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This year's Rome Film Festival unveiled its line-up today, with honorary prizes set to be given to Quentin Tarantino and Tim Burton. Chloe Zhao's Marvel pic Eternals will close the festival on October 24 with a screening at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. The high-profile superhero pic starring the likes of…

Game of Thrones alumna Gwendoline Christie is set as a lead in Wednesday, Tim Burton's live-action Addams Family series for Netflix. She joins previously announcd Jenna Ortega who stars in the titular role, along with Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams and Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams. Christie will play Larissa…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is rounding out its cast for Wednesday, Tim Burton’s live-action Addams Family series, adding 10 series regulars. Joining Jenna Ortega, who stars in the titular Wednesday Addams role, are Thora Birch (Ghost World, The Walking Dead), Riki Lindhome (Knives Out, Another Period), Jamie McShane (Mank, Blo…

Catherine Zeta-Jones will take on the matriarch of the Addams Family, Morticia Addams herself, for Netflix’s Wednesday series. For the Tim Burton series, she will join Luis Guzmán who will appear as Gomez Addams and Jenna Ortega, who takes on the titular character. The coming-of-age comedy, written by Smallville…

It’s official: Netflix has landed Tim Burton’s live-action Addams Family series with an eight-episode order for a spinoff focused on the iconic character of Wednesday Addams. Titled Wednesday, the coming-of-age comedy, written by Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar and to be directed by Burton, is a…

EXCLUSIVE: In what would mark his first major live-action TV series, Tim Burton is setting his sights on The Addams Family, looking to develop a new series focused on the famous clan. Sources tell Deadline that Burton is negotiating to executive produce and possibly direct all episodes of this new take on the…

A one-night-only Halloween benefit concert presentation of the Tim Burton/Danny Elfman spooky 1993 classic The Nightmare Before Christmas is drawing top-notch Broadway talent, including James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin), Adrienne Warren (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical), Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge!) and Rob McClure (Beet…

EXCLUSIVE: The looming new year brings with it a double anniversary in the singular career of the great Danny Elfman. It will mark the 40th anniversary of the composer’s first film soundtrack (Forbidden Zone, the deliriously odd cult classic) as well as the 40th anniversary of Oingo Boingo, the new wave band with a…

The best scene in Steven Spielberg’s 1979 comedy 1941 has Robert Stack as an Army general crying while sitting in a theater. He’s watching the poignant scene in Dumbo where a caged Mrs. Jumbo rocks her little newborn with her trunk while singing the lullaby “Baby Mine.” Like Stack’s stoic character, who could resist…

“Ladies and Gentleman. Welcome to the Medici Family Circus, where anything is possible and miracles happen.” Disney has dropped a new trailer for Dumbo, Tim Burton’s live-action version of the classic animated film. The new version, which Disney calls a sneak peek, is more upbeat, with more laughs than tears, along…

If the animated version of Disney’s Dumbo had you reaching for a couple of tissues, then you might want to grab the whole box for the Tim Burton’s live-action version. The new trailer gives us a detailed look at the new pic, expanding on the original and giving us his signature mix of fantastical and dark on the…

Disney dropped a trailer-featurette combo of Tim Burton’s Dumbo in showing off its upcoming slate at CinemaCon today. The ornate period piece brings to mind such movies as The Greatest Showman, Burton’s circus tale Big Fish, and Disney’s Oz The Great and Powerful. But they also had more: Before the session ended, the…