20 Years Later, How Batman Changed the Movie Business
Believe it or not, Tim Burton's Batman turned twenty years old yesterday.
Believe it or not, Tim Burton's Batman turned twenty years old yesterday.
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 06.22.2009 | Entertainment
The Tim Burton 3-D flick doesn't come out till spring 2010, but film fans now have their first look at Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as...
Variety | Posted 06.09.2009 | Entertainment
The visually inventive filmmaker behind "Edward Scissorhands," "Batman" and "Sweeney Todd," among others, will be the subject of "Tim Burton," a major...
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.26.2009 | Entertainment
As much as I enjoyed Star Trek, it was a guilty pleasure. Here was yet another movie that was devoted to selling us something we already had.
Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2009 | Entertainment
Davis's startling and starring reappearance makes for a snappy and sharp-witted comeback. She plays the maternal head of a decidedly distraught and traumatized suburban family.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 03.13.2009 | Entertainment
This is an essay I wrote last June on Mendelson's Memos, in advance of The Dark Knight's theatrical release. Since it specifically concerns the origi...
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 02.16.2009 | Entertainment
The one place you could yell it is Iceland, let Sigur Ros know if they ever had a chance of touring American stadiums, getting Yorke out of the way could be it.
David Sterritt | Posted 01.12.2009 | Entertainment
What riles me is the business of peddling movies on DVD after scrubbing them squeaky clean, or as we used to say in pre-digital antiquity, censoring them.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 11.12.2008 | Entertainment
The Mayor of Batman, Turkey is suing Warner Bros and Chris Nolan for not getting permission to use the name 'Batman.' Absurd, insane, ridiculous, right? Well of course, but the truth is far more disturbing.
Variety | Posted 09.25.2008 | Entertainment
Johnny Depp is the main man at the Mouse House. Depp has agreed to reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in a fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" pi...
AP | ANTHONY McCARTNEY | Posted 08.08.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — A long-running lawsuit filed by Tim Burton's ex-girlfriend over his assets should be dismissed, an appeals court has ruled. The C...
Erik Lundegaard | Posted 07.18.2008 | Entertainment
I love the way Michael Keaton plays Bruce Wayne. We usually see him as a socialite, a playboy, and I suppose you could say he is here, too, but it's a loose, complex take on Wayne. Still, the plot keeps fraying.
AP | Posted 06.19.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood will enshrine an eclectic bunch in its famous curbside Walk of Fame next year, including Hugh Jackman, Ben Kingsley, The...
Michael Giltz | Posted 03.31.2008 | Entertainment
I love Burton's taste in projects and talent and invariably get excited by the movies he's making... and invariably disappointed when they come out.
AP | Posted 02.10.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Mediation talks collapsed between Tim Burton and his ex-girlfriend, who claims she was cheated out of her rights to assets that th...
Alex Remington | Posted 01.28.2008 | Entertainment
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE OF THE YEAR: Ratatouille: This was pretty close to my favorite movie of the year. It's hard to talk about unhyperbolically -- it's simply magical.
Alex Remington | Posted 12.28.2007 | Entertainment
Sweeney Todd is Burton's best movie in nearly a decade, and, along with Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas it's one of the best movie musicals of recent years.
AP | Posted 12.17.2007 | Entertainment
Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton have welcomed their second child, a girl, in London, the actress' representative told a magazine. The star and di...
E! Online | Marc Malkin | Posted 12.11.2007 | Entertainment
Sacha Baron Cohen has a thing for showing off his privates. Well, what appear to be his privates, that is. We've already been subjected to Borat dres...
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 12.04.2007 | Entertainment
"Sweeney Todd" officially bowed in New York Monday night (scroll down for pictures),and the critics love it. Tim Burton's film adaption of the musical...
Daily Mail | Posted 11.26.2007 | Entertainment
There was only one thing bigger and more eye catching than Helena Bonham Carter's towering nest of wild hair - her enormous baby bump. The eccentric ...
Fox News | Roger Friedman | Posted 11.15.2007 | Entertainment
Last night we learned from director Tim Burton that Johnny Depp modeled his "Willy Wonka" hairstyle on Vogue editor Anna Wintour. "He was trying to s...
AP | Posted 11.01.2007 | Entertainment
Johnny Depp says his 8-year-old daughter is now healthy and well following her hospitalization earlier this year. "Now every single millisecond is a ...
Telegraph (UK) | Andrea Manzi-Davies | Posted 10.15.2007 | Entertainment
Pregnancy at 41 certainly agrees with Helena Bonham Carter. Seven months into carrying her second child, vibrant and beaming, she is licking big globu...
AP | Posted 09.06.2007 | Entertainment
Tim Burton is getting a career Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival.! To mark the occasion, the festival was screening a 3-D version of "The...
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Scott Mendelson | Posted 06.24.2009 | Entertainment