Kerri-Anne Kennerley spills: ‘It was the worst job I had!’

HBO Max’s recent Halloween offering, “The Witches,” is meant to be a fun romp for kids who are looking for something a bit spookier than your typical children’s film. However, after the reviews skewered Robert Zemeckis’ latest film and “The Witches” debuted on the streamer, various people in the disability community began to voice their issues with the film’s depiction of its main villain, the Grand High Witch (played by Anne Hathaway).

Warner Bros studios and Anne Hathaway apologized this week after being criticized for their use of physical impairments in the newly released movie “The Witches.” In the film, Hathaway’s character, “Grand High Witch” is seen with hands that are similar to Ectrodactyly which involves the deficiency or absence of one or more central digits of the hand or foot, it’s also known as split hand/split foot malformation.

The Witches.The actress, who plays the Grand High Witch in Robert Zemeckis’ recent remake, took to Instagram following criticism about the film’s portrayal of limb difference, as her character is given three fingers on both hands – going against the depiction in Roald Dahl’s original book.“I have recently learned that many people with limb differences, especially children, are in pain because of the portrayal of the Grand High Witch in The Witches,” Hathaway wrote on Instagram.

Naman Ramachandran “The Witches” star Anne Hathaway has apologized for the portrayal of disability in the film.“I have recently learned that many people with limb differences, especially children, are in pain because of the portrayal of the Grand High Witch in ‘The Witches,’” Hathaway posted on her Instagram page.“Let me begin by saying I do my best to be sensitive to the feelings and experiences of others not out of some scrambling PC fear, but because not hurting others seems like a basic

blasted the new film remake for 'using disability to highlight a character as a baddie.'Melissa, a campaigner for disability on screen and stage, shared a photo of Anne in character with claws which can be identified by their three-finger taloned hands which they hide by wearing five-finger gloves.The Last Leg's Alex Brooker also slammed the movie for its 'sad portrayal' of disability.He told the Daily Star: "As someone with missing fingers, it.s made me so sad to see how this is portrayed as

Anne Hathaway is issuing an apology for her character’s hands in HBO Max’s The Witches revival.

South Korea has picked Min-ho Woo's political thriller The Man Standing Next as its entry for the best international feature film category at the 2021 Oscars. Set amid the country's military dictatorship period, the film centers on the inner circle of real-life South Korean president Park Chung-hee during the 40 days before his assassination in 1979.

South Korea's CJ Entertainment, best known as the studio behind Bong Joon-ho's Oscar winner Parasite, has signed Deon Taylor (The Intruder, Black and Blue, Traffik) to direct the upcoming gothic thriller Grave Hill, the company’s English-language remake of the hit Vietnamese horror film The Housemaid.

On Thursday, producers John Frost and Suzanne Jones confirmed the 67-year-old had signed on with the production, which opens at the Sydney Lyric theatre in November.