Production is now Underway for "Alice In Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass"

You’re Invited To A Very Important Date

“Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass”

Opens May 27, 2016

Alice Kingsley: Sometimes I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

The Mad Hatter: That is an excellent practice.

You're invited to a very important date!  Production begins this week on the highly anticipated sequel to Tim Burton's blockbuster reinvention of "Alice in Wonderland "—with the same A-list cast as the 2010 Oscar-winning film.

Burton is co-producing but not directing "Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass," in which Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter and Mia Wasikowska (Alice) will all reprise their roles.

Joining the film version of the whimsical world created by author Lewis Carroll is British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Another British actor Rhys Ifans, will step into the role of Zanik Hightopp, the father of Depp's Mad Hatter.

 Rounding out the cast of“Alice In Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass”  are the incredible vocal talents of:

Stephen Fry is back as the voice of the Cheshire Cat.

Toby Jones  provides the voice of Wilkins. 

Alan Rickman returns as the voice of the Blue Caterpillar.

Michael Sheen once again serves as the voice of the White Rabbit.

Timothy Spall returns to voice Bayard.

BAFTA-winning actor, writer and comedian Paul Whitehouse is back as the March Hare.

Barbara  Windsorprovides the voice of Dormouse again.

The film will also welcome back several key members of the “Alice In Wonderland” team, including award-winning composer Danny Elfman three-time Oscar®-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood who won Oscar, BAFTA and Satellite awards, among others, for her work on “Alice In Wonderland,” and five-time Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Ken Ralston who won a Satellite Award for best visual effects for “Alice In Wonderland.”  

The film—which is directed by James Bobin, and is being shot both on location and at Britain's Shepperton Studios—is set for release in May 27, 2016.

The Mad Hatter: There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter.  [picks up his hat]

Which luckily I am.

“The Lone Ranger”

I live in America’s Southwest. Here we can find desert landscapes with plenty of breathtaking mountain ranges. So when it comes to picking a movie, Westerns are usually a genre that I do not see. However, ‘The Lone Ranger’ is a Disney movie which bumps it up to a must see movie for me. The Disney remake of the 'masked avenger' cost over $250,000,000. That is a big budget to bring this old Western back to life. It was shot in several states but mainly in New Mexico with Utah, California, Colorado, and Arizona sets.

The filmmaking team behind the blockbuster ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ franchise are back at it again. With director Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer helming the project, and Johnny Depp as the top-billed actor, fans are sure to flock to the theatres for ‘The Lone Ranger’.

I had never seen the Lone Ranger, but I knew of it. If I got the question “who is John Reid?” on a game show my time would be up.

'The Lone Ranger' is an exciting adventure infused with action and humor.  The hero is brought to life through new eyes. “Native American warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice. The two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and dishonesty. I was told that Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer did most all of their stunts and there certainly were a lot of them. It is one of those movies that looks great on the big screen.