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IMDB.com – The Movie database IMDb.com has just released their top 25 mega-stars for the year 2005. The STARmeter rankings are based on the actual search behavior of over 30 million users of the database.

Johnny is at the top of the list…

1. Johnny Depp (Last year 2004: #1)
The hits keep on coming for Mr. Depp, the IMDb’s favorite for the second year in a row. Starting out the year with an Oscar nomination for Finding Neverland, Depp wowed everyone with his, um, idiosyncratic interpretation of Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, lent his voice to another Tim Burton flick, Corpse Bride, and started filming on back-to-back sequels for Pirates of the Caribbean.

To view the the picks #2 through #25 please click here.

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Sunday Independent – Cast to type perhaps, Shane [McGowan] appeared as a drunken minstrel in The Libertine which starred his friend Johnny Depp as the rapacious Earl of Rochester. Shane’s movie career isn’t over. He returned from New York last month where he met Depp and author JP Donleavy to discuss the filming next year of Dunleavy’s masterpiece The Ginger Man. [It is rumored that] Depp will play the lead while Shane will play Brendan Behan.

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Sun- Sentinel.com – Baume & Mercier, the grand 175-year-old Geneva-based company, is a cause celebre these days. For the first time in the 175-year-old firm’s history, there are actors in the magazine ads: Kiefer Sutherland and Meg Ryan. David Yurman has Ed Burns sporting the designer’s watches. Tag Heur has Uma Thurman and Maria Sharapova. Montblanc has Johnny Depp and Julianne Moore. Longine signed Harry Connick Jr. and Aishwarya Rai this summer.

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Sunday December 18, 2005 – Recently Katie Melua dished with Pogues singer Shane MacGowan on Johnny Depp, for The Observer…

KM: Johnny Depp recently said you’ve produced ‘beautiful lyrics that are a great gift to the world.’ What do you make of that? A fair summary?

SM: Ha! He is a great actor and a great guitar player too. We played together. He really heavied it up. His guitar playing releases all of his rage and frustration. We did one song together, but forgot to record it. But it sounded like an atom bomb going off!

KM: You took a small part in his recent film The Libertine, didn’t you?

SM: Yeah, I enjoyed working with him, but they dumped the bit I was in. I was supposed to be a drunken minstrel so I put together a really offensive anti-Catholic, anti-Monarchist, anti-English song that would offend everyone in the crowd. They hadn’t told the crowd of extras that they weren’t meant to clap politely. But Johnny and I might work together again, on the story of Brendan Behan, who at the height of his fame managed to drink himself to death.

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Awards Watch at Movie City News announced yesterday the nominees for London’s Film Critics Awards. Johnny is up for ‘Best Actor of the Year’ for his role of Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Rounding out the male category of nominees are Bruno Ganz for Downfall, Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain, Don Cheadle for Hotel Rwanda; Crash, and Viggo Mortensen for A History of Violence. The awards will be presented on February 8, 2006. Congratulations Johnny!

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The Advertiser Adelaide (Scene) Awards were announced last evening at an exclusive party and awards ceremony held at the Sugar nightclub in Rundle St. (Austraila) Johnny Depp was awarded ‘best actor’ for his role in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Cate Blanchett, the Foo Fighters and local band Hilltop Hoods also won awards.

“The Adelaide (Scene) awards honors the best in music, film, fashion and venues and is voted on by Adelaide (Scene) readers. More than 500 people voted to determine this year’s winners. “The Adelaide (Scene) awards gives something back to our best entertainers, particularly the local industry that works tirelessly to promote our state and the best it has to offer,” said Advertiser editor Melvin Mansell.

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Canada’s Inside Entertainment magazine has named Johnny as one of its Entertainers of the year for 2005. The Entertainer of the Year honors for the best of the very best included more than 200 nominees, covering every aspect of the arts, from film and television to stage and page. Fifteen finalists were bestowed the dynamic title including Jason Lee, (40 Year-Old Virgin), Steve Carell (The Office), mega-star Johnny Depp (the first repeat visitor to the magazine’s end-of-year tally) and the British supergroup Coldplay.

Inside Entertainment had this to say about Johnny:

As late as three years ago, Johnny Depp seemed, though hugely respected by peers and critics, rather a fringe player in comparison to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Then ghostbusting pirate Jack Sparrow swaggered his way to nearly $700m in global receipts, earning Depp a surprise, if long overdue, Oscar nod. Suddenly, his delightfully offbeat characters were earning not just hurrahs, but also huge amounts of cash. This past year, Depp remained steadfastly true to his uncompromisingly quirky standards, continuing merrily along his colourful path (and defying the year’s sharp downward turn in ticket sales) with first his vibrantly sinister re-imagining of Willie Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, then, proving he could be equally magical using only his voice as bedeviled groom Victor in Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride.

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Heyho!

I added many many many…a whole site of wallpapers – you can find them
here and the site before –
even Pirates of the Caribbean 2 wallpapers are to be found there and
many of the latest public galleries/appearances – they are amazing and the donators
deserve all the best words.

And in the avatars section as well many stuff is added: a new section
of PotC 2 appeared cause of some great new avatars and icons I got – but
I wanted to preserve those from spoilers who don’t want to see any PotC
2 pics before going to cinema Summer 2005.
And there are lots of 100×100 and 150×150 icons added.
Thanks to all donators – this is what makes jdorg.

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The announcements for this years nominees for the 63rd Golden Globe Awards were made from the Beverly Hills Suite at the Beverly Hilton by Kate Beckinsale, Steve Carell and Mark Wahlberg at a press conference on December 13, 2005.

Johnny Depp was nominated in the category of BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE -MUSICAL OR COMEDY for his delightfully yummy role in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Other nominees are Pierce Brosnan (The Matador), Jeff Daniels (The Squid and the Whale), Nathan Lane (The Producers), Cillian Murphy (Breakfast on Pluto) and Joaquin Phoenix for (Walk the Line.)

The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards will be presented on Monday, January 16, 2006 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Beverly Hills, California. The telecast will be on the NBC network at 8 PM. (EST) For more information please visit the Golden Globes Official Website at www.hfpa.org

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People Magazine has put out a special issue of it’s popular celebrity gossip magazine called Celebrating 20 Years of Sexiest Man Alive. The cover features gorgeous pics of Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Denzel Washington and George Clooney all of whom have been Sexiest Man Alive recipients. Inside, Johnny has a full six pages with a small article and 4 pages of photos. The magazine sells for $10.99 in the US and $15.99 in Canada. The magazine will be displayed in newstands and shops until 3/06/2006.

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