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Teri Garr, the Academy Award-nominated actress known for her roles in films including Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Tootsie, Mr. Mom, and Young Frankenstein, has died at the age of 79.

According to Variety, Garr died on Tuesday following a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Garr first revealed her diagnosis with Ms in 2002 and later suffered an aneurysm in 2006. She officially retired from acting in 2011, with some of her final films including Paul Feig’s Unaccompanied Minors and the Lisa Kudrow-staring Kabluey.

With over 140 credits across film and television, Garr’s career in Hollywood was both extensive and versatile. After starting her career as a dancer, she earned a breakout role as Inga, the audacious assistant in Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein. In 1982, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars for her performance as actress Sandy Lester in Tootsie.

Throughout her career, Garr was a mainstay on late-night...

Actor and singer Ken Page, best known for playing Oogie Boogie in Henry Selick and Tim Burton’s classic The Nightmare Before Christmas, has sadly passed away at the age of 70.

In addition to voicing iconic character Oogie Boogie in the 1993 movie, Ken Page also went on to voice the character for all subsequent spinoff projects including the video games The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King and The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie’s Revenge, and he also voiced the character for the Kingdom Hearts video game franchise.

Other roles throughout Ken Page’s career include 1989’s All Dogs Go to Heaven, wherein he voiced King Gator, as well as “Family Matters,” The Kid Who Loved Christmas, “Adventures in Wonderland,” Cats (1998), “Charmed,” Dreamgirls, and Haunted Mansion Holiday.

Off screen, Ken Page appeared on stage in plays including Ain’t Misbehavin’, Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, The Wiz, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Cats.

Don’t be late! Alice and the Queen of Hearts are putting on a new show at Disneyland Paris!

The French Disney Park will be hosting a new musical on May 25. Alice & The Queen of Hearts: Back to Wonderland looks like it will be something else. Oh, and it’s definitely something that would only work in Paris.

Consider it a mix of Disney magic and Cirque du Soleil but with an Alice in Wonderland twist. Oh, and there will be BMX bikes, too!

The outfits for Alice, the Queen, and the Mad Hatter take cues from the 1951 animated classic but update them in ways that feel like something you’d see in Return to Oz or even the ’90s Disney Channel show Adventures in Wonderland.

While it may seem a bit extreme and flashy, the costume and set designs are far better than the high strangeness we witnessed in Tim Burton’s two films.

The Beatles‘ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” is one of the most mysterious-sounding songs in rock history. Paul McCartney explained one of its secrets to Taylor Swift. Notably, Paul’s approach to writing the track wasn’t that different from the way Swift pens some of her music. John Lennon refuted a misconception about the tune.

What Paul McCartney told Taylor Swift about The Beatles’ ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’

In a 2020 Rolling Stone, Swift and Paul interviewed each other. Swift revealed she decided to use her favorite words in her songs, even if they weren’t radio-friendly. Some of these words included “marzipan,” “divorcée,” “elegies,” and “epiphany.” She said she had lists and lists of her favorite words. She also discussed looking through books to find words she could use in her tunes.

Paul said he added the word “kaleidoscope” to The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky...

The Marvel machine continues apace on Disney+ this month.

Disney+’s list of new releases of April 2021 is highlighted by the highlight of March’s list as well: The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Three episode of this highly anticipated series will premiere in April, including the series(?) finale on April 23.

But of course, it’s not all Marvel all the time on Disney+…sometimes its Star Wars time as well! There aren’t any new original Star Wars series coming to the streaming world until The Bad Batch premieres on May 4. It’s spiritual successor arrives in April, however. Star Wars: Clone Wars Volumes 1 and 2 both premiere on April 2. These are the animated classics from Genndy Tartakovsky that jumpstarted a new era of Star Wars storytelling. Now they can be seen in their entirety once agin.

The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers continues on in April, and will soon be...

Armelia McQueen, the vibrant singer and actress who starred on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’ and played Whoopi Goldberg’s sister in Ghost, died Oct. 3 in Los Angeles following a brief illness, her family announced. She was 68.

McQueen also portrayed the Red Queen in 100 episodes of the Disney Channel series Adventures in Wonderland and recurred for four seasons as the chronic patient Shula Whitaker on the 2011-15 CW drama Hart of Dixie.

