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Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has been adapted countless times, but the latest re-imagining, Alice in Wonderland -Dive in Wonderland-, is set to shake up the classic tale like never before. Fushigi no Kuni de Alice to -Dive in Wonderland- is an original anime film by acclaimed studio P.A. Works, and its first trailer has officially dropped. This new adaptation takes a bold approach, blending traditional fantasy with modern animation techniques to create a visually stunning adventure.

Unlike past adaptations that remain faithful to Carroll’s whimsical yet eerie storytelling, -Dive in Wonderland- looks poised to offer a fresh take on Alice’s journey, according to @alice_movie2025 on X. Directed by Toshiya Shinohara, the film promises a unique story twist, potentially bringing a more emotionally driven and visually surreal experience. With P.A. Works at the helm, known for its breathtaking animation quality, this anime adaptation might...

Animation is getting better with every passing year, and studios have produced some truly remarkable anime that are a feast for the eyes as much as they are for the soul. Kyoto Animation and Ufotable are two of the leading companies in the anime industry with consistently high-quality graphics that never disappoint.

However, while anime is able to capture stories in motion and color where manga cannot, there are some mangaka who possess a passion and flair for their work that simply cannot be replicated. Manga is as much of an art form as it is a medium for storytelling, and occasionally, there is no better way to witness the genius of a good story than to watch it unfold through the brush strokes and pencil sketches of the artists who created them.

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The official website for Fushigi no Kuni de Alice to -Dive in Wonderland- ("With Alice in Wonderland -Dive in Wonderland-"), an upcoming theatrical anime movie inspired by Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , revealed a teaser trailer, visual and nine additional voice cast members today. Fushigi no Kuni de Alice to -Dive in Wonderland- Teaser Trailer Teaser Visual In addition to the previously announced Nanoka Hara (Suzume Iwato in Suzume ) as the protagonist Rise and Maika Pugh (Platelet in the Cells at Work! live-action film) as Alice, the new voice actors announced include: Ko Urai (the butler) voiced by Shotaro Mamiya Fumiko Azumino (Rise's grandmother) voiced by Keiko Toda Queen of Hearts voiced by Mayu Matsuoka Mad Hatter voiced by Koji Yamamoto March Hare voiced by Norito Yashima Humpty Dumpty voiced by Ryuichi Kosugi (comedy duo Black Mayonnaise member) White Hare voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi Cheshire...

With its whimsical characters, nonsensical logic, and complex allegories, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland novel has inspired countless adaptations across various media. However, none have shaped popular perception as significantly as Disney’s 1951 animated film. The colorful, neat, and thoroughly Disney-fied version of Wonderland remains popular, although it differs greatly from Carroll’s original vision.

A still from Alice in Wonderland -Dive in Wonderland- teaser | Credit: P.A. Works

However, now this time, Japanese animation studio P.A. Works is set to adapt the beloved story into an anime film titled Alice in Wonderland -Dive in Wonderland-, premiering on August 29, 2025. With this news, fans are definitely excited, but with one crucial condition: they want this adaptation to stay true to Carroll’s novel, not follow the path forged by Disney and its many successors.

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Japanese anime studio P.A. Works is set to release Japan’s first anime film adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s timeless children’s novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Titled Fushigi no Kuni de Alice to -Dive in Wonderland- (With Alice in Wonderland -Dive in Wonderland-), the movie will debut in Japanese theaters on August 29, 2025.

This reimagining takes a fresh approach, centering on Rise, a modern-day girl voiced by Nanoka Hara, known for her roles in Suzume and Oshi no Ko. Rise finds herself mysteriously transported to Wonderland, where she meets Alice, played by 10-year-old Maika Pugh. Pugh expressed her excitement about the role, calling it a dream come true.

The film is directed by Toshiya Shinohara, recognized for his work on Black Butler and A Lull in the Sea. The screenplay is penned by Yuko Kakihara, whose credits include The Apothecary Diaries and Blue Box. P.A. Works, renowned for its visually stunning productions,...

A new anime feature film titled Fushigi no Kuni de Alice to -Dive in Wonderland- will open in Japan on August 29, 2025, with P.A. Works will handle the anime production. This is the first theatrical anime movie in Japan inspired by Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , originally published in 1865. The film's official website and X (formerly Twitter) opened today, releasing a super teaser trailer and visual. Fushigi no Kuni de Alice to -Dive in Wonderland- Super Teaser Trailer Super teaser visual The main character of the film is Rise, a girl living in the present day. The story begins when Rise wanders into Wonderland and meets Alice. Actor Nanoka Hara (Suzume Iwato in Suzume ) is cast as Rise, while Maika Pugh (Platelet in the Cells at Work! live-action film) voices Alice. Toshiya Shinohara ( The aquatope on white sand ) serves as director on a screenplay by Yuko Kakihara...

