The Secret Garden is technically a kids’ movie. It’s based on a novel for children, and it’s about children. But what we expect from children’s entertainment has changed drastically over the decades, especially as PG movies have evaporated and that audience gets shuttled over into PG-13 entertainment featuring superheroes. A brief glance at the merchandise that gets sold to kids shows you what they’re interested in and what they’re buying, and that makes Marc Munden's The Secret Garden a tough sell for today’s audience. It’s even tougher in the middle of …

The classic children's story gets another film adaptation.

I've got chills.

STXfilms has released the first trailer for the new The Secret Garden movie. Produced by David Heyman who helped steer the Harry Potter and Paddington franchises, the film takes place in 1947 England and follows a young orphan girl who is sent to live with her uncle. While wandering his dilapidated estate, she discovers a magical garden, which spurs her sickly cousin out of a particularly depressing funk. The time period is new here, as Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel took place in the early 1900s, so it’ll be interesting to see how that translates. There’s a bit …

Colin Firth and Dixie Egerickx star in the trailer for the new movie adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel, The Secret Garden.