Film adaptations

If done correctly, turning a book into a movie can appease the original fans - otherwise known as a guaranteed existing audience - while introducing it to a much larger audience. Done right, it's like printing money.Whether it's a!-->…

Question: What's the best way to attract an audience, create a new idea, and make a lot of money? Answer: Adaptations from…

Of To rent and Hair spray To The sound of music, Chicago, and Sweeney Todd: The Barber Demon of Fleet Street, Turning Broadway musicals into big-budget Hollywood blockbusters isn't a new trend. Lin-Manuel Miranda In the heights…

Many horror novels are perfectly suited for film, as evidenced by everything from Munich director Steven Spielberg Jaws' iconic monster blockbuster movie to A Clockwork Orange director Stanley Kubrick's flagship Stephen King!-->…

Through PTI LOS ANGELES: Writer Rick Riordan has castigated film adaptations of his popular "Percy Jackson" book series, saying it was clearly a "mistake". Studio 20th Century Fox had made two films based on…

Often times when a show ends, it goes on to big TV beyond reruns or DVD releases. Some may find a new one. However, there are a lucky few who get the big screen treatment and get a feature film. Or, like Avatar: The Last…

“The Personal Story of David Copperfield,” “No remorse” and “The Secret Garden” are among…

When I was in college, the first movie "Percy Jackson" came out with great fanfare. Everyone was thrilled to see these exciting books about children struggling with magical powers displayed on the screen in all its glory. These movie…

Warner Bros.Science fiction, like fantasy, often has a bad reputation in literary circles. Many people who don't actively engage in the genre (read: pompous, arrogant idiots) are quick to view it as silly, above the most!-->…

Movies based on books are often a good idea, Hollywood believes. A successful novel means a guaranteed movie audience - research has actually found movie adaptations of books that gross 53% more at the box office globally than movies…

It has provided the source material for some of the most beloved films of the '80s and' 90s, and now Hollywood has seen a renaissance of the King with many new adaptations over the past few years, including It and It 2, a Carrie remake.…

It has been reported that Joel Coen's next project will be an adaptation of Macbeth with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand.One of the Oscar-winning Coen brothers and two Oscar-winning stars take on the Bard of Avon.Make room on the…

Ask any bookworm what they thought of a film adaptation of a book, and they're likely to complain. Sometimes, however, the…

16. Gerald's game (Flanagan, 2017) Director Mike Flanagan's "Function test" for the shiny 2 a.k.a Doctor Sleep, Gerald's game is a stylish new entry in the "Stephen King's…

My favorite Shakespeare film adaptation is also from the 90s: Trevor Nunn's Twelfth Night starring Imogen Stubbs as Viola, Ben Kingsley as Feste and Helena Bonham Carter as Olivia, is such a delicately balanced, bittersweet, and poignant…

Not so long ago, a survey was conducted by SuperSummary which sought to reach consensus on the perception of fans of films…

Video games have carved out a place for themselves in Hollywood; there are several video game adaptations slated for release this year, and at least a dozen more in production.“Sonic…

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Since the dawn of cinema, filmmakers have turned to other mediums for inspiration.Old classics like Great expectations, to more recent gems like There is no country for old people, the twentieth and twenty-first centuries gave rise to many…

Since the dawn of cinema, filmmakers have turned to other mediums for inspiration.Old classics like Great expectations, to more recent gems like There is no country for old people, the twentieth and twenty-first centuries gave rise to many…

Since the dawn of cinema, filmmakers have drawn inspiration from other mediums.Old classics like great expectationsto newer nuggets like There is no country for old people, the 20th and 21st centuries have yielded many incredible literary…

There is a lot of money to be made by adapting books into films, and while it has certainly been a financial success, that…

With the recent disaster of Tom Hooper's release, Cats, it is important to remember that Cats is just one film in a long…

The last year has given us phenomenal film adaptations of books. Martin Scorsese's “The Irishman”, based on Charles Brandt's non-fiction book “I Heard You Paint…

Superheroes / heroines have always saved the world ... and also the box office! Literally! Whether it's Hollywood or Bollywood, there's no shortage of superheroes, as audiences simply can't get past them or the concept of an amazing…

Faith-based films can perform very well at the box office, among which Crisis unit, a Christianity-focused drama that grossed over $ 67 million in 2015 - and so it's no surprise that Hollywood studios are teaming up with religious…

