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Shows: “Kid Cosmic,” “Firefly Lane,” “Hache” (Season 2), “Invisible City,” “The Sinner” (Season 3)

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Shows: “Little Coincidences,” “What’s New, Scooby-Doo?,” “Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men,” “The White Princess” (Season 1), “Billions” (Seasons 1-3), “Black in Latin America” (Season 1), “Finding Your Roots” (Season 1)

Films: “Kiki,” “Dazed and Confused,...

Ever since J. M. Barrie wrote the story of Peter Pan, audiences have been fascinated by the boy who never grows up on an island with pirates, mermaids, fairies, and lost boys. Peter Pan reminds audiences about the innocence of childhood while making them realize they don't have to completely lose that when they become adults.

Related: Peter Pan: 5 Things That Didn't Age Well (& 5 That Are Timeless)

Like many beloved classics, there's a Disney animated version of the story - with a live-action version on the way. It's not exactly the same as Barrie's original story, but the personalities of the characters remain intact, giving fans plenty of Neverland residents and visitors they can identify with.

“Mary, Alpha, Yankee, Delta, Alpha, Yankee…” a woman’s voice lazily repeats over radio static, as a man parachutes from a helicopter amid a freak storm. That refrain echoes throughout Karen Cinorre‘s surreal drama: “Mayday, mayday” the woman calls, not appearing to need much help at all. But Mayday is very much about women in need. […]

The post ‘Mayday’ Review: Mia Goth Leads a Group of Lost Girls to War in a Dreamy, Distorted ‘Peter Pan’ Fable [Sundance 2021] appeared first on /Film.

With its theatrical window deal signed by AMC and Cinemark, Universal and Focus Features have continued to lead the struggling pandemic box office, as “The Croods: A New Age” earned its third straight No. 1 weekend and the studio’s seventh straight weekend atop the charts with $3 million from 2,115 screens.

Overseas, the film added $6.6 million in China and $8.4 across all overseas markets, including openings in Mexico and Ecuador. Globally, “Croods 2” now has a box office total of $76 million as Universal prepares to release the film as a premium video on-demand title in the coming week as part of its theatrical window deal. That deal, which allows Universal and Focus films to hit PVOD after three weekends in theaters, will also be used on the studios’ two remaining 2020 films: Paul Greengrass’ “News of the World” and Emerald Fennell’s “Promising Young Woman.”|

As was the case last weekend, “Croods 2” was...

With Covid-19 decimating theme parks, sports, production and other pillars of its business, the Walt Disney Co. should be limping toward the end of 2020.

Instead, investors have bought into the media giant’s resilience in a big way, sending the company’s stock up more than 25% in the past month. Shares finished today at $154.40, their highest closing price ever, after peaking at $157.45 earlier in the day.

The balance sheet may be in tatters (with two straight quarters of losses and the first fiscal year of red ink in 40 years) but the stock is keeping the dream alive for a return to glory. To quote the 1964 theme song reprised in the latest DisneyWorld TV ads, “There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow.”

Vaccine approvals and the prospect of more normal business dynamics (and life in general) in 2021 have boosted confidence, but the optimism has more to do with the company’s investor presentation on Thursday.

Stars: Angelina Jolie, David Oyelowo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jordan A.Nash, Keira Chansa | Written by Marissa Kate Goodhill | Directed by Brenda Chapman

Peter Pan, Alice In Wonderland, Angelina Jolie and Kallus from Star Wars: Rebels sounds like a cracking Sunday afternoon to me… It has been a while since I got to see a decent movie based around the whole Peter Pan tale. I always thought 2003s Peter Pan with Jason Isaacs as Hook was far and away the best version, well outside of Hook obviously. Whenever a new film comes round, be it animated or live action, I am always keen to see how this one is going to play out and how they are going to make it fresh, original and different enough to warrant my attention.

I wouldn’t say I had the loftiest aspirations for Come Away to be honest; after all on the surface it kinda...

Los Angeles, Dec 6 (Ians) Resident Evil star Milla Jovovich has been acting and modelling since she was 10. Milla says she would be happy seeing her children take up acting as a career, although the idea is scary, too.