McQueen won a Theatre World Award for best debut performance for her turn in the original 1978-82 production of Ain’t Misbehavin’, working alongside the likes of Charlayne ...

Armelia McQueen, the vibrant singer and actress who starred on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’ and played Whoopi Goldberg’s sister in Ghost, died Oct. 3 in Los Angeles following a brief illness, her family announced. She was 68.

McQueen also portrayed the Red Queen in 100 episodes of the Disney Channel series Adventures in Wonderland and recurred for four seasons as the chronic patient Shula Whitaker on the 2011-15 CW drama Hart of Dixie.

McQueen won a Theatre World Award for best debut performance for her turn in the original 1978-82 production of Ain’t Misbehavin’, working alongside the likes of Charlayne ...

Actress Armelia McQueen, known for her roles in Broadway’s “Ain’t Misbehavin'” and the film “Ghost,” has died at the age of 68.

Her friend Dorian Hannaway confirmed McQueen’s passing on Sunday, Oct. 3.

“You are truly an angel now. My dear friend Armelia crossed over yesterday,” Hannaway wrote in a Facebook post. “She leaves us cherishing her memory as she was one of the greatest friends you could ever have. The only thing bigger than her beautiful soul was her extraordinary talent.”

McQueen was part of the original cast for “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” which eventually led to her Broadway debut when the cabaret musical joined the honored ranks of theater productions to be performed on Broadway in 1978. Her performance in the musical earned a Theatre World award the same year.

Apart from her theater career, McQueen also appeared in numerous films and television shows. Her most notable role was the...

Armelia McQueen, who rose to Broadway stardom with her debut in 1978’s Ain’t Misbehavin’ and played the sister of Whoopi Goldberg’s haunted character in 1990’s Ghost, died Saturday. She was 68.

Her death was confirmed by her friend Dorian Hannaway in a Facebook post Sunday. “My dear friend Armelia crossed over yesterday,” Hannaway wrote. “She leaves us cherishing her memory as she was one of the greatest friends you could ever have. The only thing bigger than her beautiful soul was her extraordinary talent. She gave us such joy in her many turns on the Broadway stage as well as her film and TV roles. She was brilliant in Ain’t Misbehavin’ and so many other shows.”

A cause of death has not been released, and information on survivors was not immediately available.

Born in North Carolina and raised in New York City, McQueen was in the original Off Broadway cast...

Priyanka Chopra Jonas may have matched the 'Camp: Notes on Fashion' theme at the Met Gala, but the actress' shimmery avatar with an exaggerated hairdo didn't impress social media users who had a field day trolling her for picking the brave look.

The theme for this year's Met Gala is 'Camp: Notes on Fashion'. It is inspired by Susan Sontag's 1964 essay "Notes on Camp". In her essay, Susan had explained: "The essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration."

As per this, Priyanka got the look "spot on", said designer Wendell Rodricks.

Priyanka brought whimsy and animation to the pink carpet with a vibrant, yet unique Dior gown at the event which is an annual fundraiser held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

She went bold and played up the theme with a zany look in a silver gown with colourful ruffled feathers, a very high leg split,...

Francesca Hayward, the Principal dancer with The Royal Ballet, has boarded Universal Pictures/Working Title’s Cats based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber hit musical.

We hear she will play a new pivotal role in the feature film version of the musical, a white kitten named Victoria, which was not in the original production. Word is also that Lloyd Webber has written a new song for Victoria.

Hayward attended The Royal Ballet School and joined The Royal Ballet in 2010 and was promoted to Principal in 2016. Some of her most prominent roles include Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Alice (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland), Manon, Lise (La Fille mal gardée), the female Principal role in Rhapsody, Titania (The Dream), Sugar Plum Fairy and Clara (The Nutcracker) and Princess Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty). Francesca represented The Royal Ballet at the 2012 International Competition for the Erik Bruhn Prize and won Best Emerging Artist (2014) and...

Rock star Tom Petty, who died Monday at 66, left behind a legacy of songs that reached inside and stirred the soul with a combination of frustration, wistfulness, rebellion, cynicism, elation, and restlessness. But Petty also might be remembered for some of the most iconic music videos of the 1980s — the heyday of MTV and VH1 as TV jukeboxes.

