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ALICE IN WONDERLAND: Ultimate Fan Event
Host: Alice in WonderlandType: Music/Arts - Concert
Network: Global
Date:
Friday, February 19, 2010Time:
5:00pm - 7:00pmLocation:
Hollywood & Highland Center, Hollywood, CADescription
Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Records join forces with Hot Topic, KIIS-FM, MySpace and musical artists from the upcoming album “Almost Alice” for a great big ultimate fan event celebrating this Spring’s most anticipated 3D motion picture “ALICE IN WONDERLAND.” The star-studded concert event kicks off at 5 p.m. on Feb. 19, 2010, at the Hollywood & Highland Center’s Central Courtyard. Featuring five musical acts, a visit from director Tim Burton to introduce select members of the “ALICE IN WONDERLAND” cast, plus opportunities to win prizes, including a sneak peek of actual film footage, the ultimate fan event will be streamed live on MySpace at www.myspace.com/wonderland and Facebook at www.facebook.com/aliceinwonderland.An Entertainment Extravaganza
The event’s featured artists will do a short set, including their song from “Almost Alice.” Artists/songs include 3OH!3 (“Follow Me Down”), Metro Station (“Where’s My Angel”), Family Force 5 (“Topsy Turvy”), Kerli (“Tea Party”), and Never Shout Never (“Sea What We Seas”).
Available March 2, 2010, “Almost Alice” is a 16-song compilation featuring the film’s end credit track “Alice,” written and performed by Avril Lavigne, plus songs from artists including All American Rejects, The Cure’s Robert Smith, Franz Ferdinand and Shinedown. Hot Topic’s exclusive expanded version includes three bonus tracks. The album is a companion to the film’s soundtrack, which features the score by composer Danny Elfman.
Hot Topic’s Hollywood locale (3rd level of Hollywood & Highland Center) has been transformed to a mad version of Wonderland even the Hatter would enjoy. Hot Topic hosts the event and features exclusive “ALICE IN WONDERLAND”-themed products now available at Hot Topic stores nationwide and online. Beginning Monday, February 8, the first 250 customers who purchase any 3OH!3 t-shirt and preorder the “Almost Alice” CD will receive a wristband that will grant access to a special meet-and-greet with the band 3OH!3, entry into the concert’s preferred viewing pit and admission into the special 3D sneak peek of footage from the film at the El Capitan Theatre after the concert event.
KIIS-FM, 104.3 MyFM and 98.7 FM will give away VIP preferred viewing pit wristbands to listeners between now and event day. Additional VIP tickets will be given away via MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. VIP attendees will be treated to a special 3D sneak peek of footage from the film at Hollywood’s El Capitan Theatre immediately following the event.
Fans are encouraged to dress up in costumes inspired by characters from “ALICE IN WONDERLAND.” Costumes will be judged on site by Academy Award®-winner Colleen Atwood, costume designer for the film. Winners will be invited to attend the special sneak peek at the El Capitan.
KIIS-FM’s Manny on the Streets will be the on-stage host for the event. Quddus from MySpace and theQside.com, Roslynn Cobarrubias from MySpace Music and Philip DeFranco from YouTube will be on hand as backstage hosts, interviewing key players along the way.
MySpace and Facebook will host the exclusive live streams of the event at www.myspace.com/wonderland and www.facebook.com/aliceinwonderland, powered by Ustream. Viewers around the world can experience the event first-hand, see exclusive backstage interviews with talent and interact by posting comments and questions to the page.
Shobiz Spy Claims Angelina Jolie harrassing Johnny Depp by email and text message?
Wednesday February 3, 2010Angelina JolieANGELINA Jolie is planning to steal Johnny Depp away from his partner Vanessa Paradis, insiders say.
The actress — whose relationship with partner Brad Pitt is in “full meltdown mode” — reportedly has her slutty sights set on the Pirates of The Caribbean hunk, her costar in upcoming movie The Tourist.
