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LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Production began Monday on Walt Disney Pictures' newest take on The Wizard of Oz, Oz The Great and Powerful.

The cast boasts many big names, including Mila Kunis as the witch Theodora, James Franco as circus magician-turned-future-Wizard Oscar Diggs, Rachel Weisz as Theodora's sister Evanora, Michelle Williams as Glinda the Good Witch and Zach Braff as Oscar's assistant.

Braff will also be the voice of the winged monkey Finley, one of the movie's CGI creatures who guides Franco's character through Oz.

The upcoming flick, directed by Sam Raimi, is filming at the new Raleigh Studios in Pontiac, Mich.

The new movie focuses on how the Wizard of Oz came to be. It features Franco as Oscar, a shady small-time circus assistant, who gets whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz. He's stopped by three witches (Kunis, Weisz and Williams) who don't believe he's the great wizard everyone else has been waiting for. In the end, Oscar transforms himself into not just a better person but the great Wizard of Oz.

Oz The Great and Powerful is expected to hit theaters March 8, 2013.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Natalie Portman was the most viewed actor on IMDB in 2011.

The Oscar-winning actress has appeared in Black Swan, No Strings Attached, Thor, and Your Highness this year alone.

Black Swan co-star Mila Kunis came in at No. 2, and Johnny Depp – who has topped the list in six of the last seven years – placed at No. 3.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - A man that has been following Mila Kunis for months has been charged with two counts of felony stalking.

Stuart Lynn Dunn, 27, was arrested while waiting for Kunis outside her LA gym, and is now being charged with violating a restraining order in addition to the count of stalking. A restraining order was taken out against Dunn by the actress after he broke into a vacant condo she owned back in January.

If convicted, Dunn faces up to four years in prison.