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Review: Into the Woods

PLOT: Based on the 1987 musical of the same name, INTO THE WOODS brings several fairy tales – including Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel and Little Red Riding Hood – to vivid life and combines them into one convoluted...

Posted 10 years ago

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New trailer for Disney’s Into the Woods starring Meryl Streep & Emily Blunt

Posted 11 years ago

Disney has released a new trailer for INTO THE WOODS, their upcoming big screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award–winning Broadway musical, and if you're one of those people who was bummed there wasn't any singing in the first trailer,...

Hear Meryl Streep and Anna Kendrick sing in this Into the Woods featurette

Posted 11 years ago

INTO THE WOODS is Disney’s big budget musical opening this Christmas and the type of tentpole film designed specifically for Oscar consideration. Like LES MISERABLES before it, INTO THE WOODS is based on a Broadway play that has had a...

Johnny Depp’s Wolf revealed from Into the Woods

Posted 11 years ago

The teaser trailer for INTO THE WOODS featured some nice melodies and a good chunk of the cast but one of biggest names was MIA. Now the look of Johnny Depp's wolf character from the tale of Little Red Riding...

Into the Woods poster showcases Meryl Streep and a wall of text

Posted 11 years ago

It's been a few months since the first trailer for the fairy tale musical INTO THE WOODS hit the net, and now a new poster is here to remind you that this flick is being released this Christmas. There's been...

The trailer for Stephen Sondheim’s musical fairytale Into the Woods is here!

Posted 11 years ago

For those of you looking forward to Stephen Sondheim’s next big-screen adaptation, INTO THE WOODS, the first trailer is finally here to give us a taste. If you’re unfamiliar with the stage play, it premiered on Broadway in 1987, ran...

New images of Johnny Depp and more in the musical Into The Woods

Posted 11 years ago

Disney has been making a run at live action adaptations of their classic animated fairy tales, but the Rob Marshall musical is going to be something a little different. Taking classic characters like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, INTO...

Composer reveals major plot changes for Disney’s Into The Woods adaptation

Posted 11 years ago

INTO THE WOODS fans might not be too happy about how different Disney's upcoming adaptation of the classic Stephen Sondheim musical will be compared to the original source material. While speaking with a group of high school drama teachers, Sondheim...

First Look: Meryl Streep looks creepy as hell in this photo from Into the Woods

Posted 12 years ago

I know I’ve said this before but every single time I read something on INTO THE WOODS, my head immediately goes to the song from Nick Cave‘s former band, The Birthday Party. Too bad they won’t add that song to...

Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep in taks to join Disney musical Into the Woods

Posted 12 years ago

Meryl Streep and Johnny Depp may be joining forces to take on a musical for Disney. The sing song extravaganza will be an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine‘s Broadway hit, INTO THE WOODS. Rob Marshall (PIRATES OF THE...