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List Of Films Based On Film Books
This is a list of films that are based on books about films and television. Directors and producers * ** TV miniseries. Screenwriters Actresses * ** TV miniseries. Actors Stuntmen Interviewers, newsreaders, hosts Columnists and publicists * * TV movie. Exhibitors References Notes Bibliography See also :Pages with the same format * List of films based on arts books * List of films based on civics books * List of films based on crime books * List of films based on sports books * List of films based on spy books * List of films based on war books * List of films based on westerns A list of films that are based on western fiction. Geographically, this page encompasses the frontiers of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as Australia and South America.At present, South Africa and Siberia are not included. First ... ''Return to top of page.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Film books, Films based on Lists of films based on books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stunt Man
''The Stunt Man'' is a 1980 American action comedy film directed by Richard Rush, starring Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, and Barbara Hershey. The film was adapted by Lawrence B. Marcus and Rush from the 1970 novel of the same name by Paul Brodeur. It tells the story of a young fugitive who hides as a stunt double on the set of a World War I movie whose charismatic director will do seemingly anything for the sake of his art. It was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Peter O'Toole), Best Director (Richard Rush), and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. However, due to its limited release, it never earned much attention from audiences at large. As O'Toole remarked in a DVD audio commentary, "The film wasn't released. It escaped." The film has developed a cult following. Plot Cameron, a Vietnam veteran who's wanted for attempted murder, is caught by police but escapes. Crossing a bridge, he dodges a car that seems to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Condon
William Condon (born October 22, 1955) is an American director and screenwriter. Condon is known for writing and/or directing numerous successful and acclaimed films including '' Gods and Monsters'', ''Chicago'', '' Kinsey'', ''Dreamgirls'', '' The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1'', '' The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2'', and ''Beauty and the Beast''. He has received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, ''Gods and Monsters'' and ''Chicago'', winning for the former. Early life Condon was born in New York City on October 22, 1955, the son of a police detective, and was raised in an Irish Catholic family. He attended Regis High School and Columbia College of Columbia University, graduating in 1976 with a degree in philosophy. Two films had a significant impact of Condon's early life. At the age of twelve, he found himself drawn to screenplay writing with his first viewing of ''Bonnie and Clyde''. In college he saw '' Sweet Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Just Happened (2008 Film)
''What Just Happened'' is a 2008 American satire (film and television), satirical comedy-drama directed by Barry Levinson and starring Robert De Niro. The supporting cast includes Catherine Keener, Robin Wright Penn, Stanley Tucci, Moon Bloodgood, John Turturro, Sean Penn, and Bruce Willis. It is an independent film, produced by 2929 Productions, Art Linson Productions and Tribeca Productions, and it was released on October 17, 2008. The film is based on the 2002 book ''What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line'' by Art Linson, about his experiences as a film producer, producer in Hollywood. This film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival on May 25, 2008. Plot Ben, a veteran Hollywood (film industry), Hollywood producer, is suffering a number of professional and personal problems. His latest film, ''Fiercely'', has a disastrous test screening, mostly because of its ending which features the murder of its main character (played by Sean Penn, who plays himself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, record-setting pilot, engineer, film producer, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most influential and richest people in the world. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important figure in the aviation industry. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by his worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness. As a film tycoon, Hughes gained fame in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood beginning in the late 1920s, when he produced big-budget and often controversial films such as ''The Racket (1928 film), The Racket'' (1928), ''Hell's Angels (film), Hell's Angels'' (1930), and ''Scarface (1932 film), Scarface'' (1932). He later acquired the RKO Pictures film studio in 1948, recognized then as one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Higham (biographer)
Charles Higham (pronounced ''HYE-um''; 18 February 1931 – 21 April 2012)Elaine Wo"Charles Higham dies at 81; controversial celebrity biographer" ''Los Angeles Times'', 4 May 2012Fox, Margali ''The New York Times'', 3 May 2012; "A cloying vulgarity and coarseness suffuse this book", Carolyn See wrote in the ''Los Angeles Times'' in 1986, reviewing his ''Lucy: The Life of Lucille Ball''. "But the author is either so cunning – or so closely allied in emotional terms with the subject of this biography – that the reader can’t tell if the vulgarity comes from Charles Higham or from Lucille Ball herself." was an English author, editor and poet. After moving to Australia in 1954, Higham began a career in journalism, before moving to the United States in 1969. In the United States, he became known as a celebrity biographer, mainly of film stars, such as Katharine Hepburn and Errol Flynn. The latter book, among several during Higham's career, was criticized for fabrications. Clos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Life