Petty’s landmark work included 1985’s psychedelic “Don’t Come Around Here No More, and The Atlantic digs in pretty deep into the backstory to how the song and video came about, which was inspired by an encounter between the Eurythmic’s Dave Stewart and Stevie Nicks.

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Jeff Stein, who was also behind the equally trippy Cars video “You Might Think’ and Heart’s “These Dreams,” directed “Don’t Come Around Here No More.” The video was nominated for several awards at the 2nd annual...

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “Star Trek: Discovery” Episode 3, “Context Is for Kings.”]

“Star Trek” has a long history of citing what we modern viewers would consider classic literature. The references serve multiple purposes: to offer insight into the character quoting the material, to make the futuristic character more relatable, and to reassure us that millennia into the future, some part of our culture has endured in recognizable form. For mutineer Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), her classic novel of choice is “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

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On the USS Glenn, Burnham provides a diversion to draw the unidentified creature away from the boarding party. As she’s crawling frantically through the Jefferies Tubes, she starts to recite a paraphrased excerpt from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”

“The rabbit hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down,...

One of the best indicators as to what kind of TV show “Star Trek: Discovery” might be in comparison to its predecessors comes down to the first time we see the titular ship. Other shows will introduce their central spaceship while it lingers at a docking station; meanwhile, we meet the Discovery as it rescues a small prison shuttle. It’s a scene which features the ship in action, a pattern that defines the rest of Episode 3, “Context Is for Kings.”

After last week’s explosive two-part premiere, fans were basically left wondering, “Where the hell do we go next?” and the third episode provides the answers they seek. Introducing us not just to the Discovery, but to Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs) and her additional crew members, not to mention a whole new environment for the series.

There is something beautifully, magnificently weird about the fact that the fundamental plotline...

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from the finale of USA Network’s “The Sinner” in addition to the book on which it was based.]

USA Network’s “The Sinner” became one of the surprise hits of the summer for its fascinating look at how hidden and unresolved traumas can manifest in disturbing or downright horrifying ways. The psychologically twisted story delved deeply into the past of a woman who seemed relatively normal and happy, but whose abuse at the hands of multiple people eventually led to her murdering a man without apparent provocation.

German crime author Petra Hammesfahr penned the 1999 novel on which “The Sinner” is based, and for the most part the central mysteries remained the same in both versions. The television adaptation naturally also had the expected number of cosmetic changes: Cora Bender is now Cora Tannetti, a song played on a cassette tape now plays on a phone, and the setting has moved from Germany to a small city in New York.

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Summer may be coming to a close but don’t cry over wasted sunscreen! Now is the time to perfect your plié and test out that tango because fall marks the start of a new chapter in your dance life. Here’s how you can work off those Pimm’s cups and land your first gig of the fall. Performances The Royal Opera House’s production of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” starts on Sept. 27 and runs through Oct. 28. You can find tickets here. The Hofesh Shechter Company’s “Grand Finale” runs from Sept. 12-16. Ten dancers will share the stage with a live band in this passionate production at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Auditions Aida Cruises is seeking a skilled and versatile singer with “strong acting abilities, personalities, and movement ability for set choreography”. Auditions take place Sept. 5, 6, and 7. If selected, there will be a paid rehearsal period in Hamburg,...

With close to 30,000 attendees, a slew of brand sponsors, thousands of digital media, advertising, marketing, and entertainment industry executives, and over 300 featured creators—not to mention all the prominent creators who aren’t featured—the massive online video industry event that is VidCon is a fantastic, if not hectic, time and place to make some deals. But navigating the four-day event and making the most of the opportunities within isn’t something one can do with a lackadaisical attitude. It takes careful planning, plenty of caffeine, a keen business sense, and some social charm.

And perhaps few people do VidCon better than Andrew Graham.

VidCon 2017 marks five years of attending for Graham, who is truly an industry vet. Having worked as a senior talent manager at both Fullscreen and Big Frame, Graham has been at CAA since last April, managing talent like Connor Franta (with whom he and Jeremy Wineberg...