“She’s already started—with the same wiles she used to lure Brad out of his marriage to Jennifer Aniston on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” a source told American magazine Star.
“While going over the script, Angie insisted that she needed to meet alone with Johnny at his LA compound to discuss his acting method.
“She’s already spent hours there drinking red wine with Johnny. She has en been bombarding him with flirty e-mails and burning up the phone lines.
“She goes on and on about how fabulous Johnny is. She’s intense and goes for anything and anyone she wants. She has no limits!”
Note from Kazren: Take all this with a huge grain of salt. This seems totally fabricated. See all news stories about "The Tourst" on our pages
From HitFix
Watch: Johnny Depp, Shane McGowan round up Sex Pistols, Clash members, Nick Cave for Haiti single
'I Put a Spell on You' gets a makeover
Published on Thursday, Feb 4, 2010 By Katie Hasty
(excerpt)
Straight from the WTF files, pals Johnny Depp and legendary Pogues mumbler Shane McGowan have tapped some of their famous friends -- like members of the Clash, the Sex Pistols, the Pretenders and Nick Cave -- to re-record "I Put a Spell on You" as a Haiti charity single.
From Camden New Journal
Cinema news: BFI to screen Johnny Depp movies
Published: 4 February 2010
by DAN CARRIER
(excerpt)
GET ready to swoon: throughout this month, the British Film Institute is screening a series of Johnny Depp movies. Why? Because he has consistently made absolutely super films.
From Monsters & Critics
Johnny Depp will be in London for world premiere of Alice In WonderlandBy Sophie Eager Feb 3, 2010, 14:00 GMT
Actor Johnny Depp is set to grace the red carpet in London for the world premiere of Alice In Wonderland later this month.
The actor is playing the role of the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's adaptation of the classic tale by Lewis Carroll.
Other stars in the movie include Burton's girlfriend Helena Bonham Carter, Little Britain comic Matt Lucas, actress Anne Hathaway and Stephen Fry.
Michael Sheen, Paul Whitehouse, Alan Rickman and Barbara Windsor have all also provided voices for characters in the film.
The premiere will be held in Leicester Square in London on February 25, eight days before the movie sees its release on March 5.
From UK Press
Johnny Depp's royal WonderlandJohnny Depp and Anne Hathaway are set to join the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles at the royal world premiere of Alice In Wonderland.
Tim Burton's eagerly-awaited 3D fantasy adventure features Johnny as the Mad Hatter, Anne as the White Queen, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, Mia Wasikowska as Alice and Little Britain's Matt Lucas as Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
A host of British talent provides the voices for Wonderland's inhabitants, including Stephen Fry as the Cheshire Cat, Alan Rickman as Absolem the caterpillar, Michael Sheen as The White Rabbit, Paul Whitehouse as The March Hare, Timothy Spall as Bayard, Barbara Windsor as the Dormouse and Sir Christopher Lee as the Jabberwocky.
The Walt Disney Pictures movie is inspired by Lewis Carroll's classic tales about Alice.
Burton's Alice in Wonderland features a new adventure as 19-year-old Alice returns to Wonderland for the first time since she was a child with no memory of her previous adventures there.
Held in London's Leicester Square on February 25, the premiere will raise cash for The Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts.
From Digital SpyJohnny Depp to learn Spanish for 'Pancho'
Wednesday, February 3 2010, 11:36am EST
By Simon Reynolds, Movies Editor
Johnny Depp to learn Spanish for 'Pancho'
Johnny Depp will learn to speak Spanish for his role in the Pancho Villa biopic.
Director Emir Kusturica revealed to Screen Daily that he and Depp will shoot the entire movie, which charts the life of the Mexican Revolutionary general, in Mexico with Spanish dialogue.
"Johnny and myself have to learn Spanish. I don't know how to direct Spanish people speaking English," Kusturica said.
