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He’s the writer-director of TV series The Kill Point, starring Steve Cirbus, Donnie Wahlberg and Michael Hyatt, about a group of Iraq veterans who pull off a major bank heist. He’s also dabbled in a spot of editing, acting and producing with comedy Big Fan. Now Josh Trank sets his sights higher by taking on [...]
Another image of Johnny Depp in Tim Burton‘s retelling of the 1966-1971 classic gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows, has been released this week. No trailer yet, but Depp looks better and better each image we see, so for most that’s already enough to look forward to on its own. Dark Shadows follows Barnabas Collins (Depp), [...]
Warner Bros. has shared a new photograph of Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer this week, showing the undead couple in Tim Burton’s retelling of the 1966-1971 classic gothic soap opera, Dark Shadows. The film follows Barnabas Collins (Depp), a wealthy playboy who is transformed into a vampire and buried by a jilted lover, Angelique (Eva [...]
Oscar-nominated writer-director Tim Burton is something of a genius, and news of his upcoming projects is always welcomed with open arms, and this story is no different. Especially since it involves Robert Downey, Jr. too. With adaptations of children’s fairy tales re-emerging in recent years, which Burton himself is no stranger to, having directed adaptations [...]
Phaidon Press continue their exceptional work in publishing some of the best books on cinema with Antoine de Baecque’s Cahiers du Cinema on Tim Burton. The director has always been a personal favourite, as much for his marvellously scrappy and witty drawings and concept art as for his baroque take on the Gothic sensibility. His [...]
The second of Seth Grahame-Smith’s best-selling mash-up novels, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has found better traction on its path to the big screen than his earlier novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and is currently in post-production having filmed earlier this year. We got our first look at photos from the set back in April, [...]
Tim Burton’s upcoming stop motion remake of his own 1984 short film, Frankenweenie, is definitely one of the most interesting projects that we can look forward to seeing next year. We got our first official look at the film, which will be released in black and white in 3D, back in October with some brilliant [...]
As the Pumpkin King, Jack Skellington spends his entire year planning for the next Halloween. As a matter of fact, his entire town of Halloweentown does the same thing. His latest stint as king has Jack questioning his place in life and after the events of Halloween are over, a somber Jack heads out for [...]
We’re big fans of Jane Goldman here on HeyUGuys. Her work on Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class was both kick-ass and first class and while we’re waiting with breath baited to see her adaptation of Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black for Hammer Deadline have announced that she is in talks to adapt the novel [...]
Tim Burton, beloved director of such dark and brilliant films as Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, and many more cult classics, is well known and noted for his unique oddness of vision that he brings to all his films. So the news that he’s in early talks to come on board a novel entitled, [...]
A little later than we’d hoped to get a post up but here’s the first couple of images from Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie. The voice cast in the movie includes Winona Ryder, Martin Short, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Landau, Charlie Tahan, Atticus Shaffer, Robert Capron, Conchata Ferrell and it’s expected for release October 5th 2012 so only [...]
We got our first photos from the set of Tim Burton’s next film, Dark Shadows, last month and they gave us a brief glimpse at Johnny Depp’s return to the gothic world of Burton’s mind as Barnabas Collins, an eighteenth century man-turned-vampire dug up in 1972. The first official photos from the film have now [...]
Nestled a few miles west of London sits Pinewood Studios, still looking as sprightly as ever, but having today reached the grand old age of 75. And what a 75 years it has been. Though the landscape of cinema has changed beyond recognition in that time (fads have come and gone, new filming techniques have [...]
Steven Spielberg has added another quality name to his already esteemed line-up of actors in his forthcoming biopic of Abraham Lincoln by casting Watchmen’s Jackie Earle Haley. Deadline brings news that the Little Children star will play another villain of sorts in the form of Alexander Stephens, an opposer of Lincoln’s slavery reform agenda. He’ll [...]
Dark Shadows will see Johnny Depp joining up with director Tim Burton for the 784th time in their careers, collaborating once again for a project with dark, gothic tones. Dark Shadows was a cult TV show that ran in the latter half of the 1960′s, containing such genre staples as vampires, zombies, witches, werewolves and [...]
Walt Disney Pictures have unveiled the official logo for Frankenweenie, a full-length stop-motion animation based on the 1984 short. Directed by Tim Burton (The Nightmare Before Christmas), Frankenweenie features the voice talents of Winona Ryder, Charlie Tahan, Michael Keaton, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Landau, Martin Short, Atticus Shaffer, Robert Capron and Conchata Ferrell. After unexpectedly losing his [...]
It appears now that not even Disney is safe from the economic crisis that has gripped the world economy as of late. Up until a few days ago, the studio giant was poised to start production on a modern adaptation of the classic 1930s radio and tv show The Lone Ranger. However apparently the film’s [...]
Many of you will be happy to learn that famed composer Danny Elfman has kiss and made up with former collaborator Sam Raimi, and will be performing scoring duties on the director’s next feature (the reworking of the Wizard of Oz, Oz The Great and Powerful). Elfman famously fell out with The Evil Dead helmer [...]
After leaving the film adaptation of video game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune last month, David O. Russell is now one of the front-runners Disney are considering to direct their fantasy film, Maleficent, a live-action retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story, THR report. The film has Angelina Jolie attached as the lead, Maleficent, the wicked witch that [...]
Thomas the Tank Engine, who first appeared in The Railway Series books back in 1946, is going to be appearing in a live-action film for the first time, under Shane Acker, director of the Tim Burton-produced 2009 film, 9, Deadline report. Thomas and his friends have been on our television screens since way back in [...]
