15 February , 2005: Atamaii.com has a first look at the Corpse Bride toys!
7 February , 2005: We have several news items related to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory today. Firstly, the LA Times has a new article about the film. You can read it here!
There's also an interview with the actress who plays Violet Beauregarde at The Movie Reporter.
Finally, the UK version of the teaser trailer has been released, featuring a few new shots
which you can watch here.
21 January , 2005: The awesome trailer for the Corpse Bride has been released! You can see exclusive screencaps from the trailer here!
20 January , 2005: McFarlane Toys have announced they will be producing a variety of Corpse Bride toys.
5 January , 2005: Warner Bros. announces toy partner for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
20 December , 2004: Possible(?) new picture from The Corpse Bride here. Along with that is a clearer picture of the first picture released.
10 December , 2004: The seriously trippy teaser trailer for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory can be seen here now!
9 December , 2004: It may seem like ages since the film came out, but Big Fish's
soundtrack has been nominated for a Grammy!
13 November , 2004: The official site for
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has now opened. There's not much there now, but watch for future developments.
8 November , 2004: The official one-sheet
poster for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has now emerged.
You
can see it at our Charlie page.
7 November, 2004: We
have an EXCLUSIVE picture of a Wonka
Bar. Picture by jdsmylover.
30 October, 2004: Aint it cool news has posted some pictures from the set of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
26 October, 2004: Some pictures of Johnny Depp in his Willy Wonka costume have sneaked their way onto the net. Picture 1 Picture 2
19 October, 2004: The long-awaited Region 1 Ed Wood DVD is out now!
Also, here's a BBC interview with Johnny Depp where he talks a little about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
13 October, 2004: IGN.com has a review of the much delayed Ed Wood Region 1 DVD, out October 19th.
2 September, 2004: Apparently, there will be a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory game to tie in with the film.
17 July, 2004: An accident on the set of Charlie has occurred involving a camera dropping into a vat of chocolate! Let's hope it doesn't delay the production too much.
In other news today, Nestle are making chocolate bars specially for the film. Mmmmmm . . . chocolate.
30 June, 2004: More names have been announced for the cast of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, including Christopher Lee! And filming has officially started. See the full cast list here.
29 June, 2004: Some very exciting news today. Johnny Depp has decided to lend his voice to The Corpse Bride, meaning that fans can look forward to two collaborations between the star and Burton in 2005! Several other big name stars have been announced for the animated film as well, some of whom have also worked with Burton before.
10 June, 2004: You can see the first picture of the Corpse Bride herself right here!
3 May, 2004: Despite the fact
that there still hasn't been any official confirmation, it looks
like Freddie Highmore is the lucky kid who has won the title
role in Charlie and Chocolate Factory. Highmore also shares
the screen with Johnny Depp in J.M. Barrie's Neverland ,
which is set to be released in US this October. For Highmores
full filmography, click
here
2 April, 2004: The official
release date for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory seems to
have been set to July 15th, 2005.
About the casting of Charlie, there have been lots of rumours
going around that Jimmy
"Jax" Pinchak will be cast as Charlie.
These rumours have not been officially confirmed though, and are most likely false.
11 March, 2004: The Home Theatre
Forum held an online chat with Warner Bros executives, discussing
about different dvd releases. The
transcript can be read here. Here are the bits of information
about new Burton dvds:
(About Beetlejuice & Beetlejuice animated
v series): We are considering a BEETLEJUICE SE. No plans
for the TV series.
(About Batman SE dvds): we're planning something
to synchronize with the new BATMAN feature in 2005.
Not much, but at least this means there is hope
for a Beetlejuice Special Edition sometime in the future!
10 March, 2004: A Bunch of news
today:
First off, www.dvdanswers.com has
a picture of what the Big Fish dvd menu looks like. The
dvd can be pre-ordered
from Amazon.com.
Superherohype.com has the following to report
about future Batman dvd releases: "Coming in 2005 is
a special edition release of Batman which will be cross-promoted
with the new Christopher Nolan movie. Also, you can expect a
box set of the Batman: The Animated Series in 2004, while the
60's Batman TV show won't hit DVD soon due to legal issues."
