Confirmed Date on 'Dark Shadows'

Johnny Depp's Dark Shadows to begin next year

Sci Fi Wire has learned that production will start on "Shadows" late next year. What, you want to know when? "We're actually going to shoot that film next September/October with Tim Burton and Johnny," he said. Which I'm guessing means that the movie will see a summer or fall 2011 release, presuming all goes as planned. Burton is still finishing post-production on Alice in Wonderland, which also stars Depp and opens March 5, 2010.

The Barnabas Collins character will be outstanding with JD doing him. I've been waiting to hear more on this and finally we get dates. Yay! Won't that be grand?

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Positvely Magickal!

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp fans already know about the new trailer out this week for the upcoming Alice In Wonderland but I want to put it here to tie in with all my other Burton, Depp, and Alice stuff.

Release date, March 2010. Looks positively magickal!

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First look: What a weird 'Wonderland' Burton's made

Eccentric: Johnny Depp is unrecognisable as the pasty, ginger Mad Hatter
link | Big Photo

The chatty flowers in Alice in Wonderland take their cue from the talkative trees in The Wizard of Oz.
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Take a Trip to Johnny Depp’s Private Island

With no handlers or publicists in sight, Brinkley (Douglas Brinkley from Vanity Fair), Depp, and three of the actor’s best friends set off from the Bahamas on Depp’s yacht to a 45-acre tropical paradise called Little Hall’s Pond Cay. Here are some choice nuggets from Brinkley’s travelogue:

About the yacht:

• Depp’s yacht is a 156-foot, steam-powered boat called Vajoliroja, an amalgam of the names of his partner (singer/actress Vanessa Paradis), himself, and their children, Lily Rose and Jack. There are pirate-themed touches throughout, and the ship flies the Jolly Roger alongside its official Marshall Islands flag.

About the island:

• Depp named one of the six beaches on his island Gonzo, for Hunter S. Thompson (others are named Paradis, Lily Rose, Jack, and Brando, after his partner, kids, and other great mentor). Gonzo Beach features glass tables with Thompson’s face etched in the center.

• Depp says, “I don’t think I’d ever seen any place so pure and beautiful. You can feel your pulse rate drop about 20 beats. It’s instant freedom.”

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Impending Films

Impending Films

Alice in Wonderland Adaptation - Johnny Depp to play the Mad Hatter. Tim Burton has once again chosen to cast Johnny Depp in one of his films, this time as the Mad Hatter in a new adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland". link

The Hippie Hippie Shake - Misadventures in London at the end of the 1960s from a Richard Neville book that is starring Sienna Miller.

Wax On, Wax Off. Sienna's nude body wasn't exactly "historically acurate", so she's got a computer-generated enhancement to reflect the look of the sixties. (Look at me being all delicate and shite.) Release date is this summer.

Dali & I: The Surreal Story (2009) with Al Pacino as Salvador Dali...? I'm sure he'll sell it like the big star that he is, but right now it's a little hard to imagine.

and all the Johnny Depp ones below... especially Shantaram. Synopsis: "A heroin addict incarcerated for a robbery escapes prison and reinvents himself as a doctor in the slums." He seems to always get first pick at the good movies or now with his production company, Infinitum Nihil.

FILM --- RELEASE DATE --- CHARACTER
* Sin City 3 (2009) (in production) .... Wallace
* The Rum Diary (2009) (in production) .... Paul Kemp
* Dark Shadows (2010) (announced).... Barnabas Collins
* Shantaram (2009) (pre-production) .... Lindsay
* Public Enemies (2009) (post-production) .... John Dillinger
* The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) (post-production)

Owned by his production company, Infinitum Nihil.
Sasha's Story: the Life and Death of a Russian Spy
The Affected Provincial's Companion
Rex Mundi
The People's Act of Love
The Articles of War
A Long Way Down
Inamorata
The Bomb in My Garden
The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
Shantaram
I, Fatty
Happy Days

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Gonzo

GONZO - 7/4/08

From Oscar-wining director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter comes a probing look into the uncanny life of national treasure and gonzo journalism inventor Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. A fast moving, wildly entertaining documentary with an iconic soundtrack, the film addresses the major touchstones in Thompson’s life-his intense and ill fated relationship with the Hell’s Angels, his near-successful bid for the office of sheriff in Aspen in 1970, the notorious story behind the landmark Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, his deep involvement in Senator George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign, and much more. Narrated by Johnny Depp.

