It’s succession season at the UK’s National Theatre with Rufus Norris, the institution’s Artistic Director, announcing that he will step down in 2025 after a decade in the post.
“It’s good to keep leadership evolving,” Norris noted during a press conference at the National’s base on the south side of the River Thames, in the shadow of Waterloo Bridge.
The National’s board will determine Norris’s successor. They will cast a net far and wide and there’s an eagerness to end the white male hold on the Nt’s leadership.
Meanwhile, Norris has been getting on with the business of running the country’s flagship theatre company.
Nt Artistic Director Rufus Norris. Photo by Baz Bamigboye/Deadline.
Succession star Harriet Walter returns to the Nt to lead a new adaptation by Alice Birch of Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernardo Alba.
It...
“It’s good to keep leadership evolving,” Norris noted during a press conference at the National’s base on the south side of the River Thames, in the shadow of Waterloo Bridge.
The National’s board will determine Norris’s successor. They will cast a net far and wide and there’s an eagerness to end the white male hold on the Nt’s leadership.
Meanwhile, Norris has been getting on with the business of running the country’s flagship theatre company.
Nt Artistic Director Rufus Norris. Photo by Baz Bamigboye/Deadline.
Succession star Harriet Walter returns to the Nt to lead a new adaptation by Alice Birch of Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernardo Alba.
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- 6/15/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
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Calling Cruella: Disney’s latest collection with Givenchy has arrived. The French fashion house and the House of the Mouse have debuted a new capsule inspired by the original 101 Dalmatians film, marking the second limited-edition release from the two brands’ ongoing collaboration.
Priced from 230 to 5,320, the collection comprises women’s and men’s ready-to-wear, accessories, jewelry and pet goods starring Perdita, Pongo and their 98 playful pups. (Yes, four-pawed luxury lovers are having quite the fashion moment.) Givenchy’s iconic 4G motif gets the spotted treatment in embroidered wool cardigans, distressed denim jackets and slim-fit jeans, logo sweaters, jogger pants, leather carryalls, sneakers, printed cotton jersey basics, reversible bucket hats, baseball caps and more. Statement pieces such as printed leather varsity jackets,...
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Calling Cruella: Disney’s latest collection with Givenchy has arrived. The French fashion house and the House of the Mouse have debuted a new capsule inspired by the original 101 Dalmatians film, marking the second limited-edition release from the two brands’ ongoing collaboration.
Priced from 230 to 5,320, the collection comprises women’s and men’s ready-to-wear, accessories, jewelry and pet goods starring Perdita, Pongo and their 98 playful pups. (Yes, four-pawed luxury lovers are having quite the fashion moment.) Givenchy’s iconic 4G motif gets the spotted treatment in embroidered wool cardigans, distressed denim jackets and slim-fit jeans, logo sweaters, jogger pants, leather carryalls, sneakers, printed cotton jersey basics, reversible bucket hats, baseball caps and more. Statement pieces such as printed leather varsity jackets,...
- 7/6/2022
- by Danielle Directo-Meston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Since Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland grabbed handfuls of eat me cake to become a ginormous box office smash, Disney have really started their live-action remake train rolling. It seems that with each passing year we have armfuls of new live-action remakes/reboots/prequels/sequels of their animated classics being primed for release. Thus far the results have been consistently enjoyable, if varying, with the finest probably being Jon Favreau’s incredible The Jungle Book in 2016. But, shockingly, their latest offering, Cruella, just might be the best since that point.
Much like Robert Stromberg’s Maleficent, you might say it was a somewhat challenging task to take one of Disney’s nastiest and most iconic villains and make a film about her origins. Naturally people will struggle to have sympathy for an attempted puppy killing fashion magnate, but Craig Gillespie’s very very pleasant surprise Cruella, does something a little different with the material.
Much like Robert Stromberg’s Maleficent, you might say it was a somewhat challenging task to take one of Disney’s nastiest and most iconic villains and make a film about her origins. Naturally people will struggle to have sympathy for an attempted puppy killing fashion magnate, but Craig Gillespie’s very very pleasant surprise Cruella, does something a little different with the material.
- 7/7/2021
- by Jack Bottomley
- The Cultural Post
One of the most infamous villains in Disney’s storied history is Cruella de Vil, the wickedly evil heiress and socialite who obsessively wanted to make a coat from the fur of puppies in 1961’s One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Based on a novel by Dodie Smith, the animated classic introduced Cruella as a fully formed monster, intent on skinning all 101 of the title Dalmatians for her own personal luxury.
Cruella became such an instant symbol of vanity, greed, and malevolence that she has appeared in the decades since in a number of animated and live-action sequels and spin-offs, with Glenn Close most notably playing her in two live-action films in 1996 and 2000. But with Disney in recent years launching a successful series of live-action prequels and remakes based on their iconic animated films, such as Maleficent, the studio decided the time had come to explore Cruella’s little-known background.
The result is Cruella,...
Cruella became such an instant symbol of vanity, greed, and malevolence that she has appeared in the decades since in a number of animated and live-action sequels and spin-offs, with Glenn Close most notably playing her in two live-action films in 1996 and 2000. But with Disney in recent years launching a successful series of live-action prequels and remakes based on their iconic animated films, such as Maleficent, the studio decided the time had come to explore Cruella’s little-known background.
The result is Cruella,...
- 5/30/2021
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Disney’s Emma Stone-starring Cruella — in theaters and on Disney+ Premier Access on May 28 — will be the third live-action spinoff of the 1961 animated classic, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, itself based on the 1956 Dodie Smith novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians.
The first, 1996’s 101 Dalmatians, was the studio’s second attempt at turning a hand-drawn property into flesh and blood (its first was 1994’s The Jungle Book, which was later remade by Jon Favreau in 2016). Disney then-chairman Joe Roth championed Dalmatians, seeing a profitable path in live-action remakes (and how right he was). The legendary John Hughes wrote ...
The first, 1996’s 101 Dalmatians, was the studio’s second attempt at turning a hand-drawn property into flesh and blood (its first was 1994’s The Jungle Book, which was later remade by Jon Favreau in 2016). Disney then-chairman Joe Roth championed Dalmatians, seeing a profitable path in live-action remakes (and how right he was). The legendary John Hughes wrote ...
- 5/28/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Disney’s Emma Stone-starring Cruella — in theaters and on Disney+ Premier Access on May 28 — will be the third live-action spinoff of the 1961 animated classic, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, itself based on the 1956 Dodie Smith novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians.
