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The rumors have been swirling for months, but now it's official. Johnny Depp and French songstress Vanessa Paradis are no longer together. A rep for the actor told CNN that the two have "amicably separated." Depp and Paradis were together for fourteen years and have two children together.
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Charlie Sheen is baring it all in the July/August double issue of Playboy. Only instead of disrobing, Sheen opens up about last year's very public meltdown. He told the magazine that last year he had just said the things he had always been thinking, but unfortunately he said them "in the middle of a psychotic break." He also stated that lashing out against former costar Jon Cryer was wrong, and that Cryer is a "beautiful man and a f--ing fabulous dude." And as to having Adonis DNA? Sheen now admits "that was just stupid. That went a little far."
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It looks like Glee's Chris Colfer is now officially a quadruple threat. In addition to being an accomplished actor, singer, and dancer, he is also a screenplay writer. His indie movie, Struck by Lightning, is going to get a theatrical release later this year. The movie premiered at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.
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Model and actress Molly Sims is a new mom. The 39-year-old gave birth to a bouncing baby boy on Tuesday. It is the first child for Sims and husband Scott Stuber.
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In other beautiful-people-having-babies news, supermodel Marisa Miller is expecting. This will be the first child for the 33-year-old who has been a Victoria's Secret model as well as the cover girl for Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue. Miller and husband Griffin Guess have been together six years and are expecting the new addition to their family to come some time in late fall.
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Dark Shadows, director Tim Burton's adaptation of the late 1960s-early 70s soap opera, didn't exactly have the kind of opening weekend that Burton, Warner Bros. and star Johnny Depp were hoping for, but that hasn't slowed down the adaptation of The Night Stalker, an even more obscure property that began as a 1970s ABC TV movie starring Darren McGavin and eventually became the TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker that originally aired from 1974-75. Depp and his Infinitum Nihil production company started developing the movie for Disney last summer, and hired director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) in February to "oversee and develop" The Night Stalker. The first step, obviously, was to hire a screenwriter and it looks like Wright and Depp have found him.
who is writing The Night stalker? >> Posted 05.18.12 by Ryan -
With Dark Shadows arriving in theaters today, fans will finally get a chance to see Johnny Depp's take on the vampire craze that's sweeping through TV and movies. During the movie's press conference, Depp revealed that Dark Shadows is "a kind of rebellion against vampires that look like, you know, underwear models," so it's a solid guess that Depp wasn't watching DVDs of The Vampire Diaries for inspiration. In fact, Depp also revealed that his performance as the 200-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins was mostly based on Jonathan Frid's portrayal of the character from the Dark Shadows soap opera that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971.
Approaching Barnabas, even in the early days of trying to explore the possibilities of the character, no matter where you went in your head, if you tried to veer away from the original Jonathan Frid character, it was apparent to both Tim [Burton] and myself that it had to be rooted in Jonathan Frid's character of Barnabas. It just had to be. It was so classic and the sort of classic monster, you know like Fangoria magazine and that sort of thing. In terms of that, Jonathan did have, when he was playing Barnabas, there was a kind of rigidity to him, kind of that pole up the back, an elegance that was always there.
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Director Tim Burton's upcoming Dark Shadows won't be the first TV series to move to the big screen, but it is one of the few to boast more than 1,200 episodes. Screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) was tasked with turning the TV show's many characters, plot twists, and tone into a single script. During the Dark Shadows press conference over the weekend, Grahame-Smith admitted that he hadn't exactly pored over every single minute of the show. "You can't sit down and watch 1250-some-odd episodes," said Grahame-Smith before Burton interrupted: "Without wanting to kill yourself." Luckily, for Grahame-Smith, he had some help.
When I came into it, there had been materials that were given to me, DVDs of compilations that actual Dark Shadows experts had put together, like, these are the seminal moments. I was given book of characters and plot lines and just studied them. And then, I remember we had our first meeting — Tim and Johnny [Depp] and I — [and] just sat around a table and started talking about the things that they loved about the show and talking about moments that would be fun to explore.
more from Grahame-smith and Burton talks sequel >> Posted 05.09.12 by Ryan -
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Happy Wednesday, fellas! Have we got some good news for you. Modern Family star Sofia Vergara is rumored to be single again. She had been dating environmental businessman Nick Loeb since 2010, but she showed up to Monday's Met Gala solo and told other attendees that she and Loeb had split.
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In much ickier news, John Tavolta's sexual assault and harassment scandal is staying alive, despite his lawyer stating that the claims are "absurd and fictional." So far, two anonymous male masseurs have filed sexual assault claims against the actor, and their lawyer, Okorie Okorocha, has said that others have come forward with similar claims.
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The Duchess of Cambridge has proved that she can go from hiking in jeans and boots to attending a black-tie affair with no problems at all. Kate Middleton rocked an elegant cream-colored gown paired with sparkly stilettos at a private dinner in London hosted by the Thirty Club on Tuesday night. Several days earlier, the Duchess and her puppy Lupo volunteered with the Scouts Association at an outing exploring some woods in Scotland. She looked perfectly suited to the outdoor event wearing jeans, boots, and a vest. What can't she do?
