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Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as the White Queen. Source: Slashfilm.com

In case you haven’t seen - new photos from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland were released this week and they look amazing. I really can’t wait to see this film (we’ve got a while wait to yet, though, as it’s not out until March 5, 2010). Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are unrecognizable, which I like in movies like this. I don’t want to be staring at Depp’s handsome mug while trying to pretend he’s the Mad Hatter. That would just be too brain-consuming.

For more gorgeous images, check out Slashfilm.com!

The grass is always greener on the other side.

Be careful of what you wish for; you just might get it.

These two ancient adages are the driving points of the movie Coraline, the Henry Selick adaptation of the Neil Gaiman book of the same name—but the movie is so much more than these maxims.  Gaiman, who just won the Newbery Medal Award for the 2008 book release The Graveyard Book, wrote Coraline in 2002 to much fanfare; it won the Hugo Award for Best Novella, the Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the Bran Stoker Award For Best Work For Young Readers in 2003.

Selick, who directed A Nightmare Before Christmas, knew the story of the little girl Coraline offered a purely magical tale and he ran with it using the technology he pioneered in Nightmare—while improving it with 3D!

The result: a wonderful tale filled with the magic of Disney, the darkness of the Victorian Age story Alice in Wonderland and the fantastic characters of The Wizard of Oz—all in one movie!

Put simply, the movie adaptation of Coraline is wondrous and fantastic.