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Tim Burton
Timothy Walter Burton (born 25th August 1958) is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and for blockbusters such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Batman-Returns.html"> Batman Returns, Planet Of The Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, his most recent film, that was the second highest-grossing film of 2010 as well as the sixth highest-grossing film of all time. Among Burton's many collaborators are Johnny Depp, who became a close friend since their film together, musician Danny Elfman (who has composed for all but five of the films Burton has directed and/or produced) and domestic partner Helena Bonham Carter. He also wrote and illus Trated the poetry book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, published in 1997, and a compilation of his drawings, entitled The Art of Tim Burton, was released in 2009.
Burton has directed 14 films as of 2010, and has produced 10 as of 2009. His next films are a film adaptation of soap opera Dark Shadows, which is slated to begin production in January 2011 and a remake of his short Frankenweenie, which will be released on 5th October 2012.
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Winona Ryder in talks for Beetlejuice sequel -
14 September 2012
-Winona Ryder has confirmed rumours Tim Burton is looking into bringing his ghoulish creation Beetlejuice back to the big screen.-The kooky director's 1988 comedy horror was a commercial hit when it was released, and speculation of a sequel has swirled ever since.-
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New Classics: Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter -
19 June 2012
line book “trailers” (oh yes!), and catapulted its only living author to the Hollywood A-list, whence he has become Tim Burton’s right-hand man. -
-Not everyone was thrilled. Pockets of purists were willing to risk looking humourless; a few eve
Tim Burton - what members say
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Comedy, horror and romance all in one film! 1 January 2005
Tim Burton - filmography
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Dark Shadows
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Eva Green, Bella Heathcote
Director: Tim Burton
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In 1752, the Collins family sails from Liverpool, England to North America. The son, Barnabas, grows up to be a wealthy playboy in Collinsport, Maine and is the master of Collinwood Manor. He breaks the heart of a witch, Angelique Bouchard, who turns him into a vampire and buries him alive. In 1972,..read more »
 
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Frankenweenie
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Winona Ryder, Martin Landau, Martin Short
Director: Tim Burton
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From Disney and creative genius Tim Burton (Alice in Wonderland, The Nightmare Before Christmas) comes the hilarious and offbeat Frankenweenie, a heartwarming tale about a boy and his dog. After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog Sparky, young Victor hanesses the power of science to bring his best ..read more »
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Frankenweenie - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Winona Ryder, Martin Landau, Martin Short
Director: Tim Burton
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From Disney and creative genius Tim Burton (Alice in Wonderland, The Nightmare Before Christmas) comes the hilarious and offbeat Frankenweenie, a heartwarming tale about a boy and his dog. After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog Sparky, young Victor hanesses the power of science to bring his best ..read more »
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Frankenweenie - 3D Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Winona Ryder, Martin Landau, Martin Short
Director: Tim Burton
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From Disney and creative genius Tim Burton (Alice in Wonderland, The Nightmare Before Christmas) comes the hilarious and offbeat Frankenweenie, a heartwarming tale about a boy and his dog. After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog Sparky, young Victor hanesses the power of science to bring his best ..read more »
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Alice in Wonderland - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Matt Lucas
Director: Tim Burton
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Tumble down the rabbit hole with Alice for a fantastical adventure from Walt Disney Pictures and Tim Burton. Inviting and magical, Alice In Wonderland is an imaginative new twist on one of the most beloved stories of all time. Alice (Mia Wasikowska), now 19 years old returns to the whimsical world ..read more »
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Alice in Wonderland - 3D Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Matt Lucas
Director: Tim Burton
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Tumble down the rabbit hole with Alice for a fantastical adventure from Walt Disney Pictures and Tim Burton. Inviting and magical, Alice In Wonderland is an imaginative new twist on one of the most beloved stories of all time. Alice (Mia Wasikowska), now 19 years old returns to the whimsical world ..read more »
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Alice in Wonderland
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Matt Lucas
Director: Tim Burton
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Tumble down the rabbit hole with Alice for a fantastical adventure from Walt Disney Pictures and Tim Burton. Inviting and magical, Alice In Wonderland is an imaginative new twist on one of the most beloved stories of all time. Alice (Mia Wasikowska), now 19 years old returns to the whimsical world ..read more »
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Anna Sophia Robb, Noah Taylor, David Kelly
Director: Tim Burton
