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	<title>Obsessed With Film &#187; Tim-Burton</title>
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		<title>ALICE IN WONDERLAND posters!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My guess is that Disney have modeled the new Johnny Depp poster for Tim Burtons' Alice in Wonderland on the theme park itself, the castle in the background and the colour scheme, very reminiscent of what it's like looking at the Cinderella castle from a distance.



Two further posters released this week for the movie, which I found at /film...





Put them all together and it will look something like this...



Fabulous imagery, great concept for a poster and is anyone of the impression that this money ain't gonna make a ton of cash next May?

It's gonna be one of next year's biggest hits. This won't have that Christmas Carol syndrome. This one will be huge! ]]></description>
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		<title>Weird For The Sake Of Weirdness?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray DeRousse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Even though this story on Celebrity Freakshow is supposed to be a joke, the central idea behind it made me think about this issue I have with the works of Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam.

It's been bugging me ever since the recent debuts of the trailers for their upcoming films Alice In Wonderland and The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassas. Both films look highly imaginative, a quality sorely lacking in mainstream Hollywood these days. But am I alone in feeling a bit deflated at the sight of non-stop quirkiness? Is the weirdness inherent in the works of these two directors purposely imaginative, or simply on purpose?



The trailer for Parnassas shows Gilliam returning to the fantastical realms he explored in films like The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen and Brazil. It is to Gilliam's credit that these films are highly original works, full of creativity and whimsy.  But watching the trailer for Parnassas is like seeing a highlight reel of Gilliam's past works - hot air balloons, distorted perspectives, stilted performances, and chilly adventures.

To be fair, aside from Time Bandits, I've never really connected with any of Gilliam's films. He's a bit like the Pink Floyd of movies - technically brilliant, intellectually compelling, but cold and unengaging. And ...]]></description>
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		<title>DARK SHADOWS is next for Tim Burton</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Once Tim Burton is finished with Alice's quest down the rabbit hole, he will be taking his Mad Hatter Johnny Depp, and his Sweeney Todd writer John August to the 60's world of spooky soap opera's, with the cult gothic horror Dark Shadows, the adaptation of the daily ABC serial that ran for five years, amassing 1,225 episodes. 

Depp will play Barnabas Collins, the self-loathing and tortured vamp patriarch of the series who Depp idolised, and became obsessed with as a child. Yes girls, Johnny Depp as a vampire. Doesn't that excite you?

Though it's old news that all three men would be working together on this film (John August has been writing the screenplay for Depp and Burton for a good while now), it's nice to finally have more confirmation that the movie will be Burton's next after Wonderland. Or at least, "that's the plan" as the official quotes cite him from the SDCC.

After the jump, more on Dark Shadows and how it fits in as a "Tim Burton" film...



All the staples of the Burton formula are here, as the show regularly featured werewolves, ghosts, zombies, man-made monsters and witches, and it's use of atmosphere and outlandish characters was it's hallmark. The show sounds like it very ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Burton&#8217;s ALICE IN WONDERLAND is going to creep you out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Astonishing promotional photo's and artwork have been released by Walt Disney Pictures at USA Today, showing off the first official glimpse at three major fantasy characters in Tim Burton's motion captured 3-D animated adaptation of the much loved Lewis Carroll fable Alice in Wonderland. 

What kind of deranged artist makes your best friend and your wife look like this? Tim Burton, that's who...
JOHNNY DEPP AS THE MAD HATTER!!!

HELENA BONHAM CARTER AS THE RED QUEEN


And then finally....
ANNE HATHAWAY AS THE WHITE QUEEN


What I didn't realise before I had read the article at USA Today is that Burton's movie is kind of a sequel to Carroll's fable, in that a now 17 year old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) makes a run for it after she finds out she is about to be proposed to in front of a large high society group of snobs. 

She once again falls down the rabbit hole and arrives back in Wonderland, a place she last visited ten years ago. She doesn't remember her visit to Wonderland but The White Rabbit remembers her, and the creatures of Wonderland are hoping she will help them in their revolt. 

