Tag: Tim Burton

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‘Wednesday’ Casts a Goth Icon to Play the Mysterious Aunt Ophelia

After a mountain of build-up, we’ll finally get to properly meet Morticia Addams’ sister Ophelia in season three of Wednesday. Not only that, but we know who’ll be playing her: Eva Green, whose goth bona fides include three previous Tim Burton projects (2012’s Dark Shadows, 2016’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and 2019’s Dumbo), […]

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7 Reasons Why ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ Is Not a Halloween Movie, 4 Reasons Why It Is

Every year, it seems that Halloween creeps in earlier than before, and with it, its Pumpkin King, Jack Skellington. Take the Haunted Mansion Holiday at Disneyland; it’s a haunted house with ghosts that, as soon as Halloweentime arrives at the Disneyland resort at the end of summer, becomes inhabited by Jack and the people of […]

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A Tim Burton Docuseries Hits Streaming This Week

Tim Burton has been a constant in the hearts of general audiences thanks to hits like Edward Scissorhands and Nightmare Before Christmas. After a shaky 2010s, the 2020s have been much kinder to him with Wednesday and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and now the filmmaker’s getting a documentary charting his decades-long career. Directed by Tara Wood, who previously helmed documentaries for Richard Linklater and […]

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‘Wednesday’ Star Evie Templeton on Agnes’ Progression From Stalker to Friend

During a chat on the official Wednesday podcast—or rather, woecast—Nevermore newcomer Evie Templeton discussed Agnes coming into her own after being an unhinged stalker fan of Netflix’s favorite Addams. After Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) lays into her at the end of the second season of the Tim Burton show, seemingly to push her to be herself […]

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Someone Finally Got the Note and Fixed This ‘Beetlejuice’ Sign

If you’re a movie prop replica collector, you know exactly which Beetlejuice sign we’re talking about. For years, as a Beetlejuice decor hunter, there has been one item I refused to buy on principle because it had one glaring mistake: it was not in-universe accurate. I’ve bought the Adam and Barbara monster face hanging decor, […]

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5 Things We Loved, 3 Things We Didn’t About ‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Part 2

Season 2 of Wednesday is finally available to watch in its entirety on Netflix. And while the first half introduced a solid return, the second half almost holds up before a messy to-be-continued conclusion. Tim Burton puts his whole Burtonesque business on full display with a third-act antagonist reveal that both works and doesn’t. The […]

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Just Half of ‘Wednesday’ Season 2 Has Already Matched Season 1’s Ratings

The numbers are in, and Wednesday season two, part one has hit 50 million views in only five days. Based on a report from Variety, the show, which premiered August 4, has matched season one’s streaming performance. That might crack a sardonic smile from Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) herself and make Grandmama proud. Between this and […]

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You Can Now Watch ‘Wednesday’ Season 2’s Haunting Stop-Motion Short

There’s a special spooky treat for stop-motion animation fans embedded within season two of Wednesday: a short that’s another visual dazzler from the mind of Tim Burton. When Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) joins the Nevermore Academy ranks, he and his roomie Eugene (Moosa Mostafa) get to know about the lore of the school’s haunted tree from […]

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