Public Enemies - What Did You Think?
Planet Disney has posted some new character photos from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, which appear to be scanned from a magazine. I have cleaned up the images a bunch, and included the cleaner versions after the jump. The photos include Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Mia Wasikowska as Alice with The White Rabbit. No characters that we haven’t see previously, but each photo gives us a better look at the make-up and wardrobe of Burton’s Wonderland. Thanks to /Film reader Jason for the tip.
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Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland Logo and High Resolution Photos/Concept Art
Posted on Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Earlier this week Walt Disney Pictures released the first promotional character photos and concept art for Tim Burton’s 3D adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. Tonight Disney has sent us high resolution versions of the previous images, along with the official logo for the new film (above). After the jump is a collection of high resolution versions of all the photos and concept art released earlier in the week.
First Look: Matt Lucas in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland
Posted on Monday, June 22nd, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Last night the first promotional photos were revealed of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as The White Queen from Tim Burton’s 3D re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland. And now Movies.ie has come across this promo photo of Matt Lucas as both Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Check out the full photo after the jump.
First Photos: Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland - What Do You Think?
Posted on Sunday, June 21st, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Walt Disney Pictures has released the first promotional photos from Tim Burton’s 3D re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland. Above you can see the first official photos of Johnny Depp as a freakish-looking Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen (”Off With Their Heads”), and Anne Hathaway as The White Queen, looking very pale. After the jump we’ve included newly confirmed details about the film’s plot (did you know its a kind of a sequel?) and new concept art that shows the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), the egg-shaped Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Matt Lucas) and more.
Cool Stuff: A Preview of The Art of Tim Burton
Posted on Thursday, June 11th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Yesterday we told you that New York’s Museum of Modern Art was going to have an exhibition of the art of Tim Burton. The exhibition will include “over 700 examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, storyboards, moving-image works, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, and includes an extensive film series spanning Burton’s 27-year career.” This event also coincides with The Art of Tim Burton book that Brendon wrote about in April. Read the the full press release here.
MOMA has finally granted us access to a sampling of the pieces you can expect at the show. Eight more images, available after the jump.
New York’s Museum of Modern Art will present an exhibition of the art from director Tim Burton’s career, beginning November 22, 2009, through April 26, 2010. The exhibition will include “over 700 examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, storyboards, moving-image works, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, and includes an extensive film series spanning Burton’s 27-year career.” This event also coincides with The Art of Tim Burton book that Brendon wrote about in April. Read the full press release after the jump.
More Concept Art from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland?
Posted on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Russian film site Filmz.ru has gotten their hands on what appears to be new concept art from Tim Burton’s 3D adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. The initials on the bottom of that art reads “JM”, and the only crew members with those initials are the set designer Jeff Markwith or lead model maker Jason Mahakian. The art isn’t as Burton-styled as the previous pieces I’ve seen, so I’m not sure if these are legit or not. Take a look after the jump.
Glossary of Terms For Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland
Posted on Friday, May 8th, 2009 by Brendon Connelly
Linda Woolverton’s screenplay for Tim Burton’s new Alice in Wonderland has very successfully been kept under lock and key. This has led to a certain amount of confusion or even misinformation springing up and circling reports of the film. Thankfully, having been shown a full copy I can now report that all of the early information I was given by sources close to the film seems to be completely true.
The big surprise for most people, I think, will be that this is at once an adaptation of and sequel to the Lewis Carroll books. This is thanks to a plot wrangle at least as clever as that in Abrams’ Star Trek. Essentially, Wonderland is both a real place and a recurring dream of Alice’s. In this film she’s dreaming of it at a somewhat later part of her life than in the books, so certain things are different. This is just one clever element of a truly charming and surprising screenplay that I’m now really very sure will become a true humdinger of a movie.
To fully understand the script immediately one would need a glossary of terms. Thankfully, Woolverton prepared one and it was circulated to cast and crew. I’ve had it explained to me, so I’m going to pass on what I know to you after the break.
I really need to invest in a good scanner because I saw these pictures in Total Film before the weekend and have spent until now scouring the internet for them. What’s up, page pirates? Not got a subscription?
The first image, as seen above, is a piece of concept art for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. As it is doubtful that the dimensionalisation was done by anybody working on the film and instead probably knocked out by a promotions or design company purists might want to just filter this down to clean 2D by looking at it through anaglyphic specs with one eye closed.
After the break is the second image, a still from Pixar’s Up. Again, the 3D effect in evidence is of dubious provenance but, hey, if you’ve got a pair of those crummy old red-blue glasses to hand, you deserve a bit of fun.
Subscribers to Tim Burton’s official website have tonight received an e-mail announcing The Art of Tim Burton, a limited edition hard cover book that will feature over 1000 illustrations on over 400 pages. I’ve posted the announcement image at the head of this post, having first wiped my virtual saliva off of it.
Shane Acker’s short animation 9 was a wonderful little fable, a redemption fantasy that blended stitchpunk images with dream-like plotting and a subtle blend of melancholy and fear. I loved it from the second I saw it, and was as such very disappointed to see it lose the Oscar - even to John Canemaker and Peggy Stern’s superb Moon and Son.
That initial short is now being adapted into a full length feature, with Acker (the pin-up boy at the head of the post) still directing and Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov amongst the producers. The official trailer was released around Christmas time, but since then we’ve seen or heard little else. Now, though, MTV have eased my anxious fever a little and premiered a really very, very interesting, and ever so slightly slightly surprising, 2-minute, 6-second clip from the film. You can enjoy that below the break.
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland Gets IMAX 3D Release
Posted on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Disney also announced today that Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland will also be released in IMAX 3D on March 5, 2010. Read the full press release after the jump.
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