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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!

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Please click Here to watch the new feature “Strange Family” and here for a new Clip which aired at the Kimmel Show.

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Magazines from Mai 2012

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,

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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.

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Title: Tim Burton Steps into the Shadows

Author: Justin Beahm

Publication: Famous Monsters of Filmland

Issue: May/June 2012

Tim Burton’s 13^th 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,

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May 2012, by EricCharbonneau

Johnny in Albuquerque, probably May 2012

CAST

Johnny Depp
Paul Kemp

Aaron Eckhart
Sanderson

Michael Rispoli
 Sala

Amber Heard
 Chenault

Richard Jenkins
Lotterman

Giovanni Ribisi      
 Moburg

Amaury Nolasco 
Segurra

Marshall Bell            
Donovan

Bill Smitrovich   
Mr. Zimburger

Julian Holloway          
Wolsley

Bruno Irizarry       
Lazar

Enzo Cilenti         
Digby

Aaron Lustig    
Monk

Tisuby González              
 Rosy

Natalia Rivera      
Chenault’s friend

Karen Austin              
Mrs. Zimburger

Julio Ramos                 
Intruder

TRafa Alvarez                   
Taxi Driver

Sasha Merced             
Cafè Girl

Eduardo Cortés                
Café Patron

Kamirah Westbrook     
Papa Nebo

Guillermo Valedón     
 Xanadu Maître d’

William Charlton
Hotel Waiter

Javier Grajeda                  
Judge

Miguel Angel Reyes   
El Monstruo’s Trainer

Terrance Harlness      
Man in Hat

Andy Umberger        
Mr. Green

Armando Pérez          
Policeman

Bill Chott                 
Bowling Champ

Gavin Houston
 Sailor

Lisa Robins                  
Bowling Champ’s wife

Noel Delgado               
Morell

Jaime “Jimmy”

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This particular film was Tim Burton and Danny Elfman’s fourth collaboration.  Elfman went on to score all but two of Burton’s films (Ed Wood and Sweeney Todd).  The Edward Scissorhands score has a few prominent musical themes that appear throughout.  It is more than background music and is quite beautiful and poignant, actually.  It captures the emotional struggle and confusion that Edward feels, as well as his innocence.  

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