For all of Oz's magical creatures and Technicolor(ish) landscapes, none of the visuals of Oz The Great and Powerful impressed me more than the black and white title sequence by Garson Yu. And I say that as someone who actually liked the movie. The opening credits do a fantastic job setting up the themes and…
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Who exactly is G.I. Joe: Retaliation's Cobra Commander? Find out after the jump. Also: Expect the cast to return for Oz The Great and Powerful 2 Josh Duhamel will make a cameo in Transformers 4 Joseph Gordon-Levitt talks Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Don't hold your breath for a Simpsons Movie sequel A Ghost Rider:…
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When people think of The Wizard of Oz, they think of the 1939 film starring Judy Garland. Yellow brick roads, munchkins, ruby slippers, the wicked witch, all that stuff. Fast forward about 75 years and Disney releases Oz the Great and Powerful, a prequel that features iconography very similar to, but not exactly the same, as the…
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There are days when it feels like all anyone does in Hollywood anymore is make sequels. But today, two folks have decided to opt out of their respective franchises' next steps. Though Disney's reportedly eager to move forward on an Oz The Great and Powerful sequel, director Sam Raimi says he has no plans to…
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I just love this photo of Sam Raimi sitting on the yellow brick road as he looks over storyboards and notes. I've had a couple chances to talk to director Sam Raimi about Oz The Great and Powerful, once on set as part of a roundtable in late 2011 and again after seeing the movie…
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Sam Raimi's Oz the Great and Powerful opens Friday and, so far, buzz has been generally good. The industry tracking has been even better, with some outlets projecting a near $100 million opening weekend. So it should come as no surprise that Disney has just signed Mitchell Kapner, who co-wrote the first film with David…
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We've got two art shows to tell you about today. One is movie specific, second is more subtle and pop culture centric, both are very cool. First, tied in with this weekend's huge new release, Disney is releasing some Oz the Great and Powerful art by Joey Chou at their WonderGround Gallery at Downtown Disney…
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Sam Raimi was faced with a predicament. Two of the characters in his upcoming film Oz The Great and Powerful are completely fantastical (a flying talking monkey and a foot tall talking/walking breakable china ceramic doll) but he didn't want to have the characters to be completely created and performed in post production, and he also didn't want to…
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Oz the Great and Powerful, Sam Raimi's first Disney film, is oddly two-faced. Here we have a director who made his name with low budget horror, who became a household name when he infused the superhero genre with his do-it-yourself, energetic visual style. And then there's Oz, a massive film that gives Raimi the most toys he's ever…
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Two upcoming family films are getting a nice theme park presence. First up, Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful opens March 8. Rumors of a full land based on the film continue to spread, a Land of Oz garden based on the film just opened at Epcot Center in Orlando, FL as part of the…
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Disney isn't showing off as much new stuff in the Super Bowl commercial for Oz the Great and Powerful as it did for The Lone Ranger , but here's a quick look at the March release. We know pretty much what to expect from Sam Raimi's Oz prequel, but if you need a refresher check…
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In October 2011, I got to visit the wonderful world of Oz and watch director Sam Raimi direct his preboot (prequel/reboot) of the classic L. Frank Baum book series. I learned much on the set of Oz: The Great and Powerful. Most fascinating to me was some of the things Disney had to do satisfy legal concerns over possibly…
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Super Bowl Sunday is fast approaching and that means new movie trailers. Word is there will be six this year: our first look at Fast and Furious 6, new ones for Star Trek Into Darkness and World War Z, and then three from Disney: Iron Man 3 directed by Shane Black, The Lone Ranger, directed by Gore Verbinski and…
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A few weeks ago, Disney dropped a striking poster featuring the Wicked Witch of the West, adding fuel to the ongoing debate about whether it's Evanora (Rachel Weisz) or Theodora (Mila Kunis) who goes green in Oz: The Great and Powerful. A new batch of posters doesn't answer that question, but it does give us…
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So far, most of Disney's promos for Oz: The Great and Powerful have played up the lush fantasy world created by Sam Raimi, or perhaps the epic tale of James Franco's Oscar Diggs. The newest featurette, however, delves into the movie's more comedic aspects. Or perhaps that should be "comedic," in quotes, since the jokes…
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The year has just begun, but that means we're a mere five months from the opening of blockbuster season in May, and so it's time for studios to make sure that we know all about the films they've spent millions upon millions of dollars making, and possibly even more to promote. So here are new…
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Sam Raimi's new prequel to The Wizard of Oz opens in a couple months, and to complement the most recent TV spots and trailer, we've got some new high-res photos that show off the characters played by James Franco, Michelle Williams, and others. Oz: The Great and Powerful follows a magician (Franco) whose escape from…
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Well, it's 2013 and that means we can wipe the slate clean in all kinds of ways. Gone are the days obsessing over The Avengers and Dark Knight Rises. Now it's about the latest and greatest. One such film, or at least Disney hopes, is Sam Raimi's Oz The Great and Powerful. The big budget…
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Most doubt about who the baddest of them all will be in Sam Raimi's Oz The Great and Powerful can now be put to bed. In the film, which opens March 8, simple trickster Oscar Diggs (James Franco) ends up in Oz and meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle…
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This March, Sam Raimi takes us off to meet the Wizard, who'll become the wonderful Wizard of Oz. Oz the Great and Powerful opens March 8 and stars James Franco as a Kansas magician who is whisked off to the magical land of Oz and forced to help save it from a trio of feuding…
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Briefly: Earlier today we ran the completed banner created to advertise Sam Raimi's Oz: The Great and Powerful. Since the first footage of the film premiered this past summer at Comic Con, we've talked about the degree to which it looks like Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, which was a monster hit for Disney. The similarity…
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The Oz: The Great and Powerful poster released last week was nothing short of a disaster, but thankfully it seems like that was the exception, not the rule. The stills revealed earlier this week were all quite pretty, and this new poster featuring the leads (James Franco, Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams, and Rachel Weisz) isn't…
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Your trip to Sam Raimi's Oz is just a few short months away. Oz The Great and Powerful, Raimi's prequel to The Wizard of Oz, has long felt miles away. But after a crazy summer at the movies and a promising fall, the film's March 2013 release has crept up on us. That means a whole…
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One of the most intirguing aspects of Sam Raimi's Oz: The Great and Powerful has been its eye-popping aesthetic. Earlier posters and the trailer were filled with dazzling color and lush landscapes -- which, okay, were more than a little reminiscent of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, thanks to the involvement of production designer Robert…
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Bad looks pretty good in Sam Raimi's Oz. The director's new film is Oz: The Great and Powerful, which tells of a corrupt, salacious magician (James Franco) who escapes a predicament by balloon, and is swept away to the magical land of Oz. There he meets three witches, Glinda (Michelle Williams), Theodora (Mila Kunis), and…
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Disney collectors lose their minds for Vinylmations: three inch tall molds of Mickey Mouse painted in all kinds of different ways. Some Vinylmations are simply just artistic designs, others are specific to certain places or brands, but they're only sold in Disney parks and stores. That, along with some characters being rarer than others and…
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