Official internation trailer for Tim Burton's "Dark Shadows"

Here is the official international trailer for Tim Burton's new film "Dark Shadows"  

starring Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Helena Bonham Carter:

An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral 

home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection. 

The film also stars Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, 

Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Bella Heathcote

and is scheduled to be released on May 11th, 2012.

SOURCES: Video; IMDb

Pixar released Burton's new film's logo

Pixar released a logo for Tim Burton's Frankenweenie on Saturday. The film is an adaptation of Burton's own work which dated back in 1984. The short film with the same name is about a man who reanimates his pet dog after it gets hit by a car.



Burton is creating full-length film stop-motion feature based on his short film. It will be released on October 5th, 2012.





Burton's short, Frankenweenie (1984) can be viewed on YouTube which are divided in first, second, and third part.

SOURCES: Ropeofsilicon; YouTube

Burton and Brolin to Team-up for "Hunchback"

There is a talk of Tim Burton- director of dark, quirky-themed movies like "Beetlejuice" and "Edward Scissorhands"- and Josh Brolin, star of "No Country for Old Men", teaming up to bring back the story of Quasimodo ("The Hunchback of Notre Dame") to the cinema. Brolin will be leading the team as the producer and star of the project while "Sherlock Holmes" sequel writers Kieran and Michele Mulroney are to pen the screenplay. Burton, meanwhile, is in the pre-production state with Warner Bros. in realizing "Dark Shadows", Burton's another collaboration with actor Johnny Depp. It was reported that Burton's decision to finalized the deal to work with Brolin on the "Hunchback" project will depend on the outcome of the screenplay.

The 1831 Victor Hugo masterpiece had been translated into films several times, "Esmeralda" being the first in 1905 and the last major adaptations were Walt Disney's animations in 1996- "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and its sequel, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame II."

SOURCES: Reuters, Image by Vince Kessler for Reuters