Given that Peanuts was a long-running comic strip, all the way from 1950 to 2000, it is no surprise that Peanuts included many pop culture references, including to classic literature. From capturing the Harry Potter fervor that was present in the late '90s to referring to some of the most famous and popular children's books, Peanuts gave readers of the past and present a window into what kids were reading at the time.

Well, for the most part, as Rerun at one point refers to quite the surprising novel, which is not the most child-friendly. Regardless, Peanuts usually focuses on the qualities of their characters and their interactions with others, as well as their reactions to situations. As a result, there were not always a lot of references to things like movies, music, and books in the comic strips. However, there still were enough comic strips referencing classic books to please any bibliophile,...

The best stop-motion Horror movies show that the unique animation style isn't only suited for comedies or kids' films. The visual style that stop-motion creates can't really be imitated by any other medium. It also lends itself incredibly, incredibly well to horror movies. When done well, there's something unique and uncanny valley-like that makes stop-motion animation unnerving. Directors have been using stop-motion to create scary films since the very dawn of cinema with titles like J. Stuart Blackton's The Haunted Hotel in 1907, and the tradition continues to this day.

One of the great things about stop-motion horror movies is that utilizing animation has also led to some great scary movies for kids. It allows directors to portray the spooky and the sinister in a way that won't traumatize younger viewers. However, at the other end of the scale, there have been some incredibly disturbing stop-motion horror films that are...

Director Tim Burton has always been admired for straddling unprecedented mainstream success and cult appeal, bringing a dark gothic aesthetic to the mainstream that has both a casual and a fervent fandom. Tim Burton seldom falls short at the box office, with films like Ed Wood (1994) and Mars Attacks! (1996) being outliers in an otherwise dominating career bringing people to the theater. At the same time, the director's work is not always universally loved by the critics, with one particular work failing to impress, Alice in Wonderland.

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland was a massive success at the theater but failed to capture the same wonder of other adaptions. Critics met the movie with negative to lukewarm responses, but thanks to timing and some star power, reviews did little to stop the adaptation from being a behemoth at the box office. We will examine Tim Burton's take on the Lewis Carroll classic,...

Guillermo del Toro's movies lean toward heavier themes; even his Pinocchio adaptation was more faithful to the grim version of the children's story. Fans still consider his 2006 film Pan's Labyrinth his best contribution to the dark fantasy subgenre.

Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth is now streaming on Prime Video. The film's cult following has only grown over the years, fueled by overwhelming acclaim from critics. Pan's Labyrinth is one of cinema's all-time best dark fantasies, an eclectic subgenre highlighted by fan-favorites Spirited Away, Coraline, Dark Crystal, The Crow, and the bulk of Tim Burton's movies. Del Toro described Pan's Labyrinth as a parable influenced by traditional fairy tales, a dark spin on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Chronicles of Narnia series. Set in 1944 Spain, the story of Pan's Labyrinth revolves around its female protagonist's fantastic adventures, juxtaposed with the real-world horrors of the Francoist regime.

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Universal’s animated newcomer “The Wild Robot” seized control of the U.K. and Ireland box office, launching to a robust £3.2 million ($4.2 million) in its debut frame, according to numbers from Comscore. The family-friendly feature led fresh releases that energized weekend ticket sales.

Paramount’s horror sequel “Smile 2” flashed into second place with £2 million in its opening weekend, while Studiocanal’s Dinald Trump film “The Apprentice” clocked in at third with £749,149.

Paramount’s “Transformers One” demonstrated staying power in its sophomore session, adding £639,554 to reach a cumulative total of £2.7 million. Signature Entertainment’s slasher entry “Terrifier 3” held steady at fifth, collecting £562,616 for a running cume of £2.2 million.

Warner Bros.’ “Joker: Folie à Deux” continued to dance at the box office in its third frame, conducting another £501,000 to waltz past £9.7 million in total receipts. The studio’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” showed remarkable legs in its seventh week, conjuring £469,407 to push its cumulative haul to £24.6 million.

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Oct 18-20)Total gross to dateWeek 1. The Wild Robot (Universal) £3.1m £3.3m 1 2. Smile 2 (Paramount) £1.7m £2m 1 3. The Apprentice (Studiocanal) £643,434 £746,303 1 4. Transformers One (Paramount) £642,000 £2.8m 2 5. Terrifier 3 (Signature)

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Universal animation The Wild Robot opened top of the UK-Ireland box office, with a £3.1m weekend.

