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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Art Velez and JJ Carrell
Where would TV be without The Simpsons? Thankfully, it will still be a while before we'll ever have to find out. With no end in sight, Fox's landmark animated hit celebrates "the most meaningless milestone of all!" — their words — with Sunday's 500th episode (8/7c), a remarkable run by anyone's measure. Even if you've been taking this show for granted the last few years, or possibly decade, you don't want to miss — though you might want to record — the dazzling opening sequence, a kaleidoscopic montage showing the Simpsons' evolution from no-def to Hi-Def, with more couch gags than the eye and brain can process.
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Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming is a perfect choice to host the 2011 Britannia Awards (Sunday at 8/7c on TV Guide Network). I mean, the man won a Tony Award for playing an emcee (for Cabaret in 1998)! Plus, the Scottish actor has other skills relevant to the gig — just ask him. "I'm a little bit cheeky and a little bit mischievous," he says. "I'm quite good on my feet."
It's a good thing too, because Cumming's packed schedule — including his ongoing gig on The Good Wife, which shoots in New York — made it difficult to find time to fly to Los Angeles to host the show, let alone prepare what he will say. "It kind of keeps me on my toes and kind of feels like doing theater without having to do a play for six months," he says. "I have no script yet, but I enjoy the last minute-ness of it."
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Cumming promises that he won't be nearly as controversial as that other biting awards show host from across the pond. "I think it's a Scottish thing to...
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Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter is in negotiations to join frequent collaborator Johnny Depp in Gore Verbinski's upcoming take on The Lone Ranger, according to The Hollywood Reporter...
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Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers has made an entire career out of critiquing celebrity fashion, so when asked which A-lister she wants to make over, Rivers knew right away.
"Helena Bonham Carter," the Fashion Police host told reporters Friday at NBC's Summer Press day. "She looks like they left the door unlocked at the asylum."
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Rivers' daughter, co-executive producer Melissa, also dubbed Leighton Meester as "the gift that keeps on...
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The King's Speech
The Kings Speech was the big winner at the British Film Awards, taking home seven wins, including best film.
Boardwalk Empire, The King's Speech top SAG Awards
The film about King George VI's struggle to overcome a stutter also won for ...
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Colin Firth and Natalie Portman
The King's Speech leads the 83rd Academy Awards with 12 nominations.
The British drama will vie for best picture alongside Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The Kids Are All Right, 127 Hours, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit and Winter's Bone. True Grit collected the second-highest total of nominations — 10.
King's Speech director Tom Hooper will face off against Darren Aronofsky ...
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Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway is about to fall down the rabbit hole, and into the role of the benevolent White Queen in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.
Helena Bonham Carter, who has worked with her fiancé Burton on several movies including Sweeney Todd and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, has also been cast as the "Off with their heads" shouting Red Queen, says The Hollywood Reporter.
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Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated actress Helena Bonham Carter is in talks to join McGs Terminator Salvation filling a top-secret role described as small but pivotal Thats what she saidPer the Reporter exteriors for the fourth installment in the franchise which chronicles the origin of the humans battle with SkyNet are being filmed now in New Mexico before a possible SAG strike or lockout comes to be Matt Mitovich
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Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter late Saturday welcomed their second child and first daughter, says People.... The web series Quarterlife gets its NBC premiere Monday, Feb. 18, at 9 pm/ET, sandwiched between Baby Borrowers and Medium).... JoBeth Williams on Dec. 20 will help announce the nominees for the Screen Actors Guild’s new honors for stunt ensembles.... DVD releases have been set for Rob & Big: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2 Uncensored (Jan. 8) and 30 Days of Night, Goya's Ghosts and the CBS TV-movie Jesse Stone: Sea Change (all on Feb. 26).
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