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We begin with a very private book club meeting between Dolores and Bernard, who’s apparently been giving the host books to read, with this week’s selection being “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Dolores in general seems to be changing — and more importantly, remembering the things that have happened to her in past loops. Perhaps that’s what pushes her to start wanting more with Teddy, the fact that she’s just now becoming aware of the fact that things can change.

It’s here in Episode 3 that we get a more solid understanding of the loops that drive the established regular narratives — at this point, we’ve gotten used to familiar lines like, “Just trying to be chivalrous” and “Ain’t much of a rind on you.” But we’re also seeing more...

Three episodes deep into Westworld, it's become clear that there’s a problem with the user interface. Theoretically, our deepest interest in this increasingly dark sci-fi parable should be with the characters best capable of sustaining it: the humans. After all, the guests and the staff of the theme park are the ones with actual, honest-to-god (or honest-to-Darwin) consciousness. They've lead real lives with real experiences, instead of having fake memories uploaded into their brains. Their emotions can't be switched off with a command. Their bodies can't heal from fatal...

To the surprise of no one, Harry Potter has just topped a UK list of fan's favorite book-to-film adaptations. How did your favorites fare? J.K. Rowling's adaptations also topped a similar list last year. Considering she's British and writer of one of the biggest franchises in history, I would assume Rowling's work will easily continue taking the top spot for years to come. Unless they decide to do a reboot which somehow turns out terrible. Let's not think about that. According to The Guardian, 32% of 2,000 cinemagoers put Harry Potter at the top of their lists. It's a relatively small sample of people living in the UK, but something tells me it would stay on top even if it were larger. Here's the full list as they voted: 1. The Harry Potter series (Jk Rowling) 2. A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) 3. The Shawshank Redemption (Stephen King) 4. The Lord of the Rings saga...

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There isn’t much hand-holding in the opening hours of HBO’s insane new epic Westworld. Like the guests in the show’s western theme park, there isn’t a helpful guide to show you around, or a succinct orientation video with a dancing DNA strand to fill you in on bits and pieces of how the park even started. As one of Westworld’s robot “hosts” says to a nervous guest early on, “figuring out how it works is half the fun.”

Truer words couldn’t be spoken about the first four hours of Westworld, which is both a terrifying disaster-in-slow-motion and a rollicking adventure, all rolled into a plot that has so many levels of storytelling you’ll be obsessed with its nascent mythology by the end of the pilot’s goosebump-inducing opening scene. But it’s never obtuse, never needlessly highbrow,...

Burbank, Calif., August 5, 2016 — Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland forever changed the landscape of children’s literature; Disney’s animated “Alice in Wonderland” embraced this fantasy world filled with peculiar characters; and Tim Burton directed a visually-stunning, live-action film that mesmerized audiences worldwide. On Oct. 18, 2016, the enchanting and beloved franchise that has captivated generations of adventurers continues when Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass arrives home on Digital HD, Blu-ray™, Disney Movies Anywhere, DVD and On-Demand.

In Alice Through the Looking Glass, the all-star cast from the 2010 blockbuster is back with Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter who’s desperately searching for his family; Anne Hathaway as Mirana, the kind, mild-mannered White Queen; Helena Bonham Carter as Iracebeth, the short-tempered, big-headed Red Queen; and Mia Wasikowska as Alice, the heroine at the heart of the story. Sacha Baron Cohen joins the ensemble as Time, a magical being that is part human,...

Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” forever changed the landscape of children’s literature; Disney’s animated “Alice in Wonderland” embraced this fantasy world filled with peculiar characters; and Tim Burton directed a visually-stunning, live-action film that mesmerized audiences worldwide. On Oct. 18, 2016, the enchanting and beloved franchise that has captivated generations of adventurers continues when Disney’s Alice Through The Looking Glass arrives home on Digital HD, Blu-ray™, Disney Movies Anywhere, DVD and On-Demand. In Alice Through The Looking Glass, the all-star cast from the 2010 blockbuster is back with Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter who’s desperately searching for his family; Anne Hathaway as Mirana, the kind, mild-mannered White Queen; Helena Bonham Carter as Iracebeth, the short-tempered, big-headed Red Queen; and Mia Wasikowska as Alice, the heroine at the heart of the story. Sacha Baron Cohen joins the ensemble as Time, a magical being that is part human,...

