19 articles from 2009
The 'Alice In Wonderland' Trailer: Not As Good As Gwen Stefani
16 December 2009 7:22 AM, PST
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The latest trailer for Tim Burton's upcoming "Alice in Wonderland" hit the Internet this morning, offering up more scenes of Burton's particular brand of goth lunacy. The film, which hits theaters in March 2010 and stars Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham-Carter as the Queen of Hearts, is already one of the most hotly-anticipated releases of next year, and the new trailer reveals a handful of new scenes and images, including the Cheshire Cat (though there are still no shots of the caterpillar).
When the first trailer premiered, we were reminded of the classic video for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' "Don't Come Around Here No More," which cast Petty himself as the Mad Hatter. It was a trippy presentation that deftly used the imagery from the classic Lewis Carroll story and melded nicely with the spooky melancholy of the song. The new "Alice in Wonderland" trailer is much more manic,
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Spectacular new preview of Tim Burton's 'Alice in Wonderland' debuts
16 December 2009 12:37 AM, PST
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Walt Disney Studios has debuted a new and very impressive new trailer for Tim Burton's adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland." The new preview features even more footage of Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen of Hearts, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, Michael Sheen as The White Rabbit, audiences first audio of Stephen Fry as the voice of the Cheshire Cat and, of course, Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. Oh, and newcomer Mia Wasikowska as Alice. (If anyone cares...) Enjoy the preview below which will no doubt be in front of many prints of "Avatar" and "Sherlock Holmes" over
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12/06/2009: Alice – “Episode 1 & 2″
7 December 2009 4:56 AM, PST
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Quick, when I say the words “SyFy Original Movie,” what images immediately rush to mind? Hokey CGI effects? Laughable character motivation? Bafflingly obtuse plots and stories? Now imagine this heralded brand, responsible for such masterpieces as “Ice Spiders” and “S.S. Doomtrooper,” attempting to interpret one of the most beloved pieces of western fiction ever.
This is the mindset one must enter before attempting to understand Alice, the SyFy mini-series. In a nutshell, the story is essentially a third installment of the Alice in Wonderland saga, if Lewis Carroll were alive and writing today, preferred teleplays to novels, had abandoned Victorian-era satire for dystopic art direction, and was intent on destroying the franchise so badly that no one would ever again be able to continue it. For those who remembered last year’s Tin Man, this is the exact same thing, simply swapping out The Wizard of Oz for Alice’s
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"Alice": A Whole New Wonderland- December 6
5 December 2009 2:29 PM, PST
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"Alice" is the Vancouver-lensed Syfy mini-series, updating the classic "Alice In Wonderland" story.
Starring Toronto actress Caterina Scorsone as 'Alice', a stranger in a city of twisted towers and casinos built out of playing cards, under the rule of the 'Queen of Hearts' (Kathy Bates), the show is from the same production team as "The Wizard Of Oz" update "Tin Man".
Cast includes Philip Winchester as 'Jack Chase', Allan Gray as 'White Rabbit', Colm Meaney as the 'King of Hearts', Andrew Lee Potts as 'Hatter', Tim Curry as 'Dodo', Matt Frewer as the 'White Knight', Harry Dean Stanton as 'Caterpillar', Alessandro Juliani as '9 of Clubs', Timothy Webber as Carpenter, Alex Diakun as 'Ratcatcher' and Eugene Lipinski as 'Doctors Dee' and 'Dum'..
"Alice" premieres on Syfy, December 6, 2009...
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Alice: Spotlight on The Queen of Hearts (Interview)
5 December 2009 5:52 AM, PST
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Check out this interview with Kathy Bates, who plays the Queen of Hearts on Syfy Channel's upcoming Alice mini-series. The series is written and directed by Nick Willing (Tin Man). In the Interview, Nick Willing also shares his thoughts on working with Bates.
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This interview shows off some of the more irreverent humor of Alice, as the characters acknowledge they aren't in the Wonderland of storybooks.
