A number of stars – including Johnny Depp, Yoko Ono, Patricia Arquette, Bono, Jeff Probst, Justin Timberlake, Eminem and Jack Johnson – have donated items to a great auction raising money for the people of Joplin, the Missouri town where an estimated 30% of the buildings were destroyed and over 150 people were killed by a tornado on May 22.
Read more at: www.looktothestars.org
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Johnny Depp suffered for his art on the set of Pirates of the Carribbean: On Stranger Tides after sustaining a “monstrous” back injury when a stunt went wrong.
Read all about it here
Thanks to Ginny for the information!
We heard, that Johnny will be on the set for the 2012 movie “21 Jump Street” in about 2 weeks for a 2 days shoot.
This is no april fools joke 😉
All the websites that spread the news that Johnny filmed a cameo for Hugo Cabret were most likely wrong. Cinemablend.com claims, Paramount Pictures informed them that the man in the photo is “not Depp at all, just some random guy in a mustache”. Paramount did not say anything about a possible appearance of Johnny in this movie in general, only that he is not the man in the photo.
It was known for quite some time that Infinitum Nihil, Johnny’s production company, together with GK Films and others would produce “Hugo Cabret“. It was also officially denied that Johnny would have a part as an actor in the movie. Now it seems he found the time to film a cameo last September. According to several articles he’ll appear as Monsieur Rouleau, an abstract painter who works outside of a train station. A first photo you can find here, here and here.
At the moment imdb.com lists November 23 and December 9 as release dates for US and UK, but Johnny himself is still not on the cast list. Filming locations were Paris and also the Pinewood Studios in England among others. So not sure where Johnny’s scenes were filmed.
THR writes, that Johnny Depp will replace Robert Downey Jr. in Sam Raimi’s upcoming film Oz, the Great and Powerful. Robert should take the lead role of the Wizard, now there are rumors that Johnny is currently talking with Disney taking over the role of the Wizard.
However, this is still just a rumor, so let’s see if it happens! But maybe this was the reason he was in good talk with RDJ at the Golden Globes awards, as we can see on one pic. I’d rather have’em both in one movie, though.
In an interview at the Cannes Film Festival, director Terry Gilliam confirmed that he is about to tilt at windmills again, but when his dream project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, torpedoed by a series of disasters in 2000 and embroiled in a lengthy legal battle for most of a decade, finally goes before the cameras, its leading roles will be recast. Ewan McGregor will replace Johnny Depp in the role of the 21st-century advertising executive who travels into Don Quixote’92s literary landscape, and Robert Duvall will take over the role of Don Quixote from Jean Rochefort.
You can read Ewan McGregor’92s interview with MTV: here
Zanuck is set to reunite with Burton and Depp again on Dark Shadows and we recently had a chance to speak with the producer about the upcoming project. “That is still in the works but it’s been delayed a bit,” Zanuck confirmed. “We expected to do it much earlier, actually before Alice was finished. We must have been intoxicated when we thought that Tim could direct this picture while he was doing the post-production of Alice. Most of the post-production on Alice was done on computers and there were months and months of down time. At one point we thought that we could make it then and then we realized right away that Tim couldn’t do it. Then that put it behind a couple of pictures that Johnny had lined up and right now we’re waiting for him to finish The Tourist with Angelina Jolie and then he is going to take some time off and then do Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides next,” explained Zanuck.
“It’s unlikely, while everybody intends to make the picture, and we’re still working on the script and all the rest, it’s unlikely that we can start it earlier than the beginning of next year,” he continued. “Johnny had committed and he has to do Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides first. He had a long-standing, firm, unchangeable contract to do that. That’s a big project and he doesn’t start that until later in the summer. So there you have it and we’re waiting in line.”
You can buy the single “I Put A Spell On You” (feat. Johnny Depp, Nick Cave, Bobby Gillespie, Glen Matlock, Chrissie Hynde, Mick Jones, Paloma Faith & Eliza Doolittle) on March 7 at amazon and show your support to the people in Haiti.
Direct links to the single:
amazon.COM, amazon.co.UK
In some (written) German interviews, all to be said to be exclusive, so we don’t know who had it first, Johnny was asked “Isn’t it time you make a movie with your wife Vanessa Paradis?” which he answered with “It is already prepared. The movie is called “my American lover”. Vanessa plays the feminist Simone de Beauvoir and I play her lover Nelson Algren, who dwarfs everything in matter of being a macho.”
On a Swedish site, we found an interview with Lasse Hallstr’f6m (Chocolat, Gilbert Grape), which reads translated “Next year, then follows the “American love” with Hallstr’f6m for the third time to work with Johnny Depp. The story is between Simone de Beauvoir – played by Depp’s wife (Vanessa Paradis) – and his American lover, the writer Nelson Algren…”
So will we probably get our movie with them together at the end?