Chris Sanders’ family feature, that has a voice cast including Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal and Kit Connor, played in 675 cinemas, taking a £4,591 site average. Including previews, the film has £3.3m. It is slightly down on the £3.6m start of another original Universal animation, Migration, from February this year.

Rising star Rachel Zegler has her pick of work, from starring in Disney’s live action adaptation of “Snow White” to making her Broadway debut in “Romeo + Juliet,” but she’s ready to work with some non-human talent for a change. As part of Variety’s New York Issue, Zegler spoke with the publication about her career and the roles she hopes to take on, including being the main player in a Muppet movie.

“Michael Caine did it for ‘Christmas Carol,’” she said. “Tim Curry did it for ‘Muppet Treasure Island.’ I want to be the one!”

Other talent have taken up this mantle in recent history as well, with Ashanti playing Dorothy in 2005’s “The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz” and Jason Segel and Amy Adams starring in 2011’s “The Muppets.” Its most recent entry was a Halloween special in 2021 called “Muppets Haunted Mansion,” a tie-in with the famous Disney ride.

Dutch Pinball is ready to chase a white rabbit through a brightly lit landscape of twisting turns where the Jabberwok waits to ruin multipliers as silver ball wizards run from angry playing cards, a hookah-smoking caterpillar, and an angry Queen of Hearts while playing the new pinball game Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Inspired by the timeless 1865 novel by Lewis Caroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland finds players at the heart of a bizarre fantasy where tea parties invite chaos every day is your unbirthday. Using John Popadiuk Jr’s black-and-white concert art, lead designer Melvin Williams combines Caroll’s strange world with 2024 technology to create a new pinball game that harkens back to the tables of the 1990s.

Dutch Pinball’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland pinball game has more bells and whistles than you can imagine. The pinball company shared a detailed list of the table’s features, which you can...

Theres nothing scary about these sandworm-sized box office numbers. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is finally in theaters, and the long-awaited sequel has hit the ground running. Director Tim Burtons new film brought in $13 million domestically during its preview screenings on Thursday, and the Michael Keaton-led Beetlejuice (1988) sequel is now en route to making nearly $100 million over its opening weekend (per Deadline).

At the time of this writing, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is forecast to bring in an estimated $38 million to $40+ million on Friday, September 6 alone. And that same source's prediction is tracking the Burton and Keaton cinematic collaboration to haul in somewhere between $90 million and $95 million during its debut, which is some 36 years in the making. However, theres definitely a chance that the Beetlejuice follow-up could make even more of a Saturn-sized splash without any assistance from its international numbers.

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As beloved as Tim Burton’s original 1988 classic “Beetlejuice” may be, no one could accuse the film of having much in the way of deep human emotions. It was a vibes movie with a transfixing level of world-building, the imagination to rewrite the rules of life and death, and the funny bone to merge both realms for a calypso dance sequence. It became a legacy credit for actors Geena Davis, Catherina O’Hara, and Winona Ryder, not to mention the decaying bio-exorcist at the undead heart of it all: Michael Keaton.

After several abortive attempts at a sequel over the intervening decades, director Tim Burton has — with a few exceptions — reassembled his original core squad, including composer Danny Elfman. To the mix, he has added a perfectly-chosen menage of new names and pulled off a maturation of the two-for-one world he once built from the waiting room of the Afterlife...

Isekai, literally translating to “another world,” is a subgenre of fantasy prevalent in anime, light novels, and manga. This subgenre of anime focuses on a protagonist, typically an ordinary person, being transported to a different dimension, be it a supernatural setting, a video game, or a parallel universe. Isekai is considered a relatively modern trend in anime, popularized in the 2000s by such light novel series as The Familiar of Zero and Sword Art Online, and brought to mainstream levels of popularity in the 2010s by Mushoku Tensei, Re:Zero, and the 2012 Sao anime adaptation. Nowadays, isekai dominates the modern anime landscape, and the genre has long since moved on from simply meaning “another world” fiction.

The isekai of today has its own established tropes, rules, and characteristics, going as far as to develop distinctive subgenres within itself, like reincarnation isekai or overpowered protagonist isekai. However, as a plot device, isekai...

Train to the End of the World is a must-see surreal anime with unique visuals and storytelling. The series pays tribute to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in a bizarre post-apocalyptic setting. Future episodes promise to explore a world full of twists, turns, fairies, giants, and zombies.

A new surreal anime from Crunchyroll has stunned audiences with a first episode that must be seen to be believed. When it comes to surreal artistry, animation has proven to be the perfect medium to carry out the creator's vision. Animated shows and movies have no limitations regarding what can happen, so anything that comes to the artist's imagination can happen. Anime in particular has thrived on surrealism with studios like Science Saru bending what's possible to tell unique stories. Now, Crunchyroll has introduced a new surreal series to its library, and its first episode has fully delivered on its wild premise.

