Johnny Depp
More than 40 years before True Blood and Twilight made angst-ridden vampires the hot new thing, there was a wicked little afternoon soap called Dark Shadows. At its center was Barnabas Collins, a brooding bloodsucker played with equal parts torment and relish by Jonathan Frid, and if you were an offbeat kid in the late 1960s there's a good chance you raced home from school to watch it. Tim Burton, the acclaimed director, was one of those eager young fans. And now he's put his own spin on things. His movie version of Dark Shadows opens May 11 with a starry cast headed by Johnny Depp — yet another boyhood buff of the soap — as the reluctant, guilt-ridden and immortally sexy Barnabas.
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Jamie Campbell Bower and Bonnie Wright
Harry Potter power couple Jamie Campbell Bower and Bonnie Wright are getting married.
"I am engaged. I'm very happy," Bower told The Daily. "It's a wonderful, wonderful time."
Bower, 22, and Wright, 20, remain coy about their upcoming plans.
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Jamie Campbell Bower
Why does Camelot star Jamie Campbell Bower think viewers should tune into the new Starz series?
"You'll see not only my bum, but you'll see Eva Green's bum," he told TVGuide.com.
10 surprises in the Camelot premiere
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Jamie Campbell Bower and Tamsin Egerton
They brought us the wildly carnal and grotesque Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Now the folks at Starz are having a go at King Arthur. Their sprawling new series Camelot — shot in Ireland — is a risqué, politically feverish reboot of Arthurian lore that twists and turns the ...
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Kristin Lehman, Billy Campbell and Eric Ladin
Not since the fall TV onslaught has there been a weekend this cluttered with high-profile new premieres, including network and cable (though mostly cable), running the gamut from lavish costume drama to spy spoof to haunting mystery. And there's a really lousy, old-school Kennedy miniseries in the mix you might have heard about. Something for everyone, you might say...
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Camelot
Camelot star Joseph Fiennes says there's one reason people should watch the epic new Starz drama, debuting Friday, April 1 (10/9c): "It's not a musical."
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Camelot, which will occupy Spartacus' former timeslot, follows a young Arthur (Jamie Campbell Bower) being groomed to be a king by Merlin (Fiennes) as Arthur's half-sister Morgan (Eva Green) tries to claim the crown for herself. Tamsin Egerton, Claire Forlani and Peter Mooney co-star.
Check out a behind-the-scenes look at the new series below:
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Camelot
Starz's upcoming original series, Camelot, will premiere Friday, April 1 (10/9c), the network announced Monday.
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Camelot, which will fill Spartacus' former timeslot, follows the story of...
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Torchwood
Starz has acquired the U.S. television rights to BBC's hit franchise Torchwood, the cable channel announced Monday.
Joseph Fiennes, Eva Green lead Camelot cast
A new 10-episode season will debut exclusively on Starz in the U.S. and on BBC One in the U.K. during summer 2011. Past seasons of Torchwood have aired in the U.S. on BBC America.
Cast members from the previous versions of Torchwood — including John Barrowman (Capt. Jack Harkness) and Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper) — will return for the new version. Russell T. Davies, who created the Doctor Who spin-off in 2006, will serve as the showrunner.
Spartacus six-part prequel to air on Starz in January
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Eva Green, Joseph Fiennes
Joseph Fiennes and Eva Green have been cast in Starz's 10-part Camelot, the network announced on Thursday.
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Fiennes (FlashForward) will play...
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Turner Broadcasting has secured the broadcast-premiere rights for King Kong, scheduled to swing on to TV in 2008.... Universal Pictures is working on a big-screen adaptation of Robert Ludlum's The Sigma Protocol, about an American economist targeted by professional assassins.... Per Variety, the current front-runners to be the Bond girl in Casino Royale are Eva Green (The Dreamers) and Olivia Wilde (The O.C.).... Crime author Patricia Cornwell is donating at least $500,000 to help researchers solve the mystery of the sinking of the Confederate submarine Hunley. If only she invested as much in the ending of Trace. Grrrr.
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