Johnny in Gnomeo and Juliet

Johnny a gnome

In a statement by Paramount and MGM the announcement: Johnny Depp will lead Sherlock Gnomes an animated movie produced by singer Elton John.

The past movie was Gnomeo & Juliet.

Main protagonists James McAvory and Emily Blunt.

In the new movies from the first details disclosed by the production the disappearance of a slew of gnomes.
Gnomeo and Juliet will answer positively at the request of legendary Sherlock Gnomes: to resolve the mystery with him.

The first flick a real success.

Anna Maria Polidori

Into the Woods Blu-Ray available soon

1-Disc Blu-Ray + Digital HD

 

 

Are you a big fan of Into the Woods? Have you seen the Broadway show and you have been an addicted one of the movie version as well? Very good. For you there is a wonderful news: very soon this next march 24th the movie Into the Woods, announced Disney, will be launched in Blu-Ray . This stunning movie received three nominations at the Academy Awards and it is the adaptation of the Broadway musical created by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine in 1987. Rob Marshall the director said to the press he decided to realize this movie for talking better to the families and kids of today, considering the Twin Towers Attacks and well, being so visionary, also the actual situation in the entire world, I guess. Families and kids and people in general are living a different reality respect to the ones of the past generations, unfortunately. Complexities are growing. Into the Woods wants maybe not to give an answer to all these problems but to trying to add a new light at this different world. I would invite everyone to buying this DVD. Actors performed here: Meryl Streep in the role of the Witch; Johnny Depp in the one of the Lascivious Wolf, Anna Kendrick, Emily Blunt, Chris Pine, James Corden. In the Blu-Ray pack will be possible to find: the original song written by Sondheim and not included in the movie: “She’ll be back” sang by Meryl Streep. This song reveals more about her relationship with Rapunzel. In the DVD  a special section regarding the creation of Into the Woods. Interview with Marshall and all the incredible creative people he was surrounded by. You will find other wagons of extras and informations and so: go for it. Take the hand of these creative people and accept the invite of all of them for going all together Into the Woods.

 

Anna Maria Polidori

Into the Woods: three Golden Globes!

The wonderful victory of a great team

 

As written before, the most prestigious colleagues invited to seeing a vision dedicated at the press and critics last nov 22nd agreed in writing and saying Into the Woods can be classified like a masterpiece, a superb work and highly probable could run for the Oscars.

Positive news in this sense are arriving from the Golden Globe Awards.

For the 72nd annual and very prestigious Golden Globe Awards a great news: the team composed by Rob Marshall, director of Into the Woods and previously of the musical Chicago, Stephen Sondheim creator of musics and lyrics of Into thw Woods, and  James Lapine, screenwriter, has “won” three nominations.

Best Picture, Best Actress (Emily Blunt) and Best supporting Actress (Meryl Streep).

 

Johnny Depp in this stunning movie plays the role of the Lascivious Wolf .

 

 

   

Into the Woods is a fairy-tale in the…fairy-tale. Written by Stephen Sondheim in fact in the late ’80s for Broadway where it obtained a wonderful success, the story is the one of a baker and his wife. The poor couple can’t have any children because cursed by a powerful and horrible witch. So, the idea of going “into the woods” for searching the witch, and breaking the curse. The travel is long and of course during a trip little or big there are many encounters at time with good  but also with nasty, weird, strange creatures. The two protagonists will meet some of the most beloved Brothers Grimm’s  characters like Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel. All these characters are searching for something or for someone. As said by Rob Marshall: this movie is perfect for the post 9/11 and it’s perfect and very actual for the modernity and families and children of our times. It is in particular analyzed byt this musical what happen to people after the moment of the “happily ever after”   . With surprising results.

 

It’s possible to pre-order the soundtrack of the movie Into the Woods, on stores this dec 16th.

 

The movie will be on theater the Christmas Day!

 

 

Anna Maria Polidori

Magical Into the Woods Premiere

Apart for the weird absence of Johnny Depp , (Johnny, dear Lascivious Wolf  where were you hided?)

all the cast was reunited yesterday night with ,  legendary Stephen Sondheim , creator of Broadway’s musical Into the Woods,  now a Disney movie.

This new Disney production will be released this Christmas Day! The premiere was at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City. Marc Platt and John DeLuca, producers of Into the Woods joined the cast in the night of celebration.

 

Movie screenplay has been written by James Lapine lyrics and musics by Stephen Sondheim.

