STREAM OF EMOTIONS `BIG FISH' SUCCESS FOLLOWS `APES' MELTDOWN.(PREVIEW)

Byline: GLENN WHIPP Los Angeles Daily News

In the summer of 2001, Tim Burton was holed up in a New York hotel room, curled into a fetal position, pretty much devastated in every way possible after putting the finishing touches -- at the last second -- on his remake, update or whatever you want to call it of ``Planet of the Apes.'' The Burbank-born Burton tends to get very vulnerable when he finishes a movie to begin with, but ``Apes'' sent him over the edge, mostly due to a Japanese promotional junket he was forced to attend while still in the process of finalizing the movie.

Of course, Burton's frazzled condition might also have had something to do with the year he spent battling Fox executives over the budget, length of the shoot, casting, set design and final cut of ``Apes.'' Plus, Burton wasn't too big on all the promotional tie-ins.

So when Burton …