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Four-and-a-half stars. Handsomely crafted stop-motion fantasy a treat for all ages.

Tim Burton is our generation’s Brothers Grimm.

Both of them.

“Corpse Bride” is that rarest of cinematic creatures: a lovingly crafted, wholly original fairy tale guaranteed to become obligatory bedtime viewing for years to come. It resonates for all ages the way Chris Van Allsburg’s “The Polar Express” similarly touched our hearts; the difference is that “Corpse Bride” is not adapted from an existing book, but instead sprang, sepulchrally, from the wonderfully twisted imaginations of screenwriters John August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler – By Derrick Bang/Enterprise entertainment editor.

August knows the territory, having previously collaborated with Burton on “Big Fish” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Thompson, too, is a familiar name in the Burton oeuvre, having written “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Edward Scissorhands.” Pettler is soon to be an equally recognized name; aside from her participation on “Corpse Bride,” she co-wrote the upcoming “Monster House” for Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis, and is working with Burton on another animated film, “9,” described as a “post-apocalyptic fantasy.”

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The dead bride, Helena Bonham Carter, wore a brown sweater and frilly olive skirt. Jittery groom Johnny Depp wore white pants and a gray T-shirt. Wedding singer Danny Elfman was all in black. Matchmaker Tim Burton wore a blue shirt and black slacks – by David Germain for Associated Press.

The key players of “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride” sat down recently at the Toronto International Film Festival to share recollections of their strange and wondrous animated matrimonial fantasy and ponder why it is they all collaborate so often.

“With all of these people here, it’s nice because it feels like a real artistic collaboration,” “Corpse Bride” director Burton said in an interview, seated alongside co-director Mike Johnson, voice stars Depp and Bonham Carter and composer Elfman, who also wrote the movie’s songs and sang one of them.

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Frenzied photographers formed a human wall around Johnny Depp as the actor arrived for a film festival press conference at the Sutton Place Hotel yesterday, bathing him in an eerie glow of flashing lights – by Peter Howell for the Star.com

So intent were they on grabbing his image, as probably the most in-demand celebrity amongst the many currently visiting Toronto, it’s likely none of them stopped to ponder which Johnny Depp they were actually getting.

Would it be the Michael Jackson send-up of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the summer hit that is maintaining its momentum straight into the fall?

Would it be Capt. Jack Sparrow, the Keith Richards caricature Depp played in the summer ’03 smash Pirates of the Caribbean, and whom he is revisiting during the current simultaneous shoots for the Pirates 2 and Pirate 3 sequels?

Would it be his loving imitation of his friend Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the late gonzo journalist whom he portrayed in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and whom he recently eulogized by sending his ashes flying from a cannon?

Or would Depp be like any of the characters he has played for his director friend Tim Burton, which include the title-role misfits of Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood, the inquiring Constable Ichabod Crane of Sleepy Hollow or the nerdy groom Victor of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, the stop-motion romance chiller that premiered last night at the Elgin Theatre?

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Johnny Depp always has been one of our favorite and best actors but even he remembers his bad reputation. While we doing our interview a tray of glasses was dropped in another room with a loud crash. Johnny laughed and said “You saw me here. I couldn’t have done it! I’m going to get blamed for that” – by Daniel Robert Epstein for SuicideGirls.com.

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Even just using his voice in the stop-motion animated Corpse Bride, the power of Depp comes through.

Corpse Bride is set in a 19th-century European village and follows the story of Victor [Johnny Depp], a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride [Helena Bonham Carter]. While his real bride, Victoria [Emily Watson], waits bereft in the land of the living.

Daniel Robert Epstein: How did you get into the character of a puppet?

Johnny Depp: I had the great luxury that when I arrived to do the recording Victor was standing there and so I got to meet the puppets. They were beautiful and really inspiring.

DRE: Did you think of anything specific when creating Victor’s voice?

JD: No, not particularly. I was just trying to save my own ass for being ill prepared. I didn’t realize that we were going to be doing the recording while I was shooting Wonka.

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TORONTO – The groom of the corpse bride, sporting his trademark goatee and frumpy hat and an arm tattoo that reads “Jack,” looked hopeful and yet apprehensive – by Mal Vincent for the Virginian-Pilot.
He wanted to know. He really wanted to know. “Well, man,” he said, “What is it? I can trust you. You wouldn’t steer me wrong.”

He turned a thumb down for a second and then a thumb up accompanied by a hint of a sardonic yet sincere smile. The scene was in the midst of the hoopla that accompanies the Toronto International Film Festival press circus. There was no time for a conversation – just Johnny Depp passing quickly in the hallway between press conferences.

Instinctively, we gave him a thumbs up.

“You really think so? Thanks, man. This was different, you know. I’ve never done anything like this before.”

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TORONTO — Johnny Depp really had no intention of being in our faces this fall, not that all that many people would mind – Terry Lawson for Detroit Free Press.

After nearly two decades of mostly fine performances in what might have been considered specialized movies had not the actor’s presence made fans line up to see them, Depp, 42, almost accidentally became a box-office magnet with his portrayal of pithy pirate Jack Sparrow in “Pirates of the Caribbean” and a taciturn Willy Wonka in Tim Burton’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”

More Depp is now about to be served.

“Corpse Bride,” the animated film codirected by Tim Burton with Mike Johnson and starring Depp’s voice, opens nationwide today.

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With the kind of buzz that makes Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride already a favorite for this year’s Oscars, odds are that Johnny Depp will field two consecutive hits – By Stephen Schaefer for the Boston Herald.

Yet Depp’s cheerful demeanor has nothing to do with box office. As the 42-year-old took a break from his nearly yearlong filming of two Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, he’s learned to find joy in other things, such as raising his two children.

It was only last month that he finally asked his longtime agent how his last teaming with Burton, this summer’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was doing.

Depp’s agent wasn’t thunderstruck. She must know her client keeps his head in the clouds, or at least far from the box-office charts. Charlie crossed the $200 million mark domestically, the official designation of a blockbuster. Its worldwide gross is more than $350 million, making it second only to Pirates as Depp’s most popular picture.

Still, Depp asked, “Well, is that good?”

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If Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are the ringleaders of Hollywood’s “frat pack,” then Johnny Depp and Tim Burton head up another of Tinseltown U’s cliques: the artsy, quiet intellectual types that can be seen digging through the racks at the local secondhand shop while sipping javas – BY JULIE WOHLBERG on Boise Weekly.com

Where Vaughn and Wilson’s team cornered the market on blockbuster, slapstick comedies, Depp and Burton have mastered the modern cult film–starting with 1991’s Edward Scissorhands and leaving their marks on the last 15 years of cinema with films like Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Now, they have unveiled Corpse Bride, an homage to Burton’s 1993 film, The Nightmare Before Christmas.

“It was very exciting,” commented Depp of his experience in voice-over. “It’s all very new to me, you know? It’s an interesting and fascinating process. There’s something very pure about it being from the page, into the air, and onto the recording machine. You have that and you combine that with doing scenes where they’re going to mesh these voices together, but you’re doing a scene with people you’ve never even met before, which is slightly absurd but kinda great.”

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The nominees for the Best International Actor award in the People’s Choice categories at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards have been announced.

The four nominees are: Christian Bale for ‘Batman Begins’, Johnny Depp for ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‘, Brad Pitt for ‘Mr & Mrs Smith’ and Mickey Rourke for ‘Sin City’.

The public can vote for the four nominees at:
www.ifta.ie/peopleschoice/internationalactor.htm.

The Irish Film and Television Awards take place in Dublin on 5 November and will be shown on RT

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