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Tim Burton Productions
TypePrivately held company
IndustryEntertainment
Founded1985; 38 years ago (1985)
FounderTim Burton
HeadquartersBurbank, California[1],
Key people
Tim Burton (president)
Denise Di Novi (president)
ProductsMotion pictures, television
OwnerTim Burton
DivisionsBurton Projects
Skellington Productions (formerly)

Tim Burton Productions is an American film and television production company, founded by Tim Burton in the late 1980s. Denise Di Novi once headed the banner from 1989 to 1996.[2] The company was not usually credited on films directed or produced by Burton.

Filmography

Films

Title U.S.
release date
Director(s) Co-production
companies
Distributing
company
Edward Scissorhands December 7, 1990 (1990-12-07) Tim Burton 20th Century Fox
Batman Returns June 19, 1992 (1992-06-19) Tim Burton Warner Bros. Pictures, Polygram Pictures Warner Bros. Pictures
The Nightmare Before Christmas October 29, 1993 (1993-10-29) Henry Selick Touchstone Pictures,[a] Skellington Productions Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Cabin Boy January 7, 1994 (1994-01-07) Adam Resnick Touchstone Pictures, Skellington Productions
Ed Wood September 30, 1994 (1994-09-30) Tim Burton Touchstone Pictures, Skellington Productions
Batman Forever June 16, 1995 (1995-06-16) Joel Schumacher Warner Bros. Pictures,[4] PolyGram Pictures[5] Warner Bros. Pictures
Mars Attacks! December 13, 1996 (1996-12-13) Tim Burton
James and the Giant Peach April 12, 1996 (1996-04-12) Henry Selick Walt Disney Pictures, Allied Filmmakers, Skellington Productions Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Corpse Bride September 7, 2005 (2005-09-07) Mike Johnson
Tim Burton
Laika, Patalex II Productions Warner Bros. Pictures
9 September 9, 2009 (2009-09-09) Shane Acker Focus Features,[4] Relativity Media,[6] Lux Animation[7] Focus Features
Frankenweenie October 5, 2012 (2012-10-05) Tim Burton Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter June 22, 2012 (2012-06-22) Timur Bekmambetov Bazelevs Company, Dune Entertainment 20th Century Fox
Big Eyes December 25, 2014 (2014-12-25) Tim Burton Electric City Entertainment, Silverwood Films The Weinstein Company
Alice Through the Looking Glass May 27, 2016 (2016-05-27) James Bobin Walt Disney Pictures, Roth Films, Team Todd Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Dumbo March 29, 2019 (2019-03-29) Tim Burton Walt Disney Pictures, Infinite Detective Productions, Secret Machine Entertainment

Television

Title Dates aired
in U.S.
Creator(s) Co-production
companies
Distributor(s) Network
Beetlejuice 1989 – 1991 Tim Burton Nelvana Limited, The Geffen Film Company, Warner Bros. Television Warner Bros. Television Distribution ABC
Fox
Family Dog June – July 1993 Brad Bird Amblin Television, Warner Bros. Television, Universal Television, Nelvana Limited Warner Bros. Television Distribution, NBCUniversal Television Distribution CBS
Wednesday 2022 – present Alfred Gough Miles Millar MGM Television, Millar Gough Ink, Toluca Pictures Netflix Streaming Services Netflix

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Edward Scissorhands

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Tim Burton

Tim Burton

Timothy Walter Burton 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).

Batman Returns

Batman Returns

Batman Returns is a 1992 American superhero film directed by Tim Burton and written by Daniel Waters. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, it is the sequel to Batman (1989) and the second installment in the 1989–1997 Batman series. In the film, the superhero vigilante Batman comes into conflict with wealthy industrialist Max Shreck and deformed crime boss Oswald Cobbleplot / The Penguin, who seek power, influence, and respect regardless of the cost to Gotham City. Their plans are complicated by Selina Kyle, Shreck's formerly-meek secretary, who seeks vengeance against Shreck as Catwoman. The cast includes Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough, Pat Hingle, and Michael Murphy.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a 1993 American stop-motion animated musical dark fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and produced and conceived by Tim Burton. It tells the story of Jack Skellington, the King of "Halloween Town", who stumbles upon "Christmas Town" and schemes to take over the holiday. Danny Elfman wrote the songs and score and provided the singing voice of Jack. The principal voice cast also includes Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page, Paul Reubens, Glenn Shadix, and Ed Ivory.

