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According to DotMusic.com, Johnny was among the guests at the wedding of Marilyn Manson to burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese at Castle Gurteen in County Tipperary, Ireland last Saturday. The secret ceremony is rumored to have cost around $500,000 and was attended by a host of famous people including Madonna, Lisa Marie Presley, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Manson’s band the Spooky Kids.
ASIFA-Hollywood – The nominations for the 33rd Annual Annie Awards have just been announced and feature the year’s finest animation in film, television, short subjects and gaming.
Corpse Bride is up for Best Animated Feature. Also nominated this year is Carlos Grangel who created Victor Van Vort, for Best Character Design in Animated Feature. Both Tim Burton and Mike Johnson are nominated for Best Direction of an Animated Feature.
It was already announced that Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride has won the prestigious juried award, the Ub Iwerks Award, honoring excellence in technical achievement.
The Annie awards will be presented at Alex Theatre, the former Alexander Theatre, a Vaudeville and motion picture house featuring Greek and Egyptian motifs which opened in 1925. Alex Theatre is located in Glendale, California with the ceremony held on Saturday, February 4, 2006. For ticket Information click here.
Men’s Flair – Article sent in to JDOrg by Bilal Babic. Thanks for the great article! – Johnny fans have long known that the one we call the “greatest actor of our generation” has always had his own great sense of personal style. This article confirms what we have known for years. Here’s a short excerpt from Johnny Depp Style: Puttin’ On the Ritz
According to Maria Divaris, fashion editor of Marie Claire magazine, “It’s one of the things that kind of makes him sexy. He’s going to wear what he wants to wear, he’s going to cut or not cut his hair, shave or not shave when he sees fit, and he’s going to chose the movie roles he believes in.”
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Warner Bros. Pictures has announced that Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet will narrate the IMAX film documentary entitled, Deep Sea 3D, directed by Howard Hall. The film features music by Danny Elfman.
Deep Sea 3D features close up encounters with some of the most strange and exotic sea creatures with every creature dependent on each other for survival, so the cooperation that exists between these ocean dwellers is required for all to flourish and grow.
The film opens March 3, 2006.
Deccan Herald – Panaji, UNI: Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp could well become the star of the Goa International Film Festival of India (IFFI) next year.
Renowned film-maker Shyam Benegal has advised Festival Director Afzal Amanullah to invite Depp for IFFI 2006 when the actor is here in November next year shooting ‘Shantaram’, an adaptation of Gregory David Roberts’s best-selling book by the same title.
‘Shantaram’, which will be produced by Depp (who will also act in the film), is about an Australian convict who escapes to Mumbai in the 1980s where he sets up a medical practice and his adventures in Afghanistan.
Johnny Depp has had enough of our obsession with his life, thanks very much. In an interview with Loaded, he said: “If people want to sit around and talk about…[me] then I’d say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics or even masturbation.” by Martha Fischer for Cinematical.
Johnny Depp has become pretty outspoken of late, talking about pretty much anything other then the films he is supposed to be promoting – by Lowri Williams for entertainmentwise.com
He hit out at photographers who take pictures of his children: “I don’t care if they take my photograph. I don’t care if they take Vanessa’s photograph – we’re adults.
“But when they start taking photos of my kids and putting them in their galleries/magazines that I can’t support.”
“That’s why they should have the long lens – just make sure that you’re really far away because if I’m able to get my hands on you I’ll swallow your nose. I’d bite your nose off and swallow it.”
Photographers everywhere beware…
ComingSoon – Source: Variety December 1, 2005 – Peter Weir will direct Shantaram, the Warner Bros. adaptation of the Gregory David Roberts novel that will star Johnny Depp. Variety says Weir will develop the script with Eric Roth. The studio hopes to begin production late next year.
The film is being produced by Initial Entertainment Group’s Graham King along with Depp’s Infinitum Nihil and Plan B’s Brad Pitt.
TIM BURTON’s deliciously dark adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory won the Bafta Kids’ Vote in the 10th British Academy Children’s Film and Television Awards yesterday – By Dalya Alberge for The Times.
The film, starring Johnny Depp as the reclusive genius Willy Wonka, was picked after a nationwide poll open to children under the age of 16 attracted more than 30,000 votes on the CiTV and CBBC websites.
It emerged as the most popular of ten family films, including Madagascar, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events and The Incredibles.