That sounds more interesting than a simple re-imagining, and will hopefully lead to new character ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sheen not The Cheshire Cat in Burton&#8217;s WONDERLAND. So who is&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[/film have heard with "full confidence" that Stephen Fry has nabbed the part of the Cheshire Cat in Tim Burton's motion captured 3-D animated ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

Previously we thought Michael Sheen had been cast in the role because of his signature wide "Tony Blair" grin but it seems instead he has been used for The White Rabbit.



It seems Fry will be the cat, who in Burton's mind is said to be "green and yellow and rather cuddly looking".



Also joining the cast is Cameron Crowe fav Noah Taylor (VANILLA SKY, ALMOST FAMOUS) but for what role, we don't know.

The movie which won't open till next Christmas has a stellar cast that includes...

Mia Wasikowksa (Alice), Johnny Depp (Mad Hatter), Anne Hathaway (The White Queen), Helena Bonham Carter (Queen of Hearts), Stephen Fry (The Cheshire Cat), Alan Rickman (Caterpillar), Crispin Glover (Knave of Hearts), Michael Sheen (The White Rabbit), Matt Lucas (Tweedledee and Tweedledum) and Noah Taylor and Christopher Lee in unknown roles.

The movie is well into filming and will be in cinema's March 5th 2010. ]]></description>
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		<title>Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Burton&#8217;s WONDERLAND</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many are flagging this as fake but I just can't say for certain. This may, or may not be our first look at Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter from Tim Burton's next movie ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

I'm saying probably not because the Disney film will be motion captured so there really is no reason why Depp would be so thoroughly costumed. And it just looks kind of fake.



Opening March 10th 2010, Mia Wasikowska will star as the title character opposite Depp (Mad Hatter), Anne Hathaway (The White Queen) Helena Bonham Carter (The Red Queen), Michael Sheen (Cheshire Cat), Matt Lucas (Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum), Crispin Glover (Knave of Hearts), Alan Rickman (Caterpillar) and in unknown roles Stephen Fry and Christopher Lee.

The film will use the same 3-D motion captured technology as found in BEOWULF. ]]></description>
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		<title>Two of the greatest ever screen villains have joined ALICE IN WONDERLAND</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Lee (Hammer's DRACULA, LORD OF THE RINGS) and Alan Rickman (SWEENEY TODD, DIE HARD), two of the greatest and most profilic screen villains of all time have joined Tim Burton's motion captured adaptation of ALICE IN WONDERLAND over at Disney.

Rickman will play the  hookah-smoking Caterpillar but Lee's role is undisclosed.

Neither casting is all that surprising.

Rickman brought his A-Game to SWEENEY TODD and of course has one of the most recognisable villain voices in the industry.

Lee who was worked with Burton on SLEEPY HOLLOW and CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY was set to work with the director again on SWEENEY TODD, until Burton decided to cut the ghosts aspect from his tale. That was said to have pissed Lee off but it now looks like they have settled on their differences.

Also now confirmed for the movie is Danny Elfman, who will be scoring the film for his long time friend and partner. Elfman's skills, understandably, weren't need for TODD as the Stephen Sondheim music was already in place.

Elfman confirmed it last week...


Burton has put together an amazing cast...

Mia Wasikowska as Alice
Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter
Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen
Anne Hathaway as The White King
Alan Rickman as ...]]></description>
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		<title>Crispin Glover joins ALICE IN WONDERLAND!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Burton is putting together a fantastic cast for his motion captured ALICE IN WONDERLAND, the latest thesp to join the Disney picture is Crispin Glover.

He's playing the Knave of Hearts, who in the classic tale is put on trial for stealing the Queen of Hearts' tarts. In BEOWULF, Glover motion captured and voiced the character of Grendel.



Glover's eccentricities and physical performances suit this medium perfectly, maybe he's going to have a new resurgence in his career with this kind of role.

Burton has put together an amazing cast here. Johnny Depp (as Mad Hatter), Anne Hathaway (White Queen), Helena Bonham Carter (The Red Queen), Michael Sheen (Cheshire Cat) and Matt Lucas (Tweeldedee and Tweedledum)... along with newcomer Aussie lead Mia Wasikowska.