In fact, her daughter Ever Gabo Anderson has already starred in three films. Ever, 13, has featured alongside Milla in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, and has also appeared in the upcoming films Black Widow and Peter Pan.

In fact it was a family affair of sorts on the set of the 2016 release, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, since the film was directed by Milla's husband, British filmmaker Paul Ws Anderson.

"It was amazing. To see your children following in your footsteps, it is incredible. There is nothing better in one sense and it is scary in another," Milla told Stellar magazine on her daughter taking up acting as a career, according to a report in dailymail.

Zappa is an intimate look into the innovative life and eclectic works of Frank Zappa, the composer. The Beatles, Brian Wilson, and Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd pushed boundaries of what rock could do in the mid-1960s, but Zappa ignored any preconceived compositional restraint. He mixed rock with classical, jazz with chamber, and twelve-tone with Spike Jones. From his 1966 proto-punk, garage band debut, Freak Out, through the immediate experimental turns he took on Lumpy Gravy, We’re Only In it for the Money, and continuing through his career, Zappa’s music sounds unlike any other sonic unit.

Not only was Zappa a unique composer and bandleader, he was a ground-breaking film director, an innovative theatrical presence, and a voice of rebellion in worlds beyond music and the arts. His politics were far ahead of their time, and his critiques of society resonate strongly to this day. A vast majority...

Gather round, Mindhunter fans, because author John Douglas is releasing a brand-new book with writer and filmmaker Mark Olshaker based on Douglas's career spent interviewing violent offenders for the FBI. One of the first criminal profilers and a true pioneer in the behavioral-science method of law enforcement, Douglas has interviewed murderers like Charles Manson, Ed Kemper, and David Berkowitz. His latest book, A Killer's Shadow, details the complicated case of serial killer and bank robber Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who is suspected of murdering more than 20 people in the 1970s and '80s.

A high-priority case for the FBI, Franklin targeted Black and Jewish citizens as well as interracial couples during his violent spree. He roamed around the country and often shot his victims with a long-range rifle, and confessed to wounding civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and shooting well-known magazine publisher Larry Flynt. His transient tendencies made...

Photo: 'Peter Pan and Wendy'/Disney A few years ago, Disney began a cycle of turning their beloved animated films into live-action adaptations. So far, Disney has made huge strides with their live-action adaptations of Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent, Cinderella, The Jungle Book, Pete’s Dragon, Beauty and the Beast, Christopher Robin, Dumbo, Aladdin, The Lion King, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan. Some of these films have done better than others in regard to audience reviews, but they all point toward Disney’s future of transitioning classic animated tales to live-action big-budget films for the whole family. The extensive list of already released live-action Disney remakes does not even include all of the live-actions that are currently in pre-production. These include Cruella, The Little Mermaid, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Lilo & Stitch, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Pinocchio, Bambi, Robin Hood, Hercules, and of course, the topic of this article,...

Yet another story beloved by children of the 1980s is about to get another chapter.

Disney+ has ordered a tv series that will serve as a sequel to Willow, Ron Howard and George Lucas’ 1988 fantasy film about a farmer who finds himself wrapped up in an epic journey. The streaming service announced the series order Tuesday.

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Warwick Davis, who played Willow Ufgood in the movie,...

Newcomer Alyssa Wapanatâhk has closed a deal to make her feature film debut and play Tiger Lily in Disney’s “Peter Pan & Wendy,” an insider with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. Additionally, insiders add that this version of Tiger Lily is being reimagined for the new film.

Ever Anderson is set to play Wendy while Alexander Molony will play Peter Pan, the famous boy who wouldn’t grow up. “Pete’s Dragon” director David Lowery is directing “Peter Pan & Wendy” from a script he co-wrote with Toby Halbrooks. Jim Whitaker is producing. It was also previously reported that Jude Law was in talks to play Captain Hook. “Black-ish” star Yara Shahidi will be spreading pixie dust in the movie, as she’s set to play Tinker Bell.

Disney adapted J.M. Barrie’s famous novel and play in 1953, and since then, there have been many on-screen adaptations, such as...

