Raimi is set to direct Oz: The Great and Powerful, a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, which will be released in 2013 by Walt Disney Pictures.

The actors were not told the end result of the Willow – Oz – Tara storyline, not sure what the eventual trajectory of the relationship would be, until Hannigan said, " Then finally it was, ' Great!

* Oz: The Great and Powerful, 2013 film

His best-known film appearance prior to The Wizard of Oz was The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), in which he portrayed himself.

After this, Jim, Kevin ( Thomas Ian Nicholas ), Oz ( Chris Klein ) and Finch ( Eddie Kaye Thomas ) return to their hometown in East Great Falls, Michigan for the summer break after their first year of college.

In addition to composing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, including the classic 1938 song, " Over the Rainbow ,” Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook.

The Wizard of Oz, known during his reign as The Great and Powerful Oz, is the epithet of Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkel Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs, a fictional character in the Land of Oz, created by American author L. Frank Baum.

In Oz: the Great and Powerful, when Oscar Diggs ( James Franco ), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he ’ s hit the jackpot — fame and fortune are his for the taking — that is until he meets three witches, Theodora ( Mila Kunis ), Evanora ( Rachel Weisz ), and Glinda ( Michelle Williams ), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone ’ s been expecting.

The Emerald City of Oz reveals that she owns a Great Book of Records that allows her to track everything that goes on in the world from the instant it happens.

In The Emerald City of Oz, when Ozma goes to consult Glinda about the security of her Ozian citizens, the Sorceress seals off all of Oz from the Great Outside World, making Oz invisible to the eyes of mortals flying overhead in airplanes and such.

In the original novel, of course, the unnamed Good Witch of the North genuinely believed that the Wizard of Oz was the only entity powerful enough to send Dorothy back home to Kansas, while Glinda the Good Witch ( later " Sorceress ") of the South does not claim to be similarly powerful until the sixth book, The Emerald City of Oz, by which point in time she creates " The Great Book of Records ," which chronicles everything that takes place inside as well as outside Oz.

In March 2013, she will play Theodora, the youngest of three witches, opposite James Franco in the Walt Disney Pictures ' prequel, Oz: The Great and Powerful.

Oz, managed by Merlin the Wizard, was pushed strongly throughout early 1991 ; he squashed several wrestlers before losing to Ron Simmons at the Great American Bash on July 14.

Glinda's Great Book of Records is introduced in Chapter 29 of The Emerald City of Oz: " ' It is a record of everything that happens ,' replied the Sorceress.

She is scheduled to appear next in 2013's Oz: The Great and Powerful.

During 2011, it was reported that Williams signed on to star in Walt Disney Pictures's Oz, The Great and Powerful, a 3-D prequel to be released March 8, 2013.

Mila Kunis plays the Wicked Witch of the West who is named Theodora in the upcoming 2013 film Oz: The Great and Powerful.

* Rachel Weisz plays the Wicked Witch of the East who is named Evanora in the upcoming 2013 film Oz: The Great and Powerful.

to star in Oz: The Great and Powerful, a Disney prequel to L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ( 1900 ), as the Wizard, superseding Johnny Depp.

He will star as Oscar Diggs / the Wizard of Oz in the film Oz: The Great and Powerful, which is a prequel to the 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Baum had intended to cease writing Oz stories with this book, but financial pressures prompted him to write and publish The Patchwork Girl of Oz, with seven other Oz books to follow.

In all, Baum wrote fourteen children's books about Oz and its inhabitants, as well as six shorter books intended for younger readers.

The Initiative's captives have ( at various points ) included the werewolf Oz and the vampire Spike, the latter of whom was implanted with a chip that caused him to experience extreme pain whenever he attacked ( or intended to attack ) a human being.

Production notes suggest that it was intended that her last name would be Gale, an allusion to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, given the fact that she was transported to Iceworld via a time storm.

Ink was an offshoot of Oz and was intended to be a bridge between the underground press of the 1960s and the national newspapers of that time.

Whittlesey's vacation was supposed to be finished, but she never came back to Oz, much to McManus ' disappointment and agitation, since he intended to propose to her upon her return.

This genre may include modern fairy tales, which use fairy tale motifs in original plots, such as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Hobbit, as well as erotic, violent, or otherwise more adult-oriented retellings of classic fairy tales ( many of which, in many variants, were originally intended an audience of adults, or a mixed audience of all ages ), such as the comic book series Fables.

Cosgrove originally intended to have Jam travel to Oz by rocket, but the publishers informed her that that had already been done in The Yellow Knight of Oz.

With Sony Wonder, it has produced Mega Babies ( also aired on Fox Family ), as well as a direct-to-video feature, Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage ( a prequel to both the L. Frank Baum work, and the 1939 movie ).

* 1939 – The Wizard of Oz premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.

Another example is the place of The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) in American and British gay culture, although a widely viewed and historically important film in greater American culture.

" Yip " Harburg ( performed by Judy Garland in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz ), " White Christmas " written by Irving Berlin ( best-known performance by Bing Crosby ), " This Land Is Your Land " written and performed by Woody Guthrie, " Respect " written by Otis Redding ( best-known performance by Aretha Franklin ), and " American Pie ".

1939, a major year for American cinema, brought such films as The Wizard of Oz and Gone with The Wind.

He filmed the cave scene for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( 1938 ) and, following the firing of its original director Richard Thorpe, Cukor spent a week on the set of The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).

* Hickory, portrayed by Jack Haley, the farm worker who became the Tin Woodsman in Dorothy's dream in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz

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Frank Baum's grave in one of the films, whose younger brother Harold Rosson photographed The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).

While " The Wizard of Oz " nickname was an allusion to the 1939 motion picture of the same name, Smith also came to be known as simply " The Wizard " during his playing career, as Smith's Baseball Hall of Fame plaque would later attest.

The term " cyclone " is used as a synonym for " tornado " in the often-aired 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz.

Her most famous role was as Glinda the Good Witch in the film The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).

In films such as The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ), Spellbound ( 1945 ), The Manchurian Candidate ( 1962 ) and Inception ( 2010 ), the protagonists must extract vital clues from surreal dreams.

* The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 film ), its best-known adaptation

The Wizard of Oz has been adapted to other media numerous times, most famously in the MGM's 1939 film starring Judy Garland.

Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum's " The Wonderful Wizard of Oz " on Stage and Screen to 1939 ( 2000 ).

Guests included Morticia's older sister Ophelia ( also played by Carolyn Jones in the original television series ), Morticia's cousin Melancholia, and Morticia's mother Hester Frump ( played in the 1960s series by Margaret Hamilton, wearing her Miss Almira Gulch dress from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz ).

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# REDIRECT The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 film )

A notable flop at the box office, the film cast doubt on whether or not a live-action fantasy peopled by strange-looking characters could be successfully presented on the screen, until MGM's The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) erased such doubts, at least in the minds of some critics.