"to work on this and Burton's ""Corpse Bride"" at the same time. ""Corpse Bride"" (2005) was Burton's first full-length stop motion film as a director, featuring the voices of Johnny Depp as Victor and Helena Bonham Carter (for whom the project was specifically created) as Emily in the lead roles. In this film, Burton was able again to use his familiar styles and trademarks, such as the complex interaction between light and darkness, and of being caught between two irreconcilable worlds. ""Bones"" (2006) was the first music video Burton directed. The song ""Bones"" is the sixth overall single by American"
"and humor puts the f-u-n in funeral."" ""Corpse Bride"" was released on DVD and HD DVD on January 16, 2006. It was released on Blu-ray on September 26, 2006. , the film has sold 2,777,736 DVDs and 40,411 Blu-ray Discs totaling a gross of $53,359,111 and $61,411,543 respectively for a total gross of $114,770,654 in North America. Corpse Bride Corpse Bride (marketed as Tim Burton's Corpse Bride) is a 2005 British-American stop-motion animated musical dark comedy film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton with a screenplay by John August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler based on characters created by"
"That’s the thing that I felt ended up so beautifully, that their performances really meshed together. So he was very canny, as they all were, about trying to find the right tone and making it work while not being in the same room with each other."" The soundtrack was produced by Danny Elfman with the help of John August and released on September 20, 2005. It contains all of the music from the film including score music and four songs with lyrics sung by voice actors. ""Corpse Bride"" premiered on September 7, 2005 at the Venice International Film Festival. The"
"received a postcard reply. Though the reply was a form letter, August still had it, decades later, when he adapted the book. He earned a 2006 Grammy nomination for his lyrics for “Wonka's Welcome Song” from the film. He collaborated for a third time with Burton on the stop-motion animated fantasy ""Corpse Bride"", also released in 2005. The two films were in production simultaneously, with actors including Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Christopher Lee appearing in both. The film marked the third of five produced collaborations to date between August and Burton. August made his feature directorial debut in"
"the guise of a family film, Burton evokes a darkly erotic obsession that recalls Edgar Allan Poe and Hitchcock's Vertigo. It would be a test for any filmmaker, and Burton aces it."" Steven Rea of ""The Philadelphia Inquirer"" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying ""Tim Burton's ""Corpse Bride"" is easily the best stop-motion animated necrophiliac musical romantic comedy of all time. It is also just simply, wonderful: a morbid, merry tale of true love that dazzles the eyes and delights the soul."" Bill Muller of ""The Arizona Republic"" gave the film four out of"
"mysteriously beautiful world that we're loathe to leave at the end."" Liam Lacey of ""The Globe and Mail"" gave the film three out of four stars, saying ""Ghoulishness and innocence walk hand-in-hand in Tim Burton's ""Corpse Bride"", a movie that digs into Hollywood's past to resurrect the antique art of stop-motion animation and create a fabulous bauble of a movie."" Jack Mathews of the ""New York Daily News"" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying ""Stop-motion animation may be the hardest and most tedious job in Hollywood, but the makers of Tim Burton's ""Corpse Bride"""
"""The Nightmare Before Christmas"" from a dozen years back was a treat for the eyes and mind, Tim Burton's ""Corpse Bride"" goes double or nothing by being a delight for the ears and also the heart."" Joe Williams of the ""St. Louis Post-Dispatch"" gave the film a B+, saying ""Beneath the bone pile of allusions, ""Corpse Bride"" is a darkly enchanting fable in its own right."" Andrew Sarris of ""The New York Observer"" gave the film a negative review, saying """"Corpse Bride"" turns out to be a ponderous mixture of puppetry and animation that is far too technologically complex and"
"vowed to remain there until her ""true love set her free."" Remains of the Day (song) ""Remains of the Day"" is one of the four main songs sung in the 2005 stop-motion animated film ""Tim Burton's Corpse Bride"". It was composed by Danny Elfman, along with all other music for the film. The song is the second one in the movie, and vital to the plot. The character Bonejangles (voiced by Danny Elfman) introduces the song with the following lyrics: ""What a story it is; a tragic tale of romance, passion and murder most foul"". Then, Bonejangles and other skeletons"
"five stars, saying """"Corpse Bride"" is a delightful mix of strange goings-on and imaginatively crafted puppetry, a wild ride through Burton's chaotic, splendidly original world."" Michael Booth of ""The Denver Post"" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying """"Corpse Bride"" will win your heart, if it doesn't rip it out of your chest first."" Terry Lawson of the ""Detroit Free Press"" gave the film three out of four stars, saying ""There's a happy Halloween in store even for children who aren't allowed to trick or treat, and it's courtesy of Tim Burton's animated ""Corpse Bride""."""
