To celebrate the release of Roald Dahl’S The Witches on Blu-Ray and DVD from 14th December, we are giving three lucky readers the chance to win a copy of the magical adventure on Blu-ray.
Reimagining the beloved Roald Dahl story for a modern audience, Robert Zemeckis’s visually innovative film tells the darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks our young hero away to an opulent seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world’s Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow witches from around the globe—undercover—to carry out her nefarious plans.
The film stars Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer, Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci,...
Reimagining the beloved Roald Dahl story for a modern audience, Robert Zemeckis’s visually innovative film tells the darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks our young hero away to an opulent seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world’s Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow witches from around the globe—undercover—to carry out her nefarious plans.
The film stars Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer, Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci,...
- 12/11/2020
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
— — The Witches (2020) Film Review, a movie directed by Robert Zemeckis, and starring Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Jahzir Kadeem Bruno, Stanley Tucci, Josette Simon, Jonathan Livingstone, Miranda Sarfo Peprah, Joseph Zinyemba, Oral O’Rourke, Codie-Lei Eastick, Vivienne Acheampong, Ken Nwosu, Charles [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: The Witches (2020): Zemeckis’ Grounded Take on Roald Dahl’s Fantastical Tale is Full of Hope, Resistance, and a Fair Amount of Nightmare Fuel...
Continue reading: Film Review: The Witches (2020): Zemeckis’ Grounded Take on Roald Dahl’s Fantastical Tale is Full of Hope, Resistance, and a Fair Amount of Nightmare Fuel...
- 11/3/2020
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
In our house, one film that gets watched every Halloween season is Nicolas Roeg’s surreal and darkly wholesome adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches. Now, some 30 years later, legendary director Robert Zemeckis is tackling Dahl’s classic novel, with Anne Hathaway stepping into the role of the Grand High Witch, and the results are a highly entertaining and adorably charming fantasy film that will make for perfect viewing for families during this spooky season (and in the future as well).
For the uninitiated, The Witches follows an unnamed young boy (Jahzir Bruno) who moves in with his grandmother (Octavia Spencer) after both of his parents are killed in an automobile accident. As he settles into his new life, it’s the responsibility of his grandmother to fill him in on all sorts of life lessons, including letting him in on a secret: witches are real, and he needs...
For the uninitiated, The Witches follows an unnamed young boy (Jahzir Bruno) who moves in with his grandmother (Octavia Spencer) after both of his parents are killed in an automobile accident. As he settles into his new life, it’s the responsibility of his grandmother to fill him in on all sorts of life lessons, including letting him in on a secret: witches are real, and he needs...
- 10/21/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
When it came to dreaming up characters of cheeky grandiosity who were put on earth to act out their fear and loathing of children, Roald Dahl didn’t play. In 1961, his first classic novel, “James and the Giant Peach,” featured the loathsome Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, who tormented James like nightmare Victorian spinsters out of Dickens. The title character of “The Enormous Crocodile” wants nothing more than to chomp down on children. In “Matilda,” Miss Trunchbull is a school headmistress so sadistic she’s like a bullying tyrant out of Pink Floyd’s “The Wall.” And in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” even that rock star of candy Willy Wonka can’t seem to make up his mind about whether he wants to delight children or unsettle them.
But in “The Witches,” Dahl really went all out. The book is a primal fairy tale, part Grimm and part flamboyant kiddie opera,...
But in “The Witches,” Dahl really went all out. The book is a primal fairy tale, part Grimm and part flamboyant kiddie opera,...
- 10/21/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
We certainly didn’t need another take on Roald Dahl’s 1983 novel “The Witches” after the superlative 1990 screen adaptation from director Nicolas Roeg and screenwriter Allan Scott, but if Robert Zemeckis’ 2020 version doesn’t cast as powerful a spell as its predecessor, neither is it a foul brew.
Collaborating with Kenya Barris on a screenplay originally written by Guillermo del Toro, Zemeckis throws in more good ideas than bad, which is a relief, considering his recent misfires like “Welcome to Marwen” and eye-assaulting CG horrors like “A Christmas Carol” and “The Polar Express.” And in the same way that Angelica Huston grandly (and campily) ruled the roost in Roeg’s film, Anne Hathaway wickedly assumes the throne as queen of her own coven here.
