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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been nominated by the Hollywood Film Festival Award Committee as a contender for the Hollywood Movie of the Year Award. Now YOU, the movie fan, have a chance to vote for your favorite movie of the past year. Visit the Hollywood Website and click on your movie choice, click ‘submit’ at the bottom of the page to make your vote count.

The final awards will be presented at the Hollywood Movie Awards Gala Ceremony on October 24.

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Source: IFMagazine.com
By: Nuts McDougal
Location: The High Seas
The Skinny: Director Gore Verbinski (The Ring, Pirates of the Caribbean) was out promoting his new Nicolas Cage comedyThe Weather Man when he revealed his plans for the two back-to-back Pirates of the Caribbean sequels starring Johnny Depp which are currently in production.

“I’m a quarter of the way through the third one and three quarters of the way through the second one,” says Verbinski. “It’s madness.”

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is due out July 7, 2006 with Depp returning as Jack Sparrow. Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and Geoffrey Rush also return. Pirates 3 will arrive in 2007. Although the movies are shot back-to-back, Verbinski reveals they’re shooting both films simultaneously with both scripts constantly in flux.

“We’re shooting scenes in the third movie without even knowing what the hell we’re doing,” laughs Verbinski. “We actually have a pretty good second script and the third script is still on the operating table. And we’re in triage constantly, everyday. I don’t recommend making two movies at once. I think that we’re going to get there, but it’s just madness. You’re like building ships and the ships aren’t ready and you have four hundred extras. There’s a lot of fun and I think that the second movie is strong and clever and has a lot going on.

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And the Gary Cooper Spirit of Montana Award goes to… Johnny Depp!

BOZEMAN, Mont.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 10, 2005–HatcH Audiovisual Festival is proud to announce the winner of this year’s 2nd Annual Gary Cooper Spirit of Montana Award, actor/ musician Mr. Johnny Depp! The award was presented at the Hatch Awards Red Carpet Ceremony held at the Ellen Theatre October 9th at 8:00pm on the Festival’s Celebrated Gary Cooper Day!

Revered as the highest honor at the festival, this award is about dreams and the people that encourage dreamers. It is presented to the actor or actress that embodies the spirit of Gary Cooper. The first recipient is longtime Montana resident Peter Fonda, who received the honor for his unique and bold contribution to the world of filmmaking and his love of sharing artistic knowledge with students of film and theater throughout the world.

“We are so honored to have a recipient who will be thought of in generations to come, the way Gary Cooper is thought of today”. Scott Billadeau, Executive Board Hatch.

Among a group of high profiled celebrities, an actor/ actress is selected by the Hatch board of directors, for their profound work as an artist and their contribution to film, to receive the award. The artist selected embodies the spirit and legacy that is Gary Cooper.

“Johnny Depp is a perfect choice. He embodies the aura and generosity of Gary Cooper” Actor, Morgan Freeman

Directors, colleagues,

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Special to the Daily Blue and beautiful, who can resist the charm of the semi-decayed corpse bride? Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp provide lead voices for Tim Burton’s new animated film – Shauna Farnell for Vail Daily News.

Take something creepy and gruesome like maggots, disembodied heads, severed eye balls and corpses, transform them into puppets, and they’re slightly less disturbing for those of us who don’t like that sort of thing. For those who do like that sort of thing, you’ll probably feel you’re in the midst of genius when you see Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride.”

I have to admit, I cringed more than laughed every time the corpse bride (voice of Helena Bonham Carter) would get upset enough for her eyeball to pop out of her head and the maggot that served as her voice of conscience (voice of Enn Reitel) would appear with some words of wisdom. In all fairness, though, this is not a bad Halloween movie.

Victor Van Dort (voice of Johnny Depp) is the clumsy, awkward son of a fishing merchant who has somehow found himself positioned to marry Victoria (voice of Emily Watson), the sheltered but beautiful (in Tim Burton’s gothic, spindle-legged puppet sense of the word) member of the aristocratic Everglot family.

