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{{Infobox film
| name           = Corpse Bride
| image          = Corpse Bride film poster.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Mike Johnson (animator)|Mike Johnson]]
* [[Tim Burton]]
}}
| producer       = {{Plainlist|
* Tim Burton
* [[Allison Abbate]]
}}
| screenplay     = {{Plainlist|
* [[John August]]
* [[Caroline Thompson]]
* [[Pamela Pettler]]
}}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|<!--NAMES ON THE FILM POSTER ONLY-->
* [[Johnny Depp]]
* [[Helena Bonham Carter]]
}}
| music          = [[Danny Elfman]]
| cinematography = Pete Kozachik
| editing        = {{Plainlist|
* Jonathan Lucas
* [[Chris Lebenzon]]
}}
| production companies = {{Plainlist|
* [[Tim Burton Productions]]
* [[Laika (company)|Laika Entertainment]]
* Patalex II Productions
}}
| distributor    = [[Warner Bros. Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|2005|09|07|[[62nd Venice International Film Festival|Venice]]|2005|09|23|United States|2005|10|13|United Kingdom}}
| runtime        = 77 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 77:04--><ref>{{cite web |title=Tim Burton's Corpse Bride |url=http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/tim-burtons-corpse-bride-1970-0 |publisher=[[British Board of Film Classification]] |date=September 14, 2005 |accessdate=September 21, 2015}}</ref>
| country        = {{Plainlist|
* United Kingdom
* United States
}}
| language       = English
| budget         = $40 million<ref>{{cite news|last=Bowles |first=Scott |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2005-09-27-stop-motion_x.htm |title=Stop-motion coaxes 'Corpse Bride,' 'Gromit' to life |publisher=Usatoday.Com |date=2005-09-27 |accessdate=2011-03-01}}</ref>
| gross          = $117.2 million<!--Keep this number truncated--><ref name="BoxOfficeMojo">{{cite web |title=Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005) |url= http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=corpsebride.htm |publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]] |accessdate=2010-03-19}}</ref>
}}
'''''Corpse Bride''''' is a 2005 British-American [[stop-motion]] [[Animation|animated]] [[Musical film|musical]] [[fantasy film]] directed by [[Mike Johnson (animator)|Mike Johnson]] and [[Tim Burton]] with a screenplay by [[John August]], [[Caroline Thompson]] and [[Pamela Pettler]] based on characters created by Burton and [[Carlos Grangel]]. The plot is set in a fictional [[Victorian era]] village in [[Europe]]. [[Johnny Depp]] leads the cast as the voice of Victor, while [[Helena Bonham Carter]] voices Emily, the titular bride. ''Corpse Bride'' is the third stop-motion feature film produced by Burton and the first directed by him (the previous two films, ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' and ''[[James and the Giant Peach (film)|James and the Giant Peach]]'', were directed by [[Henry Selick]]). This is also the first stop-motion feature from Burton that was distributed by [[Warner Bros.|Warner Bros. Pictures]]. It was dedicated to executive producer [[Joe Ranft]], who died during production.

The film was a critical and commercial success and was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Animated Feature#List of winners and nominees|78th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature]], but lost to ''[[Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit]]'', which also starred Bonham Carter. It was shot with [[Canon EOS-1D Mark II]] digital SLRs, rather than the 35mm film cameras used for Burton's previous stop-motion film ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' (1993).

==Plot==
In a [[Victorian era|Victorian]] village, Victor Van Dort, the son of [[nouveau riche]] fish merchants, and Victoria Everglot, the neglected daughter of snobbish yet [[impoverished]] [[aristocrat]]s, are preparing for their [[arranged marriage]], which will simultaneously raise the [[social class]] of Victor's parents and restore the wealth of Victoria's penniless family. Both have concerns about marrying someone they do not know, but upon meeting for the first time, they fall for each other. After the shy Victor ruins the wedding rehearsal by forgetting his vows, he flees and practices his wedding vows in the nearby forest, placing the wedding ring on a nearby upturned tree root. The root turns out to be the finger of a murdered woman in a tattered [[Wedding dress|bridal gown]] named Emily, who rises from the grave claiming that she is now Victor's wife. After fainting, Victor wakes up and finds himself spirited away to the Land of the Dead. The bewildered Victor learns the story of how Emily was murdered years ago by an unknown perpetrator on the night of her secret elopement.

Wanting to reunite with Victoria, Victor tricks Emily into taking him back to the Land of the Living by pretending he wants her to meet his parents. She agrees to this and takes him to see Elder Gutknecht, the kindly ruler of the underworld, to return Victor and Emily temporarily to the Land of the Living. Once back home, Victor asks Emily to wait in the forest while he rushes off to see Victoria and confess his wish to marry her as soon as possible, to which she glad(contracted; show full)finish their test/rehearsal, we'd cut it in and see how it played in the reel and fine-tune from there. We might do some lighting tweaks, performance tweaks or have the art department get in and touch anything that needed it. Then we'd close the curtain and let the animator animate the shot."<ref name="creativeplanetnetwork1"/> The animators would sometimes make use of the voice and/or video recordings of the actors, a practice also common in cel animation.<ref name="
creativeplanetnetwork1"/> Once photographed, the frames were manipulated by a team of "data wranglers." Using a workflow developed by Chris Watts, the frames were downloaded from the camera image cards as RAW files, converted to Cineon files and processed through a "color cube."<ref name="creativeplanetnetwork1"/> Cinematographer Pete Kozachik explained: "The color cube is a 3D lookup table created by FilmLight Ltd. that forces the image data into behaving like a particular Eastman Kodak film stock—in this case, 5248, one of my favorites. With this film emulation, we could actually rate our cameras at ASA 100, then take our light meters and spot meters and, with great confidence, shoot as if we were using 5248. Sure enough, the footage would come back and look just like it."<ref name="creativeplanetnetwork1"/> The frames could be processed further to generate a TIFF file for viewing on the lighting station computer monitors so lighting, compo(contracted; show full)[[Category:Musical fantasy films]]
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