Dozens of actresses have gladly gone down the rabbit hole in order to play Alice, the young girl immortalized in British author Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, published in 1871. There have been countless stage plays, films and television movies adapting Carroll's classic adventure tale about a world populated with strange and quirky creatures, such as the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat. Mia Wasikowska is the latest thespian to star as Alice, first in the 2010 blockbuster Alice in Wonderland and now in the sequel,

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At some point midway through the follow-up to Tim Burton’s live-action Alice in Wonderland, the heroine asks an antagonist, not sarcastically, “Can I have a moment of your time?” Moviegoer beware: if approached with such an entreaty about watching this movie, you best politely decline. This time around, Alice Through the Looking Glass, based in name only on Lewis Carroll’s sequel to his immensely popular Adventures in Wonderland, gives viewers little reason to care about the characters or their latest escapades. Despite rescuable technical elements, the film instead becomes the first big dud of the summer blockbuster season.

The movie actually begins promisingly, with a short but intense action sequence of Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska) in a daring escape from chasing pirate ships. James Bobin, the director (of The Muppets fame), though showing crispness during this sea voyage, soon founders as Alice reaches land and, later, Wonderland. Alice...

In Disney’s attempt to cash in on both newly acquired properties (Marvel, Lucasfilm) and its classic catalog (Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland series, Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book), it’s now looking to create a mash-up of two of its beloved animated films from the 1950s, both of which are based on classic literature: Lewis Carroll’s Alice’S Adventures In Wonderland and J.M. Barrie’s play and novel Peter Pan; Or, The Boy Who Wouldn’T Grow Up.

The twist? In the newly announced live-action film — titled Come Away — to be directed by Brenda Chapman (codirector of the Mouse House’s successful Brave), Alice and Peter are siblings. Taking place before either of their adventures, the script by Marissa Kate Goodhill has the children mourning the death of an older brother and dealing with their parents’ anguish, prompting them to find solace in fantasy worlds. (Sounds dark!

“Poor, poor little Alice!” the critic G.K. Chesterton lamented of Lewis Carroll’s most famous character. “She has not only been caught and made to do lessons; she has been forced to inflict lessons on others.” He was talking not about her Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, but about the meanings and ideas that had been assigned to her in the decades since the nonsense classics’ publication. And so the repurposing goes, with the latest big-screen iteration a clunky composite of visual extravagance and Hollywood commonplaces about a life well lived. A sequel to Tim

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It’s time to talk remakes and we’re delving into Disney again with their two versions of one of the most famous children’s stories ever. With a sequel coming out this May, it’s a good time to dissect the previous cinematic adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (2010).

When Lewis Carroll wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, he created the best-ever example of the ‘Literary Nonsense’ genre. It’s become an enduring classic for 150 years. It’s been adapted many times. The most famous version is the 1951 animated classic Alice in Wonderland by Disney Studios. It’s one of Disney’s most visually interesting films, because the storyline is so artfully illogical and filled with characters who were meant to be animated. It utilizes some great voice actors, perfectly suited for their roles.

It’s not necessary to explain such a familiar story. We all know the Mad Hatter,...

Who knew Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland could sound so disturbing?

In the newest teaser for Orphan Black‘s fourth season, released by BBC America on Wednesday, Sarah, Helena and the rest of the Clone Club recite one of Lewis Carroll’s most famous passages — in which Alice falls down the infamous rabbit hole — and they put a really creepy spin on it.

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While the sestras talk, we see glimpses of their harrowing journey thus far, as well as a disconcerting image of Kira’s stuffed monkey.

One Direction concert film grossed $15m over one weekend.

The Event Cinema Association (Eca) has handed its gold award to distributor Arts Alliance for its release of One Direction: Where We Are - The Concert Film.

The announcement was made at the Eca Conference at the Picturehouse Central cinema in London today during the Eca Awards.

The film, centred on a performance by the boy band in Milan, became the highest grossing concert film in the event cinema sector when released on Oct 11, 2014, grossing $15m worldwide in a single weekend.

Ross Fitzsimons, head of sales and marketing for UK distributor Arts Alliance, which released the film, said: “We always knew the fan base with 1D would lead to a successful release but even we were surprised just how well attended it was. It just goes to show the power of event cinema, that when the right elements are in place, the sky really...