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Next For Johnny Depp

Warner Bros. is teaming with Depp's Infinitum-Nihil and Graham King's GK Films to develop a feature based on the '60s daytime supernatural sudser "Dark Shadows."

Depp, who is coming off "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" and who just wrapped the Tim Burton-directed "Sweeney Todd," is next expected to star in "Shantaram," a Mira Nair directed adaptation of the Gregory David Roberts novel that Depp, King and Plan B are producing for Warner Bros. Depp, King and WB are also mobilizing to make a film about the life of Alexander Litvinenko, with Depp poised to play the former KGB agent, who was fatally poisoned.

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Dark Shadows could be fun. And the Litvinenko story must be told; it may as well be Depp.

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WEBTRAIL

W E B T R A I L

* Tickets for a stretch of shows by alt-rock band Smashing Pumpkins at The Orange Peel sold out in just five minutes last night (Monday). See detailed article on the Around Asheville website. link

* The newly wide-ish release of "For Catherine", Ethan Hunter's first truly independent film, is available today on Netflix among other places. With a budget of just 5K it was shot entirely in Asheville, NC. Well done, Ethan Hunter and 207 Pictures, and I wish much success to you. view trailer on You Tube

x-posted to Around Asheville


* "Come in, it's a beast out there." With those words, Johnny Depp swings open the door to his sleek air-conditioned trailer and offers blessed relief from the brutal California heat wave. Read the interview with Keith Richards and Johnny Depp. Couldn't you just wrap all fours around him? link

* A small film about a short-lived rock star is making a big splash at Cannes. "Control," the story of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide at 23," marks the feature-film directing debut of rock photographer Anton Corbijn. link

* A feast of phalluses, a plethora of public place peckers. New book, Bus Stop Knobs, brings together the world's well, best bus stop knobs. Hastily drawn for a moment of amusement and now immortalized forever in the most talked about coffee table book released this year. link

Today's Quote:
Regard your neighbour's gain as your gain, and your neighbour's loss as your own loss. --Tai Shang Kan Yin P'ien

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The late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's ashes will be blown out of a canon on Saturday 20th August in Woody Creek, Colorado - and DiS has world exclusive pictures.

The journalist and author will be blasted from the gonzo shaped device, Thompson's signature fist and dagger symbol, by his friend Johnny Depp.

Other guests expected include Sean Penn, Bill Murray and Jack Nicholson.

A security guard at the site said: "Saturday's going to be crazy, the sheriffs are going to be looking after a lot of A-listers coming up to Woody Creek."

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Quote For The Day
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. ~George Bernard Shaw

Kicking ass and leaking gas...

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Film News
Johnny Depp will exec produce as well as star in another Hunter S. Thompson work -- "The Rum Diary", Hunter S Thompson's novel about boozing and carousing in Puerto Rico in the 1950s. Bruce Robinson, of "Withnail & I," will direct. Also stars Benicio del Toro, Josh Hartnett, Nick Nolte. Can not wait to see this one. imdb

Hunter S Thompson's ashes to launch, courtesy of Johnny Depp. Friends and acquaintances gathered Thursday to discuss the Aug. 20 invitation-only service. The tower will be 12 feet wide at the base and 8 feet wide at the top, where the cannon will be placed to launch HST's ashes. Link

"Me And You And Everyone We Know" is the latest critics' darling. In theaters June 17. Winner of Sundance Jury Prize 2005, Cannes Camera d'Or and more. "Delicate, tender, and yet so daring...the film is going to be the Sideways of this year!" --Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun Times Link

A first look at Guy Ritchie's "Revolver".

More on Richard Linklater's "Fast Food Nation".

The Village Voice has a big Cannes section — J Hoberman thinks Cronenberg's "A History of Violence" should have won.

Tarrantinto, Rodrigeuz, set to "Grind" together.

(all film news not noted, via)

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Weekend Webtrail



New article on Chilean-born director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who is best known for his psychedelic, violent movies (El Topo, The Holy Mountain), but he has also been, at one time or another during his 75 years on Earth, the mime protégé of Marcel Marceau, a surrealist performance artist, an esoteric comic-book author, and a tarot card reader. He recently spoke about "Psychomagic," a healing practice developed by Jodorowsky that "uses the language of the subconscious to undo our deepest knots, phobias, fixations, and obsessions." more »



Keith Richards and Johnny Depp hire CREEM hacks to polish first draft of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Treasures Of The Lost Abyss? more »



How to use a hand puppet to get dates. Hey, guys, you may have been doing it all wrong. Link via jwalk



Watch Me Turn 30 - is a photo documented blog that's nicely executed.



