Sentences with phrase «out of the film adaptation»

Though Putin was a key figure in the original book, he's been quietly cut out of the film adaptation.

Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn act the hell out of this film adaptation of Broadway drama «Blackbird» — and still can't give it a pulse

Not exact matches

As Disney was wrapping up production on A Wrinkle in Time, the latest film from lauded director Ava DuVernay and an adaptation of the beloved children's book, out Friday, the production team reached out to Rodeo FX to add finishing touches on a selected scene.

This summer's box - office totals have also suffered from the expansion of blockbuster season as a handful of films likely to be among the year's biggest releases are slated to come out this fall, among them best - selling novel adaptation Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the latest Hunger Games installment.

Out of the top ten this week are Universal's comic adaptation of «R.I.P.D.» After three weekends, the $ 130 million budget film has earned $ 48.8 million at theaters.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

Truth be told, it is mysterious that DC has managed to churn out three Batman movies, two Superman movies, a Green Lantern movie, a Green Arrow TV show and a planned Flash TV show (and that's all ignoring the previous film adaptations of these characters) without turning its attention to one of its heaviest hitters (aside from a famously disastrous attempt at a television show a few years back).

The film adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is coming out on Friday!

Some of have succeeded, while others have not (The Human Stain), and yet, we still have more film adaptations coming out.

I think this beautiful adaptation gets no justice, the melodic storytelling and dramatic performances don't seem out of place in this tragic film, it keeps to the Shakespearean roots by maintaining the language which in its form sounds poetic, the story has however been updated to suit

I think this beautiful adaptation gets no justice, the melodic storytelling and dramatic performances don't seem out of place in this tragic film, it keeps to the Shakespearean roots by maintaining the language which in its form sounds poetic, the story has however been updated to suit today's audience.

Nothing on Lionsgate's 2014 schedule of YA novel adaptations, horror, and other genre films suggests that the studio is going to start churning out critically praised films, but with another Hunger Games installment due this year, the studio should remain in the green financially, if not score-wise.

In 1997, Posey starred in no less than five independent films, including Henry Fool, her third Hartley outing; the temps - in - hell comedy drama Clockwatchers; Linklater's adaptation of Eric Bogosian's SubUrbia; and The House of Yes.

I'm told that Alex Garland's film, out February 23, veers considerably from the plot of Jeff VanderMeer's hit 2014 novel; those going in expecting a faithful adaptation will be disappointed, and may spend the bulk of the movie frustrated about what's not there instead of appreciating what is.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

After a last minute leading man change (Ryan Gosling dropped out before filming, stating creative differences) and a delayed release to coincide with the awards season, Peter Jackson's film adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestselling novel is finally here.

Toby Kebbell is out doing the press rounds for Warcraft, the film adaptation of the ever - popular World Of Warcraft game for which he once again donned a motion - capture suit, this time to play the orc chieftain Durotaof the ever - popular World Of Warcraft game for which he once again donned a motion - capture suit, this time to play the orc chieftain DurotaOf Warcraft game for which he once again donned a motion - capture suit, this time to play the orc chieftain Durotan.

Now, as Garcia pointed out, she's biased about that Star Wars project because it features Alden Ehrenreich, who starred in the film adaptation of her book, Beautiful Creatures.

The Italian actor - turned - director fails to draw anything substantial out of his stars Penelope Cruz (who he worked with on his previous film, Don't Move, another adaptation of a Mazzantini novel) and Emile Hirsch, though the unbelievably phony dialog would stumble up even the best of thesps.

We broaden out from there to film adaptations of books, and as always, we tell you what's making us happy this week.

Ridley Scott, who is on the same annual cinematic trajectory as Woody Allen when it comes to churning out films, returns again to sci - fi with The Martian, an adaptation of Andy Weir's novel.

He was in the BBC's adaptation of Ian McEwan's The Child in Time opposite Benedict Cumberbatch, crops up in Goodbye Christopher Robin, a film about AA Milne out this weekend, and stars in The Last Post, Peter Moffat's new Sunday night BBC drama about military police officers and their wives in Yemen in the 1960s.

It turns out, we now know that he has abandoned it in favour of an even more surprising film: the video game adaptation Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

This entire project has my full attention: Pet Sematary is my favorite Stephen King novel, and while the 1989 film was a pretty solid adaptation (King wrote the script himself), there are a lot of details that were left out of the film that could work perfectly in a new take on the material.

And then, there were a decent number of auteurs who appeared at the Cannes Market who should (hopefully) pop up in Venice, such as Lido regular Benoit Jacquot with his adaptation of Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, apparently retitled Never Ever, while Wim Wenders could be a contender with The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (though he may hold out for Berlin 2017, the same guess we'd wage for a new film from Volker Schlondorff, Return to Montauk).

Skipping from a neo-noir adaptation (Out of Sight) to a biopic (Che), social commentary (Traffic) to an Andrei Tarkovsky remake (Solaris), mainstream drama (Erin Brockovich) to an experimental film about prostitution (The Girlfriend Experience), Soderbergh is a man who doesn't like repeating himself.

The third film adaptation of Herman Koch's eponymous novel (following Menno Meyjes's 2013 «Het Diner» and Ivano De Matteo's 2014 «I nostri ragazzi»), Oren Moverman's «The Dinner» indeed plays out like a European art thriller — perhaps one by Thomas Vinterberg (despite that he's Danish and Mr. Koch is Dutch).

