Thursday, July 23

• Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland Trailer Leaked, Movie in 3-D

  

  Anticipation is building around Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Rumours have been circulating that Comic-Con would offer with it some new treats for fans, since Burton himself is there, and apparently those rumours were correct.

  Well, almost correct. The teaser trailer was set for Comic-Con, but was leaked to the internet a day early. Since then, Disney has been trying to close up the leak, but many sites still have the footage online. This one, for instance.

  We can't guarantee how long the trailer will stay up there, but those who are lucky enough to catch a glimpse will probably be bowled over by the footage. In a nutshell, it's utterly gorgeous, even for Burton, and shows off new footage of the the Cheshire Cat and Tweedledee and Tweedledum. If the rest of the movie looks this good, Alice in Wonderland could be Burton's best-looking feature yet — no easy feat.

  Not only that, but the trailer also drops another bomb: Alice in Wonderland will be in 3-D!

  
  

  Posted 07/23/2009 by reelz

  Related: Helena Bonham Carter | Johnny Depp | Tim Burton | Mia Wasikowski | Alice in Wonderland

Tuesday, July 7

• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: Midnight Showings, Lots of New Photos, Bellatrix Lestrange Clip

  The premiere of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince gets just a little bit closer with the announcement of early showings at select theaters on July 14 (technically, a little after midnight on July 15), in advance of the movie's regular July 15 engagement.

  And to whet fans' appetites even move (as if that were even possible), the studio released more than 40 new stills from the movie. We've also got a look at 5 Real-Life Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Locations.

  Looking for more? Screen Crave has two new clips, including a great one that shows off the demented humor and dangerous magical abilities of Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter).

  
  

  Posted 07/07/2009 by Bill

  Related: Helena Bonham Carter | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

• More Photos and Concept Art from Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland

  

  All sorts of new images from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland have been appaering lately. Following up on the character posters and amazing concept art that showed up the other day, we now have some full-length character photos of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Mia Wasikowska as Alice. Each is posing with an animal: Alice, of course, with a white rabbit, the Red Queen with a baby pig, and the Mad Hatter with another rabbit.

  Transitions between the human and animal worlds play a major role in the original Alice books, and this seems to be a signal that the movie will follow suit. Juxtapositions of size and proportion are also key to the magic of the original and some concept art for the movie featuring Alice among giant mushrooms suggests that this is central to Burton's vision of Wonderland as well.

  
  

  Posted 07/07/2009 by Bill

  Related: Helena Bonham Carter | Johnny Depp | Tim Burton | Mia Wasikowska | Alice in Wonderland

Monday, June 22

• Concept Art and Photos from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

  

  USA Today goes down the rabbit hole with Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and comes back up with some amazing pieces of eye candy. Alice, played by the Australian actress Mia Wasikowska, is glimpsed wandering in a garden populated by towering mushrooms and flowers with human faces, not to mention being checked out amid some surreal topiary by The White Rabbit. We also get a look the rather disturbing-looking twins, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, who resemble giant bloated versions of Pugsly from The Addams Family.

  To go along with all this, the studio has also released some appropriately surreal promo photos of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as The White Queen. The latter two characters are actually drawn from the Wonderland sequel, Through the Looking Glass, so clearly Burton is aiming to give the Lewis Carroll classic his own unique spin.

  The USA Today article drops some hints about the direction of these changes, noting that Burton's version features a more grown-up Alice, who begins her adventures by escaping from a snooty Victorian dinner party only to fall back into Wonderland. She had been there once before but for some reason doesn't remember a thing about it.

  
  

  Posted 06/22/2009 by Bill

  Related: Anne Hathaway | Helena Bonham Carter | Johnny Depp | Tim Burton | Mia Wasikowska | Alice in Wonderland

Monday, April 6

• New Videos, Images, and Twittering from Terminator Salvation

  Three new TV spots for Terminator Salvation are up and although they are mostly remixes of footage released earlier elsewhere, they each anticipate the narrative and build anticipation in different ways. On top of that, one image has been released that is completely new: a piece of concept art giving some insight into the role Helena Bonham Carter will be playing in the movie. Let's just say that she appears to be a little more open to Skynet's project than others. Finally, in viral promotion news, an early battle has broken out on Twitter between Skynet Research, which is making opportunistic use of real news to buttress its claim on the future, and the human resistance, which is pondering a mysterious video that has popped up on its hard drive, apparently from the future.

  
  

  Posted 04/06/2009 by Bill

  Related: Helena Bonham Carter | Terminator Salvation

Tuesday, July 1

• Bonham Carter in T4?

  Helena Bonham Carter is very into exploring the role of the bad guy (or girl) these days.

  After coming off her noteworthy turn as Mrs. Lovett opposite Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd and a recurring role as Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter franchise, Bonham Carter is now in talks to take on the part of the primary villain in Terminator Salvation. It is unknown whether bad Bonham Carter is to be cyborg or human.

  The British actress, who got her start as a Merchant Ivory typecast, first went bad in a major box office way in Fight Club and evidently has been exploring her love affair with the dark side ever since.

  Source: Access Hollywood.

  
  
  Next Showing: HBC can next be seen in Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince.

  Posted 07/01/2008 by reelz

  Related: Helena Bonham Carter | Terminator Salvation