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The Secret World of Arrietty - Up to the high standards of Hayao Miyazaki, who co-wrote but did
not direct this adaptation of Mary Norton's The Borrowers.
A new clip has premiered from Lionsgate's The Hunger Games, the Gary Ross -
directed adaptation in theaters March 23.
Last January it was announced that Guillermo del Toro had signed on to develop and
potentially direct an adaptation of Alvin Schwartz's book trilogy Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark for CBS Films.
This splendid Steven Spielberg -
directed adaptation makes it possible for audiences of all ages to wrap their heads around one of the unlikeliest friendships in cinema history... Full Review
The BFG (PG for action, peril, scary images and rude humor) Steven
Spielberg directed this adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved children's novel about the unlikely friendship forged between a little girl (Ruby Barnhill) and the only member of a hostile race of invading giants (Mark Rylance) who won't eat children.
Look, our job as we said a million times is to tell the story of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, not to
do direct adaptations of the comics because we're comic book fans.
The hugely prolific actor and film - maker James Franco started his career on TV's Freaks and Geeks and has
also directed adaptations of Faulkner and Steinbeck.
The Departed comes by its puzzle pieces honestly — the movie, with an outstanding script by Kingdom of Heaven screenwriter William Monahan, is a
relatively direct adaptation of Infernal Affairs, a great 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller steeped in Chinese conundrum and Hong Kong aesthetics.
Marc
Forster directs this adaptation of Max Brooks» novel, that shows how humanity tries to fight back when a worldwide zombie epidemic threatens the livelihood of planet Earth.
Learn more about the actors behind the most prominent roles in this Gary
Ross directed adaptation of the Suzanne Collins novel.
Cosmopolis (R for violence, profanity, graphic sexuality and frontal nudity) David
Cronenberg directed this adaptation of the Don Delillo novel of the same name chronicling a very eventful day in the life of a miserably - married, self - destructive billionaire (Robert Pattinson) With Paul Giamatti, Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton and K'naan.
Red director Robert Schwentke is
busy directing the adaptation of the Dark Horse comic, which finds Ryan Reynolds as a cop who is slain in the line of duty.
It's been nearly 50 years since François
Truffaut directed an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (and more than 60 years since the novel was published), but with poorly - written slash fiction now running rampant, HBO is looking to thin the book herd a bit.
Not Easily Broken (PG - 13 for mature themes and sexual references) Bill
Duke directs this adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes» novel about an emotionally - estranged couple (Morris Chestnut and Taraji P. Henson) whose marriage ends up in crisis when she is seriously injured in a car accident and he finds himself falling for her physical therapist (Maeve Quinlan).
The Family Fang (R for profanity) Jason
Bateman directed this adaptation of Kevin Wilson's best seller about a brother (Bateman) and sister's (Nicole Kidman) search for their performance artist parents (Christopher Walken and Maryann Plunkett) who disappeared without a trace.
The thing that most people seem to not be discussing about this film is that it's possible that what they have in mind is going to be a
more direct adaptation of the book, rather than a remake of the movie.
For only his second studio film — Bogdanovich made the excellent, but little seen, Targets, in 1968 — the former film critic
chanced directing an adaptation of Larry McMurtry's elegiac novel about teenagers who come of age in a dying Texas town in the early fifties.
Tom
Hooper directed the adaptation, which stars Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Russell Crowe, Amdanda Seyfried, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen.
It's heading for north of $ 40 million as well, more than $ 10 million over pre-release projections for the Rob Marshall -
directed adaptation starring Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine and Johnny Depp.
Disney have released a New Year teaser spot for the Ava
DuVernay directed adaptation of Madeleine L'Engline's classic novel, A Wrinkle in Time.
Stephen
Chbosky directs this adaptation of his own critically acclaimed novel which focuses on the shy and unpopular Charlie (Logan Lerman) who finds friends in Sam (Emma Watson) and Patrick (Ezra Miller).
Production has started on THE HOBBIT, the Peter
Jackson directed adaptation of JRR Tolkien's classic novel, which will be brought to screens in two...
David
Fincher directs this adaptation of the bestselling thriller by Gillian Flynn about a man whose wife disappears and who then becomes the centre of a media circus when suspicion falls on him.