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.

Early review of Corpse Bride

Aint it Cool News has posted a sneak review of Corpse Bride. The review is fairly positive, but be warned that it contains some plot information.

CatCF remains number one for second week!

Box Office Mojo has the estimates for this weekend and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory stayed at number one at the box office, earning another $28.3 million. It's total box office is now $114.1 million, so it's well on its way to becoming one of Burton's most successful movies ever!

Results of the CATCF Art Contest

Hello folks, the results for our Charlie and the Chocolate Factory contest can be found here:

http://www.timburtoncollective.com/catcf_artcontest.html

Thanks everyone for taking part in this contest! The quality of all the entries was really good, so don't be disappointed even if your entry didn't make it to the top-5 :)

Remember that the deadline for our Oompa Loompa song contest is tonight.

CatCF weekend box office

Box Office Mojo has the estimates for the weekend and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory grossed an amazing $55 million! To put that into perspective, that's only slightly less than Burton's last film, Big Fish, grossed in its entire run!

CatCF box office and review

According to showbizdata, Charlie grossed an estimated $20.8 million on its opening day, which is the second highest opening day box office for a Burton film after Planet of the Apes. We'll keep you updated when estimates for the whole weekend come in.

We also have our very own review of the film available for you to read.

CatCF now on release!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is now on release all across North America. Look for an exclusive review coming soon, as well as news updates on the film's box office and other developments as they happen!

Charlie Soundtrack and more

Just a reminder that the official Charlie and the Chocolate Factory soundtrack was released just yesterday.

The cd can be bought from Amazon through this link:
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory Soundtrack at Amazon

If you want to discuss the soundtrack, or anything else related to the movie, pleaes visit our Charlie
forum . If you have already seen the movie, feel free to share your thoughts about the film, or even write a review of your own. But remember not to include any heavy spoilers (and if you haven't yet seen the movie, beware the spoilers). Thank you!


As an additional tidbit, here is a link to an interview with Johnny Depp about CATCF: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=10312

CatCF Kid's Meals at Wendy's

For those of you who love collecting cheap plastic toys with fast food meals (and who doesn't?), Wendy's restaurants in the U.S. have five different Charlie and the Chocolate Factory toys available with their kid's meals.

CatCF Contests Reminder

Just a little reminder for all those who want to participate: our Charlie and the Chocolate Factory contests will be ending soon. Contest #1 ends this coming week(July 14th)!

Go here and also see the topic about it at our forums for more info on both of the contests.

Inside the Mind of Tim Burton

Coming Soon! has just published a great new interview with Tim Burton.

In the interview Tim Burton answers many interesting new questions about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which is coming out in just 5 days.

You can read the interview here: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=10288

New Corpse Brider trailer and Charlie clips!

Yahoo movies has an exclusive new trailer for Corpse Bride! And you can also find some new clips from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Yahoo.