One Direction concert film grossed $15m over one weekend.

The Event Cinema Association (Eca) has handed its gold award to One Direction: Where We Are - The Concert Film.

The announcement was made at the Eca Conference at the Picturehouse Central cinema in London today during the Eca Awards.

The film, centred on a performance by the boy band in Milan, became the highest grossing concert film in the event cinema sector when released on Oct 11, 2014, grossing $15m worldwide in a single weekend.

Ross Fitzsimons, head of sales and marketing for UK distributor Arts Alliance, which released the film, said: “We always knew the fan base with 1D would lead to a successful release but even we were surprised just how well attended it was. It just goes to show the power of event cinema, that when the right elements are in place, the sky really is the limit.”

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Three years ago the National Film Registry chose 25 films to be preserved in the Library of Congress, something they have done every year since 1989 in an effort to highlight the need to preserve American film heritage. Under the conditions of the National Film Preservation Act, these movies are selected for inclusion based on their cultural, historical or aesthetical significance. Back in 2012, one of these films was The Matrix.

The Wachowskis sci-fi thriller was released thirteen years earlier and between now and then has grossed $463 million, spawning two sequels as well as numerous video games, comics and animated short movies, all of which the original directors had a hand in.

For those of you too young or too anti-Keanu Reeves to be familiar with it, the Matrix is the story of a future dystopia created by sentinel machines with the purpose of subduing humankind so that their bodies...

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the publication ofAlice's Adventures in Wonderland, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center in Lincoln Center will present the free multimedia exhibitionAlice LiveThe exhibition will trace the history of Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice stories in live performance from their first professional staging through today.Alice Livewill be on display from October 2, 2015 through January 16, 2016 in The Library for the Performing Arts's Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery, Shelby Cullom Davis Museum.

Alice Through The Looking Glass Poster Arrives. The Disney adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland continues, after the Tim Burton iteration a few years ago, we are getting a subsequent film. This time, director James Bobin is at the helm, and Johnny Depp will be back as the Mad Hatter, and Mia Wasikowska as the titular Alice. As I haven’t seen the […]...

Perhaps even more hallucinatory than The Red Shoes, Powell and Pressburger’s tale of a poet regaling a tavern with tales of his impossible loves is a thing of pure, dreamlike strangeness

“Made in England” is how Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger finally stamped their unworldly, otherworldly Tales of Hoffmann from 1951, an adaptation of the Jacques Offenbach opera, which is now on rerelease. It actually negated English and British cinema’s reputation for stolid realism. This is a hothouse flower of pure orchidaceous strangeness, enclosed in the studio’s artificial universe, fusing cinema, opera and ballet. It is sensual, macabre, dreamlike and enigmatic: like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In his autobiography, Powell recalls talking to a United Artists executive after the New York premiere, who said to him, wonderingly: “Micky, I wish it were possible to make films like that … ” A revealing choice of words. It was as if...

Just a bunch of random thoughts this week, gang…

As I mentioned two weeks ago, Martha Thomases and I go waaaay back to the days when she was DC’s go-to woman for marketing and promotions and I was a naive, newbie freelance writer for the company who always stuck my head in her doorway (“hey, Martha”) whenever I was in the office. We have always been kindred spirits in political thought and our taste in literature, television, and moves have always coincided more than they have diverged, and now Martha’s latest column extends that coincidence to some critics.

Martha, you have more patience than I do; I couldn’t even finish the piece because I got so annoyed. So, yeah, I’m not an A.O. Scott fan, either, although I do think he writes beautifully. In my not-so-humble opinion, Mr. Scott is a bit of a snob and...

The Offspring is still calling the shots in the latest Extant double-bill. Here's Holly's review...

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1.9 Care And Feeding & 1.10 A Pack Of Cards

Picking up right where last week’s Extant double-header left off, this week’s Extant double-header felt more like a season-ending cliffhanger than the 9th and 10th episodes of a 13-episode run. As of right now, it’s not certain whether Extant is to be renewed for a second season - and I think the assumption by most is that it won’t - but it’s for sure giving us plenty to sort out in the meantime.

That baby. Or, The Offspring, depending upon who you are. Whatever you call it, the little abomination did some serious damage this week, and we still haven’t even seen it. Instead, we get the occasional Pov shot through its blurry vision and hear its ragged breathing as it lurks,...

