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There's a screening to be held this week for The Corpse Bride at Pacifica Theatre in Sherman Oaks.


More details to come right here at JDR........keep checking back.

We posted info about attending a CB Q&A with Tim Burton on 8/20/05 at 06:02 AM

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Tim Burton is scheduled to do a Q&A in NY on Sept 12th for a special screening of The Corpse Bride. As always this type of event is tentative.


The movie will open nationwide September 23rd with special sneak peeks on the 16th in NY, LA and Toronto.

Any registered member of JDR in the NY area who needs more info please contact me ASAP at johnnydeppreads@aol.com

A very limited number of tickets are left for the public to purchase. The info will be posted shortly. I just want to give our members first preference.

edit: The info has gone public, here it is:

Corpse Bride screening with Tim Burton Q&A after
Special ticket prices: $30 Film Society of Lincoln Center Members; $40 general public.


TICKETS BY PHONE
Tickets by phone can be purchased with your VISA or Mastercard for screenings that take place during the next 7 days by calling: 212-496-3809. $1.25 surcharge per ticket. Tickets purchased by phone must be redeemed at the Walter Reade Theater Box Office.

BOX OFFICE HOURS AND INFORMATION
The box office opens at 12:30 pm Monday through Friday, and one half hour before the first screening on Saturday and Sunday. The box office closes every day 15 minutes after the beginning of the last show. If there are no evening public screenings, the box office closes at 6 pm.

Our automated information number, 212.875.5600, provides up-to-date schedule and ticket information twenty-four hours a day.


THEATER LOCATION
The Walter Reade Theater is located on the north side of West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, one flight up on the plaza level

Originally posted on 9/12/05 at 06:45 PM

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Jeff is inviting JDR members who live in the LA immediate area to a screening of the CB..on Thursday, Sept 22.

Here's what to do...email me ASAP at johnnydeppreads@aol.com put "CB screening" in the subject line. I need your JDR member name and your full name for the RSVP list. Spaces are filled on a first come first serve basis.

Please note that we are not the only ones being invited so once all the RSVP slots are filled, they are gone. You are not guaranteed a seat just because you reply to me. Also note that this is an advance screening, no Q&A to follow.

Please only RSVP if you know you can attend as it stops someone else from going. Seats are very limited.

On 2/08/06 at 05:37 we posted about an upcoming "personal appearance" PM

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Here's a JDR heads up for the LA area...look for a personal appearance soon.....not Johnny.......but Johnny related. And it's not a Q&A.

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Then we posted this on 2/08/06 at 09:21 PM

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This is *tentative*, however, we are 99.999999% certain that it is scheduled to happen at the location, time and place we list below but we have no control over last minute changes or cancellations. PLEASE do not inundate the store with phone calls. Thanks.

Tim Burton and Danny Elfman will have a DVD signing on Tuesday, February 14th at the Best Buy at 1015 N La Brea Ave,

W. Hollywood, CA 90046

at 8:30PM

Then word came about a screening and Q&A so we reported it on 2/11/06 at 10:41 PM

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I've been told that there is a limited amount of seats available for the Screening and Q&A of the Corpse Bride on Monday, Feb. 13 at 7 with Tim Burton. If you are in the immediate LA area and can and want to attend, please email me your JDR member name and your full name at johnnydeppreads@aol.com. Please put Q&A in the subject line. Contact me no later than 11am CST on Sunday, Feb. 12.



After I get the count and number of seats available to us , I may need to do a drawing for the available spots. I understand that this is on short notice and I've been told that this is a very small venue with limited seating. As always, this is first come, first served and preference may go to voting members. Please do not sign up if you are not certain you can arrive very early to queue up and attend. You will have to be available to arrive very early and stand in line for seats. You will not be guaranteed a seat even with a confirmation.

And then we asked if anyone had a question for Tim on 2/10/06 at 04:26 PM

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Tim Burton is doing a Q&A next week in LA for CB.....does anyone have a question for him? JDR will have someone there and will try to have questions submitted to him.
Please post them below.


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1) Ellen

2/10/06 at 04:39 PM



What's it like directing stop motion animation?

