Tim Burton has lengthy been thought to be one among Hollywood’s most visually distinctive filmmakers, so it solely stands to cause that audiences would need — nay, deserve — to see his works within the highest doable decision. Nicely, Burton followers, we have some nice information on that entrance: One in all his most well-received fantasies is returning to retailer cabinets with a 4K UHD remaster, timed to rejoice the movie’s twentieth anniversary.
We’re speaking, after all, about The Corpse Bride, the stop-motion animated effort that paired Johnny Depp (as Victor Van Dort) and Helena Bonham Carter (because the titular undead betrothed) in an unorthodox love triangle with Emily Watson (as Victor’s fiancée, Victoria Everglot). Though the movie marked Burton’s first official foray into stop-motion, he’d dabbled earlier than by producing The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas in 1993 and James and the Big Peach three years later.
Though The Corpse Bride was typically well-received by critics — it is at the moment at 84 p.c on the overview aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes, and holds a 7.2/10 score on Metacritic — it wasn’t an enormous hit on the field workplace. Opening in second place behind the principally forgotten motion thriller Flightplan, Bride dropped to the decrease reaches of the Prime Ten by the tip of its first month in theaters, and in the end grossed a bit over $118 million worldwide — sufficient to cowl its $40 million finances, however removed from the blockbuster heights scaled by Burton’s larger movies. (Then once more, industrial success is not every little thing: Burton’s much-maligned Planet of the Apes remake managed a very spectacular $362.2 million haul.)
Over time, The Corpse Bride has developed a cult following, and at present it stands as one of many extra satisfying entries within the director’s lengthy, quirky filmography — all of which made it the proper candidate for a bit additional anniversary love from Warner Bros., the place execs noticed match to fee the upcoming remastered version. Out there September 23 in customary and steelbook packaging, the 4K UHD improve additionally comes with an array of bonus materials, together with:
- Digging Up the Previous: The Minds Behind Corpse Bride
- ‘Til Demise Do Us Artwork: A Corpse Bride Reflection
- Danny Elfman Interprets the Two Worlds
- Contained in the Two Worlds of the Corpse Bride
- Making Puppets Tick
- The Animators: The Breath of Life
- The Corpse Bride Pre-Manufacturing Galleries
- Tim Burton: Darkish vs. Gentle
- Voices from the Underworld
- The Voices Behind the Voice
Whereas a lot of the additional options included within the new package deal are beforehand launched, two of them — “Digging Up the Previous: The Minds Behind Corpse Bride” and “‘Til Demise Do Us Artwork: A Corpse Bride Reflection” — are new to shoppers. And as if all this weren’t sufficient, the celebration continues in October, when The Corpse Bride is scheduled to return to pick out theaters for a particular restricted anniversary engagement.
Burton, in the meantime, is already exhausting at work on his subsequent movie, a remake of the cult sci-fi function Assault of the 50 Foot Girl. As not too long ago reported, Margot Robbie is in talks to signal on for the title position.
Supply: Bloody Disgusting
Corpse Bride
- Launch Date
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September 23, 2005
- Runtime
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77 Minutes