Tuesday, February 28, 2012 12:57PM - By Damon Houx
For a while there The Lone Ranger looked DOA, but today it’s actually in production. In fact, it’s shooting right now. Though the film reunited the Pirates of the Caribbean creative team of Johnny Depp, producer Jerry Bruckheimer, (now Academy Award winning) director Gore Verbinski and writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio with Disney, it looked to be too expensive for their tastes, and they passed. But budgets were shuffled and now they’re going forward for a May 31, 2013 release.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:27PM - By Damon Houx
Though Edgar Wright has recently tweeted about working on his third movie with Simon Pegg (and Nick Frost), it appears he may be sidetracked from that. Deadline Hollywood announced that he’s going to be helming The Night Stalker, starring Johnny Depp. It’s a project Depp had set up with Disney, but there was no one attached to direct until now. As Deadline notes, it will start going into production after Depp finishes The Lone Ranger.
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Friday, January 20, 2012 12:25PM - By Damon Houx
Tim Burton‘s Dark Shadows is hitting theaters May 11, which means we should be seeing a trailer here any day now. For the time being there’s a new still of Johnny Depp in the film, and it suggests that his character is in line with many Burton protagonists of the past. He looks like a man-child, though that could be just in this still. We should know more when the trailer hits. Check out Vin Diesel in the first still from his latest film Riddick…
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Thursday, October 27, 2011 5:20PM - By Justine JC
Based on the recently published, national bestseller by the troublesome Dr. Gonzo (Hunter S. Thompson) Bruce Robinson presents a disappointing adaptation of The Rum Diary starring Johnny Depp, Richard Jenkins and Aaron Eckhart. I would’ve included Amber Heard in the line-up but her performance is so abominable that I’ve deemed her unworthy of sharing a sentence with the aforementioned actors.
Check out the review below…
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Friday, October 7, 2011 9:43AM - By Travis Woods
After playing such luminaries of literature as Hunter Thompson, Roald Dahl, and Willy Wonka, Johnny Depp is taking a break from earning 100 jillion dollars pretending to be Keith Richards in pirate garb in order to produce and star in a biopic about beloved children’s book author, Dr. Seuss.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:17PM - By Damon Houx
Spooky Scary. Johnny Depp stars in Tim Burton‘s Dark Shadows, and we saw spy photos from the set recently, but Empire has the first official stills from the production, also highlighting co-stars Michelle Pfieffer, Johnny Lee Miller, and Helena Bonham Carter. Take a look…
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Friday, September 23, 2011 12:27PM - By Damon Houx
Last we reported, Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp‘s take on The Lone Ranger was put out to pasture because of concerns of a huge budget. Now Deadline Hollywood is reporting that the film has finally got a contained budget and is going to try to start shooting in 2012, with an official announcement due next week.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1:12PM - By Laura Aguirre
By now you know that Johnny Depp is starring in The Rum Diary as Paul Kemp, a Hunter S. Thompson-esque character. Depp is no stranger to the Gonzo journalist. In 1998, he played Thompson in Terry Gilliam‘s adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The Rum Diary also features Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jerkins and Giovanni Ribisi, but, of course, the big draw is Depp. Shockingly enough, the big star has been left off the movie poster. Risky. You can check out the poster below, and see for yourself. I’m totally digging the bottles of rum.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10:42AM - By Damon Houx
What the what? Johnny Depp is sporting a new look for the now shooting Dark Shadows film by Tim Burton. It’s white. the film is based on the genre-soap opera that ran for five years and came to star vampire Barnabas Collins (originally played by Jonathan Frid) in the midst of all sorts of supernatual mayhem. It looks like Burton’s pushed the character in a more “Hot Topic”-friendly direction.
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