Tim Burton's movie will be out in March 2010.

source - the hollywood reporter ]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Sheen is The Cheshire Cat in ALICE IN WONDERLAND!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damn fine casting right here. Michael Sheen, the guy who imitated Tony Blair and his Cheshire Cat smile quite brilliantly in THE QUEEN, has been cast in Tim Burton's ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

Although Variety don't say, he has to be playing The Cheshire Cat, right?



Another excellent casting choice from Burton. Motion capturing the face of that Cheshire Cat, I can't imagine anyone's wide smile being more fitting.

The trade also tell us that Michael Sheen has joined UNTHINKABLE, the new movie from Gregor Jordan (BUFFALO SOLDIERS, NED KELLY) which looks at the ethics of torture after a terrorist threatening to detonate nuclear devices in the U.S. is questioned by a black-ops interrogator and an FBI agent.



Samuel L. Jackson plays the black-ops interrogator, Carrie Anne-Moss is the FBI agent.

That movie begins filming later this month. Sheen can be next seen as David Frost in Ron Howard's FROST/NIXON which begins a limited U.S. run from December 5th (January in the U.K.). ]]></description>
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		<title>LITTLE BRITAIN&#8217;S Matt Lucas is Tweedledee &amp; Tweedledum in Burton&#8217;s WONDERLAND</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I actually heard this on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on Friday but then totally forgot to write about it until I stumbled across a reminder at /film.

Little Britain star Matt Lucas has revealed that he will be playing both Tweedledee &#38; Tweedledum in the Disney 3-D animated ALICE IN WONDERLAND for what will probably be a motion captured performance.



The two fat twin brothers are of course virtually one in the same, they compliment but never contradict each other.

Outfit wise, they aren't all that dissimilar to the outfit that Lucas wears as "the only gay in the village" on Little Britain, and you can certainly see why Lucas was cast. I believe the show has recently debuted on HBO in the U.S, so you may be aware now of how camp, loud and physical Lucas is as a performer...



Mia Wasikowska (as Alice), Johnny Depp (as The Mad Hatter) and Helena Bonham Carter (as Queen of Hearts) are already on board Tim Burton's film, with filming under-way in Cornwall. ]]></description>
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		<title>First Look: ALICE IN WONDERLAND set pics!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we reported a while ago, filming has begun on schedule at the Cornwall set of Tim Burton's Disney 3-D animated adaptation of Lewis Carroll's ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

INF have several great shots of the young Aussie actress by the name of Mia Wasikowska who has the title role...



/Film speculate that the lack of a 3D camera from the photo's would suggest that these shots filmed of the opening scene will be kept in live action in the final cut, then when Alice falls down the rabbit hole it will turn into the animated Digital Disney 3-D.

If it sounds familiar it is of course the famous juxtaposition used in THE WIZARD OF OZ where the movie began in black and white before turning into colour when Dorothy arrives at the wonderful land of Oz.

Click below to see director Tim Burton and his fiance Helena Bonham Carter on set (she will play The Queen of Hearts), along with more images of Alice.









 ]]></description>
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		<title>Plymouth in WONDERLAND!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A casting event is taking place in the British city of Plymouth  this week where 250 extra's will be chosen for background parts in Tim Burton's next movie Alice in Wonderland. The live action blended with 3-D motion captured CGI movie will shoot in the city next month for two weeks for "scenes     set in Victorian times"

The film's casting agents will be at the New Continental     Hotel in Plymouth, on Wednesday August 6 and Thursday August 7,     between 10am and 6pm, auditioning for paid extras.

Mia Wasikowska (Alice) and whomever it is who is playing The Mad Hatter (expected to be Johnny Depp) I would suggest would be there too.
“We are     looking for people above the age of 16 who have naturally     coloured hair... whose work allows the flexibility     of two weeks' worth of filming...

...There will be at least 100 crew on-set and it'll be a     wonderful experience to be a part of a big movie. It'll be     well-paid and hopefully a hugely enjoyable experience".
Rumors abound that filming ...]]></description>
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		<title>Depp is Burton&#8217;s MAD HATTER, naturally!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course, it's the easiest rumor in the world to make up. Johnny Depp has starred in Tim Burton's last three movies - six of the director's last nine pictures.

Need a story for a slow news day to generate hits to your site? Yeah, why not put Depp and Burton together on their next project, after all it will probably turn out to be true anyway!


