Here’s the book trailer that made both Tim and Timur interested!

Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp is making a documentary – about Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards.

Depp, who is usually seen acting in front of the camera, will direct the new movie.

It will be his first time behind the camera since he directed Marlon Brando in The Brave back in 1997.

The actor and Richards are long-time pals and the guitar great even played Depp’s dad in the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.

Depp told contactmusic.com: ‘I’m very touched that Keith has agreed to show up in front of my cameras.’

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The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd St., is screening films in conjunction with its ongoing Tim Burton exhibit.

Sunday at 2:30 p.m., the museum is presenting a double-bill of “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas” with the director’s bizarre 1984 animated short, “Frankenweenie,” which first brought him to the attention of Hollywood movie executives. The movie scared the executives at Disney which funded it and became a legend as the studio refused to screen it. Years later, they proudly released it on video.

“Frankenweenie” combines animation with live actors including the late great Joseph Maher, who lived in Fairfield for many years.

Film free with $20 MOMA admission.

For more information, go to www.moma.org.

In a short amount of time, Mia Wasikowska has established herself as a rising star of the big and small screen. A trained ballerina turned actress, Wasikowska has been challenging herself as a performer since he age of 9. Wasikowska recently received critical praise from prominent national television critics for her portrayal of the tormented and suicidal teen Sophie in HBO’s Series In Treatment. Produced by Mark Wahlberg and directed by Rodrigo Garcia, In Treatment focuses on the relationship between a therapist (Gabriel Byrne) and his patients. In recognition of her performance, Wasikowska was honored by the Los Angeles Based organization Australians In Film (whose Host Committee includes Cate Blanchett, Naomi Watts, NicolKidman, and Hugh Jackman among others) with the Breakthrough Actress Award. The series was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Drama Series.

Read more about Mia at the Spirit Awards website…

Also, below you can watch a clip of Mia as Pamela in the movie:

“Next up, Atwood said she’s off to Venice to work on The Tourist, starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. Then she teams up once again with Tim Burton–having previously worked on a number of Burton’s films, including Edward Scissorhands–for his take on the 1970s vampire soap opera Dark Shadows. ‘It’s really the most fun a person can have because Tim really lets you do your thing,’ she said.”

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES will be released in theaters May 20, 2011 #pirates

And while were talking about Johnny Depp. Here’s another Mad Hatter promo picture.

Twilight fans, you might think that no one has ever loved vampires like you do, that there’s no way your parents could understand the passion you have for sweet, tortured Edward Cullen. That’s because you probably haven’t head of Dark Shadows.

Decades before Stephenie Meyer put pen to paper, the 1960s gothic soap opera was entertaining daytime TV fans with tales of witches, werewolves, and, yes, blood-sucking fiends of the night. There have been many attempts to remake the series since its original airing, but with the recent vampire craze comes a new stab at the Dark Shadows world – and this one stands a real shot of happening because Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are partnering to remake it.

The reasons for their involvement are simple: Burton was an old-school fan of the series, and as a boy Depp was obsessed with the central character, vampire Barnabas Collins, originally played by Jonathan Frid, who made the pulses of young ladies race even as he failed to resist his darker urges. Production on the film begins soon, with the film destined for a 2011 release. While initially skeptical about the film, we’ve started getting excited. And here are four big reasons why:

1. Barnabas Collins = the original vampire in love. The original Dark Shadows struggled to find an audience in its first year, but the appeal of a hot, tortured vampire is apparently cross-generational.

When Barnabas was introduced to the show in 1967, he was initially portrayed as a properly evil creature of the night. But when he became romantically infatuated with a waitress who bore a striking resemblance to his long-lost love (yeah, The Vampire Diaries didn’t call dibs on that storyline). The writers and producers of the show sought to strike a balance between his true vampire nature (Barnabas, even at his most virtuous, was no vegetarian) and his new passion, and thus television’s first creature of the night who longed for love was born. Young women around the world would never be the same again. We’ve seen a thousand different takes on it since, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Underworld, and while it never gets old, maybe it’s time for the O.G. version to get another stab at fame.

2. Johnny Depp as a vampire = weird-hot genius. Depp has a talent for capturing the humanity in even the strangest character (Edward Scissorhands, if you please), but there’s a thin line between weird-hot and just plain weird, and sometimes he crosses it. Captain Jack Sparrow? Weird-hot. Sweeney Todd? Weird. Ichabod Crane? Weird-hot. Willy Wonka? Weird. The defining aspect of the weird-hot roles is that Depp’s character is not necessarily the strangest thing about the world he inhabits, which should pay off in Dark Shadows’ favor, given the fact that it’s a fictional universe full of supernatural elements. And more weird-hot roles for Depp are good news, especially when you consider how flat-out weird his Mad Hatter is going to be.

3. Dark Shadows = one trippy show. While the series might have started off fairly normally in 1968, by its third season there were vengeful ghosts, lustful succubi, Frankenstein-esque monsters…and did we mention time travel? We gotta mention time travel. Because in 1968, the show’s young female protagonist, Victoria Winters, was sent back in time to the year 1795 thanks to a seance gone wrong. In the past, she encountered a then-human Barnabas as well as other Collins ancestors, and made the mistake of talking too much about the future, leading to her being hung as a witch – which ended up sending her back to the present.

It’s hard to see how that insane storyline would exactly fit into a Barnabas-heavy film, but who’s to say Tim Burton won’t at least pay homage to it or some of the series’s other eclectic elements?

4. Who needs all that melodrama? Sure, Dark Shadows had plenty of gothic atmosphere and spooky music, but it was directed with a light touch, and the characters were often allowed a certain amount of playfulness with each other – as an example, check out this sparring scene between Barnabas and his rival in love, Burke Devlin. Between Bella throwing herself off cliffs to get Edward’s attention in New Moon and Bill and Sookie’s extreme emotional shifts on True Blood, this genre could use a walk on the slightly more cheerful side.

All in all, there’s enough going for this project to make a little bit of anticipation worth your while. And while we wait for 2011, there’s always the original series on DVD or the 1991 version on Hulu. Take a look and ask yourself – in these crowded times, is there room for a Team Barnabas?

“I’ve rarely had an opportunity to work with the evil family,” he said. “I’m working with Helena Bonham Carter, who’s a lovely lady and also a completely scary witch when she wants to be. I’m enjoying working with adult cast tremendously.”

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