A still from “The Magic Faraway Tree.” Image: Ashland Hill, Media Finance, Neal Street Productions, and Elysian Film Group “The Magic Faraway Tree,” a fantasy film based on the 1943 children’s novels ...

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 ...

For many people, The Magic Faraway Tree by the late children’s author Enid Blyton was one of the first books they read independently as a child. Prior to her death in 1968, Blyton penned over 700 ...

Enid Blyton’s “Magic Faraway Tree” stories have delighted successive generations, said Brian Viner in the Daily Mail. And now, they have been adapted for the big screen by Simon Farnaby, whose credits ...

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 ...

You don’t need me to tell you that as a society we are unhealthily addicted to digital devices – you’re reading this review on one (though please don’t put it down until you’ve got to the end). It is ...

Actor-turned-screenwriter Simon Farnaby, best known for helping bring Paddington 2 to life, turns his attention to Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree stories with a sweet, modern family film that leans ...

The Magic Faraway Tree is the widest new release in UK and Ireland cinemas this weekend, hoping to take advantage of the Easter holidays. Entertainment Film Distributors is releasing The Magic Faraway ...