Henry Selick

Henry Selick

Charles Henry Selick Jr. is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, production designer, and animator who is best known for directing the stop-motion animation films The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Monkeybone (2001), Coraline (2009), and Wendell & Wild (2022). He studied at the Program in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts, under the guidance of Jules Engel. Selick is also known for his collaborations with voice actor and artist Joe Ranft.

Touchstone Pictures

Touchstone Pictures

Touchstone Pictures was an American film production label of Walt Disney Studios, founded and owned by The Walt Disney Company. Feature films released under the Touchstone label were produced and financed by Walt Disney Studios, and featured more mature themes targeted towards adult audiences than typical Walt Disney Pictures films. As such, Touchstone was merely a brand of the studio and did not exist as a distinct business operation.

Skellington Productions

Skellington Productions

Skellington Productions was an American animation studio and production company that was a joint venture between Walt Disney Feature Animation and directors Henry Selick and Tim Burton. The company specialized in stop motion animation and made use of the art in its two films. The studio's last work was season one of KaBlam!, after which it was closed by Disney.

Cabin Boy

Cabin Boy

Cabin Boy is a 1994 American fantasy comedy film directed by Adam Resnick, co-produced by Tim Burton, and starring comedian Chris Elliott. Elliott co-wrote the film with Resnick. Both Elliott and Resnick worked for Late Night with David Letterman in the 1980s as well as co-creating the Fox sitcom Get a Life in the early 1990s.

Adam Resnick

Adam Resnick

Adam Resnick is an American comedy writer from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his work writing for Late Night with David Letterman.

Ed Wood (film)

Ed Wood (film)

Ed Wood is a 1994 American biographical comedy-drama film directed and produced by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as Ed Wood, the eponymous cult filmmaker. The film concerns the period in Wood's life when he made his best-known films as well as his relationship with actor Bela Lugosi, played by Martin Landau. Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, Lisa Marie, and Bill Murray are among the supporting cast.

Batman Forever

Batman Forever

Batman Forever is a 1995 American superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Tim Burton, based on the DC Comics character Batman by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. The third installment of Warner Bros.' initial Batman film series, it is a stand-alone sequel to Batman Returns starring Val Kilmer, replacing Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne / Batman, alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, and Chris O'Donnell, while Michael Gough, and Pat Hingle reprise their roles. The plot focuses on Batman trying to stop Two-Face and the Riddler in their scheme to extract information from all the minds in Gotham City while adopting an orphaned acrobat named Dick Grayson—who becomes his sidekick, Robin—and developing feelings for psychologist Dr. Chase Meridian.

Joel Schumacher

Joel Schumacher

Joel T. Schumacher was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Raised in New York City by his mother, Schumacher graduated from Parsons School of Design and originally became a fashion designer. He first entered filmmaking as a production and costume designer before gaining writing credits on Car Wash, Sparkle, and The Wiz.

Source: "Tim Burton Productions", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 11th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton_Productions.

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Notes
  1. ^ The Nightmare Before Christmas was reissued as a Walt Disney Pictures release in 2006.[3]
References
  1. ^ TIM BURTON PRODUCTIONS | LinkedIn
  2. ^ "Denise Di Novi". filmbug.com. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  3. ^ Mendelson, Scott (October 15, 2013). "'Nightmare Before Christmas' Turns 20: From Shameful Spawn To Disney's Pride". Forbes. Archived from the original on December 23, 2013. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Batman Forever (1995)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
  5. ^ "Batman Forever (1995)". British Film Institute. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
  6. ^ "9 (2009)". BFI. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
  7. ^ "Lux Animation S.A." BFI. Retrieved December 6, 2020.


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