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Johnny Depp to Play Tonto in Lone Ranger Movie
4 November 2009 5:26 AM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
As long ago as March 2008, there was news that Jerry Bruckheimer was producing a live-action Lone Ranger movie and that Pirates of the Caribbean writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio were working on the screenplay. Not much else was heard of the project until rumors started circulating in May of this year that Jack Sparrow, himself, Johnny Depp, would be starring in the film as Tonto, the Ranger's Native American partner.
In September, during a huge Walt Disney Pictures media blitz, Depp was officially announced to play Tonto. Recently, in a group interview in Santa Monica, Bruckheimer said that the project is still moving forward.
Elliot and Rossio worked on that also with some other writers and with Johnny. So they're creating something that has a kind of true-to-the-western [feel], but adding other additional elements like we did with Pirates so it won't be just a straight-ahead western.
According to some reports, »
- BrentJS Sprecher
Exclusive: Riley Steele on 'Piranha 3-D'
28 October 2009 5:50 PM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Riley Steele is best know for her work in adult films like Pirates 2: Stagnetti's Revenge, but the gorgeous twenty-two-year-old may soon win a bunch of new fans, and some mainstream success, with her supporting role in Alexandre Aja's upcoming 3-D remake of Joe Dante's cult classic Piranha. I met Steele on the Lake Havasu, Arizona set of Piranha this summer, on a day when she was filming her climactic scene – and swallowing a lot of water in the process. Needless to say she wasn't feeling very good that day. Being a trooper, however, she offered to chat with me later on the phone. Read on for the conversation that followed, in which Steele discusses making the transition from adult film star to... »
Uncertainty Looms Around 'Pirates of the Caribbean 4'
23 October 2009 12:55 AM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
Ever since Walt Disney Studios former Chairman Dick Cook took the D23's stage to announce "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides", reports after reports have come in about the development of this fourth "Pirates" movie. But, during a press event for "Astro Boy", actor Bill Nighy told Sci Fi Wire that any announcement about the movie is premature.
"I understand that there was an announcement that there was going to be a fourth, and now I've been told since that that was not a reliable announcement," the actor who plays Davy Jones in "Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" said. Though so, he didn't completely rule out the possibility of a fourth film. "I'm pretty sure that there will be [a fourth]," he said. "I would be amazed if there weren't, given the success of the first three."
As for the »
- AceShowbiz.com
Michael Jackson's This Is It takes on Lord of the Rings
12 October 2009 1:07 PM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
The power of Michael Jackson lives on - and it's proving enough to conquer the mystical might of the Lord of the Rings.
The late singer's upcoming concert movie Michael Jackson's This Is It has overtaken Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - the first film in Peter Jackson's trilogy - in a league table of films with the highest advance ticket sales of all time.
MovieTickets.com said This Is It had knocked The Fellowship of the Ring of the 25th place in the chart.
The Jacko film documents the star's preparations for his planned 50-date concert series and will be released on October 28. Sony Pictures edited hundreds of hours of rehearsal footage to create the movie after paying $60million for the film rights.
A Michael Jackson single and album with the same title are also set to be released.
The highest grossing concert film »
- David Bentley
Johnny Depp Not as Enthusiastic About Pirates 4
19 September 2009 3:53 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Just last week at Disney's D23 Expo, actor Johnny Depp appeared on stage in full Captain Jack Sparrow costume and persona to help announce the next sequel in the franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. However, with the sudden departure of Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook this past week, Depp has admitted to feeling less enthusiastic about reprising the Pirates role because of his strong working relationship with Cook.
Depp said that he was "in" on the first movie "before there was a script or anything" after he had a conversation with Cook about the project. Depp also credited Cook with being "supportive" of his portrayal of Jack Sparrow when he was first formulating the character.