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2) giselle

2/10/06 at 05:51 PM


thanks karen.....i would ask him what would be his dream project....maybe one that he hasn't been given a green light for.......something he has an idea about or an adaptation.........

darlene


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3) JohnnyFanatic


I'm anxious to learn more about the possible Sweeney Todd film with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. If someone could ask if there is any truth to that rumor, that would be great.


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4) Banana

2/10/06 at 11:53 PM


I like Giselle's question ALOT - his dream project. I'd love to hear the answer to that one! (Good one Darlene!)

Along those same lines, I wonder if there's any actor that he admires & has fantasies of working with? (I know it'd be hard to fill Johnny's shoes!)



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Karen
2/10/06 at 11:54 PM

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OK.. thanks to much for a great start.....please know that all questions received will be forwarded to the event organizer.

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5) Jeppody
2/11/06 at 02:21 AM


I'd like to know what has happened to all the Corpse Bride figures. I know they made quite a few of the main characters, Have they all survived, and if so, where are they?


Anne X
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6) Robyn
2/11/06 at 02:35 PM

oh man this is awesome! thanks for telling us about it!

umm..i'd like to know if there's anything that draws him to using stop motion animation rather than typical CIG
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7) Banana

2/12/06 at 01:13 AM

Has he ever felt any desire to be in front of the camera? Has he ever tried acting at all, or is he even interested in attempting it?

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8) shadowdog
2/12/06 at 03:29 PM


What would he say was the main influence that led him to make the type of films he makes
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Karen
2/12/06 at 03:38 PM

Thanks for everyone's questions. They have been emailed to the event organizer. Thanks again, so very much.

Then we posted this report from two JDR members on 2/14/06 at 04:30 PM who were at the event.

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The Tim Burton - Corpse Bride industry screening and Q&A was held last night in LA. JDR had several members there as guests, and 2 of them, Sheila and Banana have put together a great report for us! I thank them for taking notes and writing us such a fantastically detailed report!


Tonight’s exciting event was held in the James Cagney Room of the Screen Actors Guild. Prior to the doors opening, Hollywood Video was on-site to sell DVDs of “Corpse Bride,” the 2006 Academy Award nominated film. The screening of “Corpse Bride,” directed by Tim Burton, began promptly at 7PM followed by a Q&A with Mr. Burton that lasted approximately one hour and was moderated by Todd Amorde, SAG’s Director of Member Education.



Tim arrived immediately after the screening dressed casually in a black shirt and pants sporting his trademark stylishly disheveled hair. Before the Q&A began, Todd asked Tim to call out the winning numbers for raffle tickets that were sold for $1 to support the construction of the new Actors Center. Afterwards, Tim personally autographed “Corpse Bride” posters for the lucky winners. After Todd’s introduction, Tim opened the Q&A with a little humor, referring to “Corpse Bride” by saying, “Eighteen hours of moving puppets in a room finally get their due.”



Tim talked about how much he loves the form of stop-motion animation and explained that it appealed to him because it was an old fashioned art form that was different from other animation. He described it as using puppets with latex skin that were like an organism and called it a beautiful aesthetic work of art.



In response to a question from the audience about what inspired him to make “Corpse Bride,” he responded by saying, “The image is the inspiration as well as the term “Corpse Bride” and all that it conjures up.”



An audience member asked him what the biggest difference was between working in animation versus live action. He responded by saying, “Live action is much more immediate, while animation is a longer process.” He also talked about the joy of working with actors – whether they are acting in a live action film or providing voice over for an animated film, such as Johnny Depp, Christopher Lee, and Albert Finney did in “Corpse Bride.” Tim described it as “the joy of working with people in a pure creative process.”



When asked how he started his career, he mentioned that he began drawing at an early age and attended Cal Arts (California Institute of the Arts) after being awarded a fellowship by Disney. He worked one summer drawing super frames at Hanna Barbara. From there, he went to another company (whose name I did not catch) where he did rotoscoping. In the early 1980s, he finally ended up with a job at Disney where he worked on the animated feature, “The Fox and The Hound.” While Disney was far removed from his own creative sensibility, it gave him the opportunity to work on projects that were important to him including a six-minute black-and-white animated Gothic short called “Vincent” that was a tribute to the actor, Vincent Price, whose films he was especially fond of. He described the good early experiences he had working with people whom he admired including Vincent Price who gave him a lot of support. He also mentioned an early mentor by the name of Joe Ranft as well as his learning experiences as a student at Cal Arts (California Institute of the Arts). Ranft also studied animation at Cal Arts and worked as a story artist at Walt Disney Studios at about the same time as Tim. (Ranft was Executive Producer on “Corpse Bride” and is a dedicatee on the film’s credits. He was Pixar Animation Studios’ head of story for more than a decade. Prior to that, he worked as a storyboard supervisor on “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” He died unexpectedly last August.)