"Alice," the entirely new look at Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass," premieres this Sunday at 8/9c on Syfy.
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- Terry Boyden
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Syfy's Alice Review: A Visually Whimsical Reimagining
4 December 2009 8:19 AM, PST
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If I describe SyFy's new four hour miniseries 'Alice' as a modern-day reimagining of Lewis Carroll's classic stories I am probably doing it a disservice. Yet I cannot think of a more appropriate way to describe it.
This new miniseries, written and directed by Nick Willing (Tin Man), takes almost all of the elements from 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass' but alters their context to create something new. Wonderland, we are told, has changed considerably since the events of those novels unfolded, evolving into a city of crumbling, twisting towers and buildings constructed out of cards and chess pieces.
Twenty-something karate instructor, Alice Hamilton (Caterina Scorsone) finds herself in this bizarre, twisted world when she gives chase to a man involved in the kidnap of her boyfriend, Jack Chase (Philip Winchester, Crusoe). Trying to find him and make her way back to her own world, she is
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Sneak Peek Syfy's "Alice"- December 6...
3 December 2009 10:32 AM, PST
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"Alice" is the Vancouver-lensed Syfy mini-series, updating the classic "Alice In Wonderland" story.
Starring Caterina Scorsone as 'Alice', a stranger in a city of twisted towers and casinos built out of playing cards, under the rule of the 'Queen of Hearts' (Kathy Bates), the show is from the same production team as "The Wizard Of Oz" update "Tin Man".
Cast includes Philip Winchester as 'Jack Chase', Allan Gray as 'White Rabbit', Colm Meaney as the 'King of Hearts', Andrew Lee Potts as 'Hatter', Tim Curry as 'Dodo', Matt Frewer as the 'White Knight', Harry Dean Stanton as 'Caterpillar', Alessandro Juliani as '9 of Clubs', Timothy Webber as Carpenter, Alex Diakun as 'Ratcatcher' and Eugene Lipinski as 'Doctors Dee' and 'Dum'..
"Alice" premieres on Syfy, December 2009...
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Caterina Scorsone and Nick Willing Discuss Alice
25 November 2009 6:18 PM, PST
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The star and writer-director of this four-hour TV event talk about the SyFy movie
TV viewers will be lead down the Yellow Brick Road in a new and intriguing way when Alice, a brand new four-hour TV movie, will premiere on Sunday, December 6 from 9 Pm Et to 11 Pm Et on SyFy and the movie will conclude on Monday, December 7 from 9 Pm Et to 11 Pm Et. The new Alice in this genre wonderland is Caterina Scorsone and she joined writer-director Nick Willing on a conference call to discuss this new adventure, and here's what they had to say.
Nick, I was wondering if you could perhaps tell us a little bit about the prep you had to do for this particular project going in and maybe some of the challenges associated with that for you.
Nick Willing: The most difficult thing was finding Alice. I must've seen 500 actresses for the role of Alice,
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Sneak Peek Syfy's Alice
20 November 2009 8:15 AM, PST
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According to VancouverFilm.Net, Alice is the Vancouver-lensed Syfy mini-series, updating the classic "Alice In Wonderland" story, starring Caterina Scorsone as 'Alice', a stranger in a city of twisted towers and casinos built out of playing cards, under the rule of the 'Queen of Hearts' (Kathy Bates).
The show is from the same production team as last year's "Wizard Of Oz" update Tin Man.
Alice Cast includes Philip Winchester as 'Jack Chase', Allan Gray as 'White Rabbit', Colm Meaney as the 'King of Hearts', Andrew Lee Potts as 'Hatter', Tim Curry as 'Dodo', Matt Frewer as the 'White Knight', Harry Dean Stanton as 'Caterpillar', Alessandro Juliani as '9 of Clubs', Timothy Webber as Carpenter, Alex Diakun as 'Ratcatcher' and Eugene Lipinski as 'Doctors Dee' and 'Dum'..
Alice premieres on Syfy this December.
