After starring as the Mad Hatter in “Alice in Wonderland,” Willy Wonka in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” and Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie in ”Finding Neverland,” it seems only logical for Johnny Depp to take on one of the most iconic figures in all of children’s literature — Dr. Seuss. Play online poker at PartyPoker.com [...]
Frank is an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Venice, Frank pursues a potential romance but soon finds himself the pursued as he and Elise are caught in a whirlwind of intrigue and danger. Release Date: December [...]
Terry Gilliam’s fittingly Quixotic quest to make a movie set against the backdrop of Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th century magnum opus “Don Quixote” may finally be coming to a head. Empire bumped into the auteur recently at a party in Cannes for the Doha Film Institute, and revealed that Ewan McGregor has joined the cast [...]
Dear Mr. Burton: What happened to you? You used to be so creative, have such imagination. You were strange, unknowable but always managed to imbue your films with such heart and feeling. From “Ed Wood” to “Edward Scissorhands” to “Beetlejuice” your films have always entertained and inspired us. But when you undertook to usurp the [...]
This is a tipping point movie. Through some pretty good work on some pretty good films, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp were able to build a deep reservoir of goodwill that saw them through some less-than-spectacular collaborations. But this film is more than a misfire. Here they’ve crossed a line into a bizarre (not in [...]
Inventive, spectacularly creative, intoxicating. Terry Gilliam’s whimsically absurd tale of a veteran vaudevillianesque performer who makes a deal with the Devil to live forever in exchange for his daughter upon her 16th birthday is at once delightfully preposterous and magically rewarding. “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” Gilliam’s 12th film, marks the former Monty Python member’s [...]
Michael Mann’s highly anticipated depression-era gangster flick, “Public Enemies” gets the TMA FilmCast treatment this week. Does Mann’s foray into the controversies of digital video pay off, or should he have stuck to film? Also, we take a look at Duncan Jones’ debut feature starring Sam Rockwell, “Moon.” Is Jones, aka Zowie Bowie, a promising [...]
Considering that the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise has grossed over $2.7 billion worldwide, it’s no surprise that opportunistic producer Jerry Bruckheimer is itching to do many, many more of them. What is a surprise, however, is who may direct the next film. THR reports that choreographer-turned-director, Rob Marshall (“Memoirs of a Geisha,” “Chicago”), is [...]
Jerry Bruckheimer and Johnny Depp are swimming in cash after the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, and two flicks have already been setup concerning the recent hijackings off the coast of Africa by Somali pirates. So with the Caribbean and the African coast already covered what setting could possibly make for an original pirate film? [...]
Terry Gilliam, the man behind “Twelve Monkeys,” “Brazil,” and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” says that “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” a project he previously abandoned due to a stretch of bad luck, is back on. Filming is expected to begin early next year. Production was well underway on the film, which starred [...]
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