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It's great that Disney and Sam Raimi <a href="http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/07/12/oz-comic-con-kunis-raimi/">finally sorted things out with Warner Bros.</a> (who hold the old MGM copyright to <em>The Wizard of Oz</em>) so that the prequel, <em>Oz: The Great and Powerful</em>, could finally be released in theaters as it was meant to be seen.</p>
<p> If you weren't aware, Warner Bros. claimed that the new film <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/wizard-of-oz-disney-warner-bros-289305">couldn't make the Wicked Witch green</a>, since that was something specific to their film, and not L. Frank Baum's children's books. So instead we get a Glinda-riffic Michelle Williams all in white, a fashionably red Mila Kunis, and a darkly chic Rachel Weisz (channeling Charlize Theron in <em>Snow White and the Huntsman</em>) as the hottest witchy witches since Idina Menzel took the stage as Elpheba in <em>Wicked</em>.</p>
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yclgHQaAEJU </p>
<p><em>Oz</em> centers on James Franco as a much younger wizard, who, as it appears in the previews, somehow lands in Tim Burton's <em>Alice in Wonderland</em> (maybe the producers had some say in which way the wind blew), and befriends a red <strike>queen</strike> witch and a white <strike>queen</strike> witch. Though we haven't seen the film, we're hoping the rest of the plot revolves around the Wizard convincing his new friend to put on a magical art show at the Emerald City's Film Festival, culminating in a Marina Abramovic-style performance piece where a house falls on one--or preferably all--of them.</p>
<p>Also starring Zach Braff.</p>
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It's great that Disney and Sam Raimi <a href="http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/07/12/oz-comic-con-kunis-raimi/">finally sorted things out with Warner Bros.</a> (who hold the old MGM copyright to <em>The Wizard of Oz</em>) so that the prequel, <em>Oz: The Great and Powerful</em>, could finally be released in theaters as it was meant to be seen.</p>
<p> If you weren't aware, Warner Bros. claimed that the new film <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/wizard-of-oz-disney-warner-bros-289305">couldn't make the Wicked Witch green</a>, since that was something specific to their film, and not L. Frank Baum's children's books. So instead we get a Glinda-riffic Michelle Williams all in white, a fashionably red Mila Kunis, and a darkly chic Rachel Weisz (channeling Charlize Theron in <em>Snow White and the Huntsman</em>) as the hottest witchy witches since Idina Menzel took the stage as Elpheba in <em>Wicked</em>.</p>
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yclgHQaAEJU </p>
<p><em>Oz</em> centers on James Franco as a much younger wizard, who, as it appears in the previews, somehow lands in Tim Burton's <em>Alice in Wonderland</em> (maybe the producers had some say in which way the wind blew), and befriends a red <strike>queen</strike> witch and a white <strike>queen</strike> witch. Though we haven't seen the film, we're hoping the rest of the plot revolves around the Wizard convincing his new friend to put on a magical art show at the Emerald City's Film Festival, culminating in a Marina Abramovic-style performance piece where a house falls on one--or preferably all--of them.</p>
<p>Also starring Zach Braff.</p>
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