The first, 1996’s 101 Dalmatians, was the studio’s second attempt at turning a hand-drawn property into flesh and blood (its first was 1994’s The Jungle Book, which was later remade by Jon Favreau in 2016). Disney then-chairman Joe Roth championed Dalmatians, seeing a profitable path in live-action remakes (and how right he was). The legendary John Hughes wrote ...
The first, 1996’s 101 Dalmatians, was the studio’s second attempt at turning a hand-drawn property into flesh and blood (its first was 1994’s The Jungle Book, which was later remade by Jon Favreau in 2016). Disney then-chairman Joe Roth championed Dalmatians, seeing a profitable path in live-action remakes (and how right he was). The legendary John Hughes wrote ...
- 5/28/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Your name is Estella,” her mother says. “Not Cruella.” Not yet, anyway. Disney’s Cruella, headlined by Emma Stone, is named for its would-be villain rather than for the 90-something Dalmatian puppies she’s tried to dognap in the name of fashion, time and again, over the years. The original Cruella would probably have preferred a biopic more akin to The Devil Wears Pongo. But in line with Maleficent, another of Disney’s recent villain revamps, it’s our old ideas about these bad guys — these bad women — that are...
- 5/26/2021
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
Dodie Smith's 1956 children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians originally introduced the world to Cruella de Vil, a fashion-obsessed heiress who kidnaps a litter of Dalmatian puppies to create a spotted fur coat. When Walt Disney read the book back in 1957, he immediately obtained the rights and assigned Bill Peet to write the animated adaptation. 1961's 101 Dalmatians was a worldwide box office success, so much so that it was re-issued to cinemas four times: in 1969, 1979, 1985, and 1991. In 1996, Disney released a live-action version, starring Glenn Close as the iconic fashion criminal. Both the animated film and the live-action movie have spawned sequels, but now the franchise's villain is getting her own origin story with Cruella, starring the Academy Award winner Emma Stone. Directed by Craig Gillespie from a screenplay by Dana Fox and Tony McNamara, Cruella ...
- 5/26/2021
- by Adam Frazier
- firstshowing.net
“Cruella” is loaded with pop-song needle drops throughout, but it’s the oft-used Rolling Stones hit at the end that ties it all together: The studio that gave us “Maleficent” and the director of “I, Tonya” have teamed up to rehabilitate yet another villain, in a film that could have just as easily been titled “Sympathy for the de Vil.”
Yes, the dastardly fashionista who wanted to skin 101 Dalmatians just to make a coat has been officially retrofitted here, but there’s plenty to enjoy if you don’t mind the fact that this new version of the character eschews fur, canine or otherwise, and doesn’t even smoke. Purists may balk, but viewers who think of this less as a reboot of Dodie Smith’s memorable monster and more as a Disney spin on Derek Jarman’s “Jubilee” for gay 8-year-olds will find “Cruella” to be flashy fun, even...
Yes, the dastardly fashionista who wanted to skin 101 Dalmatians just to make a coat has been officially retrofitted here, but there’s plenty to enjoy if you don’t mind the fact that this new version of the character eschews fur, canine or otherwise, and doesn’t even smoke. Purists may balk, but viewers who think of this less as a reboot of Dodie Smith’s memorable monster and more as a Disney spin on Derek Jarman’s “Jubilee” for gay 8-year-olds will find “Cruella” to be flashy fun, even...
- 5/26/2021
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Cruella Intentions: Gillespie Recuperates Another Villainess in Perky Origin Story
Those familiar with a particular period of pseudo-morbid live-action Disney productions from the 1970s and 1980s (a now extinct brand of enjoyably angsty YA proliferations which provided a gleeful segue from evaporated innocence through obstacle littered journeys to adulthood) might find themselves pleasantly surprised by the almost impossible feat pulled off by Craig Gillespie’s Cruella—it’s both poignant and enjoyable without divorcing itself from the dark tendencies of its origins.
In a world where nearly every studio feature is irrevocably neutered in an effort to appeal to everyone, Gillespie’s offering rides high on the swagger of Emma Stone, who exudes warmth and compassion while travelling the trauma to her dark side.…...
Those familiar with a particular period of pseudo-morbid live-action Disney productions from the 1970s and 1980s (a now extinct brand of enjoyably angsty YA proliferations which provided a gleeful segue from evaporated innocence through obstacle littered journeys to adulthood) might find themselves pleasantly surprised by the almost impossible feat pulled off by Craig Gillespie’s Cruella—it’s both poignant and enjoyable without divorcing itself from the dark tendencies of its origins.
In a world where nearly every studio feature is irrevocably neutered in an effort to appeal to everyone, Gillespie’s offering rides high on the swagger of Emma Stone, who exudes warmth and compassion while travelling the trauma to her dark side.…...
- 5/26/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
If Emma Stone as Cruella De Vil doesn’t scare you, no evil thing will. Disney released the first full trailer for “Cruella” on Wednesday, the live-action prequel story about how a young Cruella came up in the fashion world to one day hope to skin puppies alive for their fur coats.
Brace yourself, Dalmatians.
Co-starring along Emma Stone in “Cruella” are Emma Thompson, Mark Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Emily Beechem, Joel Fry and Kirby Howell-Baptiste.
Stone has some big shoes to fill as Glenn Close has already given a memorable turn as a live-action Cruella in 1996’s “101 Dalmatians,” but this film has the backing of “I, Tonya” director Craig Gillespie as well as a screenplay by Dana Fox (“How to Be Single”) and Tony McNamara. Aline Brosh McKenna, Kelly Marcel and Steve Zississ conceived of the story based on the novel by Dodie Smith.
This version of Cruella...
Brace yourself, Dalmatians.
Co-starring along Emma Stone in “Cruella” are Emma Thompson, Mark Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Emily Beechem, Joel Fry and Kirby Howell-Baptiste.
Stone has some big shoes to fill as Glenn Close has already given a memorable turn as a live-action Cruella in 1996’s “101 Dalmatians,” but this film has the backing of “I, Tonya” director Craig Gillespie as well as a screenplay by Dana Fox (“How to Be Single”) and Tony McNamara. Aline Brosh McKenna, Kelly Marcel and Steve Zississ conceived of the story based on the novel by Dodie Smith.
This version of Cruella...
- 2/17/2021
- by Brian Welk and Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
New photos from the set of Disney’s Cruella give us a fresh look at Emma Stone portraying the villainous Cruella de Vil in all her wickedness and depravity.
The Mouse House’s continuous trend of remaking their classic movies in the form of live-action will take an interesting turn with the return of Cruella de Vil in an all-new origins story about the events that led to her becoming a monster. We’re still unsure as to how Cruella will be portrayed though, whether in a manner that humanizes her, much like Maleficent, or in a scenario that sets her up as an antagonist for future movies.
