Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger's final performance was screened at the Cannes Film Festival with a special dedication to the late star.
Ledger stars as Tony, a man who befriends a mysterious theater troupe that can travel to fantasy worlds, in Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Ledger died in January 2008 from an accidental overdose after completing a third of the film. Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law stepped in to play three incarnations of Ledger's character.
"I started calling friends — Johnny Depp, and he said ...
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Johnny Depp courtesy Walt Disney Pictures
Johnny Depp has a new business partner Mickey Mouse The Sweeney Todd star revealed Wednesday that he has signed on for three flicks from Walt Disney Studios including a fourth swashbuckling Pirates of the Caribbean adventure According to the Hollywood Reporter the announcement came at Disneys Wednesday preview of upcoming movies and projects at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles Depp capped off the day by surprising the packed house with an appearance in full Jack Sparrow regalia But the biggest surprise came in Depps entrance music The loudspeakers blared The William Tell Overture otherwise known as the theme song to The Lone Ranger Depp will be playing Tonto The Lone Rangers sidekick in the studios upcoming version of the heros tale also produced by Pirates Jerry BruckheimerDepp will also play the role of the Mad Hatter in Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland scheduled for a release in 2010 The flick will be shot in 3-D using performance capture technology that w
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Ask FlickChick Whats up with Johnny Depps Dark Shadows and can you name these moviesQuestion Is the Dark Shadows movie dead and if not is Johnny Depp still going to be in it -- HCRDFlickChick Dark Shadows a joint project between Johnny Depps Infinitum-Nihil production company and producer Graham Kings GK Films is still in development but it doesnt look as though a lot has gone on since mid-2007 Thats when they secured rights from the estate of Dan Curtis to base a movie on the 1966-1971 supernatural soap opera Curtis developed the series made two feature films based on it in the 1970s and later went on to produce and direct a slew of supernatural films mostly for TV At this time theres no screenwriter attached to the project but it does have a distributor Warner Bros Dark Shadows was briefly and unsuccessfully revised as a 1990s TV series but there is a loyal fan base who could make a theatrical film successful if and only if it got the to
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Heath Ledger by Tim Whitby/WireImage.com
The last film that Heath Ledger was working on before his death, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, is back in production in Vancouver, according to the Reporter. Director Terry Gilliam and producers halted production when Ledger died Jan. 22. Now that the film's back in action, producers have also explained how Ledger's part will be handled, following the addition of three new actors. In a statement, they said, "Since the format of the story allows for the preservation of his entire performance, at no point will Heath's work be modified or altered through the use of digital technology. Each of the parts played by Johnny [Depp], Colin [Farrell] and Jude [Law] is representative of the many aspects of the character that Heath was playing." — Anna DimondRelated:• Depp, Law and Farrell to Replace Ledger?
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Feb 15, 2008 08:19 PM ET
- by Ken Fox
Johnny Depp by Eamonn McCormack/ WireImage.com, Heath Ledger by J. Vespa/ WireImage.com
From Bela Lugosi’s heart attack during Plan 9 from Outer Space and Natalie Wood’s drowning midway through Brainstorm to Brandon Lee’s fatal shooting on the set of The Crow, a number of productions have had to work around the unexpected death of a leading actor. Now it seems Terry Gilliam, the director of Heath Ledger’s last project, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, may have found a most creative way around his own tragic dilemma. According to Ain’t It Cool News, Ledger’s role in the film will now be played by not one but three alternating replacements: Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law.Not much is known about the plot of the film, but Ledger’s character has been described as a man in love with a young woman whose soul has been sold to the devil by her father, the traveling showman of the title, in exchange for eternal youth. No word yet on how the rather extreme differences in the four actors’ looks will be explained.If any one could pu...
