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Music by | Danny Elfman |
Cinematography | Pete Kozachik |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Language | English |
Budget | $40 million |
Box office | $117.2 million |
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride | ||||
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Film score by Danny Elfman | ||||
Released | September 20, 2005 | |||
Recorded | 2005 | |||
Genre | Soundtrack | |||
Length | 59:42 | |||
Label | Warner Bros. | |||
Producer | Danny Elfman | |||
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Corpse Bride is a 2005 British-American stop-motion-animated musical fantasy film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton with a screenplay by John August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler based on characters created by Burton and Carlos Grangel. The plot is set in a fictional Victorian era village in Europe. Johnny Depp leads the cast as the voice of Victor, while Helena Bonham Carter voices Emily, the titular bride. Corpse Bride is the third stop-motion feature film produced by Burton and the first directed by him (the previous two films, The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, were directed by Henry Selick). This is also the first stop-motion feature from Burton that was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was dedicated to executive producer Joe Ranft, who died during production.
The film was a critical and commercial success and was nominated for the 78th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which also starred Bonham Carter. It was shot with Canon EOS-1D Mark II digital SLRs, rather than the 35mm film cameras used for Burton's previous stop-motion film The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).