Rita Ora has unveiled her Queen of Hearts costume for her role in 'Descendants: The Rise of Red'.The 33-year-old star showed off her red gown for the part she will play in the musical fantasy movie, which will be released on the streaming service Disney+ in July.Rita portrays the antagonist of Lewis Carroll's famous novel 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and her alter ego is the mother of the film's lead character Red – who is played by YouTube star Kylie Cantrall.An Instagram post shared jointly by the 'Anywhere' singer and Disney was captioned: "All hail the Queen of Hearts. Descendants: #TheRiseofRed, a Disney Original Movie, is available July 12 on @disneyplus."The 'Descendants' series began back in 2015 and centres on the children of villains from Disney classics as they rebel against the evil antics of their parents.It is the latest acting...

Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” isn’t new to the “turn something innocent into a horror movie” fad. Brave gamers might remember diving into the twisted mind of American McGee’s Alice, or indie film diehards could have caught 2010’s Alice in Murderland. Writer and director Richard John Taylor explores forbidden but charted territory with his fresh psychological thriller Alice in Terrorland, which can’t help but earn comparisons to other horror forward Wonderland adaptations. Luckily for Taylor’s cerebrally nasty and visually slick reimagining, the average lookalike doesn’t set a high bar to clear — hardly spectacular, but damn sure better than something like Alice in Murderland.

Lizzy Willis stars as little orphan Alice (named after Carroll’s book), the only survivor of a house fire that claimed her parents’ lives. Alice relocates to her grandmother’s sprawling yet dilapidated estate, where Ruth (Rula Lenska) assumes caretaking duties.

The entertainment news cycle these days is so crazy that even “slow news weeks” bring with them a deluge of news. And that’s especially true here in the horror world, with new movies and TV shows being announced every single day. How the hell are we supposed to keep up?!

Well, we like to think we do a good job of keeping up here on Bloody Disgusting on a daily basis, but we also understand that it’s impossible to read Everything we publish on here.

As a result, you may miss some pretty awesome trailers for upcoming horror projects from time to time. So let’s take a look at the five best from January 22 – January 26, 2024.

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Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers from the Reacher season 2 finale.

Reacher season 2 finale ends with the familiar song "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane. The song has been featured in various TV shows and films since its release in 1967, and Reacher is the latest project to utilize it. "White Rabbit" is heard during a significant scene in episode 8, and while it fits well, the song has been overused in media.

Some songs are widely loved by television and film producers (as proven by how many times they are featured in different projects), and Reacher is the latest show to fall victim to being unable to resist the charms of one tune. The series aired its season 2 finale in January 2024, and a scene in the last episode played a song that might have sounded familiar to viewers due to its repeated use in shows and movies. While it's not a crime...

Aura Battler Dunbine is one of the earliest prototypes of isekai anime, paving the way for the genre's popularity today. Fushigi Yugi blends Chinese mythology with the protagonist entering a novel, setting it apart from the European-inspired worlds of isekai. .hack//Sign is an early example of the "trapped in a virtual world" concept, focusing more on character development than action sequences.

Despite the recent popularity of isekai anime, the concept of "entering another world" has been present throughout different facets of fiction for many years. One of the oldest known examples came in the 14th century with Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Centuries later, titles like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and Howl's Moving Castle further explored the idea. One of the earliest prototypes in anime, however, was 1983's Aura Battler Dunbine.

The term "isekai" literally translates to "another world", and is a subgenre related to portal fantasy.

Acclaimed animator’s unexpected return explores profound pain, relationships and elements of his own past in the company of typically surreal characters

The great Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki recently cancelled the retirement he had announced back in 2013 and wrote and directed this new feature film. In movie terms, it’s the equivalent of Prospero supergluing his staff back together and carrying on regardless. Does the magic still work?

Well, I found The Boy and the Heron a mysterious and charming fantasy that circles back to Miyazaki’s classic themes of childhood pain and grief and how these were forged in the fires of the second world war. It also brings home an authorial point that deserves wider discussion: Miyazaki has been influenced by classic English children’s literature. At various times, this reminds me of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Cs Lewis’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Alice in Borderland is a popular Japanese TV series on Netflix that follows Arisu, a gamer who gets trapped in an apocalyptic version of Tokyo and must win dangerous games to survive. The title "Alice in Borderland" is a clever nod to the classic story "Alice in Wonderland," as both main characters find themselves stuck in a foreign world and share the desire to survive and return home. The Borderland, referenced in the title, is the show's version of Wonderland, where reality and fantasy overlap, and Tokyo becomes a deadly gamescape. Season 3 will explore new territory for the story.

