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September
26 2004 |
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Alec Newman (2004 Barnabas) is to play a recurring
role in the new season of UPN's Star Trek: Enterprise,
as part of the story arc featuring the return of Brent
Spiner. The episodes tentatively air on October 29,
November 5 and November 12.
•
S.E. Hinton will be signing copies of
Hawkes Harbor at the Dutton's Brentwood
Bookstore on September 29 at 7.00pm. The store is located
on 11975 San Vicente Boulevard, Los Angeles. For more information,
telephone (310) 476 6263.
•
Actress Julianne Moore has revealed herself
to be a fan of Dark Shadows: "I loved the Dark
Shadows because it scared me," she enthused during
the press junket for her movie The Forgotten. "Whenever
it would come on, my sister would rush out to help my mother
fold laundry or set the table. Not me. I was glued to the
TV set, squirming but hoping it would get even scarier!"
• Jonathan Frid
(Barnabas) has updated his official website to include more
of his memories of Dark Shadows. Pay a visit by clicking
here.
•
MPI Home Video are shortly to withdraw their
range of Dark Shadows 1991 Revival Series videotapes
from sale. For a list of available volumes,
click
here.
• Dark Shadows
spoof Misty Dawn is to receive a cable airing on
Dallas Community Television. The first episode can be
seen on Channel 15b on September 27 at 6.00pm, September
29 at 9.00pm and October 2 at 11.00am.
With
thanks to Fran Robert, David Moore, Nancy Kersey and ShadowGram
| Angelique
Pilot Photograph |
September
21 2004 |
|  We
can now unveil another official publicity photograph
from the recent WB Dark Shadows pilot, once
again courtesy of Dan Curtis Productions.
This
stunning portrait of Ivana Milicevic as Angelique
joins the pilot pictures
added to the site last week. A larger version of
the image can be downloaded as desktop wallpaper
by clicking
here.
Remember
to check back next week, when we will be featuring
a new interview with the pilot's associate producer,
Jim Pierson, exclusively discussing the highs
and lows of the production.
Ivana
Milicevic as Angelique
Photograph
courtesy of Dan Curtis
Productions © 2004. Reproduced with permission |
| Hawkes
Harbor |
September
21 2004 |
An
intriguing sideways look at the Dark Shadows world
has just hit US bookshelves in the form of Hawkes Harbor,
a new novel by SE Hinton. The book was originally
developed as a HarperCollins Dark Shadows novel,
before being rejected due to concerns over language and
content.
Undaunted,
Hinton has since completed the project as a standalone novel,
altering character names and other copyrighted elements.
The finished book, however, displays its roots plainly,
and Dark Shadows fans will find many familiar
personalities and situations, as ersatz Willie Loomis figure
Jamie Sommers struggles to come to terms with the repercussions
of life with an undead employer. From the publisher:
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"An
orphan and a bastard, Jamie Sommers grew up knowing he had
no hope of heaven. Conceived in adultery and born in sin,
Jamie was destined to repeat the sins of his parents - or
so the nuns told him. And he proved them right. Taking to
sea, Jamie sought out danger and adventure in exotic ports
all over the world as a smuggler, gunrunner-and murderer.
Tough enough to handle anything, he's survived foreign prisons,
pirates, and a shark attack. But in a quiet seaside town
in Delaware, Jamie discovered something that was enough
to drive him insane-and change his life forever. For it
was in Hawkes Harbor that Jamie came face to face with the
ultimate evil....
S.E.
Hinton is acclaimed as one of the most provocative,
best known and best selling young adult authors of all time.
More than 30 years after its publication The Outsiders
continues to appear on such bestseller lists as USA Today.
Hinton's gritty and powerful novels have also inspired four
major motion pictures. She lives in her home town of Tulsa,
Oklahoma."
To
order the book at a discount price from Amazon.com, click
here. To read this site's review of the book, click
here.
With
thanks to ShadowGram
| Hollywood
for 2005 Festival |
September
21 2004 |
The
2005 Dark Shadows Festival, billed as a Dark Shadows
Hollywood Weekend, brings the annual celebration to
Tinseltown from July 29-31 2005. Promising: "debut
appearances by several Dark Shadows celebrities,"
the hotel location and further details will be announced
soon.
With
thanks to ShadowGram
| News
in Brief |
September
16 2004 |
•
Kate
Jackson (Daphne) is to make her
first ever UK personal appearance at the London Film
and Comic Con on November 6-7. For more information,
click
here.
• David Selby (Quentin)
can be seen in the upcoming Ben Affleck comedy Surviving
Christmas. The movie is scheduled for US release on
October 22.
• The makers of Dark
Shadows spoof Misty Dawn have posted a downloadable
trailer for their first episode. To view it, click
here.
• The Dying God: A
Vampire's Tale is a new play premiering at Manhattan's
Common Basis Theatre on October 7. Author and Dark Shadows
fan Gerard Denza claims to have been "greatly
inspired by the writing of [Dark Shadows scribes]
Malcolm Marmorstein and Ron Sproat." For more information,
click
here.
| New
Pilot Photographs |
September
15 2004 |
We
are delighted to present two official publicity photographs
from the recent WB Dark Shadows pilot, courtesy of
Dan Curtis Productions. Larger versions of both images
can be downloaded as desktop wallpaper by clicking
here. Next week there will be another picture from the
production posted on the site, so be sure to pay us a visit.
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Left:
Marley
Shelton
as Victoria Winters and Alec Newman as Barnabas
Collins
Below: Blair Brown as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
and Martin Donovan as Roger Collins
|
Photographs
courtesy of Dan Curtis
Productions © 2004. Reproduced with permission
| DVD
Collection 15 Cover and Extras |
September
5 2004 |
MPI
Home Video have unveiled the cover artwork and extras
for November's Dark Shadows DVD Collection 15. Click
on the thumbnail for a larger view of the cover:
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Dark
Shadows DVD Collection 15·
Released November 23
 ·
Episodes 776-815,
presented on four disks
· Disc 1: Donna
McKechnie interview
· Disc 2: Michael Stroka interview
· Disc 3: Louis Edmonds interview
· Disc 4: David Selby interview
· Collectable postcard
· Region 0 Encoding/NTSC (Compatible with
players worldwide)
Order
now at a discount price from Amazon.com |
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