CBS News has an interview with Anne Hathaway where she talks about her role as the White Queen!

ABC News has a video with Danny Elfman composing the score for Alice. The video includes Tim and Danny composing the score. And a insight of their 20 years of working together.

Less than 6 hours! :O

To bone up for this Friday’s release of Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” I figured it would be a good idea to do a little research on previous film versions and the source material. As a boy, I didn’t have much contact with the original book by Lewis Carroll, so I felt I needed some education.

I’m glad I did.

First of all, I hadn’t realized that Lewis Carroll was a pseudonym for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who reputedly came up with the basis for the story while on a boat trip with a friend and his three daughters.

The other thing I didn’t know is that there was more than one book. The 1865 “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” was followed seven years later by “Through the Looking-Glass.” In the many film adaptations, characters and story elements from both books are usually mashed up together. This isn’t as hard as it sounds, since the novels were part of the literary nonsense movement that loved to play around with reality and perceptions.

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Here a sample of Danny Elfman’s composed piece for Alice in Wonderland. To me it has the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Edward Scissorhands vibe to it. Still amazing piece! Less than 2 days!

Once again the lovely Mia Wasikowska has been featured on the cover of a magazine.

Between acting jobs she returns to the family home in Canberra: “I still have the same room I’ve had my whole life”

To land the role of Alice, she had to fly to London three times in as many weeks, she said: “I had no body clock and was starting to feel delirious”

Girl most likely, why she think she’s succeeded where so many others have failed: “It’s such a random thing, right time, right place, luck, yes and a lot of hard work as well, I don’t know, it’s a mysterious industry.”

Comparisons to her namesake Mia Farrow and cutting off her hair: “I was happy to cut it off, I’m sure people would have liked me to keep it in its Alice state, but I’ve had hair down to here for the past two years” she says, pointing to her waist. “It’s great not to have to do anything with it in the morning and I was also happy to donate it to Locks of Love who make wigs for kids (who’ve lost hair through illness).”

Moviefone has video interviews with Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anne Hathaway interviewed each other and talk about their experiences on the film. It’s really funny and it seems that they had a good time.
There are three other videos under the cut.

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Helena Bonham Carter looks back when she was first introduced to Wonderland and being asked to play the Red Queen.

“He was so polite about it, and there were so many hesitations,” Bonham Carter said. “He said, ‘Would you consider, um, possibly, perhaps — but only if you want to — um, anyway, would you play the Red Queen?’”
“It was like a proposal of marriage,” said the 43-year-old actress. Bonham is routinely misidentified as Burton’s wife. They have two children and have had a nine-year romance together.

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Go out and buy yourself a copy of Almost Alice! And sit back in your room and listen to the soundtrack!

1. Alice (Underground) Performed by Avril Lavigne
2. The Poison Performed by The All-American Rejects
3. The Technicolor Phase Performed by Owl City (previously released)
4. Her Name Is Alice Performed by Shinedown
5. Painting Flowers Performed by All Time Low
6. Where’s My Angel Performed by Metro Station
7. Strange Performed by Tokio Hotel and Kerli
8. Follow Me Down Performed by 3OH!3 featuring Neon Hitch
9. Very Good Advice Performed by Robert Smith
10. In Transit Performed by Mark Hoppus with Pete Wentz
11. Welcome to Mystery Performed by Plain White T’s
12. Tea Party Performed by Kerli
13. The Lobster Quadrille Performed by Franz Ferdinand
14. Running Out of Time Performed by Motion City Soundtrack
15. Fell Down a Hole Performed by Wolfmother
16. White Rabbit Performed by Grace Potter and the Nocturnals