Tim Burton Movie Updates

Mike Vukadinovich will rewrite Beetlejuice 2 at Warner Brothers.

A bidding war is underway to acquire the movie rights to the game.

Tim Burton will direct Disney's live-action Dumbo.

Michael Keaton already has his sights set on reprising his title role in a sequel to the 1988 hit Beetlejuice.

Addams Family is heading for another incarnation, this time as an MGM animated movie.

Tim Burton is mulling a return to the world of his 1988 classic Beetlejuice.

Danny Huston is in negotiations to join the cast of Tim Burton's Big Eyes, the Weinstein Co. comedic drama based on the relationship between Walter and Margaret Keane.

Jane Goldman is in negotiations to work on Pinocchio, lending considerable heat to what would see Tim Burton direct Robert Downey Jr. for the first time.

Tim Burton's interest in tackling a live-action version of Pinocchio is heating up, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. And Burton's choice to topline the movie is Robert Downey Jr. as Geppetto, the woodcarver who creates the puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy.

Tim Burton is in early talks to come aboard Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, the Ransom Riggs novel that 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment acquired last spring. Burton is in talks to develop the book as a potential directing project, and he would be involved in setting a writer to adapt the tale.

Tim Burton has moved off of Maleficent, the Disney fantasy that would have teamed him with Angelina Jolie.

Tim Burton and Josh Brolin are teaming up to bring The Hunchback of Notre Dame to the big screen. Warner Bros. is developing the project with the duo and is bringing on board scribes Kieran and Michele Mulroney, who wrote the upcoming Sherlock Holmes sequel for the studio.

fter getting to within weeks of a production start in China on Ripley's Believe It Or Not before pulling the plug in 2007, Paramount Pictures is taking another shot at turning newspaper columnist Robert Ripley's life into an epic film. Oscar-winning scribe Eric Roth has come aboard to do a complete rewrite overhaul. Tim Burton, ...

Tim Burton has reunited with his Ed Wood screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski on a pair of projects. They will write The Addams Family, the stop-motion animated film that Burton and Chris Meledandri are producing for Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures. At the same time, Burton has come on to be a pr ...

John August is writing the screenplay right now, consulting with the game’s creator Matt Wilson (who is also a co-producer) Tim Burton is developing the project to direct Being developed as a 3D movie It could hit theaters by the end of 2012.

I'm hearing that DreamWorks has just acquired the screen rights to "Monsterpocalypse", and they are already making overtures to Burton to be the creative catalyst.

Alice in Wonderland director Tim Burton has found a new 3D project. He will direct a stop-motion animated film based on Charles Addams' original ghoulish cartoon drawings of The Addams Family. Illumination Entertainment, the Universal-based family film unit headed by Chris Meledandri, has acquired the underlying rights of the Ad ...

Burton and Bekmambetov are aboard to produce a movie adaptation of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the Seth Grahame-Smith novel that Grand Central Publishing released today. They’ll produce with Jim Lemley.