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Interesting video on the green room technique that was used to make Alice in Wonderland 2010.

If you own a Barnes & Noble Nook ebook reader, you can get free Alice in Wonderland content by visiting a store. The content includes 13 screen savers and an ebook copy of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Offer expires April 7. Via

Here's a report on the coming 3D movie pile-up and the aggressive tactics that the film studios are using to get theaters to choose their movies over others. It seems that the number of 3D screens in the country isn't sufficient. In particular, coming the Friday the 26th of March is DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon and then a week later, Warner Bros. Clash of the Titans. Both of these films will be competing with Alice in Wonderland for limited screen space.

The site Deadline Hollywood reported that Tim Burton would be directing a stop-motion version of the Addams Family. Then MTV reported that Burton won't be. Nobody seems to have got the memo, and a Google search on "Tim Burton Stop Motion Addams Family" reveals page after page of sites repeating the same story.

Previously: Tim Burton's Next Film Projects

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Friday Fan News Round-up

Various Alice in Wonderland Blackberry themes (free registration with site required) for BlackBerry Bold 9000 and Blackberry Storm.

Tim Burton's art and movies will be shown at the New York Museum of Modern Art. The show will run November 22, 2009 through April 26, 2010.

If you're like me, you didn't notice the house in the background of the scene in the teaser trailer where Alice runs up to the rabbit hole. Turns out it's an 18th Century historic house, Antony House, in Plymouth in the UK, where they also did some filming for the movie. Here it is on Google Maps.


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