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Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American filmmaker and animator. He is known for his gothic fantasy and horror films such as Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Dark Shadows (2012), as well as the television series Wednesday (2022). Burton also directed the superhero films Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), the sci-fi film Planet of the Apes (2001), the fantasy-drama Big Fish (2003), the musical adventure film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and the fantasy films Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016). Burton has often worked with actors Winona Ryder, Johnny Depp, Lisa Marie (former girlfriend), Helena Bonham Carter (his former domestic partner) and composer Danny Elfman, who scored all but three of Burton's films. Burton also wrote and illustrated the poetry book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, published in 1997 by British publishing house Faber and Faber, and a compilation of his drawings, sketches, and other artwork, entitled The Art of Tim Burton, was released in 2009. A follow-up to that book, entitled The Napkin Art of Tim Burton: Things You Think About in a Bar, containing sketches made by Burton on napkins at bars and restaurants he visited, was released in 2015. His accolades include nominations for two Academy Awards and three BAFTA Awards, and wins for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Tim Burton
Director
for Director in THE CURSE OF WHISPER HOLLOW (2029)
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In the eerie town of Whisper Hollow, an orphaned girl named Lena Blackwood stumbles upon Edgar Grimsby, a reclusive dollmaker whose lifelike creations captivate and terrify the townsfolk. Edgar, cursed by the malevolent Shadow Queen, has been creating dolls using pieces of his own soul, slowly turning into one of his own creations. As Lena becomes entangled in Edgar’s world, she learns that she is the key to breaking his curse. Lena’s journey takes her into the Shadow Queen’s twisted, nightmarish realm, where living dolls, haunting memories, and dark magic await. As she uncovers secrets about her own mysterious past, Lena must decide whether to trust Edgar and help him break the curse, or stop him before his soul is lost forever. With the clock ticking and the line between the living and the dead blurring, Lena must face the Shadow Queen in a final showdown to save both herself and the dollmaker from eternal damnation.
