Friday, March 26, 2010

"Waking Sleeping Beauty" Opens Today


The new documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty is now in select cinemas in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco. The film examines the "renaissance" of Disney feature animation in the 1980s and 1990s, and features numerous people who have affected the world of animation today, including a young Tim Burton.

Here is the trailer:



Cartoon Brew had these details for people in New York City and Los Angeles:

Don Hahn will make Q&A appearances in L.A. after the following showings this weekend:

Friday, March 26 — Q&A following the 7:45pm showing at AMC Century City

Saturday, Marcy 27 — Q&A following 1210p-150p show at the AMC Burbank 16, 125 East Palm Ave
Saturday, March 27 — Q&A following 7:55-9:35p show at the AMC Burbank 16, 125 East Palm Ave

[Producer] Peter Schneider will make Q&A appearances this weekend in NYC after the following showings at Landmark’s Sunshine Cinemas on Houston Street:

Friday, March 26 — Q&A following the 5pm and 7:15pm showings.
Saturday, Marcy 27 — Q&A following the 12 noon, 2:30pm, 5pm and 7:15pm showings.
Saturday, March 27 — Q&A following the 12 noon, 2:30pm and 5pm showings.


Here's an exclusive clip from Cartoon Brew's YouTube channel:

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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Burton to Produce "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"


Entertainment Weekly reports that Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov have reunited to produce a film about Abraham Lincoln -- but with an appropriately macabre twist.

On Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010, New York Times bestselling author Seth Grahame-Smith released his newest novel, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Grahame-Smith also wrote Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a gory reinterpretation of the Jane Austen classic, and will adapt the Abraham Lincoln screenplay.

Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov (director of Wanted and Night Watch) recently produced the independent animated feature 9, which was released last year in 2009. Jim Lemley, another producer of 9, will also produce the Abe Lincoln alternative history.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter warps history by telling the story of the 16th president's secret battle with the undead -- a battle that began during Lincoln's childhood as a way to avenge his mother's murder.

Here's the trailer for the book
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Sunday, February 21, 2010

"Waking Sleeping Beauty" Trailer


The trailer for the upcoming documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty has made its debut. The film chronicles the story of the renaissance of Disney feature animation in the 1980s and 1990s. Directed by Don Hahn (who is working on Tim Burton's upcoming animated Frankenweenie as an executive producer, and produced the 3D re-release of The Nightmare Before Christmas), the documentary includes such animation titans as John Lasseter, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Don Bluth, Michael Eisner, Roy Disney, Glen Keane, John Musker, Howard Ashman, and many more, including Tim Burton himself.

Waking Sleeping Beauty will be released in select theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco on March 26th, 2010.

See the trailer on YouTube or Apple Trailers:

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Trailers for "Alice" DS, Wii Games


There's a trailer for the Alice in Wonderland game, exclusively for the Nintendo DS:



The DS game will be available in stores on March 2nd for $29.99.

There is also a trailer for the game adaptation for the Nintendo Wii console
, which will also be available on March 2nd and will cost $37.99-39.99:

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Thursday, December 17, 2009

UK "Alice" Trailer Contains More New Footage!

Check out the UK cut of the latest Alice in Wonderland trailer -- it contains some different footage from the new one released in the US:

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"Alice in Wonderland": Trailer #2!

The second official Alice in Wonderland trailer has made its online debut!

See it in delicious high definition at Apple!

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Friday, September 11, 2009

Burton on His Films and Art

The Wrap's Eric Kohn recently interviewed Tim Burton. The director discussed a myriad of topics, including his greatly anticipated Alice in Wonderland and feature-length Frankenweenie, the forthcoming exhibition of his artwork at the Museum of Modern Art, issues with the studio system, and his past classics:

The trailer for Alice in Wonderland leaked online a day early. How did you feel about that?

I didn't like that. Somebody f---ed that one up. It just shows you how easy … it's like, "Oh, sorry, I just pushed that nuke button." That's the problem. All this stuff is so available. I still come from the olden days where you like to see a movie and be surprised. Then you want to know something about it -- as opposed to getting everything front-loaded. A movie just loses its whole mystique.

The art of the trailer has become an entirely separate creative process.

Well, yeah. I've always had my theories, and my theories are always different from the marketing people.

At any rate, the trailer indicates an appropriately vibrant take on the story. Is this a palate-cleanser after the grimness of Sweeney Todd?
Yeah, it's a different palate. Also, the Alice imagery has been around. For me, it wasn't so much the books. I was aware of it from other aspects of popular culture, whether it was in music or other images. It was just about trying to tell it in a way so it's not a series of weird events, like in the book.

Are you staying away from the acid subtext?

No, no, not so much that. I'm just trying to keep away from the structure that the other [interpretations] suffer from, the episodic stuff. A passive little girl wandering around thinking everything is weird.

It's weird talking about Alice when I have so much left to do on it. It's a bit creepy.

Audiences tend to bring a certain baggage to the theater when the movie involves a familiar brand, which many of your movies do.

They're harder to do for that reason. Everybody looks at the white rabbit or the Cheshire Cat or the Mad Hatter and has an idea of what they should be. With known icons, you're always going to piss off somebody.