There are many great Christmas movies out there, such as the well-known Hallmark Pictures, but one of the most famous…

. It's a centuries-old argument and a great icebreaker question for any first date: book or movie? This is the question that can inform what a person really enjoys in a…

From "Harry Potter" to "The Hunger Games", much of our beloved literature has already been adapted into blockbuster movies by the studio giants in Hollywood. However, this does not mean that there is nothing more to adapt, quite the…

The latest novel by Michael Farris Smith, a faculty member at the University of Mississippi for Women, "Blackwood," will be released on Tuesday, March 3. It will be Smith's fifth novel in eight years and follows the highly acclaimed…

There's nothing better than a good book... except a great one movie adaptation of this same book. Whether the story began as a short story, a novel, or non-fiction, seeing our favorite characters dominate the big screen is even more…

From spooky pages to images that seem to jump off the screen (and startle us), the Halloween season offers plenty of spooky moments for book lovers and movie buffs alike. Shayna Ross, public service librarian and readers of the Carnegie…

In a 2014 personal essay submitted to The Globe and Mail by Vancouver-based Diana Sarkis, the mother of two young children detailed her brief but disturbing experience of foreclosure in an elementary school. In the span of several hundred…

Earlier this month, Vulture published an in-depth look at how Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The goldfinch had made its way to the big screen. It's a fascinating examination of the business contortions required to!-->…

Although William Shakespeare formed the basis of much of what we consider modern English and created a theater of poetry and…

Acclaimed master of horror Stephen King is sort of an intersection between book lovers and movie geeks because the only…

Pennywise the Dancing Clown appears to be causing more trouble than the Losers Club: Warner Bros., which distributed the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen Kingit is This and has a sequel due out in September, is now facing a lawsuit from one…

As Pet Cemetery returned to theaters this month, here's a list of the ten best films adapted from the works of Stephen King.…

Will-smith After the worldwide success of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Hollywood turned to fantasy books. Yet after a string of big-budget duds like Eragon and…

CS celebrates book-to-film adaptations for womenNovelist Regina Eden Madrigal joins ComingSoon.net to celebrate International Women's Day this year with a special article on book-to-film adaptations from a female perspective. She also…

These 15 book-inspired films are set to hit Canadian theaters in the first half of the year! Hymn of a teenage prophet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3mMDGQNA8 Based on: Hymn of a reluctant prophet by Joanne Proulx What is it…

As for the adaptation of the book to the film, 2018 brought us If Beale Street could speak, Crazy Rich Asians, Annihilation, and more. Here's what's on the horizon for 2019.ten. Chaos March (to confirm)From the 2008 novel by Patrick…

A new year brings new resolutions, friends, life opportunities, and farewells. More importantly, it also brings new books and upcoming movies to keep us entertained, like Disney's “Aladdin”,…

Here are five of the best big screen versions of the legendary tale.Robin Hood (1973)This adorable and often overlooked Disney film brought the legend of Sherwood to the masses in 1973 and succeeded in creating an animated…

How many times have you said or heard people say “the book was better than the movie”? Granted, book-to-movie adaptations can be treacherous given that reading a book is an activity that takes place entirely…

Stephen King is not the only author who becomes more and more present on the big and small screen. It has just been announced that the science fiction short story by Ursula K. Le Guin nine lives is getting a film adaptation, adding to the…

Aug 2, 2018 @booksandpublishing Three book-to-film adaptations are among the projects receiving story development funding from Screen Australia. The projects, and their producers, are: A feature film adaptation of…

Hamilton's highly anticipated film, Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit musical, wrapped two years ago - but won't appear in cinemas for at least two more. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, a recording of the stage version was made in…

JK Rowling poses at 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts 1 & 2' on Broadway Opening Night at... The Lyric Theater. (Photo by Bruce Glikas/Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic) According to a study…

With the gingerbread girl and In the tall grass receive consecutive adaptation announcements, and stone castle dropping on Hulu in July, there's no sign of King's recent revival slowing down. The prolific author has written…

You hear it all the time, “It wasn't as good as (name of source). "He didn't look like what I imagined 'X' would be." "I wish 'such and such' had been chosen instead of 'such and such'", and so on. It's the universal…

Stephen King | Bertrand Langlois / AFP / Getty Images Author Stephen King has had incredible success getting his work translated to the big screen. While King has at times been criticized over the years for his sentimentality…

