Johnny Depp on set of Dark Shadows film

FROM: Huffintonpost.com

Historically, the teaming of Johnny Depp and ostentatious costuming has made for major success.

“Edward Scissorhands,” his creepily sweet mad scientist creation, is now a cult classic. His Willy Wonka character helped “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” earn $474 million, while his four “Pirates of the Caribbean” films have earned nearly $3 billion and “Alice in Wonderland” topped a billion by itself.

This fall, Depp is dropping the makeup for “The Rum Diary,” an adaptation of his friend Hunter S. Thompson’s novel, but have no fear: freaky Depp is quickly coming back.

Amongst his plethora of upcoming projects is a big screen remake/adaptation of the late 60s/early 70s TV show “Dark Shadows,” which will be directed by his frequent (and freaky) collaborator, Tim Burton. He’ll play vampire Barnabas Collins, who helped make the show wildly popular and win its daytime TV slot often during its run, which ended in 1971.

Johnny Depp on Tim Burton's Dark Shadows set

Depp was captured on the set of the film by photographers, and early glimpses show that he’s really going for the gold — and white makeup — in this one.

Johnny Depp as vampire Barnabas Collins in Dark Shadows

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is a movie that follows Sally (Bailee Madison), a young girl who moves into a very haunted looking mansion – seriously, why do people still buy obviously haunted looking houses? – with her father (Guy Pearce) and his girlfriend (Katie Holmes).

Sally starts to hear voices coming from the basement (never a good thing) and before you know it all havoc breaks loose as the family battle the evil entities that also inhabit their new home.

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is directed by Troy Nixey – the protege of Guillermo del Toro of  The Orphanage and Pan’s Labyrinth fame.

Katie Holmes

Directed by
Rupert Wyatt

Cast
James Franco
Tom Felton
Freida Pinto
Andy Serkis
Brian Cox
John Lithgow

Make Up Department
Emanuela Daus … makeup artist
Vanessa Giles … second unit: makeup
Naomi Hirano … makeup artist
Emma Julia Jacobs… makeup artist
Michael Nickiforek … animal effects fabrication
Bill Terezakis … special makeup effects designer

Special Effects Department
Cara E. Anderson … special effects buyer
Kelly Coe … special effects technician
Richard Darwin … animatronic designer
Alan Hawes … special effects assistant
Tony Lazarowich … special effects coordinator
Chris Link … special effects rigging
James Paradis … second unit special effects coordinator
Harry Tomsic … special effects technician
Steve Tressel … special effects technician
Dan Youngs … special effects assistant

Mila Kunis

From TheWrap.com

Mila Kunis is preparing to get very wicked.

The “Black Swan” star will indeed play a nefarious witch in Disney’s “Oz, the Great and Powerful,”  TheWrap confirmed Friday

Oscar nominee James Franco has the title role in Sam Raimi’s “Wizard of Oz” prequel. The film centers around a young magician who is forced to flee from a traveling circus. His hot air balloon gets caught in a tornado, and he winds up in Oz, which is run by a pair of wicked witches.

In this tale, Kunis plays Theodora, a witch who starts off good, like her sister Glinda. But when Franco’s character rejects her romantic advances, Theodora goes evil.

Joe Roth is producing the movie, which is slated to be released in 2013. David Lindsay-Abaire (“Rabbit Hole”) revised the script

James Franco

Original 1939 The Wizard of Oz

Plot outline
After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending America’s ideals.

Expect a release in late July 2011

by Benjamin Svetkey – Entertainment Weekly

They don’t have a script, haven’t cast a star, and are still thinking about who to hire as a director. They don’t even know if it will be a prequel or a sequel (or if it’ll have voice-over narration). But Alcon Entertainment, producers of The Blind Side and The Book of Eli, have purchased the rights to make a movie based on the characters and settings of Blade Runner, the 1982 sci fi classic about a replicant-killing cop who falls for a fembot. “We have some ideas that we’re not in a position to discuss yet,” Andrew Kosove, Alcon’s co-CEO, teases to EW. “But from our point of view, the thematic core of the original movie — what does it mean to be a human being? — is even more relevant today than it was when the film came out. After all, we’re living in the industrial age of technology.” Kosove and his fellow CEO, Broderick Johnson, are partnering on the project with Bud Yorkin, one of the producers of the original film. “That picture turned out so well — it’s just been selected for preservation by the Library of Congress — that for a long time I was afraid to try to make another one,” Yorkin says. “But now seems like the perfect time. We just need to find the right writer and director.”

They could always try Ridley Scott, although it’s uncertain if the guy who made the original Blade Runner would even be interested. His rep have yet to return requests for comment, but he’s pretty busy right now making Prometheus, the sci-fi quasi-prequel to Alien starring Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender.

Katie Holmes

From Celebrity-Gossip.net

She worked hard to make “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” a super scary film, and now Katie Holmes’ horror flick has been given a release date.

Holmes’ movie was shelved after Miramax was sold by Disney last year, but FilmDistrict has bought it and will release it August 12th.

Katie stars alongside Guy Pearce, who has been getting all kinds of buzz for his work in the multi-award-winning masterpiece “The King’s Speech.”

“Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” was premiered at Comic Con last year, and scheduled for an original release date this past January.

Famke Janssen

(Hollywood Reporter) – “X-Men” actress Famke Janssen has joined Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton in a “Hansel and Gretel” action comedy that depicts the fairy-tale pair as bounty hunters.

The Paramount project, “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters,” picks up years after the siblings’ childhood trauma at the gingerbread house. Janssen will play the leader of the witches.

Tommy Wirkola (“Dead Snow”) is directing the film, which begins shooting in Berlin next month.

Stephen King is big movie business again. Chalk that up to the massive film and TV adaptation of his Dark Tower series that has industry players Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman and Brian Grazer pushing it forward. Then there is the new version of The Stand, which Warner Bros. is developing, and possible new versions of Firestarter and Maximum Overdrive.

The latest new King project is a possible remake of the 1989 film Pet Sematary, a film about dead pets and children coming back to life.

Read the rest of Russ Fischer’s story HERE

Dianna Agron

Extraordinary teen John Smith (Pettyfer) is a fugitive on the run from ruthless enemies sent to destroy him. Changing his identity, moving from town to town with his guardian Henri (Olyphant), John is always the new kid with no ties to his past. In the small Ohio town he now calls home, John encounters unexpected, life-changing events-his first love (Agron), powerful new abilities and a connection to the others who share his incredible destiny.

Expect a mid February 2011 Release Date

Cast:

Dianna Agron … Sarah
Timothy Olyphant … Henri
Alex Pettyfer … Number Four
Teresa Palmer … Number Six
Kevin Durand … Mog Commander
Jake Abel … Mark James
Callan McAuliffe … Sam
Judith Hoag … Sarah’s Mom
Beau Mirchoff … Drew
Emily Wickersham … Nicole

Teresa Palmer

Alex Pettyfer is Number 4