 

A proud Rob Marshall introducing the actors and actresses worked in this latest Walt Disney Studios production in the picture above.

Tammy Blanchard, MacKenzie Mauzy, Daniel Huttlestone, Christine Baranski, Anna K, ÊJames Corden, Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep, Tracey Ullman, Lilla Crawford and Billy Magnussen

 

 

The story  is the one of the poor Baker and his Wife. The two still childless have been at some point cursed by a horrible witch  (Meryl Streep). They will decide so of trying to search for her and breaking this curse.

Along this trip Into the Woods they will meet other characters of other very beloved Brothers Grimm’s fairy-tales like for example Little Red Riding Hood, The Lascivious Wold, Cinderella and her Prince, Rapunzel etc.

Let’s remember that this DEC 16th will be released also the soundtrack of Into the Woods. The fans will firstly discover the movie in…..music!

Every character of this movie will search for a something and he/she is searching for some answers. What Rob Marshall wanted to analyze in particular was what happens after the end of a fairy-tale. The happily ever after…

According to director Marshall this movie is for the kids and parents of our times where there is a biggest complexity and the world is not anymore simple like it was in the past.

 

And now some pictures from the premiere of yesterday night.

 

Pictures are property of the official Into the Woods Facebook Page

 

 

Anna Maria Polidori

IMPRESSIVE Into the Woods

Director Marshall: “It deals with life and moving forward. I really feel Into the Woods is for kids and families of today”

 

Impressive.

 

(Johnny Depp    in the role of the Lascivious Wolf)

 

       

This one has been the wonderful and happy perception of the accredited critics and journalists after the vision of Into the Woods by Disney Studios this past week at the DGA New York Theater.

Rob Marshall, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Tracey Ullman, Christine Baranski and James Lapine, later would have answered to the various questions of the journalists in a Q&A session very participated.

As we all know there is nothing more important than good reviews from the press regarding a movie.

Good critics can make the difference in fact and if a movie is appreciated by the media, generally will be loved by people.

Online magazines are reporting that Disney Studios can fight for candidate some of the actors to the Oscars. In pole position of course Meryl Streep  in the role of the Witch, but Johnny Depp  as well in the category of Best Actor Non Protagonist for his role as the Lascivious Wolf. Disney can run for Best Movie and more as well. According many colleagues it is more than a possibility all of this because the movie is seriously, but seriously stunning.

The movie appears to be more meditative and darker in comparison with the original musical of Broadway according to the colleagues and their tweets after the vision but they all agreed thinking that Stephen Sondheim has been sublime.

 

Rob Marshall the director during the Q&A added why it was important to realize Into the Woods now. According to Marshall this one is an important fairy-tale for, in a way, remembering, not forgetting the trauma of the terroristic attacks at the World Trade Center sept 11th 2001  .

Later Marshall focused on kids of today, different from the ones we have been. More technological, they need to cope with problems at time bigger than them.

“I called Lapine and Sondheim and asked them: “Could we do this?” said Marshall during the press conference.

Kids: “They live in a much more unstable and fragile world than the one where I grew up”.

The topic of loss is extremely important in the movie and Marshall says: “It’s that theme of loss and how you move forward that struck me”.

Into the Woods will explore what happens to people after the famous: Happily Every After.
Director Marshall: “It deals with life and moving forward. I really feel this is for kids and families of today”.

 

 

 

Anna Maria Polidori

Into the Woods New Pictures

The Laviscious Wolf

 

A very convincing role this one of Johnny Depp as the Laviscious Wolf in the cinematographical Disney Studios musical adaptation of the Broadway comedy created with great success by Stephen Sondheim  Into the Woods. Stephen Sondheim wrote Into the Woods in 1987. It is a musical written using the “broken fairy-tale” structure. In fact there is a big mixture, a wonderful miscellaneous of various different fairy-tales characters, all reunited together for creating a magical special and dangerous atmosphere for the poor baker and his wife.
As told before a baker, (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) without any possibility of having a baby because cursed by a horrible witch (Meryl Streep), will start a long trip “Into the Woods”, for trying to defeat this horrible creature. They will meet along their trip characters like Cinderella (Anna Kendrick) , Rapunzel, portrayed by MacKenzie Mauzy and many many more fairy-tales characters.

 

Rob Marshall the director admitted: “I didn’t want this to look like a cartoon world. We wanted a sense of danger“.