Disney has had a long history of retrograde depictions of people of color in their classic animated films — an issue that the company has been grappling with for decades. See: the saga of Disney’s famously racist 1946 film Song of the South, which has been both promoted and hidden by the company at various intervals […]

The post Disney+ Expands Advisory Warning for Racist Content on Titles Like ‘Peter Pan,’ ‘Dumbo’ appeared first on /Film.

Racist imagery and cultural stereotypes in six Disney animated classics including Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Lady and the Tramp, The Aristocats, Dumbo and Swiss Family Robinson are being flagged on the Disney+ streaming site with warnings and detailed explanations of the “negative depictions” in each title.

“These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now,” reads an explanation on Disney’s Stories Matter website regarding the new advisory notices.

Accompanying the 1970 film The Aristocats, for example, is the following advisory about the Siamese cat character Shun Gon, voiced by Paul Winchell:

The cat is depicted as a racist caricature of East Asian peoples with exaggerated stereotypical traits such as slanted eyes and buck teeth. He sings in a poorly accented English voiced by a white actor and plays the piano with chopsticks. This portrayal reinforces the “perpetual foreigner” stereotype, while the film also features lyrics that mock the...

Disney Plus has added a new content warning label on several classic animated movies, including “Peter Pan,” “Dumbo,” “Fantasia” and “Lady and the Tramp.”

Last year, the streaming service added content warnings to content considered to have outdated depictions that appeared as a smaller text box on screen. The updated disclosure appears when a user clicks on the film, with the label lasting onscreen for about 10 seconds.

“This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures,” the new label reads. “These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together. Disney is committed to creating stories with inspirational and aspirational themes that reflect the rich diversity of the human experience around the globe.”

In November 2019, a shorter content warning was added to movies...

Some Disney animated classics will now come on Disney+ with a new, stronger disclaimer that warns of their dated stereotypes of people and cultures. This week, the popular streaming service began rolling out messages ahead of movies that may contain “negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures.” While Disney+ included boilerplate content alerts as early as November last year when the streaming service launched, the advisories now go further to target specific movies and their cultural representations.

Films now labeled with content advisories include “Peter Pan,” “Dumbo,” “The Aristocats,” and “Swiss Family Robinson.” TheWrap noted that the disclaimer for such films reads, “This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together.

Disney+ subscribers selecting Peter Pan or The Aristocats for viewing will now be met with new content advisories likely to get their notice: “This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures.”

The updated content warnings for other classic Disney animated and live action titles like Swiss Family Robinson and Dumbo follow the studio consulting with a third-party advisory council that includes groups like the African American Film Critics Association, Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment and GLAAD.

Disney+ has put warnings about “outdated cultural depictions” on its film titles since launching, but the latest updated language goes further ...

Disney+ subscribers selecting Peter Pan or The Aristocats for viewing will now be met with new content advisories likely to get their notice: “This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures.”

The updated content warnings for other classic Disney animated and live action titles like Swiss Family Robinson and Dumbo follow the studio consulting with a third-party advisory council that includes groups like the African American Film Critics Association, Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment and GLAAD.

Disney+ has put warnings about “outdated cultural depictions” on its film titles since launching, but the latest updated language goes further ...

On this Friday’s episode of Disney+’s The Right Stuff, the Mercury Seven astronauts are put through a gimbal rig training exercise that makes the wildest rollercoaster in the world look like a stroll through the park. The device is designed to simulate an aircraft spinning out of control, and the series’ stars were actually strapped into it in a real test of whether they could keep their stomachs in check.

“Luckily, I didn’t lose my breakfast or anything,” Jake McDorman, who plays Alan Shepard, says. “But it was a lot harder than I anticipated. I think the...

Peter Pan was a passion project for Walt Disney and is often considered his favorite original feature. Adapting other source material has always been a bit of a hit-and-miss subject for the studio, but the love and care Walt showed for the film is positively palpable in its animation, music, and presentation.

Related: 10 Disney Villains With The Most Sympathetic Backstories, Ranked

Although Disney had great respect for the original work by J.M. Barrie, the studio wasn't afraid to take some artistic freedoms with the material. The feature's added material does nothing to inhibit the original Peter Pan story, there's no doubt that what the studio did contribute was definitively Disney.

