In response, the industry allowed the discovery of the motion picture as a form of fiction and thus gave the movies the essential form they have had to this day.

Spanish and international movies such as Asterix at the Olympic Games by Frédéric Forestier and Thomas Langmann, Manolete by Menno Meyjes have been shot there.

Other movies have also used the term Bronx for comic effect, such as " Bronx ", the character on the Disney animated series Gargoyles.

These movies usually have drug-related jokes and crude content.

Often, cult movies have failed to achieve fame outside small fanbases ; however, there are exceptions that have managed to gain fame among mainstream audiences.

Many cult movies have gone on to transcend their original cult status and have become recognized as classics.

Although they may only have a short cinema life, cult films often enjoy ongoing popularity through long runs on video, thus being issued in video " runs " with more copies than other movies.

Since the turn of the millennium, notable successes among cult and midnight movies have been Donnie Darko ( 2001 ), the 2001 comedy Wet Hot American Summer, an absurdist parody of the pre-MTV summer camp genre, and the comic book adaptation Ghost World.

Movies have even achieved cult status by successfully imitating the awfulnesses of so-bad-it's-good movies ( The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and Amazon Women on the Moon being just two examples ).

The endoskeletons beneath are fully functional robots and have been seen operating independently, especially during the future segments of the Terminator movies.

Lois ' affection for Superman and her rejection of Clark's clumsy advances have been a recurring theme in Superman comics, television, and movies.

Because of the large number of drama films, these movies have been sub-categorized:

Several feature and television movies have been made about the Philip Marlowe character.

Although the majority of WADs contain one or several custom levels mostly in the style of the original game, others implement new monsters and other resources, and heavily alter the gameplay ; several popular movies, television series, other video games and other brands from popular culture have been turned into Doom WADs by fans ( without authorization ), including Aliens, Star Wars, The X-Files, The Simpsons, South Park, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Red Faction, The Thing, Pokémon and Batman.

After appearing on Diff ' rent Strokes, Plato's career declined, though she did have roles in some independent movies.

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

There have been many fictional emperors in movies and books.

" Ebert states that " if you know it's all special effects, and if you've seen a lot of other movies and have a sense of humor, you might have a great time at Evil Dead 2.

Roger Ebert gave The Rainmaker three stars out of four, remarking: " I have enjoyed several of the movies based on Grisham novels ... but I've usually seen the storyteller's craft rather than the novelist's art being reflected.

As a consequence, French movies have to be amortized on a relatively small market and thus generally have budgets far lower than their American counterparts, ruling out expensive settings and special effects.

There are many movies which are well-remembered and looked upon fondly in the former Soviet republics ; famous lines or jokes from these movies are often quoted and some have even become a part of the Russian language as sayings and idioms.

The story of Ratoncito Pérez has been adapted into further literary works and movies since then, with the character of Alfonso XIII appearing in some.

The majority of films produced in the Federal Republic in the 1960s were genre works: westerns, especially the series of movies adapted from Karl May's popular genre novels which starred Pierre Brice as the Apache Winnetou and Lex Barker as his white blood brother Old Shatterhand ; thrillers and crime films, notably a series of Edgar Wallace movies in which Klaus Kinski, Heinz Drache, Wolfgang Völz, and Joachim Fuchsberger were among the regular players ; and softcore sex films, both the relatively serious Aufklärungsfilme ( sex education films ) of Oswalt Kolle and such exploitation films as Schulmädchen-Report ( Schoolgirl Report ) ( 1970 ) and its successors.

Pushkin is particularly important, as his short story The Queen of Spades ( 1833 ) was adapted into operas and movies by both Russian and foreign artists.

It was later adapted into several manga titles, five televised anime series, two three-episode original video animations ( OVAs ), and five movies.

Other projects Gilliam has been trying to get off the ground since the 1990s are an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' A Tale of Two Cities ( starring Mel Gibson ), an adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain ( which has been adapted into movies several times before ), and a script titled The Defective Detective that Gilliam has co-authored with Richard LaGravenese ( who wrote Gilliam's The Fisher King before ).

As a result, unlike Thackeray's other novels, it remains popular with the general reading public ; it is a standard fixture in university courses and has been repeatedly adapted for movies and television.

However, following the success of the science fiction movies Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the planned pilot episode entitled " In Thy Image " was adapted into a theatrical production, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

In popular culture, the adapted, or " semi-classical ", Bharatanatyam has been exposed largely through depiction in popular movies and TV programs.

The novel was adapted into three movies: The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price in 1964, The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston in 1971, and I am Legend ( film ) starring Will Smith in 2007.

Prévert adapted several Hans Christian Andersen tales into animated or mixed live-action / animated movies, often in versions loosely connected to the original.

A good friend of the musician and singer Pino Daniele ( who wrote most of the soundtracks for his movies ), he wrote lyrics for his music or adapted his poetry for it.

The characters were later adapted for film in a series of movies between 1934 and 1947 ; for radio from 1941 to 1950 ; for television from 1957 through 1959 ; as a Broadway musical in 1991 ; and as a stage play in 2009.

The novel was subsequently adapted into a stage play in 1924 and movies in 1925, 1937, and 1990, the latter titled Stella and starring Bette Midler.

Kitano has written over fifty books of poetry, film criticism, and several novels, a few of which have also been adapted into movies by other directors.

The initial novel was followed by a second, ongoing novels series, Banner of the Stars ( currently 4 volumes, aka Seikai no Senki ), which was adapted into three sequel series to the anime — Banner of the Stars ( 13 episodes, aka Seikai no Senki ), Banner of the Stars II ( 10 episodes, aka Seikai no Senki II ) and both adapting the second novel, two recap movies — Crest of the Stars Special Edition and Banner of the Stars Special Edition, and an OVA Crest of the Stars Lost Chapter ( aka Seikai no Danshō ).

McBain's 87th Precinct works have been adapted, sometimes loosely, into movies and television on several occasions.

Some of these were adapted as movies, and Anderson wrote the screenplays of other authors ' plays and novels – Death Takes a Holiday, All Quiet on the Western Front – in addition to books of poetry and essays.

The classic western movies, The Big Country and The Violent Men, were adapted from two of his western novels.

Two television movies were made with the original cast in 1979 and 1980, and the series was adapted for a motion picture in 1999.

* Media center, refers either to a dedicated computer appliance ( like a Home theater PC ) or to a specialized personal computer software, both of which are adapted for playing various kinds of media ( music, movies, photos etc.

" Little Lost Robot " was adapted by Leo Lehman for the 1962 Associated British Corporation anthology television series Out of This World, which also marks the first appearance of Susan Calvin, played by Maxine Audley, in TV and movies.

The manga has been adapted as an anime series, produced by Studio Gallop, which was broadcast across Japan by the anime satellite television network Animax, and Fuji Television, and two animated movies, a live-action movie, several stage adaptations, and a live-action television series.

Over the years, the studio has created a large number of TV series, movies, and adapted many Japanese comics by renowned authors to animated series, many popular worldwide.

The show has brought a large number of detective series and television movies — most of them British productions from the BBC or the ITV companies and usually adapted from mystery fiction literary sources — to air on American television.