Yikes! Wonderland’s a pretty creepy place

1 comment June 22nd, 2009

These images are all over the Internet today (I snagged ‘em from Filmjunk.com), but in case you haven’t seen them, here are the first three publicity images from Tim Burton’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND…

Here’s Anne Hathaway as the White Queen…

Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter….

And, creepiest of all, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen.

The cast also includes Mia Wasikowska  as Alice, Crispin Glover as The Knave of Hearts, Stephen Fry as The Cheshire Cat, Michael Sheen as The White Rabbit and Alan Rickman as The Caterpillar.

It hits theaters next March.

Not the way you want to end a career

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Gene Kelly (right) stares in disbelief at how far his star has fallen.

If you want to start your Monday morning off on a downbeat note, check out “With a Whimper, Not a Bang: 15 Particularly Depressing Cinematic Swan Songs from Talented Actors” over at the Onion AV Club.  The article charts the final film appearances of such legends as Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin (yukking it up in CANNONBALL RUN 2), Bela Lugosi (appearing in scraps of footage years after his death in PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE) and Gene Kelly (roller-boogie-ing it up in XANADU).

That picture  that leads off the article, of Groucho Marx from DUCK SOUP ( arguably the Marx Brothers’ finest film) makes the realization that Groucho finished his  career in the painful to watch comedy SKIDOO even more depressing.