James Lee Burke - One of my favorite authors with a new article in January Magazine. more »



Pool betting on Dylan's setlists. 60 Minutes interview Sunday night was good. link



Haiku For You

I've been abducted

And replaced by a geezer

Though she wears my clothes



Today's Quote

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. ~Nietzsche



Finally. My server was down over the weekend to move from MA to NY and is due to be up and running today by noon.

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Reading about Julian Schnabel on the internet I see he's currently working on a new movie which stars Johnny Depp, in the role of editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body. The film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is from his book of the same name, in which he used the only tool available to him--his left eye--with which he blinked out its letters and someone typed the words. What a challenging role this will be from a man who maintained his dignity after suffering such a severe stroke. (He has since passed.) The film is tentatively scheduled for a 2006 release.



**Schnabel also directed the delightful Jeffrey Wright in his portrayal of Basquiat.



{Monday Quote}

Waking up this morning, I smile.

Twenty-four brand new hours are before me.

I vow to live fully in each moment

and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

~Thich Nhat Hanh



Oh, cool. My Prozac fits into my Pez dispenser.

have a beautiful Monday

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Orlando's Hard Rock Cafe's Vault is a museum. Collectibles include a snakeskin coat from Keith Richards; a purple suit from Jimi Hendrix; John Bonham's (Led Zeppelin) drums, and Bob Dylan's typewritten lyric sheets for "I Want You," "Absolutely Sweet Marie" and "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again," songs from his landmark Blonde on Blonde album, in the Vault. There's also a wall-sized quilt depicting Frank Zappa as a playing card constructed from ladies' underwear thrown on stage during some long-ago tour. [link] [see gallery]



{local}

Web site picks top 100 places to live. Top 10 communities, which received the most nominations, were, in order: Venice, Fla.; Paragould, Ark.; Edmond, Okla.; Bonita Springs, Fla.; Asheville, N.C.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; Bartlesville, Okla.; Carlsbad, N.M.; Huntington Woods, Mich.; and Madison, Wis. [link]



{film news}

How could a film that includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke and Benicio Del Toro get any cooler? How about by adding Johnny Depp? AND Christopher Walken? AND Steve Buscemi?! That's not cool enough for ya? How about if Quentin Tarantino directs a portion of it? Well that's precisely what's happening with Robert Rodriguez and his SIN CITY. [link]



As you were. Nothing more to see here.

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The Naoto Hattori Gallery is definitely worth a visit. Hattori went to school in New York and Tokyo and as you see is a very talented artist and illustrator.





» Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Casting Story

The Johnny Depp film, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, a remake of Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, is holding auditions this Saturday in Asheville, NC, at Dillard's at the Asheville Mall from 3-7. The casting director is looking first in Western North Carolina before she searches elsewhere. The film will be directed by Tim Burton and begins filming in London this summer. Casting is for a 13 year old boy whose name is Mike Teevee, and a 10-12 year old girl, named Violet Beauregard; a southern girl who chews a lot of gum. [via: (I-never-miss-his-column) Paul Clark, Citizen-Times]



» Another word to add to my Cringe-Worthy list: "Old School" Unless you're referring to that aging institution where you spent much of your youth. When you hear two middle management white men say "That's old school", when referring to an old way of doing stuff on the job, it's way past time to get out the message for them to stop before somebody gets hurt.

NEW! Check your document online with CSE HTML Validator Lite. Add this to your site.

URL:

thanks to meg, I'll be sprucing up my html today. And tomorrow, and the next day......this site had 21 errors!



Virus check complete. All viruses functioning normally.

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Happy Friday all you Monday - Friday worker bees.



Johnny Depp is People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive. No argument here.



Excellent Live Webcam in Trafalgar Square. Protesters cheer as Bush effigy is toppled. CSPAN carried it live Thursday. London protests to end Friday.



Album Cover Find - comprehensive search engine retrieves all album covers pictures. Kinda cool.



Kit Kat clocks. I love all this funky ass stuff. I have the cookie jar, but he's reclining; I may have to get the clock, too. [thanks to j-walk]



And, it's a very special birthday today for Michelle. Go wish her well.

Happy Birthday, Michelle!