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In other royals news, the Queen of Soul will be getting a big honor soon. Aretha Franklin will be inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in a ceremony this August. Franklin's 1972 album, Amazing Grace, is one of the best selling gospel records of all time and has sold over 2 million copies.
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In an interview on Ellen, Johnny Depp revealed how he developed some of his most memorable characters. Apparently his version of Willy Wonka was inspired by what he imagined George (we're assuming he meant W.) Bush would be like "incredibly stoned." Edward Scissorhands, meanwhile, was inspired by Depp's puppy.
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When you walk into a Tim Burton movie, you know almost exactly what to expect. For more than the past decade, Burton’s walked a thin line between putting his personal stamp on every movie he makes and complete self-parody — at times managing to do both. As unique as we’re sure Burton would like to think his take is, he’s not the only one who likes making slightly Gothic-tinged movies with a baroque design. All of these movies share some of the same DNA as a Tim Burton movie, so much so that frequently the main distinguishing difference is fewer appearances by Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. And while no, they’re not all as good as Burton’s best work, we can say for certain that literally every one of them is better than Planet of the Apes, which isn't exactly an achievement worth bragging about.
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Dark Shadows isn't the first collaboration between actor Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton, but it could their riskiest since first uniting on Edward Scissorhands back in 1990. Based on the Gothic soap opera created by Dan Curtis that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971, Dark Shadows follows the lives of the eccentric Collins family, including the 200-year-old vampire Barnabas, originally played by the late Jonathan Frid and portrayed by Depp in the movie.
While the show certainly has a loyal fanbase, Dark Shadows isn't quite as universally well-known as the last story Depp and Burton brought to the big screen, 2010's Alice in Wonderland. However, both Burton and Depp proclaim to be huge fans of the series, which unlike the seeming omnipresence of vampires in movies and TV series today, was one of its kind at the time. During the press conference for the movie this weekend at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, Burton said it was actually Depp who instigated the big adaptation of Dark Shadows.
"We've talked about [Dark Shadows] I think for many years, but I think this is the first project that I ever remember for Johnny, where you sort of said — I think he wanted to play this ever since you were a little boy," Burton said to Depp. "Just a wee tyke," Depp responded.
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It may be hard to believe for those who obsessively watched the Dark Shadows TV series in the late 1960s/early '70s, but there were some that missed the gothic soap opera starring the late Jonathan Frid as the vampire Barnabas Collins. With director Tim Burton's big-screen adaptation set to open in less than two weeks, audiences unaware of the series may start to think of Dark Shadows as the "Johnny Depp vampire movie."
In order to introduce the other characters, Warner Bros. has released a new featurette that reveals the entire strange Collins clan: Michelle Pfeiffer as family matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard; Jonny Lee Miller as her brother, Roger Collins; Chloe Moretz as Elizabeth's rebellious daughter Carolyn; Gulliver McGrath as 10-year-old David Collins; Bella Heathcoate as David's governness Victoria; Helena Bonham Carter as resident psychiatrist Dr. Julia Hoffman; and Jackie Earle Hayley as caretaker Willie Loomis. Then, of course, there's Depp as Barnabas, who rises from his 200-year-old grave and unites them all and saves the family business. As Pfeiffer says in the featurette's opening seconds: "The Collins family is odd." No kidding.
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If you are excited about Tim Burton's latest collaboration with Johnny Depp, Dark Shadows, but your knowledge of vampires in cinema doesn't extend farther back than The Twilight Saga or Interview With the Vampire, then you'll definitely want to check out the new featurette for the movie.
Depp, who got the ball rolling on adapting the Dark Shadows TV series because of his childhood obsession with the show and its protagonist, the vampire Barnabas Collins, briefly discusses some of the his favorite movie vampires and the actors who played them, such as Christopher Lee with whom he shares a scene in the movie. The featurette also reveals that several members of the original cast of the Dark Shadows TV show have cameo appearances in the movie, including original Barnabas Collins, Jonathan Frid, who passed away only weeks ago.
watch the new featurette >> Posted 04.27.12 by BrentJS -
When Johnny Depp said that he had some "interesting plans" for Tonto, his character in Walt Disney's in-production Lone Ranger adaptation, the assumption was that he was mainly referring to elevating the Lone Ranger's (Armie Hammer) Native American sidekick to partner status. However, given his penchant for playing pasty-faced characters in his movies — Edward in Edward Scissorhands, Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow, Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the "Demon Barber" in Sweeney Todd, the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland, and the vampire Barnabas Collins in the upcoming Dark Shadows — we should have guessed that his plans included painting Tonto in white makeup.
It's clear that Depp is into the "goth" look, but what was the real inspiration for painting Tonto's face and slapping a dead crow atop his head? According to Depp, it has nothing to do with the fact that he has been palling around with creepy rocker Marilyn Manson of late and everything to do with art. Specifically, the Native American artwork of Kirby Sattler.
what did depp say about Tonto? >> Posted 04.23.12 by BrentJS