Showing posts with label Johnny Depp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Johnny Depp. Show all posts

Thursday, May 26, 2011

As 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' hits U.S. theaters, Sen. Ron Wyden puts “hold” on a controversial anti-piracy bill -Hollywood unhappy

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Walt Disney Pictures video: International Cast - Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides



Walt Disney Pictures video: Making The Soundtrack - Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Hans Zimmer, Rodrigo y Gabriela on the music in the fourth installment of the film series. http://youtu.be/p86S3O3RorI


This afternoon, as 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' hits U.S. theaters, Senator Ron Wyden has placed a parliamentary “hold” on S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act, a controversial anti-piracy bill making its way thru Congress with multi-industry support, making many in Hollywood unhappy according to Joe Mullin of paidcontent.


Senator Throws A Roadblock In Front of Anti-Piracy Bill
By Joe Mullin
May 26, 2011 3:53 p.m. E.T.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) made a move today that’s likely to make him a hero in the blogosphere—but a target for the entertainment industry. Wyden has put a “hold” on a controversial anti-piracy bill. While he supports the bill’s basic goals, Wyden said today he’s “not willing to muzzle speech and stifle innovation and economic growth” in the name of fighting online piracy.
Read the rest of the article at
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-senator-throws-a-roadblock-in-front-of-anti-piracy-bill/


Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Ahoy, me hearties... 9 days to go: Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (trailers): Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane



Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides -Official trailer #1:
http://youtu.be/KR_9A-cUEJc



Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides -Official trailer #2:
http://youtu.be/wukFJEvke7E

Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, starring Johnny Depp,Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane (as Blackbeard -her father) and Geoffrey Rush (as Barbarossa). Jerry Bruckheimer Films in association with Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Rob Marshall, opens in the U.S. on Friday May 20th.

The official YouTube Channel for the fourth film in the Pirates series is easily THE single best-designed media promotional resource for a film I've ever seen, and could well become the industry template for all future blockbuster releases, as they've literally thought of everything a fan could want to see or know, inc. Twitter updates from producer Jerry Bruckheimer.

The videos are set to run automatically, so all you have to do is go to the URL and watch the various ways that Rob Marshall, Jerry Bruckheimer & Co., the Mouse House, and the Lego folks combine to find ways to entertain you.


It's damn impressive and shows what can happen when you have so many smart and savvy people who want to give the consumer a value for his entertainment dollar.

If this YouTube Channel doesn't persuade you to see the film, nothing will.

http://www.youtube.com/user/disneypirates


The Jack Sparrow escape scene -by chandelier!- was filmed in Greenwich's Old Royal Naval College.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1316457/Pirates-Caribbean-River-Thames-Johnny-Depp-films-London.html

And before you ask via email from your corner of the world, far from the ocean-side city I live in, no, the fountain of youth is NOT located here in Hallandale Beach, otherwise, things here would be very, very different -better!





First Day of Filming - Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

http://youtu.be/RWrCvlsjzTk

From the genius that was Walt Disney!



From Disneyland to the Big Screen - An exclusive look at Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
http://youtu.be/iB_WP4fwGow

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Jack Sparrow (feat. Michael Bolton)
Text Colorhttp://youtu.be/GI6CfKcMhjY

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Wow!
The Peter Mountain/Disney Enterprises photo of Penelope in costume in this LA Times story, which I hadn't seen anywhere else before, is just AMAZING!

Los Angeles Times

The Actors: A seagoing Cruz's adventurous turn Penélope Cruz plays a take-charge swashbuckler in the latest installment of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' franchise.
By Steven Zeitchik, Los Angeles Times
May 1, 2011
Penélope Cruz has won an Oscar, worked with such famed directors as Woody Allen and Pedro Almodóvar and counts Tom Cruise and Daniel Day-Lewis among her famed costars. But in a roughly 15-year career spanning two continents, the Spanish actress had never tackled a particular acting challenge: swashbuckling on a pirate ship.
Read the rest of the article at:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-penelope-cruz-20110501,0,5154439.story

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Fandamonium - Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

http://youtu.be/3OeASbdbGhE




World Premiere - Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Disneyland, Anaheim, California, May 7, 2011.

http://youtu.be/kHpMd-hx3S8

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Los Angeles Times
Disneyland prepares for the 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' premiere A 3-D screen on Tom Sawyer Island, food for 2,000 people, musical acts — it takes a seaworthy crew.
By Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times
May 6, 2011

For the last few weeks, after Disneyland has closed its gates for the night, a team of workers, including eight divers, has labored through into the morning in Frontierland and New Orleans Square, ferrying building materials to Tom Sawyer Island and sinking support structures into the floor of the surrounding "river."

