Not exact matches
Then, too, it will presumably be possible to leave it an open question whether the history of human descent as known to us does or does not possess
features which only after the Fall of the first man can be thought of to some extent as a predominance of his pre-human past and of his environment, over a sensitivity to the world around him no longer protected by the gift of integrity, and over his lack of
adaptation to a particular milieu.
Generally his film work less successful than this TV work,
which features the fantastic Salem's Lot
adaptation as well as work on Masters of Horror.
A lush and loyal
adaptation of Chekhov's novella,
which nails the atmosphere and
features brilliant performance all round.
COLD IN JULY, Jim Mickle's
feature adaptation of the Joe Lansdale cult novel in
which Hall stars with Sam Shepard and Don Johnson, recently premiered to significant acclaim in US Dramatic Competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Unlike video game
adaptations like the Tomb Raider series or Assassins Creed,
which have to contend with years of accreted mythos and complicated character - building, Rampage was always going to be on pretty safe ground, as long as it
featured a giant ape, lizard, and wolf pounding some buildings to powder.
Major highlights making their world premieres include Shawn Levy's all - star ensemble drama «This Is Where I Leave You,» starring Jane Fonda, Jason Bateman and Tina Fey; Michael R. Roskam's «The Drop,»
which features James Gandolfini's final performance; Liv Ullman's film
adaptation of the famed play «Miss Julie,» starring Jessica Chastain; David Gordon Green's latest indie drama «Manglehorn,»
featuring Al Pacino; the musical «The Last 5 Years,» starring Anna Kendrick; Noah Baumbach's latest «While We're Young,» starring Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts and Amanda Seyfried; and Jason Reitman's «Men, Women & Children,» starring Adam Sandler.
Not sure why we've waited more than seven year's for Pascale Ferran's fourth
feature film
which proposes a sort of Before Sunrises meets Terminal as her 2006 epic Lady Chatterley was perhaps one of the best literary
adaptations we'll have seen in the past decade.
But it's unfair to judge on a book on its cover (or title) and after seeing Matthew Vaughn's film
adaptation which releases this weekend, I can honestly say that Kick - Ass is much better than I first expected and Vaughn's big - screen version of the graphic novel
features sharp writing, brilliant performances, and of course, indulgent action sequences and story - telling.
Kebbell just got done shooting the video game
adaptation Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,
which was also produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and
featured Molina.
Ethan Hawke and writer - director Michael Almereyda came together in 2000 for a modern - day
adaptation of Hamlet,
which memorably
featured the «To Be or not To Be» soliloquy delivered inside a Blockbuster Video.
Ahead of its release next month, Warner Bros. has debuted a new interactive poster for Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming film Inherent Vice,
which offers up some information on the characters
featured in the Thomas Pynchon
adaptation... SEE ALSO: First poster and trailer for Inherent Vice Inherent Vice is the seventh
feature from Paul Thomas Anderson -LSB-...]
With little over a year to go before its release, Universal Pictures has debuted the first poster for director Sam Taylor - Johnson's
adaptation of the all - but - forgotten E.L. James erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey,
which features Jamie Dornan (Once Upon a Time) as Christian Grey...
A noteworthy
adaptation was Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones,
which featured Dorothy Dandridge's Oscar - nominated performance in the titular role.
The film often riffs on George Bernard Shaw's «Pygmalion,» the musical
adaptation, «My Fair Lady,» and most of all the 1938 movie version,
which featured a sly romantic ending and, of course, Leslie Howard, another Brit heartthrob who could act.
As with most other WGBH releases there are no on - disc special
features,
which is a shame since the closing credits indicate the existence, on the PBS web site, of an interview with Emmy - winning classic
adaptation specialist Andrew Davies, who wrote the screenplay here.
Disney will continue to break glass ceilings soon after Black Panther: On March 9, the studio will open the
feature adaptation of the children's classic A Wrinkle In Time,
which at a $ 100M - plus budget is the first production of its scope to be directed by a woman of color, Oscar nominee Ava DuVernay (at one point before Coogler, she was in talks to potentially direct Black Panther).
