News Briefs
posted by Trish Bennett 1:55 AM
- Forbes.com ranks Johnny Depp in 4th place on their list of Best Paid Hollywood Stars for 2006. He shares the spot with Tom Hanks and Adam Sandler, each earning a reported $29 million in a 12-month period.
- Telugu Portal reports respected Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan has joined the cast of Shantaram, which is scheduled to begin filming in November.
- PRNewswire reports Johnny Depp gave the best delivery of a movie line in 2006 according to a survey by Netflix. The line — “Hide the rum!”
- Cinematical.com offers a quote from POTC screenwriter Terry Rossio discussing the possibility of a fourth Pirates film. “It’s like the fourth Indiana Jones picture,” he said. “There are forces in play to make it happen, and forces in play to make it not happen. I think we will try to write a screenplay. I can’t say if we’ll be able to solve the challenge of making a good fourth film, or if our screenplay will be enough to get a film made.”
- CinemaBlend reports Johnny Depp will produce an animated film for adults called How the Dead Love based on four short stories from Charles Bukowski, the director of Bridge to Terabithia. He will also provide the voice for the main character in the film.
- AZCentral offers an article about AnnaSophia Robb, who shares her favorite Johnny Depp moment while filming Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: “One day, we were on the chocolate-river set and he brought his kids. Me and Julia (Winter), she played Veruca Salt, we were waiting on-set, and we made these bracelets out of the plastic grass that was on the ground. We went up to him because we made bracelets for his kids. We showed them to him, and he liked them and just started talking with us. . . . He was so relaxed.”
- High-Def Digest reports Sony will release Secret Window on Blu-Ray April 24.
- International Herald Tribune offers an interesting article about the real-life history of Chinese pirates in anticipation of the oriental aspects of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.
- Telugu Portal reports respected Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan has joined the cast of Shantaram, which is scheduled to begin filming in November.
- PRNewswire reports Johnny Depp gave the best delivery of a movie line in 2006 according to a survey by Netflix. The line — “Hide the rum!”
- Cinematical.com offers a quote from POTC screenwriter Terry Rossio discussing the possibility of a fourth Pirates film. “It’s like the fourth Indiana Jones picture,” he said. “There are forces in play to make it happen, and forces in play to make it not happen. I think we will try to write a screenplay. I can’t say if we’ll be able to solve the challenge of making a good fourth film, or if our screenplay will be enough to get a film made.”
- CinemaBlend reports Johnny Depp will produce an animated film for adults called How the Dead Love based on four short stories from Charles Bukowski, the director of Bridge to Terabithia. He will also provide the voice for the main character in the film.
- AZCentral offers an article about AnnaSophia Robb, who shares her favorite Johnny Depp moment while filming Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: “One day, we were on the chocolate-river set and he brought his kids. Me and Julia (Winter), she played Veruca Salt, we were waiting on-set, and we made these bracelets out of the plastic grass that was on the ground. We went up to him because we made bracelets for his kids. We showed them to him, and he liked them and just started talking with us. . . . He was so relaxed.”
- High-Def Digest reports Sony will release Secret Window on Blu-Ray April 24.
- International Herald Tribune offers an interesting article about the real-life history of Chinese pirates in anticipation of the oriental aspects of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.
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