Meanwhile, at corporate headquarters in Burbank, Laura-Lee Hartung has been combing through her list of a select 700 guests, checking such details as whether Disneyland's catering chef has prepared a menu that meets the needs of a visiting girl with certain food allergies. And Kevin Frawley has been lining up a cast of nearly 100 musical acts and other entertainers for a one-time-only show with a pirate theme.

Read the rest of the article at:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-pirates-premiere-20110506,0,6856127.story

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Los Angeles Times

Ministry of Gossip
blog
'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' premieres outdoors at Disneyland with Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz
May 8, 2011 11:43 am
By Jessica Gelt

A grown man cried after failing to nab Johnny Depp's autograph along the 2,700-foot-long black carpet that lined Main Street in Disneyland on Saturday, leading to the world premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stanger Tides," which also stars Penelope Cruz and Geoffrey Rush.

Nearly 25,000 rabid fans had waited, some for up to 10 hours, to catch sight of stars such as Depp, Cruz, Rush, Ian McShane, Kevin McNally, Sam Claflin, Jodie Foster, Martin Short, Teri Hatcher, Kirstie Alley, Joey Lawrence, Cat Cora and more as they arrived at the premiere over a period of two hours Saturday evening.
Read the rest of the article (plus photos) at: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gossip/2011/05/pirates-of-the-caribbean-stranger-tides-johnny-depp-penelope-cruz.html

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Lots of photos of Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz and the rest of the cast plus celens attending the film premiere at Disneyland:
http://www.popsugar.com/Johnny-Depp-Penelope-Cruz-Disneyland-Premiere-Pirates-Caribbean-Stranger-Tides-16364246

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Pop Sugar
(with lots of photos)
Johnny Depp Plays Host For a Special Oprah Screening of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
http://www.popsugar.com/Pictures-Johnny-Depp-Oprah-16285934

USA Today
Knightley on 'Pirates': I wanted to do something else
By Arienne Thompson, USA TODAY
May 10, 2011 10:00 AM
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2011/05/knightley-on-pirates-i-wanted-to-do-something-else-/1

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TheWrap
Report: Disney Planning 'Pirates of the Caribbean' 5 & 6
December 03, 2010 @ 12:33 pm
http://www.thewrap.com/deal-central/column-post/report-disney-planning-pirates-caribbean-5-6-22996


Screenshot by South Beach Hoosier, i.e. yours truly, who snapped this during a Miami Dolphins at Arizona Cardinals broadcast.

My first post mentioning Johnny Depp was on September 14, 2008 titled,
Johnny Depp shows up for ballgame, Dolphins don't!
That featured some of the first articles about him in South Florida newspapers, circa mid-1980's.

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/johnny-depp-shows-up-for-ballgame.html

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A great mini-history lesson of sorts on pirates was written by foreign policy analyst and best-selling author Max Boot in the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, titled, Pirates, Then and Now - How Piracy Was Defeated in the Past and Can Be Again.
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65156/max-boot/pirates-then-and-now

I'll excerpt this portion since it pertains to one of the main characters in the film, Barbarosa, played by Academy Award-winner Geoffrey Rush.

THE SWARMING SEAS
Piracy was once a far more serious problem than it is today. In a history of piracy published in 1907, Colonel John Biddulph, a retired British army officer, wrote of the early 1700s:

From the moment of losing sight of the Lizard [the southernmost post in England] till the day of casting anchor in the port of destination an East India ship was never safe from attack, with the chance of slavery or a cruel death to crew and passengers in case of capture. From Finisterre to Cape Verd[e] the Moorish pirates made the seas unsafe, sometimes venturing into the mouth of the [English] channel to make a capture. Farther south, every watering-place on the African coast was infested by the English and French pirates who had their headquarters in the West Indies. From the Cape of Good Hope to the Head of the Persian Gulf, from Cape Comorin to Sumatra, every coast was beset by English, French, Dutch, Danish, Portuguese, Arab, Malay or other local pirates.

There was no peace on the ocean. The sea was a vast No Man's domain, where every man might take his prey.

Biddulph was not exaggerating. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, pirate communities flourished in and around the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Pirates were also prevalent in East Asia, with the seas around the Malay archipelago -- modern-day Indonesia and Malaysia -- infested for centuries by pirates such as the fierce Dyaks of Borneo and the Ilanun of the Philippines. Koxinga, a Chinese pirate and anti-Manchu rebel, at one point led as many as 100,000 men, and in 1661 he seized Taiwan from the Dutch. In the early eighteenth century, a confederation of 40,000 pirates based in Canton dominated the South China Sea, first under the leadership of Cheng Yih and then, after his death in 1807, under that of his widow, Cheng Shi, a former prostitute better known as Madam Cheng.