An audience member asked him what draws him to projects. He responded by saying, “Sometimes it is for perverse reasons such as something that affected me when I was younger. Sometimes it is simply a strange and immediate response to what’s being proposed. And sometimes I’m offered a project like I was with “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.””



Someone in the audience queried him about the impact of budget on his projects. He responded by saying, “Whether the budget is bigger or smaller, it still feels like it’s never enough.” He also said, “People’s perceptions feel like a curse,” referring to how people’s expectations vary based on budget.



Tim said he was lucky to have an educational background in animation from Cal Arts where he had the opportunity to learn all aspects of the filmmaking process. He mentioned that in terms of the animated films that are being made today, there are lots of different types of animation, and that this is a good time for animation.



Tim talked about how he enjoys working with actors who like to transform themselves because they are capable of doing a lot of things, and most of them are very good at character-based things. With respect to “Corpse Bride,” he said that the characters for the animated feature were designed five years ago, so it’s just a coincidence that they resemble the actors who provided the voiceovers.



While describing the creative process, he said that things meld by chance and that he allows his actors to improvise as long it remains more or less within his overall creative vision of the project. He stated, “I have to be open to what others bring to a project.”



Someone in the audience asked him about the visual design process. He responded by saying that it starts with his sketches or drawings which are crude and goes through several stages. Carlos (Grangel, the co-character designer) fleshes his sketches out, then they go to the sculptor for the puppets and change according to the mechanics of the puppets. Each animator brings something new to the process.



Someone asked him about his thoughts on sequels or adapting his films to a musical form as has been done in the stage version of “Edward Scissorhands.” Burton responded by saying he likes to keep things what they are, in their pure form. With good humor, he said, “Perhaps you haven’t heard. I’m from Burbank. I’m a product of my environment.”



When asked about the difference between the colorless upper world and colorful under world in “Corpse Bride,” he said that the colorful underworld represented the creative side while the black and white world represented the more serious, business side.



When an audience member asked him about his collaboration with composer Danny Elfman, he said that he used to go to see him and his Oingo Boingo band in clubs and that he (Elfman) was making skeleton music in the 1970’s and 1980s. He also mentioned that he found their music very theatrical, like a music score, which shows you the surreal nature of the art form.



An audience member asked what hat he liked to wear the most in terms of writing, directing, etc. He said that he liked direction the best because it gave him the most contact. It was creative, and he had fun dealing with people. He felt more connected as a director.



When asked how he approaches story, he said that he tries to be moved by the story and to get connected to what it’s about. Of course, he cautioned with a smile, you have to be careful where that takes you as, for example, in “Ed Wood.”



When asked about who were his inspirations, he replied “people who make you want to think or create.” He mentioned animator Ray Harryhausen among others (whose names I could not catch) as an amazing inspiration. He described Harryhausen as being very down to earth and talked about how he and Johnny Depp had gone to his house in England and that his models for some of his most impressive work were crumbling because of age. He also singled out writer John August, who co-wrote the screenplay for “Corpse Bride,” as being someone whom he finds easy to work with.



Burton also said, “I do like to feel for the characters. I have to go to a certain place to connect with them and relate to them.” The characters that appeal to him the most are “those that are both alluring and scary at the same time. They make a great persona.”



Finally, in describing the creative process, he stated, “The struggle is what keeps you going. Doing what you like to do for yourself and hoping for the best – feeling that what you do is the most important and not worrying whether other people see it or not. What’s important is continuing to do what you enjoy doing the most.”



When asked about how he views his own work, he said something that reminded me of comments Johnny Depp has also made in interviews, “It takes a while to look at my own work objectively.” When an audience member stated, “I’ve never seen “The Nightmare Before Christmas,”” Burton responded humorously, “That makes two of us.”



