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		<title>Burton&#8217;s Good Life will continue &#8211; ALICE IN WONDERLAND could top $100 million by Monday</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the early numbers are in, and it seems Alice in Wonderland took an astonishing $41 million on it's opening day Friday, and Disney say it's likely to break the $100 million barrier by Monday. If that indeed happens, it'll be the first Tim Burton movie to manage such a feat.

Helped by the post-Avatar 3-D IMAX visual porn curiosity (which in itself is a little worrying for any upcoming tentpole that isn't made as such) and of course the family friendly critics proof nature of such a sugar loaded eye-candy visual treat, Wonderland will be his most successful box office opening of all time, topping the $68 million Planet of the Apes made in 2001, and the $56 million his remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory earned in 2005. Hmmm, pattern much?

The above three movies are Burton's creatively redundant sell out pieces. This is highly disconcerting and points to a continued future of Burton/Disney collaborations that make me wanna puke. We know he wants to make a Maleficent movie, no doubt with Helena Bonham Carter leading and Johnny Depp playing a prince, or something. I think we can all picture that vividly in our heads. I personally think a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Futterwack</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a unforgivable moment of unconcerned thinking for one's reputation towards the end of Disney's live-action 3D wow-factor movie Alice In Wonderland which opens tomorrow from director Tim Burton.

It is, and you'll agree with me when you've seen the movie... the futterwack scene. A futter-what, you ask?



Well (if I'm remembering right), the futtercrap wack is a kind of crazy dance that means so much to Johnny Depp's Mad Hatter but he has been unable to perform it for some time because he has become depressed under the Red Queen's ruling. He is one bad day short of suicidal.

The Hatter dance is hinted at, and slowly built up and up during most of Depp's accent changing scenes (seriously, he goes through English, Scottish and Welsh in one conversation) and when we finally get to see it - the big reveal we have been building towards when he regains his lostmojo and performs it is a Michael Jackson moonwalk played to a strange kind of techno beat.

It is, quite frankly, the stupidest thing I have ever seen in a Tim Burton/Johnny Depp collaboration. It even beats the the oompa loompa clone dance numbers in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and that's saying ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Burton &amp; Timur Bekmambetov&#8217;s ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I imagine Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov's adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith's second revisionist horror mash-up Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter will be a blood thirsty animated affair, shot in a similar style to David Fincher's adaptation of The Goon when all is said and done.

Burton/Bekmambetov worked together on producing the animated 9 for the big screen last year which admittedly forms some of my opinion on this (especially as a third producer from that movie is also on this) but in truth, I can't think of any other format that will suit this material better. At least on screen anyways as comic books, video games and action figures would be better served than a movie but everything is being made into a film these days, so this is adaptation was always to be expected.

In live-action, seeing the 16th and most recognisable President in American history as an "ax-throwing, highly trained vampire assassin" will look Z-movie stupid. It would make Hammer's Dracula movies with Christopher Lee look like the serious German silent pictures of the 30's. Much like this trailer for the novel...

Seth Grahame-Smith wrote Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which Natalie Portman is attached to lead in a live-action adaptation that ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sad But True</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray DeRousse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
This could have been funnier if they had portrayed Burton as he really is: mumbling, scatterbrained, and emotionally isolated. As it is, this brilliantly sends up Burton's eccentricities, and makes a sad commentary for all of Burton's former fans who have witnessed his distressing decline. ]]></description>
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		<title>ALICE IN WONDERLAND is Burton&#8217;s &#8220;big fat dead end&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the opening paragraph to his pitchfork review, Drew McWeeny writes that Friday's big Disney offering Alice in Wonderland...
"..is wrong-headed in pretty much every way it can be, poorly designed, loud, and worst of all, boring.  It is a catastrophe as a movie, and as a place marker in the career of Tim Burton, it is a big fat dead end".
His review is 100% spot on, and very much compliments my own from last week...
"Any sign of the artist whose career I've enjoying watching over the years is submerged completely here, and what we're left with is a whole lot of art direction, a ton of expensive effects work, some of the ugliest 3D of the modern era, and not a hint of fun or wonder.  Add to that a script that seems to be almost completely ignorant of what it is that makes the original work by Lewis Carroll so significant and elastic, and I'm genuinely baffled as to what anyone is expected to take from the endeavor".
Drew's review ends on a somber note...
"I'm just plain sad that this is where Tim Burton is as a filmmaker in the year 2010.  And with "Dark Shadows" and a "Sleeping Beauty" riff in ...]]></description>
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		<title>Matt falls down the rabbit hole in 3-D but couldn&#8217;t wait to re-emerge &#8211; ALICE IN WONDERLAND reviewed!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how you shake it, the 2010 Tim Burton just isn't the same guy he was five, gosh - actually ten years ago. Has it really been that long since he made Sleepy Hollow, the last movie where you felt like he was really trying?