MSN News claim that Depp has been snapped up by Burton to play The Mad Hatter in the director's motion captured CGI adaptation of Lewis Carroll's complete mind-fuck of a fable. Last week 18 year old Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska was tapped up to play Alice. 

Didn't we kind of all expect Depp's casting to be a given anyway? Would it not be stranger for Burton NOT to cast him in one of his upcoming pictures?

We all know Depp can play eccentric and crazy, and in the right character like Jack Sparrow or Ichabod Crane can do a wonderful job. But we all know what happened to Willy Wonka, kind of the bastard cousin of Mad Hatter, so I would advise him to go a completely different route here.

Now let's just wait for the news of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Burton finds his ALICE down under!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That's down under in Australia and not the Rabbit Hole!

The Hollywood Reporter say 18 year old actress Mia Wasikowska is in final talks for the titular character in Burton's motion captured Beowulf style, 3-D Digital take on Lewis Carroll's classic fable Alice in Wonderland.


She is very much an unknown kid, her cinematic CV reads off a pretty small role in the Aussie horror film Rogue and supporting parts in both Edward Zwick's Defiance and the Amelia Earhart biopic which have yet to be released. This would be her first leading role and the end of a very long search for Burton and his casting team.

Adapted from Linda Woolverton, a scribe who wrote two of Disney's classics of the last decade The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast, principal photography begins in November for a Christmas 2010 release.

LOVED Sweeney Todd, Burton got his magic back after a couple of mis-fires. With this and Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carroll,  we have two stories we have already seen told a million times before - but not quite the way these guys are gonna do it. ]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s a DARK SHADOW over Johnny Depp. Is it Tim Burton?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I more than vaguely hinted at it in my original July 27th 2007 post about the story of Johnny Depp's long time ambition to bring the forgotten 60's horror t.v. show Dark Shadows to the big screen over at Warner Bros which I said could end up in the hands of Tim Burton.

It almost seemed inevitable didn't it? Burton and Depp have worked together for three of the director's films straight now, six times in total and the subject matter sounded so much up Burton's alley that there was only ever going to be on man to direct this.

IESB carry the scoop that the Burton-meister is attached to the film...
While interviewing GET SMART director Peter Segal this past weekend in Beverly Hills, he spoke briefly about writer John August. Segal says August, who is writing BILLY BATSON AND THE LEGEND OF SHAZAM for Segal over at WB, is jumping back and forth between Tim Burton's DARK SHADOWS and his SHAZAM script trying to work on both films at the same time due to a back log of work after the writers' strike earlier this year.

So, while we can't confirm the rumors of Depp starring as Barnabus Collins in DARK ...]]></description>
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		<title>BATMAN RETURNS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kaminski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directed by: Tim Burton

Written by: Daniel Waters, Sam Hamm

Starring: Michael Keaton, Danny Devito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough, Michael Murphy, Pat Hingle, Andrew Bryniarski, Cristi Conaway, Vincent Schiavelli

Distributed by Warner Bros.

Film was released June 19th, 1992.

Review by Michael Kaminski

[rating: 4]

After leaving Disney’s animation department due to the incompatibility of his eccentric drawings with the cutesy, family-friendly content of the corporation, Tim Burton’s bizarre short film Frankenweenie found its way to Paul Reubins, who chose the young visionary to direct a big-screen adaptation of his equally bizarre television series. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure was a huge success when it came out in 1985, and Tim Burton was now not only a director but a bankable one. He followed the film up with the ghoulishly weird Beetlejuice, one of his best and most imaginative films. Though Beetlejuice carried the bizarre fantasy with a strangely human center, Burton was itching to do something more personal. However, he just couldn’t resist the big-budget rejuvenation of one of comics darkest hero's: Batman. Burton’s bleak vision of the dark knight took heavy inspiration from Frank Miller’s violent and psychologically challenging portrait of the character, turning what was then best known for Adam West’s campy comedy from ...]]></description>
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		<title>EDWARD SCISSORHANDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray DeRousse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directed by: Tim Burton

Written by: Caroline Thompson (screenplay &#38; story), Tim Burton (story)

Starring: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne West, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

Film was released December 7th, 1989.

