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Magical Mountain.net – Disneyland’s 50th anniversary celebration continues this summer with the re-opening of Walt Disney’s most beloved theme park adventures – Pirates of the Caribbean.

The attraction will feature the addition of two of Hollywood’s most infamous buccaneers, Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and his nemesis Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush). Joining the wildest crew that ever sacked the Spanish Main, Captain Jack and Barbossa add an exciting new twist to the attraction’s original storyline as they race to be the first to claim a cache of plundered treasure. Also making a guest appearance is the ghostly Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) from the second movie in the series, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. New special effects will also be added to enhance the Pirates of the Caribbean theme park experience.

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Santa Cruz Sentinel.com – Nobody thought much about the sight of two blond women crying in each other’s arms in the parking lot of Mountain Elementary School on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 – By PEGGY TOWNSEND Sentinel staff writer.

Lots of people had cried that day at the news that three hijacked planes had plowed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and a fourth had nose-dived into a Pennsylvania field.

But this was different.

This moment would shift the lives of those two women, and possibly the lives of thousands of children and families, in a whole new way.

Nearly five years later, the two Soquel moms – Lori Butterworth and Devon Dabbs Maggard – are heading a program that is fighting to change the way critically ill children get hospice care and are rubbing shoulders not only with powerful politicians but also Hollywood heavyweights like Johnny Depp, Toby Maguire and the former head of the Screen Actors Guild Melissa Gilbert.

They have helped write a California bill that would begin the process of changing children’s hospice rules and will be the focus of a Senate hearing next month. They have organized a statewide coalition of health agencies to push for children’s hospice care, set up a model for the program here in Watsonville and now head an organization with a $500,000 budget.

And sometimes, they find themselves sitting beside a dying child’s bed or holding a parent whose daughter or son has just died,

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IGN: by David McCutcheon – On June 27, 2006, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release Private Resort on DVD. Starring mega-star Johnny Depp and Rob Morrow as two teenage boys that are on the prowl for some good lovin’ on vacation at the beach, but everything seems to get in the way of their mission objective! MSRP is $14.94.

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According to an article published by the laverdad.es website, they say that the filming of the Johnny Depp’s Shantaram may be filmed in Alicante, Spain in the Ciudad de la Luz (City of Light.) The Ciudad de la Luz is the new “Hollywood on the Med” the most modern audiovisual major film studio in Europe…

The secretary of Economy, Estate and Employment, Gerardo Camps, announced yesterday that Warner Bros studies the filming of Shantaram in the City of the Light.

Gerardo Camps carried out these statements after being met in Valencia with the executive producer of the Warner, Chris Brigham, the director of WB Europe, Roy Button, and the line producer, Jose Luis School. Shantaram, the last production of Warner, will include a next budget to the 120 million euro and will be set in the India.

If the City of the Light receives finally this filming, the eighty percent of the same one would be carried out in the studies, while the remainder would take place in natural environments located in streets and corners of the city of Alicante and its outskirts. The filming will be prolonged during thirty weeks and only in the area of the technical team the participation of three hundred people will be needed.

[For more information on Ciudad de la Luz (City of Light) visit the International Reports.net website.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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