“Frankenweenie,” Tim Burton’s stop-motion remake of his own 1984 live-action short, retains the macabre charm of the original while delivering the distinctive animated visuals that audiences have come to expect of the director. The film also, unfortunately, reflects Burton’s usual difficulties with pacing, but let’s save the bad news for later. “Frankenweenie” may be imperfect, […]
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I keep thinking that this is all an elaborate prank — that Disney has allowed Tim Burton to make a black-and-white animated riff on Frankenstein, with children as a part of the target audience, designed to play in IMAX and 3-D. It sounds like financial suicide to me, but that just makes the movie itself
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The last few years have not been kind to Tim Burton. Since 2005’s “Corpse Bride” it seems that all but his most diehard fans have left him in droves. Sure, he was able to rake in career-best box office with “Alice in Wonderland,” but perhaps not enough to make up for the damage that the movie
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It would be appropriate to begin this post with another photo of The Avengers, which trounced all competition at the box office again yesterday, but frankly, I’m tired of heading posts with photos of The Avengers. By now, everyone’s aware of the record-breaking going on. Instead, I’m highlighting Girl in Progress, starring Eva Mendes, which yesterday, out
Hello and welcome back to my weekly Box Office Beat column, in which I hopelessly predict how much cash the movies of the moment will be able to rake in. The beauty of this game is that even the experts often miss the mark, meaning that when I underestimate the gross of a blockbuster like
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Warner Bros. has put out a neat three-minute featurette to promote the upcoming “Dark Shadows” that looks at the history of vampires in cinema and specifically how this history inspired director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp on the project. “Dark Shadows” drops May 11 in theaters and IMAX.
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