Review by Ray DeRousse

By 1990, a 32 year-old Tim Burton had established himself as Hollywood's quirky, eccentric cash cow with his three previous smash hits.

His feature film debut, a colorful and idiotic masterpiece starring man-child Pee Wee Herman, defied all expectations and became a cult hit in the summer of 1985. Burton followed that in 1988 with Beetlejuice, a zesty and bizarre tale of the afterlife. Then, Burton crafted a gothically art-deco rendition of Batman that became a worldwide phenomenon in 1989.

Burton's first three films revealed his gift for visual imagination and creative shot composition. Each film had indelible imagery and editing: the kitchen sequence in Pee Wee's Big Adventure ... the haunted dinner sequence in Beetlejuice ... the museum sequence in Batman.

However, all three films also illustrated Burton's inability to connect with his material beyond the visual elements. While all three suffered from poorly-constructed scripts, Burton never attempted to look past the next whiz-bang technical exercise and into the deeper aspects of the ...]]></description>
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		<title>SPOOK&#8217;S APPRENTICE gets ENCHANTED</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Variety say it will be Kevin Lima who will adapt Joseph Delaney's childrens book Spook's Apprentice for Warner Bros. &#38; Legendary Pictures and not the duo of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp who were originally attached before the WGA strike kicked in.

Apparently Lima has become a much wanted director, especially at Disney, after his fantasy homage Enchanted made over $300 million worldwide.

Plot synopsis from Amazon...
A wonderful and terrifying series by a new writer about a young boy training to be an exorcist. Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son and has been apprenticed to the local Spook. The job is hard, the Spook is distant and many apprentices have failed before Thomas. Somehow Thomas must learn how to exorcise ghosts, contain witches and bind boggarts. But when he is tricked into freeing Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the County, the horror begins ...
Sounds an awful like The Spiderwick Chronicles and without Tim Burton, it's suddenly being chopped off my radar. There's nothing worse for my money than a bland fantasy movie, let's hope it doesn't turn into that.
 ]]></description>
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		<title>BATMAN</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directed by: Tim Burton

Written by: Sam Hamm, Warren Skaaren

Based on the classic DC Comics character created by Bob Kane

Starring: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Whul, Michael Gough, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Palance, Tracey Walter, Jerry Hall

Distributed by Warner Brothers

Film was released on 23rd June 1989

Review by Matt Holmes

[rating: 3.5]

Batman is a visual sensation, director Tim Burton's homage and love letter to the silent horror movies he saw in his youth and with the stunning Academy Award winning Gothic set and production design from the great Anton Furst, Burton's Gotham is without doubt one of the most distinctive and awe inspiring settings ever created on film.

The script calls it "The City of the Future" but the Gotham depicted in this movie exists in a timeless state with Gothic European architecture, statues that would usually only exist in Greek mythology, enormous and impossible skyscrapers right out of Fritz Lang's Metropolis and very little pop culture references, clothing or technology that could age the movie. That is except of the course the dating but strangely fitting Prince Soundtrack that accompanies the film, something which Burton had no say in.

Gotham is a depiction of New York if it had gone ...]]></description>
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		<title>BEETLEJUICE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Daniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directed by Tim Burton

Written by Michael McDowell, Warren Skaaren, Larry Wilson

Starring: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones, Winona Ryder, Glenn Shadix 

Distributed by Warner Bros.

Film was released March 30th 1988

Review by Chris Daniel

 [rating: 3]

In 1988 Tim Burton released Beetlejuice, the story of two newly deads who must learn to deal with the new owners of their home.  As a 12 year old this film was literally the greatest thing since sliced bread.  It was both funny and scary and stranger than anything I had seen before.  For me personally, Beetlejuice is the beginning of Tim Burton and the beginning of his own exciting genre of film.

We have all heard the term Burton-esque thrown around.  While this was an immediate treasure for audiences, as time has gone on it has become played out and tiresome.  I still enjoy the film, but it is easy to see in it the annoying patterns that Burton has yet to shake.
 


Story

Beetlejuice is a wonderfully creative story that was unlike anything else that we had seen.  In the late 80's we had our chunk of Vietnam War dramas and Eddie Murphy cop movies.  ...]]></description>
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