When things went a little sideways on the first Pirates movie and others at the studio were less than enthusiastic about my interpretation of the character, Dick was there from the first moment. »
- BrentJS Sprecher
Johnny Depp Confirmed in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
11 September 2009 10:40 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
Actor Johnny Depp hovered near the top of the list of Hollywood leading men for years, but it wasn't until his blockbuster portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow in Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean that he became a worldwide superstar. Now, his character is so linked with the franchise, it would be hard to imagine a Pirates movie without him. Thankfully, Depp's return to the role is no longer a concern, at least for one more movie. In a rare public appearance in costume, Depp sailed into Disney's D23 Expo in Anaheim, California, to help announce that the fourth installment in the franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, was beginning production and that he would be returning as Captain Jack Sparrow. The film is slated for a summer 2011 release.
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- BrentJS Sprecher
'Pirates Of The Caribbean 4' Gets A Title At Disney Fan Convention
11 September 2009 3:53 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Johnny Depp sails onstage as Captain Jack Sparrow to promote 'On Stranger Tides'; plus Miley Cyrus, Nicolas Cage and more at D23.
Johnny Depp in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl"
Photo: Touchstone Pictures
Anaheim, California — Nobody puts on a show like Walt Disney, a point proven once again Friday morning (September 11) in a massive event featuring appearances by Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage, Miley Cyrus and big news on the future of the "Pirates of the Caribbean," "National Treasure" and other franchises.
Walt Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook took the stage after a live orchestra presented a tribute to Disney films new and old, addressing a crowd of 5,000 people at the Anaheim Convention Center as part of the studio's massive D23 fan convention.
Among the big news announced by Cook as he looked into the crystal ball at Disney's next several years on film: »
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 6-12:
2 September 2009 2:29 PM, PDT | Filmicafe | See recent Filmicafe news »
Sept. 6: Comedian JoAnne Worley is 72. Country singer David Allan Coe is 70. Country singer Mel McDaniel is 67. Singer-bassist Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is 66. Actress Swoosie Kurtz is 65. Comedian-actress Jane Curtin is 62. Country singer Buddy Miller is 57. Country drummer Joe Smyth of Sawyer Brown is 52. Actor-comedian Jeff Foxworthy is 51. Actor-comedian Michael Winslow ("Police Academy") is 51. Guitarist Pal Waaktaar of A-ha is 48. Country singer Mark Chesnutt is 46. Actress Rosie Perez is 45. Singer Macy Gray is 42. Singer CeCe Peniston is 40. Singer Darryl Anthony (Az Yet) is 40. Singer Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries) is 38. Actor Dylan Bruno ("Numb3ers") is 37. Actress Anika Noni Rose ("Dreamgirls") is 37. Actor Justin Whalin ("Lois and Clark") is 35. Singer Nina Persson (The Cardigans) is 35. Actress Naomie Harris ("Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest") is 33. Rapper Noreaga is 32. Rapper Foxy Brown is 31.Sept. 7: Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins is 79. Singer »
'Captain Blood' Remake Heads for Outer Space
1 August 2009 3:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
If you know your pirates and are a fan of classic cinema, then I'm sure I don't need to tell you about Captain Blood. The 1935 swashbuckling classic starred Errol Flynn as a doctor convicted of treason who escapes to the Caribbean to join forces with a French pirate, and was the role that made Flynn a star. But here we are 74 years later and suddenly the word 'remake' started to come up in conversation over at Warner Bros. That was almost a year ago, but not only is the film still in the works, the story is about to get one hell of a venue change. Variety now reports that Daybreakers duo Michael and Peter Spierig have been hired to direct an update that would transplant the action to outer space.
Back in December, Monika brought us the news that John Brownlow had been hired to pen a faithful remake, »
- Jessica Barnes
Apparently 'G.I. Joe' Delivers Big-Time Mindless Mayhem!
31 July 2009 7:48 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
One of the bigger surprises of the late-summer movie geekery is that Stephen Sommers' G.I. Joe is getting surprisingly positive reviews! I guess it's just that late-summer action flicks are assumed to be moronic by default, but that hasn't prevented a big fistful of online movie geeks from expressing their incredulous praise for the family-friendly action flick. Our own Todd Gilchrist saw and enjoyed the flick, and we'll throw you a teaser excerpt after the jump, but he reminded me that there's nothing really like hyper-kinetic and virtually mindless action films when you're in the mood for something fun.
With that in mind, I humbly offer a few of my favorite "Mindless Mayhem Moments."
The final car chase in Doomsday. Well-cut, well-scored, and wonderfully manic.
