Tim Burton’s “Frankenweenie” (a longer, very faithful version of Burton’s 1984 short film of the same name) concerns a boy and his dog, Sparky, and a madcap experiment, in a town of mad scientists in ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie", a black-and-white animated tale of a boy and his dog, will be the opening picture at this year's London film festival, organisers announced on Thursday ...

Tim Burton's Frankenweenie will open this year's BFI London Film Festival. The stop motion animation sees a young boy (Charlie Tahan) attempting to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life via a ...

Frankenweenie, the story of a young science nerd who brings his dead dog back to life with a blast from a lightning bolt, is an expansive adaptation by Tim Burton of his 1984 live-action short of the ...

(AP) As far as Tim Burton’s concerned, you can’t keep a good dog down. And you can’t keep a good, old-fashioned form of animation down, either. Burton’s boy-and-his-dead-dog tale “Frankenweenie” is ...

There’s never a shortage of horror movies in October as Halloween draws near. But the gorefests often made today bear little resemblance to the classics known by adults of every age from endless ...

Tim Burton's Frankenweenie has debuted its first poster. The artwork features a black-and-white image of the eponymous dog standing in front of the moon with eye-catching green and orange titles.

It has been a long time since I've really liked a Tim Burton film. As I said in my review of "Dark Shadows" back in May, it has seemed like the director has been in a rut of sorts for the last decade, ...

The original half-hour version of "Frankenweenie" almost did Tim Burton in. Rather than release it in 1984, the folks at Disney sent Burton packing. He then became one of the most talented filmmakers ...