JOHNNY-DEPP.org

SANTA MONICA – PRESS RELEASE – Genius Products, Inc. and The Weinstein Company bring one of the years most controversial and salacious films, The Libertine, to DVD on July 4, 2006. Two-time Academy Award nominee Johnny Depp stars as John Wilmont, the second Earl of Rochester, a passionate rebel whose ideas challenged a kingdom and whose escapades scandalized a nation.

The availability of The Libertine DVD is timed to coincide with the theatrical release of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest in early July for the suggested retail price of $28.95. The Libertine features 10 deleted scenes, the making-of featurette “Capturing The Libertine,” and a feature-length commentary with director Laurence Dunmore.

read full article

LOS ANGELES – MSNBC – Johnny Depp has the write stuff when it comes to signing autographs while Cameron Diaz is the worst, according to a new list Friday from Autograph Collector magazine.

Depp, followed by George Clooney, topped the magazine’s 14th annual survey of Hollywood’s best and worst signers. The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star also was rated best last year.

“Many stars become bad signers once fame and fortune hits, but not Depp. He’s even signed autographs for crowds at the airport while carrying luggage,” said Steve Cyrkin, editor and publisher of the Santa Ana, Calif.-based magazine.

read full article

The Bosh – Johnny Depp may be smooching his ex-fiancee Kate Moss again – albeit on the silver screen. Johnny is in talks to star in a movie about Michael Hutchence – the lead singer of INXS who committed suicide in 1997. And model Kate, who dated Depp from 1994-1997 is on the short list to play his wife.

read full article

Chartattack – Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest probably doesn’t need much outside promotion to make it one of the summer’s biggest movies, but its star is taking an extra step to get people into a swashbuckling frame of mind – By: ChartAttack.com Staff.

Johnny Depp is the executive producer of an album of sea shanties recorded by an impressive group of artists that’s expected to arrive in stores via Epitaph Records sometime around the movie’s July 7 premiere.

Producer Hal Willner is overseeing the project. Willner has assembled an extraordinary cast of contributors to the new album, including Bono, Bryan Ferry, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Antony And The Johnsons, Richard and Linda Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III and former Virgin Prunes singers Gavin Friday, Guggi and Dave-id.

read full article

HOLLYWOOD By WENN – Veteran rocker Keith Richards may lose his chance to star in Pirates of the Caribbean following emergency brain surgery to remove a blood clot.

The Rolling Stones guitarist was treated after falling from a Fijian coconut tree and hitting his head, and now Hollywood bosses fear his recovery may interfere with starring in the Disney sequel.

read full article

Disney Insider – It’s been a long three years, but on July 7 Captain Jack Sparrow and crew will be back, with dastardly new villains, a heart-thumping new quest, and a full shipload of familiar faces.

Fans of “Black Pearl” are thrilled – and so is Terry Rossio, who cowrote both films (and the upcoming third, which will complete the trilogy) with his partner Ted Elliott.

According to Terry, when they wrote the first film no one was sure that it would spawn sequels – or even that anyone would want to see it! “Given the cursed nature of the pirate genre, we thought there was a good chance we were making the last pirate film that would be made for the next 20 years,” he laughs. “My writing partner, Ted Elliott, predicted the final box-office number pretty closely. I think he was the only person in the world who knew.”

[more…]

read full article

Robert Edwards [writer/director] is currently adapting the book THE BOMB IN MY GARDEN for Warner Brothers, Initial Entertainment Group, and Johnny Depp’s production company Infinitum Nihil. “The Bomb in My Garden,” co-written with journalist Kurt Pitzer, is the memoir of Dr. Mahdi Obeidi, who until his escape from Iraq in 2003 had been the architect of Saddam Hussein’s covert program to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon.

Pitzer has published additional writing on Obeidi entitled In the Garden of Armageddon on the MotherJones.com website…

read full article

Newsweek – May 8, 2006 issue: Blockbusters are like candy: you can enjoy a few, but pretty soon you need some real nourishment. Here, in order, are the summer films that we’re most excited about -big or small, right or wrong.

#1 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Three years ago, almost everyone predicted that “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” would be a cheesy also-ran in the big summer box-office race. Pirate movies had tanked for years. Johnny Depp had never had a real hit. Worst of all, it was based on a Disney theme-park ride. It just had to sink, right? Yeah. Like “Titanic.”

It not only raked in a massive $654 million worldwide but was a rollicking pleasure cruise that had the whole country yo-ho-ho-ing. We’d rather walk the plank than miss this sequel. (Or the third one, which will be released next summer.) Johnny Depp returns as the louche Capt. Jack Sparrow, who owes his soul to undersea captain Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), with his octopus beard, crab-claw arm and half-human/half-crustacean crew.

On the eve of their wedding, Will (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) get yanked back into the shenanigans, and pretty soon they’re seeking the spiritual guidance of a red-eyed, dreadlocked Gypsy queen (Naomie Harris), and Captain Jack is being served-a la carte,

read full article

Calendarlive.com – As Davy Jones, Bill Nighy plays a villain with real depth – By Martin Miller, Times Staff Writer. **CONTAINS SPOILERS**

British actor Bill Nighy is determined to make moviegoers hearts jump into their throats in the second installment of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy.

Nighy’s task, apart from frightening filmgoers, is to drive the story by serving as a sinister counterweight to Johnny Depp’s scene-stealing and heroic Capt. Jack Sparrow. Essentially, Jones is chasing after Sparrow for his soul.

“This role is like nothing else I’ve done before,” says Nighy, who worked closely with computer-imaging artists in creating the character. “One leg is a crab leg, one arm is a crab claw, and I’ve got squids leaping out of my face. It’s all pretty scary stuff.”

read full article

By Dean Goodman – Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner has assembled 154 of his best friends on the bold cover of the 1,000th issue of his pop-culture magazine, which hits newsstands this week.

The hefty volume boasts a 3-D lenticular attachment featuring a Sgt. Pepper’s-style collage of some of the biggest names in music, film, TV and literature of the last four decades.

*******

Johnny Depp is among the Wenner’s chosen friends gracing the cover. You will find Johnny on the far right side, about half-way down above Bono. Johnny has been within the Rolling Stone covers three times: in 1991; 1998; and in 2005.

read full article