The books deserve their acclaim, but nothing about them cries out for cinematic adaptation.

In fact, it plays a little like a cinematic adaptation of an AA flyer.

Nor is Hallie, a slave prominent in both the novel and the previous cinematic adaptation, included here.

Robert Allan Ackerman's production of Strangers on a Train is probably the most swishly cinematic adaptation possible in the theatre.

His cinematic adaptation of Joan Lindsay's beguiling mystery novel is a gorgeously photographed, unsettling, eerie tale that remains potent today.

But the biggest improvement came in the network's film segment, thanks to its bankrolling of the cinematic adaptation of ABBA's Mamma Mia!

But audiences and even the author himself were often unhappy with the cinematic adaptations.

Director Kenneth Branagh, best known for his cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare's work, has captured on film an Asgard of sweeping scale.

While it may be a temporal accident, it is no irony that Jackson's cinematic adaptations of Tolkien's work have arrived in a world at war.

Jackson's cinematic adaptations of The Lord of the Rings grossed nearly $6bn worldwide, winning 17 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.