Joe Roth and his Roth Films partner Palek Patel, fresh off the opening-weekend success of Oz the Great and Powerful, have set up Brilliance, an upcoming novel by Marcus Sakey, at Legendary Pictures.
Seattle mayor Michael McGinn officially proclaimed Thursday, March 7, to be Oz the Great and Powerful Day in the coastal city.
While the film's Emerald City was the brainchild of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum, Seattle has been nicknamed “The Emerald City” due to its lush evergreen forests and more than 6,000 acres of parkland within the city.
It was tough to miss the giant hot air balloon on Hollywood Boulevard on Wednesday, which remained in position outside Disney’s El Capitan theater from the early morning until 7:30 p.m. premiere of Oz: The Great and Powerful, at which point star James Franco was sent up into the air for a live shot.
“Am I dreaming?” asks James Franco in the Super Bowl spot for Disney's Oz the Great and Powerful.
The ad sees his character (the future Wizard of Oz) transported from the black and white of Dust Bowl-era Kansas to the CG-rendered world of Oz. And apparently he’s arrived just in time: “You’re the only one strong enough to save us all,” Evanora (Rachel Weisz) tells him.
Where can you find James Franco when he isn’t busy earning his 16th college degree or making a documentary about him earning his 16th college degree? On Sunday you can find him in a new ad spot for his highly anticipated film, Oz the Great and Powerful.
Rachel Weisz has worked with a variety of filmmakers – some deadly serious (The Constant Gardener’s Fernando Meirelles) and others decidedly more silly (Fred Claus’ David Dobkin). But for her upcoming turn in Oz: The Great and Powerful, Weisz tells The Hollywood Reporter she encountered an unusual combination of consummate professionalism and peculiar creativity with her director, Sam Raimi (the original Spider-Man trilogy).
Despite his success as the director of the first three Spider-Man movies, not to mention his cult classics Evil Dead I and II and Darkman, Sam Raimi is anything but self-aggrandizing. In a press conference at Thursday for his upcoming film Oz: The Great and Powerful, Raimi confessed that he is keenly aware of the shortcomings of his films, no matter how well they fare commercially.
One of the movies garnering the most buzz at Comic-Con this year is Disney’s Oz: The Great and Powerful. It doesn’t hit theaters until March 2013, but fans got a brief look at some footage from the film during Disney’s panel on Thursday.
Sam Raimi is revealing who the man behind the curtain really is.
The Spider-Man director took the stage at Comic-Con to unveil the first trailer for Oz: The Great and Powerful. Elements of it should seem familiar to fans of the 1939 classic.
Beginning on the Kansas planes in scenes shot in stark black and white, James Franco’s magician is seen wishing for a more exciting life.
“I don’t want to be a good man. I want to be a great one,” the star says.
First thing's first: the Wizard of Oz is not James Bond.
While Oz: the Great and Powerful is debuting some footage at Comic-Con, the star of the grand Disney prequel, James Franco, gave ET a first -- and very deep -- peek into the psychology of his magician-turned-wizard character. And while he agrees that the Wizard is in some ways an icon, he insists that he has for the most part the ability to shape the character with his own interpretation.
New poster art for Disney’s upcoming fantasy adventure Oz: The Great and Powerful has debuted. The film, from the producer of Alice in Wonderland (Joe Roth) and director of the Spider-Man trilogy (Sam Raimi), is set to open in U.S theaters March 8, 2013.
The poster features a stormy glimpse of the Emerald City and the yellow brick road. Small-time circus magician Oscar Diggs (James Franco) is seen in a hot air balloon on his way to the Land of Oz.
With many months to go before James Franco hits the big screen in Sam Raimi's Oz: The Great and Powerful, a promotional campaign has apparently begun in Italy.
The James Franco Forever fan site has posted an Italian ad for the film that shows Franco as the Wizard of Oz -- with a top hat, slightly anguished expression and hot air balloon in the background.
