New images for Tim Burton's Dark Shadows

Dark Shadows, Tim Burton's latest Medieval adventure, has released a completely new batch of images featuring primary cast people The Actor-kaira Pitt, Michelle Pfeiffer and Jackie Earle Haley, together with the inside in the foreboding Collinwood Manor.Depp stars since the luckless Barnabas Collins, who's converted to a vampire by Avoi Green's heartbroken witch, hidden alive and subsequently entombed to get the best part of 220 years.Inadvertently set free in 1972, Collins returns to Collinwood Manor only to uncover his dysfunctional descendents harbouring numerous dark secrets that goes for them. The completely new images show Collins becoming reacquainted along with his former rubber rubber stamping ground, based on Jackie Earle Haley's grizzled caretaker. Michelle Pfeiffer also appears since the family matriarch, searching as age-defyingly gorgeous of course.The comfort in the cast includes Helena Bonham Carter since the family's live-in mental health expert, Johnny Lee Burns since the black sheep and Chloe Moretz just like a edgy teen. Dark Shadows will open inside the Uk on 11 May 2012.

Zachary Quinto To Join FXs American Horror Story As Male Co-Lead In Season 2

EXCLUSIVE: Another key piece of the upcoming second season of FX’s hit drama series American Horror Story has fallen into place. Zachary Quinto, who did a scene-stealing four-episode arc on the first season of the Ryan Murphy/Brad Falchuk drama as the Harmon house’s doomed former co-owner Chad Warwick, will be back as a series regular in Season 2, joining Jessica Lange. Like Lange, he will play a brand new character next season, which is set at an East Coast institution. What’s more, I have learned that Quinto will play one of two male leads and the nemesis to Lange’s character, which will be at the center of the Season 2 storyline. The part is sure to draw parallels to Quinto’s breakout role as uber-villain Syler on Heroes. While Lange had been expected to return — she confirmed ongoing negotiations at the Golden Globes and the SAG Awards, where she won for her performance on the show, Quinto’s return had been kept under wraps until now. Quinto and Murphy are friends; that’s how Quinto’s original stint on the show came about. After the critical praise Quinto received for his arc, he was open to coming back. “I had an amazing time and I only did four episodes of the season, so it was just a little bit of an appetiser for me; I would love to work more,” he said in an online interview last month. An anthology series like AHS is perfectly suited for Quinto, who wants to keep a hand in television but, busy as an actor and producer on the feature side, can’t make the 5-6-year commitment required on a regular series. In addition to Lange and Quinto, three other actors from Season 1 of AHS will return next season. Murphy is expected to announce their names at the show’s panel tonight, which will open this year’s PaleyFest. Additionally, AHS is casting several other roles, including the male co-lead opposite Quinto. Quinto, repped by CAA and Untitled, won’t be attending tonight’s event because he is in production on Paramounts Star Trek sequel, in which herepriseshis role as Spock. He recently did the awards circuit with the indie Margin Call, which he starred in and produced through his production company, Before the Door. The film won the Best First Feature and the Robert Altman Award at the Independent Spirit Awards, received a best original screenplay Oscar nomination and was named Best First Film by the NY Film Critics.