With almost two years to the film’s premiere, there isn’t a whole lot of information to share. A first look at Cruella de Vil was released during D23 though and reports indicated the movie will take place in 70s London.
The Mouse House’s continuous trend of remaking their classic movies in the form of live-action will take an interesting turn with the return of Cruella de Vil in an all-new origins story about the events that led to her becoming a monster. We’re still unsure as to how Cruella will be portrayed though, whether in a manner that humanizes her, much like Maleficent, or in a scenario that sets her up as an antagonist for future movies.
With almost two years to the film’s premiere, there isn’t a whole lot of information to share. A first look at Cruella de Vil was released during D23 though and reports indicated the movie will take place in 70s London.
- 11/5/2019
- by Jonathan Wright
- We Got This Covered
[This Halloween season, we're paying tribute to classic horror cinema by celebrating films released before 1970! Check back on Daily Dead this month for more retrospectives on classic horror films, and visit our online hub to catch up on all of our Halloween 2019 special features!]
The Uninvited is a supernatural film from 1944. Though it has garnered praise both then and now for its stunning cinematography, marvelous cast and effects work used to bring the story’s ghost to the screen, it is a film that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough, and would be very at home on anyone’s October viewing list.
Written by Dodie Smith and Frank Partos (based on a novel by Dorothy Macardle) and directed by Lewis Allen, the film follows siblings Rick (Ray Milland) and Pamela Fitzgerald (Ruth Hussey) on a seaside vacation where they happen upon an old abandoned house. They immediately fall in love with the property, and inquire about buying it. The owner, Commander Beech (Donald Crisp), is more than happy to sell and offers the house at a very low price. His granddaughter, Stella (Gail Russell), is less than thrilled about the sale. The house...
The Uninvited is a supernatural film from 1944. Though it has garnered praise both then and now for its stunning cinematography, marvelous cast and effects work used to bring the story’s ghost to the screen, it is a film that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough, and would be very at home on anyone’s October viewing list.
Written by Dodie Smith and Frank Partos (based on a novel by Dorothy Macardle) and directed by Lewis Allen, the film follows siblings Rick (Ray Milland) and Pamela Fitzgerald (Ruth Hussey) on a seaside vacation where they happen upon an old abandoned house. They immediately fall in love with the property, and inquire about buying it. The owner, Commander Beech (Donald Crisp), is more than happy to sell and offers the house at a very low price. His granddaughter, Stella (Gail Russell), is less than thrilled about the sale. The house...
- 10/22/2019
- by Emily von Seele
- DailyDead
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre have today announced their 2020 season which opens with their first newly commissioned musical, 101 Dalmatians 16 May a' 21 June, based on Dodie Smith's iconic story set in the heart of Regent's Park with book by Zinnie Harris and music and lyrics by Douglas Hodge. The production is directed by Timothy Sheader, with puppetry designed and directed by Toby Oli. Also confirmed are Katrina Lindsay Set and Costume Designer, Liam Steel Choreographer, Sarah Travis Musical Supervisor and Orchestrator, Howard Hudson Lighting Designer and Tarek Merchant Musical Director. Casting is by Jill Green, with children's casting by Verity Naughton.
- 9/11/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Pop star Paloma Faith will voice Portia Poodle and actor Miriam Margolyes Bessie the Cornish Cow in “101 Dalmatian Street,” Disney Channel’s upcoming animated series. The pair will guest star in the show, with Josh Brener (“Silicon Valley”) and Michaela Dietz (“Steven Universe”) taking the regular lead roles of sibling dalmatians Dylan and Dolly.
Ben Bailey Smith, Tameka Empson and Bethan Wright will also lend their voices to the series, which will bow in the U.K. before appearing on Disney Channel in the U.S. and around the world.
Disney Channel U.K. will show a special episode of the series in Dec. to introduce its viewers to the the show, before it launches proper in 2019.
Inspired by Dodie Smith’s 1956 novel and Walt Disney’s 1961 film, “101 Dalmatian Street” is set in the modern day, in the London borough of Camden. The series follows the adventures of Dylan and Dolly,...
Ben Bailey Smith, Tameka Empson and Bethan Wright will also lend their voices to the series, which will bow in the U.K. before appearing on Disney Channel in the U.S. and around the world.
Disney Channel U.K. will show a special episode of the series in Dec. to introduce its viewers to the the show, before it launches proper in 2019.
Inspired by Dodie Smith’s 1956 novel and Walt Disney’s 1961 film, “101 Dalmatian Street” is set in the modern day, in the London borough of Camden. The series follows the adventures of Dylan and Dolly,...
- 10/31/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Ruth Hussey, Ray Milland, Gail Russell, Donald Crisp, Barbara Everest | Written by Frank Partos, Dodie Smith | Directed by Lewis Allen
“Be afraid. Be afraid, for heaven’s sake.” This line may have inspired Geena Davis’s famous warning from David Cronenberg’s The Fly. Indeed, this 1944 groundbreaker provides a reference point for many a horror movie since. While The Uninvited may not chill you to the bone, it is a reminder that not everything in the horror genre prior to Jack Clayton’s The Innocents relied on spooky stageplay castles and camp.
Adapted from the novel by Dorothy Macardle and directed by feature debutant Lewis Allen, the narrative is for the most part a vehicle for exposition. In that way it’s more suited to the page or the radio play format; but the plot is intriguing enough, the performances are effective, and there are some creepy images and ideas.
“Be afraid. Be afraid, for heaven’s sake.” This line may have inspired Geena Davis’s famous warning from David Cronenberg’s The Fly. Indeed, this 1944 groundbreaker provides a reference point for many a horror movie since. While The Uninvited may not chill you to the bone, it is a reminder that not everything in the horror genre prior to Jack Clayton’s The Innocents relied on spooky stageplay castles and camp.
Adapted from the novel by Dorothy Macardle and directed by feature debutant Lewis Allen, the narrative is for the most part a vehicle for exposition. In that way it’s more suited to the page or the radio play format; but the plot is intriguing enough, the performances are effective, and there are some creepy images and ideas.
- 10/12/2018
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
Ghosts are famous for their flexibility, spiraling through keyholes and up from the floorboards in search of their next mark. But movies about ghosts can be flexible too. Three classics of the genre, The Uninvited, House on Haunted Hill and The Innocents, demonstrate that there’s more than one way haunt a house.
These films never appeared on any triple bill that I know of, but I’d like to think they did, somewhere in some small town with a theater manager that knew a good scare when he saw it. How could the programmer resist it? Each film is united by a beautiful black and white sheen, eerie locales and their ability to scare the bejeezus out of you. But they’re also alike in their differences, coming at their specters from distinctly different vantage points.