Seven Friends Of Pancho Villa And The Woman With Six Fingers, based on James Carlos Blake's book The Friends Of Pancho Villa, will go in front of cameras in 2011 after Depp completes Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
and from Pop Corn Biz
Johnny Depp Has 2 Years to Learn Spanish
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Johnny Depp Has 2 Years to Learn SpanishEmir Kusturica, the genius behind "Underworld," and Johnny Depp are learning to speak Spanish for work on their upcoming film about Pancho Villa.
"Believe it or not... Johnny (Depp) and myself have to learn Spanish. I don’t know how to direct Spanish people speaking English," Kusturica told Screen Daily in an interview from his Kustendorf Film Festival.
Shooting isn't scheduled to start until 2012 -- so they've got time.
Based on James Baker's 1996 book "The Friends of Pancho Villa," the film had earlier been titled "Seven Friends of Pancho Villa and the Woman with Six Fingers," but the current working title is "Wild Roses, Tender Roses," and co-stars Salma Hayek.
Depp and Kusturica previously worked together on the dreamy, surreal -- if uneven -- "Arizona Dream" in 1995.
Depp was on hand at the festival for the Jan. 15 unveiling of a hilarious statue in his -- ahem -- likeness.
From Forbes
Hollywood's Real Winners
Dorothy Pomerantz, 02.02.10, 07:45 PM EST
These actors earn both Oscar nominations and big bucks at the box office.(Excerpt)
In Pictures: Hollywood's Real WinnersLOS ANGELES -- In Hollywood, art and commerce rarely intersect. The biggest moneymakers tend not to earn acting Oscar nominations.
Just look at the nominations for the 82nd annual Academy Awards. Avatar, the biggest box office winner of all time (not adjusting for inflation), earned nine nominations, more than any other movie except for The Hurt Locker. Not one was for acting.
And most of the actors nominated appeared in films that didn't exactly set the box office on fire. Precious, which earned Oscar nominations for stars Gabourey Sidibe and Mo'Nique, was the 66th highest-earning film released last year, with a $45 million box office in the U.S. according to Box Office Mojo. Crazy Heart, which nabbed two Oscar nominations, ranked 152nd for domestic box office earnings.
In Pictures: Hollywood's Real WinnersBut there is a group of actors who have found a way to straddle the art and commerce divide in Hollywood. These actors earn both the gold and the green. They are Hollywood's Real Winners.
At the top of our list is Meryl Streep. Coming into this year's Oscars, Streep was already the most-nominated actor in history with 15 nominations. Thanks to her performance as Julia Child in Julie & Julia, she now has 16 nominations. Over the past six years her films have earned a cumulative $1.4 billion at the box office.
To compile our list we looked at all the actors who were nominated over the past six years in the best actor/actress and best supporting actor/actress categories. We then added up the box office for every film each actor starred in during that same time period. The only time we included supporting roles in our money calculations was when the actor was nominated for Best Supporting Actor or Actress. So, for example, we counted Million Dollar Baby for Morgan Freeman (he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for the film) but not The Dark Knight, where he was a supporting player but was not nominated.
We also took into account how many times each actor had been nominated. We only included acting nominations. So George Clooney doesn't get credit for his directing nod for Good Night, and Good Luck. We ranked the actors by nominations, added that to their money ranking to come up with a final ranking.
Johnny Depp topped our earnings list with $3.1 billion at the box office in the past six years (thanks to two Pirates movies and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) but he ranks second on our Real Winners list because he only has three Oscar nominations to Streep's 16.
There's a video of Johnny receiving his award in Serbia - you will have to find the search box and type in his name to find it, but it's very nice. Blic
From emma found at Ricerca Gelocal
News is "The Tourist" is casting now and will start filming in March through May.
