Pee-wee's Big Adventure News

The Tim Burton exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art opened this past Sunday in New York City to a crowd of more than 10,000 people going though it on its first day.

The filmmaker's early works take over MoMA. When filmmaker Tim Burton's debut feature, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure , arrived in theaters in 1985, it landed with a critical thud.

Just beyond the ''Monster Mouth'' entrance, a black-lighted, goblin-festooned carousel turns hypnotically to dorky horror-movie music.

Why has it taken movie studios so long to learn the Tim Burton lesson about children's movies? With "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," he definitively proved that kiddie classics belong in the hands of hipster pop surrealists.

Tim Burton 's career is the ultimate revenge of the art nerd. Mr. Burton, the self-professed alienated child of a dysfunctional family in Burbank, Calif., who funneled his loneliness, pain and grief into drawing cartoons, has found fame, fortune and a beautiful companion by telling cinematic tales of sensitive misfits triumphing over, or succumbing ...

You've turned the page to the place where panels and popcorn meet. From coverage of comic-inspired flicks to that buzzed-about graphic novel that's being primed for the big-screen, you'll find it all here at MTV's Splash Page.

The Museum of Modern Art will be hosting a Tim Burton Retrospective from November 22, 2009 through April 26, 2010.

The accurately named CoolHunting blog has an interview with Ron Magliozzi, curator of the Tim Burton Retrospective at NYC's MoMA.

Dir. Tim Burton . Eccentric comic Paul Rubens provides a few real chuckles as a whiny nerd in Burton's surrealist fantasy directorial debut.

Tim Burton 's movies were an essential part of my youth. I can't tell you how many times I watched Pee-wee's Big Adventure , Beetlejuice , Edward Scissorhands and Batman .

Tim Burton definitely has his own aesthetic: part goth, part whimsy, part just plain Burton.

The imaginative, hilarious comedy, PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE, stars happy-go-lucky Pee-Wee Herman Pee-Wee Herman is not an average little boy--he exists in a grown-up body, has a penchant for 1950s Retro memorabilia, and lives in a zany, make-believe world.

Tim Burton is the master of the macbre. His style and vision has created some of the best gothic masterpieces to hit the silver screen in the past 25 years.

Looks like the secret word for Pee-wee Herman is comeback. Actor Paul Reubens, who played the enduring character on Pee-wee's Playhouse , plans to bring him alive in a stage show early next year.

After being shuttered for more than 15 years, the doors to Pee-wee's Playhouse are being reopened.

Whether you're after unseen footage, entertaining insights from directors and actors, or simply a long-forgotten gem, here is our selection of films on DVD you'll want to watch again and again and again Shaun of the dead Kids 1 ET: The Extra-Terrestrial Along with the Star Wars trilogy, Steven Spielberg's greatest hits are often blamed for making ...

Pee-wee's playhouse just got bigger. Due to strong advance demand, the upcoming return of Paul Reubens' 'The Pee-wee Herman Show' has moved venues, switching to Club Nokia @ LA Live for a four-week run, Jan.

He joined the Los Angeles-based improvisational comedy team, The Groundlings, and since then remained a member of their team, for over six years working with renowned people like John Paragon, Bob McClurg, Susan Barnes and Phil Hartman.

We decided to give our resident goofball and so-called security guard a show. He's known simply as the Night WatchMan , so if dissecting movies and gawking at his hottie sidekick sounds like fun, you don't wanna miss the Movie Underground.

Tim Burton made a surprise appearance at the D23 Expo to display a 3-D teaser for his upcoming "Alice in Wonderland" feature, and announce his follow up project to be a stop-motion adaptation of "Frankenweenie," one of the short films he made prior to his rookie feature-length directorial effort in "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure."A More weenie after the ...