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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Johnny Depp's RANGO releases new trailer

Quirky and loveable at the same time! It wasn't long before is was on youtube.

Original release on http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/rango/





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Monday, June 28, 2010

Johnny Depp IS Rango poster

 The FilmSchoolRejects  people shared this fun new RANGO poster today and report that a full (real) trailer will be out tomorrow, June 29!! 

Friday, June 25, 2010

LA Casting Call for Pirates 4 - On Stranger Tides

This was just posted over on the Sande Allessi Casting Facebook page!!!  Ok you wanna be pirates with no experience... get on over there next week! 

Start Time:

Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 3:00pm

End Time:
Friday, July 9, 2010 at 5:00pm


Location:
13731 Ventura Blvd. 2nd Floor Sherman Oaks, CA 91423



Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides


Open Casting Call



Shooting in Los Angeles
August 2010



PIRATES

Looking for authentic-looking scavenger-types… ages 18 to 60s, all ethnicities, especially extreme characters – very thin, lean body types, very tall, very short, emaciated, odd features, huge nose, bulging eyes, big ears, lazy eye, grizzled and wrinkled faces, odd body types, missing teeth etc. Not looking for hearty eaters….me ‘earties…



We are also looking for Pirate photo doubles...please go to our website and click on open calls for details.



Sande Alessi Casting

13731 Ventura Blvd. 2nd Floor

Sherman Oaks, CA 91423

Monday, June 28th through Friday July 9th



Our open casting call hours are Monday-Friday 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Please do not ALL come on the first day!!



Show up mid-week to avoid long lines.



***There is no experience necessary***



BRING a 3 x 5 current color photo. (Does NOT have to be professional.) No wigs, makeup or sunglasses in photos and please shoot it from the waist up. If you do not have a current color 3x5 photo, we will take one for you for $2.00.



BRING a pen or pencil.



You do not need to prepare for an audition, we will be simply have a look at you, have you fill out a registration card, attach your photo and send you on your way.



Do not say AARGH in your photo!

You must be 18 years or older and be legal to work in the U.S.



Please bring change for parking meters.



For more information please see our website at  http://www.sandealessicasting.com/



Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Depp's "RANGO" gets new release date




According to BoxOfficeMojo Paramount studios has moved RANGO, the Johnny Depp - Gore Verbinski animated film from Mar. 18, 2011 to Mar. 4, 2011.

Depp's RANGO movie site updates with a lot of fun!

The folks over at the website for the Gore Verbinski - Johnny Depp animated movie RANGO  are having fun updating the official site.  Move your mouse over a roly-poly bug, strum the guitar string back and forth really fast and see what happens!  Just have fun over there...  go on, it's worth it....these people are having way too much fun!  I can't wait to see this movie!

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Casting call for Pirates 4 in Hawaii



Saw this notice on line and thought I'd pass it on....


          Casting is looking for Spanish on Oahu for featured extra roles in Pirates 4

Sande Alessi Casting on June 21, 2010 at 11:49am

Character type male Spaniard age 25-55 must be size 42 coat or smaller.


Spanish leg amputee 25-55 coat size 42 or smaller.


Gorgeous Hispanic or olive skinned female, age 20-30, height 5'4 to '5'5, 28 waist or smaller.


All very featured roles.


please submit ONLY if you fit these particular roles. we do not need anything else at this time but will be sure to always post here if we do need something.


Email us @ pirates4casting@gmail.com


Write which role you are submitting for in the subject line of your email.


Please help us spread the word!


Thanks everyone!!!


Sande and Jennifer
POTC4

Monday, June 21, 2010

Pirates 4 Terry Rossio arrives on set


Another pic posted on Jerry Bruckheimer's Twitter

Jerry just keeps teasing us....here's Terry Rossio arriving on set....wanna bet this was from last week too? Now come on Jerry....you KNOW THE ONE we want to see! Capt Jack on a jet ski!

Pirates 4 - On Stranger Tides begins production

 Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures 
 
Walt Disney Pictures'/Jerry Bruckheimer Films' Comedy Adventure "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" in Disney Digital 3D™ Begins Production

Johnny Depp returns to his Academy Award®-nominated role of Captain Jack Sparrow, joined by Penelope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, Ian McShane, Kevin R. McNally, Astrid Berges-Frisbey and Sam Claflin in Fourth Entry of Blockbuster Franchise
 

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Production has commenced on location in Hawaii, the United Kingdom and Los Angeles on Walt Disney Pictures’ and Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ sweeping comedy adventure “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” directed by Rob Marshall (“Chicago”), the fourth entry in the blockbuster franchise which has already reaped $2.7 billion in worldwide box office from the previous three films, and the first to be filmed and presented in Disney Digital 3D™. Johnny Depp returns to his iconic, Academy Award®-nominated role of Captain Jack Sparrow, newly joined by Academy Award winner Penelope Cruz (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” Rob Marshall’s “Nine”), Ian McShane (HBO’s “Deadwood”) and newcomers Astrid Berges-Frisbey and Sam Claflin. Also rejoining Johnny Depp and Captain Jack are Academy Award-winner and three-time nominee Geoffrey Rush (“Shine,” “Shakespeare in Love”) and Kevin R. McNally (first three “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, “Valkyrie”). The film is slated to open May 20, 2011.
“Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”
“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” captures the fun, adventure and humor that ignited the hit franchise —this time in Disney Digital 3D™. In this action-packed tale of truth, betrayal, youth and demise, Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past (Penelope Cruz), and he’s not sure if it’s love—or if she’s a ruthless con artist who’s using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen Anne’s Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane), Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn’t know who to fear more: Blackbeard or the woman from his past.