Any car chase in Death Race.
The alley brawl in Charlie's Angels.
The alley brawl in They Live.
The ridiculous car chase in »
- Scott Weinberg
Comic-Con: Pirates of the Caribbean to be scaled down and rebooted
26 July 2009 3:22 PM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Where does the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise go after the previous trilogy? Back to basics with a reboot, according to Disney head of production Oren Aviv.
But he doesn't mean taking it back to being just a theme park ride or throwing Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow overboard. Aviv wants a simpler, less epic story.
Aviv spoke to ComingSoon.net at Comic-Con and said: "It's important to get the story right and it's important to me to scale it down, because we can't get bigger.
"The movies have subsequently gotten bigger and bigger and very complicated and they were satisfying on so many levels obviously, but I want to kind of reboot the whole thing and bring it down to its core, its essence, just characters."
He said there was a lot of Captain Jack Sparrow's back story that we hadn't yet seen.
Aviv added: "We're going to »
- David Bentley
Clash of the Titans remake: First sighting of a mythical monster
19 July 2009 4:51 PM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Filming on the remake of the 1981 ancient Greek epic Clash of the Titans is well under way - and we now have our first sighting of a mythical creature.
Fans of the original Ray Harryhausen creature classic will recall that Perseus and his men take on monster scorpions. They grow to gigantic size after beast-man Calibos stabs the severed head of Medusa and her blood spills on the ground.
Well, we can now see the form of a giant scorpion on Tenerife, in the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, where the remake is partly being filmed (and which also provided the location for the Raquel Welch classic One Million Years B.C.)
I've placed the new image above, at the top, with a scorpion shot from the 1981 adventure below it.
You can watch some footage of the giant scorpions in action below.
In an earlier interview, Sam Worthington - »
- David Bentley
Cinematical Rewind: Ye Worst Pirate Movies Ever Made! (Arrr...)
18 July 2009 5:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
By Scott Weinberg, Reprinted from July '06
You'll no doubt remember all the controversy and skepticism that surrounded the production of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl... Oh wait, maybe you wouldn't remember it -- because it existed only in the deepest realms of mega-movie-geekery. Much of the skepticism and dismissive chit-chat came from the fact that the movie was based on an amusement park ride ... but the astute movie nuts knew what the problem was:
There hadn't been a good pirate movie in about three decades, and we had no reason to think that trend was about to be bucked. I know what I'm talking about, because I was one of the hand-wringers, one of the oh-so-brilliant movie nerds who knew that any sort of pirate movie was doomed from the word go. (Needless to say, in the case of The Black Pearl, I was dead wrong, »
- Cinematical staff
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Earns $58.4 Million in 24 Hours
16 July 2009 10:54 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
After breaking the all-time midnight box office record with $22.2 million on Tuesday night, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince went on to earn an estimated $58.4 million in the first 24 hours. But did it beat Transformers 2's huge opening day? And how did it stack up against The Dark Knight? Answers after the jump! This is the second biggest Wednesday in history, second to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which took in $62 million when it was released on June 24th. Half-Blood Prince beat out Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest to become the fourth biggest day in the history of American cinema, under The Dark Knight ($67.1m), Transformers 2 ($62m) and Spider-Man 3 ($59.8m). No other film in the Harry Potter series is in the top 10. Box Office analysts say that the latest Potter has a chance to make $190-$200 million in the first five days. The ... »
- Peter Sciretta
"Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince" continues to $58 million on Wednesday.