"Bruce Westbrook of ""The Houston Chronicle"" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying ""Amazingly fluid and drop-dead gorgeous, Tim Burton's ""Corpse Bride"" is the best-looking, stop-motion animation film ever."" Rene Rodriguez of the ""Miami Herald"" gave the film two and a half stars out of four, saying """"Corpse Bride"" suffers from the same problem that has plagued Burton's recent live-action films: for all its formidable razzle-dazzle, it doesn't engage the heart."" Colin Covert of the ""Star Tribune"" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying ""This vibrantly imaginative mix of horror"
"fixation with the living dead suggests that we are in the grip of an impossible longing, or perhaps it's just another movie cycle running its course. Whatever the case, there is something heartening about Mr. Burton's love for bones and rot here, if only because it suggests, despite some recent evidence, that he is not yet ready to abandon his own dark kingdom."" Moira MacDonald of ""The Seattle Times"" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying ""What makes ""Corpse Bride"" sing, ultimately, is the breadth of imagination that it demonstrates; creating a cluttered, textured and"
"Remains of the Day (song) ""Remains of the Day"" is one of the four main songs sung in the 2005 stop-motion animated film ""Tim Burton's Corpse Bride"". It was composed by Danny Elfman, along with all other music for the film. The song is the second one in the movie, and vital to the plot. The character Bonejangles (voiced by Danny Elfman) introduces the song with the following lyrics: ""What a story it is; a tragic tale of romance, passion and murder most foul"". Then, Bonejangles and other skeletons and corpses from the Land of the Dead sing the song"
"Tim Burton's ""Corpse Bride"". Selick, who kept in contact with Anderson, said the director would act out scenes while in Paris and send them to the animators via iPhone. The score for the film was composed by Alexandre Desplat. Jarvis Cocker commented that he wrote ""three, four"" songs for the film, one of which was included on the soundtrack. The soundtrack also contains a selection of songs by The Beach Boys, The Bobby Fuller Four, Burl Ives, Georges Delerue, The Rolling Stones, and other artists. A soundtrack album for the film was released on November 3, 2009. It contains the"
"relationship between Todd, Mrs. Lovett, and Toby. DreamWorks announced Burton's appointment in August 2006, and Johnny Depp was cast as Todd. Christopher Lee, Peter Bowles, Anthony Head, and five other actors were set to play the ghost narrators, but their roles were cut (Head does appear in an uncredited cameo as a gentleman who congratulates Depp after the shaving contest). According to Lee, these deletions were due to time constraints caused by a break in filming during March 2007, while Depp's daughter recovered from an illness. Burton's domestic partner Helena Bonham Carter was cast in October 2006, as well as"
"film was released on September 23, 2005 in United States and on October 13, 2005 in the United Kingdom. ""Corpse Bride"" grossed $53,359,111 in North America, and $63,835,950 in other territories, for a worldwide total of $117,195,061. In North America, the film opened to number two in its first weekend, with $19,145,480, behind ""Flightplan"". In its second weekend, the film dropped to number three, grossing an additional $10,033,257. In its third weekend, the film dropped to number six, grossing $6,511,336. In its fourth weekend, the film dropped to number nine, grossing $3,577,465. The biggest market in other territories being France,"
"Bride"" is a waltz--an elegant, deadly funny bit of macabre matrimony."" Kenneth Turan of the ""Los Angeles Times"" gave the film two out of five stars, saying ""The film does have a fairy-tale aspect, but, like many of its characters, it is more dead and buried than fully alive."" Claudia Puig of ""USA Today"" gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying """"Corpse Bride"" is an unexpectedly touching celebration of love told in a quirky and inventive style."" Peter Travers of ""Rolling Stone"" gave the film three and a half stars out of five, saying ""In"
"it was reported that Burton was cast in a leading role in the U.S. remake of the French-language film ""Martyrs,"" which opened theatrically in January 2016. In March 2017 she reprised her role as Aunt Marie Kessler in the series finale of Grimm. Burton has narrated numerous audiobooks, including works by: Patricia Cornwell, Lisa Scottoline, Iris Johansen, and Dean Koontz. In 1985, Burton married Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director of the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles and one of the producers of the Broadway musicals ""The Drowsy Chaperone"" and ""Curtains"". They had met in 1982, while Ritchie was stage manager"
