premise: Ed Wood is a film.
hypothesis: Ed Wood . ( October 10 , 1924 -- December 10 , 1978 ) was an American filmmaker , actor , writer , producer , and director . In the 1950s , Wood made a number of low-budget films in the science fiction , comedy , and horror genres , intercutting stock footage . Ed Wood is a 1994 American biographical period comedy-drama film directed and produced by Tim Burton , and starring Johnny Depp as cult filmmaker Ed Wood . Ed Wood was taken to the Walt Disney Studios , which produced the film through the studio 's Touchstone Pictures division . The film was released to critical acclaim , but was a box office bomb , making only $ 5.9 million against an $ 18 million budget .