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Mar 3, 2013 · 413. 52K views 11 years ago. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109707 ...more. Ed Wood. Comedy • 1994 • 2 hr 6 min. English audio. R. CC. Ed Wood — "Goodbye Penis!" Moist Cut. 127K views 10 years...
Dec 8, 2010 · Ed Wood - Official Trailer - YouTube. thecultbox. 101K subscribers. Subscribed. 5.6K. 1.1M views 13 years ago. Johnny Depp in yet another cult movie, depicting the mostly true story of the...
180M subscribers. Subscribed. From director Tim Burton comes the hilarious, true-life story of the wackiest filmmaker in Hollywood history, Ed Wood! With an oddball collection of showbiz...
Oct 7, 2016 · 10.8K subscribers. 1K. 46K views 6 years ago. A retrospect of Ed Wood's strange stint in filmmaking as the "worst director of all time." --------------------- New videos every other Friday...
Oct 7, 1994 · 5 Videos. 99+ Photos. Biography Comedy Drama. Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams despite his lack of talent. Director. Tim Burton. Writers. Rudolph Grey. Scott Alexander. Larry Karaszewski. Stars. Johnny Depp. Martin Landau. Sarah Jessica Parker. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY.
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In 1952, Ed Wood is struggling to enter the film industry. Upon hearing of an announcement in Variety magazine that producer George Weiss is trying to purchase Christine Jorgensen's life story, Ed meets with Weiss to direct a now fictionalized film titled I Changed My Sex! but is not hired. Ed then meets his longtime idol, horror film actor Bela Lu...
Johnny Depp as Ed Wood: Burton approached Depp and "within 10 minutes of hearing about the project, I was committed," the actor remembers. At the time, Depp was depressed about films and filmmaking...Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi: An old popular horror film actor whom Ed helps. Rick Baker created Martin's prosthetic makeup. Baker did not use extensive make-up appliances, only enough to resemble...Sarah Jessica Parker as Dolores Fuller: Ed's girlfriend before his relationship with Kathy. Dolores is embarrassed by Ed's transvestism, which leads to their breakup. Dolores later becomes a succes...Writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski conceived the idea for a biopic of Ed Wood when they were students at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Alexander even proposed making a documentary about Wood, The Man in the Angora Sweater, in his sophomore year at USC. However, Karaszewski figured, "there would be no one on the planet Earth who would...
When describing the film's accuracy, Burton explained, "it's not like a completely hardcore realistic biopic. In doing a biopic you can't help but get inside the person's spirit a little bit, so for me, some of the film is trying to be through Ed a little bit. So it's got an overly optimistic quality to it." Burton acknowledged that he probably por...
Ed Wood had its premiere at the 32nd New York Film Festival at the Lincoln Center. The film was then shown shortly after at the 21st Telluride Film Festival and later at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, where it was in competition for the Palme d'Or.
Box office
Ed Wood had its limited release on September 30, 1994. It went into wide release on October 7, 1994 (just three days before what would have been Wood's 70th birthday) in 623 theaters. The film grossed $1,903,768 in its opening weekend. The film went on to gross $5,887,457 in the United States and Canada and $13.8 million worldwide,less than the production budget of $18 million.
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes Ed Wood holds an approval rating of 92% based on 65 reviews, with an average rating of 8/10. The website's critical consensus states, "Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up to fête the life and work of cult hero Ed Wood, with typically strange and wonderful results." On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScoregave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ t...
French, Lawrence (October 1994). "Playing Bela Lugosi". Cinefantastique.Hanke, Ken (1999). "Ed Wood in Hollywood". Tim Burton: An Unauthorized Biography of the Filmmaker. Renaissance Books. ISBN 978-1580630467.Rhodes, Gary D.; Sheffield, Richard (2007). Bela Lugosi: Dreams and Nightmares. Collectables Press. ISBN 978-0977379811.Rhodes, Gary D.; Weaver, Tom (2015). Ed Wood's Bride of the Monster. BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1593938574.Ed Wood at IMDbEd Wood at the TCM Movie DatabaseEd Wood at AllMovieRent Ed Wood on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up to fete the life and work of cult hero Ed Wood, with...
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