It’s a good thing Brie Larson is at peace with her earlier heartbreaks. In a video she posted on Thursday, the “Captain Marvel” star rattled off all the movies she auditioned for and didn’t get — and it’s quite the list.

Larson broke her list down into movies she auditioned for and then missed out on, as well as movies she made it to the final round for and still didn’t get. And all of these were just from between 2008 and 2009.

“It’s a lot of heartbreak, folks. Here I am, still standing,” she said after running down her list.

Hearing Brie Larson rattle them off rapid-fire is delightful and hilarious, but in case you can’t watch, here’s the full list, including some blockbusters, Oscar-winners, some real stinkers and even a pair of Marvel movies!

“Sucker Punch,” “Gulliver’s Travels,” “Mars Needs Moms,” “Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief,...

The first theatrical release to reschedule in the face of Covid-19 was “No Time to Die.” As the 25th installment in the main 007 series, it’s part of an extraordinary franchise that’s survived nearly 60 years, with seven leading men as James Bond; someday, presuming the pandemic permits it, there will be a 28th Bond title, with an eighth leading man. (Daniel Craig has repeatedly sworn that the Cary Fukunaga Bond film will be his last.)

But first things first. “No Time to Die” is currently slated for November 20, and this week saw unconfirmed speculation that even the fall date may be unduly optimistic. There’s little assurance that American theaters will have resumed normal operations, and China also looks daunting with its announcement that until further notice all theatrical releases must be two hours or less. (Fukunaga’s film is a whopping 2:43.)

One well-placed source categorically denied the possibility of pushing again.

Steven Oliver in ‘Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky’.

Local films from directors Jo-Anne Brechin and Steven McGregor are among the 12 world premieres to feature on the line-up for Miff 68½ – Melbourne International Film Festival’s upcoming digital-only iteration.

To run August 6-23, the event will encompass some 69 features and 44 shorts from 56 countries – an impressive number given the rights complications inherent in putting together an online showcase. Forty-nine per cent of films are from a female director, and all films are available to stream across Australia.

Miff artistic director Al Cossar said: “I’m delighted to say that, despite the extraordinary circumstances of 2020, Miff’s ‘radical act’ is to keep going and continue on our mission to bring you the world through unforgettable screen experiences. At Miff, we are driven by a deep understanding that film has the ability to entertain, inspire, illuminate and empower audiences in a way that few other...

World renowned martial arts Action  star Paul Mormando (Bound By Debt, Justified Vengeance) has been cast as Carmine 'BoBo' Conti in K-Town, an exciting new pilot Written By New Jersey's Billy Hartmann.   Mormando, a Brooklyn native and rising action star, will portray  Carmine 'Bo Bo' Conti Underboss to the Deluca family a hot head who has been known to make his enemies disappear.  No word on if Mormando will get to use his fighting skills, I guess we will just have to wait and see!        Billy Hartmann ( (Peter Pan, land of Forever)  ), Who is the creator, and writer  of the thrilling series will also play the role of Angelo 'Smalls' Smallilone  . The show is set in Kenilworth New Jersey, and is being produced by  Billy Hartmann , Paul...

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Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow” is set as the opening movie of the Melbourne International Film Festival. The event was postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak, before being revived online under the label Miff 68 ½. The festival will unspool virtually Aug 6-23, 2020.

“First Cow” is an unlikely story of friendship and free enterprise on the American frontier, involving a skilled cook, a Chinese immigrant and a wealthy landowner’s prized milking cow. It previously played at the Telluride, New York and Berlin festivals.

In total, the festival will present 60 feature films, including 3 in a retrospective section, and 44 shorts. They hail from 56 countries and territories and 49% include at least one female director. All film screenings are geo-blocked to play only within Australia, but are available nationwide.

“Despite the extraordinary circumstances of 2020, Miff’s ‘radical act’ is to keep going and continue on our mission to bring (to audiences) the world through unforgettable screen experiences,...