1944’s The Uninvited, a three-hankie haunted house tale with a dysfunctional family subplot,...
These films never appeared on any triple bill that I know of, but I’d like to think they did, somewhere in some small town with a theater manager that knew a good scare when he saw it. How could the programmer resist it? Each film is united by a beautiful black and white sheen, eerie locales and their ability to scare the bejeezus out of you. But they’re also alike in their differences, coming at their specters from distinctly different vantage points.
1944’s The Uninvited, a three-hankie haunted house tale with a dysfunctional family subplot,...
- 10/28/2017
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-ho has delivered a wonderful film comparable to Et or Roald Dahl in this story of a 13-year-old girl and her outsize pet
How can this movie’s producer - Netflix - ever be content with just letting it go on the small screen? Apart from everything else, the digital effects are spectacular and the visual images beautiful. It’s a terrible waste to shrink them to an iPad.
Okja is a Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s new “creature feature”, rather like his 2006 film The Host. But it’s also a lovely family action-adventure about a girl and the giant hippoesque pig, named Okja, that she has come to love like family. This exciting, charming, sweet-natured movie gives its audience heartmeltingly tender moments showing us their magical life together in the Korean mountains. Then it whooshes us to New York City and a world of cynicism, menace and danger.
How can this movie’s producer - Netflix - ever be content with just letting it go on the small screen? Apart from everything else, the digital effects are spectacular and the visual images beautiful. It’s a terrible waste to shrink them to an iPad.
Okja is a Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s new “creature feature”, rather like his 2006 film The Host. But it’s also a lovely family action-adventure about a girl and the giant hippoesque pig, named Okja, that she has come to love like family. This exciting, charming, sweet-natured movie gives its audience heartmeltingly tender moments showing us their magical life together in the Korean mountains. Then it whooshes us to New York City and a world of cynicism, menace and danger.
- 5/19/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
A version of this article originally appeared on ew.com.
Emma Watson loves to read.
The actress has that in common with her brainy Harry Potter character Hermione as well as bookish Belle, who she plays in the much-anticipated film Beauty and the Beast, out March 17. In addition to being a bookworm, Watson is also an outspoken feminist and as well as a Un Women Goodwill Ambassador and promoter of the organization’s HeForShe movement, which is dedicated to recruiting men into the movement for gender equality. As a response to her work with the Un, she launched the feminist...
Emma Watson loves to read.
The actress has that in common with her brainy Harry Potter character Hermione as well as bookish Belle, who she plays in the much-anticipated film Beauty and the Beast, out March 17. In addition to being a bookworm, Watson is also an outspoken feminist and as well as a Un Women Goodwill Ambassador and promoter of the organization’s HeForShe movement, which is dedicated to recruiting men into the movement for gender equality. As a response to her work with the Un, she launched the feminist...
- 2/21/2017
- by Madeline Raynor
- PEOPLE.com
Joseph Baxter May 7, 2019
Cruella will see Oscar winner Emma Stone play the dalmatian-coat-coveting Disney villainess, Cruella de Vil.
Disney continues to power through a drive to produce live-action versions of the myriad classic animated features it's amassed over the better part of the last century. Recent examples include 2014’s Malificent, 2015’s Cinderella, 2016’s The Jungle Book and 2017's Beauty and the Beast, as well as imminent offerings in Aladdin and The Lion King, amongst others. However, one such offering, Cruella, is a prequel of sorts to the traditional story of 101 Dalmatians, which will see Emma Stone playing the ruthlessly avaricious Cruella de Vil.
Cruella will be directed by Craig Gillespie, who recently led star Margot Robbie to Oscar-nominated glory in the biopic, I, Tonya. He works off a screenplay recently rewritten by Jez Butterworth (Spectre).
In the latest Cruella news, Disney has finally dropped a release date.
Cruella Release...
Cruella will see Oscar winner Emma Stone play the dalmatian-coat-coveting Disney villainess, Cruella de Vil.
Disney continues to power through a drive to produce live-action versions of the myriad classic animated features it's amassed over the better part of the last century. Recent examples include 2014’s Malificent, 2015’s Cinderella, 2016’s The Jungle Book and 2017's Beauty and the Beast, as well as imminent offerings in Aladdin and The Lion King, amongst others. However, one such offering, Cruella, is a prequel of sorts to the traditional story of 101 Dalmatians, which will see Emma Stone playing the ruthlessly avaricious Cruella de Vil.
Cruella will be directed by Craig Gillespie, who recently led star Margot Robbie to Oscar-nominated glory in the biopic, I, Tonya. He works off a screenplay recently rewritten by Jez Butterworth (Spectre).
In the latest Cruella news, Disney has finally dropped a release date.
Cruella Release...
- 12/14/2016
- Den of Geek
Cruella: Emma Stone is in early negotiations to portray the titular role in Disney's upcoming live-action movie Cruella. The character first appeared in Dodie Smith's novel, published in 1956, and became famous as a villain in Disney's 1961 animated 101 Dalmatians; Glenn Close played her in two live-action movies in 1996 and 2000. Kelly Marcel (Saving Mr. Banks, Fifty Shades of Grey) is writing a new draft of the script. [Heat Vision] Ready Player One: Ben Mendelsohn, who is playing a villainous character in the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, is in early talks to play a villain in Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. The movie is based on Ernest Cline's popular book about a treasure hunt in a virtual world. If the talks are successful...
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- 1/7/2016
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
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- 1/7/2016
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Hide your pups! 101 Dalmatians villain Cruella de Vil is getting her own live-action film, aptly entitled Cruella, the Hollywood Reporter confirmed on Monday, Oct. 12. According to the site, Aline Brosh McKenna — who penned The Devil Wears Prada — has been hired to take on the fur coat-obsessed character. (Disney previously tackled Sleeping Beauty's villain, Maleficent, in the 2014 movie of the same name. Angelina Jolie is set to reprise the role in Maleficent 2.) Cruella de Vil first made viewers' skin crawl in Dodie Smith's [...]...
- 10/13/2015
- Us Weekly
Disney Pictures is reportedly fast-tracking "Cruella," a live-action feature about the villainess from the "101 Dalmatians" films Cruella de Vil.
"Saving Mr. Banks" and "Fifty Shades of Grey" screenwriter Kelly Marcel is attached to write the project which is expected to be one of the four untitled Disney live-action fantasy films that were announced this week as part of their upcoming film slate through to the year 2020.
"Togetherness" co-creator Steve Zissis is also working on the story for the film. Marcel and Zissis take over from Aline Brosh McKenna who was said to have done some work on an early version of the script.
