Brenda Chapman always loved fairy tales. “My older brother, who is sixteen years older than me, would always read Del Comics, the westerns, all the time, but he would always buy me these Junior Classics,” Chapman told me during an interview recently. “Even before I could really read I would look at the pictures. Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid were my favorites.” Years later, after she graduated from California Institute of the Arts, a private college in Santa Clarita, California, that was co-founded by Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney (along with Pasadena artist Nelbert Chouinard), …

The dark truth we all come to when watching a historical drama is this: We know how the story ends, and it's very rarely happy. So watching the teaser below for The Crown Season 4, which brings the action of the Netflix series forward to the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Diana, is hard to do without knowing just how topsy-turvy things will get for the Windsor family. Here's the official description for the series, as provided by Netflix: As the 1970s are drawing to a close, Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) and her family find themselves …

From KOEI TECMO America comes Fairy Tail, the otherworldly magical JRPG from developer GUST Studios that's based on the popular manga series. The title is now available in North America on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Windows PC via Steam. And if you're a fan of the long-running manga / anime series and would love a chance to battle as your favorite characters in a solid JRPG, you can stop reading right now and get yourself a copy. But if you're more of a casual fan, or have never heard of the manga / anime at all, you …

Gretel & Hansel takes the classic Grimm tale and adds several dark twists, leaning into the horror already present in the original fairy tale.

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Fairy tales have always been dark material. While most of us probably grew up with Disney's wondrous, family-friendly animated adaptations, the lore behind them is usually far from happily ever after. Like the blood in Cinderella's shoe or the baby in Princess Talia’s belly, there was always a throughline of the darkest elements of human nature amidst the enchantment and adventure. While the naughtier bits of the original stories were naturally scrubbed for Disney’s family-friendly princess catalogue, there are surprisingly few movies out there that embrace the dark nature of fairy tale origins. The …

Fairy tales often serve as a big inspiration for horror films. Here are some that worked with what they had better than others.

Orion has released a full trailer for the upcoming horror film, Gretel & Hansel. Based on the classic fairy tale, the story follows siblings Gretel (Sophia Lillis) and Hansel (Sammy Leakey) as they venture into the woods looking for work and food only to come across a terrifying witch (Alice Krige). As far as January horror releases go, this looks pretty solid. I like the horror imagery on display, and there seems to be an influence of gothic horror mixed with The Witch, so I’m very much here for that. The big question with these fairy tale adaptations is …

Director Oz Perkins puts a grimmer spin on the famous German fairy tale in the new trailer for his upcoming horror movie, Gretel & Hansel.

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Grimm was a supernatural procedural show with mystery cases based on fairy tales and legends. We look at the series' best and worst adaptations.

Fairy tales have always been dark material. While most of us probably grew up with Disney's wondrous, family-friendly animated adaptations, the lore behind them is usually far from happily ever after. Like the blood in Cinderella's shoe or the baby in Princess Talia’s belly, there was always a throughline of the darkest elements of human nature amidst the enchantment and adventure. While the naughtier bits of the original stories were naturally scrubbed for Disney’s family-friendly princess catalogue, there are surprisingly few movies out there that embrace the dark nature of fairy tale origins. The …

IGN spoke with the cast of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil to find out what you need to know about the upcoming sequel starring Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, and Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Orion has released the first Gretel & Hansel image. The upcoming adaptation of the classic fairy tale hails from Osgood "Oz" Perkins (The Blackcoat's Daughter, I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House) and promises a spooky reimagining of the story of a brother and sister who go to into the woods only to find evil waiting for them. IT star Sophia Lillis plays Gretel while newcomer Sammy Leakey plays Hansel. I’m curious to see how this one turns out. I’m always up for some folklore horror, and Lillis is bound to be a major …

Carnival Row is the exact type of show that is going to populate a post-Game of Thrones world for years to come. Co-creators Travis Beacham and René Echevarria have been trying to bring this thing to life for years—at one point it existed only as Beacham's feature-film spec A Murder on Carnival Row, in an entirely different life Guillermo del Toro was attached to direct the series—but the fact it's finally made its way to air now seems auspicious. Networks are racing to fill the void left by the biggest show of all …

Forget the conversation surrounding the live action remake of The Little Mermaid – Disney altered the source material way more the first time around!

Fresh off last year's acclaimed indie movie Sorry to Bother You and Steven Spielberg's blockbuster Ready Player One, Lakeith Stanfield and Olivia Cooke are in talks to star in an untitled fairy tale movie in the works at Disney+, Collider has confirmed. Susan Johnson (To All the Boys I've Loved Before) will direct from a script by Cat Vasko, while Andrew Lazar and Ben Simpson will produce for Mad Chance. The trades have kept plot details under wraps, but according to Scriptshadow, the story follows a prince who sets off on a journey with his princess-to-…

Despite the fighting, bloodshed and, often, gore that populates a Quentin Tarantino film, there almost always a key emotional thrust to the storyline. Whether it’s Django’s search for his wife Broomhilda or Jackie Brown’s unrequited love for her bail bondsman or The Bride seeking revenge for her unborn daughter, it’s been there. Tarantino, however, has never made a film that ends up as sweet and nostalgic as his latest, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Debuting at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival 25 years after Pulp Fiction took the Palm d’ Or, Once Upon begins its …