From Bonnie & Theresa at JDZ -Johnny shows up back in LA filming a Documentary about Keith Richards. Photos & story HERE
From Cinema BlendBy Josh Tyler: 2010-02-02 00:43:28
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Johnny Depp Is Documenting Keith Richards I’m really tired of hearing about how Johnny Depp based the character of Captain Jack Sparrow on Keith Richards. The character was more fun before we knew where he came from. Johnny though, has parlayed this Keith Richards thing into a cottage industry. Now he’s taken the next step and gone from imitating him to posterizing him.Pop Sugar says Depp is working on a Keith Richards documentary. Since they’re a celebrity site and mainly concerned with taking creepy pictures of celebrity kids (who exactly is the market for these photos?) they don’t offer any further detail like, for instance, exactly what his role is on this documentary. Is he producing? Playing Keith Richards in a series of unauthorized re-enactments? If it’s the latter, I can’t wait to see Johnny Depp fall out of a coconut tree.
We’ve heard rumors that he may actually be directing. If so, it’ll be the first thing he’s directed since 1997’s The Brave. All I want to know is… where is The Rum… Diaries. Ditch this Keith Richards cockroach and focus on Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny.
And from Pop SugarJohnny Depp Makes His Work a Family Affair
Johnny Depp wasn't at yesterday's Grammys, but he was hard at work on a musical project of his own in LA. He joined Keith Richards and Patti Smith to work on a documentary about the legendary Rolling Stones star, with Vanessa Paradis even bringing their kids Lily-Rose and Jack along to check out the scene. Johnny has another rock and roll project in the works, as he's set to team up with singers Nick Cave and Shane MacGowan to record a charity single benefitting Haiti. Johnny loves hitting the stage with his friends, and it sounds like Ozzy Osbourne has another project in mind for Johnny to combine rocking out and acting.
and from Screen Crave
Johnny Depp to Direct Keith Richards Documentary
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 7:35PM By Anet Hovhanesian
Johnny Depp has decided to step behind the camera and direct a biopic on The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. If you thought their collaboration in Pirates of the Caribbeans was epic, wait until you hear the details about this. According to The Playlist, the versatile actor who can play anything from a pirate to Willy Wonka, told a Serbian website that he will be working with the musical legend on an upcoming documentary.
This isn’t Depp’s first time in the director’s chair, in fact he has two other projects under his belt including The Brave, which came out 13 years ago. He admits that he’s a lot older and wiser today, and his directing skills will show that. The Oscar nominated actor and the legendary rock star have had a close friendship for years, and Depp even modeled his character Jack Sparrow after Richards.
Now that Depp is stepping behind the camera again, he’s ready to start sooner than later.
“Already next week I’ll start working on a Keith Richards documentary. While I’m in Drvengrad, my editor is already working on kilometers of archive footage and footage of his concerts. I’m very touched that Keith agreed to show up in front of my cameras.”
I don’t think anyone doubts the talent of either man in this new project. Can’t wait to see what the end result is going to be! Depp and Richards equal cinematic gold.
From The Oscars - Dr. Parnassus nominated for Costumes and Art Direction
From Hot Mama Gossip
Johnny Depp just an overgrown teen?
Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by AustinJohnny Depp just an overgrown teen?[HMG] – About an hour from Belgrade, in the heart of the Serbian mountains lies one of Eastern Europe’s most wonderful gems. Kustendorf. A town built from scratch by a film director with vision. And this week it starred Johnny Depp.
The 46-year old actor arrived in this picturesque town in the heart of the Balkans, by helicopter. An event regarded by locals [who clearly don't get out much] with the kind of awe most folk would reserve for the second coming itself.
He emerged from the craft and mingled with fans, showing no hint of a ’superstar’ ego, and was greeted in return like a conquering hero.
Every year, Kustendorf holds a film festival, dedicated to ‘Small people and their small films.’ In 1993, Johnny starred in ‘Arizona Dream,’ whose director – Emir Kusturica – has since built this town. He’’s now due to play the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa in an all-Spanish language film the Director is writing. Both men needed to debate the film’s course, so Depp came to town.
“My impressions of Kustendorf?” Johnny replied to reporters.”I was totally shocked. I couldn’t imagine that a place so magical and beautiful could house a film festival,” he said at a ceremony where, in a blaze of fireworks and badly-tuned music the festival’s directors unveiled a life-size statue of him.
