Tim Burton Fish" (2003), the musical adventure film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005), and the fantasy film "Alice in Wonderland" (2010). Burton has often worked with Johnny Depp and Danny Elfman, who has composed scores for all but three of the films Burton has directed. Helena Bonham Carter, Burton's former domestic partner, has appeared in many of his films. He wrote and illustrated the poetry book "The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories", published in 1997 by Faber and Faber and a compilation of his drawings, sketches and other artwork, entitled "The Art of Tim Burton", was released in
Tim Burton of his popular character Pee-wee Herman. Pee-wee Herman gained mainstream popularity with a successful stage show at The Groundlings and the Roxy which was later turned into an HBO special. The film, "Pee-wee's Big Adventure", was made on a budget of $8 million and grossed more than $40 million at the North American box office. Burton, a fan of the eccentric musical group Oingo Boingo, asked songwriter Danny Elfman to provide the music for the film. Since then, Elfman has scored every film that Tim Burton has directed, except for "Ed Wood" (because of a falling out that they had),