Wicked is getting ready to defy gravity once again. In the first teaser trailer for the upcoming film, we get our first look at Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande leading this musical blockbuster. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights), Wicked is the first chapter of a two-part immersive, […]
15 Great Feel-Good Sing-a-Long Movies
With dreary nights and a world in meltdown, we need a pick me up, so here are fifteen great sing-a-long films that are impossible not to enjoy… I stopped at pump number one yesterday and put a twenty in the tank. Then I set off. I got to pump number two and had to fill […]
Aladdin screenwriter to script animated Wizard of Oz movie Toto
Back in 2018 it was announced that Warner Bros. had picked up the rights to War Horse author Michael Morpurgo’s Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz for an animated musical adaptation, and now Deadline brings word that the project has enlisted a new screenwriter. As revealed by the site, John August – […]
Funko’s latest Emerald City Comic Con exclusives include DC, Disney, Office Space, The Wizard of Oz and more
Funko has revealed another batch of Emerald City Comic Con exclusives which includes products for DC Comics, Incredibles 2, Duck Tales, The Lion King, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Office Space, The Lord of the Rings, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and The Wizard of Oz; check them out here… The infamous Mr. Mxyzptlk has a trick or two up his […]
Flickering Myth Film Class: Using Colour
In this instalment of Flickering Myth’s Film Class, Tom Jolliffe looks at intentional use of colours in film… When it was discovered that film stock could have colour painted onto it, though painstaking and meticulous, it opened up a new dimension in cinema, previously locked into black, white and grey. It allowed a film-maker to […]
Lord and Miller: 12 other directors who left/got fired from movies during production
Luke Owen looks at directors who left/got fired from movies during production… With the shocking news that Phil Lord and Chris Miller have vacated the director’s chairs for the yet-to-be-titled Han Solo movie over “creative differences” (some sources say they were forced out), I thought it was time to look at some other directors who […]
New Line Cinema developing Wizard of Oz themed horror
THR is reporting that New Line Cinema has acquired an untitled horror pitch from writer Mike Van Waes, which is set in the universe created by L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and his subsequent novels. This marks the latest success for Van Waes, who has sold several pitches and scripts over […]
Swallows and Amazons and other great classic children’s book-to-film adaptations
To celebrate the release of Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons – directed by Philippa Lowthorpe – on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital Download from December 12th, we take a look at some of the best book to film adaptations to have captivated young audiences. Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome’s classic series of novels have been loved by […]
R-rated Wizard of Oz prequel How the Wizard Came to Oz in development
If Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful didn’t quite satisfy your thirst for a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, then you’re in luck as RAMstar Studios has announced that it is developing an adaptation of Donald Abbot’s 1991 novel How the Wizard Came to Oz. According to FlickSided, Abbot himself is penning the […]
Tarsem Singh to direct entire series of Emerald City
It looks like Self/less director Tarsem Singh has lined-up his next project, with news from Deadline that the filmmaker is set to direct the entire series of Emerald City for NBC. Emerald City is a long-gestating television series based on the classic story of The Wizard of Oz that has now been taken over for […]