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Walt Disney Pictures has announced that they will be making a fourth “Pirates of the Caribbean” film and Johnny Depp is already onboard as one of the most memorable characters ever, Captain Jack Sparrow.
Apparently, however, the fourth movie will be setting sail without Keira Knightley or Orlando Bloom.
“I had an amazing journey with those three films, but I think it’s on to different things,” Keira Knightley recently told MTV News. She mentioned that she has no idea what’s going on with the new installment, and she will not be back.
Love Keira. Love Orlando. But they’re not as essential to the POTC franchise as the flamboyant Captain. I’ll post more casting news as I get it.
My Best Friend’s Girl faces off at the box office against Lakeside Terrace, Igor, and Ghost Town. I don’t know why, exactly, but MBFG is the only one I really care about seeing. I’d been interested in Ghost Town until I read (more than one place) that the first half of the movie was the only funny or watchable part. I’m not interested in an early exit, so I think I’ll probably skip that one.
I’ve always loved Kate Hudson and Dane Cook is so hilarious it hurts, so there’s no way I’m missing their movie. Dane Cook was given a lot of freedom in this movie and was allowed to improvise a great deal. Given the fact that his standup routines are the funniest ever, I can’t help but think this movie will THRILL his fans. A few of us may even wet ourselves.
Hey, you never know.
In case you haven’t read about his rant on MySpace about the photoshopping done on the movie’s poster, below are a few highlights. Click on the poster (above) to see a larger version.
“Whoever photoshopped our poster must have done so at taser point with three minutes to fulfill their hostage takers’ deranged obligations.”
He said that it looked like he was “wearing Maybelline Water Shine Diamonds Liquid Lipstick,”, that his high collar was “going for the vampire lurking in the castle basement vibe,” and that he appeared “able to turn my head comfortably 360 degrees, because I was raised in an abandoned barn by a family of owls.”
He said that the photoshopping was an injustice to the movie because he and costars Hudson, Alec Baldwin and Jason Biggs “really kicked the funny around.”
* The movie is rated R for strong language and sexual content throughout, including graphic dialogue and some nudity.
There’s nothing wrong with having strong political opinions. There’s nothing wrong with supporting a certain politician. But when you come across as a ranting mad woman and hurl venom on people who don’t deserve it, it’s time to take a long vacation.
Here’s what Roseanne Barr said on her blog:
“Jon Voight is a frightened little girl in a pink ballet tutu… your evil spawn Angelina Jolie and her vacuous hubby Brad Pitt make about forty million dollars a year in violent psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity as they spit out more dunces that will consume more than their fair share and wreck the earth even more. (Just sayin’).
“Also Miss Jolie says she likes McCain too and hasn’t decided who to endorse….huh? Aren’t you supposed to be somewhat enlightened, or do you not know that the African daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the republican party’s worldwide economic assault on Africa over the last few decades since Reagan? Whaaaa…??????!!!! (For that matter, the thai and vietnamese sons you are photo’d with weekly too!!!? Who’s [sic] pictures you sell to raise money to help the poor? … We want to save not lose our souls thank you. Now go back to making your movies about women who love to handle big guns that shoot hundreds of people to death. Ps….it might be good for your Asian and African children’s self-esteem to know you support a brown man for the leader of the free world.)”
Evil Spawn? Vacuous? …support a “brown man?” (I think the man that’ll probably be our next President deserves more respect than to be treated like a crayon – it’s like preschool, “I want the blue crayon…now the brown one…”)
I’d always been a fan of Roseanne Barr’s – I applauded her strength as a person. Strength to overcome adversities in her life and to, essentially, be the last one standing. She made me laugh so much my sides ached. I’m always a fan of people who do that. But none of this is funny. It’s actually kind of nasty.
But in all fairness, a lot of people are really passionate about the election this year – especially about the war. Passion’s a good thing – it just gets out of hand sometimes.
I’m completely shocked, and disappointed, that she’d go off on innocent people like this. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt do more charitiable work than any celebrity you can think of. They care about the world and, more importantly, the people in it.
I think Roseanne got bent out of shape because when asked who she supported in the election, Angelina (intelligently) said she hadn’t decided yet – that she was waiting to hear their opinions on different issues that were dear to her.
That’s just what an intelligent person sounds like. They’re fond of thinking!
I really hope that she’ll look at the words she wrote and realize that she went way, way, way too far. Hopefully she’ll even have enough character to say she’s sorry. That’d be cool. I think that underneath the anger and passion, she’s a cool lady – so I’m certain an apology is forthcoming.
She rolls like that. I’m betting on it.
He’s astonishing in ‘The Dark Knight.’ He’s mind-blowing. I’ve rarely seen anything like it, anything so free. Being around him, acting with him, was so much fun; when someone is that free, it rubs off on everyone. He [was] so different than the Joker — he [was] so gentle and open-hearted and kind — that the transformation is even more incredible. – Maggie Gyllenhall about Heath Ledger
Whoa. Not good.
Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood are having a little bit of a tit for tat. It’s fast becomming a “He said..then he said…” spectacle.
Apparently, Spike Lee took exception to the representation of “African American” men in Eastwood’s films, “Flags of Our Fathers” and “Letters From Iwo Jima.” It’s his right, of course, to have opinions about other director’s work. Just as other directors may take exception to his films. For example, maybe they question the way their race is represented in his films. However, Spike Lee didn’t just think the thoughts, he voiced them. As a fan of both men, I wish Lee had gone to Eastwood – face to face, man to man. If he thought something was unfair, I personally think he should have had his say – to Clint Eastwood. There wasn’t any need, in my opinion, to speak out publicly on the subject.
Eastwood’s response: Again, words that would have been better directed (excuse the pun) at the individual, not the public. “The story is ‘Flags of Our Fathers,’ the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn’t do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people’d go: ‘This guy’s lost his mind.’ I mean, it’s not accurate.” Referring to Lee, he added: “A guy like him should shut his face.”
As you can guess, that went over pretty well.
Spike Lee’s response? “First of all, the man is not my father and we’re not on a plantation either,” he said. “He’s a great director. He makes his films, I make my films. The thing about it though, I didn’t personally attack him. And a comment like ‘a guy like that should shut his face’ – come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man right there.”
Now it’s stooped to name-calling. Not cool. These are educated men, here!
Here are the facts: almost 900 of the 30,000 marines that stormed the Japanese island were African-American. Eastwood explained that he wasn’t going to alter history for the sake of a film:
“I’m not in that game. I’m playing it the way I read it historically, and that’s the way it is,” he said.
“When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‘Bird,’ I use 90% black people.” Bird was, of course, his 1998 film about jazz musician Charlie “Bird” Parker. Eastwood brought up the fact that even then, Spike Lee complained – “He was complaining when I did Bird (a biopic of Charlie Parker). Why would a white guy be doing that? I was the only guy who made it, that’s why. He could have gone ahead and made it. Instead he was making something else.”
Truth, more than anything, hits the hardest, doesn’t it?
Spike Lee’s next film is “Miracle at St. Anna.” It’s about the all-black 92nd Buffalo Division that fought in Tuscany, Italy during World War II. Clint Eastwood’s next project (The Human Factor) is about Nelson Mandela and his journey to help South Africa overcome the damages of apartheid.
About casting this film, Clint Eastwood said, “I’m not going to make Nelson Mandela a white guy.”
Touche’!
*In an AOL poll, the question was asked, “Whose side are you on?” After voting, I saw that 92 percent are on “Team Clint” and 8 percent are on “Team Spike.”
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once. – Audrey Hepburn