Casting Directors Tackle Film Adaptations

Casting Directors Tackle Film Adaptations By Pete Keeley February 29, 2012 Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images Lee Daniels Last week I mentioned that networks had made 99 percent of their pilot pickups. Now it's probably 100 percent, after CBS' Feb. 24 order for an untitled Martin Lawrence comedy project. (No CD yet; it's too early. But whoever it is, let's hope they bring in Reginald Ballard, aka Bruh Man, to read for a part.)Since I started this column whilst pilot season was in medias res, it's been easy so far to write cohesive pieces, centered on a single theme. But most weeks, it's going to be me trying to find some thread linking whatever random projects I come across. So you might as well get used to disjointed, rambling garbage. (Try watching a few episodes of "Lost" on Netflix instant to warm yourself up.)First up this week is a film project that has "2013 awards contender" written all over it. It's called "The Butler," and it's a biopic of Eugene Allen, an African-American who took a job as a pantry man in the White House in 1952 and worked there through the administrations of eight presidents before retiring in 1986 as the head butler. The source material for the script is a 2008 profile in The Washington Post by Wil Haygood, which I urge you to read. Lee Daniels ("Precious") is directing, and a whole bunch of big names are being talked about for roles: David Oyelowo as Allen, Oprah Winfrey as his wife, Mila Kunis as Jackie Kennedy, and Liam Neeson as LBJ. So, yeah, wow. I'm tearing up just imagining this movie. Billy Hopkins of Chrystie Street Casting in NY and Leah Daniels-Butler, sister of Lee Daniels (Lee and Leah? Really, Mom and Dad?) in Los Angeles are handling casting. Financing isn't locked down, but plans are to get under way in May in New Orleans. Next is a film that will also contend for awards in 2013, but, like, Razzies. I'm sure you're familiar with that old axiom that great books make mediocre movies, and mediocre books make great movies. Well, somebody must not have told the producers of "Atlas Shrugged: Part I," who managed to turn a mediocre book into a piss-poor movie, one that was roundly panned by critics and, much like the novel, left unfinished by most people who started it. Unfortunately, instead of taking a cue from John Galt and retiring to a secluded objectivist paradise in protest, the producers have decided that their work must continue.Thus "Atlas Shrugged: Part II" will begin principal photography in April in Los Angeles. Jeff Gerrard, a big-time commercial casting director, is doing the casting for the film. No word yet on which, if any, cast members from the first film will return.So I guess I sort of had a theme this week: literary adaptations. Plus both were movies. In any event, even if I can't always write a column in which the projects relate to each other in any way, you can always count on "Lost" jokes to tie everything together. Casting Directors Tackle Film Adaptations By Pete Keeley February 29, 2012 Lee Daniels PHOTO CREDIT Bryan Bedder/Getty Images Last week I mentioned that networks had made 99 percent of their pilot pickups. Now it's probably 100 percent, after CBS' Feb. 24 order for an untitled Martin Lawrence comedy project. (No CD yet; it's too early. But whoever it is, let's hope they bring in Reginald Ballard, aka Bruh Man, to read for a part.)Since I started this column whilst pilot season was in medias res, it's been easy so far to write cohesive pieces, centered on a single theme. But most weeks, it's going to be me trying to find some thread linking whatever random projects I come across. So you might as well get used to disjointed, rambling garbage. (Try watching a few episodes of "Lost" on Netflix instant to warm yourself up.)First up this week is a film project that has "2013 awards contender" written all over it. It's called "The Butler," and it's a biopic of Eugene Allen, an African-American who took a job as a pantry man in the White House in 1952 and worked there through the administrations of eight presidents before retiring in 1986 as the head butler. The source material for the script is a 2008 profile in The Washington Post by Wil Haygood, which I urge you to read. Lee Daniels ("Precious") is directing, and a whole bunch of big names are being talked about for roles: David Oyelowo as Allen, Oprah Winfrey as his wife, Mila Kunis as Jackie Kennedy, and Liam Neeson as LBJ. So, yeah, wow. I'm tearing up just imagining this movie. Billy Hopkins of Chrystie Street Casting in NY and Leah Daniels-Butler, sister of Lee Daniels (Lee and Leah? Really, Mom and Dad?) in Los Angeles are handling casting. Financing isn't locked down, but plans are to get under way in May in New Orleans. Next is a film that will also contend for awards in 2013, but, like, Razzies. I'm sure you're familiar with that old axiom that great books make mediocre movies, and mediocre books make great movies. Well, somebody must not have told the producers of "Atlas Shrugged: Part I," who managed to turn a mediocre book into a piss-poor movie, one that was roundly panned by critics and, much like the novel, left unfinished by most people who started it. Unfortunately, instead of taking a cue from John Galt and retiring to a secluded objectivist paradise in protest, the producers have decided that their work must continue.Thus "Atlas Shrugged: Part II" will begin principal photography in April in Los Angeles. Jeff Gerrard, a big-time commercial casting director, is doing the casting for the film. No word yet on which, if any, cast members from the first film will return.So I guess I sort of had a theme this week: literary adaptations. Plus both were movies. In any event, even if I can't always write a column in which the projects relate to each other in any way, you can always count on "Lost" jokes to tie everything together.