» movies have come out since 2015, and Disney is placing even bigger bets on the brand — developing two new film series and several TV shows based on the space opera.

While Steinfeld, who earned an Oscar nomination for her role in 2010's «True Grit,» is also an established name — even at the age of 17 — the same can't be said of those three actors reportedly in contention to play Cyclops: Hardy is best known as the latest actor to portray Peter Beale on the long - running U.K. soap opera «EastEnders»; Chalamet had recurring roles on «Royal Pains» and «Homeland,» and appears in «Interstellar»; and Rowe currently stars on the Fox series «Red Band Society.»

Furthermore, Hangover Part III is purportedly being designed as the last in the series and «a fitting conclusion to [the] three - part opera of mayhem, despair and bad decisions» that are Phillip's Hangover movies.

Their most recent production was Burton's Dark Shadows (2012), an unsuccessful attempt to recapture the potent mixture of soap opera and horror tale that had been a daytime television hit in the late Sixties.At the time of Richard's death, he and his wife were preparing with HBO a television series titled The Decalogue, 10 one - act plays set in modern day Los Angeles, each based on one of the Ten Commandments.

A biopic telling the story of Paul Potts, a Welsh cellphone salesman and amateur opera singer who became an overnight sensation via the reality TV series «Britain's Got Talent.»

Or maybe you recognize him as the hardest working man in show business, popping up in all kinds of roles in all kinds of shows from micro-budgeted indie films to the soap opera «General Hospital» to his recent portrayal of twins in HBO's «The Deuce» series.

The Dallas Film Society continues its Summer Screenings series with a free screening of Clemente Fracassi's adaptation of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida (1953) at 7:30 pm, June 11, at the Studio Movie Grill.

Yes, those details sound sappy, but this series has been something akin to action soap opera for years now, and that doesn't stop here.

Once the gears of Potter's melodramatic plot start into motion, though, it becomes little more than an over-the-top soap opera, in which current affairs and past sexual trysts are revealed, relationships falls apart, a terminal diagnosis comes to light, and the gun goes through a series of motions to wind up in the hands that held it at the movie's start.

Alan Ball has taken this southern gothic melodrama of vampires in the bayou far from the source material (the novels of Charlaine Harris) and fans have loved his juicy take on the supernatural soap opera so much they have made this show HBO's top original series and bestselling TV on Disc title.

If Attack of the Clones was a throwback to the series» origins as a Saturday afternoon serial, then Revenge of the Sith is a return to its eventually development into space opera.

After the film's world premiere on April 25, Margaret Juntwait, «the Voice of the Met,» moderates a conversation with filmmakers Susan Froemke and Bob Eisenhardt, the Met's general manager Peter Gelb, opera soprano Deborah Voigt, and tenor Jay Hunter Morris as part of the Tribeca Talks series.

The first sequel played out like soap opera, but Sam Raimi's third web - slinging adventure has the series approaching opera.

The site also allows visitors to flip through a series of Life covers on World War II, view a gallery of backstage images from the opera (from the New York Metropolitan in 1943 to the Peking Opera during the 2008 summer Olympics), and compare portraits of Miss America 1945 and Miss America 2009.

Vertical publishes some of the most interesting manga available in English, but they have not had a digital program — until now: They recently announced that they will make three series available as e-books: The astronaut - school story Twin Spica, the science fiction story 7 Billion Needles (based on Hal Clement's novel Needle), and the soap opera about competing wine connoisseurs, Drops of God.

The idea is nothing new, and is what led to TV series, notably soap operas.

But equally I don't want to turn the series into a pure soap opera.

· A new edition of the first book in Evan Currie's popular military space opera Odyssey series will be published in March 2012, now entitled «Into the Black: Odyssey One.»

New or casual readers of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series will be lost in its eighth installment (after 2009's Lover Avenged), but Ward's fans love her soap opera storytelling and are happy to forgive unpronounceable names and occasionally overeager tough talk (at a solemn wedding, [the bridegroom] was smiling like a motherfucker).

A truly FANTASTIC series about growing up, with some small town soap opera drama sprinkled in.»

After all, do I want to finish the space opera or go back and do the next title in the Nocturnal Lives series or do I go ahead and do the follow - up to the novel I just finished?

Riordan's imprint will also be doing a «Korean foxes meet space opera» fantasy series by the author of Ninefox Gambit, which I think will be really cool.

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Since then, he has four more books in the Mercury series; a humorous epic fantasy trilogy (the Dis trilogy), a space opera farce (Starship Grifters) and a quantum physics noir thriller, Schrodinger's Gat.

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I really, really want my fears in Bioware's conclusion to their bombastic space - opera to be misplaced; but I can't shake the feeling that the third entry in the series could be the worst.

«PIANO OPERA: music from FINAL FANTASY» is the official piano concert dedicated to the music of the video game series FINAL FANTASY.

It would dispel the notion that Final Fantasy games are drama - filled soap operas for overexcited teenagers, but capable of using the established lore of a long - running series to create series plots, characters and games.

My Career — the series» most popular aspect of the game — has been transformed into a soap opera.

The story has Layton and his ward Luke attempting to solve a series of mysterious disappearances at a London opera house.

Amplitude's Endless Space 2 is a massive space opera at the strategic scale, and last year they launched Endless Space 2 Stories, a series of...