Into the Woods Is Lost in the Second Act

An expensive-looking, long-awaited film adaptation of a frequently revived Tony Award-winning stage musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, Disney's “Into the Woods” will not be out of the woods at the mainstream box office, in spite of a star

One of many big names in the movie musical's star-studded ensemble is Johnny Depp, who appears as the Wolf to Little Red Riding Hood, played by Lilla Crawford. The two meet in the forest and share the duet, "Hello, Little Girl," as the young girl gets 

And so it was that in the spring of 2013, Meryl Streep found herself arriving at the 84-year-old composer's five-story Manhattan townhouse. She'd just been cast as the Witch in the big-screen version of Into the Woods, 

Angelina Jolie's World War II drama Unbroken and Disney's Into the Woods are feeling plenty of cheer at the Christmas Day box office, where they are dominating the action. Early Thursday estimates show Unbroken grossing in the mid- to low-teens for the 

1/2 "Into the Woods" (PG): "Some of the musical's superfans will feel shortchanged by the movie no matter what, but you have to give credit where it's due. The adaptation is pretty faithful to the original — for better and worse." — Stephanie Merry