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The Batman Anthology available for the first time in Blu-ray

The Batman Anthology will be available for the first time ever on Blu-ray HD on March, 10, 2009. Batman (1989) Jack Nicholson is The Joker, who emerged from a horrible accident as a maniacal criminal. Michael Keaton is the Caped Crusader, who emerged from a childhood trauma to become a masked crimefighter. Kim Basinger is ….

August to pen Preacher adaptation and Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie

Writer John August has scored two high profile projects, that will see him working with directors Tim Burton and Sam Mendes. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he’s been contracted to write the comic book adaptation of Preacher for Mendes, and then the comedic horror Frankenweenie for Burton. Frankenweenie is based on a short film Burton ….

Johnny Depp keeping busy with Dante’s Inferno-based adaptation, Dark Shadows update and much more

Variety reports that Johnny Depp’s production company Infinitum Nihil has nabbed film rights to the 2002 novel In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches. Depp will potentially star in the new project. “Dante” revolves around Dante’s masterwork The Divine Comedy, and tells parallel storylines involving Dante in 14th-century Italy, as he tries to complete ….

Zemeckis, Burton and Bruckheimer projects may go 3D and IMAX

Disney’s A Christmas Carol, the 3D 2009 holiday release from director Robert Zemeckis and starring Jim Carrey, will be the first film from The Walt Disney Studios slated for IMAX theaters under a new five-picture agreement the studio has reached with big screen movie exhibition company, it was announced yesterday by president of Walt Disney ….

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street coming on Blu-ray

On October 21st, Paramount Home Entertainment will release the Golden Globe winning cinematic masterpiece from Director Tim Burton Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street on Blu-ray. Re-imagined by legendary director Tim Burton and starring Golden Globe winner (and Academy Award nominated) actor Johnny Depp, Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning Broadway hit never looked and ….

Depp returning to the high seas and Cage to continue treasure hunting

Variety has reported that Johnny Depp will reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, and is preparing to play Tonto in a new adaptation of The Lone Ranger. Both films will be produced by genre-auteur Jerry Bruckheimer, who also announced that and Nicolas Cage are working on ….

The Corpse Bride film review

Year: 2005 Directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson Musical Score by Danny Elfman Screenplay by John August and Pamela Johnson With his second attempt in the feature-length animation genre, “The Corpse Bride” is another visually stunning film from Tim Burton. The story revolves around Victor (voiced by Johnny Depp), a young man who is about to ….

The Warner Brothers Fall Preview

Originally Published: September 1, 2005 Hollywood’s long, dreary summer finally is over. Now it’s on to the good stuff. And it better be good, if film studios hope to salvage what’s shaping up as the worst year for film attendance since the late 1990s. After a summer season that left audiences generally uninterested, the fall ….

New Posters and Photos from King Kong, Fantastic 4, Hitchhiker’s Guide and Much, Much More

Originally Published: April 3, 2005 This has got to be the biggest film preview we’ve had on the web site. We have really done our homework on this one for you, the fans. Now I don’t want to spend to much time talking. I just want to say that you may have seen some of ….

New Posters and Photos from King Kong, Fantastic 4, Hitchhiker’s Guide and Much, Much More

Originally Published: April 3, 2005 This has got to be the biggest film preview we’ve had on the web site. We have really done our homework on this one for you, the fans. Now I don’t want to spend to much time talking. I just want to say that you may have seen some of ….

Fall Film Synopses for 2005

Here are some of what we have to look forward to this Fall film season. The long-awaited adaptation of the best seller “Memoirs of a Geisha,” director Rob Marshall’s follow-up to “Chicago,” stars Ziyi Zhang as a poor Japanese girl who becomes a geisha goddess. Other big films include Steven Spielberg’s “Munich,” a thriller about ….