To one and all, we’re only a few hours away from the screening of Dark Shadows. The new Dark Shadows movie from Tim Burton and Johnny Depp is released at 5 Drive-in Oakville, Starlite Drive-in Hamilton, and Sunset Drive-in Barrie, following more than five years of production.
Dark Shadows has already done brisk business in France, where the movie released midweek, commanding double the audience of blockbusterThe Avengers. “Dark Shadows could beatAvengers in certain territories but might not be able to match Avengers‘ overall weekend international gross,” comments The Hollywood Reporter. “Burton’s film got off to a strong start Wednesday in France, grossing roughly $770,000 to beat Avengers on its third Wednesday.”
It’s now over 41 years since the original show left television screens, but its influence remains far-reaching, in the work of Tim Burton and many others working in the film industry today. The new film is dedicated to the memory of Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis, but perhaps this also is a good time to remember some of the show’s other creative leading lights – writers Art Wallace, Sam Hall, Gordon Russell, Violet Welles, Malcolm Marmorstein, Ron Sproat and Joe Caldwell, directors Lela Swift, John Sedwick and Henry Kaplan, original producer Robert Costello, and most of all, our recently-departed original Barnabas, Jonathan Frid.
Eve Green’s Dark Shadows Interview with Tribute
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