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Next Piece Of The Alice In Wonderland Puzzle Debuts
11 November 2009 7:17 AM, PST
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Even though we've all gotten a look at the full new poster for Alice in Wonderland thanks to a magazine scan, the Mad Hatter is still releasing new high-res snippets at his Facebook page. (Yes, we live in an era in which the Mad Hatter has a Facebook page. Get used to it).
Predictably, he's saving the middle section-- the one that debuts the Caterpillar-- until last. Today's section includes Alice, the White Rabbit, a very teeny Mad Hatter sitting at the end of the table, and the roses from the Queen of Hearts' garden. You can check it out below, because really, these visuals deserved to be looked at more than once.
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eBay find: Max Where the Wild Things Are wolf costume
23 October 2009 4:54 AM, PDT
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Just over a week now until Halloween and we continue to gear up for the big event here at Boxwish. We’ve got a fantastic selection of fancy dress costumes on the site (see here), from superheroes to movie monsters, masks to T-shirts and our fervour for the frightening isn’t letting up any time soon. In fact, we’re continuing the fancy dress theme with this week’s eBay find, and like last week’s Blog (the Red Queen/ Queen of Hearts replica crown from Alice in Wonderland), it’s not actual wardrobe as worn by the actor on-camera, but something far more personal, a home-spun costume. And with temperatures plummeting, we think this could almost warrant fulltime wear, introducing the Max wolf costume from Where the Wild Things Are.
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eBay find: Max Where the Wild Things Are wolf costume
23 October 2009 4:54 AM, PDT
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Just over a week now until Halloween and we continue to gear up for the big event here at Boxwish. We’ve got a fantastic selection of fancy dress costumes on the site (see here), from superheroes to movie monsters, masks to T-shirts and our fervour for the frightening isn’t letting up any time soon. In fact, we’re continuing the fancy dress theme with this week’s eBay find, and like last week’s Blog (the Red Queen/ Queen of Hearts replica crown from Alice in Wonderland), it’s not actual wardrobe as worn by the actor on-camera, but something far more personal, a home-spun costume. And with temperatures plummeting, we think this could almost warrant fulltime wear, introducing the Max wolf costume from Where the Wild Things Are.
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eBay find: Red Queen/ Queen of Hearts replica crown from Alice in Wonderland
16 October 2009 3:51 AM, PDT
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With Halloween on the horizon, our recent eBay finds have all been of the fancy dress variety, trying to offer up quirky and novel costumes for the upcoming spooky shindig. And for the past fortnight, we’ve been extending a helping hand to the hairier sex in kitting up for potential parties, however today we’re redressing the gender balance and sniffing out something for our female Boxwishers. And we’ve found something that’s certain to excite those with a theatrical bent – a fantastic replica of the crown worn by Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen/ Queen of Hearts in the upcoming Alice in Wonderland. Ideal for dressing up and, when no-one’s watching, pretending you’re royalty and shouting “off with their heads!”
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A First Look At Syfy's 'Alice'
10 October 2009 12:41 PM, PDT
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Yeah, Tim Burton is making his version of "Alice in Wonderland," but it's nothing like what Syfy is putting together. And Burton doesn't have both Kathy Bates and Matt Frewer. The new event will air Dec. 6-7 on Syfy, following the tradition of past end-of-the-year specials, including "Tin Man." Many, many years after an Alice first disrupted Wonderland and the House of Cards, a new Alice makes her way into the new dimension, now played by Caterina Scorsone. She meets many of the classic characters, including the Queen of Hearts (Bates), the White Knight (Frewer), Caterpillar (Harry Dean Stanton), and special appearances by "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's" Colm Meaney as the KIng of Hearts and Alessandro Juliani from "Battlestar Galactica" as the 9 of Clubs. The whole production was written
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Syfy to Premiere 'Alice'on December 6
6 October 2009 11:06 PM, PDT
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Syfy has announced that it will premiere Alice, its four-hour-long updated retelling of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Alice Through the Looking Glass,' on Sunday, December 6th. The conclusion of the two-part miniseries will air the following day. The announcement was made by Mark Stern, Syfy's Executive Vice President of Original Programming, during the channel's Vancouver Press Tour.
