adaptations

Phantom Of The Paradise (1974) - Clip: Life At Last (HD)Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise is a Phantom of of the Opera and Dante’s Inferno send-up, but within it there’s an homage in a fake play where one of the film’s most standout characters, Beef, performs a Frankenstein-inspired song “Life at Last,” penned by the film’s songwriter, composer, and star Paul Williams (who also wrote The Muppets’ “Rainbow Connection”). Phantom Of The Paradise (1974) - Clip: Life At Last (HD)Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the…

Charles Dickens’ classic novella, A Christmas Carol, has been adapted time and after, ever since its original publication nearly 180 years ago, with countless film and TV adaptations having been released over the course of the past century. Decorated actors like Albert Finney, George C. Scott, Michael Caine, and even Bill Murray have played some version of Ebenezer Scrooge over the years, introducing the timeless story to audiences all over the world.As part of CinemaBlend’s partnership with Plex, where you can find…

This past week, you may have seen Stephen King’s reaction to “barely masked gloating” about The Marvels’ box office struggle, and read Tom Hiddleston’s impressions of the upcoming film The Life Of Chuck, but those aren’t the only cool developments in the world of Stephen King that we’ve seen in the last few days, and The King Beat is here to catch you up with some cool things you may have missed.In this edition of the column, we have writer/director Mike Flanagan’s thoughts on the best last lines in cinema history…

Adaptations of big, complex books tend to start slow — and that’s usually because there’s just so much to explain. It was true of Game of Thrones and The Rings of Power, and it was especially true of Foundation on Apple TV Plus, which took Isaac Asimov’s novels and turned them into prestige television. With unusual concepts like psychohistory (a kind of math that can predict the future) and a genetic dynasty (a never-ending line of clone emperors who rule the galaxy), the first few episodes of season 1 were bogged down by…

Movies and TV shows adapted from video games have a lengthy reputation for being downright awful, bizarre, and wacky. But sometimes, that actually helps it develop a campy and unique vibe that makes it oddly endearing and fun. But in recent years, there’s been a new wave of video game adaptations that have become massive hits like The Last of Us and The Super Mario Bros. Movie — causing some fans to wonder if the genre has reached new heights and is now a lucrative part of Hollywood. But fear not, there’s a whole…

The common wisdom that “the book is usually better than the film” is as true of children’s literature as of its adult counterpart: cinema is stacked with adaptations of children’s classics that may be perfectly proficient, but haven’t the inspired individuality of the works at their source.Devotees of Roald Dahl have learned this a lot over the years. His offbeat humour and offhand storytelling style, so irresistible to kids, rarely translates all the way to screen — it’s thwarted such titans as Steven Spielberg, who…

House of Doomed Leaves If bringing a novel to the big screen is a tough job, then making a movie into a video game tends to spell doom from the get-go. And we don’t mean the good kind of Doom. Go ahead, try to think of a film’s video game tie-in or even a less rushed adaptation that’s even a tad beyond “meh”. If it took your mind no more than one second to think of The Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, then congrats. You win. But that’s an absolute anomaly in the history of video games. We’re talking about…

At its Tudum 2023 event today, Netflix revealed new trailers for two highly anticipated live-action adaptations of beloved animated series. One Piece gets a full trailer ahead of its August 31st premiere on the streaming service, while we’ll have to settle for a brief teaser trailer for Avatar: The Last Airbender, which won’t arrive until 2024. The 90-second One Piece trailer shows the cast and settings of the live-action take on the manga and long-running anime series. We see plenty of star Iñaki Godoy as the naive but…

Xbox Game Studios boss Matt Booty has teased that Microsoft has additional film/TV projects based on its franchises in the works beyond those that have been announced. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Booty listed off upcoming projects like season 2 of the Halo TV series, the Minecraft movie with Jason Momoa, and the Gears of War film from Dune writer Jon Spaihts. Microsoft's Fallout series is also getting a TV show from Westworld's creators.But beyond that? Booty said "There are some things…

via 20th Century Fox It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragically misguided to an almost moronic extent, but if you can believe it, Justin Chadwick signed a three-picture deal when he agreed to star as Goku in the ill-fated Dragonball Evolution. To call that ambition to the point of folly would be understating things massively, when you could state an excellent argument against director James Wong’s feature-length reimagining of the beloved franchise as one of the worst adaptations of anything there’s ever…