I've been without Internet for a couple of days, so I'm only now seeing the link to the Huffington Post piece. Thanks so much for posting the link, madscntst.
As for the budget listed in the article, remember that that $150 million amount was taken from Box Office Mojo and is only a guesstimate. But based on what the current gross was when Tim Burton remarked in the NYT that the film was already making a profit, we figured that the budget had to have been closer to $100. Though, yes, jimbo, I really do believe we will probably never know what the film ultimately cost WB because studios just don't release those figures. In fact, they hide those figures in 100 foot thick steal vaults that are buried 500 miles below the surface of the earth, and they surround the entrances to the access shafts with gigantic motes filled with millions of hungry piranha. Or so it's been rumored.
But you get the picture.
To say the least, they don't want anyone to ever know...
And as for the discontent over the film that still haunts some corners of fandom, well, perhaps we should never say never as far as it going away because there used to be a huge amount of discontent surrounding NoDS. Believe it or not, it used to be disliked in some corners of fandom just about as much as the Depp/DS film is now. But a funny thing happened when attitudes changed over time. And nowadays there's a seemingly ever increasing amount of fans who actually believe NoDS to be far superior to hoDS. So, I suppose we can never really predict what just might happen...
(And as a sideline, given the complete foolishness that was spouted about
The Hangover III's box office figures before its opening weekend was even complete, it's really no surprise to see it included on the article's list.)
The Depp/Burton Dark Shadows played in US theaters for at least 161 days/23 weeks!!
The Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is now out on DVD/Blu-ray!!