Before Alex Winter became famous as good-vibes goofball Bill in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure at age 24, he was a successful child actor, appearing in Broadway productions of such shows as The King and I and Peter Pan. It was a lifestyle that exposed Winter to acting methods, creative people — and sexual abuse.

Winter's new documentary, Showbiz Kids, due July 14 on HBO and produced by Bill Simmons and Glen Zipper, examines the extraordinarily vulnerable life of child performers like him. Through interviews with Diana Serra Cary (silent film's "Baby Peggy"), Evan Rachel Wood, Todd Bridges,...

Before Alex Winter became famous as good-vibes goofball Bill in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure at age 24, he was a successful child actor, appearing in Broadway productions of such shows as The King and I and Peter Pan. It was a lifestyle that exposed Winter to acting methods, creative people — and sexual abuse.

Winter's new documentary, Showbiz Kids, due July 14 on HBO and produced by Bill Simmons and Glen Zipper, examines the extraordinarily vulnerable life of child performers like him. Through interviews with Diana Serra Cary (silent film's "Baby Peggy"), Evan Rachel Wood, Todd Bridges,...

In some ways, the 1950s remain a bit of an unappreciated decade for Disney animated feature films. While they have characters that everyone probably recognizes, relatively few people have likely seen most of these films more than once, if they’ve seen them at all. Peter Pan is just one of those films.

Related: Disney: 10 Things That Don’t Make Sense About Peter Pan

However, it is definitely worth rewatching, in large part because the characters remain as endearing as they were when they first appeared on the screen. They are also surprisingly complex, and thinking about them as character classes from Dungeons and Dragons reveals layers to them that might not be visible at first glance.

The story of Peter Pan has clung like pixie dust to the imagination of children and adults alike for over 100 years.  Since its initial release as a stage play in 1904, its been rebooted and re-imagined numerous times over the past decades. Sometimes successfully as with Hook (1991) wherein the exuberant Robin Williams played Peter Pan opposite Dustin Hoffman's Captain Hook, and sometimes regrettably with Peter Pan (2003) and Pan (2015).

Related: 5 Best Peter Pan Reinterpretations (& 5 That Miss The Mark), According To Rotten Tomatoes

But the version most closely associated with the children's story Peter Pan and Wendy J.M Barrie penned in 1911 is the 1953 version by Walt Disney Productions. As Disney looks to give the story of the "boy who wouldn't grow up" the live-action treatment with Peter Pan and Wendy in 2022, lets look at all the ways the Disney version altered the original fairy tale.

Two of Disney's greatest ever movies are Peter Pan and Robin Hood and a lot of that is down to the titular characters. They are both all about helping others and have no problems going up against authority or villains who have more power and wealth than them.

Related: Disney: 10 Things That Don’t Make Sense About Peter Pan

That's why they're considered to be amongst Disney's greatest ever heroes. But when it comes to a battle between them, it isn't easy to determine which character is the greater hero. This list will attempt to do just that, presenting five reasons why Robin Hood is better and five why Peter Pan is the superior hero.

New Horizons has given Animal Crossing fans more chances than ever before to customize their character. In addition to letting players edit their faces, skin color, and hair at any time, the game also includes over 1,200 different clothing items, and over 4,600 if you include all the color variations.

While New Horizons clearly features lots of trendy outfits, there are several costumes sold at the Able Sisters that might look familiar to Disney fans. Sure, Animal Crossing isn’t officially associated with Disney, but many garments appear to have taken heavy inspiration from the characters in films including Peter Pan, Aladdin, and Frozen.

Related: Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 10 Ways To Obtain New Furniture

It’s time to look at some of the outfits in New Horizons that nod a few of Disney's most popular characters.

Disney’s adaption of Peter Pan flew onto the big screen in 1953. Based on J.M. Barrie’s play and novel of the same name, this animated musical follows a girl and her brothers who are swept into the magical world of Neverland by a boy named Peter Pan.

While the movie is enchanting, there are many details of it that don’t add up. It’s worth noting that we will be looking exclusively at the original Disney adaption of Peter Pan. Any outside material that expands the story will not be considered.

