Tag archive: Tim Burton

UPDATE: I shot Grahame-Smith a quick e-mail and he clarified what Deadline wrote: “It's a sequel, not a remake.” So there you go. Here's some news that falls squarely within the realm of “holy crap.” Tim Burton's 1988 comedy (horror-comedy seems inaccurate, no?) classic Beetlejuice is coming back to big screens with a sequel. Deadline reports that David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith of KatzSmith… Read More

Casey Putsch, owner of Putsch Racing, has wanted a Batmobile since the first Batman movie premiered in 1989. Sticking with the iconic design from the two Tim Burton films, Putsch skipped using a standard internal combustion engine in favor of a Boeing turbine engine that was stripped from a decommissioned U.S. naval drone helicopter. The movie studios didn't even attempt at using a turbine engine making this the first Batmobile replica to… Read More

The video unit for the Warner Bros. film and television studio announced today that it plans to begin selling films and television shows via the file sharing service BitTorrent, once regarded among the most egregious file sharing services in terms of video and software piracy. According to Warner Bros., it will initially make more than 200 films available via BitTorrent, including major titles like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Tim… Read More

Square Enix and Buena Vista Games yesterday announced they'd shipped to retailers their new Kingdom Hearts II role playing game for the Sony PlayStation 2. Priced at $49.99, the game is rated "E10+" for ages 10 and up by the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Kingdom Hearts II, said the two organizations, is the sequel to Kingdom Hearts, one of the top ten best selling PlayStation 2 titles of all times. In Kingdom Hearts II,… Read More

It might have appeared in theaters nearly 12 years ago, but for some of us it still feels like yesterday. Tim Burton's cult classic stop-motion film The Nightmare Before Christmas has now spawned two new video games: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge for Xbox and PlayStation2, and Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King for Game Boy Advance. The games, developed by… Read More

Oh, but you could easily see this coming. Coinciding with today's new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie release is the corresponding video game of the same name. The "E" rated game is published by Take-Two Interactive Software under license from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. It is (or shortly will be) available for most gaming platforms, including Playstation 2, Xbox, GameCube and PC. In the Charlie and the… Read More