Special
Features Andrei Tarkovsky's short film
adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's «The Killers,» made when he was a student in 1956 Interview from 2002 with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky about both films Piece from 2002 in
which actor Stacy Keach reads Hemingway's short story «Screen Directors»» Playhouse radio
adaptation from 1949 of the 1946 film, starring Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters Interview from 2002 with actor Clu Gulager Audio excerpt from director Don Siegel's autobiography, «A Siegel Film,» read by actor and director Hampton Fancher Trailers PLUS: Essays by novelist Jonathan Lethem and critic Geoffrey O'Brien
Advantageous was the
feature adaptation of Phang's 2012 short film Advantageous
which was commissioned by ITVS.
With just two days to go until Assassin's Creed arrives in US cinemas, 20th Century Fox has debuted a new clip from Justin Kurzel's hotly - anticipated video game
adaptation entitled «Father's Blade»,
which features Michael Fassbender and Jeremy Irons; take a look below after the official synopsis... SEE ALSO: Michael Fassbender says Assassin's Creed planned as first instalment of -LSB-...]
Webb, whose
feature film credits also include «(500) Days of Summer,» will also serve as executive producer on CBS's upcoming
adaptation of the Bradley Cooper
feature «Limitless» as well as The CW's «Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,» both of
which he directed the pilots for.
The film is a
feature adaptation of «Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries,»
which was a hit series of crime novels by Kerry Greenwood before being adapted for TV.
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.
This movie is a mashup of «The Da Vinci Code» and «The Matrix» that may well be a fun framework for a video game in
which you skulk around period settings murdering people, but in a
feature film
adaptation could not possibly be less interesting.
Universal Pictures and Focus
Features have released a new poster for The Beguiled, director Sofia Coppola's upcoming
adaptation of the Thomas P. Cullinan novel of the same name,
which stars Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for The Beguiled The Beguiled, adapted by -LSB-...]
It also offers two featurettes --» The Origin Story of Big Hero 6: Hiro's Journey,»
which follows the process of
adaptation process from comic book to animate
feature, and «Big Animator 6: The Characters Behind the Characters,» with the animators discussing the evolution of the characters on the screen — deleted scenes (in rough form, as they were removed in early stages of production; you can see one of them at the end of the post), and Easter Eggs for the kids to hunt for.
20th Century Fox and DreamWorks Animation have released a new poster for Home, the upcoming
adaptation of Adam Rex's 2007 children's book The True Meaning of Smekday,
which features a voice cast that includes Rihanna, Jim Parsons, Steve Martin and Jennifer Lopez... When Earth is taken over by the overly - confident Boov, an alien race in -LSB-...]
Also, despite the less than $ 40M weekend, there's a whole other set of Valentine's Day business
which is coming to this E.L. James
feature adaptation on Wednesday, on part to the $ 11M made by its predecessor Fifty Shades Darker on the lovers» holiday.
6 Back in 2011, young Australian director Justin Kurzel won honourable mentions at the festival for his shocking
feature debut Showtown, and there's lots of interest in his
adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth,
which is in competition this year.
(In French and English NY Export: Opus Jazz (Unrated) Screen
adaptation of «Ballet in Sneakers» a controversial, modern dance production
which featured an interracial company back in 1958 when it was first staged by legendary choreographer Jerome Robbins.
Ahead of its release this Friday, two new character poster have arrived online for director Justin Kurzel's Shakespeare
adaptation Macbeth,
which feature Michael Fassbender's titular character along with Marion Cotillard's Lady Macbeth.
In response to Brian's item this week about Focus
Features» animated film slate, I've received notification from the studio that «Coraline,» the Neil Gaiman
adaptation from Henry Selick (
which looks extraordinary, I might add) is set for a February 2009 release.
Empire has debuted two new posters from director Justin Kurzel's
adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, both of
which you can view right here... SEE ALSO: Michael Fassbender and Paddy Considine
featured in new images from Macbeth Michael Fassbender (Shame) and Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night) star in the film, with Paddy Considine (Dead Man's -LSB-...]
[
featured - video] Synopsis: An
adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th - century France, in
which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.
Of his four
feature films, «Her» might be the best,
which is no small feat in the company of «Being John Malkovich» and «
Adaptation.»
Surprisingly, of all of the King
adaptations, that 1986 film —
which featured young characters on a journey to find a dead body — feels the most similar to this one despite the fact that this movie belongs in the horror genre.
The BBC has released a trailer for its upcoming
adaptation of Roald Dahl's Esio Trot,
which is set to air as part of the channel's Christmas programming and
features a cast that includes Judi Dench (Skyfall), Dustin Hoffman (Chef) and James Corden (Into the Woods).
