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Alice in Wonderland trailer!

Liam — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:31:19 +0000

The trailer for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland has finally arrived for our viewing pleasure. It actually appeared online yesterday in low quality and Disney spent a good few hours trying to remove it. But the high quality version is here and can be seen below!

It looks as weird and wonderful as I expected. You can definitely see where the 3D elements will kick in. I’m looking forward to the next trailer so we can see a bit more of Tim Burton’s world.

Prepare your rabbit holes! Alice in Wonderland teaser coming soon!

Liam — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:17:16 +0000

Disney have decided they’ve had enough providing us with weird and wonderful images of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and will be releasing the teaser trailer for Alice in Wonderland this week! However, there is a catch. If you want to see it before anyone else you have to join one of three Facebook groups by Thursday, July 23, at 7pm EST.

The Loyal Subjects of the Red Queen

The Loyal Subjects of the White Queen

The Disloyal Subjects of the Mad Hatter

The fan page with the most followers at 4pm on July 24th gets first look at the teaser trailer. The Mad Hatter is currently in the lead by a wide margin (I hope Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter don’t take it personally) so if you want to see the teaser early I suggest you join that one.

However, if you aren’t a fan of falling prey to studio marketing gimmicks then just wait a little while longer and it will pop up on Youtube eventually. You will also find it embedded here, so check back Friday!

First look at Helena Bonham Carter in Terminator Salvation

Liam — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:29:02 +0000

Now before you see the image I want you to know that this could fall into the spoiler category. Helena Bonham Carter’s role in Terminator Salvation has been described as ’small yet pivotal’ and her character Serena is only thought to be involved in two scenes. Once you see the image it is pretty obvious what her characters involvement is, so you have been warned!

Scroll down to view it:

From FastCompany.com:

In part 2 of our interview with Terminator: Salvation director McG, he discusses the balance between animatronics and CGI, and how to seamlessly blend the two in a believable way. That process begins with an artist’s rendering, like the skull-shattering image of Serena, below.

Anne Hathaway And Helena Bonham Carter Join Alice In Wonderland

Liam — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:08:23 +0000

Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter have joined the cast of Alice in Wonderland, according to THR. Most people were expecting Carter to land a role in the film, considering she has been in every Tim Burton film since 2001 and is living with the guy. She will play the Red Queen, who banishes her sister, the White Queen, played by Anne Hathaway.

THR claims that in Burton’s adaptation, the White Queen needs Alice to slay the Bandersnatch, a fictional creature mentioned in Lewis Carroll’s poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark.

No word yet on whether the actresses will be seen as live-action or performance capture characters. Johnny Depp will be playing The Mad Hatter in performance capture mode, so other characters could get the same treatment.

Terminator Salvation Halts For Bonham Carter

Liam — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:20:34 +0000

Filming on Terminator Salvation has been halted after Helena Bonham Carter had to leave the set and fly to England after news 4 of her family members had died in a car accident in South Africa.

From WENN

Bonham Carter’s relatives were on a safari holiday in the country when a minibus they were traveling in on Wednesday spun out of control and flipped over after a tire burst.
The actress’ cousin Fiona Bonham Carter, 51, escaped with a broken shoulder. But Fiona’s son Marcus Egerton-Warburton, 14, her mother Brenda, 74, and stepfather Francis Kirkwood, 75, all died.
Fiona’s sister-in-law Kay Boardman, 54, also perished in the crash, in a remote area six hours’ drive from Johannesburg. Bonham Carter has now been granted indefinite leave from the set of Terminator Salvation in Albuquerque, New Mexico to fly back to the U.K. to comfort her distraught family.

A source tells British newspaper the Sunday Express:

“Everyone here was in a state of shock when the news came through. I saw an assistant of Helena’s who told me she is absolutely stricken with grief. She can’t believe what happened.”

Helena Bonham Carter has a small yet pivotal role in the movie, and is apparently playing a villain called Serena.

To lose one family member is bad enough, but to lose 4 is just horrible. Lets hope her scenes can be filmed in a couple of weeks, or months, if that is what she needs.

Helena Bonham Carter Talks Terminator

Liam — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:53:01 +0000

Helena Bonham Carter confirmed to Scifi.com that she will indeed be playing a bad guy/woman in Terminator Salvation.

“I kind of play a baddie, definitely a baddie,” Bonham Carter said, “I don’t know how much I’m allowed to say, but I’m a very bad person.”
Bonham Carter is a new addition to the cast of the film, which already includes Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin and Bryce Dallas Howard.
Bonham Carter (Sweeney Todd) replaced Tilda Swinton at the 11th hour and will work a total of about 10 days on the film, which is currently in production in New Mexico.
“Tim [Burton] would have killed me if I hadn’t done it, because he’s such a Terminator fan,” Bonham Carter said, referring to her longtime partner and director on such films as Planet of the Apes. “I’ve been in big movies before, like Apes, and Fight Club was big in a different way, and Charlie [and the Chocolate Factory] and Sweeney Todd were big, but I’ve never been in this kind of big popcorn action movie, a male one, an action one.”

It’s interesting that she replaced Tilda Swinton. The producers must have been keen on having the evil woman have an English accent. Carter will be playing Serena in the movie and will have a small but hugely important role part in the first film.

More Info On Helena Bonham Carter In Terminator Salvation

Liam — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:09:19 +0000

Two days ago it was revealed that Helena Bonham Carter will have a small but pivotal role in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. When I read this it got me interested because the role must be important, otherwise they wouldn’t have got an actress like Helena on-board. They could have just hired any random actress for such a small role. It reminded me of Emma Thompson’s part at the beginning of I Am Legend. She is a great actress and rather well known, yet was only on-screen for a minute or so and her role was important in explaining the whole ‘cure for cancer’ thing and was pivotal to the plot.

Joblo got some more info on Helena’s part in Terminator:

Just got word earlier this morning that it’s a done deal and Helena Bonham Carter will be filming are very substantial (in importance not necessarily in size) part in TERMINATOR SALVATION. The character is not Sarah Connor, as speculated below, but someone named “Serena.” Hmmm…..

Devin from CHUD also posted on his forum that the character will be a lead villain, but is only in two scenes.

I think the two scenes ‘Serena’ is in could set up for the next movie, where Helena Bonham Carters role will be considerably larger. But that just me speculating, I guess we won’t find out until next May.

Helena Bonham Carter Joins Terminator Salvation

Liam — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:40:22 +0000

Helena Bonham Carter will have a small but pivitol role in Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins according to The Hollywood Reporter. Director McG and the cast have been filming in New Mexico for just over a month, and are making sure they get all the exteriors shot before a potential SAG strike.

Helena Bonham Carter is best known for the roles in the Harry Potter movies, as well as every Tim Burton film since 2001.