Related: 5 Best Peter Pan Reinterpretations (& 5 That Miss The Mark), According To Rotten Tomatoes

Additionally, we’re acknowledging that we're going to be picky. Peter Pan is a fictional work and the creators were allowed to do whatever they wanted, but it’s far too fun to point out the film's little flaws.

Off we go to Neverland!

“Doogie Howser, M.D.” is getting a female-fronted reboot on Disney+.

Variety reported that the series is getting rebooted as “Doogie Kealoha, M.D.” (working title) and will take place in Hawaii. Kourtney Kang will write and executive produce the series. “Doogie Kealoha, M.D.” will reportedly center on a 16-year-old half-Asian, half-Caucasian girl who works as a doctor, reflecting Kang’s own Hawaiian background.

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The project has not been officially announced but sources close to production confirmed the news to IndieWire.

Jake Kasden and Melvin Mar will also executive produce the upcoming series, according to Variety. Dayna and Jesse Bocho will serve as producers. 20th Century Fox Television, which produced the original series, will also produce. Kang, Kasden, and Mar all have overall deals at the studio.

Stuart Gordon, the horror filmmaker known for his cult classics inspired by H.P. Lovecraft stories like “Re-Animator” and “Just Beyond,” has died. He was 72.

Gordon’s representative Dominic Mancini shared the news to Twitter on Wednesday morning. “I’m so gutted to see this & at a loss of words. To my dear friend & client, to one of my favorite filmmakers, to a constant beacon of light in the horror genre, to a man who did it better than most..goodbye Stuart. I’ll miss you,” Mancini said in a tweet.

No cause of death was given.

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Gordon was known for his bloody, body horror and sci-fi films, starting with “Re-Animator” in 1985 about the story of a doctor who learned to re-animate dead human tissue. The film won a Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year.

Need a quick recap of the past week in movie news? Here are the highlights: Dracula retold: Following the success of Leigh Whannell’s fresh take on The Invisible Man, another classic Universal monster is being trusted to Blumhouse Productions. According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Karyn Kusama (Destroyer) has been tapped for a new version of the iconic vampire story Dracula, which will be set in modern times. Disney finds its Peter Pan: Another fresh...

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The Walt Disney Company has opted to suspend production on all films, be they shooting across the Atlantic Ocean or simply in pre-production in California. The delay comes on the heels of international upheaval in the film industry during the escalating coronavirus pandemic.

Among the biggest delays is director Rob Marshall’s highly anticipated remake of The Little Mermaid. The film, which was apparently nine days away from filming, stars Halle Bailey as one of Disney’s most popular princesses, the aquatic Ariel, as well as Melissa McCarthy as the dastardly Ursula the Sea Witch. The movie was set to begin shooting in England later this month and is still expected to shoot there, although with no public date in mind.

Another major casualty is the Disney/20th Century Studios film, The Last Duel, which saw director Ridley Scott returning to his period epic roots. The Last Duel, a true...

With the premiere of Wendy and Come Away at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Peter Pan is very much making its way back into our cultural consciousness in 2020. Wendy is directed by Beasts of the Southern Wild filmmaker Behn Zeitlin and Come Away is a new origin story starring Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo (it has yet to be widely released).

Related: Ranking All Tinkerbell Movies From Worst to Best

As Wendy so recently hit theaters, and Come Away plans to enter cinemas soon, it's about time we took a look back at other interpretations of J.M. Barrie's classic that have hit screens over the years.

Disney has found its Peter Pan and Wendy. Newcomers Alexander Molony and Ever Anderson have been cast as Peter and Wendy, respectively, in Disney’s live-action Peter Pan remake, titled Peter Pan & Wendy. The pair will be the latest to take on the role after a recent resurgence in Peter Pan films, including Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy and Brenda Chapman’s Come Away. Disney didn’t have […]

The post Disney’s Live-Action ‘Peter Pan’ Remake Finds Its Peter and Wendy appeared first on /Film.

Disney‘s new Wendy comes from a big-screen bloodline.

Twelve-year-old Ever Gabo Anderson has landed the role in the upcoming live-action remake of 1953’s Peter Pan. The young newcomer is the oldest daughter of Resident Evil actress Milla Jovovich and director Paul W.S. Anderson.