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Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises courtesy Focus Features
A surprising number of movies had to make do with single nominations in the major categoriesViggo Mortensen picked up a best-actor nom as an icy Russian Gangster in David Cronenbergs brutal thriller Eastern Promises ditto Johnny Depp for Tim Burtons gothic adaptation of Stephen Sondheims musical Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Sentimental favorite Hal Holbrook 82 hell be 83 by the time the ceremony takes place took a best supporting actor nomination for Sean Penns Into the Wild based on Jon Krakauers nonfiction account of a troubled young mans search for meaning that eventually takes him deep into the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness It was also ignored in all other major categories despite strong reviews for Penns direction and adapted screenplay as well as Emile Hirschs performance in the lead role Audiences failed to warm to the film Much-loved veteran character actress Ruby Dee 83 got the only nomination for best-supporting actress 15
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Christian Bale by Alexandra Wyman/ WireImage.com, Johnny Depp by John Shearer/WireImage.com
Christian Bale is in talks to play FBI manhunter Melvin Purvis to Johnny Depp's John Dillinger in Public Enemies, a Michael Mann-directed adaptation of Brian Burrough's Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43. (Did Tracy Jordan come up with that title?).... Charlize Theron is Viggo Mortensen's wife in the big-screen version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road.... Hugh Dancy and Krysten Ritter ('Til Death) have been cast as a magazine editor and Isla Fisher's best gal pal, respectively, in Confessions of a Shopaholic.... Orlando Jones is a gay man who micromanages the pregnancy of his and his partner's surrogate (Criminal Minds' A.J. Cook) in the indie dramedy Misconceptions.
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Oliver Driver in Black Sheep courtesy IFC First Take
Ask FlickChick When movie animals attack gill men and more movie questionsQuestion I just saw that theres a movie about killer sheep being released on DVD Is it some kind of joke or is it serious I started wondering about other horror movies with animal killers but after the one about the killer rabbits I couldnt come up with any others Can you Carlos FlickChick First the movie youre talking about is the New Zealand-made Black Sheep 2006 and its neither entirely serious nor seriously joking Hard though it may be to believe its really clever occasionally very funny and gets in a couple of genuine scare sequences And really are killer sheep so much sillier than killer birds Not eagles and hawks and other major winged predators but finches and seagulls and other run-of-the-mill birds theyre the villains in The Birds 1963 and while its not one of my favorite Alfred Hitchcock films its generally well regardedThe ridiculous rabbit film y
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Question: I am ambivalent about hearing that Johnny Depp is going to play Barnabas Collins in a new theatrical version of Dark Shadows. I am sure that the movie will bring new blood into the franchise, but I don't think Dark Shadows is a good fit for the big screen. Dark Shadows has always been a long, continuous saga with many characters and storylines, and I don't believe you can simply make a two-hour Dark Shadows movie, no matter how great an actor Johnny Depp is. Do you believe that Dark Shadows is better suited for the big screen or the small screen?
Answer: Given that the last few attempts to remake Dark Shadows as a prime-time series failed (a short-lived remake on NBC and an aborted comeback on the WB), maybe a starry big-screen homage is the way to go. Besides, the original series spawned two movie spin-offs in the early '70s: House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows. I can't pretend to be objective about them, having seem them in my early teens (if that) as an
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Johnny Depp by Steve Granitz/WireImage.com
And here I thought I was the only one left who was obsessed with Dark Shadows. But no, apparently Johnny Depp is, too. According to Variety, the erstwhile Cap'n Jack grew up wishing he was the '60s soap's anti-hero, vampire Barnabas Collins — and still does. So now that he's a big movie star and not a starry-eyed kid, he's making it happen, developing a big-screen version of the daytime drama. Oh, please, please, please, can we get Angelina Jolie to play Angelique the Witch?! Those lips, those eyes! She's perfect! Elsewhere... Susan Sarandon has been cast as the slain heroine's grandmother in The Lovely Bones, based on Alice Sebold's best-seller. Stanley Tucci is considering playing her killer. Dude, Susan Sarandon's in the movie.... What's to think about? Meanwhile, Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon are teaming up to coproduce and star in New Line's Four Christmases, about a couple who visit their four divorced parents all on the same holiday. In small-screen casting news, G...
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