Selick’s Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas Every year, The Nightmare Before Christmas, directed by Henry Selick, is ...

The Magic Faraway Tree is mostly based on The Enchanted Wood, first published in 1939, the first book in Blyton’s Magic ...

The iconic Magic Castle is expected to reopen as soon as Friday after a fire broke out in the attic of the historic Hollywood ...

Abby meets the stars of new film The Magic Faraway Tree, Billie Gadsdon and Nicola Coughlan who share stories from the set including their favourite memories of filming, Billie's reaction to being ...

The story: English actress Claire Foy stars as Helen Macdonald in an adaptation of the Cambridge University academic’s 2014 best-selling memoir on her profound grief upon her beloved father’s sudden ...

Enid Blyton’s classic kids’ fantasy novel gets the big-screen treatment, while the Aussie boyband hit the UK’s arenas The Magic Faraway Tree Out now A family relocate to the countryside where they ...

18:01, Fri, Mar 27, 2026 Updated: 18:14, Fri, Mar 27, 2026 Having penned the first two Paddington movies and Wonka, Ghosts star Simon Farnaby has now turned his whimsical writing skills to adapting ...

This week's Empire Podcast sees us clamber into the Magic Faraway Tree to talk with Simon Farnaby and Ben Gregor, the writer and director respectively of the brand new Enid Blyton adaptation. Together ...

Simon Farnaby has worked his magic on British classics before with Paddington 2 and Wonka, turning them into movies that the whole family can enjoy. Even on the small screen, he's become as close to a ...

There are no longer characters called Dick and Fanny, more’s the pity, but this suitably enchanting spin on Enid Blyton’s beloved Faraway Tree books adds plenty of (intentional) humour to the mix.

The Magic Faraway Tree lands in UK and Ireland cinemas this week ahead of the Easter school holidays, and it sounds like it's going to be a must-see for families. The movie has debuted with a perfect ...