I just got an e-mail from Amazon-- DS has shipped! 
 
 

Can't wait to receive it!

I didn't see this posted yet- here is a New York Times interview with Tim Burton, discussing among other things how some view his frequent collaborations with Johnny and Helena.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/movies/tim-burton-at-home-in-his-own-head.html

On Page 4, Tim directly addresses the DS box office: "Even the fact that it was deemed a failure — financially, it wasn’t really. It may not have set the world on fire, but it made its money back plus some, so I can tick that off as not being a total disaster. There’s some people that I talk to that liked it. “Alice” got critically panned. It made over a billion, I guess, whatever. “Ed Wood” got a lot of critical acclaim, it was a complete bomb. It all has a weird way of balancing itself out."

Hi folks, sorry I haven't been around much lately- I've been crazy busy but have been popping in mostly every day.  Thanks for the detailed analysis of the trailer comparisons, MB!

Comic Book Movie has posted 5 deleted scenes!  These are new to me-- are they new, or am I just behind?  At any rate, here they are for your enjoyment!  (for each scene, there is a still pic and a video below it)

Five Deleted Scenes From Johnny Depp's DARK SHADOWS

I think most of these would've added a lot to the film, especially the bit about Carolyn saying nobody understands her.   Oh well   

I always thought, even though he's not tall like David Selby is, that Cillian Murphy would be perfect as Quentin.  He's got the icy blue eyes for it, and he can play both charming and psychotic    (I do like Hugh, though)

^ I avoided Planet of the Apes, largely because of what I'd heard about it (which I guess makes me guilty of not judging for myself, but in this case I was going by what friends had said and not just critics/reviewers).  Alice was by far my least favorite Depp/Burton collaboration, but *someone* must've loved it because it made over $1 billion worldwide!  Sweeney Todd wasn't that long ago, and it was very well regarded when it came out and it got several major nominations, including an Oscar nom for Johnny, so it's weird that there is such a strong stigma against the pair of Depp/Burton these days.  (I love Burton, but even I admit that I was a little unhappy when I found out he was directing, as I'm sure I have said here several times-- I just never felt that he was quite the right fit)

Don't forget, too, that there is a fair amount of negativity coming from a segment of we, the fans of the OS.  Because this place is very civil and allows all opinions, I had started to forget how things are "on the outside".  But I popped onto the IMDb board the other day and was shocked at how people were still at each other's throats, and many of the movie haters were still claiming that anyone who liked the film must be a plant from WB    Not that the OS fans don't have their own right to their opinion, but if the DS fanbase is divided, I think that does add to the perception of how the film performed-- the media aren't going to say that the film was successful if the fans didn't unilaterally embrace it, and in a way, I can't blame them for that.  Just a thought.

Strangely, box office mojo put the "showtimes" tab back in, on their DS page.  But "no theaters found in your area".  A few years ago, even when there were no theaters in my area, BOM would often list a few theaters at the bottom, even if they were 1,000 miles away, like in the midwest or something, as the closest theaters to me.  They don't do that anymore, and there is no way I know of either there or on Fandango just to show the darn list of *all* the theaters.

DS had a nice increase of 15% yesterday, of $4,237, to bring the total to $79,727,149.  (It's funny- most of the bigger films went down yesterday, but a lot of the so-called "platform releases" of 1 to 99 theaters went up).

http://www.boxoffice.com/statistics/bo_numbers/daily/2012-08-17

Well, they will certainly not be doing weekend estimates for DS, as they haven't done that for quite awhile, and it'll be interesting to see if the film gets tracked daily next week with the small handful of theaters it may have remaining.