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Johnny Depp’s Threat Not To Make Pirates 4 Collapses On Day 10
3:21AM Brian Moylan | Johnny Depp made a big deal about making known his dissatisfaction after his friend Dick Cook was ousted from Disney last week. Apparently he’s already forgotten about that. More »
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Breaking: Hollywood Still Out Of New Ideas
12:20AM Brian Moylan | Word out of Comic-Con is that the movie biz is spending their precious resources on Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Batman 3, Wanted 2 (sans Angelina Jolie), and The Strangers 2. Suddenly, K-Pax sequel has fingers crossed for greenlight. [Popwrap]
Is Captain Jack Sparrow Plundering Disney For $54 Mil?
7:40AM Seth | In Johnny Depp, Disney found an unlikely Mickey messiah. His once-dicey-seeming turn as a scenery-chewing eyeliner junkie was a risk worth taking, it turned out, and it wasn’t long before Pirates of the Caribbean’s staggering grosses had execs’ eyeballs rolling back into their heads, replaced by spinning gold bullion. Resisting the urge to stuff their single biggest revenue generator into a chest and throw away the key until Depp had completed filming on Pirates 4 through 18, the company instead lay out a buffet of properties and encouraged the actor to help himself—and he did, committing to parts like the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland; The Lone Ranger’s sidekick Tonto; and, in his biggest stretch to date, the titular transportation device of Jerry Bruckheimer’s thrilling Monorail: The Motion Picture. Still, we haven’t yet seen the last of Captain Jack Sparrow, a role Depp is reportedly revisiting for a $56 million paycheck. From the Daily Mail: More »
First Look! Disney Mule Johnny Depp Reviving Tonto For New, ‘Lone Ranger’-Starved Generation
9:00AM STV | With infidel Mickey Mouse still in hiding after last week’s death-sentence fatwa, Disney appears to be rolling the dice on a bold rebranding of sorts. Behold — Disney Depp (née Johnny), whose anchoring of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise yielded yesterday’s news of not only Pirates 4, but also the star’s attachment as Tim Burton’s Mad Hatter in a live-action Alice in Wonderland and as Tonto in a revival of The Lone Ranger. The announcement was made Wednesday in Disney’s marathon State of the Mouse Biennial, putting its jittery investors at ease, its fans in an uproar and the press into some kind of overwhelmed coma. Johhny Depp? As Tonto? In Josh Groban’s incredulous words, “Really?!” More »
Why Keira Knightley’s Newest Rival Will Never Be ‘The Next’ Pout-y Princess
9:50AM Molly Friedman | The Brits are always fond of reminding us of just how many stars they’ve discovered, sent our way, and watched dominate the last decade’s Best Actress Oscar pool. And Keira Knightley is certainly one of their most notable success stories. But as much as they love gushing over their own born-and-bred A-listers, whenever a newer, younger little Brit with potential comes along, they love yanking that shiny crown off the last pout-y superstar and placing it atop the unknown’s pretty-ish head. Which leads us to 16-year-old Georgia “The Next Kiera Knightley” Groome, the upcoming star of the irresistibly-titled Angus, Thongs, And Full-Frontal Snogging, hailed by The Daily Mail as Bridget Jones for teenagers. But after reading more about the film and its quirky dialogue (imagine a script co-written by Diablo Cody and Anthony Burgess), not to mention its leading lady’s disturbing ignorance on all things Johnny Depp-related, we came up with three reasons why Georgia will have a hard time filling Keira’s impossibly narrow shoes:
Why Does Keira Knightley Always Look So Sad?
8:35AM Molly Friedman | Most stars have their own trademark pose on the red carpet. Think Renee Zellweger with her pursed lips looking like she just took a shot of lemon juice, or Lindsay Lohan’s classic blowing kiss move. As for Keira Knightley, with her wildly perfect facial features and oddly appealing underbite, she’s patented “The Pout.” As she puts it: More »
Keira Knightley’s Handy Make-up Tips For Flat-chested Girls, Drag Queens, Etc
11:24AM Clem Bastow | If you’ve seen Atonement or Pride And Prejudice – or, really, just seen Keira Knightley out and about – then you would be aware that the lovely lass is about as busty as co-star James McEvoy. So, you might also have been confused when, in the Pirates Of The Caribbean trilogy, she appeared to be bustin’ out all over like nobody’s business.
Well, Knightley has helpfully revealed the decidedly retro tricks of the trade that gave her cleavage its heaving depth in all those ripped bodices – good, old-fashioned make-up!
It was all an illusion, made possible by the film-studio art of “bosom make-up”. It is a skill from Hollywood’s golden age that fell out of favour with the advent of silicone enhancement.
Miss Knightley said: “They painted my tits on me for the films, which is extraordinary because it’s kind of a dying art form – in the past, they used to have whole sections of the studios devoted to bosom make-up.
“And I loved it, completely loved it. Because it was the first time in my life I had big tits, and I didn’t even need surgery.’
She said the process of creating the cleavage took 45 minutes every morning before filming started.
A make-up artist would apply a slightly darker shade of base make-up between Miss Knightley’s own breasts to create a shadow to increase the ‘cleavage effect’.
Beginner drag queens, male participants in Year 12 muck-up week “cross-dressing day”, sit up and take note. “Boobs” drawn on with black texta will no longer cut it. More » Johnny Depp Smiles And Nods Way Through Inscrutable Japanese Talk Show Ritual
12:21PM Defamer Hollywood | If nothing else, this Age of YouTube has given us a deeper understanding of the bizarre international promotional obligations to which our cherished, movie-pimping stars are subjected upon each new worldwide release. Hollywood’s latest press tour victim is Johnny Depp, who recently appeared on Japanese TV (clip above, and more here) on behalf of his recently released Pirates of the Caribbean sequel; to his credit, Depp does his best to be a good sport, humbly accepting gifts in the John Lennon-inspired persona he’s working on for an upcoming project. Ultimately, however, the actor had no choice but to offend his hosts by politely refusing their ceremonial offering of the country’s four most talented children, perhaps not realising that the cultural affront will doom his film’s local box office prospects and result in the disgraced tykes being sold off to the cast of Fantastic Four 2 when they pass through on their upcoming junket. Entertaining Johnny Depp [Japan Probe via BoingBoing] More »
Studios, Toy Manufacturers Take Turns Shaking Down Families This Season
9:54AM Defamer Hollywood | This summer’s prolonged barrage of blockbusters with extensive toy tie-ins – Spider-Man 3, Pirates 3, Transformers, etc – provides parents with an unprecedented opportunity to divert an unhealthy chunk of their discretionary income to Hollywood, as any trip to the multiplex must be immediately followed by one to the toy aisle, lest this generation of savvy youngsters report their miserly guardians to Child Protective Services for their neglect. Today’s LAT looks at the competition to see which studio/manufacturer combination can extort the most money from families with their pirate-themed televisions, robot-concealing trucks, or splooge-launching Spider-guns (now with spiral-squirting action!), offering up a brief encounter with a local dad who’s losing his battle with the wallet-plundering, merchandising menace: Hasbro hopes it can count on people like Juan Reynoso to make that profit a reality. Wearing a “First National Bank of Dad” T-shirt, Reynoso ran into a Target store recently on an “emergency diaper run” only to get stuck in the toy aisle. Reynoso’s 4-year-old, Matthew, scored Chick Hicks, the only missing piece in his collection of dozens of car toys from last summer’s hit, “Cars”. More »
