Who says soap operas aren't profitible? Starting April 10, Dark Shadows: The Complete DVD Collection will be available for purchase. Fans can relive all their favorite moments of the gothic soap just in time for the big screen adaptation starring Johnny Depp. The collection will feature bonus interviews with the stars of the sudser and creator Dan Curtis. To pre-order the DVD's click here!

Johnny Depp's surprisingly well-reviewed film Rango topped the box office this weekend with $38 million, according to Deadline. The animated comedy-western edged out the Matt Damon/Emily Blunt thriller The Adjustment Bureau, which came in at number two with $20.9 million. Looks like all those Super Bowl ads for Rango did the trick! Beastly, the teen remake of Beauty and the Beast, clocked in at number three with $10.1 million.

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The Huffington Post is reporting that Johnny Depp called Angelina Jolie "a shockingly good mother" during a Tokyo news conference promoting The Tourist. Depp praised his co-star for her parenting, and for remaining calm in the face of all her paparazzi attention. He credited Jolie and husband Brad Pitt for balancing their fame and multiple kids, admitting that he couldn't do the same.

Depp was obviously paying Jolie a compliment, but I wonder if he realizes the negative implication of "shockingly" (one could literally interpret it as Depp saying it is "shocking" that Jolie would be a good mother). Then again, this is a guy who wears hats Diane Keaton wouldn't touch anymore, and routinely stars as weirdo's in Tim Burton films, so maybe one should never expect a literal interpretation with him.

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Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, mermaids, zombies and Ian McShane as Blackbeard, how could Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides get any better? It can’t. Of course, if you’re a Orlando Bloom or Keira Knightley fan you’re about as lucky as a pirate captain without a ship, because they aren’t in it.

The first trailer for the fourth film in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has been released and it looks like Jack Sparrow’s quest to find the Fountain of Youth is going to be a raucous ride. Watch it after the jump!

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Tim and I have tossed the idea for Dark Shadows over the years. It was a TV program in the States in the late 60s and early 70s that I remember watching as a kid. I was obsessed with this character, Barnabas Collins, who was a vampire. I came to find out many years later that when he was a kid, Tim ran home like I did to watch that Gothic soap opera. It was a very strange thing back then.We looked at ways to go, story-wise. We've started to come up with something interesting. If all goes well, I will jump into that toward the end of this year."

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To my knowledge, although some movies were later turned into daytime soaps-Peyton Place begat Return to Peyton Place- this will be the first time a daytime soap will be adapted for the big screen. Although to be fair, DS, was also made into a blink-and-you-missed it primetime serial for NBC starring Ben Cross as Barnabas and  Another World's Joanna Going as his gothic love Victoria, but I am betting it's the daytime original that is being used for basis.