Putting the "ass" in classy.

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Tuesday--back to work day for many after a long weekend. We are also coming upon a new season. Best time to make changes.



The Sharon Osbourne Show premieres September 15. (site under construction) Sure hope she doesn't cook, do make-overs and offer tips on how to keep your man, etc.



No, Seriously, SHUT UP! Bill O'Reilly wants you to at least shut up until he can form a raving, half-assed, pseudo-intellectual thought. Al Franken was on Letterman last night talking about O'Really and Al's zoom to #1 on the NYT bestseller list.



::Coming Soon

Kill Bill - Uma Thurman, by Quentin Tarantino

Gothika, - Halle Berry, Robert Downey, Jr, Penelope Cruz.

Once Upon A Time In Mexico - Antonio Banderas, Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz--she's really getting around.

Somthing's Got To Give - Jack Nicholson, Dianne Keaton, Keanu Reeves



Find the man's head in 3 seconds or less and you're a genious. [via: chapel-perilous]



Quote For Today

"Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts." ~Paramahansa Yogananda



Fond of dead flowers, hand cuffs, nipple rings--- the usual girlie stuff.

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Linkslut Rides Again

Good Morning....



::There's a website called Clean Flicks where you can order videos and have them "clean" it first before they send it to you. By "cleaning" it, they'll take out the profanity, nudity, excessive violence, etc, and send it to you.



::How to easily and quickly change your text size. Saw this little trick on J-Walk. Hold Down the CTRL Key and the Mouse Wheel Will Zoom Text Size in Internet Explorer, most of the time; and Mozilla all of the time.



::Blatant Right Wing Fox News Channel sues Humorist Al Franken over slogan. Franken's upcoming book is titled, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right," which is a take on Fox's slogan "Fair and Balanced". (Fair and Balanced Right Wing Conservative News, would be the more appropriate slogan for the Fox Network.)



::"Everytime you masturbate, God kills a kitten. Please think of the kittens."



::Six Degrees Of Johnny Depp.



::VH1's "I Love The Seventies" show is coming soon. I loved the seventies, too. Though most of it was pretty much a blur.



Quote For Today

The more you search for Truth

outside yourself,

the farther away it gets.



Can I trade my job for what's behind door #2?

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Good Saturday morning....



Here is a larger pic {720x720} of the one featured at the top of the site today. It's by Trevor Brown and is called 'little small dots'. Caution: contains mature and controversial graphics; some are humorous. Some pics are disgusting, some are not. All are well executed. [via coudal]



Blogging Around

Skippy celebrated his one year blogiversary this week. His site is one of the fastest growing blogs I've ever seen in blogatopia--y!hctp!.



Lorraine was talking about people who nibble in the produce aisle of the super market. Is that ok to do?



Alex is so over wool clothes in dept stores in the dead heat of summer. What's the rush, people?



Kim, from Thymewise, talks about purchasing a hairagami for your hair.



Johnny Depp was once again on tv last night--David Letterman. Can you get enough of him?



Quote For Today

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. ~Anäis Nin



saturday morning me//

hazelnut coffee/oatmeal cookie/

marlboro ultra lights for the perpetual smoker/

listening: go to sleep-radiohead/

jeans shorts/lt blue dylan tee/old birks/

how about you?/



I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

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Good Morning to you....



I'd love to shop here and especially on Ebay, collecting old metal lunchboxes. I remember having the generic red plaid lunchbox. It's available for $5-10 now; glad I never bothered to save it. Did you ever use a lunchbox for school?



I just watched Johnny Depp on tv and he talked about capping some of his teeth gold and silver for "Pirates", and he still has them. Some of the movie execs took a dim view of it. He thought of the pirates as the rock stars of that era, and to him, Keith Richards is the greatest rock and roll star of all time, so Keith was the inspiration for his "Pirates" role. {Skye saw it last night with friends.}



Gov't Ganja For The Ill - patients can now purchase packages containing 30 seeds for $20 each or 30-gram bags of dried pot. They must make formal requests for the weed to their doctor, who will have it couriered to them by Health Canada.



Happy Belated Birthday to Rilana yesterday. I hope you had a blast.



Eat it, Tucker.



Robin found the coolest ouija board card online you put a message on for the recipient to unscramble. She found it on regards.com--watch out for the pop-ups. [pic at her site]



Words For Today

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. ~Unknown



Well, this day was a total waste of makeup.

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