Alice stars Caterina Scorsone as Alice Hamilton, a young, martial arts instructor, who finds her way to a parallel universe called Wonderland after her boyfriend is taken there by mysterious, well-dressed men called 'Suits'. This is not the Wonderland of Carroll's 'Alice' stories, though. Under the direction of Nick Willing, who also helmed Syfy's Emmy-winning miniseries Tin Man, the modernized Wonderland is presented as an oppressive and surreal place where people are kept in check by being fed positive human emotions drained from gamblers trapped in a casino.
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Purple Magic created by Rani at the Toronto International Film Festival 2009
13 September 2009 9:05 AM, PDT
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She came, she shone and she mesmerized!The red carpet for the World Premiere of Yash Raj Films, Dil Bole Hadippa was glitz and glamour central on the early afternoon of September 13th as fans thronged in huge numbers to the Roy Thompson Hall to catch a glimpse of the Queen of Hearts-Rani Mukherjee.Rani looked dazzling in a majestic purple gown by Franco Ferrara, with her hair tied half-up. The red of the carpet paled in comparison to the gorgeousness of the actress.Keeping in with the Punjabi flavour of the film, the festivities commenced with an energetic and enthusiastic live performance by Bhangra troop and Dhol player.Rani graciously signed autographs aplenty and snapped pictures abound with fans who had been patiently waiting all morning. Rani was accompanied by the debutant Director, Anurag Singh who has worked as an associate producer for Yash Raj Film and
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Princess Diana's psychic prediction
7 September 2009 4:00 AM, PDT
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Britain's Princess Diana's former psychic predicted her death. Celebrity fortune-teller Sally Morgan - who claims she spoke to the late princess everyday for four and a half years - foresaw the death of a royal figure whilst giving another woman a reading, 12 months before the car accident in France which killed Diana. She said: "According to the woman I predicted Diana's death. But it was the year before and I really didn't think it was the Princess of Wales. It horrifies me to say this now, but I thought it was Queen Elizabeth." However, Sally, 58, believes her premonition refers to Diana's wish to be known as the 'Queen of Hearts'. She explained: "It was before Diana had done
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Princess Diana's Former Psychic Allegedly Predicted Her Death
7 September 2009 1:19 AM, PDT
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Britain's Princess Diana's former psychic predicted her death. Celebrity fortune-teller Sally Morgan - who claims she spoke to the late princess everyday for four and a half years - foresaw the death of a royal figure whilst giving another woman a reading, 12 months before the car accident in France which killed Diana.
She said: "According to the woman I predicted Diana's death. But it was the year before and I really didn't think it was the Princess of Wales. It horrifies me to say this now, but I thought it was Queen Elizabeth."
However, Sally, 58, believes her premonition refers to Diana's wish to be known as the "Queen of Hearts."
She explained: "It was before Diana had done the interview with Martin Bashir, where she spoke about being the Queen of Hearts."
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The Speed Bros.' Diy assault
29 January 2009 7:53 AM, PST
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In the wake of Night Of The Living Dead and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, horror has long been the favorite genre of a first-time filmmaker. Independent directors achieving enormous success and career-long legacies from features with all the polish of industrial films has been practically synonymous with horror. It seems hard to fault fledgling filmmakers for being drawn to the genre. The assumption prevails that if film is a gamble, horror is the safest bet; if it fails as art, it can still make money.
These days, theatrical box-office expectations for independent films have lowered while a breakout hit still requires costly marketing pushes. Direct-to-dvd proves lucrative but hardly christens household names. When some of the best-reviewed horror films of the past ten years are denied a theatrical run, the genre now seems less like a stepping-stone to the mainstream.
As film production went Diy in the decade since The Blair Witch Project,
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