1 Film Exc
ess win:
Best Digital Effects
5 Film Excess nominations:
Best Lead Actress: Mia Wasikowska (lost to Jennifer Connelly for Virginia/What's Wrong with Virginia)
Best Supporting Actress: Helena Bonham Carter, also for The King's Speech (lost to Dianne Wiest for Rabbit Hole)
Best Costumes: Colleen Atwood (lost to Pat Field for Sex and the City 2)
Best Digital Effects (won)
Best Makeup and Hair (lost to The Wolfman)
+ Best Blockbuster Movie of the Year
+ Best Shooting Star Actress of the Year: Mia Wasikowska
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| A poster full of exciting details and depth for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland |
Alice is a young, beautiful English girl, who is in the process of finding out who she is, when she is proposed to at an overwhelming ceremony and flees down a rabbit hole, which she happens to fall into and ...
Californian master filmmaker Tim Burton (Batman Returns (1992)) hasn't paired himself with the easiest story from the Disney back catalog here with Lewis Carroll's (A Tangled Tale (1885)) two Alice novels (1865 and 1871). But he lays a good, strong foundation with the first scenes and then opens up an incredibly animated universe with inspired, Oscar-nominated costume, makeup and hair work.
Johnny Depp (The Tourist (2010)) is tremendous as the Mad Hatter; Helena Bonham Carter (Sixty Six (2006)) gives one of her career's best performances as the mercurial Red Queen; Matt Lucas (The Labyrinth (2016)) is fun as Tweedledee/Tweedledum, but the cat may be the favorite among the crazy characters, an amazing-looking creation. Mia Wasikowska (Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)) is, however, the film's natural center and absolutely perfect and enchanting as Alice.
The film loses some of its 3D magic as home viewing, SPOILER and the dragon scene in the end is a somewhat strange change of tone in an otherwise tip-top witty-wacky movie. Alice in Wonderland is a little long but also funny and visually resplendent.
It is written by Linda Woolverton (The Lion King (1994)).
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Watch the trailer for the film here
Cost: Estimated 200 mil. $
Box office: 1.025 bil. $
= Big hit
[Alice in Wonderland premiered February 25 (London) and runs 108 minutes. Burton signed with Disney to make two 3D films with them: Alice and a Frankenweenie (1984) remake that premiered in 2012. Shooting lasted from September - December 2008 in England and LA, with 90 % of the shoot taking part in front of green screens. The film was shot with conventional cameras and then converted into 3D, as 3D cameras were thought to be too clumsy. In England, the film's release was controversial, as some theater chains chose to boycott it, because the theater-to-DVD window was announced to be shortened from 17 to 12 weeks. The film opened #1 (and stayed atop for 3 consecutive weeks) to a 116.1 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it grossed 334.1 mil. $ (32.6 % of the total gross). The film's 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Japan with 133.6 mil. $ (13 %) and the UK with 64.4 mil. $ (6.3 %). It is the 2nd highest-grossing film of the year, behind Toy Story 3. It is Burton's highest-grossing film ever and only the 6th film to cross the 1 bil. $ mark ever. It broke several records and by spring 2011 had also accrued 76.4 mil. $ from 4.3 mil. DVD sales. Roger Ebert awarded the film 3 stars out of 4, equal to the rating it gets here. The film was Oscar-nominated for Best Visual Effects, (which it lost to Inception), Costumes and Art Direction, winning the latter two. It was nominated for 3 Golden Globes and 5 BAFTAs, winning two. Alice in Wonderland is rotten at 52 % with a 5.7 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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