"UK and Japan where the film grossed $8.88 million, $8.57 million and $7.1 million respectively. ""Corpse Bride"" received positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 84% approval rating with an average rating of 7.2/10 based on 189 reviews. The site's consensus reads: ""As can be expected from a Tim Burton movie, ""Corpse Bride"" is whimsically macabre, visually imaginative, and emotionally bittersweet."" Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 based on top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 83 based on 35 reviews, indicating ""universal acclaim"". The film was nominated"
"Allison Abbate Allison Abbate is an American film producer, primarily of animated films. In 2000 Abbate won the coveted BAFTA for her work on ""The Iron Giant"". In 2006 she was nominated for a ""Motion Picture Producer of the Year"" award by the Producers Guild of America for her work on ""Tim Burton's Corpse Bride"". More recently, she worked on ""Fantastic Mr. Fox"". Directed by Wes Anderson, the film is based on the Roald Dahl book of the same name and stars George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman and Owen Wilson. Abbate also stars in the movie, playing"
"The Wedding Date The Wedding Date is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by Clare Kilner and starring Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, and Amy Adams. Based on the novel ""Asking for Trouble"" by Elizabeth Young, the film is about a single woman who hires a male escort to pose as her boyfriend at her sister's wedding in order to dupe her ex-fiancé, who dumped her a few years prior. The release was successful, achieving $47 million worldwide at the box office against a budget of $15 million, despite being panned by critics. It was remade in Bollywood as ""Aap"
"three times its $15 million budget. The Wedding Date The Wedding Date is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by Clare Kilner and starring Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, and Amy Adams. Based on the novel ""Asking for Trouble"" by Elizabeth Young, the film is about a single woman who hires a male escort to pose as her boyfriend at her sister's wedding in order to dupe her ex-fiancé, who dumped her a few years prior. The release was successful, achieving $47 million worldwide at the box office against a budget of $15 million, despite being panned by critics. It"
"by Acker, the full-length film was produced by Burton, written by Acker (story) and Pamela Pettler (screenplay, co-writer of ""Corpse Bride"") and featured the voice work of Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau and Crispin Glover, among others. In Burton's version, the story is set 13 years after the original Lewis Carroll tales. Mia Wasikowska was cast as Alice. The original start date was May 2008. Torpoint and Plymouth were the locations used for filming from September 1 – October 14, and the film remains set in the Victorian era. During this time, filming took"
"in 2001. In 2009, she made a guest appearance on the """", for which she was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. In November 2010, she guest-starred on an episode of ""Glee"" as the mother of cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester. In 2012 she had another voice role in ""The Secret World of Arrietty"". She has made a recurring role, traditionally on Thanksgiving-themed episodes, of ""Hawaii Five-0"" as Steve McGarrett's Aunt Debbie since 2013, until Aunt Deb died from cancer in the January 15, 2016 episode. Burnett married her college sweetheart Don Saroyan on"
"the favourite actors of Tim Burton, and became a regular in many of Burton's films, working for the director five times, starting in 1999, where he had a small role as the Burgomaster in the film ""Sleepy Hollow"". In 2005, Lee played Willy Wonka's strict dentist father, Dr. Wilbur Wonka, in Burton's reimagining of the Roald Dahl tale ""Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"", and voiced the character of Pastor Galswells in ""Corpse Bride"", co-directed by Burton and Mike Johnson. In 2007, Lee collaborated with Burton on """", playing the spirit of Sweeney Todd's victims, called the Gentleman Ghost, alongside Anthony"
"She also won the Audience Choice Award winner at the 2006 Hollywood Black Film Festival for the aforementioned role that same year. Jazsmin Lewis Jazsmin Lewis-Kelley (born March 22, 1976) is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as the title character in the 2005 film ""Traci Townsend"" and as Calvin's pregnant wife Jennifer Palmer in the ""Barbershop"" film series. Lewis-Kelley was born in the city of Cleveland, Ohio to a Caucasian mother and a father of African American and East Indian heritage. She is also known for being the Coors Light spokesmodel in 2001–2002. Jazsmin"
