slinkyman
09-27-2008, 12:49 AM
Johnny Depp article:
Johnny Depp has signed on to do a fourth installment of the hugely successful "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, the Walt Disney Co. has announced.
At a star-studded showcase on Thursday in Los Angeles, Disney also disclosed that Depp, 45, is slated to play the sidekick Tonto in Jerry Bruckheimer's "The Lone Ranger" and the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland." The company didn't say when the films would be released.
The first three "Pirates" movies, starring Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, have garnered $1.62 billion in worldwide ticket sales and collectively cost $665 million to make, according to Internet Movie Database Inc. The newly announced films will make up for weakness in advertising and at Disney's theme parks, said Jason Helfstein, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. in New York.
This story was supplemented by wire reports.
The Lone Ranger article:
Pirates Of The Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer is set to give 1956 classic "The Lone Ranger" a Disney twist in a modern remake. Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, the screenwriting pair behind the Pirates trilogy, are in final talks to reteam with Bruckheimer and Disney to bring the masked hero to the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The Lone Ranger started off as a radio show in the 1930s and spurned numerous TV spin-offs and movies, including the 1956 film starring Clayton Moore. The story follows the adventures of the Ranger, his white stallion Silver and his American Indian sidekick Tonto, as they attempt to bring local criminals to justice.
The crusader's last silver screen outing was in 1981's The Legend Of The Lone Ranger, but the film bombed so badly at the box office, the movie's star Klinton Spilsbury never worked in Hollywood again.
In the end Johnny Depp has signed on to do these characters:
Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (Disney)
Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (Disney)
Tonto in Jerry Bruckheimer's "The Lone Ranger" (Disney)
Johnny Depp has signed on to do a fourth installment of the hugely successful "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, the Walt Disney Co. has announced.
At a star-studded showcase on Thursday in Los Angeles, Disney also disclosed that Depp, 45, is slated to play the sidekick Tonto in Jerry Bruckheimer's "The Lone Ranger" and the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland." The company didn't say when the films would be released.
The first three "Pirates" movies, starring Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, have garnered $1.62 billion in worldwide ticket sales and collectively cost $665 million to make, according to Internet Movie Database Inc. The newly announced films will make up for weakness in advertising and at Disney's theme parks, said Jason Helfstein, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. in New York.
This story was supplemented by wire reports.
The Lone Ranger article:
Pirates Of The Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer is set to give 1956 classic "The Lone Ranger" a Disney twist in a modern remake. Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, the screenwriting pair behind the Pirates trilogy, are in final talks to reteam with Bruckheimer and Disney to bring the masked hero to the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The Lone Ranger started off as a radio show in the 1930s and spurned numerous TV spin-offs and movies, including the 1956 film starring Clayton Moore. The story follows the adventures of the Ranger, his white stallion Silver and his American Indian sidekick Tonto, as they attempt to bring local criminals to justice.
The crusader's last silver screen outing was in 1981's The Legend Of The Lone Ranger, but the film bombed so badly at the box office, the movie's star Klinton Spilsbury never worked in Hollywood again.
In the end Johnny Depp has signed on to do these characters:
Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (Disney)
Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (Disney)
Tonto in Jerry Bruckheimer's "The Lone Ranger" (Disney)