It was wonderful spending the evening with this incredibly talented and highly original artist. Thanks to Karen and Johnny Depp Reads for giving us the opportunity to attend this very special event.

And a report about a screening on another night from a different member
2/20/06 at 10:11 PM

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We have a new report from a JDR member at the CB screening on the 15th. Here is what she wrote for us. Hopefully we will have pictures too. We thank her for her report.





I was very lucky to be invited to the Corpse Bride screening and reception held on Wednesday February 15th at the DGA. The screening started at 7 p.m. When you walked into the lobby they had the entire lobby decorated with Corpse Bride stuff. At 7 :10 Mike Johnson came on stage and introduced the film. He mentioned that Tim Burton would be on hand afterwards to answer questions and for everyone to enjoy the movie. The screening was in theater one at the DGA which was the largest theater. It was not full. It may have been since this was the third screening that the movie had according to a Warner Brothers rep. After the movie, we proceeded to the lobby. As you walked out they handed you a gift pack which included a flip book of CB that was used for promotion, A CB DVD, and the CB hard cover book "An Invitation to a Wedding." Very nice gifts. As they passed them out they asked you not to get autographs tonight. During the movie Tim posed with the sets for press photos. Once the crowd was let out, they had finger foods and desert and servers walking around serving the food and a bar for you to get drinks. Tim was over in a corner doing promotions and answering some questions. People were going over to him to shake his hand. You were able to walk around and take photos of the sets and watch the video which was the DVD on a TV nearby. They even had a live demonstration showing you how they did one of the scenes from the movie. They also had the actually drawing sketches on displays. It was so great to be in that atmosphere. People started standing there and just watching Tim and taking non stop photos that security had to make people step back a little so he could have some room to talk. Mike walked around and talked to people and posed for photos. The reception was 90 minutes long . There are photos of this event on Wire Image for you to see. I took a few and if they come out decent, I will share them.



Info from me: This is the book they gave away and the flip book she mentions is the one that we gave away last year.
Amazon.com: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: An Invitation to the Wedding: Books: Mark Salisbury,Tim Burton

We posted this report from a JDR member who attended the Valentine's day signing on 2/17/06 at 03:40 PM

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JDR had several people at the Tim Burton and Danny Elfman Valentine's Day DVD signing in LA and one of them offered to write up her report of the evening. She also sent us a scan of her signed DVD. We thank her. So here it is:




Tim Burton and Danny Elfman did a DVD signing at the Best Buy store in West Hollywood, Calif. on Tuesday, February 14th at 8:30pm. Fliers were all over West Hollywood in stores and also on radio stations, web sites. and fan sites so the word was quite out there by Tuesday. Fans starting lining up at 10 a.m. when the store was opening according to a Best Buy supervisor. The waiting area started in the inside area that leads to the garage and elevators right outside the store. Best Buy did not require that you buy anything to meet them which is rare for most signings. It may have been because the DVD had already been released. You were allowed to get two things signed just as long as one was related to CB since that is what they were promoting. Plus they let you take a photo with Tim and or Danny. They had security everywhere who organized the line that went from the inside waiting area to outside to all the way down and around the block. Channel 7 in LA reported that 1,000 people showed up in all and they may be quite right. by 7:30 most people were there waiting in line. I believe that the majority of people who got in line by 7 p.m. did get in to see Tim and Danny. People had Nightmare Dolls, posters, Beetlejuice stuff and vinyl records of Oingo Boingo. The signing started at 9:10. Tim and Danny did press inside the store from 8 :30 till 9:10. The line moved quite quickly. Tim and Danny were at a table at the front of the store sitting down. There was a photographer right there to take photos of any one in costumes or had different memorabilia with them. In the 10 o'clock hour the fire department arrived and wanted to rush the event up for various reasons. Therefore they did limit it to one autograph and no photo with to speed things along and to try to get many more people done.
I am guessing that they stopped the signing at some point as there were still quite a few people waiting when I left. I do know that WB was telling the fire dept that Tim and Danny would stay to get everyone in but I know that West Hollywood has strict capacity laws. Tim and Danny were very nice and friendly with everyone, they allowed you ample lead time to say hello and shake their hands and they had stickies you can write your name on so they can personalize your item.

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