The latest issue of Vanity Fair has photos of the characters from Tim Burton’s adaptation of Dark Shadows. It includes this great one of Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins giving us our clearest look at the vampire so far. I think getting the tone right in this film is going to be one of the trickiest things to do. What do you think of Depp’s look...

Disney’s The Lone Ranger is finally underway with filming due to begin soon for a May 2013 release. Armie Hammer is the Lone Ranger, Johnny Depp is Tonto and Gore Verbinski is directing it. Dwight Yoakum had been set to play the villain. However, the film being put on hold meant he was no longer able to do it. It is not all bad news as William Fichtner...

Rejoice! Johnny Depp is going to do a movie without Tim Burton. I know, I know, he has done plenty without Burton. It just seems that lately they have done many films together and none of the recent ones have worked for me. Last year came word that Depp was going to be involved in the big screen adaptation of the 1970s show, Kolchak: The Night Stalker. That...

The Lone Ranger is finally moving forward. A casting call has gone out for extras in the town of Creede, Southern Colorado. The film, due to hit the theaters in summer 2013, features Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the Lone Ranger. Hammer played the Winklevoss twins in “The Social Network.” It’s directed by Gore Verbinski, who worked with...

Seth Grahame-Smith wrote the screenplay for Tim Burton’s adaptation of Dark Shadows and he has been talking about how weird the film will be. “The tone of the movie is soap operatic. It’s heightened. Everything is heightened and grand. Johnny is just dug in and big. [Starts hamming it up] ‘Didn’t you see? How… could you?...

What do you think of Depp as Barnabas Collins in Tim Burton’s adaptation of Dark Shadows? In 1752, a family suffering from a mysterious curse leaves Liverpool to start a new life in America. Two decades pass, and the prodigal son of the family reigns supreme over the little town of Collinsport, Maine. All or almost managed to Barnabas, until he made...

Governor Susana Martinez and the New Mexico Film Office announced today that Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ The Lone Ranger, directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Johnny Depp, will begin principal photography in New Mexico in February 2012, with production planned in and around Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Shiprock and other locations around...

Here is an excellent look at Johnny Depp as the vampire Barnabas Collins in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows. Michelle Pfeiffer also features in the photo. Depp describes the film as: “a bit like documentary Grey Gardens (the 1975 doc featuring a nearly hermetic mother-daughter duo inhabiting a crumbling mansion in the Hamptons) and says that time travel,...

Tim Burton has been wanting to make a Pinocchio movie for a while. Surprisingly he does not seem to want Johnny Depp involved (still early days though so he may turn up). Instead he would like Robert Downey Jr to play Geppetto. In this version it appears the focus will be more on Geppetto as he embarks on a quest to reunite with his missing marionette. The...

I am not sure if this is an official poster for Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows. Johnny Depp plays the vampire Barnabas but the image in the poster looks like the Depp from Sleepy Hollow. Thanks to Jamey DuVall for digging it...