It sounds like a lot, but with a production budget of £115 million, and then the huge sums of money spent on press and ads for a worldwide campaign, ‘Dark Shadows’ was not a success story, particularly in the US, where it did terrible business. Though things picked up overseas.

Burton’s paean to cult, b-movie filmmaker Ed Wood was a big ask of his audience. Clearly as many people cared about Ed Wood in 1994 as they did in 1952 (i.e. not many). The star-studded movie (Depp, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Bill Murray) brought in a disastrous £4.5 million, having cost £13 million. Though critics loved it.

Though it’s since become a cult hit, the star-laded 'Mars Attacks!’ (Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Tom Jones, Rod Steiger, Natalie Portman) bombed on its release in the US, having cost £54 million to make. It picked up business in Europe, but nowhere near enough to make it a success.

With an ensemble cast (Ewan McGregor, Jessica Lange, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup) and stuffed full of whimsy, this 'southern gothic fairytale’ would most certainly not have been worth Columbia’s gamble. It cost £54 million, so likely will not have made any significant profit.

Burton’s stop-motion 'Frankenweenie’ was no 'Nightmare Before Christmas’ (Henry Selick directed that movie anyway). It got solid reviews, but it’s quite possible audiences were put off by it being in black and white. £62 million off a £30 million budget, which would have unlikely signalled a break even for Disney.

At £7.7 million, it was a much smaller budget than he’s used to, but Burton’s passion project about American artist Margaret Keene (played by Amy Adams) and the husband (played by Christoph Waltz) who took credit for her work failed to ignite the box office. After promotion and marketing, it will have made a substantial loss.

Few in the critical community liked what Burton did with his remake of 'Planet of the Apes’, but if only for curiosity alone, it did some business at the bank, despite its obvious shortcomings.

Whether you loved or loathed Burton’s take on Roald Dahl’s classic book, it brought home the bacon for Warner Bros, with Johnny Depp - the godfather to Burton’s children - donning an Anna Wintour wig and being creepy for nearly two full hours.

Many consider Burton’s Batman to be the benchmark by which others are judged, what with its Jack Nicholson Joker, brooding Michael Keaton as the Dark Knight and soundtrack by Prince. It’s over £300 million back in 1989 would be bordering £600 million with inflation.

Burton signature re-telling of Lewis Carroll’s hallucinogenic fairytale earned a staggering $1.025 billion worldwide (around £790 million), his highest gross ever, and the second highest-grossing film of 2010, behind the might 'Toy Story 3’.