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When your movie revolves around a dude who dresses up like a giant, latex-loving bat to fight crime, you probably don't have to worry much about accuracy or plausibility, right? Wrong! Over at Moviemistakes.com, fanboy sticklers have already pointed out dozens of continuity and factual errors in The Dark Knight, all of which have us wondering: If viewers are catching tiny details like the changing length of Heath Ledger's hair from scene to scene, maybe there should have been more explosions in this flick.
In semi-related news, the internet is abuzz with news that the next installment of the Batman franchise will be riddled with Johnny Depp, as Gotham City's favorite compulsive clue-dropper. Hopefully he has some of those super-creepy smiles left over from his Chocolate Factory days.
Posted 07.31.08 by reelz -
Remember back in the '90s when Stephen Dorff (Blade, Backbeat) was going to be the next big thing? And then he wasn't? Well, he's trying for a resurgence.
Dorff has been hard at work on several movies, including Felon, an indie film with Val Kilmer about an everyday man who winds up changed by his time behind bars, as well as the rather high profile John Dillinger biopic, Public Enemies, headlined by a certain Mr. Johnny Depp.
"Felon jacked me up, and going into Public Enemies after that, it was an intense five-month movie with [director] Michael Mann. I feel like I’m doing some of the best stuff I’ve done now," Dorff told us.
But as intense as it was, Dorff was thankful for the experience. "It’s trippy because I grew up watching guys like Johnny and respecting those choices of Sean Penn and Johnny Depp who did all these cool, smaller movies," he said.
"That’s one of the reasons why I did my career that way I did it, was because of guys like that. I worked with John Waters and people said, ‘Oh, what do you want to do a John Waters movie for?’ Because it’s John Waters, I want to go for that experience. I never did that movie before,'" he explained. "To me it was always about breaking those rules and that’s what guys like Johnny did. And [then] a funny little pirate movie changed his life."
Posted 07.15.08 by reelz -
At the time of his death last month, Heath Ledger was still filming a fantasy movie called The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus for Terry Gilliam.
In light of the young actor's death, Gilliam et al have come up with a way to complete the film. In it, Ledger's character is transported to three different dimensions when he steps through a mirror. Now, his character will be taken over by Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell in these other dimensions. No word on when Imaginarium will resume production.
Source: Variety.
Posted 02.18.08 by reelz -
Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton have enjoyed a long and successful partnership over the years, dating all the way back to 1990's Edward Scissorhands. Their latest collaboration, Sweeney Todd, arrived in theaters on Friday, accompanied by a slew of rave reviews.
I understand why Burton would want to work with such a talented and versatile actor as Depp, but why does he insist on having Johnny wear Kabuki makeup in all of their films? Check out the evidence and see for yourself:
Sweeney Todd (2007)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Ed Wood (1994)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Kabuki (c. 16th Century)
Posted 12.23.07 by reelz -
Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton have enjoyed a long and successful partnership over the years, dating all the way back to 1990's Edward Scissorhands. Their latest collaboration, Sweeney Todd, arrives in theaters just before Christmas, and the interweb is all abuzz over the recently-released trailer.
I understand why Burton would want to work with such a talented and versatile actor as Depp, but why does he insist on having Johnny wear Kabuki makeup in all of their films? Check out the evidence and see for yourself:
Sweeney Todd (2007)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Ed Wood (1994)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Kabuki (c. 16th Century)
Posted 10.06.07 by reelz -
Tim Burton's film adaptaion of Sweeney Todd has gotten its release date, and it's a doozy. Johnny Depp's version of the bloody barber of Fleet Street will head into theaters on December 21--just in time for the Christmas movie audiences.
The movie musical was originally slated for a "platform" strategy, opening in limited release in December and then going wide in January, but DreamWorks execs think that Depp's character might have the same brandability and appeal as his character Captain Jack Sparrow did in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
That's saying a lot for someone whose main activity is slashing throats with his shaving razor.