NEW THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE Rovio Entertainment and Sony Pictures»
feature adaptation of the hugely popular mobile game franchise took flight in 74 markets this weekend —
which is 63 % of the offshore footprint.
Hornby himself scripted a 1997 British
adaptation featuring Colin Firth,
which seems to have been the starting point for this passable romantic comedy, in
which a maniacally devoted Boston Red Sox fan (Jimmy Fallon) is forced to grow up when he falls for an ambitious professional woman (Drew Barrymore).
He followed that film with one hugely disappointing sequel / rehash, 2007's «Hostel: Part II,» and in intervening years has flirted with a host of projects
which never came to pass (the Stephen King
adaptation «Cellular,» a
feature - length expansion of his «Grindhouse» short, a sci - fi film called «Endangered Species,» etc.), stepped in front of the camera for friends («Inglourious Basterds,» «Aftershock «-RRB- and helped bring the Netflix series «Hemlock Grove» to life.
I haven't read any of the books in author Jeff VanderMeer's award - winning «Southern Reach Trilogy,» of
which Annihilation is the first installment, but from what I understand writer / director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) has reworked the material considerably as far as the script for his
feature adaptation is concerned.
Hereford will relocate the action from London to Chicago for the
feature adaptation,
which will also be written by Hutson.
His second
feature was a well - conceived
adaptation of Jane Eyre, and his future projects (of
which there seem to be dozens) include a biopic on French Revolution - era General Thomas - Alexandre Dumas (the highest ranking person of color to serve in a European army), and
adaptations of Stephen King's It, and Beasts of No Nation with Idris Elba.
Kalyn is attached to direct the
feature adaptation of «Mech,»
which will be written by Le, whose genre script «Patient Zero» was voted to the 2013 Black List after selling to Screen Gems in a bidding war last October.
With just two weeks to go until the release of Murder on the Orient Express, a behind the scenes featurette has arrived online for Kenneth Branagh's star - studded
adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel
which features interviews with Branagh, Josh Gad, Tom Bateman, Lucy Boynton, Leslie Odom Jr., Judi Dench, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Penelope Cruz; take a look below...
With just two weeks to go until the release of Murder on the Orient Express, a behind the scenes featurette has arrived online for Kenneth Branagh's star - studded
adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel
which features interviews with Branagh, Josh Gad, Tom Bateman, Lucy Boynton, Leslie Odom Jr., Judi Dench, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Penelope Cruz; take a -LSB-...]
Features an English language introduction, the «Storyboard Presentation of the Movie» (which replays the entire film soundtrack to a slideshow of storyboards and sketches) and «The World of Ghibli,» a collection of featurettes (both Japanese and English language productions) on the film and the English adaptation, plus interactive peaks at other Miyazaki f
Features an English language introduction, the «Storyboard Presentation of the Movie» (
which replays the entire film soundtrack to a slideshow of storyboards and sketches) and «The World of Ghibli,» a collection of featurettes (both Japanese and English language productions) on the film and the English
adaptation, plus interactive peaks at other Miyazaki
featuresfeatures.
Shooting is officially complete on Whedon's Shakespearean
adaptation which features a cast led by Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof.
In addition, the set
features Borzage's 1925 silent Lazybones, his early Will Rogers sound comedy They Had to See Paris, his
adaptation of Liliom (with Charles Farrell again), the musical Song O» My Heart, After Tomorrow, Young America and Bad Girl (1931), for
which Borzage won his second Academy Award as Best Director.
Disney has released six new character posters for Ava DuVernay's upcoming
adaptation of Madeleine L'Engline's classic novel, A Wrinkle in Time
featuring Meg Murry (Storm Reid), Alex Murry (Chris Pine), Kate Murry (Gugu Mbatha - Raw), Mrs.
Which (Oprah Winfrey), Mrs.. Who (Mindy Kaling), and Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon), along with a featurette which takes us behind the scenes of the fantasy adventure; take a look bel
Which (Oprah Winfrey), Mrs.. Who (Mindy Kaling), and Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon), along with a featurette
which takes us behind the scenes of the fantasy adventure; take a look bel
which takes us behind the scenes of the fantasy adventure; take a look below...
They wrote a
feature adaptation of the video game Deus Ex and also a bigscreen version of the TV shows * The Outer Limits, both of
which remain unmade.