De Vil first appeared in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel which served as the basis for the 1961 animated movie. Glenn Close memorably played the character in the 1996 "101 Dalmatians" live-action film and its sequel, while Victoria Smurfit has recently been portraying the character on ABC's "Once Upon a Time...
"Saving Mr. Banks" and "Fifty Shades of Grey" screenwriter Kelly Marcel is attached to write the project which is expected to be one of the four untitled Disney live-action fantasy films that were announced this week as part of their upcoming film slate through to the year 2020.
"Togetherness" co-creator Steve Zissis is also working on the story for the film. Marcel and Zissis take over from Aline Brosh McKenna who was said to have done some work on an early version of the script.
De Vil first appeared in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel which served as the basis for the 1961 animated movie. Glenn Close memorably played the character in the 1996 "101 Dalmatians" live-action film and its sequel, while Victoria Smurfit has recently been portraying the character on ABC's "Once Upon a Time...
- 10/9/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Disney’s Diamond Edition releases have been brilliant additions to your collection, and the 101 Dalmatians Diamond Edition is no different.
A film that not only stands up, and is one of the most treasured Disney films, but one that provided a serious boost to Disney when it needed it most, 101 Dalmatians is a must own.
The film needs no introduction, nor does its love-to-hate villain, but it must be noted that this is one of the earliest Disney films that kids today still really fall in love with. I’m using my own, small focus group there, but whereas there is some appreciation for pre-1960 Disney films, they aren’t generally titles that are the subject of the, “Can we! Can we!” dance. Not so with 101 Dalmatians, which still pulls kids of a wide range of ages in.
The real question here is the bonus content of a new release,...
A film that not only stands up, and is one of the most treasured Disney films, but one that provided a serious boost to Disney when it needed it most, 101 Dalmatians is a must own.
The film needs no introduction, nor does its love-to-hate villain, but it must be noted that this is one of the earliest Disney films that kids today still really fall in love with. I’m using my own, small focus group there, but whereas there is some appreciation for pre-1960 Disney films, they aren’t generally titles that are the subject of the, “Can we! Can we!” dance. Not so with 101 Dalmatians, which still pulls kids of a wide range of ages in.
The real question here is the bonus content of a new release,...
- 2/13/2015
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Pick your favorite spot to watch—anytime and anywhere—and get ready for a fun-filled adventure with the Diamond Edition of 101 Dalmatians! Pongo, Perdita and their super-adorable puppies are in for thrills, hilarious spills and an epic action-packed adventure when they face off with Cruella De Vil, Disney’s most fabulously outrageous villainess. When Cruella dognaps all of the Dalmatian puppies in London, brave animal heroes launch a daring plan to save all puppies from Cruella’s clutches! Unleash all the excitement and suspense of Disney’s 101 Dalmatians, a beloved classic you’ll want to share with your family again and again!
Cast: Rod Taylor (Inglorious Bastards, The Birds) as Pongo, J. Pat O’Malley (The Jungle Book, Alice in Wonderland) as Jasper and Betty Lou Gerson (The Fly, Cats Don’t Dance) as Cruella de Vil
Producer: Walt Disney
Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton S. Luske and Clyde Geronimi
Writers: Story by Bill Peet.
Cast: Rod Taylor (Inglorious Bastards, The Birds) as Pongo, J. Pat O’Malley (The Jungle Book, Alice in Wonderland) as Jasper and Betty Lou Gerson (The Fly, Cats Don’t Dance) as Cruella de Vil
Producer: Walt Disney
Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton S. Luske and Clyde Geronimi
Writers: Story by Bill Peet.
- 11/4/2014
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
Ivor Novello last film: 'Autumn Crocus' (photo: Ivor Novello and Fay Compton in 'Autumn Crocus') Can a plain looking, naive spinster school teacher ever find real love in faraway places? This was a question asked by Shirley Booth in Arthur Laurents' 1952 stage play The Time of the Cuckoo; Katharine Hepburn in the 1955 David Lean-directed film version, Summertime (1955); and Elizabeth Allen in the 1965 Richard Rodgers-Steven Sondheim musical adaptation, Do I Hear a Waltz? Can such a woman's yearning for romance ever be satisfied? "Yes" and "No," according to Basil Dean's fine 1934 British film Autumn Crocus, which marked the last film appearance of British stage and screen superstar Ivor Novello (Alfred Hitchcok's The Lodger). Autumn Crocus starts out during the holiday season, when two British schoolteachers decide to spend their vacation together on the Continent. Soft-hearted Jenny Grey (Fay Compton) longs to see the Austrian Alps,...
- 10/29/2014
- by Danny Fortune
- Alt Film Guide
Someone cough up a green star because Disney is officially in the recycling business now.
For its latest reduce-and-reuse effort, the studio's set its sights on "101 Dalmations" as a live-action movie, giving the pooch-thieving villainess Cruella de Vil the spotlight.
As they've done with "Sleeping Beauty" and the Angelina Jolie-driven "Maleficent" reinterpretation, Disney intends to name this re-telling after its resident evil thing, calling it simply "Cruella." Because of course they are.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, "The Devil Wears Prada" scribe Aline Brosh McKenna, also responsible for Disney's "Cinderella" reboot screenplay — which probably didn't suit the name-it-after-the-mean-girl theme since who'd watch a movie called "Lady Tremaine"? — has been hired to transform the Dodie Smith novel and 1961 animated classic for live-action treatment.
This shouldn't be too terribly hard to do for McKenna, since John Hughes already did that exact thing in 1996, with Glenn Close starring as the two-tone-fur-loving baddie. Interestingly enough,...
For its latest reduce-and-reuse effort, the studio's set its sights on "101 Dalmations" as a live-action movie, giving the pooch-thieving villainess Cruella de Vil the spotlight.
As they've done with "Sleeping Beauty" and the Angelina Jolie-driven "Maleficent" reinterpretation, Disney intends to name this re-telling after its resident evil thing, calling it simply "Cruella." Because of course they are.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, "The Devil Wears Prada" scribe Aline Brosh McKenna, also responsible for Disney's "Cinderella" reboot screenplay — which probably didn't suit the name-it-after-the-mean-girl theme since who'd watch a movie called "Lady Tremaine"? — has been hired to transform the Dodie Smith novel and 1961 animated classic for live-action treatment.
This shouldn't be too terribly hard to do for McKenna, since John Hughes already did that exact thing in 1996, with Glenn Close starring as the two-tone-fur-loving baddie. Interestingly enough,...
