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Direção: Robert Zemeckis. |. Roteiro Robert Zemeckis , Kenya Barris. Elenco: Anne Hathaway , Octavia Spencer , Stanley Tucci. Título original Roald Dahl’s The Witches. Usuários. 3,0 236...
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22 de out. de 2020 · The Witches: Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Chris Rock, Jahzir Bruno, Octavia Spencer, Brian Bovell. A young boy and his grandmother have a run-in with a coven of witches and their leader.
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Watch The Witches | Netflix. A boy and his grandmother encounter a coven of glamorously diabolical witches and their cruel, child-hating leader — and must evade their evil plans. Watch trailers & learn more.
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In 1968, young Charlie Hansen lives with his grandmother Agatha in Demopolis, Alabama, after a car accident kills his parents in Chicago. Gradually, she cheers him up by buying him a pet mouse whom he names Daisy. One day, Charlie plans to buy a box of nails to train Daisy and to build a house for her as well. He is approached by a witch trying to ...
Development
Talks of a new adaptation of Dahl's novel began in December 2008, when Guillermo del Toro expressed interest in making a stop motion film. No further developments on the potential project emerged until 10 years later in June 2018, when Robert Zemeckis was hired to direct and write the script. Del Toro would produce, alongside Zemeckis and Alfonso Cuarón, in addition to having a screenplay credit. The film takes place in the United States, in Alabama during the 1960s, instead of the novel's 19...
Casting
In January 2019, Anne Hathaway was cast in the role of Grand High Witch. Octavia Spencer was cast in February, with newcomers Jahzir Bruno and Codie-Lei Eastick also joining. In May, Stanley Tucci and Chris Rock were added. In September 2020 it was revealed that Kristin Chenowethwas cast in the film.
Filming
Principal photography began on May 8, 2019, with filming locations including Alabama and Georgia in the US, and at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden in Hertfordshire, and Virginia Water Lake in Surrey, both in England. It was expected to wrap on June 25. On June 19, crew member Darren Langford was stabbed in the neck with a Stanley knifeon the Warner Bros. Studios set in Leavesden. On March 18, 2021, crew member Johnny Walker was convicted of wounding with intent.
In July 2019, Zemeckis's regular collaborator, Alan Silvestri, was revealed to be scoring the film. A soundtrack featuring Silvestri's score released by WaterTower Musicon October 23, 2020.
The Witches was scheduled to be released on October 16, 2020. On October 25, 2019, Warner Bros. moved up the release of the film by a week. However, on June 12, 2020, Warner Bros. announced that they pulled the film off the 2020 schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was digitally released in the United States on October 22, 2020, via HBO ...
Box office
The film grossed $4.9 million in 12 countries in its first week of release. During the weekend of November 20, the film made $1.2 million from 23 countries, for a running total of $15.1 million.By January 4, 2021, the film had a running total of $26 million from 32 countries.
Critical response
The film was criticised for its writing, and was deemed inferior to Roeg's film. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 49% of 183 critic reviews are positive for The Witches, with an average rating of 5.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "The Witches misses a few spells, but Anne Hathaway's game performance might be enough to bewitch fans of this Roald Dahl tale." According to Metacritic, which sampled 31 critics and calculated a weighted average scoreof 47 out of 100, the...
Controversy
Numerous disability advocates, including British Paralympic swimmer Amy Marren, accused the film of perpetuating bias against individuals with ectrodactyly and other limb differences. Lauren Appelbaum, a spokesperson for advocacy group RespectAbility, said the film portrays limb differences as "hideous or something to be afraid of." On November 4, 2020, Warner Bros. issued a statement in which they apologised for offending people with disabilities. They further added that they had worked with...
Available on HBO Max October 22, 2020. Based on Roald Dahl's 1973 classic book 'The Witches', the story tells the scary, funny and imaginative tale of a seven year old boy who has a run-in with...
2 de out. de 2020 · Witches are real, and they are everywhere! 🐀 Watch the official trailer for #TheWitchesHBOMax streaming exclusively on HBOMax in the US on October 22! From Oscar-winning director Robert ...
2 de out. de 2020 · Witches are real, and they are everywhere! 🐀 Watch the official trailer for #TheWitchesMovie in Cinemas Soon. From Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis (“Forrest Gump”) comes the fantasy ...
