When I first looked at this photo, I hated everything about it except for Michelle Pfeiffer. After taking a little while to study, I do like the similarity in layout and form to the 67 photo, as everyone else has started. However, here are some observations of mine:

First, from the LOOK of the characters of Angelique, Victoria, and Carolyn, it seems as if they have all been jumbled up. Eva Green as Angelique looks like she should be playing Carolyn at age 35 (she looks SO much like Nancy Barrett!), while Bella Heathcote as Victoria looks like she is Carolyn as a teenager, and Chloe Moretz looks more like a Sarah than anything else.

HBC as Julia looks completely over the top to me. And while Grayson played Julia outlandishly, she somehow still managed to pull it off and ground the character. Someone else put it very well--HBC looks like a refurbished and slightly toned down version of the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland. Here's hoping, as someone else also stated, that the bright hair color comes off much more muted on screen.

Lastly, while I love the interior of the (I'm guessing) drawing room because it looks like a cave and I could completely imagine bats living in there (sooo Gothic), it's not very inviting. Somehow, despite the sheer coldness that would at times come across in the old Collinwood sets from the original series, the house still seemed warm and inviting to me.

The most intriguing characters in the photo for me are Elizabeth and Angelique. The facial expressions both women are putting forth are as different as they are similar, and I wouldn't be surprised if when the film is released we see extreme correlations between the motivations behind the actions of both of these women.

Damn, I should've known someone else would've beat me to the news! Haha. I'm glad everyone was in the know.

The television show Ghost Hunters, which airs on Sci Fi, will be airing an episode where TAPS investigates Seaview next week. Obviously Dark Shadows is mentioned as having been "filmed" there. Just wanted to let everyone know. I'm super excited to see what, if anything, happens during the investigation! The episode airs on Wednesday at 9pm.

Definitely David! That was one of my favorite sequences in the movie.

I only ever watch GH on television or on Soapnet if I work during the day during its regular time slot. Even though episodes are already available online, I rarely ever use the option. I suppose if I had the time to keep up with a daily show on a daily basis, I probably would.

I'm hoping that Katie Couric doesn't kill GH, but if it can more online and still survive, I'll find time to watch it here and there just to keep up.

If Quentin were brought in to a movie, it would definitely have to be a big event. Quentin's storyline was so massive in the original series that it would require a lot of focus from the film. I think an interesting way to bring Quentin in would be to have him and Barnabas already have some sort of history, and Barnabas would need to rescue him from something or whatever. It would also provide for a lot of flashbacks to build the story and could open up an avenue for Quentin's story to be told. Perhaps introducing him in a second sequel (or the third movie) like Cousin Barnabas suggested would be a good idea. If they used Laura as the antagonist in the sequel to the first movie, Quentin could be alluded to or introduced minutely as a past lover of Laura (like he was in 1897 in the original series). He could appear in flashbacks and then really take center stage in the third movie.

However, let's not get too far ahead of ourselves in placing hope in two sequels that may not ever come to fruition at all. More than likely, if this is a viable franchise, Burton would hopefully want to continue it with the support of the production company. But, I'm really expecting just a one movie deal and to be finished with it. If enough interest is piqued from the film, perhaps Warner Brothers will once again try to reboot the property in a television series, and this time it would grow some legs and be a runaway hit!

This is completely ridiculous. I think it's rather ironic that he hated on fans of Buffy (count me in that group!) and then as he watched the show he realized that it was actually good. While I do think that a fan may be considered "crazy" by others if they devote every second of their life to something, who's to say that it is crazy at all? After all, what is normal? There are so many differences in the world that the idea of normality, to me, is a joke, because all it contains is generalizations made from a certain group of people.

In fact, if you just looked at Dark Shadows fans, how we live and devote our lives or time to DS would be considered normal.