The Witches

Octavia Spencer joins Robert Zemeckis’s adaptation of The Witches

Posted 8 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...

Octavia Spencer joins Zemeckis’ The Witches, Kenya Barris to co-write

Posted 8 years ago

As Robert Zemeckis continues to add ingredients to his cauldron for an adaptation of Roald Dahl's THE WITCHES, we've gotten word that Octavia Spencer is set to cast a spell as a member of the film's diabolical cast. Now that she's...

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

Posted 8 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...

Update: Anne Hathaway officially joins Robert Zemeckis’ The Witches

Posted 8 years ago

Recently we passed along the badass news that director Robert Zemeckis (BACK TO THE FUTURE Trilogy, CAST AWAY) was going to be helming and penning an all-new live-action adaptation of author Roald Dahl's nightmare-inducing kid-horror novel THE WITCHES. On top of...

Anne Hathaway to play to the lead crone in Robert Zemeckis’ The Witches

Posted 8 years ago

Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Something wicked this way is comes, as Variety has just announced that Anne Hathaway (THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, LOVE & OTHER DRUGS) is set to play the Grand High Witch...

Zemeckis remake of The Witches set in 1960s America

Posted 8 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...

Robert Zemeckis says his take on The Witches will be set in the Gothic South

Posted 8 years ago

Robert Zemeckis hasn't had a good year, what with his new movie WELCOME TO MARWEN being a box office disaster and labeled as one of the worst movies of the year. But still, the iconic director of BACK TO THE...

Robert Zemeckis’ The Witches remake wants Anne Hathaway

Posted 8 years ago

Way back in June we passed along the badass news that director Robert Zemeckis (BACK TO THE FUTURE Trilogy, CAST AWAY) was going to be helming and penning the screenplay for an all-new live-action adaptation of author Roald Dahl's nightmare-inducing...

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

Posted 8 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...