Johnny on Radio BBC1 on Thursday 10th May
Johnny Depp is Greg’s special guest.
BROADCAST
Thu 10 May 2012 16:00 BBC Radio 1
Dark Shadows “Man Behind the Shadows” and Barnabas Unleashed
Click here to watch Man Behind the Shadows and here to watch Barnabas Unleashed
New Layout feat. My Valentine
Because I really admire Johnny’s performance in Paul Mc Cartney’s music video “My Valentine”, I decided to create a new look (one more theme) for Johnny-Depp.org. If you haven’t set it automatically, click here to try it out:
If you do not like it…or like one of the older themes better (I know, this new one is dark and grey and black and not very colorful in color, but just in the gestures right as the video), feel free to chose another theme from the very bottom anytime you like.
Johnny Depp’s message for Dad on APWA Lifetime Achievement Award 2012
Johnny Depp surprises his Dad, John Depp Sr. with a video congratulating him on the Florida Chapter APWA Lifetime Achievement Award in Tampa April 5th, 2012!
Watch here
MTV Movie Awards 2012: Johnny is nominated for “On Screen Transformation”
Johnny is nominated in the Categorie “On Screen Transformation” for his cameo in “21 Jump Street”
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Johnny on the Ellen Degeneres Show May 8, 2012
Three megastars from the exciting new Tim Burton movie “Dark Shadows” are all in our studio for an Ellen show spectacular!
It’s a show for the history books! JOHNNY DEPP, one of the most popular stars of our time, is making his first appearance on Ellen’s stage. The movies, the romance, the Oscars — there’s so much to talk about, we can only imagine what will happen when he sits down with Ellen for the first time!
Then, MICHELLE PFEIFFER is here! The hauntingly beautiful actress is starring in the new movie about vampires in the disco age. She’s telling Ellen what it was like to join the magical team of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp!
‘Dark Shadows’ Featurette: Strange Family + New Clip
Please click Here to watch the new feature “Strange Family” and here for a new Clip which aired at the Kimmel Show.
Famous Monsters of Filmland, May/June 2012- Still A-Frid of a Vampire
Title: Still A-Frid of a Vampire
Author: Michael Culhane
Publication: Famous Monsters of Filmland
Issue: May/June 2012
DARK SHADOWS changed not only TV, but your world. You live in a world where DS brought you sympathetic vampires, Anne Rice novels, and TWILIGHT. This was not simply horror. DARK SHADOWS was a unique pastiche of gothic suspense played out in the strangely appropriate format of soap opera with its need for daily addiction. In its wake, we have pulled horror storylines into the mainstream of our story as a culture.
We’ve spent many it fond moment with Jonathan Frid, who is relatively new to the art of taking credit for what his character, Barnabas Collins, has meant to audiences and to popular culture, but there’s nothing new about his generosity with fans. He gave us his time and kind attention, and here’s what he had to say to us about Barnabas Collins.
Famous Monsters. What did you discover at the heart of the character of Barnabas as you were playing him?
Jonathan Frid. Barnabas, at the beginning, is a displaced person with this terrible compulsion and fear of discovery. He is very much alone, trapped inside what he has become. Once the writers showed how it all came to be,
Famous Monsters of Filmland, May/June 2012- Welcome to Collinwood: Dark Shadows 101
Title: Welcome to Collinwood: Dark Shadows 101
Author: Michael Culhane
Publication: Famous Monsters of Filmland
Issue: May/June 2012
DARK SHADOWS, if this is your initiation, is now the gold standard for atmospheric horror TV of the 60s—a show so influential to a generation that only now, with the upcoming Tim Burton/Johnny Depp cinematic incarnation, do we see it as the revered cultural reference that it was destined to become.
For example, if you saw this current remake of FRIGHT NIGHT and were paying attention, you may have caught the dialogue when Toni Collette wonders about strange new neighbor Colin Farrell and later why her own house is bedecked with garlands of garlic clove and crucifixes.
“It looks like that show Dark Shadows!” she says.
Think of it as a web series; a low-budget, live-theater experiment; or some kind of unheard of short-form television. But whatever it seems like to viewers now, the original DARK SHADOWS TV show (1966-1971) was a noir-gothic-turned supernatural soap opera, airing daily in the afternoon, with storylines freely and gleefully borrowed from FRANKENSTEIN, REBECCA, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Edgar Allan Poe.
The show was not just unusual but unique for its prime-time content (Vampires! Werewolves! Love-starved witches!), which aimed for advertising’s stay-at-home moms and captured a nation of kids dubbed “The Creepyboppers” by Newsweek magazine, who literally ran home from school with millions of other kids to catch the show.
Famous Monsters of Filmland, May/June 2012- Tim Burton Steps into the Shadows
Title: Tim Burton Steps into the Shadows
Author: Justin Beahm
Publication: Famous Monsters of Filmland
Issue: May/June 2012
Tim Burton’s 13th birthday fell on a weekday in 1970—a Tuesday, to be precise. After trudging through another uninspiring school day, the young artist sprinted to his Burbank, California home, plating himself in front of the television. A quick Dr. Frankenstein-inspired twist of a knob brought the box to electric life, fading in to reveal the chiseled face of a ghost named Gerard Stiles forcing a terrified David Collins backwards across a room. Burton grinned from ear to ear as he navigated the following thirty minutes of his favorite television show, DARK SHADOWS, which, unbeknownst to him at the time, was helping cement a foundation on which he would one day build a bizarre cinematic empire.
“I was in the generation that ran home to watch DARK SHADOWS, which might be why I was such a lousy student.”‘ the director laughs of his afternoon preoccupation withCollinwood Manor and its inhabitants. “There was nothing like it on television.’” Nothing, indeed. Werewolves, vampires, graveyards, and haunted mansions were hardly the stuff of naptime filler for stay-at-home moms, but these genre staples were the lifeblood of ABC’s surprise hit soap, not to mention core imagination vitamins for dreamy-eyed aspiring filmmaker Burton. “Vampires in the afternoon? Who would have thought?” he considers.
In reality, the show’s appeal did have a relatively short first run as far as soap operas go,