And this festival’s nothing like Cannes – Distributors, financiers and publicists are banned, there’s a concert each night, and the locals make a concoction called ‘Serbian Death Wine’ that’s so mind-crushingly strong, most events don’t even start until well after noon.
For his part, Johnny held a masterclass for young filmmakers, indulged all the press and cordially schmoozed with the fans…whom he’s never forgotten;
“The only reason we’re here is because of the people out there who want to have a piece of paper signed or to go to the cinema,” he reminded the crowd.
Asked by a fan about his favorite directors, Johnny didn’t blink: Tim Burton, Jim Jarmusch and Kusturica himself – all guys with ideas as offbeat as his own.
“They are very, very different in their style, but they’re also very similar.” he told the admirer. There isn’t a bone in any of their bodies that is capable of compromise.”
But one director absent from this year’s proceedings was Roman Polanski, with whom JD made the 1999 thriller, ‘The Ninth Gate.’ And Johnny was clearly upset by the reasons;
“Obviously, there is something going. Somebody has made a deal. Roman is not a predator; He’s 76-years old, with two beautiful kids and a wife he’s been with a long time. He’s not out on the street…so why now?”
Next, he was asked how he achieves the style that wins so much praise – and awards?
“When I read a script, I start to get flashes of imagery. It may be someone I’ve known. That’s really it. If I am guilty of one thing in my work, it’s that I have a tendency to lean towards humor.”
And his old friend, Kusturica still seems very impressed;
“You can be the best actor in the world and if you’re a jerk, you’re still a jerk.” he told the Independent. “Johnny showed me you can have decency and goodness together.” he opined.
An accurate review. So how does Depp do it? His own simple assessment? H’s a stalled teenager;
“There is a part of me that feels like I arrested development at 17,” he confesses. “At 17, you were a man. Everything in life was before you…but you couldn’t get in too much trouble…I have a feeling that at 17 I somehow locked off and stayed there.”
You can see this engaging teenager in his latest reunion with that perpetual adolescent, Tim Burton, when Alice in Wonderland opens on March 5…
Beatriz discovered Johnny's new tattoo on one of these photos from his trip to Serbia.
From AZ Central
(Excerpt)
Johnny Depp defends Roman Polanski
Jan. 30, 2010The 46-year-old actor - who worked with the director on the movie 'The Ninth Gate' in 1999 - believes there may be shady dealings behind the scenes concerning Polanski's arrest for a 30-year-old statutory rape charge.
He said: "Why now? Obviously there is something going on somewhere. Somebody has made a deal with someone. Maybe there was a little money involved, but why now?"
The 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star also insisted the 76-year-old director was a family man.
He told the Independent newspaper: "Roman is not a predator. He's 75 or 76 years old. He has got two beautiful kids, he has got a wife that he has been with for a long long time. He is not out on the street."
From The Guardian
(excerpt)
Shane MacGowan, Nick Cave and Johnny Depp team up for Haiti singleThe Pogues frontman is to cover Screaming Jay Hawkins's I Put a Spell On You ... with a little help from the Bad Seed and Captain Jack Sparrow
Help for Haiti ... Shane MacGowan gets his teeth into a charity single. Photograph: Gareth Davies/Getty Images
Nick Cave, Johnny Depp and Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie are among those reportedly roped-in for a new charity single led by Shane MacGowan. The Pogues frontman is assembling a gang of pals to record a cover of I Put a Spell On You, raising money for the Haiti earthquake relief.
According to the Sun, MacGowan flew from his home in Ireland to begin recording in London this week. Depp might seem an unlikely collaborator for Cave and Gillespie, but the actor has plenty of experience as a musician – first with his high-school band Kids and more recently with Babybird. For I Put a Spell On You, Depp will reportedly be joined by his partner, the singer and actress Vanessa Paradis.
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