Sentences with phrase «screen adaptation»

This big screen adaptation of the small screen comedy came years too late.

Considering that the games were designed to be an interactive cinematic blockbuster, releasing a silver screen adaptation seems like a distinct step sideways for the franchise.

For starters, the games themselves are already famous for their compelling narrative structure and cinematic action sequences, making the whole concept of a big - screen adaptation feel somewhat redundant.

Big - budget screen adaptations should raise the stakes the further they go on.

But she's certainly got another promising stage - to - screen adaptation here, and hopefully it will all come together.

The illustrations and touch - screen adaptations support a major reading skill, cause and effect.

But in the three big - screen adaptations of the popular comics he is 100 per cent bad - ass.

But I knew from the very first moment that a big screen adaptation could ruin all the fun.

The silver screen adaptation will follow the story of the game very closely.

In a slew of casting and production news, TNT is slowly assembling its team for the upcoming small screen adaptation of Bong Joon - ho's film.

The model for screen adaptations of literary classics (in a time where we have a massive stockpile of them) is Andrea Arnold's «Wuthering Heights.»

Glenn Dunks reviews Ralph Fiennes directorial debut, and the first screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus.

Surely one of the best arcade games ever, Street Fighter II was done right in its small screen adaptation by Capcom.

Last time we heard on the casting front for «Twilight» author Stephenie Meyer's next big screen adaptation from her other novel «The Host», was that there was several male actors being considered for two of the main male roles — one being the role of boyfriend Jared and the other role of Ian.

There have been many screen adaptations of the story of Joan of Arc.

May 10, 2018 • Bening stars in a new screen adaptation of Anton Chekhov's 1895 play The Seagull.

The big screen adaptation stars Henry Cavill in the title role as Napoleon Solo, a suave, sophisticated spy employed by U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement), a top secret, international espionage agency.

It's perhaps a bit ironic, then, that film critics are saying the new big - screen adaptation doesn't quite end happily...

Richard Donner's film with Christopher Reeve as Krypton's favorite son is still the best screen adaptation of the 1930s Siegel and Shuster comic book.

He is also the writer and director of the big screen adaptation which stars Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller.

With The Snowman set to arrive in cinemas this Friday, Universal Pictures has released a new featurette for the upcoming big screen adaptation Jo Nesbo's best - selling novel which features interviews with the author, director Tomas Alfredson, stars Michael Fassbender, J.K. Simmons, and Rebecca Ferguson, and producers Robyn Slovo and Piodor Gustafsson; take a look below... SEE ALSO: Trailer and -LSB-...]

Somehow I managed to earn two English degrees without ever reading Jane Eyre, so when Focus Features announced a release date for the latest screen adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 masterpiece, I resolved to crack the book at long last.

In the game, the goal is to reduce as many buildings to rubble as possible, whereas this impressive - looking but relatively less amusing big - screen adaptation gets it backward, reverting to the shrill save - our - cities panic that fueled such hokey 1950s classics as «Them» and «The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms.»

Now we have Scorsese's long - gestating screen adaptation of «Silence,» and it's a frustrating paradox: a carefully considered, dramatically blinkered chamber epic, written by Scorsese and his occasional collaborator, former film critic Jay Cocks.

YA novel - to - screen adaptations rarely get it right the first time — see Potter, Harry — but The Hunger Games is a welcome (and seriously kickass) exception to that rule.

DIVERGENT Director: Neil Burger Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ashley Judd, Tony Goldwyn, Kate Winslet, Jai Courtney, Ansel Elgort, Maggie Q, Zoe Kravitz, Miles Teller Big screen adaptations based on young adult book series are a hot commodity in Hollywood right now.

When: April 13th Why: I've never really understood the appeal of «The Three Stooges,» so I'm not too surprised that the Farrelly brothers» big screen adaptation looks as terrible as it does.

As a member of Marvel Comics» X-Men, he has appeared in all five of the franchise's prior screen adaptations, most notably, the eponymous installment exploring his origin.

Initially, Simenon, dissatisfied with earlier screen adaptations of his novels, had wanted to direct La tête d'un homme himself, but his plans fell through, and Duvivier took over the project.

With that fair warning out of the way, let me say that, Kick Ass nevertheless just happens to be the best comic book - to - screen adaptation since The Dark Knight.

The picture proves to be every bit as compelling as Jakes» previous screen adaptation, Woman Thous Art Loosed, another morality play revolving around the battle - of - the - sexes.

While I've always wanted to see a modern screen adaptation of Lord of the Flies, this film creates something that closely resembles what I'm looking for.

Dick's Minority Report, Total Recall and A Scanner Darkly have spawned successful screen adaptations, while his The Man in the High Castle has already been made into an Amazon series of its own.

Having run continuously on Broadway for the past 28 years (longer than any in history), Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schonberg's much - loved stage musical Les Misérables brings a well - seasoned audience frothing for an equally worthy screen adaptation.

This moody screen adaptation of the Oprah - endorsed eponymous bestseller by Andre Dubus III's isn't a slam - dunk success, but it has plenty of sleeper potential and is a feather in the cap of director Perelman, a Russian émigré who debuts here as a feature filmmaker after a career in commercials.

That's certainly the case with the protagonists in the hit «Fifty Shades» trilogy, whose screen adaptation is coming to a close with the new installment, «Fifty Shades Freed.»

The Neil Simon comedy that lit up Broadway for more than two years shines again in this flawed but still funny screen adaptation.

Merchant Ivory screen adaptation of Henry James» novel is handsome, but suffers from the miscasting of Christopher Reeve and Madeleine Potter, though Vanessa Redgrave is decent.

Don't expect anything too radical from this infuriatingly soft yet still pleasantly subdued and poignant screen adaptation of Randal Keynes's book «Annie's Box», about the emotional traumas suffered by Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany) as he forms the ideas destined for the pages of his magnum opus, «On the Origin of Species».

Heading into action territory with the high - profile video game - to - screen adaptation Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in 2001, Taylor straddled the line between big - budget excess and independent credibility with an appearance in the little seen but curiously titled He Died With a Felafel in His Hand that same year.

An intense screen adaptation of August Strindberg's drama about two people caught up in power plays.

He did not complete the three volumes until his early twenties: first in print, and then on camera as one of a handful of actors carefully selected for New Line Cinema's highly anticipated, $ 270 million, three - film screen adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Star of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy says screen adaptation of the third novel in John le Carré's Karla trilogy looks on the cards

The character has had two previous big screen adaptations before — Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, both starring Angelina Jolie.