- 10/1/2013
- by Amanda Bell
- NextMovie
The Mouse House is spinning their fairy-tale classics into live-action box-office gold faster than Rumpelstiltskin. Next May, Walt Disney Studios will release Maleficent, told from the perspective of Sleeping Beauty‘s purple-robed villain with Angelina Jolie in the starring role. A live-action Cinderella movie, directed by Kenneth Branagh, is in production as well and has its sights set for a 2015 release. Disney is also making an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Into the Woods – a story that features characters like Jack (from his beanstalk fame) and Little Red Riding Hood. Oh, and television affiliate ABC has hit it big with the similarly-themed Once Upon a Time.
The Disney Vault is being opened further to creative live-action variations of other studio classics – even those that have already received the treatment. Yesterday, the studio announced that Cruella de Vil, the cleverly-named fur-hunting antagonist from 101 Dalmatians, will get a solo feature. Glenn Close,...
The Disney Vault is being opened further to creative live-action variations of other studio classics – even those that have already received the treatment. Yesterday, the studio announced that Cruella de Vil, the cleverly-named fur-hunting antagonist from 101 Dalmatians, will get a solo feature. Glenn Close,...
- 10/1/2013
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Disney has begun preparation on Cruella, a live-action adaptation of Creulla de Vil. This villain was first made famous in Dodie Smith’s 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians but became a Disney icon with the 1961 animated movie. Aline Brosh McKenna has been hired to pen Cruella, which will bring the dog-fur-loving fashionista [...]
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- 10/1/2013
- by Kimberly Behzadi
- Film-Book
Disney is currently at work on "Maleficent," a new movie focusing on the villain from "Sleeping Beauty." And now comes word that the company is developing a live-action movie based another famous Disney villain, Cruella de Vil. De Vil first appeared in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel "The Hundred and One Dalmatians," but became a Disney icon with the 1961 animated movie. And it's not the character's first incarnation in a live-action feature. Glenn Close memorably played the character in 1996's "101 Dalmatians" and the 2000 sequel, "102 Dalmatians." Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada) has been hired to write the script for "Cruella," which will be produced by Andrew Gunn (Sky High, Bedtime Stories) and Glenn Close.
- 10/1/2013
- WorstPreviews.com
The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Disney is moving forward with a solo film for Cruella de Vil, aptly titled Cruella. The studio has chosen Aline Brosh McKenna (We Bought A Zoo, The Devil Wears Prada, 27 Dresses) has been hired to pen the script.
de Vil is the villain in Dodie Smith’s book The One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Disney adapted the book into the 1961 animated classic 101 Dalmatians and the live action 1996 film, which was followed by the 2000 sequel 102 Dalmatians. Glenn Close played de Vil in both live action films, but I’m guessing Disney is going to want someone a little younger this time around.
There’s no word on a director or casting, but that will come together once the script is finished.
What do you think?
Source: THR
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de Vil is the villain in Dodie Smith’s book The One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Disney adapted the book into the 1961 animated classic 101 Dalmatians and the live action 1996 film, which was followed by the 2000 sequel 102 Dalmatians. Glenn Close played de Vil in both live action films, but I’m guessing Disney is going to want someone a little younger this time around.
There’s no word on a director or casting, but that will come together once the script is finished.
What do you think?
Source: THR
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- 10/1/2013
- by Philip Sticco
- LRMonline.com
After decades of giving princesses the spotlight, now Disney appears to be on a mission to highlight some of their greatest animated villains. Next year we will get to see the untold story behind Sleeping Beauty when Angelina Jolie puts on the pointy hat of the title character in Maleficent, and today The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the studio is generating yet another antagonist-based live-action movie and are now moving forward with Cruella, a film about the evil Cruella de Vil of 101 Dalmatians. Aline Brosh McKenna, who also wrote the script for the upcoming Kenneth Branagh-directed adaptation of Cinderella, has been hired to write the script for the movie, though at this time all story details are being kept under wraps. First created in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel "The Hundred and One Dalmatians," Cruella de Vil is a fashion-obsessed woman who will do just about anything to get...
- 9/30/2013
- cinemablend.com
Disney is bringing their Sleeping Beauty villain Maleficent to life with a live-action feature film starring Angelina Jolie, and the House of Mouse has their eyes set on another iconic villain from their animated history for the same treatment. THR has word that the studio has hired their live-action Cinderella writer Aline Brosh McKenna to write Cruella, bringing the 101 Dalmatians villainess Cruella de Vil to the big screen again. The villain comes from the 1956 novel by Dodie Smith, and was brought to life in Disney's animated film in 1961, but this won't be the first time Cruella de Vil has gone from animation to live-action. Back in 1996, Glenn Close masterfully brought the smoking fashionista to life in the live-action version of 101 Dalmatians, and reprised her role in the unnecessary sequel 102 Dalmatians in 2000. We're not sure how this tale that will focus solely on the dog-fur-loving maniac will unfold and Disney is...
- 9/30/2013
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
A live-action film centring on Cruella de Vil is in development at Disney.
Aline Brosh McKenna, writer of the studio's upcoming Cinderella, has been hired to work on Cruella, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Joe Roth will serve as producer on the film, after previously working on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Oz the Great and Powerful and upcoming release Maleficent.
Glenn Close previously played Cruella in the live-action version of 101 Dalmations in 1996 and its 2000 sequel 102 Dalmations.
The character first appeared in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians and later in the 1961 animated Disney adaptation.
McKenna and Roth have worked together on the live-action adaptation of Cinderella, which recently began principal photography.
Downton Abbey star Lily James will play the title role and Kenneth Branagh is directing. It is scheduled for release in 2015.
Aline Brosh McKenna, writer of the studio's upcoming Cinderella, has been hired to work on Cruella, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Joe Roth will serve as producer on the film, after previously working on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Oz the Great and Powerful and upcoming release Maleficent.
Glenn Close previously played Cruella in the live-action version of 101 Dalmations in 1996 and its 2000 sequel 102 Dalmations.
The character first appeared in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians and later in the 1961 animated Disney adaptation.
McKenna and Roth have worked together on the live-action adaptation of Cinderella, which recently began principal photography.
Downton Abbey star Lily James will play the title role and Kenneth Branagh is directing. It is scheduled for release in 2015.
