DARK SHADOWS is being released this week. No way it will outdo what AVENGERS did last weekend.. and maybe it should not. I like Tim Burton, or at least liked him. His films are creative.. interesting. The whole Johnny Depp/Burton constant connection is nice in a way, but also.. unsettling. I don’t necessarily think that every film Burton makes needs to have Depp in the main role. 

Even more, the true question I have about this is whether DARK SHADOWS was meant to be a dark comedy or more of a true horror. A lot of good horror and creative scares could have been done. Instead, as Burton would predictably do, he turned it seemingly into a 21st century BEETLEJUICE. Which in itself isn’t bad.. but is it what should be?

I am interested in reactions of you all care to share any. Did you see the film, and what did you think?

The heat is on..

Welcome to the summer!
Box office blasts ready.. First up.. AVENGERS..
Already the film has scored the highest midnight opening of all time.. Record setting weekend coming? The full moon will be bright over crowds heading to see the first box smash of summer ‘12.. Feeling like a good year for movies? Maybe.. Insiders predict $172 mil for AVENGERS is possible. 
The film opening this weekend in 4,349 theaters strong.. 

Next week the box office mania continues with DARK SHADOWS opening in 3,700 theaters.. Can Johnny Depp and Tim Burton NOT freak out America enough to create a decently sized opening weekend? Time will tell. 

So who is going to AVENGERS this weekend?

I’m an enormous BATMAN fan.. even more of a fan of the Nolan films than any other. The latest trailer was released… 

All I can say is this: If a movie trailer can raise the hairs on my arms and cause my eyes to swell with tears, I cannot even imagine what the whole movie will do. 

Yes I’m not ashamed to admit it. DARK KNIGHT RISES may make me, a 31-year-old grown man, weep.

For me it’s only three: 

DARK SHADOWS

ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER

DARK KNIGHT

That’s about it. How about you?

30 years on air for David Letterman. He is an institution of comedy..

I’d be remiss if I didn’t say how important he has been in my life. I remember vaguely watching him as a kid (age 3 and 4 and maybe 5) .. I remember vividly watching him as a grade school kid and high schooler.. I repeated his jokes the next day because I knew no other kids stayed up that late …

I don’t watch much now,  though. Can’t say the show is nearly as imaginative as it once was.. or cutting edge. Or new and fresh. But 30 years on air in some capacity is meaningful and amazing. He is a legend of our time just as Carson was for the previous…

But I leave you tonight with this question.. did David Letterman perfect late night sarcasm or, by being so good at it, destroy the ability for anyone else to be sarcastic?

Cops suspect arson as more cars burn in Hollywood

Newest DARK KNIGHT RISES poster released.. what exactly is this teasing? The fall of a hero? Interesting concept…

What are you thoughts, fellow bat brains?

She’s just being Mila..

And she kept a promise.

Hollywood shame: Casting directors under new scrutiny after an investigation finds that convicted molester Jason James Murphy hired child actors .. 
Murphy served a five-year prison term for kidnapping and abusing an 8-year-old boy near Seattle.. hiring kids as a casting assistant for productions including Super 8, Bad News Bears, The School Of Rock, Cheaper By The Dozen 2, and the upcoming film The Three Stooges..
The LA TIMES bombshell also reports that police recently found out and began an investigation..


Maybe, just maybe, Corey Feldman was right.. he said: 

Pedophilia Is Biggest Problem in Hollywood …

Just when the world was breaking apart over the Ashton Kutcher/Demi Moore rumors, we can be at ease this Saturday morning:They attended a Kabbalah service together.

Kabbalah is still around…? I haven’t seen those little red string bracelets in a long, long time..

Once again, someone famous making us all feel good about ourselves.

Megan Fox says she’s too poor to have kids..Eh?

It appears that during times the famous aren’t working, the famous are getting work done.. Hi new Simon.

The box office wrap:

GOES BANANAS: RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES WITH $55 MIL IN BIG OPENER; RYAN REYNOLDS CRASHES WITH ‘CHANGE-UP’ AT $14 MIL