Dave, Adam, and Devindra discuss this year's Oscar nominations, and explain why you should watch LA Confidential instead of Gangster Squad. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Download or Play Now in your Browser: Subscribe to the /Filmcast: SHOWNOTES What We've Been Watching David (11:42): The Incredibles (Blu-ray)…
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If you caught Frankenweenie this fall, you probably recall that one of Victor and Sparky's hobbies involved making adorably amateurish Super 8 films. Now one of their little home movies is about to get a real-life release. Disney has unveiled the first images from Captain Sparky vs. the Flying Saucers, a short film that will appear as…
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This morning Megan Fox, Ed Helms, and Jessica Alba announced the nominations for the 2013 Golden Globes. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization behind the event, is famous for nominating films and performances simply based on their star factor -- if there's an actor that members of the HFPA want to hang out with,…
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It's been a big day for awards, as the New York Film Critics Circle kicked off awards season, handing out the first accolades for achievement in filmin 2012. (Zero Dark Thirty and Lincoln were the big winners.) Now here are the nominations for the animation-specific Annie Awards, and these might make people happy who were…
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There's a lot to be said for timing when it comes to film awards, and in that respect things couldn't have worked out better for Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty. While most audiences won't even have a chance to see the film until early next year, the first screenings of the movie have drawn rave…
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Briefly: Though it underperformed at the box office, most critics agree that Tim Burton's Frankenweenie was the director's best film in years. Combining his love of the macabre with childlike wonder, heart and humor, it'll surely be a home video discovery for fresh audiences for years to come. That process will start on January 15…
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With Frankenweenie, Tim Burton goes back to a couple periods of his own history. One is his childhood, during which he was alienated from average school life, and found solace in monsters and movies. Another is his early career, when he created a short film for Disney that, creatively, was his first big success, and…
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Loads of new posters have hit today, and the one that you see above is the fairly disappointing first image for Parker, which, as the pic suggests, stars Jason Statham as the title character. It's a movie I've held some hope for, as it follows in a line of films (Point Blank, Full Contact, Ransom)…
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Frankenweenie is an unusual film, which is the sort of thing that people always used to say about Tim Burton movies. In this case it is unusual because unlike Burton films such as Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice, which seemed like uncontrollable explosions of the director's own childhood impulses, Frankenweenie feels like a very calculated trip…
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You can't fault studios for wanting to give audiences a peek at the goods, if that's what it takes to get dollars to the ticket counter. But with some overhyped pictures, it seems like they're not bothering to leave anything at all for the actual theatergoing experience. In the worst cases, not even the ending…
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Apparently, something about stop-motion animation and family-oriented horror comedy just goes hand-in-hand. Over the next few months, we'll be getting not one but two such movies. The offbeat ParaNorman, from Coraline studio Laika, will hit first in August, while Tim Burton's 3D black-and-white feature Frankenweenie will hit a few weeks before Halloween. Each production has…
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Now that Dark Shadows has come and gone, Tim Burton fans have another film to look forward to later this year. It's called Frankenweenie. The 3D black and white stop motion animated film version of one of Burton's early short films will be released October 5, right in time for Halloween. And, if you're heading to Fantastic…
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Tim Burton has been in something of a slump these past couple of years. Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows both received mixed to negative reviews, although the former went on to make tons of money anyway. And his latest producing efforts haven't fared much better: 9 proved a forgettable flop, while this past weekend's Abraham Lincoln:…
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With Tim Burton in press mode promoting Dark Shadows, Disney took the opportunity to show a bunch of journalists scenes from his other 2012 release: Frankenweenie. Burton's 3D black and white return to stop motion animation (after producing The Nightmare Before Christmas and co-directing Corpse Bride) is a re-telling of one of his earliest films,…
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Two films we've been looking forward to will be making an even bigger splash than we had anticipated. The IMAX Corporation has announced that Tim Burton's Frankenweenie and Ridley Scott's Prometheus will each be getting IMAX 3D releases, starting on the same day as their regular theatrical runs. Though neither film was shot in IMAX,…
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Tim Burton's Frankenweenie is a great example of how tastes and trends change. When the young director made the first live-action black and white version of the story for Disney in the early '80s, the company fired him, saying the film was too scary for a family audience. Now, almost thirty years later, strange and…
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In 1984 Tim Burton made a short called Frankenweenie, about a kid who uses Frankenstein-like science to bring his deceased pet back to life. Deemed too dark and family-unfriendly to release, the black and white short cost Burton his job at Disney, but ultimately turned into a sort of demo reel that helped him make…
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Walt Disney Pictures have released the official title treatment/logo for Tim Burton's big screen adaptation of Frankenweenie. Hit the jump to check it out and see a comparison against the original logo from Burton's his earlier short film. Original title treatment from the short film: Official Title Treatment for the new movie: Official One Pager:…
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In recent years, Comic-Con has been criticized for becoming too Hollywood as all the major studios would come down to San Diego and woo fans with their upcoming projects. This year, Disney -- which owns both Marvel and Pixar -- didn't have a big presence there. Most surmised that was because Disney has its own…
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Danny Elfman had a fairly high-profile falling-out with his Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 director Sam Raimi while trying to score Spider-Man 2 -- a falling out that prompted the composer to declare that the two would never work together again. Well, something happened, because now, in addition to scoring Tim Burton's Dark Shadows and Frankenweenie,…
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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 40 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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Walt Disney Pictures have released the official plot synopsis for Tim Burton's big screen adaptation of his earlier short film Frankenweenie. In Tim Burton’s “Frankenweenie” young Victor conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous, consequences. A stop-motion animated film, “Frankenweenie” will be filmed…
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Disney has shifted dates on two big films for 2012. Tim Burton's feature-length expansion of Frankenweenie has been moved from March 9, 2012 to October 5, 2012. Hopefully that'll be a much more appropriate date for the film. Part of the reason for that date switch is that Disney has also moved John Stanton's John…
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Fitting for a film that finds Tim Burton returning to where his career first began, the Hot Topic-favorite director has a voice cast in place for Frankenweenie 3D that will reunite him with some familiar faces. To recap: the film is a stop-motion Disney animated feature, based on his '80s black-and-white short about a boy…
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Briefly: It's release date time. Disney has announced release dates for John Carter of Mars and the stop-motion animated update / expansion of Tim Burton's Frankenweenie. Andrew Stanton's John Carter of Mars, the Pixar director's first foray into live action features, and an adaptation of the pulp adventure novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, will release…
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Last week there was some confusion when a Deadline report suggested that Tim Burton would shortly begin work on a stop-motion animated film based on The Addams Family. That report was quickly denied by Burton's publicist (in a way that still leaves us wondering if it is a film that will happen) but there's another…
Read MoreYesterday 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.”…
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