Saturday, May 26, 2012

New Dark Shadows Production Design Featurette

  • Warner Bros have released a new video featurette for the Dark Shadows movie, this time exploring the film's production art, with contributions from director Tim Burton and production designer Rick Heinrichs. It can be viewed in the window above and eagle-eyed fans should look out for Brewster's department store and Braithwaite & Sons, as featured on the original Dark Shadows episodes.
  • Danny Elfman's Dark Shadows: Original Score album entered the Starpulse album chart at number 35 for the period ending May 14, making it that week's highest-placed soundtrack release.
  • Website VFX Snapshot go behind the scenes of visual effects house The Senate's work on Dark Shadows, which include the digital exterior of the Collinwood mansion, which fascinating before and after shots. To read the feature, click here.
  • Meanwhile, FX Guide speaks to Dark Shadows visual effects supervisor Angus Bickerton, who discusses the film's retro-styled imagery and special effects work with more unseen images. To see more, click here.
  • And finally, Dark Shadows screenwriter Seth Grahame Smith is interviewed by Harry Knowles of Ain't It Cool about vampires in movies. To view the chat online, click here.

6 comments:

Den said...

Now that is some good stuff. I love seeing how this movie was made.

Ron_Daisy said...

Whatever became of the book on the making of the film? Is it out yet?

StuartM said...

The Art of the Film book has been delayed, but will still be published.

Ty said...

I noticed Dark Shadows is down to 1 screen (and 4 showtimes) at my local theater, while Avengers is still going strong on multiple screens and Men In Black is taking over...

Now that it's been out for a month or so, is it still too early to tell if the film was a success or a flop? Although there were many things I would have done differently had I been asked to write/direct (LOL) I am still hoping for a sequel (as well as expanded content on a dvd that shows more of the characters). Any word?

tom in Newburyport MA said...

I enjoyed the new DS movie despite the more comedic tone.... I hope we get a sequel that brings the great character of Quentin Collins to the canvas. And maybe a 'fun' actor to play Professor Stokes!
And I think Dr Hoffman can be back and survived 'the plunge' somehow...LOL
tes from Newbuyrport, Mass

Sharon Lynn H. said...

DARK SHADOWS has a great movie Soundtrack love how the movie opens w/the eerie glow vibe of the origional DS's before it goes into the Classic Moody Blues "Nights in White Satin" as Victoria is on the Train heading to Collinwood. Also, love the special effects & whole visual eerie tone to Dark Shadow's: Director Tim Burton art drawings in the featurette are really amazing, great art there!! Screen Writter/Author Seth Grahame-Smith interview on the "Aint it Cool" w/Henry Knowles is fascinating & creepy fun. Look forward to sequel(s) to honor DARK SHADOWS creepy light forevermore.