50 Best Movie Special Effects
46. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006)
The Effect: Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) comes after Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) to collect his soul.
Why So Impressive: The animators took Nighy’s motion captured performance and transformed into him into half-man, half-octopus, with an impressively mobile tentacled face.
Geek Fact: The starting point for Davy Jones’ skin was a coffee-stained Styrofoam cup.
Disney shuts down production on The Lone Ranger
In thoroughly surprising news, it seems that Disney have shut down production on The Lone Ranger, which was set to star Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Armie Hammer…
30 Worst Movie Sequels
25. Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
The Sequel: Following a successful casino heist in Part I, Danny Ocean and his band of slick-suited crims are on the look out for a couple of extremely valuable artefacts.
Why It’s Terrible: It collapses under the weight of its own smugness, as anyone who has witnessed the Bruce Willis cameo will testify. The sloppiness of the various jobs this time around make you forget how effortlessly the gang took down the house in Eleven.
What They Should Have Done: Soderbergh, Clooney and co should have turned their attention to remaking and improving another Rat Pack movie: how about Robin And The 7 Hoods?
Johnny Depp enters negotiations for Pirates 5
Despite previously sounding unsure about making a Pirates 5, Johnny Depp has officially entered talks to play Captain Jack Sparrow for a fifth time.
The fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean film, On Stranger Tides, just brought its total worldwide gross to a staggering $1bn. No surprise, then, that Disney are keen on continuing the profitable franchise.
During press for Stranger Tides, Depp had mentioned he’d like to take a break from Jack for a while for fear of a backlash against the character…
Disney turning Matterhorn ride into a movie
Pirates Of The Caribbean proved that theme park rides could be turned into massively profitable franchises (at least if Johnny Depp’s involved).
Which explains why Pirates producers Walt Disney are looking to turn even more of their rides into movies.
Jon Favreau already has Magic Kingdom on the horizon, while Guillermo del Toro is producing The Haunted Mansion. Now Disney is fixing its ambitions on its popular Matterhorn ride.
Johnny Depp: Best Movie Roles
1. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
The Role: Edward Scissorhands
Why It’s The Best: Some actors get lost under piles of prosthetic make-up. Not Depp, who skilfully adapts to the bulky, cumbersome outfit and uses it to build upon his character. It’s a winning, fragile, subtle performance.
Iconic Moment: As Ed carves an ice sculpture of an angel, his shavings make it snow in the back yard. Caught in the moment, Kim (Winona Ryder) dances in the floating flecks.
Johnny Says: “I can remember when I finished Edward Scissorhands, looking in a mirror as the girl was doing my makeup for the last time, putting on the appliances and the prosthetics - this was like the 90th day or the 89th day of shooting.
“And looking and going, ‘Wow. This is it. I’m saying goodbye to this guy. I’m saying goodbye to Edward Scissorhands.’ It was funny, I was kind of sad.”
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides review
Clearly damned to roam the seas churning out pirate films for all eternity – or until his contract runs out, whichever comes sooner – Johnny Depp inevitably returns as fancy-dress comedy buccaneer Jack Sparrow for Disney’s fourth instalment of Mild Piratical Peril. Because as long as the doubloons keep rolling in, the tested money-spinning formula will continue to be applied…
This year’s result, as sure as eggs is eggs, being another wacky race against time to retrieve some sort of thing everyone wants, framing another collection of vaguely diverting action sequences, frantic chases, showcase locations and lots of boring exposition.
This year’s Plot Propelling Object isn’t a magic compass, or a medallion, or a deck of 1977 Spider-man Top Trumps but a map to the legendary Fountain of Youth.
Johnny Depp and Rob Marshall remaking The Thin Man
Johnny Depp has officially signed on to star in the remake of Oscar-nominated 1934 film noir The Thin Man.
The Pirates Of The Caribbean actor has signed on to lead the new version of Dashiell Hammett’s film, with his Pirates 4 director Rob Marshall at the helm.
“John and I are overjoyed at the idea of working with Johnny again, especially on such a classy and classic project,” says Marshall.
“We are also thrilled to be partnering this time with such wonderful producers as Christi Dembroski and Kevin McCormick, and we are looking forward to working with Warner Bros. to create a reinvention of a beloved story.”
Probably the greatest Facebook Page in existence:
‘Orlando Blooms a total CUNT for not be in the new Pirate of Caribbean Film.’
Sam found this group on Facebook… it has so much win!
From the poor spelling, grammar and grasp of reality, to the fact that he says the ‘Johnny Depp is the only one who needs to sign’ and then says ‘Orlando… sign up for this great film you cunt!’
Check out this first and only comment from August 2009:
‘This man is a tit! I am so angry right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’
Ian McShane signs on to Jack The Giant Killer
Fans of Lovejoy know that Ian McShane has always been awesome. But Hollywood is only just discovering his genius.
After having landed the big bad role of Blackbeard in the upcoming fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, McShane has now joined the cast of Jack the Giant Killer.
Starring fellow Brit Nicholas Hoult as the titular Jack, the film follows his expedition to save a princess (Eleanor Tomlinson) who’s been kidnapped by a giant.
McShane has signed up to play the role of King Brahmwell, the princess’ disapproving father. We bet he’ll pair his crown with a swagger worthy of any true thesp.
Johnny Depp talks about working with Rob Marshall on Pirates 4
As well as bring you the brand new image above, Total Film caught up with Johnny Depp on the set of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides for an exclusive chat. On Stranger Tides promises to steer the series back to the old-fashioned fun and adventure that made the original such a blast. There’s a new director at the helm, in the form of Chicago’s Rob Marshall. Depp, for one is extremely pleased with his new captain.
“What a treat, you know?” he says of working with the director. And the praise doesn’t end there… “Rob Marshall is just a wonderful man. Very kind and collaborative. It’s like going into a think tank, throwing ideas around. If something sparks…”