The action unfolds in the American South in the 1960s, with Jahzir Bruno as our unnamed hero, who goes to live with Grandmother (Octavia Spencer) after the death of his parents.
Collaborating with Kenya Barris on a screenplay originally written by Guillermo del Toro, Zemeckis throws in more good ideas than bad, which is a relief, considering his recent misfires like “Welcome to Marwen” and eye-assaulting CG horrors like “A Christmas Carol” and “The Polar Express.” And in the same way that Angelica Huston grandly (and campily) ruled the roost in Roeg’s film, Anne Hathaway wickedly assumes the throne as queen of her own coven here.
The action unfolds in the American South in the 1960s, with Jahzir Bruno as our unnamed hero, who goes to live with Grandmother (Octavia Spencer) after the death of his parents.
- 10/21/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Roald Dahl’s The Witches Trailer — Robert Zemeckis‘ Roald Dahl’s The Witches (2020) movie trailer has been released by HBO Max and stars Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth, Chris Rock, Jahzir Kadeem Bruno, and Codie-Lei Eastick. Roald Dahl’s The Witches Poster Roald Dahl’s The Witches Movie Poster Plot Synopsis Roald [...]
Continue reading: Roald Dahl’S The Witches (2020) Movie Trailer: Anne Hathaway is a Witch in Robert Zemeckis’ Dark Comedy Film...
Continue reading: Roald Dahl’S The Witches (2020) Movie Trailer: Anne Hathaway is a Witch in Robert Zemeckis’ Dark Comedy Film...
- 10/4/2020
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Warner Bros. has debuted the first trailer for Robert Zemeckis’s reimagining of Roald Dahl’s ‘The Witches’ featuring Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer and Stanley Tucci.
The film tells the darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks our young hero away to an opulent seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world’s Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe—undercover—to carry out her nefarious plans.
Directed by Zemeckis, the film stars Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth, Chris Rock, Jahzir Kadeem Bruno and Codie-Lei Eastick.
Also in trailers – Netflix drop terrifying new trailer for ‘His House’
The film hits UK cinemas soon.
The film tells the darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks our young hero away to an opulent seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world’s Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe—undercover—to carry out her nefarious plans.
Directed by Zemeckis, the film stars Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth, Chris Rock, Jahzir Kadeem Bruno and Codie-Lei Eastick.
Also in trailers – Netflix drop terrifying new trailer for ‘His House’
The film hits UK cinemas soon.
- 10/2/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"Witches!! They're real - and they haaaate children!" Warner Bros has unveiled the first official trailer for Roald Dahl's The Witches, a new live-action movie directed by the iconic filmmaker Robert Zemeckis (who most recently made Welcome to Marwen). Based on Roald Dahl's 1983 classic book "The Witches", the story tells the scary, funny and imaginative tale of a seven year old boy who has a run in with some real life witches. This isn't really a horror movie about scary witches, as much as it is a lively comedy (and something akin more to Harry Potter involving witch magic and a Grand High Witch and more). The extravagant cast features Anne Hathaway as the Grand High Witch, plus Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth, Chris Rock, Charles Edwards, Morgana Robinson, plus newcomers Jahzir Kadeem Bruno (playing the boy at the center of the story) and Codie-Lei Eastick. This is...
- 10/2/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Audiences across the world can celebrate Halloween starting October 22 with the release of Warner Bros. Pictures and Robert Zemeckis’s reimagined “Roald Dahl’s The Witches,” premiering exclusively on HBO Max in the U.S. Zemeckis, the Oscar-winning director and master storyteller who gave us “Forrest Gump,” the Christmas classic “The Polar Express,” and the “Back to the Future” trilogy, brings a fresh sense of humor along with warmth and the unexpected to what is sure to be a Halloween favorite: Roald Dahl’s beloved story The Witches.
In addition to the film’s U.S. debut on HBO Max, the film will fly into theatres internationally beginning October 28.
Zemeckis is joined by a world-class team of filmmakers, including Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro and Kenya Barris, for this fantasy adventure about a young boy who stumbles upon a secret coven of witches and, with the help of his loving grandmother,...
In addition to the film’s U.S. debut on HBO Max, the film will fly into theatres internationally beginning October 28.
