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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…

VSGiven the substantial chunk of the streaming sphere they consume, I wrote less about documentaries than I should have in 2018 - partly because my colleague Charlie Phillips had covered so much authority on the non-fiction side of things…

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”, “Avengers: Endgame” and “Star Wars: Episode IX”.…

Five years ago, Gabrielle Brady, an Australian filmmaker, decided to visit an old friend who had moved to remote Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. Australia's tiny tropical territory was only settled a century ago, when the phosphate,…

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 fox… strangely…

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--National Geographic celebrates National Education Week in spectacular school fashion, hosting screenings of the critically acclaimed documentary SCIENCE FAIR for more than 1,700 schools across the…

Sthe hikers talk about a kidnapping. A strange abduction. The one in which the precious cargo taken hostage is not a person, but a film.The Sundance-winning documentary tells the story of Los Angeles-born, Singapore-born filmmaker Sandi…

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…

PHOTO BY Facebook page Lito Atienza (SPOT.ph) Representative of the BUHAY party list and principal deputy leader of the minority José "Lito" Atienza Jr. is lobby the Film Development Council of the Philippines to review screenplays…

Prepare to waste an afternoon or three: The Library of Congress announced today that it has digitized hundreds of hours of film and is making them available for free viewing on its new "National Screening" website. Room ”. Do you want…

Their stars may be more Hollywood than the Highlands, and sometimes their attempts at a Scottish accent may stray more from Brigadoon than Buchan. But two new films that tell the story of Mary Queen of Scots and…

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…

Ridley Scott's 2005 epic film kingdom of paradise, about the capture of Jerusalem by Saladin in 1187, has been widely criticized by historians for its lack of precision. Even as the film was still in production, Cambridge…

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…

Oath's immersive entertainment studio, RYOT, has partnered with Vice Studios to co-finance and co-produce a series of documentary films. The two-year, multimillion-dollar partnership came about after Verizon shut down Go90, for…

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…

ASTANA - Documentary films on the history and culture of Kazakhstan will be premiered on Discovery, National Geographic and Viasat History television channels in June-July, Kazakhstan's Deputy Minister of Culture and Sports announced.…

Exclusive: The new fund will “identify and nurture storytellers with new and compelling perspectives as they develop their work.” HBO and the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) today announced the IFP/HBO New True Stories funding…

Varun Dhawan says we live in a time when "everyone is offended by everything", but adds that he would not back down from a good script. Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan, who will soon be reuniting with Karan Johar's Alia Bhatt for Kalank…

Jhis moving feature debut documentary from American director duo Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside centers on three brothers in Colima, Mexico, whose lives revolve around their 93-year-old grandmother, América. Shot over a three-year period…

Four students from Ithaca College have come together to create "IC Docs", a club dedicated to the screening and discussion of documentary films. The club was founded in the fall of 2017 by four documentary studies…

Hüseyin Kopar, a fourth-generation leather shoemaker from Kahramanmaraş, southeastern Turkey, continued his business making çarıks, hand-crafted Ottoman sandals, for historical films and TV series. Speaking to Anadolu…

(Photo by Jon Furniss Photography / Invision / AP, file) Keira knightley is a multi-award winning actress who has appeared in films like Pride and Prejudice, Anna karenina, Atonement—Movies that take place in a historical past rather than…

There have been objections to historical inaccuracies in Hindi films in the past. But opposition to Padmavati is unprecedented.…

Bollywood was fascinated by revisiting history and rewriting it. Over the years, we've seen a number of historic period films come out in droves. With this article, we are sharing the list of 10 historic Bollywood movies that look back on…

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 razz on movies,…

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 and…

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…

Bollywood, with its love of sports biopics, has a special affinity for historical films.Mohenjo Daro is the last example of this fact. But even before that, this genre is something filmmakers never seem to tire of. Here is the list of the…

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…

For all the people who get excited when a Hollywood…

The Ambulante Documentary Film Festival, now in its 12th edition, is helping the country come to terms with its own identity. The 2017 Oscars ceremony was a largely apolitical affair, but Gael Garcia Bernal changed that. Co-hosting the…

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…

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 watching…

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…

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…

"THE EMPEROR in August," director-screenwriter Masato Harada's passion project that humanizes Emperor Hirohito (played by Masahiro Motoki) and offers a new perspective on the end of the Pacific War Two landmark films by esteemed Japanese…

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For those of you who have seen Bajirao Mastani, you were probably amused by the long disclaimer at the start that the movie doesn't claim to be an accurate depiction of historical facts.Yet the film had banned in Pakistan for being…

Prithviraj literally seems to be signing 'epic' these days. The actor, who was part of the historical Urumi project in Malayalam, has signed three such films which will be shot in the coming years. He will star in Hariharan's…

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,…

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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…

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…

The issue of torture helped torpedo the chances of "Zero Dark Thirty" rewards. Politicians criticized the film for allegedly suggesting the tactic provided information. (The film's source spits out information over lunch, having…

Placeholder while loading article actionsCNN's Brian Stelter reported This Morning that BuzzFeed, the media company that became famous for its viral content and used profits from those ventures to fund a vigorous journalism business, raised…

The Joseon Era (1392-1910), $ 17 million, star-studded actors and historical films are some of the words that define the Korean film industry for summer 2014.It's no coincidence that three full-scale period films will hit theaters in…

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…

Do you think Americans don't care about history? Think again. In an age when historians are household names (think David McCullough and Ken Burns) and historical antiques exhibits get consistent ratings (Antiques Roadshow), add the Oscars…

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…

As you watch the Oscars on Sunday, it's important to remember that Daniel Day-Lewis isn't actually Abraham Lincoln.Several historical films are in the running for the Golden Statue this year. While such films can be powerful educational…