Secret Life, The Secret Life or The Secret Life of... may refer to: Music *Secret Life (band), an English R&B/house and pop band from the 1990s * ''The Secret Life Of...'' (album), an album by The Veronicas *"Secret Life", a song by Debbie Harry from ''Rockbird'' *"Secret Life", a song by Soft Cell from ''Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret'' *"Secret Life", a song by The Corrs from ''Forgiven, Not Forgotten'' Television *'' The Secret Life of the American Teenager'', an American teen drama starring Shailene Woodley *'' The Secret Life of Machines'', a factual UK television show *'' The Secret Life of Us'', an Australian drama series produced from 2001 to 2005 * ''The Secret Life Of''... (TV series), a television food/cookery show on the US Food Network *'' The Secret Life of Pets'', a film in 2016 Literature *'' The Secret Life of Bees'', a 2002 novel by Sue Monk Kidd ** ''The Secret Life of Bees'' (film), a 2008 adaption of the novel * " The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," a 1939 short story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese ( , ; born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Scorsese emerged as one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Martin Scorsese, many major accolades, including an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, Emmy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Directors Guild of America Awards, an AFI Life Achievement Award and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". Scorsese received an Master of Arts, MA from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, ''Who's That Knocking at My Door'' (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s decades, Martin Scorsese filmography, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Aviator (2004 Film)
''The Aviator'' is a 2004 American epic film, epic biographical film, biographical Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan (writer), John Logan. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, and Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner. The supporting cast features Ian Holm, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law, Gwen Stefani, Kelli Garner, Matt Ross (actor), Matt Ross, Willem Dafoe, Alan Alda, and Edward Herrmann. Based on the 1993 non-fiction book ''Howard Hughes: The Secret Life'' by Charles Higham (biographer), Charles Higham, the film depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation pioneer and director of the film ''Hell's Angels (film), Hell's Angels''. The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947 during which time Hughes became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Shot in Montreal, Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Biberman
Herbert J. Biberman (March 4, 1900 – June 30, 1971) was an American screenwriter and film director. He was one of the Hollywood Ten and directed ''Salt of the Earth (1954 film), Salt of the Earth'' (1954), a film barely released in the United States, about a zinc miners' strike in Grant County, New Mexico. His membership in the Directors Guild of America was posthumously restored in 1997; he had been expelled in 1950. Biberman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Eva Biberman and was the brother of American artist, Edward Biberman. Biberman's pre-blacklist career included writing such films as ''King of Chinatown'' (1939), ''When Tomorrow Comes (film), When Tomorrow Comes'' (1939), ''Action in Arabia'' (1944), ''The Master Race (film), The Master Race'' (1944), which he also directed, and ''New Orleans (1947 film), New Orleans'' (1947), as well as directing such films as ''One Way Ticket (1935 film), One Way Ticket'' (1935) and ''Meet Nero Wolfe'' (1936). He mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Story Of A Film
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Francis
Karl Francis (born 1 April 1942) is a Welsh film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ... and television director, producer and screenwriter, associated with left-wing political causes. His work is inspired by the likes of Chris Marker and Ken Loach and has included output in both the English language, English and Welsh languages. Biography Francis was born in Bedwas in South Wales. He won a scholarship which allowed him to study at Manchester University where he gained his BA in 1964. He then attended Hornsey College of Art to study for a post-graduate diploma on Film in Education. He began his media career in television in 1971, first as an independent investigator, before taking a production post with ITV Network, ITV, working on ''Weekend World'' for London Weekend Tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Of The Hollywood Ten
''One of the Hollywood Ten'' is a 2000 Spanish-British bio-picture. The film was written and directed by Karl Francis. The drama focuses on screenwriter/director Herbert Biberman and his efforts to make what would become the historic political film, '' Salt of the Earth'' in 1954, produced without studio backing after he was blacklisted for belonging to the American Communist Party. Plot The film opens at the 1937 Academy Awards, where Biberman's wife, Gale Sondergaard (Greta Scacchi), wins the first ever "Best Supporting Actress" Oscar. Although the anti- Fascist sentiment in her acceptance speech gets her labelled a "commie" by some observers, she and Biberman (Jeff Goldblum) are placed under contract at Warner Bros. He first comes under scrutiny more for his Jewish background than his political activities. Yet, with Cold War paranoia growing, a group of Hollywood directors and actors — Biberman, Sondergaard, Danny Kaye and Dalton Trumbo among them - are labelled Commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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