Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The movie, written and directed by Neil Burger, was loosely based on Steven Millhauser's short story, Eisenheim The Illusionist, ...

Eisenheim is an adept magician. He reunites with his longtime love, Sophie, by summoning her dead spirit in his magic shows. Sophie and Leopold are initially engaged. But during a heated argument, ...

Bob May has 50 years experience in the performing arts and business in Southern California. He has been a stage and film actor and director. He has also been a producer, business consultant, ...

The Illusionist, directed by Neil Burger, screenplay by Burger from a short story by Steven Millhauser The Illusionist is an attractively done piece of work, that leaves a relatively small impression.

If the tall man with the stiff, lurching walk and sad, baggy eyes in “The Illusionist” looks familiar, it’s because you may have seen him before, creating joyful pandemonium on the beach in “Mr. Hulot ...

There were several reasons to anticipate Sylvain Chomet’s “The Illusionist.” The French animator’s previous feature, 2003’s “Triplets of Belleville,” was a surreal masterpiece of conceptual wonder, at ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

The Illusionist is a film set in Vienna at the turn of the century in which mastermind magician Eisenheim (Edward Norton) dazzles audiences with his astonishing magic tricks while causing disruption ...

The CW, which has Reign in its second season, is developing another period drama with roots in Western Europe — The Illusionist, based on the 2006 movie starring Ed Norton. The project, which will ...