- 9/30/2013
- Digital Spy
After making a movie centered on Maleficent, the villainess from Sleeping Beauty, Disney is setting its sights on another bad lady: Cruella de Vil. Aline Brosh McKenna has been hired to pen Cruella, which will bring the dog-fur-loving fashionista from 101 Dalmatians into a live-action feature to be produced by Andrew Gunn, who produced Sky High and Bedtime Stories for the studio. McKenna will also produce. De Vil first appeared in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians but became a Disney icon with the 1961 animated movie. And it's not the character's first incarnation
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- 9/30/2013
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Next year, Walt Disney Pictures is bringing to the big screen Angelina Jolie as Maleficent , a live-action take on the iconic villainess from the studio's 1959 animated classic, Sleeping Beauty . Today, The Hollywood Reporter brings word that another villain-led feature is on the way with Cruella , following the story of 101 Dalmatians ' Cruella de Vil. De Vil, who originated in Dodie Smith's 1956 book, "The Hundred and One Dalmatians," was voiced by Betty Lou Gerson in Disney's 1961 animated adaptation and played by Glenn Close in the 1996 live-action take (as well as in that film's 2000 sequel, 102 Dalmatians ). Smith also briefly revisited the character in her lesser-known science fiction sequel book, "The Starlight Barking." Aline Brosh McKenna,...
- 9/30/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Child radio star of the 1940s and 50s best remembered for playing Richmal Crompton's Just William
David Spenser, who has died aged 79, was the pre-eminent child radio star of the 1940s and 50s and will be best remembered for his portrayal on air of Just William. The author Richmal Crompton cast him in the role, in a series of dramatisations of her novels about the raucous but endearing 11-year-old outlaw.
This was in 1948, when David turned 14 and was already a seasoned radio actor – performing more than one play a week, he once told me. He had come into acting through a ruse set up by his ambitious mother and a BBC friend: he was lured into Broadcasting House and found himself in a studio being auditioned by the Children's Hour producer Josephine Plummer. For playing the lead in Just William he received the standard juvenile fee of four guineas...
David Spenser, who has died aged 79, was the pre-eminent child radio star of the 1940s and 50s and will be best remembered for his portrayal on air of Just William. The author Richmal Crompton cast him in the role, in a series of dramatisations of her novels about the raucous but endearing 11-year-old outlaw.
This was in 1948, when David turned 14 and was already a seasoned radio actor – performing more than one play a week, he once told me. He had come into acting through a ruse set up by his ambitious mother and a BBC friend: he was lured into Broadcasting House and found himself in a studio being auditioned by the Children's Hour producer Josephine Plummer. For playing the lead in Just William he received the standard juvenile fee of four guineas...
- 8/2/2013
- by John Tydeman
- The Guardian - Film News
The Uninvited
Directed by Lewis Allen
Written by Dodie Smith and Frank Partos
Starring Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp & Gail Russell
USA , 99 min – 1944.
“If you listen to it long enough, all your senses are sharpened. You come by strange instincts. You get to recognize a peculiar cold that is the first warning. A cold which is no mere matter of degrees Fahrenheit, but a draining of warmth from the vital centers of the living.”
The Uninvited is a supernatural film that is more mysterious than it is horrific. Spirits are taken to be a real possibility in the film, which after the success of Hitchcock & Selznick’s haunting, Rebecca (1940), must have been a necessity. The people who laugh at the notion of the supernatural are quickly proved wrong (as the early voice over suggests) and the film introduces ghosts with both kind and malicious intentions. Ultimately, The Uninvited’s...
Directed by Lewis Allen
Written by Dodie Smith and Frank Partos
Starring Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp & Gail Russell
USA , 99 min – 1944.
“If you listen to it long enough, all your senses are sharpened. You come by strange instincts. You get to recognize a peculiar cold that is the first warning. A cold which is no mere matter of degrees Fahrenheit, but a draining of warmth from the vital centers of the living.”
The Uninvited is a supernatural film that is more mysterious than it is horrific. Spirits are taken to be a real possibility in the film, which after the success of Hitchcock & Selznick’s haunting, Rebecca (1940), must have been a necessity. The people who laugh at the notion of the supernatural are quickly proved wrong (as the early voice over suggests) and the film introduces ghosts with both kind and malicious intentions. Ultimately, The Uninvited’s...
- 2/5/2013
- by Karen Bacellar
- SoundOnSight
Brrrrrr. Why am I chilly? Because it's December? Or is it because Cruella de Vil's cheekbones are icy shards of sinew, and I'm dreaming of snuggling them? You just don't know.
Thank God for 101 Dalmatians, the swingin', droll-as-hell Disney animated classic from 1961. Though on the surface 101 Dalmatians is a simple tale of a quaint London couple who own dalmatians and find themselves tangling with dognappers, it's also a showcase of sophisticated characters who are fun and real, even if some of them are talking dogs who've developed a doggy Amber Alert system called The Twilight Bark. Dodie Smith's classic children's book remains timeless in cinematic form, and really sassy too, on occasion. Here are five other reasons 101 Dalmatians may be the Best. Movie. Ever.
1. Cole Porter would've given his gay left nut to write, "Cru-ella! Cru-ella de Villll!"
A quick plot refresher: Struggling songwriter Roger owns an upstanding dalmatian...
Thank God for 101 Dalmatians, the swingin', droll-as-hell Disney animated classic from 1961. Though on the surface 101 Dalmatians is a simple tale of a quaint London couple who own dalmatians and find themselves tangling with dognappers, it's also a showcase of sophisticated characters who are fun and real, even if some of them are talking dogs who've developed a doggy Amber Alert system called The Twilight Bark. Dodie Smith's classic children's book remains timeless in cinematic form, and really sassy too, on occasion. Here are five other reasons 101 Dalmatians may be the Best. Movie. Ever.
1. Cole Porter would've given his gay left nut to write, "Cru-ella! Cru-ella de Villll!"
A quick plot refresher: Struggling songwriter Roger owns an upstanding dalmatian...
- 12/3/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
Whenever you think about Disney's adorable dogs with spots in the 1961 animated feature One Hundred and One Dalmatians, you never think about sci-fi. But the author who wrote the story that inspired the movie, Dodie Smith, created a sequel to her novel about a bunch of pups that try to escape the evil Cruella de Vil -- and it includes extraterrestrial dogs, a nuclear war plotline, and other strange touches. Both film sequels to the '60's version and the 1996 live-action movie -- 101 Dalmatians II and 102 Dalmatians -- have no connection to Smith's 1967 children's novel The Starlight Barking. Perhaps if the Mickey Mouse studio had looked at the bizarre sci-fi tale, their follow-ups to the popular classic animated movie would have been more successful...
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- 8/22/2011
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com
Her father was scary. Vincent Gallo got vicious. And Jack Nicholson taught her never to give a brown present. Anjelica Huston tells John Patterson about a life among Hollywood royalty
The last time I met Anjelica Huston was six or seven years ago in a luxury oceanfront hotel in Venice, California. It was windy and cold, Huston was still a smoker – we talked outside in the wind while she lit up like a naughty schoolgirl. Today, it's a blisteringly hot day, she's an enviably youthful 60, an ex-smoker now, sitting in the lounge of the luxury hotel next door, before a gigantic cinemascope window affording guests a million-dollar view of the Pacific, which looks seriously tempting in today's heat.
