Tim Burton’s iconic film Corpse Bride will be released on 4K UHD in honor of its 20th anniversary.
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the stop-motion-animated fantasy musical film Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, the 2005 film will be available for purchase on 4K Ultra HD Disc and Digital for the first time on September 23, 2025.
Returning to the painstaking stop-motion animation he employed with amazing success in The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton presents Corpse Bride, a hair-raising legend based on a 19th-century Russian folktale.
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride will be available to purchase on Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc online and in-store at major retailers and available for purchase Digitally from Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, Fandango at Home and more. The film will also be available in collectible steelbook packaging.
Directed by Mike Johnson (in his directorial debut) and Tim Burton from a screenplay by John August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler, the film is based on characters by Burton and Carlos Grangel. Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride is produced by Burton and Allison Abbate. The music is by Danny Elfman.
The all-star ensemble voice cast features Johnny Depp as Victor Van Dort and Helena Bonham Carter as Emily, the corpse bride, along with Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse, Joanna Lumley, Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Jane Horrocks, Enn Reitel, Deep Roy, Danny Elfman, and Stephen Ballantyne.
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride was nominated for the 78th Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The film was named the National Board of Review’s Best Animated Feature in 2005 and Annie Awards Ub Iwerks Award for Technical Achievement in 2006, where it was also nominated for Best Animated Feature, Best Character Design, and Best Direction.
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride Digital release and Ultra HD Blu-ray disc contain the following new and previously released special features:
- Digging up the Past: The Minds Behind “The Corpse Bride” – NEW
- ‘Til Death Do Us Art” A “Corpse Bride” Reflection – NEW
- Danny Elfman Interprets the Two Worlds
- Inside the Two Worlds of the Corpse Bride
- Making Puppets Tick
- The Animators: The Breath of Life
- The Corpse Bride Pre-Production Galleries
- Tim Burton: Dark vs. Light
- Voices from the Underworld
- The Voices Behind the Voice