Netflix has garnered various popular international series on their streaming service, including Alice in Borderland, an apocalyptic television series whose name holds an impressive metaphor. Alice in Borderland is a Japanese TV series that is based on the manga of the same name by Haro Aso. The first season was released in December 2020, and now,...

"Everything will happen." Utopia has revealed the trailer for an indie gem from Cannes this year called The Sweet East, the new film from indie cinematographer / filmmaker Sean Price Williams. It premiered in the Directors' Fortnight at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, then went on to play at the Karlovy Vary, Melbourne, London, New York, Ghent, and Philadelphia Film Festivals this year. Here's the intro: "The mental, social & political disarray of the United States, filmed like a game of hopscotch or a variation on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. High school student Lillian runs away on a school trip and, through a series of encounters, traverses the spectrum of contemporary radicalism & madness, from white supremacists to Islamic radicals, from neo-punks to woke avant-gardists." Talia Ryder stars as Lillian, with an eccentric ensemble cast featuring Earl Cave, Simon Rex, Ayo Edebiri, Jeremy O. Harris, Jacob Elordi, Rish Shah, Gibby Haynes, and Jack Irv.

Spinoff Once Upon A Time In Wonderland failed to gain traction and weakened its original show, Once Upon A Time. The spinoff, based on Lewis Carroll's novels, explored new characters and fantastical settings, but it was quickly canceled. The decision to run Once Upon A Time In Wonderland in a difficult time slot and alongside more popular shows led to its struggle and eventual cancelation.

Though expected to be a popular addition to network television, the Once Upon A Time In Wonderland spinoff series failed to take off and wound up weakening the momentum of its original show, Once Upon A Time. The idea for the spinoff series came after its forerunning show became a sensation on small screens following the lives of classic fairytale characters like Snow White, Prince Charming, Captain Hook, and more. Once Upon A Time was an ABC hit that aired for seven seasons and...

Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland was a commercial success, grossing over $1 billion at the box office, but received mixed reviews and a "rotten" score on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie's strong cast, including Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anne Hathaway, and dark spin on the fantasy classic attracted a large audience, but it didn't have a significant cultural impact. Despite its financial success, the heavy use of CGI and a conventional plot that didn't fully embrace the absurdity of Lewis Carroll's book contributed to its critical reception and "rotten" score.

Tim Burton's Disney adaptation of Alice In Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, looked like it would be a recipe for success ― and indeed, it blew Burton's other movies out of the water by bringing in more than $1 billion at the box office. However, despite cashing in commercially, Alice In Wonderland scored a "rotten" Rotten...

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is surely one of the best-loved and most widely-known stories of all time. Lewis Carroll wrote the book at an interesting time in literary history: nonsense writing was gaining popularity, and children’s books were moving away from pedagogy towards actual entertainment. Such was Alice’s popularity that it quickly broke out of its children’s literature brand and was consumed by people of all ages. Since the inception of cinema, the book has been adapted for the screen dozens and dozens of times with surprising regularity, and has bled out into other forms of media, from theater and dance to visual art. Despite its lack of traditional arcs and themes, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has left a mark on pop culture that is as prevalent now as it was 150 years ago. Of all the many adaptations out there, the Disney movies are certainly the most prominent,...

Wonderwell, the movie featuring the final performance from Star Wars icon Carrie Fisher, has unveiled its official trailer. Fisher's performance in the movie was wrapped just six weeks before her untimely death in December 2016. However, issues with the post-production budget and visual effects compounded with the Covid-19 shutdown resulted in the movie not being finished until now, seven years after her passing.

Strange Quark Films released the official trailer for Wonderwell 2023, which is available for pre-order before its official release date on June 23.

The trailer begins by introducing imaginative runaway Violet (Kiera Milward), who accidentally finds herself transported to the magical world of Wonderwell while on a walk in the woods. She meets Carrie Fisher's Hazel, a forest witch who is attuned with nature and who helps Violet on her journey to protect her from the wrath of the town's witch Yana (Rita Ora) and get back home before...

Not bad for a story of a bored but determined girl who followed a nervous rabbit, moaning that he was getting late, into a bizarre underground world, and then, climbed through a mirror into a parallel world, set out like a chess board.

And in her peregrinations through these strange illogical worlds, she meets the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the King and Queen of Hearts, the Gryphon, the Jabberwock, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Humpty Dumpty, the White Knight, and a host of many more.

‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ (1865), or ‘Alice in Wonderland’, as it is more popularly known, and its sequel ‘Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There’ (1871-2) (‘Through the Looking-Glass’ more commonly) stand high both by themselves, and the adaptations that they have inspired across various media.

The appeal of these two books, by Oxford academic and cleric Charles Luttwidge Dodgson (1832-98), who took the pen name Lewis Carroll,...

Disney's live-action Alice in Wonderland characters have unique personalities that match up with the zodiac signs. The children's books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll inspired numerous film and TV productions. The most famous adaptations are the animated and live-action versions from Disney. Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, the 2010 live-action film from Disney, took a different approach than the 1951 animated version. It follows Alice Kingsleigh, a teenager forced to choose between two life paths when she is brought back to Underland to help bring down the Red Queen. Alice's journey helps her discover what she wants out of her life.

Though Alice leads the film, many other characters influence the story's sequence of events. The live-action Alice in Wonderland re-imagines many characters from the novels, bringing minor figures into more prominent roles. With such an eclectic ensemble, it's not surprising that there are...

If there's one thing the Naboo Queen-Senator Padmé Amidala has taught us in the "Star Wars" galaxy, you're not a true politician unless you're worthy of the fashion runway. Her iconic prequel trilogy wardrobe blazed a fashion trail for her fellow galactic politicians — and cosplayers at Star Wars Celebration.

"The Mandalorian" season 3 continues Padmé's fashionista legacy by introducing a regentess played by singer Lizzo (who herself graces the concert stage as a dancing and flute-playing fashion icon). In season 3, episode 6 "Guns for Hire," Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal), his adorable foundling Grogu, and Lady Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff) venture to Plazir-15 where they are greeted by its lavish regents, the Duchess and Captain Bombardier (Jack Black). The Mandalorians — save for the enchanted Grogu — find themselves weirded out by the upper-crust atmosphere and out of place in their beskar armor.

If you were shocked by the "Star Wars" casting of Lizzo...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Yellowjackets season 2, episode 2.An online theory hypothesizes that mercury poisoning could provide a scientific explanation for the strangeness experienced by the survivors in Yellowjackets, and there's some strong evidence to support it. The show follows the lives of a high school soccer team who survive a plane crash that leaves them stranded in the Canadian wilderness in both the immediate aftermath of the crash in 1996, and decades later in the modern day. As they struggle for survival in the wilds of Canada, the survivors have experienced strange visions and made grisly discoveries that imply there's something supernatural lurking in the forest with them.

A definitive answer to whether these unexplained events are the result of trauma from the crash, the supernatural, or something else entirely is yet to be provided. Although the accidental spiking of a meal with hallucinogenic mushrooms goes a long way to explaining...

Video game power-ups are a familiar enough concept to a mass media-consuming public that Aaron Horvath's and Michael Jelenic's new film "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" doesn't bother to explain it for a second. If you consume a power-up, you're granted temporary superpowers. In terms of real-world physics, power-ups make about as much sense as, say, trapping a monster inside of a spit bubble, slamming them against the wall, and watching them magically transform into fruit (the premise of Taito's 1986 video game "Bubble Bobble"). But video games have been dictating their own surreal inner logic for decades, and audiences will readily accept any scenario.

In "The Super Mario Bros. Movie," the only primer that audiences are given regarding power-ups is when Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy) explains to Mario (Chris Pratt) that floating metal boxes, festooned with question marks, contain power-ups that can be freed by punching them.

Stephen King’s short story “The Children of the Corn” has been catnip to horror filmmakers for nearly fifty years. Originally published in the March 1977 issue of Penthouse, the tale of a quarreling couple who stumble onto a murderous cult of children in a Nebraska cornfield was included the following year in King’s first short story collection Night Shift and subsequently adapted into a 1984 feature film directed by Fritz Kiersch. Night Shift also contains the source material for King classics such as The Mangler, Sometimes They Come Back, Maximum Overdrive, and the upcoming The Boogeyman, but none of the collection’s other 19 stories have had the staying power of “Children of the Corn.” Perhaps due to its evocative title implying barbaric pagan rituals or the eerie juxtaposition between childlike innocence and brutal murder, the original film has spawned eight sequels and two remakes over the course of four decades.

Trevor Noah is readying his next book.

While much about his new project is being kept under wraps, publisher One World is billing the novel as a “gorgeously illustrated and moving modern fable for readers of all ages about forgiveness, acceptance and the secret to solidarity.” The not-yet-titled book, which is due out later this fall, is said to be evocative of allegories and fables like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Little Prince.

Noah, who’s been on a global stand-up tour since signing off at The Daily Show in early December, has already established himself as a major player in the publishing world. His previous book, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, became a No. 1 international bestseller when it was published in 2016. In fact, it spent 32 weeks on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction list and won the 2017 Thurber Prize for Humor.