While lucrative summer blockbusters are rapidly dwindling with the heat, the fall film schedule promises to bring a plethora of adaptations for our viewing…

Wizard of Oz book poster - Courtesy of Wikimedia CAIRO - August 25, 2017: August 25 is the day that MGM's beloved film 'The Wizard of Oz' premieres in public theaters…

Sony's new reboot Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City hit theaters exclusively last month, but when can you expect to be able to watch it at home? Well, surprise, because Sony has just released the new film on digital…

Christian Scheider watched a documentary about Mike Nichols, the late American film and theater director praised for his film adaptation of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" when a question came to him: What makes a…

For all the people who get excited when a Hollywood…

Do you know that feeling when you hear that your favorite book is going to be made into a movie? More books than you can imagine have been adapted into movies, and in the movies you thought were made from scratch these days, there's a…

Live stage musicals feature film adaptations have made a surprising comeback since the Oscar-winning version of Rob Marshall Chicago in 2002, delighting both audiences and studios…

Feature film adaptations of musicals have made a surprising comeback since Rob Marshall's Oscar-winning version Chicago in 2002, delighting both audiences and studios by watching box office receipts. Since then, there…

Game publisher Take-Two Interactive has licensed a few of their properties for potential adaptations according to a report by MCV. Based on the report, Take-Two intends to use these licenses for future film adaptations.…

On the book-to-film adaptation front, 2016 brought us films for Arrival, hidden numbersand The girl on the train, among others. Let's see what's on the horizon for 2017.11. dinner (May 5)With its page-turning plot, Herman Koch's…

Harry Potter is again at the top of an Odeon poll to find the most popular book-film adaptations, with 32% of 2,000 viewers placing the series in their top 10. The result echoes a similar survey in March 2015. However, Charles Dickens' A…

HG Wells with Margaretta Scott and Raymond Massey on the set of Things to Come (1936)Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent on September 21, 1866. To mark his 150th birthday, this top 10 list reflects his status as a progressive…

Anyone familiar with the Chinese film industry has heard of "IP". It has been an integral part of Chinese cinema for decades, but 2016 seems destined to be the year the IP…

Roald Dahl did not like his books to be adapted into films. In fact, the Cardiff-born writer didn't even enjoy Gene Wilder's role Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory, a film that still effortlessly puts smiles on the faces of families…

Getty Images "After all, maybe it's possible to read too many novels," muses Henry Tilney, hero of Jane Austen. Northanger Abbey. In Austen's world, shameless novel readers…

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Stephen King has criticized the film adaptations of his stories Graveyard Shift and The Shining, and praised those of Cujo, Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption in an extensive interview with Deadline.The Q and A with the best-selling…

Anne Hathaway was born on November 12, 1982 and has starred in a wide variety of films in her 33 years on this planet... But the thing many of these films have in common is that they were novels first. . Is…

Last week at Comic-Con, we saw the first 30 minutes of burn tests, and there were some notable differences from the book. During the Q&A, director Wes Ball made some interesting comments about why the changes were necessary,…

A Book of Mormon movie remains a goal for creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the duo have revealed.Parker and Stone, who are also behind South Park, told IGN they were inspired to consider revamping the megahit game for the big screen by…

It's hard not to feel a little uneasy when a beloved book is adapted into a great movie. Yes, it's exciting to see the story come to life, but we're also concerned that the movie will "do the book justice" and the masses will forever…

Author of children's books and cartoonist Theodore Seuss Geisel — better known by his pseudonym, Dr. Seuss — made his mark in Hollywood during the film adaptations of his best-selling books — The cat in the hat and The…

Incredible Grace (2006)Director: Michael AptedEntertainment: C–Story Rating: A–William Wilberforce was a leading figure in the political campaign to abolish the slave trade in Britain in the late 18th and early 19th…

Tetris, the mind-numbing yet addictive '80s computer game, is the latest console classic to hit the big screen. Threshold Entertainment, which did the honors with 1995's Mortal Kombat (and a sequel a few years later), has big plans for the…

The Flintstones (1994) movie and its 2000 prequel The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas deserve to be trampled to death by rampaging herds of velociraptors, not least for the crime of throwing Rick Moranis, then Stephen Baldwin, into the role…

Story HighlightsMany classic books will be made into movies this yearThe batch kicks off with "Labor Day", released on January 31Culminates with highly anticipated "Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 1" in NovemberMany beloved books, new and…