Source: Variety.
Posted 08.29.07 by reelz -
Variety is veritably teeming with casting announcements this post-Comic-con Monday.
Cameron Diaz will be starring in My Sister's Keeper, which was adapted from Jodi Picoult's 2005 novel by Jeremy Leven (The Notebook). The drama, about a lawyer who must defend herself and her husband from the emancipation petition by their 13-year-old daughter who was conceived as a genetic match to save her sister from cancer, will be directed by Nick Cassavetes (Alpha Dog, John Q).
Keira Knightley will be putting on the corset and hoop skirts again for The Duchess, an 18th century costume drama adapted from Amanda Foreman's best-selling 2001 biography, Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire. Described as the "Princess Diana of her time," Georgiana lived a rather wild life. Sounds a little like the formula used to make Marie Antoinette to us.
And finally, Johnny Depp is going back to the Hunter S. Thompson well for The Rum Diary, an adaptation of the "gonzo" journalist's autobiograhical novel that he wrote in 1959, but wasn't published until 1998. In it, Depp will play Thompson's alter ego, Paul Kemp, a freelancer for a rundown Puerto Rican newspaper who finds himself surrounded by self-destructive ex-pats.
The Rum Diary will be written and directed by Bruce Robinson (Jennifer Eight, The Killing Fields).
Posted 07.30.07 by reelz -
Some of Hollywood's hottest leading men are laying plans to try their luck in the fanboy arena.
Johnny Depp's production company is partnered with Warner Bros. and GK Films to adapt the 1960s horror soap, Dark Shadows, for the silver screen. Depp has been quoted as saying that he was obsessed with the show and wanted to play series vampire Barnabas Collins. Looks like he might get his wish.
And equally dishy Ed Burns (The Brothers McMullen, Saving Private Ryan) is venturing into comic books with Dock Walloper, a Prohibition-era gangster story. Like Guy Ritchie's The Gamekeeper, Burns is road-testing the concept as a serial for the Virgin Comics label to see if it has the legs to make it as a feature film.
Burns, who plans on starting to write the script for Dock Walloper this fall, will cast himself in the role of fading crime lord, Mad Dog Madden, and look for someone else to play the lead.
Source: Variety.
Posted 07.29.07 by reelz -
The 2007 MTV Movie Awards went off without a hitch last night, as the music network celebrated the edgier side of Hollywood by doling out its irreverent Golden Popcorn honors to the movie industry.
Emcee Sarah Silverman wasn't as dirty as she can sometimes be, but she did make some nice cracks about heiress-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-law Paris Hilton--who was in the audience at the time. Uncomfortable!
The big winners of the night were Johnny Depp with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - it won Best Movie and he won Best Performance - and Sacha Baron Cohen, who won Best Comedic Performance for Borat and Best Kiss (along with Will Ferrell) for Talladega Nights. The two men celebrated their win by rolling around on stage and making out.
Other winners include: Jack Nicholson for Best Villain in The Departed, Jaden Smith for Breakthrough Performance with The Pursuit of Happyness, Gerard Butler for Best Fight in 300, Transformers for Best Summer Movie You Haven't Seen Yet, Josh Greenbaum for mtvU Best Filmmaker on Campus with Featured Film: Border Patrol, United 300 for Best Movie Spoof, and Mike Myers for the MTV Generation Award.
Posted 06.04.07 by reelz -
Pack some No-Doz and get ready for a long voyage, Pirates fans: The aptly titled filmjerk.com is reporting that Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is clocking in at a whopping 170 minutes. If true, that makes it a full 20 minutes longer than its predecessor, the bloated yet entertaining Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
On a related note, Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer is apparently urging moviegoers to take a refresher course in the first two films prior to seeing the third, as there's many a loose end tied up in the latest installment. All told, that adds up to almost eight hours of Johnny Depp's gender-bending hijinks. Hooray!
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End opens May 25th.
Posted 04.17.07 by reelz