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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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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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The most winning feature among many in “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride” is to make the afterlife a juke joint where everybody knows your cadaver’s name. It’s no wonder that morose groom Victor seriously ponders staying underground, even though he’s not exactly dead, rather than return to the chilly, gray London mansion of his horrid parents – By Michael Booth for the Denver Post.

Hades under Burton’s puppeteering influence is a friendly small town where the skeleton on the next bar stool pours you a drink and hands you a mop to clean up afterward. Your long dead dog, missing fur but not his personality, wags his bony tail when you show up. Freed of all earthly restraints, the (dead) people are not only nice, they’re decent and vibrant.

Making hell a heckuva good time is the twist that turns Burton’s latest movie as sentimental as it is macabre, and a gore- fest dripping with true love. “Corpse Bride” will win your heart, if it doesn’t rip it out of your chest first.

Copyright 2005 The Denver Post

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Four-and-a-half stars. Handsomely crafted stop-motion fantasy a treat for all ages.

Tim Burton is our generation’s Brothers Grimm.

Both of them.

“Corpse Bride” is that rarest of cinematic creatures: a lovingly crafted, wholly original fairy tale guaranteed to become obligatory bedtime viewing for years to come. It resonates for all ages the way Chris Van Allsburg’s “The Polar Express” similarly touched our hearts; the difference is that “Corpse Bride” is not adapted from an existing book, but instead sprang, sepulchrally, from the wonderfully twisted imaginations of screenwriters John August, Caroline Thompson and Pamela Pettler – By Derrick Bang/Enterprise entertainment editor.

August knows the territory, having previously collaborated with Burton on “Big Fish” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Thompson, too, is a familiar name in the Burton oeuvre, having written “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “Edward Scissorhands.” Pettler is soon to be an equally recognized name; aside from her participation on “Corpse Bride,” she co-wrote the upcoming “Monster House” for Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis, and is working with Burton on another animated film, “9,” described as a “post-apocalyptic fantasy.”

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TORONTO — Johnny Depp really had no intention of being in our faces this fall, not that all that many people would mind – Terry Lawson for Detroit Free Press.

After nearly two decades of mostly fine performances in what might have been considered specialized movies had not the actor’s presence made fans line up to see them, Depp, 42, almost accidentally became a box-office magnet with his portrayal of pithy pirate Jack Sparrow in “Pirates of the Caribbean” and a taciturn Willy Wonka in Tim Burton’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”

More Depp is now about to be served.

“Corpse Bride,” the animated film codirected by Tim Burton with Mike Johnson and starring Depp’s voice, opens nationwide today.

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With the kind of buzz that makes Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride already a favorite for this year’s Oscars, odds are that Johnny Depp will field two consecutive hits – By Stephen Schaefer for the Boston Herald.

Yet Depp’s cheerful demeanor has nothing to do with box office. As the 42-year-old took a break from his nearly yearlong filming of two Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, he’s learned to find joy in other things, such as raising his two children.

It was only last month that he finally asked his longtime agent how his last teaming with Burton, this summer’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was doing.

Depp’s agent wasn’t thunderstruck. She must know her client keeps his head in the clouds, or at least far from the box-office charts. Charlie crossed the $200 million mark domestically, the official designation of a blockbuster. Its worldwide gross is more than $350 million, making it second only to Pirates as Depp’s most popular picture.

Still, Depp asked, “Well, is that good?”

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The nominees for the Best International Actor award in the People’s Choice categories at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards have been announced.

The four nominees are: Christian Bale for ‘Batman Begins’, Johnny Depp for ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‘, Brad Pitt for ‘Mr & Mrs Smith’ and Mickey Rourke for ‘Sin City’.

The public can vote for the four nominees at:
www.ifta.ie/peopleschoice/internationalactor.htm.

The Irish Film and Television Awards take place in Dublin on 5 November and will be shown on RT

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Yesterday I added one new skin to the site and edited the existing two
skins a little bit. Additionally I am trying to validate the whole site
xhtml transitional.
If there are still sites not fitting with the new layout -they will,
soon. I could not yet go through all the individual sites yet.

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Source: Warner Bros. Pictures – September 20, 2005

Warner Bros. Pictures’ stop-motion animated fantasy, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride opened in limited release this weekend to the year’s highest per-screen averages, earning $77,016 per screen. The announcement was made today by Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures.

The film was released in five total venues in Toronto, New York and Los Angeles, and earned $385,078 in its first three days. It will open wide on Friday, September 23, throughout the United States and Canada.

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