London POTC2 Premier Set
The London premier of Pirates of the Caribbean 2 has been set for Monday July 3rd according to the City of Westminster Website.
It’s a Pirate’s View for Depp
Los Angeles Times – The ‘Caribbean’ star has W. Hollywood officials on legal gangplank over plans for a retail project he says would ruin one of the vistas at his estate – By Bob Pool, Times Staff Writer.
The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star is in a legal sword fight with city officials who have authorized a Sunset Strip construction project that he insists would ruin a scenic view from an area of his $5.4-million Hollywood Hills property.
The megastar contends in a lawsuit that the city violated environmental-quality laws by approving development of retail shops, a restaurant and a parking structure on a lot beneath his gated, 2 1/2 – acre estate.
Depp asserts that the project would block the view his two children have while playing outside the 7,430-square-foot home.
Backers of the development dispute that. They say that Depp has declared that the youngsters – Lily-Rose, 6, and Jack, 4 – will be raised in France, where he and French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis live.
It was unclear Friday how much time Depp and his family spend in Los Angeles. He has been spotted in Hollywood-area restaurants recently, and post-production is underway on the second installment of his popular pirate series, scheduled for release this summer. He is known to also have a home on a Caribbean island.
Depp could not be reached for comment. His attorney declined to discuss the case and his publicist did not respond to inquiries.
Hip Lili Taylor by Johnny Depp
INTERVIEW Magazine May 2006 – Johnny Depp interviews Lili Taylor.
For a working-class girl from the white-collar suburbs of Chicago who has always refused to have her edges buffed and who has a resume filled with more damaged, insecure, and shockingly unstable characters than a Hollywood studio boardroom the journey through moviedom has been less about making choices than winning battles.
We join the 39-year-old actress in this excerpt as she dishes with her Arizona Dream co-star Johnny Depp.
Johnny Depp: Now, there is something I’ve been meaning to say to you, because I haven’t seen you for a while. Do you remember a few years back when we were at my house here in Los Angeles and we were painting?
LT: Honey, I was just looking at your painting two minutes ago. I’ve got it up on the wall.
JD: I remember that we were painting and you grabbed the tiniest canvas and it was all pink and you painted this beautiful little girl in this sort of bluish protective sphere in the center of it. We were using these really heavy oil sticks and just laying it on really thick. Anyhow, there were two things I wanted to say to you about it. The first is that after, like, five years, your painting is finally dry. [Taylor laughs] And the second is that I have it up here in my house, and you should come see it sometime.
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New Skin
jdorg got a new fifth skin –
I never liked the old one –
and I hope, you like the new one more, too!
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Kind Thoughts
Celebrity Handprints for The BBC Children in Need Appeal 2006.
Pirates Sequels – More of the Same?
Time.com – Run For Your Lives! The Blockbusters Are Coming!
By RICHARD CORLISS, JEFFREY RESSNER, LEV GROSSMAN, JAMES PONIEWOZIK, BELINDA LUSCOMBE, REBECCA WINTERS KEEGAN
Coming soon to every theater near you: more of the freakin’ same! Summer means blockbusters, and that usually means sequels, prequels or remakes.
Three years ago, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl vaulted from prerelease shrug to summer smash, earning $305 million in North America and $652 million worldwide. So here comes the sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (opening July 7), which was shot at the same time as Pirates III, due out next summer.
For this double voyage, Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer re-enlisted the old crew: director Gore Verbinski, writer Terry Rossio and stars Johnny Depp (as scurvy Captain Jack), Orlando Bloom (the young hero, Will Turner) and Keira Knightley (Will’s fiance, Elizabeth Swann).
“There’s a kid inside most of the people on this crew,” Verbinski says, “that gets juiced to get up in the morning and say, ‘Hey, we’re doing this.’ This is the type of movie that says it’s fun to go to the theater again.”
The very notion of sequels might horrify Depp, Hollywood’s best current example of dreamboat movie star and superserious character actor. “It’s a dangerous game,” he acknowledges. “Rocky went into almost Warholian levels of absurdity. But if your intentions are good and pure,
Possible Role for Depp?
A PLAN to make a film of the life of Michael Hutchence, the rock star who killed himself in 1997, has run into strong opposition from his family – by Paul Ham for TimesOnLine.co.uk.
Nick Egan, a British film director and friend of the INXS frontman, is looking for actors to play the roles of the singer, as well as the late Paula Yates, his girlfriend, and Bob Geldof.
Among the actors Egan is considering for the role of Hutchence are Johnny Depp, Hayden Christensen, Eric Bana and a little-known singer-actor from Australia called Michael Piccirilli.
The new biopic is due to go into pre-production in the next three months and is scheduled for release next year.
Keep to the Code.com
Keep to the Code.com – The Offical FAN site for Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Movies.
Q: What makes you the OFFICIAL website?
A: Disney will have its own “official site” with its own content. We are the point Disney has chosen to distribute materials through to other fan sites, not that we are the only outlet, or unreachable. Everything that’s said isn’t going to be pretty (filmmaking rarely is) but we can be depended on to be professional, thorough, as accurate as journalistically possible and as unbiased as we can possibly be. The people who make the decisions know that.
It’s important to stress that we are not owned, endorsed by or employed by The Walt Disney Company in any way.
Captain Jack is back July 7!
Lily-Rose and Jack Glitter Handbags for Charity
Fashion Week Daily – by JIM SHI. [PARIS] Talk about a high-end art project! Armed with sequined-ink pens, erasers, glue, and tubes of paint, 19 celeb kiddies were given carte blanche to draw on Celine’s cult Poulbot bag, resulting in a sparkly crop of one-of-a-kind totes that will be auctioned off at a dinner at the Hotel Bristol in Paris on May 30.
The lucky artists included the fashionable spawn of Emmanuelle Seigner and Roman Polanski, Elodie Bouchez, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Sophie Marceau, Carla Bruni, Emmanuelle Beart, and Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp.