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David Hiltbrand of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes that the most successful pirates, from Blackbeard and Jean Lafitte to Jack Sparrow, have always employed the element of surprise, sneaking up on their prey. So what does the extraordinary success of that scalawag Sparrow mean?

‘First and foremost, that the box office is not dead,’ said Brandon Gray, president and publisher of the Web site Box Office Mojo. ‘Make a movie people want to see and they will rush to see it. This is that rare crowd-pleaser. Audiences loved the adventure, the humor, the horror, and the characters, particularly Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow.’

‘Industry observers predicted it would do well, but no one thought it would do this well,’ said Harry Medved of Fandango, the ticket-selling outlet. By Friday, Fandango was selling an unprecedented 10 tickets per second to Dead Man’s Chest…

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…I would be hard pressed to find an instance where Johnny Depp has not delivered. Even in projects where the film crumbled around him (let’s say ‘Astronaut’s Wife’ and ‘Once Upon a Time in Mexico’) Depp is ALWAYS magnificent. He has created in the quirky rogue of a pirate Jack Sparrow an iconic figure that will forever be in the annals of cinematic history.

I highly recommend ‘Pirates’ to all those looking to get lost in the magic of cinema for a few hours. Parental note: while it’s a great film for the kiddos, the time is a bit lengthy so act accordingly. However, for those with a strong bladder ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ will deliver a truly magical cinematic experience that rivals any ride Disney could conjure up…

Yo-ho me Hardies, yo-hoarr.

This is an article excerpt. Article by Wilkes Barre for the PA Leader.

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According to studio estimates, the Associated Press announced today that Johnny Depp’s record-shattering blockbuster Disney sequel “Dead Man’s Chest” earned another $62.2 million in the US in its second weekend. This brings its ten day total to $258.2 million and has made it the year’s top grossing film.

“It’s really fun when you’re riding a comet like this,” said Chuck Viane, head of distribution for Disney, which based the Pirates of the Caribbean movies on its theme park attraction. “This thing is just unbelievable. It creates its own wake.”

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There ought to be a club for weird actors. These are the actors who toy with their lines and make you laugh at their fruity mannerisms. They’re Method clowns. And I say that with awe.

But my nominee for president of the Weird Actors Club is Johnny Depp , writes CBS News Sunday Morning contributor David Edelstein for CBS News. Rounding out the membership roll according to Edelstein are such noteworthy actors as Marlon Brando, Nicholas Cage, Val Kilmer, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Jon Voight.

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Johnny fans who haven’t been lucky enough to catch up with the real thing can now have their photograph taken with Johnny’s alter ego, Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest when you visit Madam Tussauds wax museum. The wax look-alike is located in Amersterdam, London, New York, and Las Vegas.

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In his exclusive interview for If Magazine Contributing Writer EMMANUEL ITIER talked with Johnny about playing Jack Sparrow in the Disney blockbuster sequel PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST. An excerpt follows:

iF: And how was it kissing Keira Knightley?

DEPP: Oh the smooch. Well those things are always so awkward especially because Keira and I have never been in that kind of situation together. She’s three and I’m a thousand. I’m Methuselah and she’s a toddler. There was that, but more than anything, we’ve known each other for a couple of years and suddenly it was, "Are you ready for this?" And you just kind of do it. It becomes more like a stunt in a way. "Where’s my double?" She was a great sport about it. She was really sweet.

Follow the link above to read more as Johnny talks about staying in character with his kids, Keith Richards as a dad, and French films.

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CNN.com.

… It’s Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow — the drunken buccaneer famously modeled on the Rolling Stones’ Richards — who may have propelled “Pirates” to the all-time largest opening box-office gross.

“With this quirky characterization, he still has maintained his complete artistic credibility while appearing in maybe the most commercial movie of all time, given this opening record,” says Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations.

Depp is clearly a great draw for moviegoers. “He set it apart,” the film’s producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, told the AP. “Disney movies prior to `Pirates’ were for young kids. When you put his name on it, people go, ‘Wait a minute, there’s something strange here. We better check this out.’ “

Since a third “Pirates” movie was filmed at the same time as the sequel, Depp will likely continue to add to his newfound clout as not just a well-regarded actor, but a bankable movie star — an increasingly endangered species in today’s Hollywood…

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Dead Man’s Chest is the perfect example of how film based games should be developed – By Tobias Rowe for Ferrago.com

You will take control of the film’s notorious Captain Jack Sparrow, an insane pirate with a more than fond affection for Jamaican rum. At every island and location you will have to face different enemies, solve various puzzles and journey your way through dungeons, jungles and swamps.

Jack Sparrow looks fantastic for one and it is shocking to see that his game imitation looks near identical to the real life Johnny Depp.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is one of the few film-based games I have not been able to put down. An adventure you cannot miss…

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Pirates, parrots and planks are all the rage again thanks to Hollywood’s Capt. Johnny Depp and Disney writes Jim Beckerman. In an article posted on St. Louis Today Beckerman asks, “Are ye lubbers ready for the year of the pirate?”

Anyone would have told you before 2003’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” raked in a cool $655 million internationally that pirates as a pop-culture fad were dead in the water.

What a difference a Depp makes.

This “Pirates of the Caribbean” fad might seem brand new to today’s kids. [Johnny’s] encore performance as the eccentric Capt. Jack Sparrow is expected to coincide this year with a spike in buccaneer-themed children’s parties and piratical Halloweens. So says Party City, which has dubbed 2006 the Year of the Pirate…

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It’s tempting, as some have done, to call Johnny Depp the king of the weirdo actors writes Michael Sragow, the Sun Movie Critic for the Baltimore Sun.com. He adds that anyone surprised at Depp’s outre buccaneer Jack Sparrow in his Pirates of the Caribbean movies needs to know it’s just Johnny Depp doing what he does best: trying to make an old character “interesting and different, and push him as far as you can go.

…Depp famously drew on Keith Richards for Sparrow — and Richards will play Sparrow’s dad in the third Pirates movie. In the current Rolling Stone, Depp also credits his wide reading in pirate lore for some of Sparrow, such as a study called Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition (“I wasn’t exactly going for that with the character. … It was more that I liked the idea of being ambiguous”) and a book by a French sailor who said that he’d keep going as a sailor “because the horizon is always there.” In fact, he mined that idea for the first film’s last line, “Now, bring on that horizon.”

Visit the Baltimore Sun website to read more about the stories behind Johnny’s characters.

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