Johnny Depp, Tim Burton and stop animation...

Only 238 days left until...next Halloween? NOPE. Just in time for Halloween, Tim Burton's new movie 'The Corpse Bride' will hit theaters at the end of September. Given the fact that I love Tim Burton Films, Stop Animation, Nightmare Before Christmas and Johnny Depp, you know I will be breaking my policy of not seeing a movie in theaters (that is a whole other story).

Think Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, and a stirring romance Tim Burton style. I soooo can not wait for this. I have been anticipating this since last June or so. Believe it or not, McFarlane is already going to produce merchandise for the movie. You can bet this marketing victim/fan is going to cave in to the call of the marketer.

Click link to see trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/corpse_bride/

The movie will feature the voices of Johhny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Christopher Lee,Joanna Lumley, Albert Finney and Richard Grant. It was filmed simultaneously with "Charlie and The Chocolate Factory" (which will be released this summer.) I found the following at www.countingdown.com: "Corpse Bride carries on in the dark, romantic tradition of Tim Burton's classic films Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas . Set in a 19th century European village, this stop-motion, animated feature follows the story of Victor (Johnny Depp), a young man who is 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. Though life in the Land of the Dead proves to be a lot more colorful than his strict Victorian upbringing, Victor learns that there is nothing in this world, or the next, that can keep him away from his one true love. It's a tale of optimism, romance and a very lively afterlife, told in classic Tim Burton style. "