The Pirates franchise has been on a tumultuous road as of late, with former Disney chairman Dick Cook's departure potentially putting the fourth film in jeopardy. But it looks like things are back on track for now, as Disney chairman Rich Ross has just made it official today that Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger…
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Gore Verbinski stepped out of the captain's cabin for Disney's fourth Pirates of the Cariebbean film, but Variety's BFDealMemo blog suggests the studio may have a new helmer in Rob Marshall. The blog reports that "sources say unless things break down at the last moment, Marshall will be steering the pirate vehicle’s next installment." Marshall…
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Disney's Head of Production Oren Aviv tells ComingSoon that the fourth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is gearing up to begin shooting early 2010 "We're going to shoot Pirates 4 in April and May of next year," Aviv said. "We are going to release it hopefully in 2011." Aviv also says that…
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Gore Verbinski is one of those directors who fills his plate with so many projects, that you're not quite sure which ones, if any of them, will actually go into production. I think right now Verbinski is attached to produce an American remake of The Host , direct a segment of Heavy Metal , a…
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Last year it was rumored that Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) was in talks to play Captain Jack Sparrow's (ie Johnny Depp) brother in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie. We didn't pick up the story at the time because it seemed dubious, especially since the source was one of those UK gossip newspapers.…
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David Cohen on Variety's Thompson On Hollywood Blog says that Disney is probably planning to release a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film in Digital Disney 3D. A couple weeks ago super-duper-producer Jerry Bruckheimer told us that screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio are currently finishing up work on The Lone Ranger, before they start…
Read More/Film was part of a small group of media outlets who spoke with producer Jerry Bruckheimer while in London on Tuesday afternoon. We asked if the rumors were true: has George Clooney had been cast alongside Johnny Depp (previously announced) in The Lone Ranger. "We haven't decided who is going to play the Lone Ranger…
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According to The Daily Mail (read: grain of salt), Johnny Depp will be paid £32,000,000 (about $56 million) for the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean 4. This would make Depp the highest paid actor (up-front) in film history. Tom Hanks supposedly made an estimated $50 million for the Da Vinci Code follow-up Angels & Demons.…
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I just spent the last six and a half hours in the Kodak Theater in Hollywood watching Disney's big keynote event. So the next few stories will be about the big announcements that came out of the presentation. Johnny Depp has been cast in the upcoming Jerry Bruckheimer produced adaptation of the classic old-time radio…
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A tipster at AICN claims to have inside knowledge Disney's plan to make 2011 a year of sequels. Again, none of this is confirmed, but let's take a look at what we know so far about the projects mentioned: TRON 3D: It was reported last year that Commercial director Joseph Kosinski was in talks to…
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Variety has an interesting article on the scheduling of the upcoming summer tentpoles for the next three years. The article claims that Sony Pictures will announce a Summer 2010 release date for the 23rd James Bond film. The next Bond film, tentatively titled Bond 22, will go into production later this year aiming for a…
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Last time we told you that Disney was considering a spin-off for Pirates of the Caribbean 4. Today Cinemablend confirms our previous reports. Their scooper claims: "the ending of Pirates 3, the fountain of youth story might not be the only story they might used the next pirate's film. The fountain story could used in…
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Update: Pirates of the Caribbean 4 to Follow Captain Jack's Search For Atlantis? Despite not breaking Spidey's record and some questionable accounting, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is another blockbuster success. And while the creative people involved have said that it is the last film in the trilogy, which might spin-off into future…
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Update [5/30/07]: Will Disney Greenlight Pirates of the Caribbean 4: The Fountain of Youth? Update [6/20/07]: Pirates of the Caribbean 4 to Follow Captain Jack's Search For Atlantis? Pirates of the Caribbean 4 is inevitable. The question is how soon, and who will be involved. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer told The Herald Sun that a fourth…
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Johnny Depp has told Disney that he would be willing to return for a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean, but now word comes that director Gore Verbinski (who helmed the three previous films) is uninterested in helming the project. "Gore's sick of pirates. If I wrote a scene that had to be shot on water,…
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Pirates of the Caribbean series screenwriter Terry Rossio admits that a fourth film may be in the works, like it or not. "It's like the fourth Indiana Jones picture - there are forces in play to make it happen, and forces in play to make it not happen," admitted Rossio. "I think we will try…
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