Reading plot descriptions isn’t the most enthralling thing in the world, but when they are in regard to films we don’t know much about, it is worth at least a glance. Today, we have two new ones. The first is for a project I’m quite interested in, the next film from Thank You For Smoking and Up In The Air director Jason Reitman. He is re-teaming with Oscar-winning Juno writer Diablo Cody for Young Adult. The drama stars Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, and we have the first synopsis via /Film. Check it out below and expect this one to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron plays Mavis Gary, a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson). When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate (Patton Oswalt) who hasn’t quite gotten over high school, either.

Next up we have a detailed story account from Tim Burton‘s next film, which of course stars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. The Dark Shadows announcement also brings the news that Jonny Lee Miller has joined the cast that includes Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Bella Heathcote, Chloe Moretz, and Gulliver McGrath. Check out the synopsis for the update on the TV show below via Coming Soon.

In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet—or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Brouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive.

Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles.

Also residing in the manor is Elizabeth’s ne’er-do-well brother, Roger Collins (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger’s precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family, to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David’s new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.

Dark Shadows begins filming this week in England and will hit theaters May 11th, 2012.

Which film are you most looking forward to?

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