The North African corsair Barbarossa -- known as Khayr ad-Din in Arabic -- born to a Turkish father and a Greek mother on the Aegean island of Lesbos, was even more successful. In the early sixteenth century, he conquered Algiers and Tunis and, with the blessing of the Ottoman emperor, turned them into bases for sea raiding, which they would remain for the next three centuries. Although commonly called piracy, this activity was more properly known as "privateering," the term for state-sanctioned piracy. Morocco and Tripoli, the other states along the Barbary Coast, joined in this lucrative business, which involved hijacking ships from Christian nations, selling their cargoes, and either ransoming the passengers and crew back to their families or selling them into slavery. In the early sixteenth century, Algiers alone was estimated to have a hundred sailing ships manned by thousands of sailors all engaged in privateering. With such a formidable force at its disposal, Algiers was able to hold 30,000 Christian captives (including, at one point, the Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes). These Muslim corsairs were matched by Christian adversaries from the Knights of St. John, who used bases first in Rhodes and then in Malta to plunder Muslim ships around the Mediterranean. Europeans also took many Muslims as slaves; Barbarossa's brother served for a time as a galley slave to the Knights of St. John.
Seriously, where else but my blog would you get the real back-story on a guy like Barbarosa?

And in case you didn't ever think about it before, you know that reference to "The Shores of Tripoli" in the U.S. Marines Hymn, i.e fight song?
Who do you think the Marines were fighting then?

To quote Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley): "Pirates!""

http://www.marineband.usmc.mil/learning_tools/library_and_archives/resources_and_references/marines_hymn.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Decatur


The Decatur House is located just around the corner from The White House (and across from Lafayette Park) is one of my favorite places in all of historical Washington, D.C., so the next time you visit Washington, make sure you make time to check it out.
You won't be sorry.


http://www.decaturhouse.org/
http://www.whitehousehistory.org/
http://www.youtube.com/user/whitehousehistory


Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Wow! Just saw new trailer for Disney's/Tim Burton's 3D "Alice in Wonderland," starring Johnny Depp

Above, actress Mia Wasikowska as Alice
in
Walt Disney Pictures forthcoming
Alice in Wonderland.

Wow!
Over the weekend, I saw the new trailer for

Disney's
newest little dividend that'll keep
on giving,
Tim Burton's 3-D Alice in
Wonderland
, starring Johnny Depp,
Ann Hathaway
and Helena Bonham
Carter
, with twenty-year old Australian
actress
Mia Wasikowska starring as
Alice.

(She'll also be playing Jane Eyre in a new
film out in 2011 produced by BBC Films.
Once Alice comes out, her life of relative
anonymity disappears forever.)

Alice is slated to come out March 5th and
based on what I've seen thus far, it's a
safe bet I'll be among those
in line to see it
the first weekend.


It's really the damnedest thing I ever saw,
and the music by
Danny Elfman is both
weirdly and instantly familiar once you
hear it, like so many other memorable
Disney TV/film
scores and themes in my
head and yours, though mine, necessarily
includes
ones from things you may well
have forgotten, like, say, well,
The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh,
starring Patrick McGoohan.



The particular Alice trailer link I have here
is the one that I believe has the most context
of the various
trailers on the Internet, since
it includes the very reason she is trying
to
escape from things in the first place:

http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/aliceinwonderland/#/epk/video/

Looks like the Mouse House has invented
a new
Billion $$$ printing press again!

I actually spent a good 45 minutes on the
ingenious movie website over the weekend
trying different things out, and it's just
amazing how ridiculously clever they are:

http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/aliceinwonderland/

Really looks like film director
Tim Burton
is firmly back in the
GENIUS camp -again!
This time, to stay.

Speaking of 3D films, at her her Wax Word
blog today, Sharon Waxman, editor of
The Wrap, the best new addition to the
Hollywood scene this year, waxes about
some well-known Hollywood film directors
with a strong hankering to make some 3D
films in the future -and she names the
names.

Hollywood Seized by 3D Mania

http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/hollywood-seized-3d-mania-12141

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Johnny Depp shows up for ballgame, Dolphins don't!

Cardinals QB Kurt Warner and star WR Anquan Boldin, formerly of Pahokee High School and FSU, walk from the sidelines towards the field after a Dolphins punt leading into commercial break of Dolphins game Sunday afternoon. Boldin caught six passes for 3 TDs in the easy 31-10 Cardinals victory.

The Cardinals are now 2-0 for the first time since 1991, while the Dolphins didn't score in their opening drive for the 20th straight game.