16 July 2009 3:11 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Warner Bros. Pictures' "Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince" earned a record-breaking $22.2 million from midnight showings and went on to total a most-impressive $58.3 million total Wednesday opening. This makes the sixth installment of the franchise the fourth highest single-day grossing film in history. The top 5 single-day opening movie grosses of all time are: 1. Warner Bros. Pictures' "The Dark Knight" - opened on July 18th, 2008 with $67.1 million. 2. Paramount Pictures' "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" with $62 million on June 24th this year. 3. Sony's "Spider-Man 3" which debuted with $59.8 million on May 4th, 2007. 4. Warner Bros. Pictures' "Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince" now at $58.3 million. 5. Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" with $55.8 million on July 7th, 2006. »
Harry Potter and the Lost Diary - 07/02/09
2 July 2009 10:08 PM, PDT | ScreenStar | See recent ScreenStar news »
We have so much to share with you today in the magical world of Harry Potter! First up, Bill Nighy has reportedly landed a role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. According to Nighy, he's the only British actor to not appear in the Harry Potter series, but we quickly debunk this. Next, we discuss a great interview that Dan Radcliffe gave to a New Zealand publication about how much comedy vs darkness there is in the Half-Blood Prince. Not enough it turns out. Then we get a little nostalgic at the powerful bonds of friendship the trio have formed over the course of nearly a decade, and how once filming is wrapped up, their lives will be forever changed. We also point you to a great article with behind-the-scenes footage of Hbp. We have a new interview with Evanna Lynch to share with you and we keep you »
- rsw@corp.popstar.com (Robert Samuel White)
Harry Potter and the Lost Diary - 07/02/09
2 July 2009 9:58 AM, PDT | PopStar | See recent PopStar news »
- We have so much to share with you today in the magical world of Harry Potter! First up, Bill Nighy has landed a role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. According to Nighy, he's the only British actor to not appear in the Harry Potter series, but we quickly debunk this. Next, we discuss a great interview that Dan Radcliffe gave to a New Zealand publication about how much comedy vs darkness there is in the Half-Blood Prince. Then we get a little nostalgic at the powerful bonds of friendship the trio have formed and how once filming is wrapped up, their lives will be forever changed. We also point you to a great article with behind-the-scenes footage of Hbp. We have an interview with Evanna Lynch and we keep you up-to-date on upcoming cast appearances! Bill Nighy: Minister of Magic It's being widely reported now that »
- rsw@corp.popstar.com (Robert Samuel White)
Depp Takes Aim At Transformers
1 July 2009 12:12 PM, PDT | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
Will Johnny Depp and his cohorts in Public Enemies be able to shoot down the rampaging Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen over the July 4 holiday? The film, along with Fox's 3D cartoon Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, opens in theaters today (Wednesday), and it's anybody's guess which one will produce the most fireworks. Transformers may have been a $200-million wonder last weekend, but ticket sales fell off far more steeply on Sunday than the studio had expected. By this weekend it could reach the point of audience saturation. At the same time, Johnny Depp is no stranger to box-office treasure troves. His Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is the third-highest-grossing film of all time (behind Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), and his Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is the sixth highest-grossing film. Moreover, no one is willing to call Ice Age 3 out at this point either, despite mixed reviews. Ice Age: The Meltdown, after all, grossed $651.9 million worldwide. »
134 New Names Invited to Join the Academy
1 July 2009 1:08 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Yesterday came the yearly announcement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as it extended 134 invitations to several artists and executives "who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures" read the press release. Of course all of them can decline, but I wouldn't necessarily expect that to happen as all who accept the invitation will be the only additions in 2009 to the Academy's roster of voting members. "These filmmakers have, over the course of their careers, captured the imagination of audiences around the world," said Academy President Sid Ganis. "It's this kind of talent and creativity that make up the Academy, and I welcome each of them to our ranks." The list follows below and reading around the best analysis I saw of it came from Nathaniel Rogers at The Film Experience who, among other things, pointed out the addition of longtime Darren Aronofsky's »
- Brad Brevet
Transformers Smashes The Box Office
29 June 2009 1:07 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
We knew it would be big, but few would have predicted that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen would take over $201million at the Us box office in only five days, delivering an opening only a hair behind that of The Dark Knight.It took the first Transformers twelve days to cross the $200 million mark, suggesting that this instalment has benefitted from the same ripple effect that led The Dark Knight and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest to do so much better than their predecessors. Revenge of the Fallen now has the best June opening ever, the biggest Imax weekend ever, as well as landing the (rather less impressive sounding) "highest-grossing non-holiday, non-Friday opening weekend". It's taken $387million worldwide, making a three-quel a virtual certainty, we'd've thought, and giving those who love Dinobots something to root for.Elsewhere in the charts, The Proposal slipped 45% to take $18.5m and land the number two spot, »
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