Tim Burton Calls Out Replicas & Recreations of His Iconic Style, Says They're 'Very Disturbing'

with the 25th anniversary of their 31 Nights of Halloween programming. Classics like Hocus Pocus, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Addams Family, and more, along with the premieres of Encanto, Zombies, and Zombies 2, will play all month long.

A horror-film obsessive makes thousands of pounds a month thanks to her terrifying makeovers after studying special effects makeup at Bolton University. Natasha Jane Wood found fame online after she uploaded her creepy looks to TikTok and has now amassed more than six million followers on social media.

Tim Burton is opening up about how he feels about the surprise inclusion of Nicolas Cage as Superman in The Flash movie.

Tim Burton has shared his thoughts on Nicolas Cage‘s cameo as Superman in The Flash, released earlier in the year – see what he had to say below.In the 1990s, Burton – who had directed 1989’s Batman and 1992’s Batman Returns starring Michael Keaton – was tapped to direct a Superman film led by Nicolas Cage titled Superman Lives. However, that film was scrapped just three weeks before it began filming, with the only public memories of the film being footage of Cage testing out costumed for the titular role.However, Cage’s take on Superman received a long-awaited revival earlier this year in the form of a computer graphic-generated cameo for The Flash. Now, Tim Burton has spoken out about the cameo.Speaking to the British Film Institute, Burton was asked if he had any regrets about not being able to push through with Superman Lives.

Tim Burton was not a fan of Nicolas Cage’s Superman cameo in “The Flash”.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Wednesday Addams isn’t an obvious source of fashion inspiration, but the gothic style of the brooding and maudlin problem child has become increasingly popular over the past year, helped by Jenna Ortega’s breakthrough role in Tim Burton’s most recent adaptation.

Every major filmmaker has a project or two that falls through the cracks and never gets made. But given the current superhero movie craze, one of the most popular of these unmade movies is Tim Burton‘s “Superman Lives,” with Nic Cage starring as Clark Kent/Kal-El.

Pete Kozachik, a visual effects and stop-motion artist whose work on acclaimed animated films by Tim Burton, Henry Selick and others brought recognition and an Oscar nomination, died Sept. 12 at his California home in the Bay Area following a years-long battle with aphasia and primary progressive aphasia. He was 72.

British Film Institute, Tim Burton discussed the impact of Warner Bros. scrapping “Superman Lives,” which had Nicolas Cage attached as the titular hero, as well as how he felt seeing Cage as Superman and Michael Keaton’s Batman in DC Studios’ “The Flash.” “No, I don’t have regrets,” Burton said of the scrapped Superman project. “I will say this: when you work that long on a project and it doesn’t happen, it affects you for the rest of your life.

Tim Burton finds the influx of artificial intelligence art mimicking his work to be a disturbing development.

told the Independent. “Literally, it was a day and a half. We know what we have to do.

Batgirl film abruptly shelved by Warner Bros. last year have shared their reaction to fellow DC title The Flash, describing their experience watching the film as “sad.” Filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, who co-directed Batgirl prior to its shock cancellation last August, spoke of The Flash in a recent interview with Insider. “We watched it and we were sad,” El Arbi said.

Beetlejuice 2 director Tim Burton has revealed that filming for the sequel was “99 per cent done” just before the SAG-AFTRA strike shut the production down. The follow up to 1988’s Beetlejuice began filming in London in May of this year, but was put on indefinite pause once the SAG-AFTRA strike began on July 14.

Paul King, director of Wonka, is teasing the film and Timothée Chalamet’s singing voice. The filmmaker compared Chalamet to Bing Crosby.

Tim Burton is sharing his thoughts on AI getting inspired by his work for new creations. Earlier this year, BuzzFeed shared a piece where it prompted AI to “Tim Burton-Ize Disney Movies.”

Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Batgirl” directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah told Insider while promoting their new Syrian war drama “Rebel” that watching Warner Bros.’ most recent DC tentpole, “The Flash,” was a sad experience for them. They claim they were told by studio executives that “Batgirl” would release after “The Flash,” thus continuing Michael Keaton’s revived run as Batman/Bruce Wayne. But that never panned out after Warner Bros.

Tim Burton has described recreations of his work by artificial intelligence as “disturbing”.The director, who is known for his macabre visual style across films like Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas, recalled how he felt when seeing this style replicated by AI.“They had AI do my versions of Disney characters!” Burton said in mock horror to the Independent, in reference to a Buzzfeed article from July this year. “I can’t describe the feeling it gives you.

We already know Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is one of the sticking points in both the SAG and WGA strikes. And we’ve already seen instances where fans have used fairly rudimentary technology to create some truly fascinating (and scary) content with this A.I.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Tim Burton and Micheal Keaton’s “Beetlejuice 2” only had a day and a half left of filming when the SAG-AFTRA strike shut production down indefinitely. The Warner Bros.’-backed production started filming in May in London amid the WGA strike. “I feel grateful we got what we got,” Burton told The Independent in a recent interview.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Over the summer, Buzzfeed posted an article of photos that were generated by asking an AI platform to recreate beloved Disney characters in the style of Tim Burton. The results depicted Elsa from “Frozen” and Princess Aurora from “Sleeping Beauty” as if they were the stars of Burton’s stop-motion “Corpse Bride.” The article went viral, but not to the amusement of Burton himself. In a recent interview with The Independent, Burton reacted in horror to the AI recreations of his trademark style.