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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few weeks, you know that the biggest film of the summer opens today (and I’m not talking about Once In A Lifetime). Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest looks to put the fun back into summer films, the swish back into swash bucling, and… Read More »Pirates II – Review Roundup
Disney’s El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood has announced that their 24 hours of Pirates event showing the new Pirates Of The Caribbean Film has completely sold out. They’ve since decided to add a few extra showings before and after the planned event, so tickets may still be available. Props and Set pieces from the movie… Read More »Pirate Fever takes over El Capitan in Hollywood
Nominees in major categories for the 58th annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced today by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences: Drama Series: "Grey’s Anatomy," ABC Comedy Series: None Miniseries: None Made-for-TV Movie: "Flight 93," A&E* Variety, Music or Comedy Series: None Variety, Music or Comedy Special: "78th Annual Academy Awards," ABC Actor, Drama… Read More »Primetime Emmy Nominees, Disney shows poorly
Five new clips from Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest have just been released. Links are included below, but be warned as they could be considered spoilers. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest opens in theaters this Friday! Arrrr!!! He Ended Up a Pirate Windows Media Player: 56K (192×84) –… Read More »New POTC:II Clips
Commentator Rick Aristotle Munarriz at the Motley Fool wonders if the recent increase in the death rate at Disney Themeparks signifies something larger… or if it’s just an anomalous statistical blip inflated in importance by news channels looking for a story that will sell. Either way Disney can’t be that happy with the bad press.… Read More »Can Disney Kill You?
AOL Music has a streaming preview version of the full CD Soundtrack for Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. I can’t provide a direct link to the CD, but it’s one of the choices today at least. There are the familiar themes of Curse of the Black Pearl in there, but Hans Zimmer has… Read More »Pirates II Soundtrack Stream
Rolling Stone magazine has posted their interview with Johnny Depp online. In it Depp talks about some of his acting mentors, the fun he has with Captain Jack Sparrow, and more. For his next role he’ll be returning to the territory of Hunter S. Thompson with a movie called The Rum Diary, an adaption of… Read More »Johnny Depp: Rolling Stone Interview
Will Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest sink or swim at the box office? Hollywood Wiretap has rounded up some early reviews. They appear to be mixed with a divided between print and online reviewers. (Hint: the nerds love it.) I think America is still looking for a good popcorn movie and Pirates II… Read More »Eep!. Early reviews say Pirates Creeps!