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Family adventure based on the novel by Roald Dahl. The film centres around an eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp), and Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore), a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory. Most nights in the Bucket home, ..read more »
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Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Joanna Lumley, Michael Gough, Emily Watson
Director: Mike Johnson
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Animated adventure from popular director Tim Burton. Set in a 19th century European village, the film follows the story of Victor (voiced by Johnny Depp), a young man who is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride (Helena Bonham Carter), while his real bride, Victoria (..read more »
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Big Fish - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Robert Guilla, Billy Crudup
Director: Tim Burton
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Tim Burton's fantasy-drama is based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and adapted for the screen by John August. A dying Edward Bloom (Albert Finney as the old man and Ewan McGregor as the younger) has always had a willing audience to hear the amazing tales from his travels around the world in his ..read more »
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Big Fish
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Robert Guilla, Billy Crudup
Director: Tim Burton
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Tim Burton's fantasy-drama is based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and adapted for the screen by John August. A dying Edward Bloom (Albert Finney as the old man and Ewan McGregor as the younger) has always had a willing audience to hear the amazing tales from his travels around the world in his ..read more »
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Planet Of The Apes
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Luke Eberl, Michael Clarke Duncan
Director: Tim Burton
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Tim Burton's 're-imagining' of the 1968 sci-fi classic.The year is 2029, and Capt. Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) is aboard a spaceship trying to teach apes how to become space pilots. During a routine reconnaissance mission outside the mothership, Leo is sucked into a space-time hole and minutes ..read more »
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Sleepy Hollow
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Martin Landau, Michael Gough
Director: Tim Burton
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Tim Burton's gothic detective story is steeped in the traditions of American myth and the style of Hammer Horror. At the beginning of the 19th Century, New York pathologist Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is sent to the remote town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate the gruesome deaths of a number of the ..read more »
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Sleepy Hollow - Blu-ray
(1999)
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Martin Landau, Michael Gough
Director: Tim Burton
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Tim Burton's gothic detective story is steeped in the traditions of American myth and the style of Hammer Horror. At the beginning of the 19th Century, New York pathologist Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is sent to the remote town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate the gruesome deaths of a number of the ..read more »
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Mars Attacks!
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening
Director: Tim Burton
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This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The storyline affectionately harkens back to the deadpan sincerity of such '50s and '60s science-fiction ..read more »
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Mars Attacks! - Blu-ray
(1996)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening
Director: Tim Burton
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When Martians arrive on planet Earth, American President James Dale (Jack Nicholson) is persuaded to extend the hand of friendship. One of the President's advisers, Donald Kessler (Pierce Brosnan), has been studying the aliens, and is keen to make peaceful contact. However, the Martians gleefully ..read more »
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James And The Giant Peach
(1996)
Starring: Joanna Lumley, Jane Leeves, Richard Dreyfuss
Director: Henry Selick
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James, a lonely orphan, is sent to live with his wicked and greedy Aunts Spiker and Sponge. Unwanted and forced to perform their menial chores, the boy dreams about going to New York City--a place, his father once told him, where dreams come true. Then James meets a mysterious old man who gives him ..read more »
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Batman Forever
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Jim Carrey, Pat Hingle, Michael Gough
Director: Joel Schumacher
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Director Joel Schumacher inherited the Batman franchise from Tim Burton and began steering it in the campier direction of the Sixties television show with this third installment. First-time Batman/Bruce Wayne (Val Kilmer), in his only outing as the Caped Crusader, is effectively brooding as he ..read more »
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Batman Forever - Blu-ray
(1995)
Starring: Jim Carrey, Pat Hingle, Michael Gough
Director: Joel Schumacher
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The third release in the hyper-successful Batman franchise saw several changes of personnel. Director Tim Burton made way for Joel Schumacher, while Michael Keaton was replaced by Val Kilmer as the man in the cowl and cape. Former District Attorney, Harvey 'Two-Face' Dent (Tommy Lee Jones), is ..read more »
