Most of ComicMixâs readers know that Tim Burton made his live action Frankenweenie short (starring Barret Oliver, Shelley Duvall, and Daniel Stern) while at Disney and was too quirky for the Mouse House so left to carve out a career of his own. The short was visually stylish, creepy, and filled with affection for the…
The Wii U, released on 11/18, has a good assortment of games available, both in stores and through the Nintendo E-Store. A happy surprise is the large number of smaller indie games available on the system, and of them all, the most blissfully wacky is Little Inferno, from the Tomorrow Corporation, makes of World of…
In time for your Halloween party planning Warner Home Video has announced the October 2 release of Dark Shadows. The Tim Burton/Johnny Depp was not the faithful adaptation of the Dan Curtis soap opera some expected and yet it was an affectionate tribute to the ABC series. Here’s the formal press release with details: Burbank,…
Walt Disney has sent us a 360 degree tour of the sets used fir the feature length version of Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie, opening October 5. The movie features the vocal talents of Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau, Charlie Tahan, Atticus Shaffer, Robert Capron, Conchata Ferrell and Winona Ryder. The stop-motion animated comedy was written…
The successful GHOST HUNTERS franchise is winding up its season on SyFy, but the loss of a major cast member spells big changes for the future. We talk to investigators Amy Bruni and Adam Berry on what is really bumping in the night. Plus Tim Burton explains why DARK SHADOWS was set in 1972, and…
This weekend, Tim Burton‘s DARK SHADOWS comes to theaters and Johnny Depp comes along to tell us why he chose to portray Barnabas Collins in an…unusual…way? Plus Damon Lindelof explains why PROMETHEUS is and isn’t a sequel to ALIENS http://p.castfire.com/cf_player.swf The Point Radio is on the air right now – 24 hours a day of pop culture fun…
Amazingly, fall hype is already underway, screaming for attention while most of us continue to salivate for the summer fare (and to be fair, this month’s The Hunger Games). Undaunted, this week Disney has unveiled a new one sheet for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie followed by the distribution of the new trailer, which we share with…
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Tim Burton’s Charlie and The Chocolate Factory arrives exclusively for Download on iTunes for the first time with Bonus Content. The extra content Includes interviews with Johnny Depp and Tim Burton. For the curious you can check out a preview here. The film, adapting Roald Dhal’s marvelous novel, starred Johnny Depp and was a visual…
I was too young to buy the 1962 Topps trading card series, [[[Mars Attacks]]], and grew up hearing about these wonderful cards and was delighted when a facsimile edition was released in the 1990s. Others, though, were clearly inspired by them and when he was in a position to do pretty much whatever he wanted,…
On the face of it, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp teaming up to interpret Alice in Wonderland sounded ideal. Too perfect and maybe that was the problem. Burton is no stranger to flights of fancy and provided us with a modern day fairy tale in [[[Edward Scissorhands]]] (just named by Entertainment Weekly as one of…
It was a long, long running series of one-panel cartoons. It was an iconic teevee series. It was subject of two pretty decent movies. It was almost a DC Comic by Mike Baron and Bill Wray. It is the subject of a Broadway play that opened last week to mediocre reviews. And now it looks…