Latter day sinful film-making plagues all great directors of course, with the rare exception of a few (Scorsese, Cronenberg come to mind). But seldom has Burton been this generic, his trademark so absent, the result so "meh".

I miss the passionate Tim Burton who brimmed with originality, his films that bursted to the seams with lived-in worlds of epic grandeur that you could believe in. I miss the inventive Gothic expressionistic wonder of most of his first eight pictures. Sadly, that Burton, the outsider who had a heart and limitless imagination, is long gone and I guess we have to come to terms with it.

One of the great auteurs from 90's cinema is barely visible here in his new Alice In Wonderland adaptation that feels like it was made by a watered down, paint-by-numbers, Disneyfied filtered Burton. There's a few moments of visual pizazz and the magical spark among a few creatures (notably the visuals and ...]]></description>
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		<title>ALICE IN WONDERLAND is an &#8220;unmitigated disaster&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most critics are currently under review embargo for Alice in Wonderland (05.03.10) but the general feeling is, when that ice breaks - Tim Burton is in for a mauling. At least that seems to be the take from British shores.

It's one thing making a mockery of Gene Wilder and Planet of the Apes - which yes, got us all very angry indeed but on this side of the Atlantic, you mess with the writings of legendary Brit Lewis Carroll and boy you're in trouble. I'm seeing it on Thursday in 3-D - and I will let you know.

Jeff Wells posted the following on his site late yesterday...
I'm told that certain British exhibitors and theatre managers who've seen Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland feel it's "a true stinker of a movie...an unmitigated disaster," as one correspondent puts it. "It's no shock that Disney want to release this on DVD as soon as possible. Not sure what can save this though the promotion so far might guarantee it a great opening before poisonous word of mouth kills it."
Can't say I'm overly surprised by the trailers and I've been warning people for months to prepare for a disaster.


"Saw a screening last week, Jeff. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Burton wants to curse Sleeping Beauty with MALEFICENT!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AICN have heard that Tim Burton isn't quite done exploring the works of Disney's animated back catalogue just yet, and once his take on Alice in Wonderland is out of the way - he could move straight onto a live-action remake of Sleeping Beauty.

Though it won't be a straight to the bone remake.

Harry Knowles has heard it'll be titled Maleficent and in essence, a remake of Sleeping Beauty but from the villain's point of view.



Maleficent was the super evil Queen of the Disney universe - the witch who cursed the young Princess Andora to prick  her thumb and die on the spindle. She was slain with a sword through the heart at the end of Sleeping Beauty, but not before transforming herself into an impressive fire-breathing dragon.



As /film's Brendon Connelly points out, Disney registered the domain name maleficentmovie.com last summer, and after making a revisionist Alice in Wonderland, and unusually getting a live-action Nicolas Cage movie based on the character of Yensid from The Sorcerer's Apprentice off the ground - the studio look have been quietly planning another left field red0 on an old favourite.

Of course by basing a movie around a character named Maleficent (which means Evil-Doer) one ...]]></description>
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		<title>Burton&#8217;s ALICE IN WONDERLAND trailer holds no surprises</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the biggest glimpse at Tim Burton's part candy-coloured/part charcoaled Alice in Wonderland is now online via a brand new trailer and there's few surprises.

In fact, I feel like I've seen this movie before. Burton's got the Ridley Scott and Gladiator syndrome - probably deluding himself into thinking he is making something original, when really he's not.



This is the creatively redundant Burton. The one we saw in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The kooky Burton. The bright coloured Burton. The one that lacks the depth of his darker alter ego...  you can see it in the hollow landscapes, the empty CGI surroundings these bland characters float around in.

Maybe it'll look better projected in 3-D when you see Avatar (though don't blame me if your theater doesn't show it) but it just doesn't work in 24 frames per second motion on my mac.

I absolutely hate this trailer. Bobble head Helena Bonham Carter and all...

 	 

Even Depp feels redundant in this fantastical Burton world. I just can't get excited about them working together anymore in the kids movie realm, where Depp has to play a mad eccentric because he can't shock me anymore in PG-13.

I feel like I've seen every possible ...]]></description>
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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.









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