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PRNewswire – BuyCostumes.com, the world’s largest e-tailer of costumes and accessories, has seen an unprecedented increase in hits to its website and sales of costumes over the past month. Halloween, now a three-month “season” for BuyCostumes.com and a $7 billion industry, seems to be providing Americans with a much-needed spell of family, fun, and fashion.

Traditionally, Hollywood and blockbuster movies drive Halloween fashion choices and this year is no different. Interestingly, two of Johnny Depp’s characters have pulled into the running for hottest costumes of ’05: Captain Jack Sparrow from “Pirates of the Caribbean” and Willy Wonka from Tim Burton’s latest adaptation of that fan favorite.

“Everyone just wants to have a good time, laugh a little, try on an alter-ego, and escape daily life in a costume.”

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The Libertine playwright Stephen Jeffreys talks to Lawrence Poole about 2005 being a very good year.

Poole: Johnny Depp plays the poet John Wilmot, the 17th Earl of Rochester. What have you made of his interpretation of your character?

Jeffreys: He’s just brilliant. I think it’s a very serious Oscar contender. He himself thinks it’s his best performance, which is really quite something. Working with him, he’s so quick. You give him an idea and he just devours it and does something new with it. He even went to the British Museum and asked to see the manuscripts and being Johnny Depp, they let him touch them! [more…]

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The Oprah Winfrey Show

Hanging Out With The Stars — From the show Sarah Jessica Parker, Orlando Bloom and Matthew Fox Reveal Their Favorite Places

Who in Hollywood does Orlando consider a mentor?

Orlando says that Johnny Depp, with whom he worked in Pirates of the Caribbean, has been a valuable mentor to him, on and off the set. “I have such respect for Johnny,” Orlando says. “He’s such a gentleman; he’s got such integrity. He just has a wisdom about him. He really holds himself very well. He’s a real gentleman. He opens doors for everyone. He’s always polite and courteous to everyone on set and he’s super conscious of safety and aware of all of that stuff so that nobody ever gets hurt or injured on set. He’s really aware of everyone around him and I think awareness of people around us is hugely important.”

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LOS ANGELES – Who exactly is Johnny Depp? Kids today know the actor for his colorful, Halloween-ready characters such as swaggering pirate Jack Sparrow, eccentric confectioner Willy Wonka and now as the gothic groom with cold feet named Victor – By HANH NGUYEN – Houston Chronicle.

In his latest guise, Depp gives voice to the stop-motion animated puppet hero in Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride. While filming Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for Burton, Depp was called upon to create Victor on short notice. After shooting a scene earlier in the day as Wonka, the actor rushed over to the Corpse Bride recording studio where he cobbled together a persona based on a 15-minute grilling session with Burton.

“(Victor) was born in that little bit of time, and I didn’t hear him for the first time until … they were recording,” explains Depp. “So the preparation for this, I was remiss basically. I should be flogged.”

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We asked Knightley why she thought the first movie was such a hugely popular hit. “I have no idea. It’s still a mystery,” she admitted. “What’s amazing is that there’s such a wealth of stories there–you know, the pirating stories–and if you can tap into it and if you can do it well then it’s just that spark of imagination. There’s all those films when you’re a kid that you kind of remember as part of your childhood that you’ve sort of lived through.

On suggesting that the popularity of Johnny Depp’s outlandish performance as Captain Jack Sparrow might have a lot to do with the first film’s success, she agreed, “Oh, absolutely. It wasn’t written like that. The character, as it was written, was completely straight, so that character is entirely his and Gore Verbinski’s. They totally came up with that and none of us knew if it would work when we were doing it, because it was so off-the-wall and so not what was on the page.

It’s daring, and talk about risks, a.) you’re making a pirate movie, that hasn’t worked in God knows how long, b.) you’re making a film based on a Disney theme park ride and c.) you got Johnny Depp going mental over there, and you’re just thinking, ‘How is this going to work?’ I think you’ve got to take the risks. There’s no point playing it safe, because either you’ll get bored or the audiences will get bored.

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London Premiere of Corpse Bride
City of Westminister
Forthcoming Events

17 Oct – Film Premiere of ‘Corpse Bride’. – The Vue Cinema, Leicester Square.

No word yet on whether Johnny will be attending…

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Their relationship is one of admiration, inspiration, respect, trust and, sometimes, even love. Their collaborations can result in Oscar-nominated performances or bargain bin specials – by Monica Haynes for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

But when the right director and the right actor get together there’s movie magic and a union that can last longer than many Hollywood marriages.

“Corpse Bride” represents the fifth time director Tim Burton and his muse, Johnny Depp, have teamed up, with Depp voicing the character of Victor. Burton’s personal muse, live-in love Helena Bonham Carter, is the voice of the title character.

Burton and Depp collaborated for the first time on 1990’s “Edward Scissorhands.” Four years later, the quirky director and the eccentric actor tackled “Ed Wood,” and “Sleepy Hollow” followed in 1995. Earlier this year, Burton released “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” with Depp once again in the starring role.

“Each time I’ve worked with Johnny, he’s something different,” said Burton. “He’s interested in being a character and not necessarily interested in his persona, and I find it very exciting to work with actors like that.”

For his part, Depp, like many actor/muses, has developed a deep and abiding trust of his favorite director.

“Tim’s vision is always amazing, beyond anything you expect,” Depp said. “If Tim wanted to shoot 18 million feet of film of me staring into a light bulb and I couldn’t blink for three months,

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Next weekend, 150 members of the regional press will spend four days in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, for the 50th anniversary of the promotional event Cinema Days, deemed so important by British film-makers that stars from Bob Hoskins to the director Terry Gilliam will attend – Louise Jury – The Independent Online.

The guests will watch forthcoming movies – both British and foreign – including Stephen Frears’ Mrs Henderson Presents, shot in London, and The Libertine, starring Johnny Depp, which was filmed on the Isle of Man.

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Gore Verbinski has become a very sought after director in Hollywood. With hits such hits such as The Ring and Pirates of the Carribbean, his movies are a box office success. His latest film is a departure from his genre and action adventure hits and instead dives into mind of Dave Spritz played by Nicholas Cage in the dark drama The Weather Man – by Robert Sanchez/Scott Huver of IESB

Question: Can you talk a bit about pirates? how hard was it to get two more sequel scripts that were just as good as the first one?

Verbinski: We don’t have those scripts yet [LAUGHS]. We’re just making the movie. No. We actually have a pretty good second script and the third script is still on the operating table. And we’re in triage constantly, everyday. I don’t recommend making two movies at once. I think that we’re going to get there, but it’s just madness. You’re like building ships and the ships aren’t ready and you have four hundred extras. There’s a lot of fun and I think that the second movie is strong and clever and has a lot going on. The third movie we’re still working on.

Question: So you’re not doing like lord of the rings and shooting them both at the same time?

Verbinski: No. We are. We are. We’re shooting scenes in the third movie without even knowing what the hell we’re doing.

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