i don't think it's really fair to "shame" four elderly actors for accepting a part in a movie. not unless you want to pay their bills.

and this conversation is starting to get hysterical.

Agree! But do you mean hysterical or hilarious? It's been near-hysterical, in the classic sense, for a while now.

I knew it would be a comedy; I just wish, reading that trailer description, it sounded like a funnier one. At the moment it sounds like the kind of thing the group of drag artists would perform at a DS convention.

And Ben Cross was in the terrible fourth Exorcist film...

General comment. Not a shocker but I'm still not buying into the argument that the reason the trailer has not been released is based on the fact that the score has not been completely finished. The legendary composer can't score a 30 second trailer?

Possibly the majority of trailers use scores from other films. The "X-Men: First Class" score keeps turning up in trailers, as does the score for "The Fountain." For years the score from "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" was used in movie trailers (like the one for Forrest Gump!)

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There are nine pages of comments on IMDB; the person who saw it is giving a lot of detail. I believe he's on the level.

Everyone's been calling this a comedy from script to post-production. I think it's time to make peace with that. Burton and Depp wanted to play in the world of Dark Shadows, but have no slavish loyalty to it. To hardcore fans it will likely play as an over the top spoof.

Totally agree that WB is scratching their heads on how to market the film; I called that out a few weeks ago: http://badassdigest.com/2012/01/20/is-barnabas-collins-stalling-in-this-new-dark-shadows-pic/

Didn't see this posted; thought I'd share:

http://www.wbshop.com/Super-Cops-The/1000227783,default,pd.html?cgid=

I think I spent my time on the line saying hi to you while my wife met him!

Does anyone know if the banquet will include meeting Mr. Frid as he signs the photo, as it was in 2007?

otherwise i'm not sure why it's not being set in 1967 or for that matter the present. it's got to be a stylistic decision.

Took me a minute, but the story starts in 1752, jumps ahead two decades to when Barnabas has the curse put on him, then jumps to 1972. He's in the coffin for exactly 200 years. Not sure WHY that decision was made, but there's the math.

I quite like the idea of Barnabas being shocked and horrified at what's become of the once-proud Collins dynasty. He wakes up to find his family tree is a tangled neurotic mess! Poor fella.

Nikki Finke confirms Chloe:

http://www.deadline.com/2011/03/chloe-moretz-joins-dark-shadows/