Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are teaming up again, this time in the the big-screen remake of the 1960′s gothic vampire TV soap opera Dark Shadows. This will mark the eighth time Burton and Depp have worked together. Previously they worked together in the films Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd, and Alice In Wonderland.
Depp will portray Barnabas Collins, a self-loathing vampire living in a Maine manor who is searching for his lost love.
Michelle Pfeiffer is in talks to play Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the reclusive matriarch of the Collins family which runs the Maine town. The character has not left the mansion since the disappearance of her husband a decade earlier.
Michelle and Tim have worked together before. She played Catwoman in Burton’s Batman Returns in 1992.
I don’t know why – but I’m surprised it was Toy Story 3!
Toy Story 3′s profits soared to infinity and beyond this year – it’s been named the highest-grossing film of 2010.
In a list dominated by family-friendly movies, the latest installment in the computer-animated franchise – with characters voiced by Tom Hanks and Tim Allen – raked in over $1.06 billion at the worldwide box office following its release in the summer.
Tim Burton’s fantasy film Alice in Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp, came second in the list after taking $1.02 billion and the first of the two-part Harry Potter swansong movie - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 - is third with $861 million.
The fourth highest-grossing picture of the year is sci-fi movie Inception, with earnings of $825 million, and Shrek Forever After is fifth with $740 million.
The top 10 is rounded out by The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Iron Man 2, Despicable Me, Clash of the Titans, and How To Train Your Dragon.
The Weinstein Company and Miramax – the studio the Weinstein brothers founded and then sold — announced a gigantic partnership deal on Thursday (via The Hollywood Reporter), agreeing to create sequels of the smash hit films that the Weinsteins produced for the studio before starting their new production company.
A number of big films are set to see second installments added to their canon: ‘Shakespeare In Love,’ ‘Bad Santa,’ ‘Swingers,’ ‘Rounders,’ ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary,’ are some of the most famous names to be in line for the part two treatment.
“We are very close to these films and the new management of Miramax also feels that we are in the best position to create sequels that are at once worthy and compelling in their own right,” the Weinsteins said in a statement.
WOOHOO!! I love all those movies! I would love another Bridget Jones movie!!
I just sat here and watched all of this video…it’s hard to look away! What an awesome compilation!
That must have taken FOREVER.
Here’s a message from the video’s creator, “This year’s movies have legitimately transformed my idea of what is creatively possible. To commemorate, I’ve remixed 270 of them into one giant ass video.” Gen
Posted Tuesday, December 14th, 2010 at 10:10am
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If you live in the Portland, Oregon area – you can see an advance screening of ‘Burlesque’ tonight!! (If you want to brave the weather, of course!)
Ali (Christina Aguilera) is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship and an uncertain future to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess (Cher), the club’s proprietor and headliner. Burlesque’s outrageous costumes and bold choreography enrapture the young ingenue, who vows to perform there one day.
Soon enough, Ali builds a friendship with a featured dancer (Julianne Hough), finds an enemy in a troubled, jealous performer (Kristen Bell), and garners the affection of Jack (Cam Gigandet), a bartender and fellow musician. With the help of a sharp-witted stage manager (Stanley Tucci) and gender-bending host (Alan Cumming), Ali makes her way from the bar to the stage. Her spectacular voice restores The Burlesque Lounge to its former glory, though not before a charismatic entrepreneur (Eric Dane) arrives with an enticing proposal.
If you want to go to the movie tonight – all you have to do is ask! I’ll send you tickets to tonight’s showing! Here are the details:
If you want tickets, leave a comment below, I’ll email you details
Lionsgate has confirmed that they will adapt the bestselling pregnancy bible What To Expect When You’re Expecting and intend to give it the Love Actually and Valentine’s Day treatment. In other words, we’ll see a series of intertwining vingnettes with enough star wattage to blind most any moviegoer.
Hopefully it’s more Love Actually than Valentine’s Day. VD sucked balls.
