Tim Burton Named 2010 Cannes Jury President

Tim Burton Named 2010 Cannes Jury President

Master of many things twisted and weird, Tim Burton, has been selected as jury president for the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Filmmakers at this year’s festival (scheduled to take place May 12-23), will have to impress the man responsible for movies like Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands. Good luck, folks!...  read more

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Jonah Hill's 21 Jump Street Movie to Shoot This Year

Jonah Hill's <em>21 Jump Street</em> Movie to Shoot This Year

21 Jump Street, the late-1980s television show that launched Johnny Depp career, was a crime drama about young-looking cops who went undercover in a high school to catch troubled youth. Jonah Hill is a fan....  read more

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Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus to Make U.S. Debut at Hamptons Festival

<em>Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus</em> to Make U.S. Debut at Hamptons Festival

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Heath Ledger's final film, will make its U.S. debut by closing the Hamptons International Film Festival in October, Variety reports. ...  read more

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Johnny Depp, Russell Crowe, Keanu Reeves, Oh My! Ten Film Star Music Projects That are Way Worse Than Ryan Gosling's Dead Man's Bones

Johnny Depp, Russell Crowe, Keanu Reeves, Oh My! Ten Film Star Music Projects That are Way Worse Than Ryan Gosling's Dead Man's Bones

If you've been poking around lately on those music blogs they have on the interwebs, chances are you've heard a thing or two about the new ANTI- signing, Dead Man's Bones, which also happens to be the band of Half Nelson/The Notebook/bunch of other stuff movie star, Ryan Gosling. Now, the music of Dead Man's Bones doesn't move me in any particular way, good or bad; it's just kind of there. "Gothic folk," as they say, complete with a kinda-creepy children's choir. However, it does actually sound like music that would be released on ANTI-. Which is to...  read more

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Watch Tom Waits Play the Devil in the Trailer for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Watch Tom Waits Play the Devil in the Trailer for <em>The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus</em>

Still without a release date in North America, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has its first international trailer, and it underscores the commercial woes the film will face even once its distribution plans are settled. Yes, the movie marks the last screen role for Heath Ledger, who died during production, and it also features turns by Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law in Ledger’s stead. What it does not feature, if this trailer is to be believed, is a coherent plot or any obvious hook for general audiences. ...  read more

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Watch the Trailer for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

Watch the Trailer for Tim Burton's <em>Alice in Wonderland</em>

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is not exactly a tough sell. Besides the director’s brand name, we have Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, an enormous budget and the Walt Disney banner, which all but guarantee this thing is going to be huge. ...  read more

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Public Enemies

Public Enemies

Early reviewers are shrugging their shoulders at the new Michael Mann, Johnny Depp, Christian Bale film, Public Enemies, but...  read more

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Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland Photos, Details Released

Tim Burton's <em>Alice in Wonderland</em> Photos, Details Released

Take the childhood-favorite tale Alice in Wonderland. Add the twisted triumvirate of Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter to the movie re-imagination. Throw in a plotline that's tinged with a little dose of girl power. Then release some of the set photos online through USA Today way out in front of the release date of March 5, 2010. The result?...  read more

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Keira Knightley declines fourth Pirates movie

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It was a faraway beach at sunset. Will Turner lightly kissed Elizabeth Swan's leg and headed out for 10 years of captaining the Flying Dutchman, and audiences of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End were left with more questions than answers. What would happen, the crowd wondered (perhaps skeptically, seeing that this was already a sequel to a sequel), in 10 years when the lovers reunited? Over the course of a lonely decade, would the loopy, eye-shadow-smeared embrace of Capt. Jack Sparrow start to look attractive to the husband-deprived Mrs. Turner? We were less worried about young Will; not...  read more

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Trailer Stash: X-Men Origins: Wolverine, (500) Days of Summer, Public Enemies, more

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And now, a look at some notable trailers lighting up the blogs and message boards: ...  read more

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