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How can you go wrong with the Demon Barber of Fleet Street collab between Tim Burton and Johnny Depp?  You can’t and now you have the chance to cut your own trailer for the movie.  Even at a minute long it’s pretty fascinating to get a behind the scenes look at the art of cutting a trailer.  It’s not easy and I’m not sure how much time I’d want to spend poking around on this, but given our love for the art of trailers and given how much we spend discussing them, well, it’s just cool having the opportunity to make one ourselves.

It’s fascinating to see how video, audio, video with audio, etc. all work like a puzzle to craft a one-minute summation of the movie to entice viewers to see it in the theaters.  My respect for this artform went up significantly.

If you decide to cut a trailer let us know so we can head over to watch it… and if you’re curious we titled our “Sweeney Todd” and it’s not to shabby.  Wish we could figure out a way to embed it for ya’ll to watch though.

We’ve got to take off for the day, but if this featurette doesn’t make you want to watch the new Tim Burton movie Sweeney Todd, well, than nothing probably will.

IMAGE COURTESY OF BRICKS & STONES

Helena Bonham Carter is reportedly pregnant with partner Tim Burton’s baby, and has been getting her fair share of criticism for indulging in a cup of coffee or tea. From Bricks & Stones:

“People - particularly men - saying with surprise, ‘You’re still drinking caffeine?’ as if I’m performing a criminal act on my unborn as I tuck into my treasured one-a-day cup of tea/coffee. Yeah. You try nine months of gestation and self-abnegation before you start censoring my diet. Your mother was probably on vodka, and do you have three heads?”

A lot of people I know had mothers who smoked during pregnancy, and they certainly didn’t come out with three heads. I think there is definitely such a thing as too much caution. I’m not recommending swigging Captain and then breast-feeding your baby a la Britney, but caffeine in moderation is not a “criminal act” as she says. On a sidenote, I am super looking forward to a 3-D Tim Burton adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland”, as reported by Jim.

p.s. I’ll try to stop posting about pregnant ladies.

Lotsa stuff to get to this morning and rather than try to do each of these by giving them the space to breath, we’re gonna smash them into one extended post and hope we hit everything. Today’s my birthday and per tradition that started in college I take the day off to celebrate me, which usually ends up in me getting drunk at noon and watching bloody disgusting movies that no one else will watch with me. I’m thinking about doing a Hostel Part 2 and 28 Weeks Later movie marathon.

So I’ll be shutting things down after leaving you with some good stuff today. We’ve got two movies reviews from the NW Film Fest to get up and a music premiere that I think you won’t enjoy, but you should find endearing.

I’d also like to give a warm happy birthday greeting to Dwight Gooden and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

On with the news:

- Kevin Smith is getting his inner Judd Apatow on. He’s cast Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks as the leads in his upcoming flick Zack and Miri Make a Porno. It’ll be nice to see some fresh faces from one comedy universe transplanted to another one.

- Tim Burton returns to Disney to direct a motion-captured version of Alice in Wonderland! Really would you want any other director doing this. He’s also going to direct a feature length version of Frankenweenie. All I can say is Johnny Depp for the Mad Hatter…

- MTV has footage from the upcoming DVD of Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix.

- Speaking of Harry Potter, Worst Previews has a behind the scenes video of the now-filming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. They’re just cranking these badboys out aren’t they?

- Hulk get angry and smash pretty girls! Just kidding, but the first trailer for the Eric Bana, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson starring The Other Boleyn Girls has arrived.

- Guud, director McG has been locked into to direct the fourth Terminator flick: Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.  Which was going to be called “Straight To Video” in its original draft.

- Speaking of cool trailers, did you like that transition?  How does this sound: Jackie Chan and Jet Li kick some ass in a martial arts picture titled The Forbidden Kingdom.  

- The latest Cloverfield trailer has been pirated by a camera cellphone.  It’s not difficult to find on YouTube, but we seriously recommend you waiting for the non-pirated version when it hits either today or Monday.

- Jeff Bridges hints there may be a sequel in the works to everyone’s favorite movie growing up: Tron.  

- Persepolis is an animated movie from France about the Iranian revolution and it’s in subtitles and it looks like American animation from 1935 but if you can get past all of that it also looks frakking awesome.

Tim Burton’s latest musical-murder opus with Johnny Depp seems to be appealing to both the musical lovers out there (see the first trailer here) and the serial killer lovers out there.  The latest trailer plays up the revenge and violence of the picture.

That’s all well and good, and given Tim Burton’s and Johnny Depp’s history together you can bet that we’ll be in the theater that first weekend.  Sweeney Todd slashes it’s way into theaters on Christmas.

Truth be told though, I’m having a hard time taking this movie seriously.  Find out why after the jump. MORE »