Rush reprises his role as the vengeful Captain Hector Barbossa, and Kevin R. McNally returns as Captain Jack’s longtime comrade Joshamee Gibbs. Claflin stars as a stalwart missionary, while Berges-Frisbey is transformed into a mysterious mermaid.
“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” is written by “Pirates” veterans Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio. The executive producers are Mike Stenson, Chad Oman, Barry Waldman, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio and John DeLuca.

Joining Bruckheimer and Marshall for the new voyage is a top-flight group of award-winning behind-the-scenes artists, including director of photography Dariusz Wolski (first three “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies, Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”), production designer John Myhre (two-time Academy Award® winner for Marshall’s “Chicago” and “Memoirs of a Geisha”), costume designer Penny Rose (all three “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”), visual effects supervisor Charles Gibson, who won an Academy Award for “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” Oscar® winner and eight-time nominee special effects supervisor John Frazier (“Pirates of the Caribbean” films,” “Pearl Harbor”) and stunt coordinator George Marshall Ruge, who also devoted his talents to the previous three “Pirates” films as well as Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer’s “National Treasure” franchise. The editors include two Oscar winners, Michael Kahn (“Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”) and David Brenner (“Born on the Fourth of July”), as well as Wyatt Smith (Marshall’s “Nine”).
Rob Marshall’s first three films, “Chicago,” “Memoirs of a Geisha” and “Nine,” have been honored with a total of 23 Academy Award® nominations. For his work on “Chicago,” winner of six Oscars® including Best Picture, Marshall received the Director’s Guild Award, an Oscar nomination, a Golden Globe Award® nomination, a BAFTA nomination, The National Board of Review Award and the New York Film Critics Online Award. A six-time Tony Award® nominee and George Abbott Award winner, Marshall’s extensive work on Broadway includes co-director and choreographer of the worldwide award-winning production of “Cabaret” and director/choreographer of the Broadway revival of “Little Me,” along with many others. He also produced, directed and choreographed the NBC television special “Tony Bennett: An American Classic,” which earned seven Emmy Awards®, including three for Marshall, and directed and choreographed Disney/ABC’s critically acclaimed movie musical “Annie,” which received 12 Emmy nominations with two wins, including Marshall for Outstanding Choreography; it also won the prestigious Peabody Award.
First in partnership with Don Simpson, and then as the chief of Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Bruckheimer has produced an unprecedented string of worldwide smashes, impacting not only the industry, but mass culture as well. Bruckheimer’s films include (producing with Don Simpson) “Top Gun,” “Beverly Hills Cop,” “Beverly Hills Cop 2,” “American Gigolo,” “Flashdance,” “Bad Boys,” “Dangerous Minds,” “Crimson Tide,” “The Rock,” and (producing solo) “Con Air,” “Armageddon,” “Enemy of the State,” “Gone in 60 Seconds,” “Coyote Ugly,” “Remember the Titans,” “Pearl Harbor,” “Black Hawk Down,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” “Bad Boys II,” “Veronica Guerin,” “King Arthur,” “National Treasure,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” “National Treasure: Book of Secrets,” “G-Force,” “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” and “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.”

On television, Bruckheimer had an unprecedented 10 television series airing in the 2005-6 season, a record in the medium for an individual producer. JBTV’s series have included “C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation” and its spinoffs “C.S.I.: Miami,” “C.S.I.: NY” and “Without a Trace,” “Cold Case,” “The Amazing Race” and “Dark Blue.”

Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Television have been honored with 41 Academy Award® nominations, six wins, eight Grammy Award® nominations, five wins, 23 Golden Globe® nominations, four wins, 88 Emmy Award® nominations, 18 wins, 23 People’s Choice nominations, 15 wins, numerous MTV Awards, including one for Best Picture of the Decade for “Beverly Hills Cop” and 20 Teen Choice Awards.
“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” will film on the islands of Kauai and Oahu, Hawaii, followed by locations and studio work in the United Kingdom and Los Angeles.

Friday, June 18, 2010

Photos from Johnny Depp's THE RUM DIARY

FilmTotaal  has posted these pics today. We've seen them both before,  the one of Depp alone was posted on The Rum Diary's Facebook and the photo with Depp on the motorcycle is a larger version of the pic that appeared in a Variety article about the film being at the Cannes Intl Market. 


But it's always good to see press about this movie, no US distributor for the film has been announced yet.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

On Stranger Tides logo

Thanks again to P4: On Stranger Tides producer Jerry Bruckheimer and his Twitter updates we now have gotten a look at the OST logo as it looks on the back of his chair. Thanks Jerry!

And here's the now famous, all-over-the-net producer's chair:

P4: On Stranger Tides director Rob Marshall arrives on set by jet ski!

Pirates 4: On Stranger Tides producer Jerry Bruckheimer just tweeted that the film's director Rob Marshall (Chicago, Nine)  arrived on the Pirate's set  for the first day of shooting the "only way possible on our secluded beach…by jet ski!"  Now, let's see how Johnny Depp's Capt. Jack Sparrow arrives! 

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Pirates 4 - On Stranger Tides filming this week

Johnny Depp's Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides began filming this week in Hawaii. Depp returns in his award winning role as Captain Jack Sparrow and is joined again by Geoffrey Rush as Hector Barbossa.

Also added to the cast for this film are Ian McShane as Blackbeard and Penelope Cruz as his daughter.

This pic was posted on the Bruckheimer Films official FB page - http://www.facebook.com/JBFilms

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.....