Zemeckis and Del Toro’s remake of The Witches gets same rating as 1990 film

Posted 6 years ago

Director Nicolas Roeg's 1990 adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel THE WITCHES (you can pick up a copy of the book HERE and watch the movie HERE) was only rated PG, but the movie still managed to disturb the hell...

Taika Waititi and friends to read James and the Giant Peach for charity

Posted 6 years ago

Attention parents and lovers of timeless children's literature, Taika Waititi and a bunch of his friends are gearing up to honor the work of author Roald Dahl with a star-studded read-along of James and the Giant Peach. The fun is set...

The Witches remake starring Anne Hathaway begins filming next month

Posted 7 years ago

Director Robert Zemeckis's adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel THE WITCHES starring Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer is all set to conjure children into mice in October 2020. And today we have word that this release date is still on...

Octavia Spencer joins Robert Zemeckis’s adaptation of The Witches

Posted 7 years ago

The trailer for the Blumhouse thriller MA, which stars Octavia Spencer as the title character, is supposed to arrive online sometime today. While we wait to see what that's going to be like, Spencer has already lined up her next...

Warner Bros. schedules The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep & The Witches remake

Posted 7 years ago

Warner Bros. has shuffled their release schedule a bit, announcing dates for a handful of movies last night, and a couple of movies mentioned in their announcement are of particular interest to us here at Arrow in the Head. First...

Zemeckis remake of The Witches set in 1960s America

Posted 7 years ago

Roald Dahl's 1983 novel THE WITCHES was set in modern day Norway and England, and director Nicolas Roeg's 1990 cinematic adaptation held on to that setting. Now Robert Zemeckis, the director of such films as BACK TO THE FUTURE, WHO...

Netflix creating new animated event series set in Roald Dahl story universe

Posted 7 years ago

The stories of Roald Dahl have been part of the lives of countless children and adults for decades, transcending from pages to the screen in movies like WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, THE WITCHES,...

Zemeckis to direct remake of The Witches, Del Toro and Cuaron producing

Posted 8 years ago

It's been nine and a half years since it was first announced that filmmakers Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron would be collaborating on a new adaptation of the 1973 Roald Dahl novel THE WITCHES, a book which was previously...

The UnPopular Opinion: The BFG

Posted 8 years ago

Alex THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We're hoping this column...

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