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From Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis comes the fantasy adventure “Roald Dahl’s The Witches.” The film stars Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer, Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci, with Kristin Chenoweth and award-winning comedy legend Chris Rock. Newcomer Jahzir Kadeem Bruno also stars, alongside Codie-Lei Eastick.
Reimagining Dahl’s beloved story for a modern audience, Zemeckis’s visually innovative film tells the darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy (Bruno) who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma (Spencer) in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks our young hero away to an opulent seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world’s Grand High Witch (Hathaway) has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe—undercover—to carry out her nefarious plans.
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Based on the book by Roald Dahl, the screenplay is by Robert Zemeckis & Kenya Barris and Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro. Zemeckis is also producing, alongside Jack Rapke, del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, and Luke Kelly. Serving as executive producers are Jacqueline Levine, Marianne Jenkins, Michael Siegel, Gideon Simeloff, and Cate Adams.
Zemeckis’s behind-the-scenes team includes a roster of his frequent collaborators, including Oscar-nominated director of photography Don Burgess, production designer Gary Freeman, editors Jeremiah O’Driscoll and Ryan Chan, Oscar-nominated costume designer Joanna Johnston, and Oscar-nominated composer Alan Silvestri.
GIVEAWAY
To Celebrate The Witches, we are giving away a The Witches Gift Box! Here is everything included:
To enter comment below your favorite Roald Dahl book!
One (1) THE WITCHES gift box:
- Google ChromeCast
- HBOMax complimentary code for 7-day free trial
- WITCHES bookmark and novel
- 2 flavored popcorns, snack packs, Coffee Beanery coffee sample
- Wood decorating craft kit
- White gloves
- Mouse ears headband
- Splat hair dye and hair chalk
- Wind-up mouse
- Crayons and activity booklet
Matilda is my favorite.
My favorite Roald Dahl book is James and the Giant Peach. I remember seeing the movie at the $1 theater and loved it so I read the book.
James and the Giant Peach 🙂
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is my favorite.
I can always remember loving James and the Giant peach as well as the movie!! A really neat book.
Matilda!!
My favorite is Fantastic Mr Fox!
I adore James and the Giant Peach
I like George’s Marvelous Medicine
I am so obsessed with this movie! It’s the cutest! Of course Matilda is my most favorite 🙂
James & the giant peach is my favorite book of his.
This is so fun! I read every Roald Dahl book, several times, as a kid. I think The BFG or Matilda were my favorites but I honestly loved them all.
Danny the champion of the world is sooo good
How can I choose a favorite! I love them allll! If I absolutely had to choose I guess it would be Matilda
My favorite book of all time is The BFG! Roald Dahl is so wonderful.
Fantastic Me Fox is my favorite, I used to read it with my elementary class when I was a teacher!
Ooo, I love a lot of Roald Dahl books, I think the BFG or Matilda are my favorites!
Matilda is my favorite Roald Dahl!
Fantastic Mr. Fox- the first “chapter” book I ever read by myself!
James and the Giant Peach all the way!
I don’t have a favorite! I just saw an ad for this on YouTube, and I’m so glad I found your post so I know what it is! Can’t wait to watch! Thanks!
I love Matilda!! My daughter is currently reading the whole set
Ooh, haven’t read ‘The Witches’ yet, but now I really want to. My favorite by him is ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’.
We love The BFG but my very favorite is Matilda!