In the years since,...

The box office success of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey poses the question of which other public domain tales are best suited for the horror genre…

A good story remains paramount to a successful horror movie, but the heightened genre has also found considerable success through chilling adaptations. A major hurdle in any adaptation of an existing work is securing the copyright or license to legally be allowed to reinterpret this source material. Plenty of horror movie pipe dreams couldn’t come to fruition precisely because the rights for certain properties couldn’t be acquired. But an interesting wrinkle when it comes to the acquisition of rights is stories that have entered the public domain.

Written works typically enter the public domain seventy years after the death of their latest living author. It’s a situation that means that certain texts, like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein are free to be tackled...

Whether Sailor Moon or Fruits Basket, manga has long used classic fairytales as a jumping-off point to tell their own unique stories. Manga-inspired fairytales often combine children's stories with specific Japanese mythology and traditional storytelling to explore everything from yokai folklore and urban legends to dynastic history lessons and samurai culture, giving them a universal appeal that everyone can relate to.

The most memorable manga inspired by fairytales are ones that do not simply retell the original but use the source material to tell new emotionally resonant parables and sidestep storytelling tropes and conventions to create timeless tales that can be passed for generations. Furthermore, the best manga fairytales withstand the test of time more than most.

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Kaguyahime (The Tale of The Bamboo Cutter)

The woman-created manga adapted from the early 10th-century Japanese folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Woodcutter, Reiko Shimizu's...

In Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," we follow an aged-up Alice Kingsleigh (Mia Wasikowska). At the age of 19, Alice has entered polite London society and is expected to take on duties associated with her womanhood. At a party thrown to celebrate the engagement between her and her fiance, she spies a white rabbit. Like any of us would, she follows it and ends up falling down a hole after him. Thus, she finds herself back in the magical land of Underland, a place that she thought had been a dream, but in reality, she had visited when she was a little girl. Now forced to confront her destiny, Alice has to restore Underland before its too late.

The character of Alice has been a source of creative inspiration since her original debut. First introduced to the world in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," Alice has captured the...

Film and television director and leading light of arts journalism in the 1960s and 70s

Gavin Millar, who has died aged 84 from a brain tumour, was a leading light of television arts journalism of the 1960s and 70s before going on to direct work by Alan Bennett, Dennis Potter and Victoria Wood.

His richest film was Dreamchild (1985), written by Potter, in which the elderly Alice Liddell (Coral Browne) reflects on her youthful relationship with Charles Dodgson, Aka Lewis Carroll, who used her as the inspiration for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. As well as shaping complex performances from Browne in her final screen appearance, and Ian Holm as the squirming, tormented Dodgson, Millar negotiated tonal shifts and moral ambiguities that might have foxed a less humane or sensitive film-maker.

Templates create structure, but they do get old, and it's interesting that The Powers That Be tap Snowpiercer Season 3 Episode 7 as the first episode to open without a character voice-over.

Whether this is in acknowledgment of Layton's unconscious state taking him, in essence, away from "Snowpiercer, one thousand and twenty-nine cars long," or if the entire adventure is an unspoken introspection on Layton's part. It shakes up the pattern to which we've grown accustomed.

The reveal of what caused Layton's "vision" of New Eden is a tricky ingredient to throw into the mix. New Eden is literally his brainchild. Now that he no longer has absolute faith in it, will he be able to lead the train there with conviction?

The narrative borrows a lot from The Wizard of Oz and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, reframing the frozen, Western Eurocentric world of Snowpiercer as a tropical world, overlaid with South American flavors.

Filmmakers Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley discuss the movies that inspired their latest film, Strawberry Mansion.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Strawberry Mansion (2022)

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962) – Glenn Erickson’s trailer commentary

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary

The Neverending Story (1984)

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary

Pretty Woman (1990) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

Barton Fink (1991)

Being There (1979) – Alan Spencer’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review

Salesman (1969)

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Eraserhead (1977) – Karyn Kusama’s trailer commentary

The Shining (1980) – Adam Rifkin’s trailer commentary

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review

Bottle Rocket (1996)

Rushmore (1998)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Beetlejuice (1988) – Alex Kirschenbaum’s review

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) – Axelle Carolyn’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s trailer commentary

Honey I Shrunk The Kids (1989)

Re-Animator (1985) – Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review...

Walt Disney's adaptation of Lewis Carroll's famous book, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," is now considered to be a beloved Disney classic. It stands out amongst the multitude of other Disney films with its trippy visuals and seeming lack of a "princess meets a prince" story. All it depicts is the story of Alice, a young girl who finds herself tumbling headlong into the world of Wonderland with not much of a choice in the mad hatter — I mean "matter." It's a wild romp of color and curiosity, and many consider it to be one of Disney's greatest films. However, this was not always...