"a nun. The Civilization of Maxwell Bright The Civilization of Maxwell Bright is a 2005 romance film starring Patrick Warburton, Marie Matiko, Eric Roberts, Leland Crooke and Jennifer Tilly that has seen success on the arthouse movie circuit. It has won awards at the WorldFest Houston, New York VisionFest, Florida Film Festival, Boulder International Film Festival, and Beverly Hills Film Festival. It is about a man who obtains a mail-order bride, with unexpected results. The director is David Beaird. After a series of bad relationships, the last one ending with his lover injuring him with a hoe while they stand"
"The Ghost Bride The Ghost Bride (Chinese: 鬼新娘; pinyin: Guǐ xīnniáng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kúi sin-niû) is a Filipino supernatural horror film starring Kim Chiu and Alice Dixson with Ina Raymundo. The film is directed by Chito S. Roño and is under the production of Star Cinema. The film marks the reunion of Kim and Matteo following their TV series ""My Binondo Girl"" aired on ABS-CBN in 2011 and also as their first movie project together. This will also be Kim's third movie with director Chito S. Roño. This movie was shown in theaters on November 1, 2017 which coincided with All"
"Mute (2005 film) Mute is a 2005 short film by Melissa Joan Hart and is her directorial debut. The film was first released at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films on September 21, 2005, and stars her sister Emily Hart as Eileen, a woman determined to get revenge on her sister. Eileen (Emily Hart) is a deaf-mute that is sabotaging her sister Claire's (Emily Deschanel) wedding out of a sense of retribution. She believes that Claire is responsible for the accident that left her unable to hear or talk, as Eileen had previously had an affair with her"
"on the narrative of the story and development of Tiffany's character is her Granny Aching, a hard working, silent, and knowledgeable shepherd. She was the book's definition of a witch. Stories and memories of her are mentioned here and there in the book, and her memory helps Tiffany defeat the Queen at the end. In January 2006, reports emerged that director Sam Raimi had signed up to make a movie based on this novel with a script by Pamela Pettler, the writer of Tim Burton's ""Corpse Bride"". Sony Pictures Entertainment had recently acquired the rights to the book. In a"
"of the acclaimed medical drama "" E.R."". She then went on to become a recurring cast member of the acclaimed police drama "" Southland"". Burress performs many voice-over roles. She is best is known by video game players as the English voice actress of Yuna in the PlayStation 2 games ""Final Fantasy X"" and ""Final Fantasy X-2"", and reprised the role in ""Kingdom Hearts II"" and ""Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy"". Burress is also an accomplished theater actress appearing in many plays and musicals in the Los Angeles area. Burress married Gary Fullerton, USMC in 2000; in July 2004, shortly after"
"based on Frances Fyfield's novels. She also played Aunt Polly in a 2003 remake of ""Pollyanna"". One of her most recent roles is as Commander Clare Blake in Lynda La Plante's drama, ""The Commander"". In 2010, Burton appeared in the sixth series of BBC drama ""Waterloo Road"" as new head teacher, Karen Fisher, and departed the show in 2011. She recently starred in BBC1's ""Celebrity Masterchef"" and made it through to the semi-finals. She appeared as gangster's wife Cherie Le Saux in ITV drama ""The Level"" in Autumn 2016. Burton married theatre technician Jonathan Hartley in 1976, whom she met"
"while at Manchester School of Theatre. They divorced in 1982. She married professional photographer Sven Arnstein in 1989, and the couple had two children, Pheobe (born 1989) and Brid (born 1991), before divorcing in 2004. Burton currently lives in Hastings, East Sussex. Amanda Burton Amanda Burton (born 10 October 1956) is a Northern Irish actress, well known for her television roles, including Heather Black in the Channel 4 soap opera ""Brookside"", Beth Glover in ""Peak Practice"", Sam Ryan in the BBC crime drama series ""Silent Witness"", Clare Blake in ""The Commander"" and Karen Fisher in ""Waterloo Road"". Burton was born"
"Caroline Thompson Caroline Thompson (born April 23, 1956) is an American novelist, screenwriter, film director, and producer. She wrote the screenplays for Tim Burton's films ""Edward Scissorhands"", ""The Nightmare Before Christmas"", and ""Corpse Bride"". She co-wrote the story for ""Edward Scissorhands"" and recently co-adapted a new stage version of the film with director and choreographer Matthew Bourne. Thompson also adapted the screenplay for the film version of ""Wicked Lovely"", a bestselling fantasy series, in 2011, but the production was put into turnaround. Thompson was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Bettie Marshall (née Warner), a teacher, and Thomas Carlton"