|
|
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.
News |
What members say |
Filmography
Tim Burton - news / articles
-
-
Joined at the Hip: Tim Burton and Johnny Depp -
9 May 2012
retty face. Edward Scissorhands was surely a key step in that direction, just as it represents a landmark in the development of Tim Burton’s artistic vision, his first mature personal film, vouchsafed by the blockbuster success of Batman and before that the mo
-
-
Johnny Depp's fake vampire nails caused toilet difficulty -
8 May 2012
ows - because his pointy movie nails made it difficult for him to urinate.-The Pirates of the Caribbean actor stars in director Tim Burton's big screen adaptation of the supernatural TV series as Barnabus Collins, the cult character made famous in the 1960s by the l
Tim Burton - what members say
review by from CARLTON
1 October 2004
review by wolfenchild from London, England
Batman Returns 9 February 2004
review by from Midlands, UK
Comedy, horror and romance all in one film! 1 January 2005
Tim Burton - filmography
-
-
Frankenweenie
(2012)
Starring: Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Landau
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate: 
When Victor, a young boy who enjoys making monster movies, learns that his dog Sparky has been hit by a car he sets out to bring the dog back to life the only way he knows how. With Frankenstein-like features, Sparky frightens the whole neighbourhood and is eventually rejected by them. Victor must ..read more »
 
83%
from 10 members
Currently unavailable
-
-
Dark Shadows
(2012)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Eva Green, Bella Heathcote
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
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 »
72%
from 158 members
Currently unavailable
-
-
Dark Shadows - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Eva Green, Bella Heathcote
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
Entombed for 200 years after betraying vengeful witch Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green), 18th Century vampire Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) returns to Collinwood Manor in 1972, only to find his estate in ruins and his family plagued by macabre secrets in Tim Burton's re-boot of the popular ..read more »
70%
from 21 members
Currently unavailable
-
-
Alice in Wonderland - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Matt Lucas
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate: 
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 »
66%
from 14,304 members
-
-
Alice in Wonderland - 3D Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Matt Lucas
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
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 »
69%
from 567 members
-
-
Alice in Wonderland
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Matt Lucas
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
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 »
68%
from 49,475 members
-
-
Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet...
(2007)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Alan Rickman
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
Tim Burton brings his trademark sense of dark whimsy to this stage-to-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical. Johnny Depp reteams with the director to play the titular Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, and Sacha Baron Cohen as his co-stars.
63%
from 8,084 members
-
-
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Most nights in the Bucket home, dinner is a watered-down bowl of cabbage soup, which young Charlie gladly shares with his mother (HELENA BONHAM CARTER) and father (NOAH TAYLOR) and both pairs of grandparents. Theirs is a tiny, tumbledown, drafty old house but it is filled with love. Every night, ..read more »
62%
from 92,631 members
-
-
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - HD
(2005)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate: 
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Who better to bring Roald Dahl's adored children's story to life than the mastermind behind inventive films like EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and BEETLEJUICE? From Tim Burton's opening shot against Danny Elfman's eerie score this CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY is recognisably darker than the Mel Stuart-..read more »
67%
from 799 members
Not currently released
-
-
Big Fish
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
Edward Bloom has always told tall tales of his life, that charm everyone apart from his son Will. When Will's mother Sandra tries to bring the pair back together, Will must try and learn what parts of his father's epic tales of giants, witches and blizzards are fact and which are fiction.
65%
from 47,703 members
-
-
Big Fish - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
In Tim Burton's family film BIG FISH, a wonderful storyteller named Edward Bloom (Albert Finney), who lives in a small town in Alabama, recounts tall tales of his wild worldly adventures. These are shown in flashback with Ewan McGregor playing the young Bloom. Wonderful special effects and vibrant ..read more »
71%
from 2,575 members
-
-
Planet Of The Apes - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham-Carter, Tim Roth
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
In remaking this classic sci-fi horror film, director Tim Burton takes on a whopping challenge and succeeds. Astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) is part of a space station crew that, in the year 2029, is conducting experiments in training genetically engineered chimps to perform complex away ..read more »
57%
from 1,965 member
Not currently released
-
-
Planet Of The Apes
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham-Carter, Tim Roth
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
A remake of the classic story in which Leo, an astronaut lands on a planet which is inhabitated by very intelligent apes. On this planet humans are enslaved as the apes are the dominant race... Can Leo lead the humans in an uprising in order to free themselves?...
