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Time.com – Run For Your Lives! The Blockbusters Are Coming!
By RICHARD CORLISS, JEFFREY RESSNER, LEV GROSSMAN, JAMES PONIEWOZIK, BELINDA LUSCOMBE, REBECCA WINTERS KEEGAN

Coming soon to every theater near you: more of the freakin’ same! Summer means blockbusters, and that usually means sequels, prequels or remakes.

Three years ago, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl vaulted from prerelease shrug to summer smash, earning $305 million in North America and $652 million worldwide. So here comes the sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (opening July 7), which was shot at the same time as Pirates III, due out next summer.

For this double voyage, Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer re-enlisted the old crew: director Gore Verbinski, writer Terry Rossio and stars Johnny Depp (as scurvy Captain Jack), Orlando Bloom (the young hero, Will Turner) and Keira Knightley (Will’s fiance, Elizabeth Swann).

“There’s a kid inside most of the people on this crew,” Verbinski says, “that gets juiced to get up in the morning and say, ‘Hey, we’re doing this.’ This is the type of movie that says it’s fun to go to the theater again.”

The very notion of sequels might horrify Depp, Hollywood’s best current example of dreamboat movie star and superserious character actor. “It’s a dangerous game,” he acknowledges. “Rocky went into almost Warholian levels of absurdity. But if your intentions are good and pure,

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Keep to the Code.com – The Offical FAN site for Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Movies.

Q: What makes you the OFFICIAL website?

A: Disney will have its own “official site” with its own content. We are the point Disney has chosen to distribute materials through to other fan sites, not that we are the only outlet, or unreachable. Everything that’s said isn’t going to be pretty (filmmaking rarely is) but we can be depended on to be professional, thorough, as accurate as journalistically possible and as unbiased as we can possibly be. The people who make the decisions know that.

It’s important to stress that we are not owned, endorsed by or employed by The Walt Disney Company in any way.

Captain Jack is back July 7!

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Moviesonline – Genius Products will be releasing director Laurence Dunmore’s gripping and powerful drama “The Libertine”, which stars Johnny Depp onto DVD June 27th.

Adapted by Stephen Jeffreys from his own play, this is based on the true story of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester, who was a poet, courtier and notorious rake. Johnny Depp stars in “The Libertine” as the scandalously decadent John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester.

The film follows the Earl’s adventures in London, from his passionate romance with a young actress, Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton), to the writing of a scurrilous play which blisteringly and bawdily lampoons the very monarch who commissioned it, Charles II (John Malkovich), leading to the Earl’s banishment and eventual downfall.

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In terms of movie-going, there are many things to be thankful for and high on my list is the existence of Johnny Depp: a gorgeous dude with precise, chiseled features who, despite the mainstream looks, has consistently chosen leftfield roles — from the freakish (“Edward Scissorhands”) to the lop-sided (“Ed Wood”) to the difficult/nuanced (“Dead Man”) to the downright campy (“Pirates of the Caribbean”)- By KAORI SHOJI.

Johnny Depp is “The Libertine.” (c) 2005 STANLEY (IOM) PRODUCTIONS LIMITED. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

These roles have defined his career and he’s matured into an actor who with a single glance or a flexing of his fingers, can change the entire ambience of the screen into something that is at once, more textured, meaningful, infinitely suggestive. To watch a Johnny Depp film is to understand his character (and, by implication, the story) more profoundly. It’s to experience an impact on the senses that few of his contemporaries can deliver.

And now “The Libertine” shows him at his most snarky and audacious; the film opens with a monologue in which he ensnares the camera with a shifty gaze to assure us: “You will not like me.”

Depp is John Willmot, second earl of Rochester, a brilliant but despicable rogue who drank and generally debauched himself to death at the age of 33 and in the process managed to offend most of the aristocracy of London during the Restoration. The earl had been a gallant soldier during his youth and helped King Charles II reclaim the throne from Oliver Cromwell,

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by Greg Joachim – wvu.edu – It seems that Johnny Depp will take on any challenging role under the sun. In between turns as Captain Jack Sparrow, he’s portrayed polar opposites in Willy Wonka and now John Wilmont, the second Earl of Rochester, in “The Libertine.”

Wilmont certainly isn’t out to make any fans. He insults his friends, squanders or misuses his talent and makes a laughing stock of the king at the presentation of what should have been the crowning artistic jewel of his reign. As illness starts to take its toll on his mind and body, however, Wilmont does his best to restore his legacy and make it one worth remembering.

“The Libertine” is a film as difficult to judge as it is to define. Though the Earl’s story is largely one of tragedy, the narrative has difficulty settling on one particular tone.

“The Libertine” does have one saving grace, however, and his name is Johnny Depp. However minuscule the entertainment value of the film, Depp improves it tenfold with an expectedly terrific performance. As Wilmont falls into a disease-ridden delirium, Depp portrays him with just the amount of virtue the part needs to ring true. It’s a good performance by his own standards, made even better by the wreck that surrounds it.

However, as good as his performance may be, it adds little overall value to a production mired in mediocrity.

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latimes.com – By John Horn and Lorenza Munoz, Times Staff Writers – Disney is focusing much of its movie slate on audiences not old enough to drive. Disney will release “Cars,” the new movie from Pixar and “Toy Story” director John Lasseter, on June 9. As it did on the first “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie, the studio will put its Disney logo – not that of its grown-up movie label, Touchstone – on its July “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” sequel.

“The audience is there and it’s stronger than ever,” Disney studio chief Dick Cook says of the drive to focus his slate on Disney-labeled family films.

“It’s what we live on, it’s our bread and butter. But we have started to reemphasize the brand in a major way.”

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According to the Sydney Morning Herald in an article entitled The New Stones Age, writer Patrick Donovan says Keith Richards will be a bloody pirate after all…

For most shows, Richards has been singing the new song This Place Is Empty as well as his classic, Happy. How does it feel singing that joyous song each night?

“I love it. People don’t usually associate happiness when they think of Keith Richards. But I’m a very happy guy. I’ve had my f—ups – but who hasn’t?”

Once Richards finishes this tour he will take up a new hobby – acting. He’s playing the father of Johnny Depp’s Captain Sparrow character in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 – a role he was born for.

“Johnny Depp came over the other day with 3000 pirate costumes, which we tried on all day. I wanted to keep some tall boots.”

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Burlington County Times – In its April 2006 issue, the film-buff publication Premiere lists the 100 greatest performances of all time:

Johnny Depp (No. 79) as Capt. Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

The top five in reverse order are:

5. Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950)

4. Al Pacino as Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

3. Meryl Streep as Sophie Zawistowska in Sophie’s Choice (1982)

2. Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954)

1. Peter O’Toole as T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Congratulations Johnny!

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USA Today.com – Johnny Depp had a minor part in Oliver Stone’s Platoon, which won four Oscars. His role expands on the Platoon 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition DVD, due May 30 (Sony, $25).

The film stars Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe.

“Oliver Stone remembered additional footage he had shot,” says Marc Rashba of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. “We finally found more than 10 minutes of footage mislabeled in film archives.”

The two-disc DVD set also will include new interviews with Stone and three new documentaries about the Vietnam War and the making of the film.

–Mike Snider

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