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PRNewswire – BuyCostumes.com, the world’s largest e-tailer of costumes and accessories, has seen an unprecedented increase in hits to its website and sales of costumes over the past month. Halloween, now a three-month “season” for BuyCostumes.com and a $7 billion industry, seems to be providing Americans with a much-needed spell of family, fun, and fashion.

Traditionally, Hollywood and blockbuster movies drive Halloween fashion choices and this year is no different. Interestingly, two of Johnny Depp’s characters have pulled into the running for hottest costumes of ’05: Captain Jack Sparrow from “Pirates of the Caribbean” and Willy Wonka from Tim Burton’s latest adaptation of that fan favorite.

“Everyone just wants to have a good time, laugh a little, try on an alter-ego, and escape daily life in a costume.”

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The Libertine playwright Stephen Jeffreys talks to Lawrence Poole about 2005 being a very good year.

Poole: Johnny Depp plays the poet John Wilmot, the 17th Earl of Rochester. What have you made of his interpretation of your character?

Jeffreys: He’s just brilliant. I think it’s a very serious Oscar contender. He himself thinks it’s his best performance, which is really quite something. Working with him, he’s so quick. You give him an idea and he just devours it and does something new with it. He even went to the British Museum and asked to see the manuscripts and being Johnny Depp, they let him touch them! [more…]

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The Oprah Winfrey Show

Hanging Out With The Stars — From the show Sarah Jessica Parker, Orlando Bloom and Matthew Fox Reveal Their Favorite Places

Who in Hollywood does Orlando consider a mentor?

Orlando says that Johnny Depp, with whom he worked in Pirates of the Caribbean, has been a valuable mentor to him, on and off the set. “I have such respect for Johnny,” Orlando says. “He’s such a gentleman; he’s got such integrity. He just has a wisdom about him. He really holds himself very well. He’s a real gentleman. He opens doors for everyone. He’s always polite and courteous to everyone on set and he’s super conscious of safety and aware of all of that stuff so that nobody ever gets hurt or injured on set. He’s really aware of everyone around him and I think awareness of people around us is hugely important.”

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LOS ANGELES – Who exactly is Johnny Depp? Kids today know the actor for his colorful, Halloween-ready characters such as swaggering pirate Jack Sparrow, eccentric confectioner Willy Wonka and now as the gothic groom with cold feet named Victor – By HANH NGUYEN – Houston Chronicle.

In his latest guise, Depp gives voice to the stop-motion animated puppet hero in Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride. While filming Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for Burton, Depp was called upon to create Victor on short notice. After shooting a scene earlier in the day as Wonka, the actor rushed over to the Corpse Bride recording studio where he cobbled together a persona based on a 15-minute grilling session with Burton.

“(Victor) was born in that little bit of time, and I didn’t hear him for the first time until … they were recording,” explains Depp. “So the preparation for this, I was remiss basically. I should be flogged.”

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We asked Knightley why she thought the first movie was such a hugely popular hit. “I have no idea. It’s still a mystery,” she admitted. “What’s amazing is that there’s such a wealth of stories there–you know, the pirating stories–and if you can tap into it and if you can do it well then it’s just that spark of imagination. There’s all those films when you’re a kid that you kind of remember as part of your childhood that you’ve sort of lived through.

On suggesting that the popularity of Johnny Depp’s outlandish performance as Captain Jack Sparrow might have a lot to do with the first film’s success, she agreed, “Oh, absolutely. It wasn’t written like that. The character, as it was written, was completely straight, so that character is entirely his and Gore Verbinski’s. They totally came up with that and none of us knew if it would work when we were doing it, because it was so off-the-wall and so not what was on the page.

It’s daring, and talk about risks, a.) you’re making a pirate movie, that hasn’t worked in God knows how long, b.) you’re making a film based on a Disney theme park ride and c.) you got Johnny Depp going mental over there, and you’re just thinking, ‘How is this going to work?’ I think you’ve got to take the risks. There’s no point playing it safe, because either you’ll get bored or the audiences will get bored.

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