Frankenweenie, Tim Burton’s new movie, is a feature-length treatment of a 1984 short originally rejected by Disney for being too "dark".
The makeup of this year’s Cannes jury, headed by United States actor Robert De Niro, means the coveted Palme d’Or’s winner will have global approval.
FANTASY MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews Tim Burton’s adaption of the children’s classic, <em>Alice in Wonderland</em>
Being a studio mogul, Dreamworks chief Jeffrey Katzenberg does not do understatement. ”It is nothing less than the greatest innovation that has happened for all of us in the movie business since the advent of colour 70 years ago,” the man who brought the world the Shrek movies told his audience this week.
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/ 14 January 2008
If a movie wins a Golden Globe, but there’s no ceremony, does the prize still count? That’s the issue faced by the Hollywood studios behind such films as Atonement and Sweeney Todd, which lost their moments of glory on Sunday to the Hollywood writers strike.