
Tim Burton's Frankenweenie, a black-and-white animated tale of a boy and his dog, will be the opening picture at this year's London film festival, organisers announced. Disney's stop-motion animated 3D movie will feature the voices of Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau and Winona Ryder, and will hit theatres in Britain on October 17, a week after its film festival debut. This year's British Film Institute (BFI) London film festival...

02:50 PM, Aug 24, 2012

New Delhi: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a fantasy film based on a novel by the same name. The film is directed by Timur Bekmambetov and is co-produced by Tim Burton. The novel's author Seth Grahame-Smith has written the screenplay and Benjamin Walker stars as the title character of Abraham Lincoln. Interestingly, the film is about the real life figure Abraham Lincoln, who as per as the novel, has a...

06:12 PM, Jul 12, 2012

Can you imagine the former American President, Abraham Lincoln in a Batman-esque superhero avatar, fighting vampires? ...

08:52 PM, Jun 14, 2012

Los Angeles: 'The Avengers' followed a record-shattering $200 million opening with another Hollywood high " a $100 million-plus second weekend. The superhero tale took in $103.1 million to remain the No. 1 film and lift its domestic take to $373.1 million after just 10 days. With nearly $630 million more overseas, 'The Avengers' raised its worldwide total to just over $1 billion. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton's latest collaboration, the...

10:43 AM, May 17, 2012

Los Angeles: Marvel superhero movie 'The Avengers' is likely to become one of the highest grossing movies of all time after making USD 1 billion in worldwide box-office takings in just three weeks. The Joss Whedon directed film racked up USD 100 million in the US this weekend, with industry insiders predicting it will soon overtake 'Toy Story 3' on the highest grossing list, and could rise as high as...

03:47 PM, May 15, 2012

New Delhi: Dark Shadows: Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are snuggled warmly in their comfort zone in this chilly horror-comedy, their eighth collaboration as director and star, respectively, and their weakest by far. You don't need to know a thing about the 'Dark Shadows' TV series that provides the inspiration. Tonally, thematically, visually, you've seen this movie before, with its oddball characters, skies in varying shades of gray and a...

03:56 PM, May 12, 2012

Los Angeles: Working with director Tim Burton, Johnny Depp has played many eccentric characters in the movies, from lonely monster Edward Scissorhands to eccentric filmmaker Ed Wood and the Mad Hatter of "Alice in Wonderland." But there was at least one strange being they hadn't tried - a vampire - and that's about to change. The odd couple of Hollywood can check that character off their list on Friday with...

07:30 PM, May 10, 2012

London: Actors Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds have signed up to play lead roles in 'Big Eyes'. Witherspoon and Reynolds have been signed up to play artists Margaret and Walter Keane in a film that will be produced by Tim Burton. The artists became famous in the 1950s and 60s after their paintings of large-eyed kids were one of the first mass marketed art sensations at the time. "We are...

12:40 PM, Jan 24, 2012
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05:56 PM, Dec 02, 2011

London: 'Alice in Wonderland' star Mia Wasikowska says she found working in the film difficult because of the extensive use of green screen. The 21-year-old Australian actress took on the titular role in the Tim Burton-directed film, but the use of green screen technology on the movie - which has grossed over USD 1 billion at the international box office - meant she often felt lost, reported Total Film magazine....

07:13 PM, Oct 02, 2011

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