Oz the Great and Powerful is a 2013 American musical fantasy adventure film directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Lindsay-Abaire and Mitchell Kapner. Starring James Franco in the title role, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams, Zach Braff, Bill Cobbs, Joey King, and Tony Cox, the film is a spiritual prequel to the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. The film premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on February 14, 2013, followed by a general theatrical release on March 8, 2013. It grossed over USD 493 million worldwide against a USD 200 million budget, making it the 13th-highest-grossing film
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Oz the Great and Powerful is a 2013 American musical fantasy adventure film directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Lindsay-Abaire and Mitchell Kapner. Starring James Franco in the title role, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams, Zach Braff, Bill Cobbs, Joey King, and Tony Cox, the film is a spiritual prequel to the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. The film premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on February 14, 2013, followed by a general theatrical release on March 8, 2013. It grossed over USD 493 million worldwide against a USD 200 million budget, making it the 13th-highest-grossing film of 2013. Film won the Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Live Action Family Film and Kunis won the MTV Movie Award for best Villain for her performance as the Wicked Witch of the West. It is based on L. Frank Baum’s early 20th century Oz novels and set 20 years before the events of the original 1900 novel, set in the Land of Oz in 1905. The story follows Oscar Diggs, a deceptive magician who arrives in Oz and encounters three witches: Theodora, Evanora, and Glinda. Oscar is then enlisted to restore order in Oz while struggling to resolve conflicts with the witches and himself. Oscar infiltrates the Emerald City with his allies but apparently abandons them in a hot air balloon loaded with gold.
The witches are tricked into sending their flying baboons through a poppy field that puts them to sleep, but Glinda is captured in the process. As the wicked sisters prepare to kill Glinda, Oscar appears, having faked his death and faked his betrayal and appears to kill them with a fireball which destroys a gold balloon. The Wicked Witch is revealed to be the late king’s daughter Glinda the Good Witch, and Evanora is the true Wicked Witch, who turns Glinda into a hideous green-skinned creature. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the movie grossed more than $500 million worldwide and was released in 3D, RealD 3D and IMAX 3D formats. It was released to cinemas on February 15, 2013 and has been released in 2D, 2D and Blu-ray 3D versions as well as a Blu-Ray 2D version and 2D 2D Blu-Disc 2D 4D 4K 3D. It has also been released on Blu-D 3K 4K and DVD in the United States and in the UK on February 16, 2014 and in Australia on February 17, 2014. The movie was released on DVD on February 22, 2014, in the U.S. and in Canada on February 23, 2014 in the 4th and 5th edition of The Wizard Of Oz blu-ray 2D & 3D & 4K & 4D & 2D Theatrical & Blu-Rigsby 3D Theaters.
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