53%
from 11,818 members
-
-
Sleepy Hollow
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Michael Gambon
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate: 
In Tim Burton's stylish, creepy retelling of the classic Washington Irving story, SLEEPY HOLLOW, Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is a squeamish, bookish 18th century New York City investigator sent to a small town in lower Westchester county to look into three mysterious decapitations. When the always ..read more »
70%
from 28,318 members
-
-
Sleepy Hollow - Blu-ray
(1999)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Michael Gambon
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
In Tim Burton's stylish, creepy retelling of the classic Washington Irving story, SLEEPY HOLLOW, Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is a squeamish, bookish 18th century New York City investigator sent to a small town in lower Westchester county to look into three mysterious decapitations. When the always ..read more »
72%
from 1,534 member
-
-
Mars Attacks! - Blu-ray
(1996)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
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 »
67%
from 654 members
-
-
Mars Attacks!
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
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 »
62%
from 12,029 members
-
-
Ed Wood
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Vincent D'Onofrio
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
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 »
66%
from 16,581 members
-
-
Batman Returns
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Danny De Vito, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
In director Tim Burton's sequel to his successful BATMAN (1989), the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is pitted against the demented, ravenous Penguin (Danny DeVito), a pitiful, orphaned psychopathic freak who once went on a baby-killing spree, and a 'power' hungry capitalist villain Max Shreck (..read more »
65%
from 20,171 members
-
-
Batman Returns - Blu-ray
(1992)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Danny De Vito, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
In director Tim Burton's sequel to his successful BATMAN (1989), the Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) is pitted against the demented, ravenous Penguin (Danny DeVito), a pitiful, orphaned psychopathic freak who once went on a baby-killing spree, and a 'power' hungry capitalist villain Max Shreck (..read more »
70%
from 2,232 members
-
-
Edward Scissorhands
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Bryan Larkin, O-Lan Jones, Johnny Depp
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
In Tim Burton's EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, a suburban fairy tale with incredibly imaginative sets, an Avon lady, Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest), discovers the half-finished experiment--a man/monster named Edward (Johnny Depp)--of a mad scientist (played magically by Vincent Price) living in the neighborhood's ..read more »
74%
from 28,654 members
-
-
Edward Scissorhands - Blu-ray
(1991)
Starring: Bryan Larkin, O-Lan Jones, Johnny Depp
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
In Tim Burton's EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, a suburban fairy tale with incredibly imaginative sets, an Avon lady, Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest), discovers the half-finished experiment--a man/monster named Edward (Johnny Depp)--of a mad scientist (played magically by Vincent Price) living in the neighborhood's ..read more »
77%
from 2,814 members
-
-
Batman
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Tim Burton's BATMAN is a Gothic, Wagnerian treatment of the Batman mythos that explains the origins of Batman (Michael Keaton) and his nemesis, the maniacal Joker (a ripe Jack Nicholson).Gotham City is a sunless, ominous haven for criminals, held in the corrupt grip of crime boss Carl Grissom (the ..read more »
71%
from 14,290 members
-
-
Batman - Blu-ray
(1989)
Starring: Tra, Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Tim Burton's BATMAN, inspired by Frank Miller's graphic novel THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, is a Gothic, Wagnerian treatment of the Batman mythos that explains the origins of Batman (Michael Keaton) and his nemesis, the maniacal Joker (a ripe Jack Nicholson).Gotham City is a sunless, ominous haven for ..read more »
75%
from 2,583 members
-
-
Beetlejuice - Blu-ray
(1988)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
In the surreal, wonderfully cartoon-like comedy BEETLEJUICE, a childless couple, Barbara and Adam (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin), move to the country only to be killed in a car accident while passing over a quaint covered bridge. Their ghosts return to their beloved Victorian home, and find the '..read more »
74%
from 2,241 members
-
-
Beetlejuice
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
In the surreal, wonderfully cartoon-like comedy BEETLEJUICE, a childless couple, Barbara and Adam (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin), move to the country only to be killed in a car accident while passing over a quaint covered bridge. Their ghosts return to their beloved Victorian home, and find the '..read more »
70%
from 21,295 members
-
-
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
(1985)
Starring: Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton
Director: Tim Burton
Certificate: 
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
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 »
64%
from 336 members
Currently unavailable
|
Tim Burton facts
|
...Sheer brilliance from Tim Burton. Michael Keaton is sheer class and this is a highly enjoyable horror comedy....