- Hopefully both Batman and Batman
Returns will be released as special editions!
And finally, sad news, Actor Paul
Winfield has passed away at the age of 62. Winfield was
best remembered to Burton fans as General Casey in Mars Attacks!.
His other movies included The Terminator and Star Trek: The
Wrath of Khan.
1 March, 2004: In the Oscars,
Big Fish lost in the only category it was nominated; best original
score. Neither Tim Burton, Helena Bonham-Carter or Danny Elfman
were present at the Award ceremony.
19 February, 2004: The dvd of
Big Fish is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com. Click
here to pre-order it.
16 February, 2004: You can check
out the art work for the upcoming Big Fish dvd here.
It will be released on April 27th for a SRP of $29.98.
28 January, 2004:
The Oscar nominations are in, and BIG FISH was completely
robbed, it only received one nomination, for Original Score
(Danny Elfman). This just goes on to show how low the Academy
Awards have sunk.
1 February, 2005: We've added an article about Burton's early films to the Movies section.
10 December, 2004:We've added some exclusive screencaps from the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory teaser!
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6 November, 2004: We now have a page about The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
26 October, 2004: Screencaps have been added from Beetlejuice and we also now have a Cabin Boy page with screencaps!
21 October, 2004: We now have screencaps from the Ed Wood deleted scenes on the DVD!
8 October, 2004: Burton's Timex Commercials are now available for your downloading pleasure.
4 September, 2004: Images from the Batman films have been added to the Screencaps Gallery.
2 September, 2004: The Screencaps Gallery index is now available!
31 August, 2004: The Ed Wood Screencaps Gallery is now up! As well as the Vincent Screencaps Gallery!
29 August, 2004: The Edward Scissorhands Screencaps Gallery is now up! We've also added a page full of Burton related fonts.
23 August, 2004: Some Big Fish articles have been added to the Articles section.
18 July, 2004: The articles section is now complete. Also, we have a new feature on Jack Nicholson in the Regulars section.
1 May, 2004: A new article
Star Wars Connections is up.
26 April, 2004: A new
Ed Wood Retrospective is up.
2 April, 2004: Theres a new article up:
Burton
influences. If you like games, check out our new Gaming
page. Other new pages are up as well so keep checking
out all the areas on our site!
19 March 2004: Help wanted! If
you are interested in writing to our site, either movie reviews,
actor/crew biographies, articles or other things, contact Mr
Phibes. Also all suggestions are welcome, thank you!
19 March, 2004: Many new updates
in the past week, Both the multimedia and Articles sections
are now open. We are still working on both so they only have
a fraction of the content up at the moment. Also the Sleepy
Hollow page is now up.
10 March, 2004: As promised,
the NMBC
page is now up. Also the Independent
filmmakers section is now up with the first filmmaker interview.
And yet another new feature is the Unrealised
projects page. More to come soon!
7 March, 2004: New Pages up:
The
Shopping Guide, Jeffrey
Jones article. Coming up next week: The NMBC page (finally!),
an article about Burtons unrealised projects, The Sleepy Hollow
page and possibly other stuff too.
1 March, 2004: Our Biography
page for Tim Burton is finally up, you can get there by clicking
the Biography button on the left. Also the movies section is
being updated constantly, look for the Nightmare Before Christmas
page to be open soon. Also a few more regulars articles should
be up in the near future.
16 February, 2004: The Edward
Scissorhands page is now up, also look for the Mars Attacks!
page to be opened in the next few days.
6 February, 2004: Joe Cortez
has written a fabulous new Martin Landau article for us, which
is up at the Regulars section. Also the page for Ed Wood is
now open. More to come soon!
4 February, 2004: Pee-Wee's Big
Adventure page was added, also some of the other pages were
updated.
28 January, 2004: Today, the
News section and the Movies section have been opened, they are
still pretty bare bones, but they will get better as times goes
by.
