Wizard of Oz

The 1902 adaptation of The Wizard of Oz looked extremely unsettling

When you mention The Wizard of Oz, your average moviegoer’s mind turns to such disparate topics as Judy Garland, ruby slippers, and apocryphal hanging munchkins. But there were several Oz adaptations that preceded the 1939 film, such as the 1902 musical penned by L. Frank Baum himself. Here are some photographs of the 1902 and…

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Great Trainwrecks of Science Fiction: Movies Where the Director Was Fired in the Middle

Everybody knows that the movies can be a messy business — oftentimes, what reaches the big screen is the result of a process akin to sticking your fingers in a Cuisinart. And sometimes the original director of a project gets dropped just before filming starts — as happened with The Wolfman. Or sometimes the director…

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Dorothy of Oz footage promises a sugary sweet return to Frank Baum’s world

Dark reimaginings of The Wizard of Oz are all the rage, but what we saw of the upcoming computer-animated Dorothy of Oz suggests there’s still some kiddie magic left to share. Also, Patrick Stewart voices a tree with multiple personalities. Dorothy of Oz is a computer-animated adaptation of the 1989 book of the same name,…

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The Yellow Brick Road is a Parking Lot in Peekskill, NY

Historian John Curren believes he has found the inspiration for the yellow brick road in L. Frank Baum’s popular children’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Mostly gone, the road leads to a parking lot in the small town of Peekskill, NY Curren pored over the life of Baum and discovered the man spent two…

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Watch what Disney’s Wicked movie could look like

Disney animator Heidi Jo Gilbert created a Wicked storyboard video, set to the tracks from Wicked, the musical, hoping to convince her bosses to make Elphaba the next Disney princess. Our reaction: Holy Hell, this is amazing. UPDATE: Youtube pulled the clip but if you go to her site you can watch the original (not…

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Natalie Portman won’t do Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity after all. Plus Vincenzo Natali’s finished a Neuromancer script draft.

Like Angelina Jolie before her, Natalie Portman passes on Cuaron’s astronaut epic…but another star’s in the running. Vincenzo Natali knows how he wants to depict Neuromancer’s cyberspace. Idris Elba’s taking on another Marvel role. Wallace Shawn joins Eureka. Spoilers alive! Gravity: The long search for the female lead of Alfonso Cuaron’s space epic continues, as…

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Robert Downey Jr. and Sam Raimi are heading to Oz

The Spider-Man director and the Iron Man star are teaming up for Disney’s Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz: The Great and Powerful. In the no-longer-the-Spider-Man-man fallout, Raimi has been swinging from project to potential project, from The Shadow to a 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea remake. But according to Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood, last…

Movies Marc Bernardin

Major Fringe season 3 scoop! Plus find out when Men In Black III takes place, and who might be Spidey’s villain!

Fringe’s alt-universe drama will get even weirder. Men In Black III has a surprising twist, and the Spider-Man prequel may have an unexpected villain. Plus Futurama, Doctor Who, Iron Sky, Jonah Hex, Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Toy Story, Twilight and Warehouse 13! Men In Black III: David Koepp (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)…

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Great Movie Quotes, Rendered in Chart Form

While you might not think the best way for Han Solo to tell Luke “May the Force be with you” is via checklist, this rendering of some of cinema’s best quotations as data points is fascinating. [FlowingData]

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The Alternate Reality Wizard of Oz Is Perverse Fun

This concept art of a stranger, grittier Wizard of Oz depicts the Cowardly Lion as goth, the Emerald City as the setting for Left 4 Dead, and Dorothy as a smack addict. Poppies are a helluva drug. These quirky re-imaginings are from ConceptArt.org’s Character of the Week contest. You can see the rest of the…

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Poor Melting Game Boy

You cursed brat! Look what you’ve done! I’m melting! melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness? Oooooh, look out! I’m going! Oooooh! Ooooooh! I always liked the Wicked Game Boy of the West a lot more than that stupid…

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Cloverfield Has Secret Emo Rock Soundtrack

Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy has been having a Cloverfield fangasm, along with some delusions of grandeur. He somehow became convinced that writer Drew Goddard based the entire movie on the band’s Infinity on High album. In fact, his story got so extreme that he started saying the movie would sync up with the…

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The Singing Career of Tik Tok the Clockwork Man

Before the word “robot” was invented, L. Frank Baum wrote about a clockwork man named Tik-Tok who lived in Oz. Tik-Tok is a portly metal creature who constantly needs winding. Though he has no emotions, he is ridiculously grateful to Dorothy after she discovers him in a cave and winds him up in the 1907…

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Underground Munchkin Cavern in Deconstructed Oz

Artist, designer, and futurist Mark Goerner reimagined The Wizard of Oz long before Tin Man started rattling the airwaves and ratings on the Sci Fi Channel. This conceptual painting shows the cavern where the subterranean Munchkins dwell. It looks like a fairly lonely place with some sort of sleeping pods hanging from the ceiling by…

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Welcome to the O.Z., Bitches

Tin Man, The SciFi Channel’s reimagining of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz begins airing on Sunday night as a three-night miniseries. It’s a complete refab of the entire book as you know it, set in the O.Z., or Outer Zone. The 13-year-old kid in us loved the complete reworking of something that has quite frankly…

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The 1902 adaptation of The Wizard of Oz looked extremely unsettling

Great Trainwrecks of Science Fiction: Movies Where the Director Was Fired in the Middle

Dorothy of Oz footage promises a sugary sweet return to Frank Baum’s world

The Yellow Brick Road is a Parking Lot in Peekskill, NY

Watch what Disney’s Wicked movie could look like

Natalie Portman won’t do Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity after all. Plus Vincenzo Natali’s finished a Neuromancer script draft.

Robert Downey Jr. and Sam Raimi are heading to Oz

Major Fringe season 3 scoop! Plus find out when Men In Black III takes place, and who might be Spidey’s villain!

Great Movie Quotes, Rendered in Chart Form

The Alternate Reality Wizard of Oz Is Perverse Fun

Poor Melting Game Boy

Cloverfield Has Secret Emo Rock Soundtrack

The Singing Career of Tik Tok the Clockwork Man

Underground Munchkin Cavern in Deconstructed Oz

Welcome to the O.Z., Bitches

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