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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides has begun production and will be released on May 20, 2011 and in 3D, Walt Disney Pictures said on Monday, adding that Johnny Depp is reprising his role as Captain Jack Sparrow and Geoffrey Rush eturns as Captain Hector Barbossa.
However, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, who played pirate Will Turner and his love Elizabeth Swann in the previous three movies, have not signed on for the fourth installment.
Oscar-winner Penelope Cruz will play Sparrow’s love interest and the daughter of the pirate Blackbeard, portrayed by Ian McShane of Deadwood fame stars. The movie also stars Kevin R. McNally as Sparrow’s comrade Joshamee Gibbs and Sam Claflin as a “stalwart missionary”.
“In this action-packed tale of truth, betrayal, youth and demise, Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he’s not sure if it’s love—or if she’s a ruthless con artist who’s using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth,” Walt Disney Pictures said in its statement.
“When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne’s Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard, Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn’t know who to fear more – Blackbeard or the woman from his past,” it said.
Disney had said in April that French actress Astrid Berges-Frisbey will play a mermaid in the Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Walt Disney Pictures production. Depp has said he’s willing to star in seven Pirates movies. The first three films in the series have grossed more than $2.7 billion worldwide.
Source: On The Red Carpet
Johnny Depp is setting up his own record label, to be called Unison Music.
The star already has an A&R team scouting the UK for new talent and, according to reports, one was at London’s Monarch earlier this month.
An insider told The Sun: “Johnny has always been passionate about music. He’s taking a really hands-on approach to signing acts. Obviously he can’t get to as many gigs as he would like but he’s got a good team around him and will personally vet any signings that they make.”
The Pirates of the Caribbean star has long been a massive music fan – he played guitar on the 1997 Oasis track ‘Fade In-Out’ and appeared on the soundtrack to his 2003 film ‘Once Upon a Time in Mexico’.
More recently, Depp helped Sheffield band Babybird return to the limelight nearly 14 years after ‘You’re Gorgeous’ charted across the world. The movie star funded studio time for the band to record their latest album, ‘Ex-Maniac’, and also featured on the track ‘Unloveable’ and directed its music video.
Source: MTV.com
Hello everyone!
I got an e-mail from Roxanne Miller of Nova FM this morning, informing me that Johnny is currently reading the 21 Jump Street script and is close to signing on!
Johnny Depp is seriously considering signing on to the 21 Jump Street movie and has asked to read the script next week.
Get Him To The Greek actor Jonah Hill is writing and producing the big-budget version of the show and confirmed Depp’s interest in the project.
Filming is due to start in January 2011.
“We wrote a Johnny Depp cameo and he’s the one who has expressed interest in doing it, so we’d be thrilled if Johnny would come and do it,” he told Ryan, Monty and Wippa.
“He’s going to read it in I think a week or something.”
The movie version of the hit television show will feature different characters to that on the small screen, so Depp would not be reprising his original role.
Source: Nova FM
Hello everyone!
Johnny has made it to the list of nominees in a number of categories at the MTV Movie Awards 2010! Below are the said categories:
1. Best Male Performance
2. Best WTF Moment
3. Global Superstar
4. Best Movie for “Alice in Wonderland”
Place your votes here! The final nominees that make the cut will be announced on the website on May 11th.
The MTV Movie Awards will air live on Sunday, June 6, at 9 p.m. ET from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California.
Johnny lent his mad guitar skills to a Haiti Relief charity single! Johnny, along with Chrissie Hynde, Nick Cave, Bobby Gillespie, Mick Jones, Paloma Faith, and Eliza Doolittle recorded a cover of “I Put a Spell on You” to benefit Concern Worldwide, a Dublin-based organization who have been helping in Haiti for 16 years.
The single will be released on March 8th, but you can go ahead and pre-order at the Concern Worldwide website!
Also, check out the video below! Johnny’s solo doesn’t start until the 3:47 mark.