Zemeckis is joined by a world-class team of filmmakers, including Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro and Kenya Barris, for this fantasy adventure about a young boy who stumbles upon a secret coven of witches and, with the help of his loving grandmother,...
- 10/2/2020
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Since its release in 1990, Nicolas Roeg's The Witches has delighted and chilled generations of viewers, and in 2020, the Grand High Witch will return to the big screen to give audiences a good scare just in time for Halloween. It was recently revealed that Anne Hathaway will play the Grand High Witch in Robert Zemeckis' new The Witches movie based on Roald Dahl's book of the same name, and now Octavia Spencer could be joining the cast.
Variety reports that Octavia Spencer is "in talks" to star in the new The Witches film, with Jahzir Bruno and Codie-Lei Eastick also in "negotiations to join the cast." If Spencer's deal is finalized, Variety reveals that she will play the "grandmother of Bruno's [seven-year-old] character" who faces off against "real-life witches," with Eastick lined up to play "the other boy who has a run-in with the Witches."
Variety previously reported that...
Variety reports that Octavia Spencer is "in talks" to star in the new The Witches film, with Jahzir Bruno and Codie-Lei Eastick also in "negotiations to join the cast." If Spencer's deal is finalized, Variety reveals that she will play the "grandmother of Bruno's [seven-year-old] character" who faces off against "real-life witches," with Eastick lined up to play "the other boy who has a run-in with the Witches."
Variety previously reported that...
- 2/12/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Octavia Spencer is in talks to join Anne Hathaway in the cast of “The Witches,” Robert Zemeckis’s adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel that is being developed at Warner Bros., an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Further, “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris is also on board to co-write the screenplay based on Dahl’s novel along with Zemeckis, and child actors Jahzir Bruno and Codie-Lei Eastick are also in negotiations to join the cast, according to an individual.
Spencer will play the grandmother of one of the boys who has a run-in with the band of witches led by Hathaway. Bruno will play Spencer’s grandson, and Eastick is portraying another boy.
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“The Witches” is the story of a boy who stumbles across a coven of child-hating witches who secretly inhabit the world.
Further, “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris is also on board to co-write the screenplay based on Dahl’s novel along with Zemeckis, and child actors Jahzir Bruno and Codie-Lei Eastick are also in negotiations to join the cast, according to an individual.
Spencer will play the grandmother of one of the boys who has a run-in with the band of witches led by Hathaway. Bruno will play Spencer’s grandson, and Eastick is portraying another boy.
Also Read: Neon Acquires Naomi Watts' Sundance Film 'Luce' in Partnership With Topic Studios
“The Witches” is the story of a boy who stumbles across a coven of child-hating witches who secretly inhabit the world.
- 2/12/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Octavia Spencer is in talks to star opposite Anna Hathaway in Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation of “The Witches.” Sources say “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris is on board to co-write the script with Zemeckis.
Newcomers Jahzir Bruno and Codie-Lei Eastick are also negotiations to join the cast, Variety has learned.
Based on the 1973 novel, the film follows a 7-year-old boy (Bruno) who has a run in with real-life witches. Warner Bros. had previously adapted the book in 1990 with Anjelica Huston playing one of the title characters, but sources close to the project say Zemeckis’ version will be more rooted in the original source material, while Huston’s version was a loose adaptation.
Spencer will play the grandmother of Bruno’s character, and Eastick is portraying the other boy who has a run in with the Witches.
Zemeckis is producing with his partner Jack Rapke through their banner ImageMovers, along with Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro.
Newcomers Jahzir Bruno and Codie-Lei Eastick are also negotiations to join the cast, Variety has learned.
Based on the 1973 novel, the film follows a 7-year-old boy (Bruno) who has a run in with real-life witches. Warner Bros. had previously adapted the book in 1990 with Anjelica Huston playing one of the title characters, but sources close to the project say Zemeckis’ version will be more rooted in the original source material, while Huston’s version was a loose adaptation.
Spencer will play the grandmother of Bruno’s character, and Eastick is portraying the other boy who has a run in with the Witches.
Zemeckis is producing with his partner Jack Rapke through their banner ImageMovers, along with Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro.
- 2/12/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
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