Screenshot by South Beach Hoosier


Screenshot by South Beach Hoosier

Coming out of a commercial break with the Arizona Cardinals leading the Dolphins 14-0 with 28 seconds left in the first quarter, CBS-TV cameras caught former South Florida resident (Miramar) and film star Johnny Depp taking in the game at University of Phoenix Stadium.

Ironically, I was taping the ballgame on a videotape that I'd used earlier this morning when I popped it into the VCR before going to sleep so I could catch some films on the Starz free weekend promotion. The last film on the tape was the last Pirates of the Carribean film starring... exactly.

With this loss the Dolphins have now lost their last 11 road games, going back to the Thanksgiving game at Detroit in 2006.
Conversely, the New York Giants have now won their last 11 games on the road, since the Dolphins home game last year against the Giants was in London.

You may recall that we all learned from multiple sources last year that agreeing to move the home game to London and deprive Dolphin fans of a rare Giants home game, was the high price that Dolphin owner Wayne Huizenga happily paid in order to get the NFL to award him another Super Bowl -before he sells the majority share of the team in 2010.

(There are plenty of rumors percolating in South Florida -and around NFL media circles- that the sale will actually happen sooner rather than later, now that Huizenga sees that the team is, yes, years, from being playoff caliber material.)

I've long been of the school of thought that argued that Huizenga should've sold the team years ago, the same way that he should've never listened to Jimmy Johnson and talked him out of resigning, and then agreed to that Faustian bargain of accepting Dave Wannstedt as Dolphins head coach-in-waiting, to help JJ with the coaching load.

You made your deals with the Devil -now he's collecting!
With interest!

Below the first mentions of Johnny Depp and Hallandale in local newspapers:

excerpt
Miami Herald
By Joan McIver, Herald Staff Writer
March 14, 1985

OH HORRORS:
When former Miramar resident Johnny Depp , 21, moved to California, he acted as though his life had turned into a nightmare. Depp, the son of Betty Sue Palmer and Hallandale public utilities director John Depp, became a movie star. He co-stars with Heather Langenkamp in "Nightmare on Elm Street," his first movie. Depp was back in town last week for a short visit with his parents.

"I play the part of Heather's boyfriend," he said." is not a complete work of art, but it's right." Since filming the horror flick, Depp has completed another movie, "Private Resort," also by director Wes Craven. Not bad for someone with no previous acting experience.

Depp moved to California in 1983 with a local band called The Kids, but found the going rough for musicians. "I was hanging out in Melrose, just looking for a job," Depp said. "I had a friend who was an actor. He took me to see his agent, and they signed me up for 'Elm Street.' Acting is real addicting."
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel
ACTOR JOHNNY DEPP FINDS SUBSTANCE IN FILM 'PLATOON'
By Debbie Blaylock, Staff Writer
February 4, 1987

In the spring of 1985 after filming Nightmare on Elm Street and Private Resort, actor Johnny Depp said he was ''ready for something with more substance than chasing girls and running down hallways.''

Today, the Miramar High School graduate is being watched by millions of movie-goers in the highly acclaimed movie Platoon.

Some critics describe Platoon as the first realistic depiction of the Vietnam War. Director and writer Oliver Stone drops Depp and the rest of the dirty, sweat-soaked platoon into a jungle heavy with the stench of death.

To describe it in one word: intense.

''For the first week or so, he didn't know if he would make it,'' said John Depp of Hallandale , Johnny's father. ''For two weeks before they started filming, they made Johnny and the others live in the jungle.

''It was 115 degrees by eight in the morning. It was just mud and swarms of ants. They slept in two-man foxholes and didn't get much sleep, and they ate out of cans.''

Johnny is currently filming a series for TV in Vancouver, British Columbia, and was unavailable for comment.

In 1983, Depp, the lead guitarist in The Kids rock band, left south Broward for Hollywood, Calif., looking for a record deal.

How Depp broke into acting sounds like a movie script itself. A woman who worked at a recording studio saw The Kids perform at some no-name bar. She convinced Depp to audition for a role in the television series Fame.

Depp was one of the final four auditioners before the producer showed him the door. He decided to pursue music instead of fame on the silver screen.

However, playing at out-of-the-way bars for $25 a night didn't pay the bills, so Depp sold T-shirts and worked at telephone solicitation.

Meanwhile, a friend, actor Nicolas Cage, introduced Depp to his agent and persuaded the musician to give acting another chance.

That's when Depp auditioned and earned a role in writer and director Wes Craven's thriller Nightmare on Elm Street.

Since then, Depp has worked on a now-defunct television series, Lady Blue, and starred in a Showtime-produced show and other programs. He will be seen tonight in Hotel at 10 on ABC.