Sentences with phrase «television adaptation starring»

The play has seen several adaptations in the past including a Alf Sjöberg - helmed 1951 Swedish - language version, a 1987 television adaptation starring Janet McTeer and a 1999 film by Mike Figgis starring Saffron Burrows and Peter Mullan.

Not exact matches

The second film to be made from Woody Allen's successful stage comedy (following a 1969 feature starring Jackie Gleason), Don't Drink the Water is a made - for - television adaptation directed by and starring Allen himself.

In addition to film and television, Bracco starred on Broadway as Mrs. Robinson in Terry Johnson's adaptation of THE GRADUATE.

Though Rickman's voice would be featured on the animated television series King of the Hill in 2003, he wasn't truly absorbed into mainstream pop - culture among the kid circuit until after starring in the movie adaptations of author J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

Lewis starred as Henry VIII opposite Mark Rylance in WOLF HALL, the critically acclaimed BBC Two / Masterpiece Theater six - part television miniseries adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker - Prize winning novels, directed by BAFTA - winning Peter Kosminsky.

Grainger was also recognized for her character of Charlie Cooper in a one - off television adaptation of Kate Long's novel THE BAD MOTHER»S HANDBOOK; Grainger starred opposite Catherine Tate, Anne Reid, and Robert Pattinson in this popular comedy drama.

Previously, she gained critical acclaim starring as Marnie on six seasons of GIRLS and in the live television adaptation of PETER PAN as the title character.

«Olive Kitteridge» Starring Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins, HBO's two - part, four - hour adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize - winning book is the best thing on television this year, last year, probably next year, possible ever.

«21 Jump Street «It shouldn't have worked — yet another tired reinvention of a preexisting property (in this case a beloved but marginal eighties television series), gussied up with of - the - moment stars and a more comedic bent (something found, time and time again, in the television - series - adaptation subgenre — see also: «The Addams Family,» «The Brady Bunch,» and «Charlie's Angels «-RRB-, shepherded by a pair of directors making the shaky transition from animation to the much woollier world of live action.

A prolific film, television, and theater actress, Megan Follows became a TV star as Anne Shirley in Canadian television's adaptation of L.M. Montgomery's popular Anne of Green Gables books.

Adapted for television and starring Stacy Keach, this followup to the 1984 television series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, is a slightly softer adaptation of the character.

The late Mordecai Richler's 1997 novel provides the groundwork for this dramedy adaptation starring Paul Giamatti (Fred Claus, The Nanny Diaries) as the titular Montreal television producer Barney Panofsky, a man who has suffered through one tragic marriage with a free - spirited young woman in Italy (Lefevre, Twilight) who turns up carrying another man's child only to get himself into another loveless one with a well - to - do Jewish - American princess (Driver, Ella Enchanted), while he only has eyes for a woman he barely knows in another part of the country (Pike, Surrogates).

One of the great British plays about life in the theatre returns to the screen in Richard Eyre's television adaptation of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser starring Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen.

A BBC radio adaptation was first produced in 2007 starring comedian Harry Enfield, an hour - long television version aired on BBC 4 in 2010, starring Stephen Mangan with three further episodes being commissioned in 2012, and a comic book run began in May 2015.

It stars Dustin Hoffman (74) as a weary gangster, his first lead role in a television series (he won an Emmy in 1986 for his performance as Willy Loman in a television adaptation of Death of a Salesman), Nick Nolte (70) as a trainer for whom the word grizzled appears to have been created and eye - catching supporting roles for Michael Gambon (71) and Dennis Farina (67).

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This week the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. gets a big screen update starring Armie Hammer (The Social Network) and Henry Cavill (Man of Steel), and yet another 1960s television adaptation is on the way in 2016 with the British comedy Dad's Army.

The original «Odd Couple» television series, which ran from 1970 - 75, is a hard - to - follow classic but, given that it was an adaptation to begin with (of a 1968 movie starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, which itself was based on a Neil Simon play) the show is not sacrosanct.

«The 100» actor will star in the upcoming television adaptation of Neil Gaiman's bestselling fantasy novel.

Supergirl has already featured several alumni from past DC film and television adaptations, including Smallville «s Laura Vandervoort, former Supergirl actress Helen Slater, former Wonder Woman star Lynda Carter, and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman star Dean Cain.

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The «Mad Men» alum will star as the protagonist in Hulu's television adaptation of Margret Atwood's classic novel, which will be penned by «The 100's» Bruce Miller.

Over a year ago we learned that comedian and Punk'd prankster turned actor Dax Shepard was taking on quite the responsibility by writing, directing and starring in a big screen adaptation of the popular NBC television series CHiPs.

She's also featured in the television adaptation of Stephen King's «Under the Dome,» and stars alongside Jennifer Aniston in this year's Cake.

Other mysterious stories were also popular and Washington Irving's tale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) will be know to many following its recent adaptation as a film starring Johnny Depp and the even more contemporary television series.