Most people can’t get enough of the real-life stories behind their favorite movies. One fantasy-film favorite took its inspiration from the relationship a wildly imaginative writer had with a little girl named Alice. Of course, we’re talking about the true story behind Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, which has been adapted into several films throughout the years — including a 3D version by the count of creep, Tim Burton. An 1862 boat trip is the site where Carroll first told 10-year-old Alice Liddell the story of a young girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a surreal fantasy world. Carroll was a friend of the Liddell family and often entertained the children with fanciful tales. He also photographed Alice and her nine siblings, but the...

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When a group of Tisch students moved to New Orleans in 2005 and formed the Nola Project, they wanted to bring high-quality drama back to the Big Easy. That stirring of the pot, combined with the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina, shook up the New Orleans theater scene like never before. Nola Project, under the direction of its first artistic director Andrew Larimer, came to New Orleans pre-Katrina. The company performed a production of “The Cripple of Inishmaan” in August 2005. The run was cut short a week, and by the end of the month the levees broke. “Our commitment to the city was just strengthened,” says A.J. Allegra, Nola Project’s current artistic director. “It became a mission about bringing art back to a city in desperate need of some sort of human assistance, and that was the way we were able to give it.” Along with the ensemble-driven Nola Project...

Ncm Fathom Events, Mr. Wolf, Arts Alliance Media and the Royal Opera House invite you to journey to an enchanted world of princesses, fairy godmothers and magic spells with the captivating Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty as it comes to the big screen in a special one-night event on Thursday, March 20 at 7:00pm (local time) to select cinemas nationwide.

Don’t miss Marius Petipa’s enchanting ballet as a wicked fairy places a fatal curse on the baby Princess Aurora, which the good Lilac Fairy softens to a sleep of 100 years and only a prince’s kiss can break the spell.

Like Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty is instantly recognizable to those unfamiliar with ballet. The princess will be played by American Sarah Lamb who danced in The Royal Ballet’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in November of 2013.

Marius Petipa’s classic 19th-century choreography is combined with newly created sections by Frederick Ashton,...

Am I the only one who still likes to enjoy stories for the sake of the story? Though it.s not a new fad, Hollywood continues to create films that go into the background of how a great work was created, with the Mary Poppins-centered Saving Mr. Banks as the most recent example. Now audiences can look forward to seeing the events that inspired Lewis Carroll to create Alice.s Adventures in Wonderland, as OddLot Entertainment has acquired Stephanie Shannon.s Queen of Hearts script, which will one day see Identity Thief.s Seth Gordon as its director. Those hoping for a two-hour movie of Carroll dropping acid while putting a pen to paper will almost certainly be disappointed with the reality of this project. Queen of Hearts will delve into Carroll.s life, according to Deadline, focusing on a failed relationship that leaves him brokenhearted and apparently in...

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Yoe Books! Falls Down Another Rabbit Hole With Alice In Comicland Alice Seen Through The Comic Book Looking Glass

San Diego, CA (December 9, 2013) – Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is one of the most beloved novels ever written as well as considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. So it only makes sense that Idw Publishing and Yoe Books! would partner up to collect the fantastic and wild variations of Alice as seen in comic books and comic strips from the Golden Age and beyond in Alice in Comicland.

Coming this March, Alice in Comicland is a 160 full-color page collection of comic books and comic strip stories featuring Alice that range from humor to horror by masters like Alex Toth, Walt Kelly, The Simon and Kirby Studio, Dan DeCarlo, David Berg, George Carlson, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, R.F. Outcault,...

To quote Homer Simpson, “did anybody see the movie Tron?” Okay, okay, I’m sure quite a lot of people have actually seen Tron, and probably liked it. Wait, no, I don’t mean the Tron with the Daft Punk soundtrack and Olivia Wilde lying on a sofa. I’m talking about the original Tron. The Tron from 1982, with the light cycles and the funny graphics, and Jeff Bridges playing, well, Jeff Bridges.

From a modern perspective, Tron just about holds up to our often critical gaze. Of course the computer animation appears very basic, the science fiction tale is riddled with clichés, and the overall feel of the film at times verges on comedic. But, despite all its flaws and narrative simplicity, Tron is fundamentally a strong film.

