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Tim Burton at TIFF’s Bell Lightbox: A Ghoulish Delight
Severed heads, bondage-inspired costumes, sinister creatures doing terribly evil things: there’s no better way to get in the holiday spirit than to spend an afternoon wandering through the twisted...
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12 Shorts That Grew Into Full-Length Movies
Like the dinosaur blood found inside ancient, tree sap-encased mosquitoes, short films can often be cultivated and grown into something bigger and more rewarding: a feature film (sorry if you were...
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Movie News After Dark: Frankenweenie, Hell on Wheels, Things, Lists,...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly entertainment news column that collects all the best links of the day, then adds commentary. It is also glad to be back from its Christmas break and hopes...
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The 52 Most Anticipated Movies of 2012
It’s already the second day of 2012, which means we’ll all be sober within the next day or two. It also means that we can officially start looking (through blurry eyes) ahead to the future. A future...
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Movie News After Dark: Archer Gets Justified, Women and Oscar, Badass Judy...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly collection of movie news, notes and links that will make you very happy that you decided to stop and take a look at what’s going on. Seriously, it’s the...
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‘Frankenweenie’ Trailer is Alive, Now Go Fetch
While Tim Burton’s recent live-action films have still been raking in gobs of cash, they’ve also taken a bit of a downturn in quality that have left longtime Burton fans feeling a bit cold. Affection...
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Big Dog: ‘Frankenweenie’ to Release In IMAX
For a film that reportedly got a young Tim Burton fired from Disney, that same studio sure seems set on making Frankenweenie a big event film for them this autumn. Burton’s film, an expanded version...
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22 Things You May Not Have Known About ‘Dark Shadows’ Composer Danny Elfman
With Dark Shadows set to hit theaters this weekend, Warners hosted a small Q&A this past Tuesday to highlight what will be composer Danny Elfman and director Tim Burton’s fourteenth film together....
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‘Frankenweenie’ Trailer: Oops, Maybe You Shouldn’t Have Brought Your Dead Dog...
Have we learned no lessons from Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”? Nothing about the consequences of playing God and reanimating the flesh? The inevitable disasters that accompany messing with the lines...
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Fantastic Fest To Raise Tim Burton’s ‘Frankenweenie’ From the Dead for...
The only thing in life better than Fantastic Fest would be winning the lottery while you’re at Fantastic Fest. Like every year, we’ll be covering the hell out of it with a preternatural dedication...
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Movie News After Dark: Pacific Rim, Senna, Katy Perry and Preparing for The...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly column that’s picking up the pieces as Hollywood takes off for an extended mid-week holiday weekend. Sure, the streets of Burbank are empty at the moment...
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A Guide to Austin’s Fall Film Festivals
I have been anxiously awaiting Fantastic Fest 2012 (September 20-27) ever since the carnivalesque tomfoolery of the Fantastic Fest 2011 closing party. Year after year, Tim League and the Fantastic...
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Movie News After Dark: Joss Whedon’s SHIELD, Entourage, Frankenweenie and...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s the exact thing that your pop culture obsessed sensibilities needs after a long hard day of talking about the latest iPhone on Twitter. We begin this evening with...
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Movie News After Dark: The Fantastic Fest Vacuum and Next Week’s Guest Author
What is Movie News After Dark? After a few days of not posting, who even knows anymore. As many of you have seen, this week began Fantastic Fest. And as I’ve done every year without learning any...
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Fantastic Fest: Sharing Stories and Spirit with Martin Landau and...
Photo Credit: Jack Plunkett/Fantastic Fest Actor Martin Landau has been in the business of making movies and delighting audiences for over 50 years. There isn’t much, at this point, that he’s not seen....
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Fantastic Fest: Tim Burton Discusses The Deeply Personal Nature of...
No matter how much it may seem to be true in the age of The Internet, a director is not the sum of his or her most recent work. Often we find ourselves caught up in the fast-paced “what have you done...
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Review: ‘Frankenweenie’ Charms With Classic Monsters and Old School Tim Burton
Editor’s note: Halloween comes early with this week’s release of Frankenweenie. For some delicious review snacks to go with your candy corn, here is a re-run of our Fantastic Fest review of the film,...
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Movie News After Dark: Frankenweenie, Dredd and Plenty of Bond, James Bond
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly movie news column that’s taking it easy on this Friday evening. Expect fun, happy thoughts heading your way in the news rundown below… We begin this...
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In Defense of Tim Burton
Before we even start one might ask, “Does Tim Burton need defending?” Obviously, he does (or else why would I write this?), and he needs it because the Tim Burton of today is not the Tim Burton we...
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31 Days of Horror: Frankenweenie (1984)
They said it couldn’t be done. A fifth year of 31 Days of Horror? 31 more terror, gore and shower scene-filled movies worth highlighting? But Rejects always say die and never back away from a...
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