Nic Cage as Superman, Chris Rock as Jimmy Olsen, Courtney Cox would play Lois Lane and Tim Allen as Brainiac. Tim Allen. This was Tim Burton's Superman Lives. And here's our best look yet at the movie's villains.

Sorry to post a commercial as news, but this little Samsung USA ad about Tim Burton meeting a small iOS game company to make a movie based on their hit game Zombie Unicorn Apocalyse, was cute enough that we thought we could make an exception, what with its zombie unicorns and Tim Burtons and such. The sad truth is,…

We all know that we were once very close to getting a Superman movie directed by Tim Burton and starring Nic Cage, titled Superman Lives. We've heard legends -– that it was based on the Death of Superman storyline, that Superman's outfit was radically redesigned, that it would have been godawful, etc.

Who could forget the first insane image from Superman Lives, the Tim Burton and Nic Cage Superman movie that never was. Cage was wearing the shiny skin of a 1990s action figure, his brown mane cascading down his shoulders. It was exactly the kind of wrong we craved from a Cage and Burton superhero project. Alas, it…

That small piggybank of change you've been setting aside for the next awesome Kickstarter project you hear about? Bust that bad boy open. Director, editor and Adult Swim all-star Jon Schnepp wants to make a documentary about Superman Lives, the absolutely insane, doomed Superman movie Tim Burton was set to make in the …

In 1982, while Tim Burton was still working at Disney, he wrote the poem The Nightmare Before Christmas, which would eventually become the animated Halloween classic. As it's October and our thoughts are turning to skeleton kings and Oogie Boogie monsters, let's take a moment to listen to that poem, read by none…

Little known fact — Tim Burton played a dead man in Danny DeVito's Hoffa. Buddies from their Batman days, DeVito snuck Burton inside a coffin. And surprises of surprises, Burton plays an excellent corpse. [Via Laughing Squid]

The opening few minutes of Tim Burton's Frankenweenie are magical. The little kid, Victor, makes a home monster movie, with his pet dog Sparky dressed up as a Godzilla-style giant monster in a model town. The celebration of DIY B-movie film-making feels very personal, and probably autobiographical.

What if the cheery world of Pokémon was designed by gloom-and-doom moviemaker Tim Burton? It would probably bear a resemblance to Vaughn Pinpin's artwork. Check out this adorable collection of Burtonized Pokémons with sad little eyes and vacant expressions. Perfect for the nebbish leading man who wants to cautiously…

We're completely obsessed with Karen O's contribution to Tim Burton's Frankenweenie soundtrack. It's sweet, poppy, retains the Oooweeeeoooohs from old timey black and white horror flicks, and sounds like it was stitched together from great love songs of our past (Mickey & Sylvia's "Love Is Strange" and maybe even a bit …