Even at face value, it is a film worthy of praise for its innovative daring and way-ahead-of-its-time-ness; courtesy of the brains of creator Steven Lisberger,...

The cast of Once Upon A Time in Wonderland took a sojourn from Wonderland to the dreamland of Comic-Con over the weekend, dropping by EW’s digital studio for a chat with Sandra Gonzalez. The ABC show, premiering this fall, is a spin-off of Once Upon A Time, but this one takes place through the eyes of Alice, of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland fame. Cast members Sophie Lowe, Michael Socha, Peter Gadiot, Emma Rigby, and Naveen Andrews talked about those fantastical costumes, who can throw a punch, bringing fairytales to life, and more. Check out the interview below.

Whether you need a break from the sun, the relatives or the traffic this Memorial Day weekend, your trusty TV has the escape you crave, with a number of marathons and specials and premieres to fill your time off.

We've rounded up some of the highlights from the next three days if you feel like riding the couch, including everything from "Arrested Development" to "Veronica Mars." (Note: All times Et/Pt. Listed marathon start and end times include first airings of each episode, not episodes that are repeated over the course of the marathon -- we figured you don't want to watch the same thing twice!)

Saturday, May 25

The Elvis Collection (5 a.m. to 5:05 a.m. Sunday, Encore)

Revisit 14 of The King's cinematic hits from "Blue Hawaii" through to "This is Elvis," with classics like "Jailhouse Rock" and "Viva Las Vegas" thrown in for good measure.

"Arrested Development" (6 a.

ABC’s upcoming reboot of Alice in Wonderland got me thinking about Disney’s TV series Adventures in Wonderland. For those who don’t remember, it was about a modern-day Alice who solved a bunch of Carrie Bradshaw-esque thoughts by traveling to Wonderland through her bedroom mirror and hanging out with Lewis Carroll’s famous characters. (To this day,...Read more»...

ABC's Once Upon a Time spinoff presentation has enlisted its first castmember. The Alice in Wonderland-themed entry has enlisted Michael Socha as the Knave of Hearts, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Story: ABC Eyeing Potential 'Once Upon a Time' Spinoff The Knave is described as a sardonic adventurer, a man of action, loner and heartbreaker -- the proverbial rolling stone. His swagger isn't quite enough to disguise the fact that he is unswervingly loyal and possessed of a strong moral code. The Knave of Hearts is first mentioned in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, where he is on trial for

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Alice in Wonderland

Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske

Written by Winston Hibler, Ted Sears, Bill Peet, Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Milt Banta, Bill Cottrell, Dick Kelsey, Joe Grant, Dick Huemer, Del Connell, Tom Oreb, and John Waltridge

Starring Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Verna Felton

I should not pride myself in my ability to not be bored stiff by black-and-white movies, or by a supposedly stilted style of acting present in films from before the 1960s. There is a perception in the world, though, that audiences under the age of 30—I’m nearing the precipice of being on the opposite side of that line, but not yet—are, for the most part, unable to deal with older films or engage with them properly. On one hand, I bristle at the stereotype, not just because of my love for film of any age, but because I know from writing for this website,...

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland made over a $1 billion dollars worldwide. Disney would have to be mentally challenged to not want a sequel. And hey look, it’s definitely in the works:

Screenwriter Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King) has been hired to write the sequel.

There’s no word on what the story of the sequel will be, and since the first film already covers the original two Lewis Carroll books (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass), it seems Woolverton will have to invent an entirely new plot.

Is anyone who’s over the age of 14 and not a girl who shops at Hot Topic excited for this sequel?

Source: Variety...

So it’s finally happening. The mouse house is going ahead with a sequel to Alice in Wonderland. Why, you ask? Well, a box office total of $1,024,299,904 is probably the main reason. There’s no way Disney was just going to let the film sit there and collect dust after it made that much. A sequel was inevitable and today we finally have confirmation.

Writer Linda Woolverton, who has penned The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Maleficent, among others for the studio, will write the sequel and as of now, there are no story details aside from that fact that we know Alice will once again return to Wonderland. Shocking! It will also take inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.

The project is still in the early stages of development and none of the key cast members have been confirmed to be returning.