Gore Verbinski

Is The Mortal Instruments movie dead?….. Not entirely

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The fiscally fucked movie bureau has dispelled a storm cloud on another film, Sony Screen Gem's "Mortal Instruments" movie. What some deem 'a sure thing' – it is, after all, another of these young-adult-novel cum movie franchises, along the lines of "Twilight" and "Hunger Games" – has been cut from the studio's production line-up due [...]

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Blu-ray Review: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES, Or How Not to Make a Sequel

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I had high hopes for On Stranger Tides: without the over-elaborate narrative labyrinths created for Gore Verbinski's sequels, the film could have returned to its adventure caper roots, remaking pirate films cool as it did first time around, and hopefully offering something new for a franchise that I didn't particularly want extended. The problem wasn't [...]

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Johnny Depp isn't waiting for 'Lone Ranger' drama to blow over, sets screenwriter for 'Thin Man'

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Holly Coletta Johnny Depp was supposed to be gracing the big screen as famous Western sidekick Tonto in Disney's highly-anticipated Lone Ranger reboot, but the Mouse House pulled the plug on the project temporarily because of budget issues. Instead of waiting around, or taking a break, Depp has continued to move forward with other projects [...]

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Blu-Ray Review: Johnny Depp Gets Animated in Confident ‘Rango’

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CHICAGO – There's a rare level of artistic confidence in "Rango" that we usually don't see outside of Pixar. What I mean by that is that SO many animated flicks that I have to suffer through in a calendar year are trying to appease a marketing plan, a producer, a focus group, etc. "Rango," while [...]

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Alexander Skarsgard Plays A Viking, Natasha Lyonne Joins 'American Reunion' » MTV Movies Blog

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It's the swoon heard 'round the world: Alexander Skarsgard will be again playing a Viking, but this time on the big screen. The "True Blood" stud first donned the horned helm during the third season of the HBO show when his character's Norse roots were shown in a flashback sequence, but now Skarsgard has been [...]

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Helena Bonham Carter for Lone Ranger role?

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Helena Bonham Carter is in talks to star in new Disney movie 'The Lone Ranger', joining Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer. 22 July 2011 Helena Bonham Carter is in talks to star in 'The Lone Ranger'.The 'King's Speech' actress is being lined up to appear in the Disney film, along with Dwight Yoakam and Barry [...]

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'The Lincoln Lawyer' delivers some fascinating twists in the road

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Special to The MercuryRelaxed yet focused, Matthew McConaughey delivers one of the best performances of his career in "The Lincoln Lawyer" (2011, Lionsgate, R, $30).The actor stars as a slick L.A. attorney who stumbles into what appears to be the case of a lifetime when he's hired to defend a snotty playboy (Ryan Phillippe) against [...]

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McConaughey, Tomei star in 'Lincoln Lawyer'

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Last Updated: July 15. 2011 1:00AM Tom Long/ Detroit News Film Critic New and notable on DVD this week: "The Lincoln Lawyer" (Rated R for some violence, sexual content and language; Lionsgate, $29.95) In the best film Matthew McConaughey has made in a long, long time, he plays Mick Haller, a smooth-talking, slightly sleazy defense [...]

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Ruth Wilson in Talks for 'Lone Ranger' Lead

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The Lone Ranger really wasn't very "lone," was he? For one thing he had his faithful sidekick Tonto by his side the whole time. And for another, there's the lovely ladies… The Social Network's Armie Hammer has taken the lead in Gore Verbinski's new take on the classic western hero, and he won't be alone [...]

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Rango Proves to Be More Fun for Adults

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Rango seems like it would be just another kids animated film, but it's not that at all. Rango is about a regular chameleon who gets separated from his owners and left in the desert. He stumbles upon the town of dirt and realizes he can completely make up who he really is. And so he [...]

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Johnny Depp cartoon ‘Rango’ leads foreign box office – The Malaysian Insider

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Cast member Johnny Depp, who voices the titular character “Rango”, arrives at the premiere of the animated film in Los Angeles, California on February 14, 2011. — Reuters picLOS ANGELES, March 7 — Not even Johnny Depp can shake the foreign box office from its torpor so far this year. His new cartoon “Rango” opened [...]