Like with Watchmen?
That's the thing: You never know what you're going to get. With something like Watchmen, it's known on one level. It's like a great novel. You have to leave something out, somebody's favorite part. Somebody will think the essence has been sucked out of it. That's just the nature of tackling something known.

Sweeney Todd was a quintessential example of your darker side. Why didn't it do better business?
I didn't know what kind of response it would get. It seemed to do OK. I don't really know. I never know. Every movie I've ever done, I never could predict a response.

But if anyone could turn such a morose story into a massive commercial property, you're the guy.

Yeah, but if you look at the “Harry Potter” movies, they've gotten darker. For 20 years, I’ve had to fight against the whole "dark" issue. Now it's the "norm." I've tried to keep my stuff in there.

Do you feel like studios try to dumb down your ideas?

That's always the case, especially when you're dealing with a bigger budget. That's fair enough from the studios’ point of view. It's a big investment. I don't try to pay too much attention to that. It's a bit abstract anyway.

You'll have a huge exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. Does seeing your entire career surveyed make it seem as though you've achieved your creative potential?
I hope not. We'll see. Am I going to go back and remake Pee-Wee's Big Adventure? I don't think so. I feel like I've been pretty pure about that. There's been a lot of pressure to do, like, a sequel to Nightmare Before Christmas. I'm just not going to do it.

But you've talked about turning your early short film Frankenweenie into a feature.
I might do a low-budget, stop-motion movie. Something I couldn't do in the short. It would be nice to capture the spirit of my original drawings.

Like Corpse Bride?
No, less than that. I'd do it in black and white.

What about all those Broadway musical rumors?

Yeah, I got approached to do a Broadway version of Batman. I couldn't quite bring myself to do that, either.


So, how did you find the time to help out as a producer on 9?
This was a few years ago. I got involved after I saw the short film [which was nominated for an Oscar in 2005]. I felt close to his design sensibility. It's different from mine, but I related to the characters and the world. Since I've been through the experience of making animated films, I just felt like I could help him keep all the outside evils away.


Do you still watch a lot of animated shorts?

When I was first in animation, it was like a dying art form. But if you're an animator, there are more opportunities now than ever. Also, it’s using all the media.

A few years ago, they declared cel animation dead again, but now I'm hearing about some cel-animated films. I think that whole thing, "Oh, now we're only going to do computers, or we're only going to do this or that"... those barriers have been broken through.

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Monday, July 27, 2009

UK "Alice" Trailer

The Alice in Wonderland teaser trailer from the UK is similar to the Spanish language version: nearly identical to the American one, but with a slightly different ending:

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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Spanish "Alice" Trailer

Check out the Spanish language version of the Alice in Wonderland teaser trailer. The ending features different footage from the English one. Anyone know what the Mad Hatter is saying?:

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Friday, July 24, 2009

"Alice" Teaser Trailer in Hi-Def

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

"Alice in Wonderland" Trailer!

It's here!

EDIT: Looks like it's been removed from the Interwebs... for now...

EDIT 2: Wait -- it's on Facebook!

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

New Red Queen Image and Trailer Contest



/Film has a new image of Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen from Vanity Fair. There's also a description of the trailer for Alice in Wonderland which might be shown at Comic-Con this week.

Also, Facebook has an interesting contest: become a fan of one of the three characters from Alice in Wonderland. Those who became fans of the character who gets the most followers will be able to see the exclusive Alice trailer on Thursday at 4:00 PM!

The characters to choose from are:

The Mad Hatter
The Red Queen
The White Queen

(At this point, the Mad Hatter is winning.)

Or, if you'd rather wait, the teaser trailer for Alice in Wonderland will be attached to G-Force in theaters. The teaser will be in 3D.

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

2nd "9" Trailer Online



A second trailer for the animated film 9 is online. It offers a lot of details to the origin story, and we get to hear some of the voiceover work, which includes Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, and Christopher Plummer. Oh, and it has that epic Coheed and Cambria song, too.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

"9" Teaser Trailer Released


The teaser trailer for the upcoming computer-animated film 9 (based on the Academy Award-nominated short of the same name) has been released (view it in HD on Apple's website).

Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambatov (Nightwatch, Wanted) are producing the film, which will be directed by Shane Acker (who directed the original 2005 short).

The official plot synopsis included Elijah Wood as the character 9, Jennifer Connelly as the warrior 7, Martin Landau (who was in Burton's Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow) playing the role of the aged inventor 2, Crispin Glover playing the visionary artist 6 (who will be in Burton's Alice in Wonderland), Christopher Plummer as war veteran 1, and John C. Reilly as 5, the mechanic.

Danny Elfman will also be composing music for the film, according to the official synopsis on Apple's trailer website. Pamela Pettler (co-writer of Corpse Bride) co-wrote the screenplay.

The epic science-fiction action-adventure was originally intended to be released at the end of this year. Instead, Focus Features has pushed it back to September 9th, 2009 (9-9-09, get it?).

You can also watch a (slightly) lower quality version of the HD teaser trailer on YouTube:

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Sunday, October 21, 2007

2nd "Sweeney Todd" Trailer and Album Art for Soundtrack!

A second trailer for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is now available to see online (you need Quicktime to view it). Also, the cover artwork for the soundtrack to the musical film has been released. The soundtrack will be available to buy in the United States on December 18th, 2007.

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Friday, October 05, 2007

"SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET" TRAILER!