But it says a lot that half way through the year, the film that leaps to everyone's mind when sussing out the best of what we've seen is a comic book adaptation.

It's easily my favorite of Green's novels, and The Fault in Our Stars was a very faithful, well put together adaptation, so I'm excited to see how this film turns out.

In what turned out to be one of the highlights at this year's CinemaCon was the stunning, 10 minute footage from Peter Jackson's new movie, the epic 3D film adaptation of Tolkien's The Hobbit (which opens December 14) that was shot at a frame rate of 48 per second achieving an unprecedented combination of uniformity and brightness.

Though I didn't really like Tom Hooper's big screen adaptation of the popular stage musical or Judd Apatow's quasi-sequel to «Knocked Up,» there are still plenty of new releases worth checking out, including one of 2012's best films and the most anticipated prequel since «The Phantom Menace.»

Check out two new clips full of good advice from the following films: World War Z — This new clip from director Marc Forster's adaptation of the Max Brooks novel features an officer giving some good advice to Brad Pitt and his family about why one...

The film, an adaptation of the Thomas Pynchon novel set in the psychedelic Sixties, is out on December 12th and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin and Owen Wilson.

After making his mark in the early thirties with two very different films, the anarchic send - up of the bourgeoisie Boudu Saved from Drowning and the popular - front Gorky adaptation The Lower Depths, Renoir closed out the decade with two critical humanistic studies of French society that routinely turn up on lists of the greatest films ever made: Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game (the former was celebrated in its time, but the latter was trashed by critics and audiences — until history provided vindication).

Neil Gaiman, destroyer of dreams, wants to set the record straight for any fans out there who thought his praise of Hiddleston's cheekbones meant the British actor was definitively cast to play Morpheus in the film adaptation of The Sandman.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Year: 2015 Director: Francis Lawrence By now, the economic practicality behind the film adaptation «two - fer» — making two films out of a single book of source material — seems both obvious and inescapable.

She made a break - out performance in the film adaptation of Nicolas Spark's romance novel «The Notebook» and stole the show from Lindsay Lohan in the teen angst comedy «Mean Girls.»

Like that film, writer - director Gary Ross's adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand's excellent non-fiction washes out as something creepily nostalgic, weightless, and unintentionally disturbing.

If I'm a little wary of the film, it's only because of Taymor's own wildly spotty record; she also has the memory of Peter Greenaway's own avant - garde «Tempest» adaptation, «Prospero's Books,» to contend with, or at least to out - weird.

Disney's G - Force is coming out as an action game on the DS, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 — an adaptation of the upcoming computer - generated guinea pig film.

But Warner Bros. has confidence that the fandom of the popular Cartoon Network series will come - out in force for the big screen film adaptation.

We've got a few new images from the following films for you to check out: Vampire Academy — Mark Waters» adaptation of Richelle Mead's novel, starring Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry and Olga Kurylenko.

Insurgent is much better than a lot of the YA adaptations out there and fans of the series will no doubt be left with a lot to talk about, but don't fear those among us that don't read, the film is much different than the book so you won't be left in the dark.

Features commentary by film scholar Dana Polan, a new interview with Gloria Grahame biographer Vincent Curcio, a 20 - minute piece with filmmaker Curtis Hanson produced for the 2002 DVD release, a condensed version of the 1975 documentary I'm a Stranger Here Myself (this runs about 40 minutes), and the radio adaptation of the original novel produced for «Suspense» in 1948, plus a fold - out booklet with an essay by Imogen Sara Smith.

Noel's Take: When Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining was released in 1980, it baffled many film buffs, who couldn't figure out why the man who'd made some of the most challenging, brainy, and beautiful movies of the previous 20 years would spend his precious time and talent on a hammy, heavy B - horror flick.

An adaptation of the Nobel Prize - winning author José Saramago's novel «The Double» (and not the thematically similar Dostoyevsky book of the same name which confusingly, features elsewhere on this list) this psychological thriller sounds a little bit more damaged and arthouse than Villeneuve's aforementioned studio film and given uncompromising nature of that picture, we're rather psyched to see how «Enemy» turns out.

Of course, he's never been very far out of the limelight, having completely dominated the Horror genre over the past 40 years as the «go - to» storyteller for genuine scares; leaving a multitude of classic books and subsequent film adaptations in his literary wakOf course, he's never been very far out of the limelight, having completely dominated the Horror genre over the past 40 years as the «go - to» storyteller for genuine scares; leaving a multitude of classic books and subsequent film adaptations in his literary wakof the limelight, having completely dominated the Horror genre over the past 40 years as the «go - to» storyteller for genuine scares; leaving a multitude of classic books and subsequent film adaptations in his literary wakof classic books and subsequent film adaptations in his literary wake.

From Dusk Till Dawn «s first season was a stretched out adaptation of Robert Rodriguez's 1996 film of the same name.

While I wouldn't mind playing with some of these side characters and superfluous plotlines in a video game, as an adaptation of a beloved work that has enchanted many millions of readers, young and old, I'm left longing for a different kind of fan film — the inevitable one in which someone edits out all of the stuff not from the writings of Tolkien — and makes it the movie it always should have been from inception.

The 2009 film adaptation is however — out of pure necessity of course - a mere Reader's Digest synopsis of the 500 pages plus novel.