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Home News Tribune Online – By MIKE SNIDER for USA TODAY. Oliver Stone considers the new “Platoon 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition” an improvement over the three previous DVD editions of his 1986 best-picture winner.

This version has been remastered for slightly better visuals and adds scenes with then-rising star Johnny Depp.

The new two-disc edition (now available for $25), Stone says, “is the fullest intention of the filmmaker.”

“The Platoon 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition” DVD has about 11 extra minutes, plus five new documentaries. Director Oliver Stone, a Vietnam veteran, discusses making the film:

An alternate ending – “Chris (Charlie Sheen) decides not to shoot Sgt. Barnes (Tom Berenger). Stone says he felt torn about the ending. “When the kid walks out of the jungle, he’s also a killer. That was the point: In a war, it stains everybody.”

More Depp – “A foxhole scene gives more screen time to Johnny Depp as Pvt. Lerner. “He went on to do “21 Jump Street,’ ” Stone says. “I wish I could have kept that in.”

Stone’s triumph – “Platoon” went on to win best-picture, director, sound and editing Oscars, and it took in $139 million in the United States. “At the time, I completely felt rejected by the system, and when (“Platoon”) came around, it was the hit of the year,” Stone says. “It swept the country. Not just the country,

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HOLLYWOOD – By WENN – Keith Richards’ tumble out of a coconut tree in Fiji will not stop him making a cameo appearance in forthcoming blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean 3.

The Rolling Stones guitarist was diagnosed with a blood clot on his brain after the accident in April, but following skull surgery doctors have now confirmed he will be well enough to star in the sequel.

Tom Hollander, who plays Lord Cutler Beckett in the movies, admits, “I’m really looking forward to meeting him… We were all worried when we heard about Keith’s fall, but we’ve just heard that he’s still going to appear in the film.”

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The Star – The film, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl inspired by a popular Walt Disney theme park ride; may have been an average affair if it weren’t for Johnny Depp’s performance as a likeable pirate. It is practically legendary now that Depp has loosely based Sparrow’s look and personality on rock n roller Keith Richards. Apparently, the excessive makeup on Depp’s face came to be when the crew put it on for filming in the cave so the character doesn’t look washed out on film.

Then the crew realised how cool the makeup looked on Depp, they continued to use it on him for the rest of the movie. And those gold teeth are real… Depp had his dentist implant them into his mouth for the production. The then Disney executive Michael Eisner thought there were too many and asked him to remove all but a few…

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WENN – JOHNNY DEPP has agreed for his former lover KATE MOSS to star alongside him in an upcoming MICHAEL HUTCHENCE biopic.

Depp, who will play the late INXS frontman, split up with the supermodel in 1997 after a stormy three-year romance. But he is happy for Moss to get close again, and play Hutchence’s girlfriend PAULA YATES in the rock movie.

An insider tells British newspaper the Daily Express, “Johnny was asked if it would be a deal breaker for him if Kate was cast. “He said, ‘Not as far as I’m concerned.’ He figures there’s been enough water under that bridge.

Hutchence was found dead in a Sydney, Australia, hotel room in 1997.

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Irish Examiner.com – Paranormalist Uri Geller has tipped Charlie And the Chocolate Factory star Johnny Depp to play him in a future biopic.

The celebrity spoon-bender has already been immortalised in Ken Russell’s twisted 1996 movie Mindbender, but Geller insists it is time for an up-to-date reworking of his incredible life story.

He says: “It’s time for a serious movie. Johnny Depp would absolutely be my first choice to play me.”

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The website for PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST is now online. The film, which stars Johnny Depp as the irrepressible Captain Jack Sparrow, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Stellan Skarsgard and Bill Nighy is in theaters on July 7th.

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