And danger is everywhere.

In the while Meryl Streep confessed days ago to Entertainment Weekly: “I’ve been offered many witches over the years, starting when I was 40, and I said no to all of them. But this was really fun because it played with the notion of what witches mean. They represented age and ugliness and scary powers we don’t understand. So here’s my opportunity to say: here’s what you wish for when you’re getting old“.

 

 

New pictures of Johnny Depp as the Sensual Laviscious Wolf in some moment during the filming of the movie and in an official one.

 

  (Thanks to Lory for the pictures)

 

Into the Woods will be on theaters in the Usa the Christmas’ Day.

 

Anna Maria Polidori

 

Into the Woods: Trailer!

Disney released the first trailer of the new coming soon (Christmas’ Day) Into the Woods

 

From the   masterpiece by Sondheim the movie is starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp,

Chris Pine, directed by Rob Marshall and written by James Lapine.

Into the Woods is a tale mixing various fairy-tales characters. The result? An original story starting from a baker and his wife. The couple can’t have a baby, and at the same time is cursed by a terrible witch. Along the road for trying to defeat her, they will meet various incredible characters and some of them substantially different from the role originally “assigned” to them in the classic fairy-tale.

Enjoy this trailer!

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNVGDZHRJXM

 

 

 

Anna Maria Polidori

Into the Woods the new and wonderfully dreaming Walt Disney Production coming soon

Johnny in the role of the lascivious Wolf

Johnny Depp

will come soon with major productions. Four movies in total and three of these ones, apart Into the Woods, as main character of the story.

Into The Woods, a Disney’s production on December 2014, Charles Mortdecai Trilogy, Feb 6th 2015, Alice Through the looking Glass other Water Disney production on May 2015, Black Mass October 2015 and Pirates of the Carribean:5: Dead Men Tell No Tales a third Disney production on july 2016.

Into the Woods is a Walt Disney Production. The movie was directed by Rob Marshall and written by James Lapine. Music by David Krane. It cost 90 millions of dollars. It will be on theater the Christmas’ Day 2014.

Into the Woods is based on the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical by the same Lapine and Stephen Sondheim .

A great fantasy, a mix of various fairy-tales or better, a variety of characters taken by a lot of fairy-tales as it happens always more often in recent productions as we have seen from various years at this part.

An example for all?

Shrek, a big Dreamworks success where there was a melting pot of characters taken from various classic fairy-tales every kid I hope know.

In Into the Woods the various protagonists will be all united for helping the poor Baker and his wife fighting against the Witch, their common enemy. It’s in fact the story of a couple without children and a witch who cursed them once.

In technical term this one is a fractured fairy-tale for the reasons explained before.

The main actors and actresses will perform in the movie and their characters.

James Corden is the Baker, so the husband cursed with the Baker’s Wife Emily Blunt .

Of course there will be an enemy all together the good ones will have to defeat.

Disney has chosen the stunning Meryl Streep for the role of the Witch. Our Johnny Depp is the lascivious and seductive Wolf.

 

Anna Kendrick will perform Cinderella and Chris Pine Cinderella’s Prince. 

Daniel Huttlestone is Jack and   Tracey Ullman   Jack’s mom. Rapunzel will be Mackenzie Mauzy , Billy Magnussen Rapunzel’s prince. Christine Baranski the Wicked Stepmother, Tammy Blanchard Lucinda, Lilla Crawford Little Red Riding Hood, Richard Glover is the Steward, Frances de la Tour the Giant, Simon Rusell Beale is the baker’s father, Joanna Riding is Cinderella’s mom and Annette Crosbie is Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother.

It was an age the studios were interested to releasing a movie based on this musical and more than 15 years ago a first script was written by Lowell Ganz and Babbaloo Mandel with a cast included Robin Williams as the baker, Goldie Hawn as the baker’s wife, Cher as the Witch, Denny De Vito as the giant, Steve Martin in the role of the wolf, and Roseanne Barr as Jack’s mother.
Although other attempts took place a film adaptation of Into the Wood remained in stand-by for more than 15 years.

The movie directed by Rob Marshall has been filmed at London’s Shepperton Studios in september 2013 and other filming locations in Uk involved Dover Castle, Waverley Abbey, Richmond Park .

Rob Marshall was hired in January 2012 for directing a new adaptation of lnto the Woods. Lapine wrote the script and Stephen Sodheim new songs.

Anna Maria Polidori