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Ed Wood
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio, Martin Landau, Patricia Arquette
Director: Tim Burton
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Hollywood visionary Tim Burton pays homage to another Hollywood visionary, albeit a less successful one, in this unusual fictionalized biography. The film follows Wood (Johnny Depp) in his quest for film greatness as he writes and directs turkey after turkey, cross-dresses, and surrounds himself ..read more »
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Glenn Shadix, Pee-Wee Herman, Catherine O'Hara
Director: Henry Selick
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Animated musical fantasy set in a parallel world where different lands represent different holiday periods. Our hero is Jack Skellington (voice of Chris Sarandon), a man from Halloween who becomes converted to Christmas and sets out to spread joy in the world. However, when Jack's new mission leads ..read more »
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Batman Returns
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Cristi Conaway, Pat Hingle, Michael Gough
Director: Tim Burton
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In this first sequel to 1989's Batman, the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is up against the Penguin (Danny DeVito), the hideously deformed scion of a wealthy Gotham City family. The Penguin plots with evil businessman Max Schreck (Christopher Walken) to become mayor and then turn Gotham into a ..read more »
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Batman Returns - Blu-ray
(1992)
Starring: Cristi Conaway, Pat Hingle, Michael Gough
Director: Tim Burton
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Sequel to Tim Burton's hugely successful 'Batman' (1989). Oswald Cobblepot was abandoned by his parents as a baby. Thirty three years later, bent on revenge, he returns to Gotham City as the Penguin (Danny DeVito). First he begins a warped campaign to become Mayor, helped by millionaire businessman ..read more »
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Edward Scissorhands
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Dianne Wiest, Winona Ryder, Alan Arkin
Director: Tim Burton
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A gothic love story from Tim Burton. When Avon lady Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest) pays a call to the local castle, she discovers Edward (Johnny Depp) - a half-finished, mechanical boy with scissors for hands. She takes him home to her suburban neighbourhood, where his exotic appeal and prodigious ..read more »
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Edward Scissorhands - Blu-ray
(1991)
Starring: Dianne Wiest, Winona Ryder, Alan Arkin
Director: Tim Burton
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A gothic love story from Tim Burton. When Avon lady Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest) pays a call to the local castle, she discovers Edward (Johnny Depp) - a half-finished, mechanical boy with scissors for hands. She takes him home to her suburban neighbourhood, where his exotic appeal and prodigious ..read more »
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Batman
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger
Director: Tim Burton
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Tim Burton directs this big screen outing for the caped crusader. The streets of Gotham City are no longer safe for criminals, who are being picked off by a masked vigilante in a rubber suit - dubbed 'Batman' by the press. Reporter Alexander Knox (Robert Wuhl) teams with photographer Vicki Vale (..read more »
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Batman - Blu-ray
(1989)
Starring: Tra, Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson
Director: Tim Burton
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Tim Burton directs this big screen outing for the caped crusader. The streets of Gotham City are no longer safe for criminals, who are being picked off by a masked vigilante in a rubber suit - dubbed 'Batman' by the press. Reporter Alexander Knox (Robert Wuhl) teams with photographer Vicki Vale (..read more »
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Beetlejuice
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Duane Davis, Winona Ryder, Glenn Shadix
Director: Tim Burton
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The demonic comedy that put acclaimed film director Tim Burton firmly on the map. The Maitlands (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) are a happy couple who, when killed in a car crash, return as ghosts to their beloved home to wreak havoc on the ghastly yuppie family who have moved in. Being novices at ..read more »
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Beetlejuice - Blu-ray
(1988)
Starring: Duane Davis, Winona Ryder, Glenn Shadix
Director: Tim Burton
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The demonic comedy that put acclaimed film director Tim Burton firmly on the map. The Maitlands (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) are a happy couple who, when killed in a car crash, return as ghosts to their beloved home to wreak havoc on the ghastly yuppie family who have moved in. Being novices at ..read more »
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Pee Wee's Big Adventure
(1985)
Starring: Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton
Director: Tim Burton
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The love of Pee-wee Herman's life is his bicycle. When it is stolen, he is send on a wild cross country adventure after a fortune teller tells him his bicycle is in the basement of the Alamo. Along the way, Pee-wee encounters an escaped convict, a waitress with wanderlust and a jealous boyfriend, ..read more »
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