Johnny Depp has a new business partner Mickey Mouse The Sweeney Todd star revealed Wednesday that he has signed on for three flicks from Walt Disney Studios including a fourth swashbuckling Pirates of the Caribbean adventure According to the Hollywood Reporter the announcement came at Disneys Wednesday preview of upcoming movies and projects at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles Depp capped off the day by surprising the packed house with an appearance in full Jack Sparrow regalia But the biggest surprise came in Depps entrance music The loudspeakers blared The William Tell Overture otherwise known as the theme song to The Lone Ranger Depp will be playing Tonto The Lone Rangers sidekick in the studios upcoming version of the heros tale also produced by Pirates Jerry BruckheimerDepp will also play the role of the Mad Hatter in Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland scheduled for a release in 2010 The flick will be shot in 3-D using performance capture technology that w
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Question: I'm glad you liked High School Musical 2, but I just couldn't watch it. I stumbled onto the original movie and found it entertaining enough (my child is too old for Disney; I sometimes watch it in secret. I love Kim Possible!). So over the weekend I thought I'd catch HSM2 — I couldn't get through the opening 15 minutes. I know that music — and Zac Efron — are the stars of this show, but the plot should at least be halfway plausible. Instead it was contrived and flimsier than a stripper's veil: Everyone in the high-school "gang" gets jobs at the same prestigious country club — without interviews, or even applications? Puh-leaze! Plus, I think there were three or four songs in the first 10 minutes alone; I guess Disney doesn't follow the "less is more" philosophy. The first HSM movie was the big hit that it was because it was fresh and didn't follow any formula (sort of like the original Pirates of the Caribbean movie), but the second one had the first one to live up to, and I ...
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Questions about Pirates the He-Man movie and what became of that extended DVD of Kill BillSend your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie TalkQuestion Is this the last Pirates of the Caribbean movie or are they going to make a fourth -- RussellFlickChick Id say the odds are good that there will be a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film but its not a sure thing Assuming that youve seen Pirates of the Caribbean At Worlds End and why would you be asking otherwise you know it sets up the possibility that Captain Jack Sparrow Johnny Depp and who knows who else will embark on a quest for the fountain of youth Involved parties have alluded vaguely to various possibilities in promotional interviews for Worlds EndProducer Jerry Bruckheimer told Australias Herald Sun that This is the end [of the current trilogy] but whether one of the characters or a couple of the characters continue on its
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Questions about motion capture animation -- is it cheating -- John Wayne PJ Soles and more Send your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie TalkQuestion Ive been reading a lot about the behind-the-scenes technology used to created the tentacle-faced Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Mans Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean At Worlds End and keep seeing the term motion capture But none of the articles have explained how its different from old-fashioned rotoscoping Can you enlighten me oh FlickChick -- BradFlickChick The difference is computers Rotoscoping is a process invented by animation pioneer Max Fleischer -- creator of Betty Boop -- in 1914 It allowed artists to hand-draw over motion picture footage of real subjects frame-by-frame so that the instantly recognizable weight and flow of real human motion was maintained while the specifics of the image could be changed to the animators
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Question I have two questions about Pirates of the Caribbean First Captain Sparrow and Miss Swann sing a song when theyre stranded on the island something about yo-ho and rum what is it And second where did the term Davy Jones locker come from I know it refers to the bottom of the sea but whyFlickChick The sea shanty Swann and Sparrow warble has a venerable history The first lines areFifteen men on the dead mans chestYo-ho-ho and a bottle of rumDrink and the devil had done for the restYo-ho-ho and a bottle of rumThey were penned by 19th-century writer Robert Louis Stevenson for his 1882 adventure novel Treasure Island a motherload of popular pirate lore and imagery Apparently Stevenson was inspired by a about legendary buccaneer Edward Teach c1680-1718 better known as Blackbeard who is said to have marooned a ship full of mutinous sailors on a tiny island popularly referred to as Dead Mans Chest and returned to find that most of them had slaugh
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