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With all of the summer’s big hitters gearing up for the home stretch of post-production, editing, looping, scoring and the like, we can expect a steady stream of stills, trailers, clips and so forth to issue out of the machine that is the Wood of Holly. Indeed, it is less than a month until Super [...]
Spare us a thought. We pitiful writers (do please pity us) subsist on a meagre diet of set images, teaser images, trailers, teaser trailers and recently teaser images for the teaser trailer for the trailer (see here and here for a hearty dose of overkill). Yes, it seems that we are doomed to a life [...]
Most of the 2 ½ hour Walt Disney Studios panel was spent with animation, in some form or another. We got looks at Walt Disney Animation Studio’s new projects including their direct-to-dvd feature spinoff, “Planes” and a new project, the surprise of the presentation, “Wreck-It Ralph.” We got a look at Tim Burton’s newest Stop-Motion [...]
If you’re looking for an animated return to Oz to counteract the Sam Raimi prequel project then look no further as a new picture for Dorothy of Oz has been released showing off the title character. It’s only a small picture, but it continues the excellent work we’ve seen so far from the film, and [...]
While I’m still not entirely sold on the prospect of remaking The Evil Dead the news from Variety that Diablo Cody is being hired to revise the script warms the cockles a touch. Truth be told, though it’s probably movie geek blasphemy, when it comes down to it I’m more of a fan of Cody’s [...]
Many of you will be happy to learn that famed composer Danny Elfman has kiss and made up with former collaborator Sam Raimi, and will be performing scoring duties on the director’s next feature (the reworking of the Wizard of Oz, Oz The Great and Powerful). Elfman famously fell out with The Evil Dead helmer [...]
Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine) has been cast as Glinda in Oz, the Great and Powerful. Williams will star opposite James Franco (127 Hours), Mila Kunis (Black Swan) and Rachel Weisz (The Brothers Bloom) in the fantasy adventure. Oz, the Great and Powerful – a prequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – tells how [...]
Just last week, Rachel Weisz was in talks for Sam Raimi’s upcoming Oz: The Great and Powerful, and now Deadline is reporting that she’s also in deeper talks to take the female lead in Tony Gilroy’s The Bourne Legacy. Both films are expected to be very successful, so Weisz will have a hard choice on [...]
Rachel Weisz (The Mummy) is in talks to star in Walt Disney Pictures’ Oz: The Great and Powerful. Weisz is in line to play Evanora, a powerful and evil witch who intends to rule the land, and will star opposite James Franco (127 Hours) and Mila Kunus (Date Night). Oz: The Great and Powerful is a semi-prequel to [...]
It seems that Oz truly is the place to be nowadays. Still riding high on the ongoing success of Wicked in theatres, there has been talk of the wonderful Wizard and his homeland coming thick and fast over the last year. But while most of the hype and debate has focused on Sam Raimi’s Oz: [...]
Vulture are reporting that Mila Kunis (Black Swan) has been cast in Oz, The Great and Powerful, the prequel to the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz. With her involvement confirmed, it seems she will no longer be involved in the Hughes’ brothers live-action remake of Akira. Kunis will star opposite James Franco (127 Hours), who [...]
James Franco (127 Hours) is in talks to star in Oz, the Great and Powerful, Disney’s fantastical take on The Wizard of Oz tale. While Robert Downey Jr (Due Date) and Johnny Depp (Rango) were both attached at various points of development, Franco now appears to be the frontrunner. Oz, the Great and Powerful is prequel to [...]
The set of Marc Webb’s Spider-Man reboot has been a rich source of news over the past few weeks, with contributions coming from both amateur photographers and Sony themselves. Yet with casting news seemingly long finalised and filming already under way, one memorable Spidey regular has been largely unmentioned. Who will be playing Peter Parker’s [...]
As with any big comic book film press reveal, last week’s first official look at Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man has provoked a number of different responses. Yet it is Spidey’s wrists that have been drawing the most attention from fans, with the presence of two metal bumps posing an intriguing plot question – will this [...]
The Spiderman reboot cast as coming together on a daily basis it would seem, and now another name has been added to the mix. Newcomer Chris Zylka has been cast in the role of high school jock and Peter Parker’s arch-rival, Flash Thompson. The character was only given a short screen time in Sam Raimi’s [...]
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Taken director Pierre Morel appears to have his sights set on the Sam Raimi and Bill Block-produced sci-fi action adventure EDF. EDF (Earth Defence Force) is based on a script from Air Force One scribe Andrew Marlowe and follows the efforts of a government-created space fighting force which is put [...]
First we were teased with the casting for this all-singing, all-animated return to Oz with the likes of Dan Akroyd, Kelsey Grammr, Jim Belushi and Martin Short joining Gleeful Lea Michele, who lands her first leading film role as Dorothy. In that last link, you get to see some of the early sketches of the [...]
Celebrated sci-fi novel The Day of the Triffids may be back on our screens again soon as news come through from Deadline that Mandate Pictures has bought the rights and it will be produced by Ghost House (the partnership between Mandate, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert). It’s also claimed the Evil Dead auteur wants to [...]
Of the many Oz inspired projects on the go currently Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful is the most intriguing and if this plot description from Pajiba has any scent of truth about it then it’ll be a nicely subversive jaunt down the yellow brick road. Though there’s been no official announcement the name [...]
