The past few years have brought harrowing stories of streaming platforms shelving completed projects as tax write-offs. This time, at least, there’s a happy ending for the YA series The Spiderwick ...

LOS ANGELES—Nick Nolte arrives in a room at an L.A. hotel looking exactly the way you might picture him if you remember the famed Nolte mug shot of 2002. He is wearing pyjama pants and slippers that ...

With character names like Hogsqueal, Mulgarath and Thimbletack, it’s got to be derivative. So it’s not altogether surprising that Mark Waters’ (“Freaky Friday,” “Mean Girls”) adaptation of “The ...

"I think the overall, overarching moral message is different. It's timely and nuanced. It's got a new, refreshing twist, so to speak," Jack Dylan Grazer, who plays Thumbletack on the Roku series, ...

Coming on the heels of Harry Potter, The Spiderwick Chronicles can't help but look derivative: Troubled child uncovers a charmed world and fends off the powers of evil, soaring over glade and glen on ...

It's Disney+ Day, and as the studio celebrates the second anniversary of its streaming platform, the flood of news continues with the announcement (via Deadline) that a new adaptation of The ...

Despite having reportedly completed all filming on the six-episode series, Disney+ won’t actually be airing its TV adaptation of Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black’s Spiderwick Chronicles books, Deadline ...

Unquestionably, the best thing about the series is Christian Slater as the central villain Mulgarath, a bloodthirsty ogre who disguises himself as a charming small-town father in order to hatch a plan ...

Starring Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, and Mary-Louise Parker. Rated PG. Because it aspires to be Pan’s Labyrinth for the Harry Potter crowd, The Spiderwick Chronicles doesn’t lack ambition. The ...

This interactive adaptation of the movie of the books is one of those games that starts off better than you expect, and then slowly droops to being exactly what you expect. At one point, near the ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Mark Waters’ The Spiderwick Chronicles doesn’t bring anything particularly new to the fantasy genre. In fact, I don’t think I saw ...