Ever will star alongside Alexander Molony, who has been tapped to star as Peter Pan. She will also play a young Scarlett Johansson in the upcoming Marvel superhero flick Black Widow.

“We can finally talk about @evergaboanderson’s secret projects...

Wendy director Benh Zeitlin on Liza Minnelli’s scream (as Sally Bowles) the moment the train goes by in Bob Fosse’s Cabaret: "I’ve always loved that moment. That character is so wild, like such a great ferocious liberated woman character.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

In the final instalment of my in-depth conversation with Benh Zeitlin at the Bowery Hotel in New York, we discussed how he developed a relationship between Shay Walker (mother Angela Darling) and Tommie Lynn Milazzo, who plays her baby Wendy, casting the twins Gavin Naquin and Gage Naquin, and working with his sister Eliza Zeitlin on their “shared vision” for Wendy, shot by Sturla Brandth Grøvlen (Josephine Decker’s Shirley) and starring Devin France as the adolescent Wendy.

Devin France, Gavin Naquin, Gage Naquin, Romyri Ross, and Yashua Mack in Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy

Herbert Brenon’s 1924 silent Peter Pan, my favourite adaptation of Jm Barrie’s play,...

Will Ropp started acting out of convenience.

“My sister was doing this musical theatre camp in Darien, Connecticut where I grew up and I wanted to do baseball summer camp, but my mom didn’t want to drive me and my sister to separate camps, so she pretty much forced me to do this musical theatre camp,” Ropp, 25, tells People. “They were doing Peter Pan that year and I begrudgingly auditioned and I got the role of John.”

Ropp continues to soar in his breakout role in The Way Back alongside Ben Affleck as his high school basketball team’s star 3-point shooter.

Benh Zeitlin’s “Wendy” took the lead among indie films struggling to find footing for their limited release openings this weekend, with the grittier take on “Peter Pan” only grossing $30,000 from its four-screen New York/Los Angeles release for a $7,500 average.

It’s a far cry from Zeitlin’s Oscar-nominated “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” which had an opening average of $42,425 in the summer of 2012 and went on to gross $21 million worldwide. Starring Devin France as a girl who follows a reckless boy into a world where time is twisted, “Wendy” premiered at Sundance and received mixed reviews with a 40% Rotten Tomatoes score. It will expand to 10 more cities next weekend.

Sony Pictures Classics’ “Greed” opened this weekend to $28,496 from four screens for an average of $7,124. From the actor-director team of Steve Coogan and Michael Winterbottom, this satire of the fashion world and the ultra-rich has a 59% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Impractical Jokers: The Movie isn’t pranking us when it comes to their box office performance. After having a stellar opening last week, the big-screen adaptation of WarnerMedia’s truTV prank show expanded from 357 to nearly 1,800 theaters and earned an estimated $3,545,000, to bring its cume to $6.6 million. The movie has now cracked the top 10 at the box office, right behind Birds of Prey and ahead of 1917.

The pic debuted to an impressive $2.6 million and had the highest per-screen average among major releases at $7,302. The audience response gave it enough of a boost to expand in its second week out, adding 1,493 theaters in 210 markets. On Friday, it slipped 6%, but then jumped a massive 51% on Saturday from last week.

As much as it seems that the performance of Impractical Jokers was out of nowhere, it really isn’t. The Jackass movie franchise is cut from the same cloth as the prank-driven Impractical Jokers,...

Universal and Blumhouse’s “The Invisible Man” materialized at the top of box office charts after debuting to $29 million in North America over the weekend.

“The Invisible Man” is Universal’s latest attempt to remake its classic monster properties, an effort that failed spectacularly with 2017’s “The Mummy” starring Tom Cruise. After that movie was commercially panned and became a box-office bust, the studio scrapped its plans to create an interconnected “Dark Universe.” Instead, Universal took the concept in a different direction and focused on creating standalone stories unique to each otherworldly creature. That approach seems to have paid off since “The Invisible Man” has been praised by critics and audiences. The Elisabeth Moss-led thriller only cost $7 million to make, not including marketing fees, meaning it’s already a financial hit for the studio.

