Three Options Sit on ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 5′ Director Short List

Posted on Thursday, May 9th, 2013 by Germain Lussier

With Johnny Depp‘s schedule quickly filling up and a Summer 2015 release date already locked in, Disney is feeling the pressure to hire a director for Pirates of the Caribbean 5. Rob Marshall, who directed the last film, was rumored to return but he’s already working on Into The Woods. That leaves the door open for someone new.

Deadline reports Disney will make a decision very soon and have narrowed it down to three choices, all of which are very pretty unconventional. They are Fredrik Bond (The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman), the team of Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg (Kon-Tiki) and Rupert Sanders (Snow White And the Huntsman). Read More »

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‘Kon-Tiki’ Trailer: Norway’s Oscar Nominee Is About an Oscar Winner

Posted on Sunday, February 24th, 2013 by Angie Han

Life of Pi isn’t the only waterlogged nominee at this year’s Academy Awards. Norway’s entry in the foreign film category, Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg‘s Kon-Tiki, tells the true tale of Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl (played by Pål Sverre Hagen). In 1947, Heyerdahl undertook a 101-day, 4,300-mile journey from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa wood raft as part of an effort to prove that Easter Island could have been settled by South Americans.

A new trailer for the film has just hit, and you can check it out after the jump.

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