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“Alice In Wonderland-” Inspired Musical Coming To Broadway

This week, theater producers in the Big Apple unveiled plans to launch a modern-day reinterpretation of Lewis Carroll’s classic fantasy novel Alice in Wonderland — which has already spawned a classic animated Disney adventure and more recently, a 3D box office hit directed by Tim Burton.Wonderland: A New Alice will open April 17, 2011, [...]

Tim Burton to direct 3-D version of The Addams Family?

Film director Tim Burton is reportedly planning on bringing a new animated 3-D version of The Addams Family.
Burton, 51, is hoping the groundbreaking movie technique will resurrect the spooky Addams Family, who last appeared on the big screen in 1993’s Addams Family Values, reports the Daily Express.
And according to Deadline.com, Illumination Entertainment has acquired the [...]

Tim Burton To Direct “The Addams Family” In 3D

Eccentric lensman Tim Burton is planning a new animated 3D version of The Addams Family, just as his kooky version of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice In Wonderland wows audiences at the box office. Burton is hoping to use his a mirage of visual techniques to resurrect The Addams Family, who last appeared on the [...]

“Alice In Wonderland” $210 Million Opening Weekend

Alice in Wonderland opened to a record-setting $210 million this weekend. Who saw it?
Despite garnering several poor reviews, director Tim Burton’s 3D update of the Lewis Carroll fairytale sold $210.3 million in tickets worldwide this weekend. Moviegoers in the United States and Canada contributed $116.3 million, the sixth-biggest opening weekend ever, according to research [...]

Depp says he would have happily played Alice in pal Burton’’s Wonderland

Johnny Depp has revealed he would have even played the female lead in movie collaborator Tim Burton’s ‘Alice In Wonderland’ to work with his friend again.
The Pirates of the Caribbean actor, who has teamed up with Burton for a string of projects over the last 20 years, said he was eager to be a part [...]

Depp fascinated by his character in ‘Alice In Wonderland’

Hollywood star Johnny Depp says he understands the madness of his “Alice in Wonderland” character and finds it ”fascinating”.
The actor, who plays the Mad Hatter in director Tim Burton’s fantasy-adventure “Alice in Wonderland”, said he was dragged into his character’s odd sense of reality whilst researching Lewis Carroll’s classic story, reports hollywoodpulse.com.
“I started reading the [...]

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland

Watch the trailer for Tim Burton’s adaptation of children’s classic starring Johnny Depp


Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland

Watch the trailer for Tim Burton’s forthcoming adaptation of children’s classic starring Johnny Depp


ILLUSION, MAGIC AND IMPOSSIBLE IDEAS COME TO LIFE IN UPCOMING ALICE IN WONDERLAND VIDEO GAMES FROM DISNEY INTERACTIVE STUDIOS

Games inspired by the upcoming Walt Disney Pictures film to give players their own unique journey through Tim Burton’s Underland As Tim Burton and Lewis Carroll fans become curiouser and curiouser (Carroll, 1865) about Walt Disney Pictures’ upcoming “Alice in Wonderland” film, Disney Interactive Studios today announced development of video game adaptations of the beloved [...]

Does it send you down the rabbit hole?

It’s got Johnny Depp as a frightwigged Mad Hatter, a Stephen Fry-voiced Cheshire Cat and a grown-up Alice – are you intrigued or turned off?

We’ve already been treated to a glimpse of what Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is going to look like, thanks to a series of stills that emerged earlier this year. But here is the first teaser trailer, featuring a healthy dose of Johnny Depp sporting a particularly lurid ginger frightwig as the Mad Hatter.

It’s also our first look at the Cheshire Cat, which will be voiced by Stephen Fry, the fearsome Jabberwock (Christopher Lee) and the Knave of Hearts (the horribly underused Crispin Glover). Burton’s Alice, played by Australian newcomer Mia Wasikowska, is 10 years older than Lewis Carroll’s creation, which should allow for a slightly darker, more adult take on Wonderland. But don’t expect anything too racy: this is, after all, a Disney movie.

By the looks of the trailer, the CGI work on the film is satisfyingly vivid and hyper-real. Depp seems to have adopted the camp mannerisms of a certain Captain Jack Sparrow, but shifted his accent from cockney seadog territory towards something rather more eccentrically upper class. It should be remembered, of course, that the actor is more than capable of fouling up an otherwise perfectly decent movie with an unnecessarily eccentric performance – I’m thinking of his Michael Jackson impersonation in Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory here – just as he maintains the ability to make slightly average fare transcend its genre parameters (as with the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie).

His Mad Hatter looks pretty fun and fairly sensible, though, wouldn’t you agree? Does this teaser make you want to see how deep the rabbit hole goes when Alice in Wonderland hits cinemas in March next year?

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“Alice In Wonderland” Teaser Trailer

A teaser trailer for Tim Burton’s film adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s fantasy literature classic Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – better known as Alice In Wonderland — has arrived online.
The movie, which stars Oscar-nominated stars Johnny Depp (”The Mad Hatter”) and Anne Hathaway (The White Queen), opens in wide theatrical release on March 5, 2010.
Does it [...]

Elizabeth Goitein: Detainees in Wonderland

Last week’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the subject of using military commissions to try detainees in the conflict against Al Qaeda and the…