Trent Moore
Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 9:47am
Guillermo del Toro has been prepping a stop-motion version of the classic story of Pinocchio for a while now. Turns out it’s no longer on the table.
Frankenweenie stories
Trent Moore
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 - 10:43am
With Frankenweenie, acclaimed director Tim Burton finally brought a labor of love to the big screen in glorious 3D (and black and white). Centered on a tale of a reanimated Franken-dog, the film is grounded pretty heavily in science fiction. Or so we thought.
Jeff Spry
Friday, October 5, 2012 - 9:36am
When Frankenweenie opens today, audiences will get all misty seeing Victor resurrect his precious pup. But bringing something back to life often has nightmarish consequences. For the fifth in our series of 31 Days of Halloween features, check out this gruesome gallery of Hollywood's zombie critters that shoulda stayed dead.
Trent Moore
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - 9:32am
It's been a labor of love for more than two decades, and now we finally have the first clip from Tim Burton's black and white passion project Frankenweenie. So how is it?
Jeff Spry
Monday, July 30, 2012 - 6:00pm
Step right up and see more of Tim Burton's kooky Frankenweenie cast in these grave and ghoulish individual images featuring Edgar, Weird Girl, Persephone and more. Don't be shy, they're just dying to stop and meet you. It'll be an electric moment. No? Nothing?
Don Kaye
Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 8:54pm
Tim Burton is known as an eccentric guy, but not necessarily a mean one. So how did he reduce a devoted fan to tears at the Comic-Con panel for his animated film Frankenweenie?
Marc Bernardin
Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 12:01pm
Since beginning his career as an animator at Walt Disney, Tim Burton has blossomed into one of Hollywood's most bankable-yet-iconoclastic filmmakers. But for his latest movie, Burton goes back to where it all started: a remake of one of his first short films, Frankenweenie.
Jeff Spry
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 1:51pm
Halloween's come early for Tim Burton fans! The first stark stills of poor dog Sparky and his death-defying young master, Victor, from the visionary director's upcoming stop-motion flick have appeared. The black-and-white, 3-D Frankenweenie feature won't creep into theaters until next fall, but Disney already wants you to stop dreaming in color.
Adam-Troy Castro
Monday, September 21, 2009 - 5:00am
We learned a few new details about the feature-length adaptation of Tim Burton's short film.
