Corpse Bride art contest ends tonight!

Just to let everyone know, the Corpse Bride art contest will end tonight at midnight (Eastern Standard Time). Any submissions sent after that time will not be entered into the contest. Thanks, and good luck to everyone who's entered!

Batman & Batman Returns Special Edition DVDs

Some of you may know this already, but 2-disc editions of Batman and Batman Returns are both now available to order from Amazon! They're packed with exciting special features and will be released on October 18th! For those of you who absolutely have to own the special editions of Joel Schumacher's two campfests, they are also available, both individually and as part of the Batman Anthology box set.

Corpse Bride weekend box office and review

According to estimates from Box Office Mojo, Corpse Bride earned approximately $20.1 million its first weekend in wide release. While that meant it was in second place behind the Jodie Foster film Flightplan, it's still a promising start for the film. In fact, it was the biggest opening ever for a stop motion animated film. So much for the claim that it's a dying artform.
We also have the official Collective review of the film for you to read.

Corpse Bride on wide release now!

Tim Burton's second film of 2005 is now on release at theaters everywhere in the US and Canada! As if you needed any incentive to rush out and see the film, here's an article on the critical acclaim the film's been receiving.
Look for a review and box office news to appear on the Collective later this weekend.

Edward Scissorhands 15th anniversary DVD and site update

Hard to believe, but it's been fifteen years since Burton and Depp first collaborated on this fairytale classic. To celebrate, 20th Century Fox are releasing a new collectible tin anniversary edition. While it doesn't seem to contain any extras that weren't available on the previous DVD, the tin box and six photos included make it a great buy for those who don't already own the film, or obsessed completists (you know who you are). It's out in November, but you can pre-order the DVD from Amazon.
In other news, we've just added two new actor bios to our Regulars section: a profile of Lisa Marie and another one of Glenn Shadix.

Corpse Bride limited release box office

As we've already mentioned, Burton's latest film opened this weekend in five locations in North America. Well, according to estimates from Box Office Mojo, Corpse Bride grossed an incredible $411,000 just from those theaters alone. Its per-theater average of $82,200 was the 13th highest of all time. This bodes well for the success of the film when it goes on wide release next weekend.

Charlie DVD info and Burton interview

We have two interesting links from Fi Sci Net. The first has some information on the eagerly awaited Charlie and the Chocolate Factory DVD. It'll be a 2-disc set released November 8th!
There's also an interview with Burton where he talks about Corpse Bride and his other films.
And don't forget that Corpse Bride is on limited release from today in five lucky cities!

Corpse Bride press conference and contest update

You can listen to a press conference from the Toronto Film Festival here, featuring interviews with the cast and crew, including Burton, Depp and Elfman!
Also, we have some more information on the prizes being offered in our Corpse Bride art contest:
Grand prize pack:
1 T-Shirt
1 Umbrella
1 Magnet Set
1 poster

2 runners up: posters

Corpse Bride clip and more!

For those of you that haven't seen it yet, Moviefone has an exclusive clip from Corpse Bride!
There's also a rave review of the film from Rolling Stone Magazine, which says The Oscar for this year's Best Animated Feature Film belongs right here". And you can read a report on its premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

CatCF passes $200 million at the box office!

The exciting news is that this Labor Day weekend, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory became only the second Tim Burton film to gross over $200 million at the North American box office! It earned an estimated $1.75 million, pushing its total to $200.7 million. And with the release of the Corpse Bride less than three weeks away, we'll soon be in for a double treat at the movie theater.

Corpse Bride art contest

We're running a Corpse Bride contest and Warner Bros. will again be providing exclusive prizes to the winners! The challenge for this contest will be to design an original character in the style of the Corpse Bride (i.e. not a character we have already seen from the film). You can create this character any way you want. You can draw it, paint it, even sculpt it and send us a photo.
Once you've created a character to inhabit the world of the Corpse Bride, email your submission to us. The deadline for all submissions will be September 30. As with the previous contests we have run, prizes can only be mailed to winners in the USA or Canada. However, if you're not in those countries but still want to share your art, feel free to send it in anyway. We'll keep you updated when we have more information on the prizes that'll be offered. Good luck!

CatCF August 26 - 28 weekend box office

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fell out of the top ten at the North American box office this weekend, but still earned another $2.6 million, pushing it's total to a dreamy $197 million. It's worldwide total is now an even more incredible $309 million! A nice birthday present for Burton, who turned 47 on August 25th.

Corpse Bride Soundtrack news and hosting update

Warner Bros. have issued a press release about the Corpse Bride soundtrack, which contains some interesting comments from Danny Elfman. It's set for release on September 20th.
In other news, the Collective has just moved to a new host. Hopefully this will put an end to the problems that have caused the site to be down frequently this month.

CatCF August 19 - 21 box office

This update is a little later than usual because of problems with our host, but Charlie and the Chocolate Factory grossed approximately $4.4 million this weekend according to final figures from Box Office Mojo. That's puts it's total North American box office at over $192 million. Worldwide it's made a towering $284 million!

CatCF August 12 - 14 box office update

According to estimates from Box Office Mojo, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory earned another $7.2 million this weekend, boosting its total North American gross to a delicious $183 million. That already makes it Burton's second most successful film after Batman, and it's on track to break through the $200 million barrier before it leaves theaters. Worldwide, the movie has already earned over $250 million. Why should we care about the film's success? Well, the better Charlie does, the more freedom and power it gives Burton with his future projects. And that's good news for everyone.

Forums are back up!

Just to let everyone know that the forums are back up. You can find them here. Unfortunately we weren't able to get all the old posts back. And anyone who registered after June 18th of this year will have to register again. We may get the full forum back at a later date, but feel free to use this forum as a temporary measure.

Matthew McGrory passes away

Actor Matthew McGrory who is best remembered to Burton fans as Karl the Giant in Big Fish, has passsed away. Aged 32, he died of apparent natural causes.

His latest movie on release was Rob Zombie's The Devils Rejects, which is still in theatres.

McGrory had recently been working on a biopic of wrestler-turned-actor Andre the Giant, who was familiar to movie fans from The Princess Bride.

TBC, Charlie box office update and more.

The Tim Burton Collective was down a few days due to an unexpected server change. We apologize all the users for the downtime. The forums aren't up yet, but they should be working again within a day or two.

While the forums are down, use the time to browse our other sections and explore the greatness that is the Tim Burton Collective.

At the box office, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory collected additional $11 million last weekend, boosting the total to $169.4M. The movie has now has a world wide gross of $236.7M.

Burton fans are lucky this year, as the next Burton feature is being released in just over 6 weeks. Stay tuned for more news reports and reviews of Corpse Bride.

CatCF box office update

According to estimates from Box Office Mojo, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory dropped to number two at the North American box office this weekend, behind Wedding Crashers. However, it still earned around $16.4 million, boosting it's total box office to almost $150 million!

New pictures of Corpse Bride toys!

McFarlane toys have released some pictures of their upcoming Corpse Bride action figure range. You can see them at Spawn.com. The toys will be released in September.