“In the wake of 2017’s ‘The Mummy,’ Universal, in a nimble and smart move, went...

After breaking out with Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin has stumbled with his misjudged take on Peter Pan

It’s a tale as old as time, or at least as old as Hollywood: a hotshot young director scores on their first outing and, awash with accolades and flattering box-office receipts, goes out to make their big follow-up. Then … nothing. The curse of the sophomore slump strikes, leaving a once-promising talent on the skids, their initial flickers of greatness now called into question. The latest retelling of this narrative also happens to be one of the most stark, in terms of the distance between a hit’s point A and a bellyflop’s point B. This week, the new film Wendy becomes the latest spurned by that fickle mistress show business.

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The specialty box office is headed towards the second star on the right and straight on till morning with Benh Zeitlin’s magical adventure Wendy, a fresh reimagination of J. M. Barrie’s classic tale of Peter Pan. The pic from Searclight Pictures is Zeitlin’s follow up to his Oscar-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild which was released in 2012.

Co-written by Zeitlin and his sister Eliza, Wendy isn’t necessarily cut from the same cloth from Disney animated feature, rather it speaks to Zeitlin’s hyperealstic aesthtetic. The film, which debuted at Sundance earlier this year, stars newcomer Devin France in the titular role of Wendy, based on the heroine Wendy Darling of Peter Pan. In Zeitlin’s vision of Neverland, Wendy and her friends get whisked away by a boy named Peter where they get lost on a mysterious island where no one ages and time stands still.

Walt Disney Pictures was busy in the 1950s. Then known as Walt Disney Productions, the company released many classics during the decade including Cinderella, Peter Pan, and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. While there were many hits, there were also many flops — or at the very least, average films that aren’t still treasured today.

Because we already looked at the greatest films of the decade, we’re now focusing on the worst. To do this, we’ll be turning to the scoring system on IMDb.

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The popular movie website has attached a star rating to every live-action and animated Disney film to be released during the ‘50s, based on the votes of registered users on a scale of 1 to 10. Those with the lowest ratings will earn a spot here.

With the ranking system explained, it time to turn back the...

Who knew that “Beasts of the Southern Wild” was not just a nervy, thrilling debut film, but a design for living?

Director Benh Zeitlin suggests as much with “Wendy,” his second feature, which arrived eight years after “Beasts” took the 2012 Sundance Film Festival by storm on its way to Best Picture and Best Director Oscar nominations.

That film was the uproarious chronicle of a feral young girl, Hushpuppy, who lived in a ramshackle community (“the Bathtub”) in the swamps of the southern U.S., resisting the constraints of civilization at every turn. “Wendy,” which also premiered at Sundance, begins on the outskirts of civilization, in a small diner right by the side of the train tracks, and then finds a way to escape into a wild, exuberant and dangerous utopia.

Oh, and it’s a riff on “Peter Pan,” and on the whole idea of storytelling and the power of myth.

It has taken eight years for Benh Zeitlin to deliver the follow-up to his Oscar-nominated 2012 feature debut “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” But you could say the idea for “Wendy,” which reimagines the classic “Peter Pan” from the viewpoint of his female friend (played by first-time actor Devin France), has been percolating far longer than that.

Zeitlin wrote the film with his sister, Eliza Zeitlin, who also serves as production designer on the movie, a tale that started with puppets when the Zeitlins were growing up and has stayed with them into adulthood. “When I was brought home from the hospital, Benh had prepared a puppet show for me,” quips Eliza. “It was our very first interaction on Earth.”

As with “Beasts,” the idea for “Wendy” was to eschew VFX and stunt doubles. In the two years it took for the duo to write the story, there were many discussions...

Costume designer Stacy Jansen was preparing to film a scene for Wendy, a modern-day spin on the childhood classic Peter Pan, set on a gray beach at the base of a tall cliff in the Caribbean. Crewmembers had to hike down to access the spot, with some putting supplies on their back to carry down. But not everything was safe to carry, so the day before, the filmmakers packed the costumes into a suitcase and rigged a zip line to let the wardrobe sail down to the shore.  

"[We] watched it travel from the top of ...