The post Why Disney's Alice in Wonderland Didn't Find Success Until The '70s appeared first on /Film.

X-Men writer David Hayter is set to helm a TV adaptation of the popular Electronic Arts video game American McGee’s Alice, based on Lewis Carroll’s literary classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Ted Field’s Radar Pictures bought the rights to the action-adventure game and will develop the adaptation in partnership with Abandon Entertainment. Hayter, who penned the likes of X-Men, X-Men 2, Watchmen, The Scorpion King, and Netflix’s Warrior Nun, is on board as writer and producer. American McGee’s Alice is a 2000 third-person video game developed by Rogue Entertainment under the direction of designer American James McGee and published under EA Games. The game, and its sequel Alice: Madness Returns, are inspired by Carroll’s novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and presents a dark and violent version of the setting. In a statement (via The Hollywood Reporter), Hayter said, “American McGee’s...

Horror icon Barbara Crampton discusses a few of her favorite movies with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes:

Movies Referenced In This Episode

Re-Animator (1985)

Body Double (1984)

Jakob’s Wife (2021)

The Court Jester (1955) – John Landis’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings

The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938)

The Three Musketeers (1974) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary

The Matrix (1999)

Bound (1996)

Eyes Without A Face (1962) – Sam Hamm’s trailer commentary, Dennis Cozzalio’s review, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Halloween (1978) Adam Rifkin’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairing, Alex Kirschenbaum’s film power rankings, Alex Kirschenbaum’s timeline power rankings

All About Eve (1950)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Alien (1979) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings

Relic (2020)

Anything For Jackson (2020)

The Haunting (1963) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary

Strait-Jacket (1964) – David DeCoteau’s trailer commentary

The Silence Of The Lambs (1991) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary,...

Lewis Carroll's famous stories Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass have been adapted countless times for the screen. One of the most iconic versions is Walt Disney's animated classic Alice in Wonderland from 1951, which stapled the look of Alice as a blonde in a blue dress, white apron, and Mary Jane shoes.

Related: 5 Live-Action Disney Sidekicks Who Live Up To Their Animated Counterparts (& 5 Who Missed The Mark)

But, creating a classic was not always straightforward. Walt had to wait at least ten years to make his dreams of creating an Alice movie a reality, and, once he could, there were a lot of things to consider such as how Alice would speak and which characters to cut.

The fourth season of The Crown detailed the first encounter between Prince Charles and the young Diana Spencer, played by Josh O’Connor and Emma Corrin respectively, whose ill-fated marriage became one of the most picked apart tabloid news engines of the 20th Century. Joe Utichi meets Corrin and O’Connor to learn more.

Emma Corrin is Diana Spencer

In hindsight, Emma Corrin has an idea about why she failed her audition to attend drama school. She had been invited to audition for Rada—one of the world’s most prestigious dramatic academies—and she was keen to impress. So, she chose a monologue from John Logan’s Peter and Alice, which had first been staged by Michael Grandage in 2013 with Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw. The play tells the story of Alice Liddell, the young girl that inspired Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, meeting with Peter Llewelyn Davies,...

A new musical will serve as both a sequel to one of the greatest children’s stories of all time, as well as a prequel to another iconic fantasy adventure.

“Alice in Neverland” brings together two beloved characters, the title character from Lewis Carrol’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and the boy who never grew up at the center of J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan.” The show features book, music and lyrics by Phil Kenny and Reston Williams. Its producing team includes such Broadway heavyweights as Jerry Goehring, three-time Tony Award winner Jim Kierstead, Mike Evariste (“Disgraced”), seven- time Tony Award winner Jamie deRoy and 42nd.club.

Christy Altomare (“Anastasia”) is set to lead a developmental reading of the new musical on June 16. She is joined by Broadway veterans Heath Saunders and Tony Award nominee Will Swenson (“Hair”), as well as Megan Masako Haley (“Wicked”), Alistair Brammer (“Miss Saigon”) and Timothy...

The Wachowskis blew audiences away with their sci-fi action masterpiece The Matrix in 1999. The duo took a variety of their loves — Ghost in the Shell, William Gibson’s cyberpunk stories, Hong Kong action cinema, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the list of influences goes on — and put them all in a blender to create the unique plot and visual style of The Matrix.

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Those fans were less impressed by the two back-to-back sequels that followed in 2003, but those sequels featured plenty of the spectacular action sequences and memorable character moments that they’d come to expect from the first one.