Frankenweenie Reviews, Interviews & More
This weekend we're finally going to find out who will be awarded a shiny new Oscar for their outstanding work in Hollywood. You can cross your fingers, hoping your favorites will go home with the trophy under their arms but it's going to be a close race. The threat of an upset always looms overhead. Since we're all speculating over who could win on Sunday, I'll be running down my own list of...
2012 provided us with a number of decent horror flicks. For so many years we were getting these awful horror movies, all suffering from the same sickness – cheap thrills and cliché endings. Paranormal Activity provided fans of the genre with something fresh and terrifying, but then that franchise fell into the same traps. The sequels, including the one we saw this year, failed to...
It's no surprise that Taken 2 opened big, but doing fifty million was well above expectations. People loved the first film, and this looked to deliver more of the same. And unless the film collapses after opening weekend, it should do over a hundred million domestic. Also: poor, poor Frankenweenie.
Tim Burton revisits the past this weekend with his new film Frankenweenie. He developed the story from his 1984 short film of the same name, and turned into a black-and-white, 3D stop-action extravaganza for Disney. The studio doesn't have very many stop-action animated features debuting these days, so you can understand their excitement. They recently opened the...
Disney gave Tim Burton a chance to not only redo, but expand his 1984 short film Frankenweenie into a 3D, stop-action animated fest. It's a cute and clever homage to daring teachers and classic monsters like Dracula, Godzilla, The Mummy and Igor. Frankenweenie isn't Burton's best, but fans of his old work might end up pleasantly surprised.
Nearly 30 years ago, Tim Burton directed a short film called Frankenweenie. Disney shelved it, deeming it too dark for children. That was before they saw Burton as a creative force to be reckoned with in Hollywood. Now, the film's getting a second chance at the big screen, this time in stop-motion. We recently spoke to Burton about his original vision for...
First: I apologize for that headline. A little. Second: Is it just me, or doesn't this weekend's titles feel like they belong in the summer months? You've got a Tim Burton movie versus a sequel to a huge hit, but it's the first week of October. You could just as easily see these two duking it out in May or June. But I guess they can't fight superheroes.
Martin Short and Catherine O'Hara go way back with director Tim Burton. But it's been a while since they've all worked together. This week, they'll reunite in the black and white, stop-motion version of Frankenweenie. Both Short and O'Hara were assigned three characters each. It was something Burton believed they could handle with ease. We recently spoke to...
Funny people Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy are starring in a comedy called Identity Thief. The trailer for the movie debuted this week and it's got some pretty funny Hobbit jokes. Also, Steven Spielberg is hoping to get cat woman to star in his upcoming movie, about robots who turn on humans. And some photos surfaced showing Jim Carrey...
Disney released an adorable new poster of Tim Burton's Frankenweenie. The poster is designed like a sketch and captures the old-school tone of the movie. Also, Bravo announced that they're developing a TV show based on the 1980s cult movie Heathers. We've also got the terrifying new red band trailer for Sinister, the...
Thursday afternoon, Tim Burton headlined a special Comic-Con press conference for his new film, Frankenweenie. It's a feature length adaptation of a short he directed in 1984. The original is nearly 30 years old, but Burton promises that this one isn't an rehash. There's plenty of life left in Frankenweenie.
We love Disney and all of the films that they've made. At their Comic-Con panel today, they showed off a couple of their movies, and one of those that we were super excited for happened to be Tim Burton's Frankenweenie. It's a story about a boy and his dog with a cool supernatural kind of twist to it. What is there not to love?
Comic-Con 2012 is in full swing. And Thursday morning, ScreenCrave spoke to a couple of the creative minds behind Frankenweenie. It's the latest animated film from director Tim Burton, and it features a very familiar story. Producers Don Hahn and Allison Abbate happily opened up about Burton's...
Preview Night is upon us here at the annual San Diego Comic-Con 2012. So when the doors first opened at the floor of the convention center, where did we go first? To Disney's The Art of Frankenweenie exhibit.
While Tim Burton’s career is littered with such fan favorites as Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Edward Sissorhands, and Ed Wood, the last decade or so has been an inconsistent one for the director. Films such as Planet of the Apes, Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows were busted by critics, and...
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Bee- oh, okay, better not... but you've probably got an idea what this is about. That’s right; while out and about promoting Dark Shadows and Frankenweenie in Los Angeles on Friday, Tim Burton was able to shed some light on the emerging script for the long-awaited Beetlejuice sequel, Beetlejuice 2.
2012 is shaping up to be a busy year for director Tim Burton, as he is not only wrapping up his cinematic adaption of Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp, and producing the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter movie adaption, he has also directed and is set to release a full-length, 3-D stop-motion remake of Frankenweenie, his 1984 half-hour featurette about a boy and his...
Though no longer the crown jewel of the Disney stable, the Disney animation department are still working on aniated features (often computer animated) that aren't under the Pixar brand, and some Direct to Video titles. The D23 presentation of films started with talk of the Straight-to-Video spin-off Planes, which features the voice talents of Jon Cryer, with a trailer...
Disney has released the first official synopsis for Tim Burton's upcoming film Frankenweenie. The movie is a remake of a short Burton made as a college student back in 1984. Over 25 years have passed since it was released and he's got the funds, the time, the energy, and the acting talent to reboot it. Check out the synopsis and cast list below...
There's been a release date shift regarding a couple tentpole projects expected to debut in 2012. Walt Disney Pitcures has just announced that they've pushed back Tim Burton's revamped horror film Frankenweenie, and moved up Pixar's 3D, live action adaptation John Carter of Mars. What does this mean for the competing studios?
