 "People Like Us" debuted to US$4.26 million, described as "meager" by Box Office Mojo, and only made US$12 million in North America.Pfieffer reunited with Tim Burton, her "Batman Returns" director, in "Dark Shadows" (2012), based on the gothic television soap opera of the same name.In the film, co-starring Johnny Depp, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter and Chloë Grace Moretz, she played Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the stern and strict, but loyal and devoted family matriarch.