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Johnny Depp Rejected An Early Script For 'Pirates Of The Caribbean 5' Because It Had A Female Villain
It’s been a rough year or so for Johnny Depp. After the allegations of domestic abuse and a series of financial troubles, he’s attempting to redeem himself in the eyes of his fans by returning to one of his most famous roles: Captain Jack Sparrow. With its release date fast approaching, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales has already generated a lot of positive buzz.
By Max Farrow8 years ago in Geeks
4 New 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' BTS Pictures Tease Major Plot Points
(WARNING: This article contains mild-spoilers/speculation for Spider-Man Homecoming!) As each day goes by, we’re learning more and more about Spider-man: Homecoming — whether it’s the fact that it features tributes to other movies or the admittance that certain characters from the Spider-Man mythos won’t be appearing.
By Max Farrow8 years ago in Geeks
Marvel Studios Producer Reveals The 3 Ingredients Of Their Secret Winning Formula
Though Marvel fans still have Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Thor: Ragnarok and Black Panther to look forward to, we are already eyeing next year's release Avengers: Infinity War with great anticipation. It’s not hard to see why! The humongous cast is filled with so many Hollywood darlings, fan-favorite characters and titanic talents, it’s a wonder that the Eye of Agamotto itself isn’t watering!
By Max Farrow8 years ago in Geeks
'Star Trek Beyond' Director Dishes the Dirt on Idris Elba’s Villain
We truly have been blessed with great space-themed movie news this week, haven’t we? Even with the worry over Rogue One’s reshoots, we’ve heard the promising plans for the Han Solo spin-off and the leaked details about the plot of Thor: Ragnarok. And now, the director of Star Trek Beyond Justin Lin has divulged even more details about his treatment of Trek and his love of the franchise.
By Max Farrow8 years ago in Geeks
DreamWorks Animations Sold For $3.8 Billion
Roll on the animations. Comcast has officially bought DreamWorks Animations in $3.8 billion deal. The company's NBCUniversal division is acquiring the studio for the extortionate amount. Today Comcast had said that shareholders within DreamWorks will receive a $41 in cash per share of stock.
By Lewis Jefferies8 years ago in Geeks
People Were Harmed in the Making of This Film
Hollywood has a long, illustrious history of delivering its audience to glimmering new worlds and dazzling them with breathtaking special effects. But this narrative of creative wonderment is marred by the lives of crew members taken to create such masterpieces. Movie goers don’t realize the risk and danger linked with the desire to capture the "perfect shot." For years, anonymous crew members and even stars have perished while striving to create art and gain the adoration of that most vicious and fickle critic: the audience. The individuals mentioned in this article are but a few of those who gave everything to Tinseltown.
By Laura DiNovis Berry8 years ago in Geeks
'Raging Bull'
In 2012, the Motion Picture Editors Guild celebrated their 75th anniversary, and in honor of the event, released the Motion Picture Editors Guild’s list of 75 best-edited films of all time. At the very top of the list came Raging Bull, edited by Thelma Schoonmaker and directed by Martin Scorsese. What is it that makes the editing so impactful? To get down to the heart of it, we’ll take a detailed look into one of the scenes.
By Mitch Davis8 years ago in Geeks
Theatre Creates Change Vol. 2
Good Day, "Musical Mamis & Legit Lads"! This is your Artistic Endorser, D.C. With another entry from the DC Theatre Blog! Theatre continues breaks new ground in many ways; As a tool of self-discovery, allowing folks to grow as individuals, having had the experiences of another; As a means of reflection, as a performance, a scene or even a moment can connect as a representation of previous thoughts within one's own meander through life; As an inspirational muse pushing one to greatness or a mental challenge of the impossible, shown and proven. Take my own life as an example: As a young entertainer, I knew I wanted to become an established & well-respected professional artist. I also knew I had to work hard to get there, so I would double down and push hard in all situations... Sometimes to my detriment. People I've performed with will tell you with great certainty: I had the habits of Will Smith in his early days on the "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air".
By Darius Colquitt8 years ago in Geeks
The Paywall Will Be the Death of Streaming As We Know It
Paywalls will kill your favorite streaming service. Everyone thinks that the streaming services are killing cable and that’s the whole story. They’re wrong. Streaming services are also killing themselves. Sure, Netflix has been doing well from a content standpoint, they are putting out great stuff and they’re putting out a lot of it, but they are in debt and eventually just like in every other tech industry, someone else will come along and take them out. We still win; all of those Marvel shows, all of those comedy specials, House of Cards, Stranger Things, and everything else is already made it’ll still exist and somehow someway it’ll be available.
By Christopher Sarda8 years ago in Geeks
How to Kill Your Filmmaking Ego
Back in 2006, I was one hell of an ambitious filmmaker with the belief, passion, and ego to boot that I was destined for big things. I was in a real rush to get somewhere other than where I was, so I set out to make a film on a £30k budget (that eventually ballooned to over £60k) via credit cards and didn’t look back.
By Mark Jeavons8 years ago in Geeks
Weekend Box Office
War for the Planet of the Apes takes the number one spot at the box office this weekend with a domestic gross of $56 million dollars and a worldwide gross of $102 million dollars, making it the most successful Apes movie overseas. Spider-Man: Homecoming drops down to number two with a weekend gross of $45 million dollars with the movie's daily box office falling since its July 7th release and an overall 61% drop since July 7th. Despicable Me 3 is still holding strong at number three with a weekend gross of $18 million dollars. Baby Driver is still holding its own at the box office at a strong number four with an $8 million dollar weekend gross with only a 32% drop since its June 28 release which is really good for an Edgar Wright film. The Judd Apatow produced comedy, The Big Sick, moves up three spots to number five with a weekend gross of $7 million dollars, becoming the highest grossing Sundance movie this year and the second highest grossing Amazon Studios release so far.
By Mickell Ford8 years ago in Geeks
