Maleficent Written by Linda Woolverton Directed by Robert Stromberg USA, 2014 Every year or so, apropos of very little, the Walt Disney Company will showcase a new series of ads courtesy of acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz, in which a celebrity plays one of the company’s iconic human characters, whether it’s Jessica Chastain as Princess Merida …
Despite several new releases this past weekend, Oz: The Great and Powerful finished in first place at the box office again. With a domestic total of $145 million and counting, the L. Frank Baum prequel has already proven to be immensely profitable for its Disney overlords, and boy do the overlords know it. With word …
Editor’s note: This article started as a comparison between Army of Darkness and Oz the Great and Powerful, until a colleague pointed out that Matt Singer beat me to the punch by posting a similar article over at IndieWire. So I decided to expand on my original piece instead. **** Oz the Great and Powerful …
Oz the Great and Powerful Directed by Sam Raimi Written by Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire USA, 2013 Oz the Great and Powerful is a film obsessed with façades. The characters, particularly the lead, rely on being able to control and define what is and isn’t real. Oscar Diggs, a would-be genius magician who accidentally …
Oz the Great and Powerful Written by Mitchell Knapper and David Lindsay-Abaire Directed by Sam Raimi U.S.A., 2013 Here we go again. Another March, another major live action Disney film coming to theatres. More than that, it is another live action adventure which taps into very old, much beloved fantasy literature, directed by a major …
The press release came in today announcing the commencement of shooting on Sam Raimi‘s Oz the Great and Powerful, which stars James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams. Cinematographer Peter Deming (Evil Dead II, Drag Me to Hell) is back on Raimi’s crew and along with him is an all star lineup of …
As if James Franco’s schedule doesn’t seem packed enough; what with his Oscar co-hosting gig, stints on soap opera General Hospital, studying at two different schools (Yale and Rhode Island School of Design) and numerous film projects in various stages of development, now comes several reports in the past few weeks that he is in negotiations for three …