"I went in the ocean this year, the day after my birthday," she tells me as we watch the breakers gently roll in, "and it was actually really nice. It's like the Eiffel Tower is for Parisians,...
The last time I met Anjelica Huston was six or seven years ago in a luxury oceanfront hotel in Venice, California. It was windy and cold, Huston was still a smoker – we talked outside in the wind while she lit up like a naughty schoolgirl. Today, it's a blisteringly hot day, she's an enviably youthful 60, an ex-smoker now, sitting in the lounge of the luxury hotel next door, before a gigantic cinemascope window affording guests a million-dollar view of the Pacific, which looks seriously tempting in today's heat.
"I went in the ocean this year, the day after my birthday," she tells me as we watch the breakers gently roll in, "and it was actually really nice. It's like the Eiffel Tower is for Parisians,...
- 7/21/2011
- by John Paterson
- The Guardian - Film News
With Alice In Wonderland arriving on disc next week, we look back at the English literature that's inspired previous Disney productions...
Disney has used mythology, historical characters, fairy tales and fables as the foundation for some amazing animated films. But, curiously for such an American icon, its also drawn on the diverse world of English literature for some of its most successful projects.
Alice In Wonderland (1951)
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland became the first animated Disney feature to use classic English literature as a bedrock. In the Disney version, elements from both the original Alice adventure and the sequel Through The Looking-Glass were combined to give a strong flavour of the Carroll's perversely warped universe.
Unfortunately, UK reviewers weren't kind to it, and it was one of the first Disney productions to be accused of 'Americanising' a literary classic.
In retrospect, Alice In Wonderland represents some amazing work in animation,...
Disney has used mythology, historical characters, fairy tales and fables as the foundation for some amazing animated films. But, curiously for such an American icon, its also drawn on the diverse world of English literature for some of its most successful projects.
Alice In Wonderland (1951)
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland became the first animated Disney feature to use classic English literature as a bedrock. In the Disney version, elements from both the original Alice adventure and the sequel Through The Looking-Glass were combined to give a strong flavour of the Carroll's perversely warped universe.
Unfortunately, UK reviewers weren't kind to it, and it was one of the first Disney productions to be accused of 'Americanising' a literary classic.
In retrospect, Alice In Wonderland represents some amazing work in animation,...
- 5/28/2010
- Den of Geek
The 101 Dalmatians Musical, based on the 1956 classic story written by Dodie Smith launched at the historic Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis on October 13, 2009, The 101 Dalmatians Musical features an impressive cast made-up of Broadway veterans and newcomers that will bring to life this one-of-a-kind musical adventure for the entire family. Drama Desk Award winner Rachel York leads that cast as the sinister Cruella de Vil, notorious for kidnapping Dalmatian puppies for their distinctive spots.
- 10/28/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
When asked to come up with the most vile, sinister and deliciously evil villains in popular literature and culture, one name would likely appear on many lists: Cruella de Vil. Notorious for kidnapping innocent Dalmation puppies to use their distinctive spots for her own evil purposes, Cruella conjures memories of divine extravagance coupled with pure greed. And nothing beats seeing a villain of her stature live and in the flesh (or rather, the flesh of her animal du jour). Audiences in Atlanta will soon get their chance to revel in the antics of Cruella and her canine cohorts when The 101 Dalmatians Musical, based on the 1956 classic story written by Dodie Smith, rolls into the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, October 28th.
- 10/28/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Drama Desk Award Winner Rachel York has joined the cast of the highly anticipated national stage production of The 101 Dalmatians Musical, based on the 1956 classic story written by Dodie Smith. Announced today by Magic Arts & Entertainment/Tix Productions, Troika General Management and international producer Luis Alvarez, York joins an impressive creative team in the starring role as the sinister Cruella de Vil, notorious for kidnapping Dalmatian puppies for their distinctive spots, in a one-of-a-kind musical adventure for the entire family about what it means to be a family, canine and courageous. York makes her debut in The 101 Dalmatians Musical when the North American tour kicks off at the historic Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis on October 13, 2009.
- 10/28/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
When asked to come up with the most vile, sinister and deliciously evil villains in popular literature and culture, one name would likely appear on many lists: Cruella de Vil. Notorious for kidnapping innocent Dalmation puppies to use their distinctive spots for her own evil purposes, Cruella conjures memories of divine extravagance coupled with pure greed. And nothing beats seeing a villain of her stature live and in the flesh (or rather, the flesh of her animal du jour). Audiences in Atlanta will soon get their chance to revel in the antics of Cruella and her canine cohorts when The 101 Dalmatians Musical, based on the 1956 classic story written by Dodie Smith, rolls into the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, October 28th.
- 10/27/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
When asked to come up with the most vile, sinister and deliciously evil villains in popular literature and culture, one name would likely appear on many lists: Cruella de Vil. Notorious for kidnapping innocent Dalmation puppies to use their distinctive spots for her own evil purposes, Cruella conjures memories of divine extravagance coupled with pure greed. And nothing beats seeing a villain of her stature live and in the flesh (or rather, the flesh of her animal du jour). Audiences in Atlanta will soon get their chance to revel in the antics of Cruella and her canine cohorts when The 101 Dalmatians Musical, based on the 1956 classic story written by Dodie Smith, rolls into the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, October 28th.
- 10/21/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
The 101 Dalmatians Musical, based on the 1956 classic story written by Dodie Smith will launch at the historic Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis on October 13, 2009, The 101 Dalmatians Musical features an impressive cast made-up of Broadway veterans and newcomers that will bring to life this one-of-a-kind musical adventure for the entire family. Drama Desk Award winner Rachel York leads that cast as the sinister Cruella de Vil, notorious for kidnapping Dalmatian puppies for their distinctive spots.
- 10/13/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Drama Desk Award Winner Rachel York has joined the cast of the highly anticipated national stage production of The 101 Dalmatians Musical, based on the 1956 classic story written by Dodie Smith. Announced today by Magic Arts & Entertainment/Tix Productions, Troika General Management and international producer Luis Alvarez, York joins an impressive creative team in the starring role as the sinister Cruella de Vil, notorious for kidnapping Dalmatian puppies for their distinctive spots, in a one-of-a-kind musical adventure for the entire family about what it means to be a family, canine and courageous. The 101 Dalmatians Musical will play the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center for a limited engagement October 20-25, 2009.
- 8/25/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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